Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5205908-20150112195458/@comment-5205908-20150116190814

Good point about fairies being forbidden to love may be a price for their magic. I forgot that in some case, you have to pay the price first to enact the magic, maybe the restriction or rules for fairies is their price for being fairies, and they have to pay it price to acquire fairy magic(or fairy status). I wouldn't say becoming evil is price of dark magic, it seems to be the opposite, evil turn magic into dark magic, and prices of dark magic the villains will never won, and no happy ending.

As for Regina's price from the Dark Curse, it was her father's heart, but paying it metaphorically left a hole in her own heart.

I have heard someone speculating that Gerda's price in Grand Pabbie erasing memories of Halga and Ingrid was Elsa being born with ice powers. Is there a confirmation that this is true? I can see the irony, that in the attempt to erase any reminders of Ingrid, Gerda get a huge reminder of her sister in her first-born. Still it seems more genetics than price of magic to me.