Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24721813-20140322182605/@comment-5834856-20140710193110

Andrew Robbins wrote: Yeah, like Utter said, blood magic, potioncraft, witchcraft and removing hearts; I don't know if we should use Fairy magic for both fairy and pixie dust or split in two, Fairy magic and Pixie magic. There's also Ground Poppy Dust, which put people to sleep, and magical items like Mulan sword, that can repel magic, so I think these should be counted in the magical abilities as well. Also light magic like Budloopy4 said.

Personally, I would exclude Mulan's sword and poppy dust. True, it's an ability to wield a sword and some can do this better than others but once you learned to wield wooden swords and are strong enough to hold a real one anyone can do it. Henry could have wield Mulan's sword if he was strong enough to hold it. Compared to a normal sword there's no difference in handling a magical sword, I think. At least, I didn't see one. Stroking and parry are done the same way.

I would rather say knowing how to forge a weapon that has magicial abilitiies is a ability worthy to note. The task to produce it is the difficult part. As  far as I know the only one we know who can do this is  the mage Merlin. He forged Excalibur so he has the ability to produce magicial weapons.

Technically speaking poppy dust isn't magic. Or at least Regina doesn't see it that way. Tinker Bell had to use that to knock her out Regina concludes that she has no magic. (Quite a Common Fairy.)  Once you know what it is, where to look (rather nature study than magic) and how to handle poppy dust you can use it.

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Of course,  One might consider the possibility to add an ability section to other characters as well. Such as

Wielding a sword for Hook and Charming for example or knowing how to use a bow for Snow and Robin Hood, handle a gun for Hook and Emma.

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Pixie dust and fairy dust could be one in my opinion because the way I see it they're handled very similiar. The only difference is that pixie dust is - don't ask me, why - stronger than fairy dust.