Dark Castle

"A little more imposing than the pawnshop."

- Emma Swan about the Dark Castle

The Dark Castle is an Enchanted Forest location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fifth episode of the first season.

Items
Many items are kept in the Dark Castle, including:
 * A candelabra and a clock
 * A scythe, a bow, and a Genie's lamp
 * A trident
 * Geppetto's parents (Donna and Stephen) in puppet form
 * Rumplestiltskin's Spinning Wheel
 * A hat resembling the Sorcerer's Hat
 * A severed hand on a pedestal
 * A sword
 * Golden fleece
 * Golden lasso
 * Chipped cup
 * A hammer resembling Thor's Mjölnir
 * An arrow
 * A golden chalice
 * A shelf of various potions
 * The Enchanted Bow
 * The True Love Potion
 * A wand
 * A crystal ball

Trivia
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Production Notes

 * The scythe sitting on a pedestal is based on the Slayer Scythe featured in the 1997 television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which Jane Espenson also was a writer for.
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Props Notes

 * The painting on the left side of the door of the drawing room is Moisés Salvado de Las Aguas ("Moses Saved From the Waters") by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese. It is currently on display at the Museo del Prado, the national Spanish art museum.
 * Another copy of this painting is hanging over Rumplestiltskin's fireplace.
 * The painting on the right side is Alexander The Great and Roxane by Italian Baroque painter Pietro Rotari. It is currently on display at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
 * Two of the wall tapestries are motifs from an antependium in the Museum of Applied Art Frankfurt.
 * Another wall tapestry is L'Offrande du Coeur ("The Gift of the Heart"), from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
 * The painting behind the two marionettes is Still Life with Flowers by the Dutch Golden Age painter Balthasar van der Ast. It is currently on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
 * Another copy of this painting is hanging over the fireplace.
 * The painting on the left side of Rumplestiltskin's glass cabinet is one half of the painting Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba by Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca.
 * A tapestry hanging on the wall shows a captive unicorn inside a fence, which is the seventh and final in the tapestry series The Hunt of the Unicorn created between 1495-1505 and entitled The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead.
 * The teapot on the tray is a Real Old Willow Teapot. It was made by Royal Doulton, a silverware company dating back to 1815, which first started its business in London. The teapot itself was created sometime around the 1980s or 1990's.
 * The cups are Royal Albert Val D'or teacups, with added blue paint.
 * The shelf of potion ingredients later appears in Mr. Gold's basement after the breaking of the Dark Curse.
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Other Notes

 * The unicorn tapestry in the Dark Castle is also used in the sixth film of the Harry Potter series. In this film, the tapestry adorns the wall of a corridor near the Room of Requirement.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
 * The Dark Castle appears in Henry's storybook in "Dreamcatcher".