Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20160516005939/@comment-1916997-20160518022358

Jordy267 wrote:

First, I'm confused about how magic works in the LWM. So if magic was there all along and just didn't work because no one believed it was, how come Ingrid couldn't use her ice magic when the Apprentice sent her there? I'm sure I'm missing something, but she didn't know it was a "Land Without Magic", did she? She tried to use magic on the fake psychic and discovered her powers didn't work there.

In addition to the Land Without Magic becoming Neverland 2.0 (where all you need is faith, trust, and a wishing fountain), I still don't understand why the Land of Untold Stories is named thus. Is this something they plan to explain in season 6? When we first heard the name I expected this to be ONCE's way of incorporating a whole new world of characters of their own, so why are yet more characters we all know there? A strange case indeed. The best explaination for magic not working in the LWM is that not enough people believe it, so it doesn't work. No one would believe Ingrid can do ice magic, so she can't. No one believes a demon like Chernabog exists, so he doesn't. Alternativly, magic works differently in different realms, and it is possible that was Ingrid's problem. She didn't know how to adjust her magic so it would work in LWM.

From what they said about The Land of Untold Stories, I inturpet that it is named as such because the people who come there had to flee their "stories" (aka their origin worlds) for various reasons, and thus have not told their stories yet. Hyde wants them to play out their stories in Storybrooke, for whatever reason.