Shallow Earth

What matter of mockery is this?

It is a well-crafted illusion, to be certain, to lead me to believe that such miserably treated material hails from the old frozen north. But such a possibility is beyond reality: if you are a scribe in my care — as I suspect — then you ought know well that while magic may resist study, all magic ultimately submits to hard truths.

Who are you, to so frivolously waste precious ink and paper?

Star Swirl, High Mage of the Equestrian Council