With a little over a week to go until the Arrow mid-season premiere, Arrow executive producers are teasing what fans can expect in the back half of the season.

At the end of the Arrow mid-season finale, “Dark Waters,” Oliver proposed to Felicity and she accepted. The happy couple drove off in a limo, but they were ambushed by a group of Ghosts and their car was shot up. Though Oliver was eventually able to get them away, Felicity had been shot.

Felicity’s fate

Theories have since abounded about her fate, from her being in the grave from the season premiere’s fast forward (we debunked that here) to her being paralyzed and becoming Oracle (which we proposed here).

Well, Wendy Mericle tells TVLine that the Oracle identity is “off the table.”

She adds, “That’s something we definitely talked about [doing] with Felicity in the beginning… But yeah, it will not be Oracle, sadly. People have to tune in to see what happens.”

Whether that means just the Oracle code name or the entire story surrounding Oracle’s paralysis and transformation into an information broker for superheroes is off-limits remains to be seen. Felicity’s character has long drawn comparisons to Barbara Gordon’s alter ego, so it seems unlikely the entire story would be off-limits for Arrow.

Damien Darhk

Marc Guggenheim also discussed baddie Damien Darhk, whose identity was revealed to the public in “Dark Waters,” leading to his retaliation against Oliver and his loved ones.

“The back half of the season, we’re pretty much following the same structure that we have in seasons past where obviously the Big Bad gears up. That said, we’re going to throw a hard six in episode 15 that I think will surprise people,” Guggenheim tells IGN. “We’re going to do something that’s never been done before on Arrow with the Big Bad. [Episode] 15 is a real game-changer episode for us.”

Though he was mum on what that game-changer might entail, he did clarify that it wouldn’t “involve a character death. It’s a move that we’ve never made with one of our Big Bads.”

He adds that, unlike season 3, “[W]e want Season 4 to resonate for reasons other than the plot twists. We want to come in and be very disciplined and tell a different kind of story,” and the Damien Darhk twist ties into that.

We also know that Damien Darhk will be appearing in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow set in the 1970s, though whether that appearance is related or not remains to be seen.

As a refresher, season 1’s Big Bad was Malcolm Merlyn, season 2’s was Slade Wilson and season 3’s was Ra’s al Ghul. What might happen with Damien Darhk that did not happen with these three? Share your theories in the comments below.

Arrow returns with new episodes on Wednesday, January 20 at 8:00 p.m. ET on The CW.