@mjangelvortex  
Either’s fine with me, but I’m not sure if they’ll ever crop up again in canon material, and Fanon on them is all over the place.  
Which isn’t a bad thing in any way, but sometimes they don’t really fit with everything else around them.

@ExistenceNull  
I like the jerk faries idea with them a bit more myself.

@Starswirl  
I’d even say their feeding just has the cold and frost as a side effect of the transfer of the power, the heat and simmering emptions all but draining the warmth from the surrounding while the Windigoes grow warmer for it.  
It’s just something they do, and as with most predators they don’t really comprehend, and all most rightly so, that it’s cruel.  
They know whats going on, but for them it’s just how things work, with little to no means or desire to do things differently.

@ExistenceNull  
They do seem more in line with intelligent spirit creatures. Like Discord. I’m not even sure they feed so much on hate than contempt, too. Hate is generally a “hot” emotion; the Sirens sowed hate, while the Windigoes seem more drawn to those who despise each other. Their victims don’t have to actively fight for them to grow powerful, just wallowing in disdain seems enough.

@Darth Sonic  
I’m on the fence with the Windigoes honestly. They seem to be treated as an intelligent species, and very well may be a case of “they be Faèries” rather then simply lacking intelligence, but the sheer amount of energy they’d garner almost makes it a moot point, as they’d probably have gotten involved even as animals.  
I’m also partial to applying more of the Algonquin folklore surrounding the Windigo IRL. Maybe not literal cannibalism but if they could, with enough exposure, become by possesion or corruption a being of flesh and blood it gives them more weight with the irl capabilities in the culture, and would explain how their numbers could grow so quickly as to completely alter the weather of a region permanently during a time of great famine and war.

@ExistenceNull  
That’s an interesting take actually. Though I am uncertain if it applies to the Windigoes; they may well be mere animals.

@Starswirl  
I’m completely fine with in fiction politics that are relevant to the plot.

@SharpEdge  
I remember not having fun the last time the comics tried to do something political and I worry I won’t have fun here either.

@SeraphimDawn  
Judging from what other episodes describe?  
The bulk of them came from the frozen north before their incompetent rulers turned it into an arctic tundra and were run out by the Windigoes and Umbrum.  
Who honestly seem like they were rather tired of the tribes shenanigans or taking advantage of a good situation then actual villains.  
I mean, if my neighbors kept blowing the plots of land around them up and starting fights I’d be pretty invested in making them stop right quick, and all that xenophobia and racism would’ve been a great source of power/food for the Windigoes.

Then where did Ponies originate from before they settled in what is now Equestria?

@Background Pony #14EC
 
^also me
 
Meanwhile, I’ll just shut up and enjoy Technicolor fantasy econo-political /shenanigans/.
 
Remember shenanigans?
 
Remember fun?

Stop wasting your energy on if technicolor pony politics makes sense or not and try studying something more simple, like conflict in the Middle East.

@northern haste  
Wow that sounds even more awkward. Couldn’t they have saved the Wonderbolts related story another time? They were already juggling quite a bit of stories as is.

@Starswirl
 
@mjangelvortex  
it also wasted the fact that it was a two part comic as the all that happens in part one that is relevant to part two is the dragons attacking.  
when the dragon’s attack the characters go into a cave and we get a story about the wonderbolts and young rainbow dash

@Starswirl  
Whoo. That sounds like a train wreck disaster. I can see why you’re a bit more cautious about this story.

@mjangelvortex  
Well… I wouldn’t say it was good.
 
Ember led her dragons to firebomb Yakyakistan while Pinkie and her friends were there. They didn’t want to explain exactly why, pretty much just saying “They know what they did!”. The ponies said some bad things about dragons (after almost getting killed by them) and Spike got all outraged over that. Then Spike got abducted by the dragons and Ember told him they were angry that the yaks made Pinkie an honorary Yak, because of an ancient accord they had that only dragons were allowed to get that title. Later on it turns out the yaks didn’t know what they did was wrong because the scroll was so badly drawn, they thought it was about a volcano.
 
Everypony gets chewed out by Spike, they make up.

@Starswirl  
What happened with Wings over Yayakistan? I didn’t read that one. Was it bad?

@Evowizard25  
@FrustrationInExcelsis  
I predict none of this will matter.
 
I predict there will be panic, perhaps some casual racism from the ponies, and lots of lots of moments with Twilight’s mouth hanging open in shock and/or surprise.
 
Now prove me wrong, IDW. The last time you put up a conflict resulting from a document, we had Wings over Yakyakistan.

@Background Pony #465E  
Only if we get a couple pages of backstory showing some griffon spending literally years putting in the (phony) backwork for this deal. Seriously, the way Vincent’s character set the whole scam up in the movie was more fascinating than what came after.

So, The Baron of Arizona it is, then. Please tell me it’s a male griffon behind this document. I really want to imagine a character speaking with Vincent Price’s voice.

@Villain Pony
 
Good thing Mayor Mare’s colleagues wasn’t invited to the summit then.

@Dustcan  

 
Considering this is the same series that portrayed ponivilles government as a bunch of idiots who half ass everything, I wouldn’t put too much stock in it.

@Villain Pony
 
I know I’m supposed to say no.
 
But the phrasing here has suddenly made me very interested in fictional geopolitics.

@Background Pony #29B5  

 
Given this comics history with politics, I’d rather they NOT go anywhere near politics.

@Villain Pony  
Of course we do. We need to know the elaborate systems of the character’s lives, including how their governments work, down to the most finite detail. Entertaining children? Forget that noise. /s