Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20180327110306/@comment-25926288-20180730020259

Seems the case to me. (Geez, writer guys, do ya ever think beyond the written word?)

I thought as much because despite Adam and Eddy mentioning seeing the Coven in the same breath as Leota appearing, I took them at their word until the episode.

The episode clear shows that Gothel did not fully ressurected Leota and that Zelena had the Ressurection Amulet ever since. (That’s why I joked about being a floating ball under the cloak.)

This pretty much is crushing my hopes that the deleted sc es will fill in Eliise’s Motives or the Coven in any form or fashion.

It’s obvious that she wasn’t in 19 and 20 because it appears that Gothel got a whole new crew minus Seraphina....who popped out of nowhere. If you think about it too hard, you will realize that they didn’t plan out Seraphina before that episode because she’s the same age (despite not being a nymph) and Gothel has been working alone for every single episode.

Original Coven: The Witch, The Doctor, The Baker, The Maiden, The Stepsister, not-Leota, and The Queen.

Last Coven: The Witch (who left mid spell), the Guardian, The Maiden (Seraphina in both), and the Craigslist witches, peasant witches for hire.