I’m going to put this out there: as someone else mentioned earlier, things were said in episodes 1 and 2 that I imagine the writers now regret. Regina’s “with a simple kiss” comment to Maleficent makes no sense coming from a woman who had previously (timeline-wise) told Belle that any curse can be broken by true love’s kiss. Now, occasionally, we’ll find reason to have to ignore these comments, but I think they’re largely contained to the first two episodes of the series. Mentioning that Maleficent attacked both the Aurora we see AND her mother may be a cover for this, or it may be simply to account for the fact that the story of “Sleeping Beauty” exists in our storybooks—meaning it must have happened pre-curse in some form—but is also now happening post-curse.
As far as the wraith goes, it’s really pretty simple, but then as a long-time sci-fi fan I have WAY too much practice re-piecing timelines in my head. 😀 I don’t hear anyone asking “are there two Emmas and two Snows?” so I don’t understand why people are asking if there are two wraiths or two medallions. 🙂 As Daniel explained, all that we see in FTL happened after what we see in SB.
Here is the wraith’s timeline:
-Gold had the medallion for who knows how long, uses it to mark Regina’s hand.
-Gold uses the medallion to summon the wraith, which takes the medallion around its neck as soon as it appears in SB (I went back and watched for this).
-SB people fight the wraith and send it into the hat taking Emma and Snow (and the medallion still around its neck) with it.
-The wraith is transported to FTL by the hat, bursts out of the ground in front of Mulan, leaving Emma and MM unconscious in the hole.
-Phillip cuts the medallion off the wraith’s neck with his sword and picks it up, and then the rest of the FTL story happens.