It was filled with love, and changelings just drained it. It only had several enchanting sessions worth of love inside, so should not have been very hard to do (plus I wouldn't be surprised if the general dishonesty of Canterlot did caused some drain as well).
As far as Sunset is aware, it was "just" one or two; Celestia worked on charging additional runes on a separate fragment rather than improving the placeholder after first merging the Honesty fragment into Sunset's pendant.
tirek's not racist? He is an equal-opportunity genocidal maniac! how dare you slander his good name!
He's a centaur supremacist and you know it.
To be fair, they didn't say Tirek was racist. They said Tirek was the king of the racists, which simply means he rules over them.
uhh nevermind cancel lord tirek
T-boy nearly soloed the entire theocracy of equestria. every single centaur in the show peaks at being as strong as the vast majority of the planet put together. centaurs are superior. granted, he's the only centaur we see, but still.
Discord would have twisted the narrative until there is no narrative, only Discord (in Voice's estimation, and despite canon evidence to the eventual contrary). The Changelings are villains, yes - they are antagonists to Sunset's protagonist, and their presence alters the story rather than supplanting it. Their actions today proved the catalyst for both their eventual downfall - Celestia is now suspicious - and for Sunset to begin healing by *finally* internalizing that yes, Celestia does honestly love her.
And there is the moment where Celestia took several possible answers and narrowed it down to one. I imagine she is now going to start shaking the rust off of her skills.
That was their original plan, they're just trying to adapt it.
Chapter 30 has a section from one of the changelings. They've been priming her to go after Cadence. So probably a good while, and it makes a mention of a plan years in the making.
That was exactly their plan, from chapter 30.
Either Voice is apathetic to the harm being done (it remains a possibility and Voice has demonstrated a level of care so far that cannot be verified more than surface level: Voice is still an outsider. A human and a pony have more in common mentally than an Outsider does with either).
or she took a peek into the future and, seeing that it doesn't cause sunset's death, decided to let the story play out, as was the intent of their deal.
A changelings is the one saying this.
That's the same as the first part of my statement. My point (and the question) was that harm is harm and wondering whether Voice cares about helping the suffering or not. We already know that Voice cares about the story. The only distinction that matters to the deal is life or death... which is why I didn't state it, because said distinction has already been all but spelled out.
