Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5679696-20161205034133/@comment-5106672-20161206001500

Eskaver wrote: I'm going with it being like Storybrooke, prior to 1983. No real "history" as it was suddenly sprung into existence and the curse filled in the gaps. So, it is as real as Storybrooke and it's inhabitants (mostly). Not quite: the Curse didn't create new people, just backstories and fake identities. Ashley had "one stepmother and two stepsisters she doesn't talk to", and we now know that Lady Tremaine and Clorinda were in the LOUS: so any additional people were just known of without being physically replaced. The inhabitants of Storybrooke “became real” only because, after living 28 years with that frame of mind, they all felt like both. But as the series progresses, the Storybrooke counterparts have been fading away (culminating with Snow rejecting her Mary Margaret persona altogether).

Anyway, the big reveal about the Wish Realm having become real might as well have waited for the spring premiere…