Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20151211030148/@comment-4509522-20151211184246

@Saris Khan That could very well be the case. While on one front they might claim to the populace that the Soul King is a false idol, and that the true Creator of the universe is coming back to take his throne. In the background, they are performing some form of experimentation to create this deity, a puppet to carry out their own needs whilst parading him around as Christ incarnate, in essence. This would create a sort of political and religious divide in the Soul Society as the populace begins to buy into the ravings of these zealots. Perhaps the Coven even does things like create shelters for Rukongai citizens, better ones than what they have, have massive food drives, take in orphan children to give them homes, anything that would boost their popularity before the people. They would all think "Since when have the Shinigami or the Soul King done anything like this for us? This was supposed to be heaven, our paradise, but it's no better than the human lives that we had before. This Coven group has given me and my family food and shelter, I think they're legit!" This would ultimately boost the Coven's standing with the people, and only give them more power so that the Soul Society would have to take notice of them.

In truth, however, these Coven are not as benevolant as they made themselves out to be (standard Bleach formula with villains, right?). Their food drives are poisoned, contaminated with the blood of ancient eldritch beings, designed to eat the host from the inside out and create a lifeform that could substitute as the God they desire. Their shelters welcome the homeless with haste, but are more akin to tombstones than they are homes, as those who enter are swiftly incapacitated and brought to the Coven's secret location, which resides in a pocket dimension inaccessible to those outside of the Coven. Here, they observe the effects of their poisoned food on the citizens unfortunate enough to indulge themselves with it, or if that is not the case, simply experiment on them in other, more sadistic ways. To them, this eldritch blood from a time long since forgotten holds the secret to the godhood they so desire. If said blood is capable of transforming an ordinary spirit into an unsightly abomination, surely it would hold the key to godhood they so very much desire...

... or perhaps there are things that not even those who reside in the afterlife were meant to discover.