@Anon-a-Miss
So he went MIA for 500 or so moons?

@Phoenixflambe
Maybe he was afraid of confessing that his action - albeit unintentionally - led to the disappearance of the town. He said reading Pipp’s message was the thing that connived him to admit his mistake.

@Anon-a-Miss
He could have gave his own thoughts when he heard Discord being a friend now. Or if any of the main characters during G4 met him. Why now?

@Background Pony #B3CB
It’s perfectly in character for pre-reformation Discord do manipulate, lie and corrupt ponies and I wouldn’t put it above him to kill someone as part of a cruel joke or just because of a hissy fit. And even if the Harmony Knights weren’t flawless Discord still started a war by manipulating the other races into attacking their homeland.

I also doubt that Celestia would’ve executed him. Equestria doesn’t seem to have a death penalty. The highest punishment we saw is getting turned into stone. Which arguably is only slightly better that death. And even if she wanted to kill him, maybe she couldn’t? He’s the single most powerful being in the setting. Turning him into a statue was probably the best thing she could do. From that point of view trying to reform him and turn the biggest threat into an asset was actually a good idea.

I’m not ruling out the theory that Lighting Rod was Discord and this was some sort of test. But the way he behaved made me doubt it. I still think he was some sort of restless soul who couldn’t pass on to the afterlife.

@CORDZ2000
We’ll wait and see if Discord confirms that guy was him.

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I don’t know… the comic is one of the most lore-breaking in the entire history of the MLP publications. Discord is portrayed as an evil and cruel monster who causes not chaos, but death, suffering and misery - and this is not in his character, based on what is shown since 2012 throughout the entire G4 legend. In S10 he was accused of having created a war between several nations, but “everyone” agrees that the Harmony Knights were not without fault with their arrogance and recklessness, the royal sisters had also fought against them from Cunabula. Discord was prevented from explaining the matter.

Celestia would never have allowed the release of Discord from the petrification if she knew how evil and depraved he was. She will have him executed without hesitation. An entire village wiped out - and from the G4 we know that the population size is between 300 to 400 and a couple of thousand. A pony was literally devoured by the mirror. The mirror causes death and endless suffering. Everything depicted in the comic would have automatically led to the use of Hasbro’s rule about villains who crossed the line, most recently demonstrated with the Storm King, and partly with the Terrible Trio in S9, who are petrified by the royal sisters and Discord.

If true, Discord has been wrongly portrayed to the fans and viewers as a villain who could be reformed and become a good being as there is some good in him. But the tale of the Mirror of Mayhem shatters all that. Has the writer Casey Gilly cleared this with the others, including those responsible for the Discord Arc?

The lore dictates that the tale must be false, and that the Lighting Rod was Discord in disguise.

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@Phoenixflambe
Or that the lighthouse was fake

@Anon-a-Miss
Oh my…. Well at least I know it isn’t Discord. But that means the tale might be true after all.

@Background Pony #FEBD
So… still don’t get it

@GaryFisherSr
Because her alias is sus.

@Phoenixflambe
I don’t think he’s alive. To me the ending implies that he was a ghost who couldn’t pass on to the afterlife out of guilty. Would explain why the lighthouse suddenly vanished.

Why is Sunset Shimmer tagged here ???

@Phoenixflambe
I’m guessing some kind of age magic BS, probably what made Alicorns “immortal” (despite being able to get hurt and Cadance marrying someone who wasn’t “immortal”) in G4 or something.

Why and how is he still alive? He’s no alicorn.