Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4962906-20151110115351/@comment-26160044-20151110124646

What i think they meant with that is that Merlin was the first great light magic sorcerer and Nimue was the first great Dark Magic sorceress. If Merlin hadnt gotten the magic and Nimue didnt drink from the cup then there wouldnt have been any light or dark magic. I think all the magic users were able to get either light or dark magic because Nimue and Merlin brought Dark and Light magic into the realms(except for boring land without magic).

Secondly Nimue became the first dark one. Then she locked Merlin into the tree. Then at some point she got killed and had her power taken by the second dark one. Then at some point Gorgon the Invincible became the dark one and at some point Zoso became the dark one. After a while he tricked Rumplestiltskin into killing him. This lead into him losing his son and then training Regina into dark magic and molding her into someone desperate enough to cast the dark curse  as revenge. To get her to become desperate enough he helped snow and charming come together which would eventually leed to Regina being dethroned. Then he made the dark curse in such a way that the product of true love could break the curse which he had acccess to as snow and charming where eachothers true love. And finally all the dark deeds Rumple did would lead to his heart being overloaded by the darkness and it being pulled out which lead to Emma becoming the dark one.

Its a lot of text Josh but what do you think about my theory