Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25703308-20180518222504/@comment-6302057-20180528004627

Eskaver wrote: FrancisPaul wrote: NickM98 wrote: I haven't seen anybody else bring it up, but why were WishHenry's knights dressed as Black Knights? In S6 when Wish Realm first appeared, the knights of the Charmings' kingdom were in their tradition attire.

I guess they wanted to make WishHenry more menacing, so they reused the Black Knight costumes. But they are inherently associated with the Evil Queen, and based on his experiences with Regina, WishHenry would surely want to distance himself from her. I didn't notice until you brought it up. That is definitely a goof or at least a major change in WR history compared to OG history that should be noted, because there is a WEQ who lived in a WEQPalace and tried to cast a WDarkCurse so WBlackKnights are hers, not the Charmings'. It could be that they were seen as the royal guard for Leopold’s kingdom post-banishment.

I recall Snow not really caring that there were suddenly black knights guarding the castle, just that she could tell that the Hunstman wasn’t one of the usual guards. They were Regina’s personal guard but I can see them employing them afterwards.

The real issue is they didn’t really explain it, just had them appear as if they were always there. After EQ was banished, she kept her Black Knights for her palace and the immediate surrounding land, but I always viewed it as the rest of her kingdom was inherited by Snow and annexed into the Charmings' kingdom (therefore guarded by the Charmings' knights).

In the Wish Realm, since she fled the kingdom completely, I presumed that the entirety of her kingdom was annexed including the palace, which is why the Charmings imprisoned Rumple there versus the dwarf mines. WishQueen's kingdom was permanently dismantled and her guards disbanded or imprisoned. That was 28+ years ago, the Black Knights logically should not exist any more.

They didn't explain how the WishPalace was suddenly repaired, but at least it could be assumed that Regina and past Zelena used their magic to fix it so that the heroes could use it as a base of operations. There is no logical explanation as to why the Black Knights appear in the Wish Realm.