Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-2153169-20171120155605/@comment-1295345-20171121201149

CoolDudeAl wrote: Anonymius wrote: Eskaver wrote: Anonymius wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: I think we have to assume that the Wish Realm always existed, and that the wish merely let people access it who couldn't before. It's messy, but that fits best with everything we have seen. No. No it isn't. What fits best is when the wishrealm was created it created it's own real history that affected another realm, why are people having such a hard time accepting that? Rule #1 of the Laws of Magic: Can't change the past.

Genies cannot change the past via a wish. Changing the past was not possible until Zelena's time travel spell. When was that mentioned as rule #1 of the laws of magic? It isn't mentioned as rule #1. Esk just means this has been a long standing rule. The genies mentioned it (Sidney, Cyrus, etc.), Rumple mentions it to Zelena, I think someone else mentions it as some other point as well. Point is, you can't change the past is a pretty solid rule established. Ok fine, it seemed like a major plot point in once upon a time in wonderland (however when explaining the limitations sydney never mentioned changing the past), (and rumple did say it went against the fundamental laws of magic, with Zelena proving it could be done), but haven't the ouat writers always never let themselves be bound by their rules and continuity? Heck the only rule I remember consistently mentioned is that you can't bring back the dead (or that you can't make someone fall in love to a lesser extent), and even that has been bent on occasion!

with that said, it's as RWO put it, it didn't change the past, it just created an alternate reality.