Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25555565-20150704032632/@comment-26837468-20150714190813

Darkness Snow wrote: MegaWicked wrote:

The darkness he fought could have been Rumple or Zoso. The Apprentice said "Long before your stories began, the Sorcerer battled the darkness. He was able to keep it from consuming the realms.

That means the Darkness is not Rumple

Zoso was the Dark One, and the Dark One is different from the Darkness

Zoso wasn't the first dark one. In 404, the apprentice tells him that many dark ones have tried and failed to get sorcerers hat.