Even as fans learn more about the world of ABC's Once Upon a Time, the focus will still be on our heroes in season 6.

The Land of Untold Stories was introduced in the two-hour season 5 finale, featuring a whole world of new lands to explore. But while the show's universe continues to expand, fans shouldn't worry about our main characters having reductions in screentime.

Once Upon a Time showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz spoke recently about what's ahead for season 6 and how it actually affords them the opportunity to explore the characters' psychologies in greater ways.

"That's actually providing the opportunity to look at our characters in a different way," Horowitz said. "What's really exciting about it is, for season 6, really being in Storybrooke again. As we hinted in the finale last year, in seeing the Evil Queen [Lana Parrilla] split, it's allowing us to do that for a lot of our characters - not as literally - but it's turning inward on a lot of these characters that we've been with for five seasons so far."

Fans should also expect season 6 to be a more cohesive unit. The showrunners revealed that season 6 would not have the same "two halves" structure of seasons 3, 4 and 5, with storylines frequently ending at midseason. Instead, season 6 will feature extended arcs.

"This season is going to be different from past because it's not going to be Hyde [Sam Witwer] comes to town, we fight with him for 10 episodes, and then in the winter finale, he dies and we move on," Kitsis revealed. "We are changing around what we're doing this year and going back to that season 1 mentality of small town stories and smaller arcs."

Once Upon a Time will return this fall in the Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT timeslot on ABC.

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