Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26198810-20150902175918/@comment-1894786-20151029182437

Eskaver wrote: Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Is it possible that Merlin is from our world and that's why he knows about bikes? I mean, if anyone could travel from present LWM to the past EF, it would be Merlin, the most powerful sorceror of all time. (And Emma. And Hook. And Zelena. But I choose to forget that even happened.) Nope. He's most definitely from the EF. Why? Because he lived 1000s of years ago when our world didn't even have bikes,

Plus, Arendelle should technically have bikes if the worldbuilding didn't break over it. Wait, what?

And I know our world didn't have bikes 1000's of years ago (we got them in the 1800's). I meant maybe Merlin traveled somehow from Present-day LWM (post-bike creation) to past-day EF (pre-everyone else's stories, like the Apprentice said).

Because you said it yourself. He lived 1000 years ago in the EF, how would he know about bikes?

And Once's Arendelle is in 1841 (it's the year after Frozen Fever, which happens in 1840, according to the short), so IDK if bikes existed in 1841's Norway, where Arendelle is based off of.