Now one could ask why the Author would do such a thing? Perhaps he (or she for that matter) wanted Belle to cast Rumple out into the cold, dark, Land Without Magic.
I could see that, I just hope if they went that way they wouldn’t use it to excuse the depths Rumple has sunk to and have Belle decide it wasn’t really his fault, and that she wasn’t justified in being upset, because the big bag Sorcerauthor manipulated them into acting how they have.
Zeus or Phil from Hercules- This is another wild guess. Honestly the only reason I am suggesting it was because in the Belle flashback during the winter finale, we saw all those Grecian helmets and things in Rumple’s house in the Enchanted Forest and I just thought that was odd. And Hades I am ruling out because why would a villain write stories where he would never win (that is also why I am not writing the names of any villains on this list).
Considering there’s a movie for them, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Hercules and Hades and Co on the show at some point. If it seemed they were going to keep Ursula’s goddess status I might think they were gonna introduce the Hercules tangent as part of that, but Ursula seems to have been demoted, so I dunno.
I’m torn on the idea that the Sorcerer is Merlin. On the one hand I’ve been wanting more Arthurian legend. But Merlin as I understand him seems a bit too “real” of a person who would be a tangible part of the world, someone everyone can interact with, which doesn’t really fit with the mysterious, reclusive, unseen, almost ethereal Sorcerer they’ve set up.