Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6175354-20140319185751/@comment-24844464-20140512160049

BryantCabrera wrote: what? that makes no sense to me. If that were the case, then why not just put the sword hilt, Regina's heart, and Rumple's brain there for a second then hide them permanently. I feel like the failsafe is way too OPed and was too big of a leap. I mean she spent all of 3B getting those ingredients for goodness' sake o_o

And the gold thing was from Rumple's vault in the past. It's probably some container he had access to.

And I find it easy to comprehend. How about this : When Zelena was enacting the spell, the 4 elements were set and glowing; our heroes came, she just paused it, but didn't stop . Then, Regina defeated her, took the pendant, now her power was converted to it, but not released yet. Next, Zelena was killed by mr.Gold, her magical power from the pendant was immediately extricated and it continued to create the spell _ creating the portal. Even the elements were taken away, the spell was considered happended, and when the magic from the pendant touched the portal,the spell is completed.

As Rumpel. said : The time traveling spell is a very different code. Zelena broke it. She created the ritual circle, the 4 elements .Once those have been done, it just need very strong forces of magic to do the rest.