Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20151109020125/@comment-27213286-20151114072408

After the episode Nimue I have a couple of theories and am curious of what y'all think about them. 1. Merlin's voicemail was what Emma wanted them to hear, she has excaliber which Zelina cursed so that it could be used to control Merlin. Telling them to find Nimue is Emma sending them either on a quest to find someone that doesn't exist to keep them busy or to learn about Nimue and understand why Emma is doing what she is doing. 2. Merlin took the darkness out of Nimue the same why it was removed from Rumple. The darkness then found the next vunerable soul to attach to like it tried to do to Regina. Merlin theorized that removing his magic would make him mortal again but what if he was wrong. Nimue could still be immortal and hiding/trapped somewhere and Merlin's message means that the group needs to find her so that she can take the darkness back. What if Merlin's foreshadowing of someone being strong enough to be the Dark One without giving into th darkness was actually about Nimue redeaming herself with becoming the Dark One again but this time only using the powers for good. 3. Merlin is the first Light One similar to how Nimue is the first Dark One. In this theory Nimue is trapped somewhere by Merlin that magically prevents her from aging similar to how nobody in Storybrook aged for 30 years during the first curse. The gang has to go free Nimue so that she can help them remove the darkness from Emma and once back in Storybrook Nimue and Merlin are reunited. Merlin gives his Light One powers to the new hero Rumple (ironically giving him a version of what he wanted in the happy ending that The Author wrote for him). This allows two things to happen, Merlin and Nimue get to live, grow old, and die together like Merlin originally wanted 500+ years ago and Rumple gets to have an epic battle against Emma with Rumple being the Light One hero and Emma being the Dark One villian (gotta love the irony in this theory). Those are my three theories, which one do y'all think is most likely and which one do y'all hope is most likely (if any)?