Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26340222-20151116200610/@comment-25926288-20151116203929

Killian Jones wrote: No, I think Rumple was pretty much mortal. The problem here is, in my opinion, that Rumple is not Nimue. Not an Original Immortal. He has inherited her Darkness, and the Holy Grail's magic and immortality, but perhaps some of it was lost when Nimue died?

Perhaps Nimue would have been able to have her magic cross the borders between this land and the land without magic, and that much power got reduced when her darkness passed into the following Dark One.

Or perhaps Dark Magic is not strong enough as Light Magic, and that's simply why Merlin can do some stuff the Dark One's can't. Yeah, I think there was some decay. My theory is that as the HG magic got passed on, each preceding Dark One may have held on to a small chuck of the magic, making each succeeding DO weaker and weaker. That would explain why Rumple had to absorb the Seer power.

I actually don't think there was Light or Dark magic as Merlin never said he only had light magic and he even shares a similar cloud that Regina and even Isaac had.