Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24304025-20150121190259/@comment-25926288-20150210184817

Eruciform wrote: My question is if the sorcerer's apprentice can create a portal to LWM, can the author revive dead characters?

And I don't quite understand the spell surrounding Maleficent in the library that kept her undead. Was it Maleficent's or Regina's spell? I find it hard to believe that Maleficent would just sit idly while Regina was casting the dark curse and not protect herself in some way. Regina said "There's a powerful spell here that sustains her in whatever form she's in."

So how did Maleficent/Regina learn this spell? Why wasn’t Zelena able to do something similar (return after being killed by Rumple)? And wouldn't it be in any powerful magic practitioner's best interests to have a backup plan to keep themselves alive in case they "die"? Ingrid's death reminds me of the original Little Mermaid in which the mermaid becomes sea foam/spirit of light or something like that.

When Rumple trapped Ingrid with the urn dust, he said, “Well, funny thing about magic, it can never be destroyed completely. It simply lives on in other forms” which made me wonder why someone so powerful and patient like Ingrid couldn’t find a way to return from all the mirror dust that destroyed her. And when she was talking about mirrors with Sydney, I thought she had a way of trapping parts of her essence/soul in mirrors. That would have been a great way to come back. How does a portal made via apprentice relate to author reviving people? Magic can't raise the dead, or rather shouldn't. For all we know the author is powerless and a non-factor in living beings.

She has no reason to return since she found her happy ending.