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Killian Jones wrote: In my headcanon, the Sands of Avalon were used by the Charmings/Regina/Belle etc. during the Missing Year between the first and the second Dark Curses to restore everything the Dark Curse had destroyed in the EF (castles, villages, etc.) My headcanon is that is what Merlin put on the Dark Curse which lead to the creation of Storybrooke and that's why the trigger turns it back into a forest because that's really what it is.