Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-6175354-20140514195959

Stonicus wrote: We don't know for 100% fact that she died. We only know Robin thought she had died. Robin didn't seem to know Regina had her locked up, so his account of things doesn't seem to be 100%, so we have to take his claim of her dying as mere speculation until the show itself confirms that yes, she was executed by the Queen in the original timeline. Most likely she was, I am just being super technical...

We will never "know" if Marian was executed or not. However, it seems the timeline worked itself out. So, Marian probably did die. Either way, Emma was not supposed to bring her to the future. To be honest, the story Marian told Emma, was pretty fishy.... helping Snow White? Snow White had no idea who Marian was.