Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20150520160921/@comment-7526254-20180520214814

Begfhn wrote: I just realized something. Henry doesn't arrive in NEF until right before he meets Ella. Maybe he was traveling through all the other realms for about 5 years, while only 2 years passed in Storybrooke. He met Ella at around the age of 23 and then Hook and Regina joined him. At this point in SB it is around 2020, so Robin is 7. Let's say 4SB years = 1NEF year. Then Robin would age 11 years to 18 in about 3 NEF years. Hence, Robin is 18, Henry is 26, and Lucy is 1. This would make Henry 33 at the time of the curse, which is much more believable than 38. I see no flaw in this timeline.

If Alice was born 17 years before escaping the tower, this means she was born at least 68 years (our time) before Henry's arrival (2020). This means the curse almost took place in WR around 1952. We know SB and WR were at about the same time in 2014. This means 31 years SB time = 62 years WR. A 1:2 ratio. This would mean, however, that when Henry is 18 in SB WishHenry is 22. This doesn't make sense because he looks significantly younger. But we saw that he traveled the realms a lot, so maybe he did not age as fast and was only around 18 at the time of the finale. That all makes sense.

This does cause a problem for Hook, however. He has Alice around the same time as the would-be curse in WR and stays with her for about 10 years. 80 years would have passed in WR making it already decades after 6x11. I still need to find a way to work around that.

As for the Tremaines, nothing changes, but their ages still don't make sense. If Ella is at least 16 years older than Alice, she would be at least 43 at the time of the curse and I find that impossible to believe.

I still need to work a little more on this theory. Let's try this again. From Hook and Alice's perspective, WR time is no more tham 3 times as fast as NEF time, since 5X13 takes place before 6X11.

Let's say 1 year NEF = 3 years WR. If Alice is born around the same time as the would be curse, by the time she is 10, 30 years would have passed in WR. This would be around the time when Hook's heart was poisoned. This would also mean that 7X13 takes place only about a year before 7X11, but there is an easy way around that. After his heart is poisoned, Hook goes to another realm where he ages rapidly. Hook's crew has not aged at all because they have been exploring new realms where time is frozen.

Let's say 1 NEF = 2.5 years LWM. Henry leaves Storybrooke in 2018 and arrives in NEF in 2021. He has aged about 5 years and is now around 23. Days later, he learns his mother is pregnant. Later that year, Hope is born. Robin is 8 at the time. 10 years later, Robin arrives in NEF. Only 4 years have passed in NEF. Henry is now 27 and has a one year old daughter. Alice is 21, which is close enough in age to Robin.

The WR timeline and LWM timeline line up around 2014. Only a few months have passed for Alice since her father's heart was poisoned. 7 years later (1.75 LWM years) she escapes. She then goes to WL where time is frozen and leaves shortly before meeting Henry.

How is Ella still young? She is at least 16 when the curse is almost cast in WR. Since time moves 20% faster in WR than in SB, the would be curse must have taken place around 25 years (LWM) time before 6X11 (around 1989). Ella meets Henry around 2021, meaning 32 years have passed in LWM. This would only be about 13 years in NEF. Hence, Ella would be around 29 when she meets Henry, 32 when she has Lucy, and 40 at the time of the curse. This is not too far from her real age, so I can accept it.

It is also possible that Ella explored other realms. We don't know her whereabouts between 7X09 and 7X01. Maybe she spends some of that time in WL looking for her mother and doesn't age. Or maybe she's in a completely different realm.

I know this is super confusing, but I think it fixes all major timeline problems. I'm going to accept this as the timeline.