Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25355646-20150302022703/@comment-25926288-20150602121644

BallerinaBelle wrote: There's a rule in the universe called balance which means for every one extreme there has to be another: light, dark; day, night; etc.

If Merlin is the extremely good(?) wizard and he created the Dark One, meaning there was no Dark One already, then shouldn't there have been another extremely bad wizard to rival Merlin that would have created the Dark Curse? Otherwise has the Dark One always existed to rival his power? Not necessarily. Like how the powerful are outnumbered by the powerless, I believe such is the case with Merlin. He was powerful and with out equal because there might have been several mages, but there was the looming ever-powerful darkness, greater than any individual mage.

The Dark One isn't really a rival to his power, but more like his creation/ apprentice. I mean even his Apprentice seems on par, if not greater than the Dark One. I think the balance maybe be in the price of magic an d maybe lifestyles.

Merlin remains powerful, but away from the problems that befalls the worlds. The Apprenti---Yen Sid lives a life of humility and as a lowly old man that labours throughout the day with the occasional visitors, but rather secluded beneath the dark Mountain within the infinite Forest.