Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6963628-20130930042257/@comment-5876014-20130930050716

Not sure, but from the way it's conveyed, all of this seems like a sick game to him. He does seem to operate on an abstract rendition of the kind of cruelty children are capable of. I'm assuming that such a curse would have something to do with this. Probably full-interdimensional domination. "They're my subjects, I can do what I please with them" (paraphrasing the White Witch from Narnia). He seems powerful enough to pull this off if he is capable of not only instilling fear into Rumpelstiltskin of all people, but even is able to reduce the poor guy to tears right in-front of him (or his second in command anyway).