#merlin and nimue

[lionofchaeronea]

The Beguiling of Merlin, Edward Burne-Jones, 1874

[jinx66]

once upon a timeline

okay so i've been obsessed with ouat recently with my rewatch and i was looking into Henry's weird ass family tree and oh my god i need to put this out there because why.

for starters i've only included big plot points or villains and main characters etc so none of the side plots but also i've realised how weird some of the age gaps are.

oh yeah also ouat likes to fuck with their timelines and historical context so i have gone with the basic dates that make sense based on what the characters in the show actually say.

the dates are what they would be in the real world not in ouat logic.

pre-main timeline

Ancient Greece - zeus and hades happen (season 6)

ancient greece but later - orpheus and Euridice and pandora's box happen

between 400-500AD - the Holy Grail and Merlin and Nimue

1650's-1660's - Mother Gothel leaves the new land without magic

1770- Malcolm is Born

1804- Rumplestiltskin is born, Malcolm is 34

1808- Rumple is abandoned, Peter Pan becomes a fae trickster tumblr meme

1845- Baelfire is born, Rumple is 41

1859- Bae arrives in england, Rumple is 55

1947- Zelena is born and abandoned

1948- Cora and Rumple have their weird affair

1949- Regina is born

1955- Snow White is born

1973- Regina sends the huntsman after snow, Snow is 18, Regina is 24

23/3/1977 - Neal (Bae) chooses this as his fake birthday

22/10/1983 - Emma is born, the curse is cast

1991 - Neal escapes neverland and comes back to the land without magic

15/8/2001 - Henry is born, Emma is 18, Neal Cassidy is 24

22/10/2011 - Emma arrives in Storybrooke

13/5/2012 - The curse is broken.

so some of the dates are based on when episodes aired and things such as when the curse breaks and when emma arrives in storybrooke. other dates are based on easter eggs in the show like Neal's birthday. so i realised that Neal had to have landed back in the real world in 1991 because he was 14 when he got to neverland and obviously didn't age so working backwards those dates make sense.

however... emma was 17 when she got pregnant with henry and at best Neal is 24 but at worst he's 156 years old! i mean what the fuck. and he has to be that old because he tells Emma that technically "I should be a couple hundred by now" (2,15). so at the oldest he can be with Neal's Once upon a time maths education the earliest he can be born is 1845 because big ben isn't built until 1859 which is the absolute earliest that he can be in old england.

the rest of the dates i managed from working backwards from when the curse was broken and cast and from small things the characters say. In the first episode of season 2, Emma says that her and Mary Margaret were the same age which means that the 10 year war she has with regina that ended with the curse started when she was 18.

so what i've found from this is that Henry's family tree back to his paternal great grandad literally spans hundreds of years. the average life span for these fuckers is about 100. basically they're a family of elves and you can't convince me otherwise.

[adhd-merlin]

[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME REWATCH: 5.07, NIMUE I'm not nothing! I was never nothing. The power you have I don't need.

[twistedshipper]

a charm for scrying from The Witch's Art of Incantation, Spoken Charms, Spells, & Curses in Folk Witchcraft by Roger J. Horne.

[queer-ragnelle]

Who is your favorite Arthurian POV to write in? Why?

[nerdtamin]

Merlin with women in a nutshell:

[krasna-strelka]

S01e13 Le Morte d'Arthur

Merlin said that Nimueh is an evil witch but honestly? I believe with her help they could've actually secure Arthur's greatness and unite lands of Albion.

She wasn't evil. She knew the rules and Merlin was just a naive young boy (who also really wanted to save people closest to him) when he killed her.

[weepingwonderlandharmony]

𝖄𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕹𝖎𝖒𝖚𝖊 (𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖)

[vooruitmariek]

@mortiscausa march to camelot 2: fool - Merlin

[mmhawkes]

March to Camelot - Love

[llamagirl28]

Ah man I'm nervous to mentally square up with that asshole wizard dilf because I know I'll be too distracted by his daughter to note any thinly veiled threats sent my way.

Pffff well we'll see how things play out 👀

[thvndrlight]

Fiona.

[claer]

Isabella Rossellini as Nimue in MERLIN (1998)

[dinneratgrannys]

Well then...to drink or die? With your permission.

[queer-ragnelle]

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