Does not matter uncontested control over the glory means who ever was left could order reality to their liking. The fact they did not is proof enough they are dead. Lesser things like Alukites and the like are meanness in comparison to the Glory.
Ideally, the Occult library would be a shared project between bureau and eclipse.
I stick with my conspiracy theory:
I am of the opinion that if the Bureau learns of the Lore's, Velvet dies. GM made it crystal clear we cannot fool Celestia. Once Celestia learns of the lore's she will notice that Velvet is super powerful in them, and then kill Velvet.
I was calling it a mystery box mostly because she gifted a jewel box, which was essentially mystery box on the gift, not because it's a complete mystery of the benefits. But also fair, Luna is end of turn or so, iirc for that vote. There was going to be more but someone else up there explained that already.
no? We need an excuse for how we know of the lores. If we learn from a raid, and let enough time pass to justify our knowledge, than it can work.
"anypony can draw on the lores" is a technical truth at best.
to be fair there's an argument to be made that killing the Master WAS a pretty altruistic decision.
They are making a reference to one of Birds comments in which they were counting the ammount of spinning plates Velvet would have to deal with and one of them was that Celestia, as somepony with inclination to Lantern, would grow more likely to find out the truth the deeper she went into it and how Velvet would have to find a way to balance introducing the lores to the alicorns with that.
well, it was arguably more selfless than the main alternative, the "allow the rape to happen and Master to be born in place of Flurry".
So here's the thing, we already know the requirements to become Long, Name and Hour. To become a Long one must pass through the Tricuspid Gate, there is no other requirements. To become a Name one must do a great deed and then physically enter into the Mansus, this is done by opening one of the Gates of the Mansus in the reverse via the use of the Keys. To become a Hour the method, presumably, is the same as becoming a Name.
As I said before, artificially limited.
I think you need to recheck how many lores Velvet has at high level, is Branded etc. And it been made impossible to fake having lore knowledge prior on because we chose to never share it prior. The only logical reason for Velvet to have the extreme level of lore knowledge, and don't mistake it for anything else, most people need decades to do what Velvet did in about year. And on top of that never coming forward with it prior, means Velvet is complicit in enemy action.
I mean, given her insane level of competence for the... Legendary Luna Lookabout (TM, subject to change upon me figuring out a better triple letter acronym seeing as it basically replaced the GGG), this isn't exactly out of the question for her. Like, anyone looking into her gets "Okay, minor noble, sent to a rural town for farmland bookkeeping.", and then they compare it to "Hypercompetent Mare who basically overhauled the entire search over all of Equestria twice or thrice over."... yeah I think that's a level of hyperintelligence/competence that could be easily shrugged off as just Velvet things.
