Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-1916997-20171222202521/@comment-2153169-20180430165722

RedCoatOfficial wrote: The show clearly shows that if needed they could’ve had a complete coven there. But instead they only had seven members cause they intended for Regina to be #8 for that period of time. The 8th member was always meant to be the Guardian. That's pretty much a fact now. Gothel made very clear that she was searching for that person in particular for years.

And Regina has never been suspected to be the Guardian.