Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1916997-20151005010223/@comment-1894786-20151005151407

Killian Jones wrote:

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote:

MasterofCows wrote: In 5x01, when Arthur, Lancelot, and Percival pull Excalibur out of the stone, they look exactly the same as they do present day. And they definitely got Excalibur before the first curse because Lancelot was still a knight of the round table. So how is it that no was has aged after thirty years? Were they frozen during the curse? Camelot was most likely spared from the First Curse due to being in Cora's corner of the world (thus Lancelot's presence), so yeah. They were frozen. Uhm... No, definitely no xD Cora's corner of the world did not cover thaaat much.

Camelot was spared from the curse because it is not a part of the Enchanted Forest. It is anohter Fairy Tale Land realm, outside the Enchanted Forest, as are Arendelle, Agrabah, and possibly mulan's home Empire. This means it remained frozen during the curse (as did every other magical world), without its people noticing time was moving. This is going to go slightly off-topic but I'll go back on-topic at the end of this post, I promise.

The Dark Curse reached into all the worlds, while ravaging the one it was cast in. We can look at this more literally.

The Curse was cast on Earth (Fairytale Land) and reached into Venus (Wonderland), Mars (Land Without Color) and Mercury (Land Without Magic), while freezing Jupiter (Victorian England) and all the other planets in time for 28 years.

Looking at "Earth" again, it's made up of countries (Mist Haven, Agrabah, Arendelle, the Southern Isles, Camelot and Merida's Kingdom which will most likely be DunBroch like the movie). The Dark Curse was definitely meant to ravage the entirety of Earth. And in fact, nothing in the show has said that the original Curse was stopped by anything... Except Cora's Corner. Mist Haven was almost completely taken to Storybrooke aside from Cora's part. Arendelle was spared because of Ingrid's curse. The few Agrabahn people we've seen were either in Mist Haven (Genie/Mirror) or Wonderland (the Sultan, Cyrus and family, Jafar) when the Curse struck, so we don't know if it was spared.

As for Camelot, since it's a few days' ride away from Mist Haven, there's no way the Curse didn't consume it. It's like saying the Curse was cast in Luxembourg and it didn't reach France or Germany, while consuming Norway and Egypt. It had to have been protected. Whether by Cora or Merlin or some other force, but it was.

The second Curse is a different matter all together, as it was shown to have been made differently from the first Curse and Hook was shown to have been able to outrun it, with Ariel and Eric being out of its reach completely.

Anyway, I would love to see more Percival 'cause he was handsome, but good riddance to him. Yes, he had a very justifiable reason to want Regina dead, but I love her, so you die instead. Bye.