Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26141843-20150206163104/@comment-26985366-20150914053228

So I'm watching the whole of the show I started in season one & have made it all the way to season four. I have picked up a few things. First off, we find out at the end of Season 4 that the Sorcerer is Merlin. What do we know about Merlin? He is a wizard & a guide/mentor to King Arthur in Camelot. So far in the show we have met Lancelot from Camelot, encountered the Lady of the Lake, & Charming even took Snow to find "Excalibur" (tho it was a fake) & told her the legend of it & how Merlin placed it in the stone. There is even a flashback scene of Belle & Rumple where she asks him how his trip to Camelot went. Also you see Rumple put the chipped cup on a pedastal but he removes a silver chalice (from camelot? the holy grail?) Hhmm... However, there are some other things to pick up on. Now this is just my interpretation of the following facts, but let me tell you what I see. Snow had black fairy dust from a "dark fairy". This has been reiterated twice, not only in the original tale of Charming & Snow's meeting but becomes even more important when Hook & Emma go back in time & Snow has to use it to save her own life. There are also a couple mentions (that I caught) of the black/dark fairy's wand. One time Rumple uses it & says that it belonged to a dark fairy who was gone & to trust him, no one missed her (why does he hate the fairies so much anyway?) & next they have to fight Peter Pan's shadow to be able to get the black fairy's wand. So who IS this black fairy & when is she going to show up? Well, my guess? Morgan La Fay! Who is part of Arthurian legend. She is usually portrayed as malevolent & in some instances, as you'll see in this picture, an apprentice of MERLIN & as the "la fay" stands for... the fairy! SHE is a good candidate for our dark/black fairy folks! The Apprentice even says that the hat cannot be opened by someone who has succumbed to the darkness in their heart and that Merlin is the only one who can stop the darkness/dark one-was this his way of protecting it from Morgan, as well as The Dark One? Was Morgan herself "The Dark One" at some point? Perhaps even the FIRST Dark One?