Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151109132112

This episode Nimue is said to show the birth of Dark Magic.

As Merlin exclaims that he has magic, it would imply that he knew of magic well before he had acquired it.

But the Apprentice was shown to have magic, which was about 500 years later. Yet it seemed like he was the only on that weilded magic in those centuries before Nimue and Apprentice.

If Nimue becoming the Dark One was the birth of Dark magic, does that mean that magic used for evil intentions or rooted in Darkness didn't happen until Nimue did so? Did anyone have magic before Merlin?

We also saw that Isaac used basic magic and it was dark purple. Merlin also used the same. So dooes that mean Regina and Cora used simply magic, but since it was rooted in their anger and ambition it was labeled as "dark". 