Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26715865-20151029152050/@comment-25762747-20151209125237

Just a little theory about the Underworld arc. Anyone wondering why Storybrooke and the Underworld looks alike. Maybe it is all connected back to the Dark Curse

Back to the time Before the First and Original Dark Curse : Maybe, Underworld had always been like that, loooking like Storybrooke and it's apperence came before even the creation of Storybrooke. Maybe someone in the Underworld was disatisfied with the conditions and environment there and so, he/she created a curse, later known as the famous Dark Curse, to transport everyone from the Underworld to a new land (LWM) and recreate the Underworld, but this time, a better environment, a better version of how it originally looked. Perhaps the name Storybrooke had been alluded into the curse as part of his/her plan.

But. . . someone, maybe the King of the Underworld found out and banished the Curse to FTL, namely the EF and had the Chernebog (that Demon in Bald Mountain) to guard the Curse. eventually, Regina cast it (including adding extra ingredients such as a memory wipe, false memories, frozen time etc). So, when the town was created in the LWM, it became the new Underworld (based on the original plan) and named as Storybrooke (also based on the original plan), except it's inhabitants are from various realms of FTL and other worlds, rather than the Underoworld inhabitants.