Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4877635-20170706172850/@comment-31564770-20170710023751

Eskaver wrote:

Edit: If they are going with all things Greek, then those two could be Circe and Medea (aunt and niece) and witches like Once likes it. (Or move it up to Hecate and then Circe) Circe was the daughter of Helios, who is the son of Hyperion. So, it is the family line of Hyperion. Best thing I've got.

Like CDA said, that's a great guess and it's plausible. They've done some but not a lot of Greek stuff, and I do want more. Plus, Hecate is the goddess of magic. If we continue ramping up the villain power/evil level like Once usually does, who better to follow the origin of the Dark Curse than the goddess of magic herself. Of course, Hecate doesn't have to be a villain. There is light and dark magic, after all, and a goddess of magic would be patron of both. Given how many times we've seen mention of higher powers like fate and other such "forces we don't understand" on this show, plus how Merlin said the Grail was a gift from the gods when he found it, these sorts of higher powers have been on the top of my list of stuff I wanna see for a looonng time. Specifically, Hecate has been on top of that list for a long time. If we get Hecate, that has some crazy potential for her messing with peoples' magic (canceling, strengthening, giving people the ability to use it, etc) or messing with the laws of magic, or both. I don't see Hecate ending up as a straight up hero, she's either gonna be the basically omnipotent party who has never intervened until now and has some far reaching goal that she needs the hero's help with, or she's the ultimate villain to end all ultimate villains. It would make it even cooler if she acted like Greek gods always do in the myths and meddle with people's lives just for kicks or because they need peons. What if she gave magic to mortals as some sort of epic game that lasted thousands of years, and pulled a high-level Isaac and was manipulating peoples' fates because it keeps it fun. What if she was spectating the story all along. Or, alternatively, she made some sort of bet with another god and to settle it they played an epic game where they made the Grail and gave people magic, then split off where she was in charge of dark magic and her opponent ruled light magic, and they played mortals off each other in an attempt to settle their debt. They ramped it up for like a thousand years and played with fate until they each got a champion in order- the Black Fairy for Hecate on the side of darkness, and Emma the Savior on the side of light. They fight the Final Battle, and light wins, but Hecate refuses to accept it and gets her hands dirty at last to do whatever it takes to win the game.

Yeah, Hecate would be super cool.

(Sorry for the long post. Idk why but I can't ever seem to do short posts.)