Dark Castle

Template:FTLLocation The Dark Castle is a location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fifth episode of the first season.

The castle is the home of Rumplestiltskin in Fairytale Land, after he becomes the Dark One and leaves the village. 

History

Regina frequents the castle after becoming a witch-in-training as Rumplestilskin teaches her magic. The Mad Hatter visited often to bring him items as well. ("The Doctor")

Rumplestiltskin makes a deal with Sir Maurice to stop ogres from invading his land, and in exchange his daughter, Belle, must leave her home and become a servant at his castle for an eternity. She agrees. After their falling out, Belle leaves. The Evil Queen comes by later on to ask him about a mermaid, and in the process lies to him about Belle's tragic death at the hands of her father. ("Skin Deep")

Items Seen

• A candelabra and a clock, likely a reference to Lumiere and Cogsworth from Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
• On display together, what looks like the Buffy the Vampire Slayer scythe, a bow, and The Genie's lamp.
• A tapestry hanging on the wall showing a captive unicorn inside a fence, which is the same one that hid the entrance of the Room of Requirements in the sixth Harry Potter film. The tapestry is the seventh and final in the tapestry series "The Hunt of the Unicorn" created between 1495-1505, entitled "The Unicorn is in Captivity and No Longer Dead".
• A trident.
• A golden chalice.
• Geppetto's parents in puppet form
• Some type of sorcery hat with stars and moons (identical to that of Master Yen Sid (Disney reversed) from Walt Disney's Fantasia).
• Rumplestiltskin's Spinning Wheel.
• A shelf of various potions.
• The True Love Potion.

Trivia

• It's similar in appearance to the Beast's Castle (from the Disney movie "The Beauty and the Beast 2"), which is also surronded by a snowing forest.

Appearances

Once Upon a Time: Season One
"Pilot":	"The Thing You Love Most":	"Snow Falls":	"The Price of Gold":	"That Still Small Voice":	"The Shepherd":	"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter":	"Desperate Souls":	"True North":	"7:15 A.M.":	"Fruit of the Poisonous Tree":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Skin Deep":	"What Happened to Frederick":	"Dreamy":	"Red-Handed":	"Heart of Darkness":	"Hat Trick":	"The Stable Boy":	"The Return":	"The Stranger":	"An Apple Red as Blood":	"A Land Without Magic":
Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Once Upon a Time: Season Two
"Broken":	"We Are Both":	"Lady of the Lake":	"The Crocodile":	"The Doctor":	"Tallahassee":	"Child of the Moon":	"Into the Deep":	"Queen of Hearts":	"The Cricket Game":	"The Outsider":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Appears	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"In the Name of the Brother":	"Tiny":	"Manhattan":	"The Queen Is Dead":	"The Miller's Daughter":	"Welcome to Storybrooke":	"Selfless, Brave and True":	"Lacey":	"The Evil Queen":	"Second Star to the Right":	"And Straight On 'Til Morning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent