@HappyEndings wrote:
But when Gold used the globe he stated Belfire’s name then.
Rumpel always knew Bae’s name of course, so it isn’t just that knowing a person’s name means he can pinpoint where they are. There must be more to it, so the trigger theory was that when someone says the name, Rumpel’s magic or the Shadow’s magic might have been able to pick up a trail. What’s the point of Rumpel tracking if he himself is the one saying the name? It has to be someone else saying it.
When Gold used the globe, the blood was what led him to Bae, not someone saying Bae out in NY or Gold saying Bae in his shop. Of course, by then his son was going by Neal, so no one was calling him by a name Rumpel could track.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass