Grand Archon could possibly be used for the 2nd-in-command of the organisation as a whole. Maybe Primarch or Demiurge for the main honcho?

Anyway:

1. Fumio Enomoto: former leader of the Kidō Corps, now an Archon.
2. Kazumi Takeda: former deputy leader of the Kidō Corps, now a Dracon.
3. Jurō Henkō: just an ordinary Dracon, nothing to see here.
4. Maiko Ueki: a Dracon in charge of the "let's make a new new Soul King" project, possibly the first arc antagonist.
5. Hikaru Maebure: possibly the (Grand) Archon of the Coven, the seen-it-all guy from the previous world.

I'll also add this guy to the mix, since he's the guy on the Coven War banner that Seireitou made and everything, although he probably won't show up for ages at this point. I fully support both Grand Archon and Primarch however.

1. The Masked Man. Most likely going to be the Primarch, but he probably won't fight unless people have the overwhelming need to employ the newly formed Yatagarasu somewhere in the far-off future.

I don't like the names personally but whatever, if everyone's on board with them.

Eh... the only thing for the hierarchy is that with the new Coven there should definitely be no subjugation of "lesser," non-magic/Kidou using beings going on. I can understand if one or two of the mages might be bigoted in that regard but since the goal of the organization is now getting back at the Soul Society (or something) and not subduing all who aren't magically-inclined, then wouldn't that make the Coven much more inclusive/open in their ranks?

What I want to say is that, yes, the Coven is from the Kidou Corps and primarily based around that but as far as the allies of the Coven go, they shouldn't be seen as the lowest run on the hierarchal ladder, necessarily. If that makes sense.

This has been brought up before, and that is indeed the case. Megumi is still bigoted in that regard but that is ultimately a personal trait of her character, but since the core of the Coven is the Kido Corps, as opposed to random mages who appeared out of nowhere their stance on most things would be more moderate and less hellbent on destroying all non-mages.

I'm with Shonen on that too, the names don't really... do it for me, to be honest. I mean, if everybody else is fine with them, I don't hate them enough to not be on board with it, but eh.

Since the Coven is like a secret society of sorts (well not so secret anymore), I always imagined they'd have a ranking system like the Freemasons or something, like "Mage 3rd Degree", "2nd Degree", et cetera. Not necessarily in that naming scheme, but kind of like the ninja system in Naruto too. Ranks aren't specific positions but "levels" attributing to skill and the difficulty of missions and tasks assigned to them. Sort of like martial art belts too.

I wanna suggest the following ranks, which would be more like honors or a status, rather than a military rank:

• Grand Priest - leader of the Coven
• Draco Magicae, Latin for "Dragon Magic" - second-in-command, the highest rank given by the leader, symbolizing an honor bestowed upon the most skilled member by granting them a name akin to that of 'Dragon'.
• Summa Magicae, Latin for "Highest Magic" - senior Coven members, ones that would also be in command of other bases or outposts.
• Magna Magicae, Latin for "Great Magic" - intermediate level, likely the ones tasked with high-ranking positions within every base and the headquarters too.
• Adept, the rank-in-file members. (still thinking on a Latin name for this rank)

If this idea works, we can always rearrange those names too, I just put down what immediately came to mind.

As for structure, I wanted to see the Coven be way more spread out. Sure, they have the main headquarters castle (which I wanted to see if everybody liked the idea of a floating castle-like structure occupying a parallel dimension within the human world, much like the Royal Palace in Soul Society), but also, I thought they might have several bases scattered all throughout the human world. After all, with Kido, they could easily have the means to jump between bases at any time, so they'd always be unified and organized but also spread out to cover a massive stretch of area that makes it harder for the Soul Society to deliver an all-out offense. It also creates new roleplay routes for different stories pertaining to specific outposts and whatnot.

Also, have we settled on a leader and second-in-command? I mean, there's no need to make the decision now since they likely won't appear in the story right away, but this is something we should square away whenever possible.

We can call the highest person "Exalt".

We can also refer to squads/teams/w/e of the Coven as Koinonia (κοινωνία, Fellowships). And if the Coven has Branches, we can call them Orders. When speaking about Branches, I'm referring to specializations in a way . Like Logistics and what not.

Archons will have their own separate beliefs and own plans, which will spread out to their followers. Joining the Coven would've been a means to their own goal while also striving for the goals of the Coven. Some will betray the Coven if the chance presents itself. Fellowships are more akin to detachments, with Archons acting as an independent commander. Archons who commands a base/outpost can refer to their solders as a Fellowship.

It appears evident that we need to work on the names. Personally I am not a fan of latin for the Coven, it is at this point overdone through Somni's work and the Diabolus of the past, also I find the language as a whole to be a tad.. ugly. Thematically it would make sense to adopt their names and perhaps unique techniques in a particular language, but it'd need to be something unique. Saris' suggestion is much preferred to me, personally, but perhaps with the title of Anarch being bestowed upon the second-in-command rather than Grand Archon.

Moving on from this subject however, I fully support the idea of having the Coven spread out all across the living world and we do definitely need to keep Our Home in some capacity, a floating castle in a formless extradimensional space appears quite fitting, perhaps the Archons and the Anarch might even have "keys" like the Ouin to enable them to move inbetween those realms at will? If the Masked Man is the Primarch, then the role of Anarch would be given more power, for the Masked Man cannot easily move from his castle due to his unique situation, leaving the Anarch, which I would assume could only be Hikaru Maebure, all the more freedom.

The use of bases would allow us to potentially reuse the lodestones as objectives in some capacity, although their effects would most likely be quite different this time around. As for the outposts we could reuse the past outposts of the previous Fanon Canon and add a few new ones, those outposts would also be a great way to add more characters to the mix, since I know that Daz's character is somewhere in America at the moment.

I'd be more okay with the rank names if I knew what they're supposed to mean or where they came from, as this is the first time I've ever seen those terms for the most part. The only one I recognize is "Archon", and that's only under the assumption it refers to the Archon of ancient Greece, but I have no idea where Dracon is from. That's my biggest issue with them, because there is no association that invokes a thought in me when I read them. (ie. when you hear "Captain" or "Archmage", the name is associated with a high-rank, a position of power) So, to me, they sound like random words and their rung on the ranking ladder seems ambiguous since I don't understand the relation they have between one another, which bothers me.

Anyways, yeah. Should we set a specific number of outposts or leave it ambiguous?

A specific number would probably work best and make it a clearer goal, on the topic of the ranks I can answer at least three of them. Archon is based on the greek word, which to my limited knowledge is some kind of leader of a sort, Anarch means something along the lines of Supreme Overseer/Being, while Primarch has a similar meaning, but I believe it means "The One Sovereign" or somesuch. One could say that if the Primarch is "God" then the Anarch is the Pope. Dracon I have no idea about whatsoever.

• Isamu Suzuki as Megumi's adoptive brother.