Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26901329-20150728204029/@comment-26901329-20150729062703

Eskaver wrote: So, you mean to destroy '''the DARKNESS. '''The DO can easily be subdued and stopped.

I'm certain the Darkness can never be destroyed. The Dark One can be defeated, imprisoned and placed in the vault of the DO.

The Dark One curse can be broken, but that'll likely just release the Darkness.

SO, there are three things.

The Darkness which inhabits the person and is the force that threatens all realms. No known way to destroy it.

The Dark One's curse tethers the Darkness to a human body. Can be broken via true love and other powerful spells.

The Dark One is the host of the Dark One's curse. Can be immobilized, power neutralized, imprisioned in a host of ways, and can be killed to take the curse and by itself and retunr to the Vault awaiting ressurection. Or freed via True Love.....which will likely release the Darkness that will threaten the realms. I think that after gathering the darkness from the former DO (like Zoso and especially Rumple) the darkess gained strenght. I think that before Rumple became the DO the darkness wasn't that strong. It had probably more than three hundred years to rot on his heart, corrupt it and to weaken it. Maybe the darkness is onstopible now, but in the past it could be. Remember Cora saying that if Rumple died all that power will boil aff into the air, maybe the only way it was able to live into SB was because of the dark deeds Rumple did. But of course these are assumptions, no telling if they are true. I also think that by now the darkness is onstopible.