Starswirl the Bearded

Star Swirl the Bearded is a male unicorn who appears in the IDW comics and Budge Studios' mobile game Harmony Quest of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and is alluded to in the show and other media. He is first mentioned by Twilight Sparkle in Luna Eclipsed as "the most important conjurer of the pre-classical era." Twilight, Spike and Pinkie Pie visit a wing in the Canterlot Library named after him, which houses time-related spells, in the episode It's About Time, he has discovered interdimensional travel in the comics, accidentally released the Changelings from their subterranean home, exiled The Dazzlings as one of his biggest failures, and is currently exiled in limbo, having been that way for a thousand years by the Pony of Shadows. He also helped plant the Tree of Harmony.

Role in the series
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