Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5094906-20141119193942/@comment-24584978-20141121005910

8Rob wrote: This is my theory:

Before 4x12, Regina will find out who the author is: The Sorcerer, and he will show up on Storybrook.

When Rumple finds out that The Sorcerer is actually the author of the book, he will try to defeat him to rewrite the book himself. But the Sorcerer is too powerful for Rumple alone, so he is making the "villains army", so all together will defeat him and get their happy endings.

I think the villains will kill Robin Hood to get Regina in their side, because if they defeat the Sorcerer, Regina can rewrite her story and bring Robin back to life. (Similar to what we saw with the Knave/Red Queen in the finale of OUaTW)

Maybe, even Rumple will control Hook to get him in their side.

IMO, the Author and the Sorcerer are one and the same. I highly doubt they will introduce 2 different all-powerfull characters in the same season).

So, maybe the season 4B will be the Villains vs The Sorcerer (and probably we are going to see one villain backstory every week).

In the season 4 finale, the villains will defeat the Sorcerer and will take over the book and erase all. And that is going to be the cliffhanger in the finale.

(If this is last season that could even be a great series finale

In season 5 we will see all the fairytales destroyed, and the villains winning. One fairytale every week, just like Season 1. I like your theory except for the last part where the sorcerer loose i feel like he would gain a lot of Heros on his side. They wouldn't just let the villains win without a fight then all of the happy endings everyone else got will be gone. So I think it would be more of a show down and where rumple brings back every villian even the ones who have fallen like pan and zelena and Cora eat and then some how good revives all the Heros and its cokes down to one huge battle where story Brooke gets destroyed and everything ends up going back before the first curse and something makes Regina not cast it and everything goes back to how it would be of the curse was never cast and mabey they can do a spin off type thing or a two or three part special on that or mabey a season on it