Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26580042-20160826010854/@comment-4453062-20160826202557

Hmcooper4 wrote: That sound's about right. I'm still a little concerned about Rumple's dagger, though. Excalibur was whole when it was used to kill Killian, complete with both Emma's and Killian's names. and after Emma removed the sword from Killian, it disintegrated. So what is the dagger that Rumple has?

Also, something else to point out. Nimue became the first dark one when she broke the rules while filled with HG Magic. But, Technically, Emma is the one that broke the rules, not Killian, so wouldn't the HG magic within Killian have been the White HG Magic, while Emma would now be full on Dark One? I know that the show portrayed Killian as immediately becoming a Dark One, but I really think that the writers made some very poor decisions regarding how this was handled. (just my opinion).

Another option for Merlin's magic, though, is that when Emma chose to end the Darkness and kill KIllian, the darkness inside of her left, but the White part of Merlin's magic transferred from Killian to Emma, making Emma the Light One (and an adversary of Rumple and the Darkness). This could also help to explain why she is still sensitive to the Dagger's call. Excalibur's fate is something that keeps bothering me. Maybe a whole version of Excalibur was transfered over to Rumple, which was why it disappeared in the first place. Rumple could have purposely broke apart the dagger half, so that a fully forged Excalibur couldn't be used against him, and has hidden the rest of the sword. I hope the missing half of Excalibur is addressed somehow.

I think perhaps one reason why Hook became a Dark One immediately was because he already had darkness in his heart. Hook already had a dark history of deeds prior to absorbing the magic, while Nimue didn't.