Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-2153169-20171120155605/@comment-1916997-20171122054443

NickM98 wrote:

FrancisPaul wrote: Reading all that's been theorized and stated in-show and by writers, I think it is safe to add in the wiki that the WR was created due to the wish and everything we saw happened during 610, it just seems to be in the past because time flows faster in NEF (which is confirmed).

Timeline being sort of

12 P.M. in LWM - Queenie makes the wish, the WR is created.

12:00:30 PM in LWM - Hook went to NEF, Alice was born and grew

12:01 PM in LWM - Emma blew the candle in the WR, WSnowing and WHook aged 28 years in that LWM-minute, so did WEQ (who is confirmed by Adam to be an old lady living after banishment).

This way, nothing is contradicted. We keep as fact that WR was born out of the wish, we keep as fact that the 707 flashbacks are real, we keep as fact that NEF time flows faster, we keep as fact that WEQ grew older etc. I also believe that between the moment of Serum Queen's wish and Emma blowing her candles, time in WR was ultra-condensed, giving WR it's own distinct history to catch up with the present-day. On or near the moment of Emma blowing her candles, time returns to normal, seemingly in sync with LWM.

In relation to the flow of time, we know that LWM, FTL, Wonderland and Oz (the "core" realms of story) time seemingly flows parallel. Time also flows parallel in Neverland, but nobody ages due to the island's magic. Time in WR also seems to flow parallel as well.

In LWC, VE, 1920s England and 19CF time progresses parallel to the core realms, but the LWM era is somehow frozen, allowing them to "exist out of time".

The Dark Realm is completely out of whack and "nothing makes sense"; the flow of time is likely variable, always speeding up and slowing down. At the Edge of Realms time runs almost infinitely slower than the core realms.

As far as we know, time in the "new realms of story" (NEF, NWL) flow parallel, but the new realms move much faster than the core realms. This is a pretty decent theory.