Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26109288-20150913132446/@comment-1916997-20150914154856

Hmcooper4 wrote: And regarding casting issues, Elsa, in the Season 3 finale, was portrayed by an extra (I don't remember if she was credited or not), and then was cast for season 4 after the fact.

So, particularly with almost 5 years seperation, it would not be out of the question to use one of the other villians from the circle that helped Regina. That would be assuming that they would want to. Most of the villians from that circle were rather non-descript. Elsa's season 3 extra was not credited. And your right, the villains in 1x02 were kind of non-descript. They seemed more like evil achetypes to me. From what I could tell they were like: hag (the blind witch), ogre (the really tall guy), dark gnome (the guy Regina turned to stone), dark dwarf (the bearded guy with the ax), dark nymph (the other female), and dark knight/warlord (the horned helmet guy).