Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5106672-20141117061053/@comment-5106672-20141117230617

People, don't forget: we DO have a very specific time frame. Actually, the only one sure time frame in the pre-Curse Enchanted Forest timeline. The Arendelle flashbacks take place about three or four years before the Dark Curse. Here's the "how do we know that?" guide episode by episode.

Belle went to Arendelle before being taken by Rumplestiltskin (4x06). She suggested contacting him right after she returned home, and was taken after very little time (1x12). Shortly after, she saved Robin Hood from being tortured by Rumple, and he went back to Marian, who was pregnant with Roland at the time (2x19). Consequently, Marian was pregnant with Roland by the time Ingrid got to the Land Without Magic.

By the time Neal travelled back to the Enchanted Forest, Roland was four years old by Robin Hood's own admission (3x03). He was still in the Enchanted forest, but frozen in time for 28 years (2x09) and only resumed growing after the Curse was broken (2x01). Feel free to think the span of the whole Season Two is as long as you want, but we know for sure only four weeks had passed between 1x15 and 2x07: Child Of The Moon marks the first full moon since the Curse broke, and the previous was in Red-Handed (we know both things from Granny), which makes it 28 days, some of which were still under the Curse. The rest of the events of Season Two (14 episodes) seem to unfold very, very fast, within a matter of a few weeks, a couple of months at most. But even if you want to think it took longer, it wasn't even a year anyway because Cora surely wasn't waiting, nor were Tamara and Greg. Which means that Roland had to be between three and four when the Curse halted his aging. This means most of the events we know (King George adopting David, him falling in love with Snow, losing her, finding her, losing her again, finding her again, breaking the Sleeping Curse, full on war to take back the Kingdom, a royal wedding to plan AND nine months of pregnancy) happened within those three or four years.

Thus, there is no way on this Earth or the next that Ingrid could have gone to the Land Without Magic only one year before the Curse. Because let's face it: she would not have kept Anna in the dungeons for two years without Elsa noticing. That was pretty imediate, too. And here is our issue.