Board Thread:Fanon Canon/@comment-2089817-20180513110249/@comment-3403804-20180514080327

The system of magic used by the Coven has very strong roots in traditional Kidou, and indeed, most of the spells they HAVE been using are actual Kidou spells, just pumped up to various extremes. Magic as it is presented on this fanon currently has Hachigen Ushoda as its main example, and Hachigen could by and large bypass the ordinary rules of Kidou, and expand upon it besides. We know from watching characters like him, Aizen and Urahara that Kido can be modified and changed according to its users whims if they are skilled enough, and so the concept of magic in bleach is a very solid if underutilized concept. The Kido Corps presumeably has several kido masters as great as Hachigen in their ranks, perhaps even greater, and so it follows that there's this underbelly of powerful spellcasters in Soul Society who simply didn't take part in the Quincy Blood War for whatever reason.

Granted, there was a significant power curve problem, but that is a wholly separate issue altogether, a problem that predated the Coven by quite a few years.

On the topic of the Fanon Canon itself, I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything that Saris said, and I think that would be an excellent way to start this off.