Thread:Njalm2/@comment-3030647-20161205122206

Hey there N,

So I was discussing with Hellion earlier about how I should jumpstart on Kanaya again since I wasn't satisfied with the way I was approaching her.

I didn't want to fully abandon ties to The Coven but I also felt that its current image clashed with Kanaya's personal ideals.

Thus, the question of The Coven's history was born.

Did you have any ideas of how The Coven originated as an organization? I feel like the Fanon Canon hasn't addressed how The Coven actually begun. They seem to have just sprung into existence one day following the death of Yhwach and don't particularly feel, uh, "relevant" in the grand scheme of things?

So Hellion and I have a proposition for their history, if you didn't already have existing ideas:
 * Working under the assumption that one's position in the Kidou Corps determines what sort of research and the amount of resources provided to complete such research, there would undoubtedly be several individuals who believed that their work wasn't being given justice. Perhaps a small number of these individuals defected and formed the original "Coven"? A group of individuals who were the benefactors of unhindered research into all forms of Magic? That is, so long as these individuals owned up to the consequences of their research. Of course, their hierarchy would be based on the accomplishments of any given Mage. That way, The Masked Man, who may have joined the original "Coven" following the Quincy Blood War, could have corrupted their purpose and thus cause their current spot in the limelight.

In doing so, we can also establish a previous relationship between The Coven and the Gotei 13, which would also flesh out the interactions between organizations, as well as within them, a little beyond the scope of simply being enemies. 