User blog comment:Silver-Haired Seireitou/Fanon Canon Part 2/@comment-18812574-20141121052517

Huh, interesting. Funny how I had almost the exact same ideas for the Rukongai. So, here was my idea (that I was/am going to use in my personal stuff and can be used here, if everyone wants):

Rukongai is located on a plane of existence seperate from that of Hell, Hueco Mundo, and the Human World. The Dangai/Garganta is a "net space" between all these worlds. (Yeah, that's canon.)

Anyway. Whatever plane that the Soul Society and Rukongai is on is HUGE, and practically endless. (Also, considering the weather patterns it is impossible for there not to be ocean around, but that is another topic...)

This whole plane is what humans used to refer to as the "afterlife." On this plane there used to be many, many "Soul Societies," if you will, and each was distinctive to a culture in the human world. So when an Eyptian died, they went to Osiris. Greeks went to Hades. Chinese warriors went to Yuánrǎng (potentially). (It should also be noted that this is where people came up with "gods" as the oldest and most powerful souls that resided in these lands eventually became to be known as such). Finally, Samurai went to Yomi (Shinto) which eventually became the Soul Society. Now, perhaps "some time way before" Yamamoto created the Gotei 13 the Soul Society started a war against all these different afterlives. They (probably) didn't win the war, but they did succeed in their true objective--which was redirecting all Human Souls to only arrive in the Soul Society upon death, essentially "switching off" all these "other" afterlives.

But, like Sei said, the SS Plane is immense, and the creatures who were in all these other Societies are still around. Who knows when they will figure out the state of the world and attack the weakened Soul Society.

Now, all of that is just a cultural/historical take on world-wide Bleach consistency. I also had the idea that all "demons," regardless of culture, would be plain and simple Hollows, unless they're malignant beings from the vast expansive wilderness of the SS Plane that somehow slipped through the Dangai. (A' la' those fissure things featured in the mod soul filler arc.) That's my take on an all-encompassing Bleach world mythology, I supose. Heh. As usual with my ideas, feel free to tear this apart/use as fodder for better ideas.

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So as far as the "Rukongai" (meaning, the 320 Districts) goes, my idea is that it is set up sort of like a radar screen. Basically a circle that surrounds the Seireitei which is divided into 4 sections. Districts 1,2,3, and 4 are closest to the Seireitei. The numbering of all the following districts follows this pattern: (arithmetic sequence) NW: 1,5... 317, NE: 2, 6... 318, SE: 7, 11... 319, SW: 8, 12... 320. This seems to fit most closely with the patterns observed in canon. All that is to say, if someone is going to post a Rukongai FC page, then perhaps we could follow this mathematical sequence in order to keep everything organized and to avoid people "crossing districts," so to speak.

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And about the Dojo thing--wouldn't it be more logical (cooler) if they have always been around, but ever since Yamamoto came to power were underground?