Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-25733960-20180429103614/@comment-25926288-20180429111830

1. I wouldn’t add years to anything because it’s not our world. I often said that the LWM isn’t our world (and people still try to stick with the idea that it is).

The Coven Witches are amongst the most powerful, but I’m pretty sure all we know is that Seraphina came from that time and I guess Gothel found a way for her to be Immortal. (Unless we are missing something.) I’m certain the rest are coming from close to the present (except Leota could easily been partly dead whenever). I’m pretty sure when Gothel and Seraphina left, Gothel wasn’t thinking “let me go and find more witches”, but exploring worlds, gaining knowledge of many things. She’s no Hook who gets stuck on mostly one thing for all time.

2. Gothel probably learned that she needed the Guardian and learned Alice is the Guardian and she possessed magic even in LWM (and probably why she was only partially cursed). She didn’t need Alice, just the Guardian and she had to purge the LWM in the LWM.

3. Gothel has the Dark Curse used because she wanted revenge on Rapunzel as well as it really didn’t matter to her how she got to the LWM. Plus, Drizella did find a prophecy that the Dark curse would be cast, so she just went with the flow. She’s pretty chill.

To add my own headcanon to the mix, I don’t think there were a lot of human innate mages for a very long time. I don’t think Dark mages really became a thing until Nimue and younger. She likely wasn’t running into any powerful light mages like saviors and guardians like too much.