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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Nimue (Episode)|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">07</span>]]
|1000 years before the age of [[King Arthur]], a young man named [[Merlin]] runs through the desert, where he finds the magic cup known as the Holy Grail. Realizing he must drink from the cup or die from thirst, Merlin asks permission of the gods and drinks from the Grail. Grass begins to bloom in the desert, and Merlin realizes that he has [[witchcraft|magic]] powers.
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|style="background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);text-align:center;"|There is a gap in the timeline here of five hundred years.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Nimue (Episode)|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">07</span>]]
|500 years before [[Emma Swan]] comes to [[Camelot]],<ref>The episode erroneously states that these events take place 200 years before [[Emma Swan|Emma]] comes to [[Camelot]]. [[Adam Horowitz]] has stated that this was an error, and that it should have stated 500 years ago. (https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/664544394025005057)</ref> Merlin falls in love with a young woman named [[Nimue (Character)|Nimue]]. The two of them travel from Camelot to the site of the [[Flame of Prometheus]], where Nimue becomes the first [[Darkness|Dark One]].

To keep Excalibur safe, Merlin and his [[Apprentice]] place the sword inside a stone. Merlin then uses a piece of Excalibur to create the [[Dark One Dagger]] and tethers the Dark One's spirit to it, giving whoever possesses the dagger the power to control the Dark One.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Dreamcatcher (Episode)|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">05</span>]]
|Armed with the dagger, Merlin goes into the woods to confront the Dark One. Nimue appears to Merlin and the latter prepares to kill her, but the sorcerer can't bring himself to kill the woman he loves. The Dark One seizes the opportunity and [[shapeshifting|transforms]] Merlin into a tree.
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|style="background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);text-align:center;"|There is a gap in the timeline here of several hundred years
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Broken Kingdom|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">04</span>]]
|While walking in the village of Camelot, a young Arthur tells [[Guinevere]] about his dreams of [[Camelot]] becoming a great kingdom with him as their king.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#8B4513;"|[[:Category:Comics|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">C</span>]]
|style="background:#8B4513;"|''[[Out of the Past|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">OP</span>]]''
|Taking a journey to Camelot to steal its royal treasures, [[Jefferson]] enters in a castle and meets a fellow thief named [[Priscilla (Out of the Past)|Priscilla]]. When the guards come along to catch them for stealing, Jefferson and Priscilla escape through the [[Jefferson's Hat|portal hat]].
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|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Dark Swan|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">01</span>]]
|rowspan="2"|To become the ruler of his [[Camelot|kingdom]], [[King Arthur|Arthur]], along with [[Lancelot]] and [[Percival]], go on a quest to find Excalibur. They succeed in finding it, and Arthur pulls the sword out of the stone, making him the ruler of Camelot. Unfortunately, when the sword is pulled out, it is revealed that a [[Dark One Dagger|piece]] of the blade is missing.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Broken Kingdom|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">04</span>]]
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Broken Kingdom|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">04</span>]]
|After returning to Camelot, Arthur proves himself king to the entire village by partially unsheathing the sword.

[[Lancelot]] and Guinevere travel to the [[Vault of the Dark One]] to find the [[Dark One Dagger]] and make Excalibur whole again. The two of them give in to their feelings for one another and share a kiss. On their return to the village, Lancelot decides to leave Camelot forever, knowing that Guinevere has chosen Arthur over him. King Arthur uses the [[Sands of Avalon]] to restore the kingdom to its former glory.
