Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8345449-20140513141958/@comment-9232373-20140515130419

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: 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. It's hard to say if that is true... perhaps Emma was allowed to take Marian back to the future because she *wasn't* supposed to die, and now she won't. I guess *anything* that happens is what was supposed to, even in time travelling. I guess you can never know what Fate's plan was until the last nanosecond of the universe, when time stops, and you can look back and go, "that's it, that's how it happened".