Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28837846-20160624190539/@comment-4453062-20160704015023

I don't necessarily think that the Land of Untold Stories is just for lesser known characters, but as Jekyll said, it's a refuge filled with outcasts from several different worlds. That means that most or all of the residents came from elsewhere first. Jekyll could have very easily originated from the Land Without Color (Frankenstein's world) or Victorian England (Alice's world), before somehow ending up in the Land of Untold Stories. With that logic, who's to say that Aladdin and Jasmine didn't still originate from Agrabah? It would certainly explain their absence from what we saw of Jafar's story, as far as the in-universe context goes. I wouldn't even classify Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as lesser known characters, either. I said this elsewhere, but I think the land is essentially a plot device so that the writers can introduce a variety of different characters at the same time, while having a thread to connect them all. Untold Stories could simply mean characters that have yet to appear on OUAT. This could extend to characters like Tiana, who Adam and Eddy have still expressed interest in having appear. Tiana could originally be from a fictional 1920s New Orleans world, but was conveniently sent to the Land of Untold Stories.