Not every leader is perfect. In fact, any leader that is perfect shouldn't be trusted. That is a liar, a tyrant, and a pony that erases and smudges the words written in the history textbooks so that they may satisfy their own vain egos.

Princess Celestia is an imperfect leader. And although she didn't lie willingly when she told Princess Twilight Sparkle what little she knew of the Crystal Empire's history, it was tainted by her own biases and her own lens of perception surrounding King Sombra and their own clashing moral codes.

King Sombra is an imperfect leader. And it's about time that someone listens to his story.

If this feels rushed, it's because it probably is. This was written on a whim solely because I was browsing around for fics to read and saw one too many "bluh bluh bluh King Sombra the evil shadow pony" type stories and figured, hey, in later episodes we see lessons about "everyone deserves to have their words heard." Why not King Sombra too?