Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4936165-20140827005907/@comment-26179634-20141103002850

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: The Sleeping Beauty/Maleficent arc definitly has a lot of potential. It's nice we are getting it soon too, since Maleficent was introduced in 1x02, and Aurora and Phillip in 2x01. There's alot of questions that hopefully will be answered, including:

What is Maleficent (human, fallen fairy, something else)?

Why does she keep cursing Aurora's family?

How did Regina know Maleficent?

Where are Aurora's parents?

What is Maleficent's end game?

All in all, it should be an exciting arc. All in all, I think the Regina-Maleficent friendship will be explained as them meeting through Rumple or something equally underwhelming. We know Regina gave Maleficent the Dark Curse in exchange for the Sleeping Curse. So Aurora was cursed shortly before Snow was, most likely. And the fact that Rumple never went after Maleficent to get the Curse back, but instead sent Charming after her for different reasons, suggests she might be stronger than him.

But remember that Regina bested her, so I'm doubting that she's stronger than Rumple. But then again, at that time Regina had given completely into evil, which I think would probably make someone's ability to do dark magic a lot stronger. I honestly think maybe Rumple couldn't get into Maleficent's castle because she probably knew spells to keep him specifically out. Either that or more than likely Rumple just couldn't be bothered with going all the way to the Forbidden Fortress.