User blog comment:ShonenChicoBoy/Thanksgiving and the Other Turkey in the Room/@comment-24384232-20161126020422/@comment-24384232-20161130132035

After some thought, I've made an observation regarding The Coven. The threat that they present isnt protrayed nor is it proportional to the actual threat in the roleplays. Now before you crucify me, let me explain.

The Coven for all their power and threats, are hidden in a pocket dimension accessible via magic, built by their leader, and their members hide in the shadows doing what have you. Intellectually, this is a smart decision, story wise, its a very boring and ultimately uninteresting one.

If the threat of the Coven is to be real, then their actions need to be a reflection of that threat. As the video I posted mentioned, a measured response can be better because if a smaller group of people die or are harmed then ultimately that can change the flow of the story.

My advice is that The Coven should be more brazen about their efforts. One of the concerns for Soul Society is maintaining their secrecy. However to The Coven, I would reason that secrecy is only necessary if you lack the power to carry out your ambitions, a weakness The Coven supposedly lacks.

Here's a potential story hook. The Coven are building a floating castle in the sky on Earth or the Spiritual World near Soul Society, and have obtained aid from human mages. But because they are the nobility, they have captured and are using ordinary beings, dead and living as slave labor. Others are pets for some of these mages, or test subjects. To this end they've raided Rukongai and Soul Society and now its the communities job to strike back.

Regradless, I believe that The Coven should be a lot more brazen in their acts. Afterall why should they hide from a world that is going to be theirs anyways? One Coven member openly using magic to reshape a city? Why not. Another member converting an entire city into test subjects for his research? Sure. Unleashing eldritch abominations for the lulz? Go crazy. Bottom line, their powerful, they should act like it, and be the threat. The assumption here is that Soul Society cant or wont do anything, so why should they show any restraint?