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Since: Nov, 2017

In the story humans made first contact with the gryphons via a magic portal in their territory leading part of the gryphon lands to secede and embrace human culture. Celestia sends a scholar pony there as part of a cultural exchange, having him study human math and science in exchange of knowledge on magic, when he arrives in the province the humans test him by having him solve an equation which he can't do then revealing that it was an encryption algorithm for their computers. Later a gryphon prince from the kingdom the province used to belong to tries to kidnap the scholar pony to steal the algorithm to get a leg up on the humans but gets captured and arrested, in the end the scholar pony manages to solve one of Starswirls magical theories by using human math and science to complete Starswirls spell formula and writes a book about it crediting the humans for the discovery, the epilogue has Twilight Sparkle reading the book and trying to find more information about humans.