Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-25926288-20150305040800

This takes place before (maybe a year or five) Rumple gets Belle. Hook-Milah situation is hundreds of years back. I think this is the dark curse that can cross realms and is twisted to whomever's desire. This is the original version. Rumple said it could grant happy endings (like what Regina said in the pilot) and cross to a realm without magic, or rather an inter-dimensional land that can be accessed through a land without magic (since technically Storybrooke is and isn't in the LWM). Rumple then added his elements which made Storybrooke and the Savior clause, while Regina put in the fail-safe trigger diamond.

Apparently from Zelena, you can add potions to it that will affect everyone in it, like a forgetting potion.