Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7526254-20150520160921/@comment-7526254-20171031221616

Let’s go with what we know is true. Roland is 4 in Season 3, so he was born at least 3 ½ years before the curse. The events in 5X04 where Lancelot and Guinevere try to take Rumpel’s dagger take place 2-2 ½ years before the curse, depending on where season 5 falls on the timeline. Both of these events happen while Belle is living with Rumpel, but Belle supposedly only lives with him for a few months. There is a continuity error here. I’m going to round the time Belle lives with Rumpel to be 3-3 ½ years before the curse.

Now let’s relate this to the Snow and Charming timeline. Snow’s father is killed and she is sent into the forest at an unknown time when she appears to be a fully-grown adult. There are really no reference points in the timeline to compare this to. An unknown amount of time later (could be months, could be years, Snow meets Charming, while Belle is living with Rumpel. I always believed that 2X20 took place no more than a few months after 1X07, but there is no proof of that. After Snow and Charming meet, it is at most a few months before Charming is supposed to marry Abigail. Within the next few days, Snow eats the poisoned apple. This means it must take at least a year and a half for them to take back the kingdom. They get married roughly nine years before the curse.

The Frozen flashbacks take place before Belle lives with Rumpel, so it must be about 4 years before the curse. If we assume Kristoff is around 21 in the movie, this would make him 27 at the time of the curse, which is close to David’s assumed age.

Maleficent could not have met Regina the same year Zelena met Rumpel. She must have just been having an off day when she threw the fireball. A backshot of Snow White shows that she is an adult when Regina meets Maleficent. It is also implied by Regina’s conversation with Rumpel at the end, that this takes place right before Regina kills Leopold.

We know Snow is 10 when Regina marries her father. She is in her early teens when she meets Hercules. She is a young adult when her father is killed. There is clearly a large gap as Regina rises into power.

About the whole Snow being older than Charming thing because of the crystal ball. There is already a continuity issue. Rumpel has a crystal ball in the Snow Queen, which takes place at least 25 years before the curse, definitely before Snow is 10.

It is stated multiple times that Snow and Charming are around the same age as Emma. I’m going to assume they were both 26-30 when the curse hit.