Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161205015930/@comment-1894786-20161206224009

MickeysPal wrote: The one thing that confused me about the Wish Realm was the existence of Henry. It seemed, to me at least, that the Wish Realm's history followed that of the Enchanted Forest up to right before the Evil Queen's defeat. Then history would have changed after that point.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Baelfire's arrival in the Land Without Magic decades, (if not centuries) before the Dark Curse was even cast? We know the Evil Queen was defeated in WR, so that means no Dark Curse, therefore Bae would be in LWM with the Darlings and Emma would have grown up in the EF, so how could Henry have even existed?

That also leads to the question that since Baelfire was still in the WR (albeit dead), what was Rumple's reason for wanting to cast the Dark Curse in that realm, since his goal was to find Baelfire with the original curse?

I just feel like I'm missing something big here. At the time of the Dark Curse, Bae was in Neverland. He's about 6 years older than Emma biologically (not chronologically), so if they got together when she was 17 and he was 23 like in the real timeline, he could've returned from Neverland as far back as 8 years after the Curse (he'd be 14), become a knight, and gain the attention of Emma.

Rumple could just not know that Bae was in the EF, since he was imprisoned in the Dark Palace, probably as soon as Regina was defeated.