Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5899967-20150208192922/@comment-25926288-20150212010659

8Rob wrote: How do we know OUAT's Poseidon is a god?

Maybe he is just the king of the merpeople, who banished her daughter for being a witch.

I thought the whole "Ursula is a goddess" thing from 3x06 was just a misunderstanding/myth

Even Rumple called her "the sea witch" in 4x11, no "the sea gooddes". Being a goddess is way more important that being a witch. If she is actually a goddess, everyone would call her that way.

Anyway, if she is a goddess, why would she care about heroes getting the happy endings......... she is immortal.... that would be just too irrelevant for her Well, just because she's a god(dess) doesn't mean she can change fate. In Achilles and other Greek literature, the gods had great powers but would not and could not override fate. Even Zeus did not, and he saw many of his children fall in battle.