Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-26255666-20150608050849

Eskaver wrote: Not necessarily. Like how the powerful are outnumbered by the powerless, I believe such is the case with Merlin. He was powerful and with out equal because there might have been several mages, but there was the looming ever-powerful darkness, greater than any individual mage.

The Dark One isn't really a rival to his power, but more like his creation/ apprentice. I mean even his Apprentice seems on par, if not greater than the Dark One. I think the balance maybe be in the price of magic an d maybe lifestyles.

Merlin remains powerful, but away from the problems that befalls the worlds. The Apprenti---Yen Sid lives a life of humility and as a lowly old man that labours throughout the day with the occasional visitors, but rather secluded beneath the dark Mountain within the infinite Forest.

That's a very interesting concept, about the darkness itself being too powerful to lie in one body. It makes me think that what the Author did changed that and made Emma just as powerful as Merlin?

But I digress, if it wasn't the original Dark One who made the curse then what reason would Merlin have to make such a dark thing?