Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150121180814/@comment-25896389-20150220060423

I do hope Rumple goes good again at the end. As for the Author, I'd like to see him as a anti-hero of some sorts with a very black and white view of morality. He should be uber-powefful and immortal, having traveled through various realms since time began. He entered the Land without Magic and encountered the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson,  Lewis Carrol, J.M. Barrie, L Frank braum, and others over time. He enjoyed their tales so much that he used a majority of his vast power to create realms where they were real and wrote out their stories in his book. At first, they were carbon copes of the stories we know but begin questioning their roles, he destroys the book and writes another, revising it so that story elements and characters are changed to suit his wims. But this ends up happening again and again, the stories changing again and again. The Author finally decides to recreat his worlds in a way that allows the characters to be complex but to ultimately adhere to his veiws of good and evil. Thus, the Ouatverse we know is born, with the First Dark One and the Blue Fairy acting as embodiments of his morality {she's said to be ancient, who knows how ancient.}

The Author then decids to become a part of his creation and takes on the role of the Sorcerer. He creates the Dagger and the Hat as a way to enssure the Dark One remains evil and never grows too powerful. The Hat also contains much of the Author's fate controling abilities and would  make the wearer as powerful as he once was, thus making him overly protective of it. The Apprentice is an unwitting pawn.