[Luna's own tail is flicking in agitation, the alicorn headshaking.]

Automatons. Golemancy is a skill that only Star Swirl ever practiced, and you have been down in the Archives enough to be familiar with the yogurt-craving fruits of that labor.

The sanguine arts of your world quite obviously work on different principles than those of our own. In addition, we would rather assume that this world would be closer to another Equestria than it would be thy own lands, in any given circumstance.