Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24942479-20170428140210/@comment-30644093-20170506185147

Shadowlord4001 wrote: My theory is that time and experience on once= power (i.e merlin and apprentice super old and powerful). So when black gave up rumple she became dark and went to the dark realm where time moves extremely fast. think about it gideon aged 28 years in a few days so imagine how much power and experience black would have gotton if she was there for upwards of 200 years in our realm which would have been thousands of years in her own That would explain why the DO, the BF, Merlin, the Dragon, Deities and Fairies have so strong magic- cause they're immortal. Plus Black is almost more powerfull than Gold explained too. The only problem is Maleficent, yes she is one of top 5 most powerfull witches, but she's not really much more powerfull than Jafar or Cora, and by this theory she should be able to defeat Black herself, which she isn't. Maybe for creating the sleeping curse she had to sacrafice the ability for her power to grove with ages and since she had such immense power that time, she just sacraficed it.