Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24942479-20170609084337

Just rewatching scenes from season 4 where rumple tries to cleave himself from the dagger. My first problem with this is that he along with many other characters state that he will then be free of the dagger and able to leave storybrooke with his power. How can this be if it is a land without magic and he has not learnt how to use magic in it (like the dragon). Could it be that the dagger is what holds the dark ones power and thus if he is free of it he holds the power within himself as merlin has? Second of all he only collects the power of the apprentice, Emma and around six fairies (as well as the charnabog) for his ritual, but in later seasons when he has "the combined power of every dark one" as well as all of storybrooke's magic in the crystal he is unable to rid himself of the dagger. Any explanations for either would be appreciated. 