Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20151126223807/@comment-4453062-20160316212500

Eskaver wrote: Even though Rumple is acting like an emotionless jerk, at least he's funny and logical.

"So what? All 45 of you are going to slip into the deepest place in Hell" or something like that.

Hades puts up barriers that turn the living to dust. Almost like the stone for Excalibur. That could actually be an intentional similarity, because Merlin mentions that the Holy Grail is from "the Gods." The Holy Grail had the same type of protection spell around it. Perhaps OUAT's version of the Holy Grail is from the Greek Gods?