Ahem.

I read the first book. As I recall, there will be a lot of sword loving.

But Rumple orchestrated the curse to take him to where Bae went. So my assumption is that regardless of how much time passed in the fairy tale land that was, Rumple was aiming for close in space and time to when Bae arrived "here." Therefore, Bae should only be roughly 28 years older than when he left ftltw/arrived…