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|style="background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);text-align:center;"|There is a gap in the timeline here of 3 years<ref name="twitter">https://twitter.com/AdamHorowitzLA/status/656234103654641664</ref><ref name="fiveyears">Note that "[[The Broken Kingdom]]" places the hunt for the [[Dark One Dagger]] five years before the scenes with the visitors from [[Storybrooke]], meaning the time period is from the point of view of the [[Camelot]] people and does not include the [[Dark Curse]]'s duration of 28 years where Storybrooke and parts of [[Fairy Tale Land]] were frozen in time</ref>
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|style="background:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);text-align:center;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:2px;font-weight:bold;color:#dcdcdc;"|The [[Dark Curse|<span style="color:#dcdcdc">Dark Curse</span>]] is cast<br />Time is frozen for 28 years
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|style="background:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);text-align:center;"|There is a gap in the timeline here of 2 years<ref name="twitter" /><ref name="fiveyears" />
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|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Dark Swan|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">01</span>]]
|King Arthur and his [[Knights of the Round Table|knights]] find [[Emma Swan]] and the other [[Storybrooke]] inhabitants in the [[Enchanted Forest]] as it was prophesized by [[Merlin]]. He takes them to Camelot to help find the sorcerer, who went missing.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Price|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">02</span>]]
|King Arthur shows the visitors a tree in the courtyard where Merlin is trapped. He asks which one of them is the prophesied savior, but as Emma prepares to speak up, [[Regina Mills|Regina]] claims the title in her place, since Emma has assumed the mantle as the new [[Darkness|Dark One]]. Percival recognizes Regina as the [[Evil Queen]] who once mercilessly killed his entire village. He attempts to kill her with an enchanted sword, but Regina is saved by [[Robin Hood (Lacey)|Robin Hood]], who is seriously injured in the process. In order to save his life, Emma is forced to use dark magic to heal him.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Siege Perilous|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">03</span>]]
|[[David Nolan|David]] and King Arthur go on a quest to find the [[Crimson Crown]], a magical toadstool which will allow them to communicate with Merlin. The quest is successful, but unbeknownst to David, Arthur steals the toadstool from him. David is knighted as one of the [[Knights of the Round Table]]. [[Mary Margaret Blanchard|Mary Margaret]] receives a warning from an old friend, [[Lancelot]], who says that Arthur is a villain, and Camelot is not what it seems.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Broken Kingdom|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">04</span>]]
|To find out what Arthur is up to, David and Mary Margaret come up with a plan to expose him. They discover that Arthur plans to use the Dark One's Dagger to make Excalibur whole again and kill Merlin, and rid the world of the [[Darkness|Dark One]] for good. However, Arthur and his wife turn the tables on them by using sand of Avalon to make them forget what happened.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Dreamcatcher (Episode)|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">05</span>]]
|Emma uses a [[Dreamcatchers (Item)|Dreamcatcher]] to capture her parents' missing memories, and discovers what Arthur did to them. By using a tear from her son, [[Henry Mills|Henry]], she is able to cast a spell that releases Merlin from the tree. Merlin returns her parents missing memories, and tells Emma that he can free her from the darkness, but only if she is ready for it.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Bear and the Bow|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">06</span>]]
|Merlin, Hook, David and Belle break into Arthur's dungeon and free Lancelot and [[Merida]]. Merida follows the group into the woods and knocks Belle out, and brings her to the shores of Merida's homeland, [[DunBroch]]. Belle agrees to help her when Merida explains that she needs someone skilled with [[magic]] to help her find her [[Merida's Brothers|brothers]].
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Nimue (Episode)|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">07</span>]]
|In order to help Emma get rid of the Darkness within her, Merlin and Emma travel from Camelot to the site of [[Flame of Prometheus|Prometheus' flame]], to get the ember that can fuse Excalibur and the Dark One's Dagger back together. The mission is a success, but matters grow complicated when Arthur, with the help of [[Zelena]], tethers Merlin to Excalibur, transforming it into a weapon that can be used to control the sorcerer.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Birth|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">08</span>]]
|Hook receives a deadly wound in a battle with Arthur. In a desperate bid to save the man she loves from dying, Emma uses dark magic to tether Hook to Excalibur, creating another dark one.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[The Bear King|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">09</span>]]
|Arthur and Zelena travel from Camelot to DunBroch in search of an [[Enchanted Helm]] that can influence people into fighting for their cause.
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|style="text-align:right;background:#2800CC;"|[[Season Five|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">5</span>]]
|style="background:#2800CC;"|[[Broken Heart|<span style="color:white;font-weight:bold;">10</span>]]
|Emma summons Hook using Excalibur, and gives him the sword in an attempt to prove that she trusts him. However, since she lied to him earlier about no longer having Excalibur, he no longer trusts her. Later that night, a purple cloud of magic engulfs Camelot, as the Dark Curse, cast by Hook, transports the Storybrooke guests, as well as Arthur, Guinevere and the other residents at the Camelot Castle, to the [[Land Without Magic]]. When Merida travels into the woods near Camelot, she too is swept up by the curse.
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