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As far as I can tell, Season 7 starts several years after 6. I know I've heard it said it starts in 2017, but I've also seen it listed as sometime in the future, which baffles me. Henry must travel for several years in the New Enchanted Forest (or maybe other realms) before meeting Cinderella.

Meanwhile, back in Storybrooke, it is still the same year that Henry left or close to it) which is why no one has aged. Time obviously passes much faster in the NEF. Rumple and Belle are in a land where time passes even faster. I can swallow all this, it makes sense and doesn't conflict.

My problems with it all are that Robin and the Wish Realm complicate things unnecessarily. No mention has been made of Zelena crossing realms with Robin and it's not mentioned that Robin has an accelertaed aging factor going on. She is said to be 18 and it seems she's been in SB all this time.

Meanwhile, NEF exists in it's own timeline, yet we are also asked to believe that the Wish Realm runs on similar time. This is fine as long as Wish Realm has always existed...but if it actually was created by the Evil Queen's wish and Aladdin just made it up...either some heavy time manipulation happened or it should have no prior history with other realms.

There may be an explanation, but the writer's have presented it in the most confusing ways possible, seemingly just to age up characters so they can be romantically involved.

If the Wish Realm had never been mixed in and Robin was stated to have grown up in Oz or something, there would be no conflicts.