Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207015752/@comment-25926288-20151209040242

Boobfairy wrote: This might be more of a last episode question but...did Merlin's power come from the Darkness? I thought Nimue only created the darkness out of a more pure "Holy Grail magic"? Why was Merlin's regular magic turned dark when it was transferred to Hook? Think of it like a parasite.

Emma was using powerful Dark magic to latch onto and remove Merlin's magic to transfer into Hook. Essentially, she ewas making a Dark One's curse. Emma's Dark HG magic corrupted Merlin's and the Dark One simply gained more power.

The Darkness used the HG magic it was pulling from Merlin to grow itself and it latch onto Hook. Almost like a virus. It sees a cell full of resources and then latches onto that cell and make the cell make more copies of it. So, Hook and Emma were both sharing the Darkness together, but also more of it than there was before.