Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151130020049/@comment-26715865-20151130163727

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Alex The OUaT Fan wrote: Nimue would never destroy the darkness, not willingly. But I think I've figured out why Nimue is the key to destroy the darkness. If they kill Nimue with Excalibur the darkness is destroyed, she said herself that she is all dark ones, so it could work! Regardless of what Nimue is truly after, Merlin said that she was needed. Emma made it virtually impossible to destroy the darkness, when she multiplied it by turning Hook into a Dark One. The only way to Nimue to become physical, was to use Gold's blood. The only way to get to Gold, was to enact the Dark Curse.... which Merlin conveniently brewed. Emma made it impossible to destroy the darkness without paying the steepest of prices, a life. To destroy the darkness a life must be payed, the life of the person who the darkness is teathered to. Of course you have to use Excalibur.

But all I am saying is that, maybe, just maybe, there is still another way to destroy the darkness, by killing Nimue with Excalibur, which is possible now, because she is physically alive.

Why, because Nimue is all Dark Ones, she practically is the darkness itself. At lest, she started it. So by destroying the darkness in her, you destroy the darkness in all dark ones. I hope my theory makes more sense now, because the more I try to explain, the less sense it makes to myself.