Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20160213233306/@comment-25926288-20160214005025

Bot of Solitude wrote: There's also the fact that magic is tied to emotion. If you're minded to explain the perceived inconsistencies in an in-universe way, it's a good one. The more powerful your emotions, the more powerful your magic, in theory. But Once sort of goes against that half the time. MAgic isn't an intellectual endeavor until it is. Emma utelported without any emotion involved and magic tied to emotions gets wonky as most tend to just get angry.

Then you have Cora without a heart, so technically she'd be weaker as she can't fully feel. Then, it would be hard to tell emotional power. MErlin is most powerful, but he never seems to be an emotional person, while Regina is the angriest person around and not that strong, although, emotion might provide a boost.

Then we also have stated that the DO was the birth of Dark Magic. Don't know what that means, but I guess that's cool.