Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20170417104929/@comment-25926288-20170417183357

Farerb wrote: Yeah, and that whole Dark Ones uprising didn't create one single flower? But what bothers me is that it never occur to them to even look for the flower. In addition, wasn't dark magic created when Nimueh corrupted the power of the grail or something? Well...they were sort of visiting ghosts for like half and hour. XD The only thing that bothered me is that this feels like a one-off macguffin. If they have it in future episodes, then I'll be satisfied. A "going forward" retcon is better than a "one-off" macguffin.

That was always fishy anyway. I don't see how the HG began magic when the gods do some kind of magic. We know very little about the Age of Merlin. Magic clearly existed as Merlin knew what it was. I think they mean Dark One magic and the teachings of Dark Magic. Like Rumple spread dark magic by teaching Cora etc. So, I take Black as saying that she essentially created the basis of nearly all the Dark Magic spells (which I take to be tossing superlatives everywhere as Black as far as we know turned dark after giving birth to Rumple which is after the DO came about).