Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151017160320/@comment-25926288-20151017212934

CadoDoan wrote: Arctucrus wrote: CadoDoan wrote: Chameleon-Guy wrote: Another thing: if the Dark Swan dies, can't they just get her from the vault in exchange for a miserable man's life? Top easy. It can only work when the Dark One tries to "kill" himself/herself with the dagger. Was that ever confirmed? Yes. In 2.16 "The Miller's Daughter", Cora said If the Dark One is killed without the use of the dagger, he will expel the powers of the Dark One into the air, meaning the Darkness will be destroyed. That's not how that works. If in the LWM the DO dies, then the Darkness would be trapped in a limbo state because the Darkness is immortal, but the person might not be.

Anything Cora says doesn't really matter because they didn't have this mythos created when season 2 was about.