Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25613119-20150302121703/@comment-5106672-20150308224850

Well, Pinoccio/August's involvement with the Author, possibly by proxy (through Blue?), was long speculated and is still plausible: as of Season One, the only people who could have possibly known about Baelfire were Rumple himself, Blue, Belle, Cora and Hook. Belle was totally amnesiac and knew very little about it all, Cora and Hook were M.I.A., Blue was cursed (was she?), Gold didn't talk much because his son was his weakness: how did August know?

We might speculate he learned it from the book. But while the Book did cover Baelfire's existance (as seen in 2x18), it mustn't have been very specific about him or Rumple, given that a) Henry had a hard time figuring out who Mr. Gold was, and b) no one figured out what Gold was after until he told them, even when the Curse was broken and everybody knew the Book was a reliable source. Besides, August clearly knew everything about Nealfire before he went to Storybrooke, or the Book itself appeared to begin with.

So, Pinocchio must have known much about what was going on back in FTL, and who's the powerful, shady lady he's affiliated with?