Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4481932-20161217025251/@comment-26830263-20170106041723

The Chipped Cup wrote: What if this dark new realm is a somewhat corrupted version of the Land of Ev? One thing I must give the writers credit for is their impressive use of the Oz books mythology. Let's examine the "Ev theory":


 * The casting call "red herring" for "Rumplestiltskin's mom" (actually Merida) is "Evanna". Evanna was also the name of one of the princesses of Ev.


 * Like the Wizard of Oz, there was a Wizard of Ev. Who was he? Jinnicky the Red Jinn, a genie as the name suggests. Now, if I were to guess, if Black Fairy was "Evanna"/tied into the Land of Ev, Jafar would be an amalgam of himself and a darker version of Jinnicky. Jafar = Red Genie? Sound familiar?


 * Now, I understand this next bit is a bit too specific on my part to probably be accurate, but I think that if the Black Fairy's realm was EV, it would also serve as a backstory to fairies in general. In the Oz books, the princesses of Ev were sold to the Nome King. What if, as a twist, they were somehow turned into fairies?

I'm sorry for babbling on about this like some sort of conspiracy theorist, but I just had to share it with others. I feel that the Dark Realm would/could/should be the land of Ev. Wow, I've been thinking of Tartarus as the Dark Realm, but your theory sounds great. A great way to incorporate the Oz gang (Ruby, Dorothy, Mulan) back to the show, give Mulan a backstory with the Dragon and make Zelena much more relevant.