Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-1916997-20171222202521/@comment-34998786-20180326175317

I think we all agree that the confusion has been provoked intentionally by the authors. We have thought responsible for the curse first lady Tremaine, after Drizella, and ultimately we know Gothel was manipulating her for her purposes. There is a fundamental fact we need to consider. This curse is not similar to the previous. This is cerimonial magic. All magic comes with a price. When you are alone, and so the only one responsible for your magic action, it is easy to find whose is the curse: it is the curse of the one Who is paying the price for it. But cerimonial magic requires anyway a payment, a sacrifice. I am waiting to discover what is that. My conclusion is that in this case the curse belongs to the entire group of people, the eight. Everybody puts in it an ingredient. This doesn't mean that Regina is one of the coven. They can be eight without her, and the eighth maybe was there too... Instead, I insist, the mark means you belong to a coven. Regina is clearly an enemy of these witches and they has to blackmail her. There is also another problem. When the coven rescued, thanks sto its power, the petrified Drizella, there is Gothel + 5 witches. They need another one to defeat blood magic. All this, of course, only if the authors are close to the rules.