Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the season finale ofOnce Upon a Time.

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The Final Battle led to a lot of loss during Sunday’s two-hour season finale ofOnce Upon a Time.

But it’s Rumple (Robert Carlyle) who actually breaks the curse.

Unfortunately, the Black Fairy had already commanded Gideon (Giles Matthey) to kill Emma.

Instead of fighting back, Emma decides to sacrifice herself rather than kill an innocent.

But, in a scene echoing theseason 1finale, Henry’s kiss resurrects Emma.

Though the storybook was burned, it reconstitutes and subsequently ends.

Yes, it’s the end ofthisbook, but not their story.

Everyone gets to keep living happily ever after together.

West) door, exclaiming that his family needs his help.

What does this mean?!

EW turned to executive producers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis to find out.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Many of the castwe’ve known over the last six seasons are not returning.

Can you talk about how the story will be changing moving forward?

ADAM HOROWITZ:Just on a conceptional level, it’s the same show.

It’s not going to be necessarily Storybrooke-based.

Henry has been the heart of the show from the beginning.

Jared was amazing, and we couldn’t love him move; watching him grow up has been amazing.

Now, we’re going to see what that character becomes in a 10-years-older version.

Does that change their happy endings?

For us, we felt creatively it was time to end a lot of these stories.

What we’re really interested in is, as we said, it’s like a new book.

So we’re starting with new stories.

Will we see an influx of new characters and other fairy tales?

How will you branch out in that sense?

KITSIS:bring up the world up.

HOROWITZ:That’s the goal of season 7.

So for us as writers, we’re also excited to do that.

Thematically, what are you hoping to explore that’s different than what the first six seasons were?

KITSIS:We always say that Emma was a character looking for her family and finding hope.

Henry’s loss in faith and the idea of belief is the jumping off point.

The DNA of the show remains, and always will be, of hope.

HOROWTIZ:These are excellent questions that might be better answered

KITSIS:in the teaser of next year.

HOROWITZ:But they’re excellent and insightful questions.

Let’s talk about Lucy.

Who is her mother?

HOROWITZ:Violet is in the montage at the end.

When Henry goes to school, she’s waiting for him at the school.

You end up leaving home and moving on.

It is not Violet.

In the tradition of Snow and Charming, Henry and his wife are a very muchOnceepic romance.

Is there a Savior in this story?

KITSIS:There could be.

HOROWITZ:There very well could be.

Is this the introduction of the new antagonist for next season?

HOROWITZ:It is.

It looked pretty scary, so I don’t think it’s a new friend-tagonist.

We’re still at thatwe need to be slightly infuriatingly vaguestage.

KITSIS:I’d say she’s fighting for the people, just like a queen does.

The Evil Queen seems to be marrying Robin Hood.

Will she play a role next season since Lana is sticking around?

HOROWITZ:I would say, never say never.

KITSIS:We saw his happy ending with Belle, and they worked really hard to get it.

What’s happening next in his life and what he’s going through is obviously what the story is.

That one I don’t want to just fully tease yet.

All this stuff is literally just being worked on.

We want these characters to have really earned this place of happiness they’ve found.

Do you want to say anything to the audience?

KITSIS:Not really.

There’s nothing to say.

That is correct, she is coming back for an episode.

Their happiness is real, and people should enjoy that.

But until they see that, they won’t understand what it is.

So for us, we’d rather not whip people into a frenzy.

We’re not just clearing a playing field and starting over willy-nilly.

Hook’s always walked a fine line of giving into his darker instincts over the years.

Is that something you might delve into again moving forward?

When the dwarves bow to her, they bow to her as the queen.

She’s no longer the Evil Queen.

So we want our characters to move forward.

Can you talk about how you’ll be handling flashbacks next year?

Now that you have this new direction, do you have a better sense of your endgame?

HOROWITZ:Our goal with the show remains the same, is the simplest way to put it.

KITSIS:We knew forthischapter, we have ideas and we are creating a new chapter.

We’ll see how that goes.

We’re excited about the new journey.

We think it’s very muchOnce Upon a Time.

Once Upon a Timeis expected to return to ABC this fall.