Grand Coven

## Overview

The Grand Coven are a congregation of witches in the service of Lucifer Morningstar.

It was likely due to the recent dawn of the man that Lucifer Morningstar was tempted to leave Hell to explore the primitive beginnings of man. The Thessalian was among one of many who initially interested him. The two had an intimate encounter and in exchange for her devotion to him, the Devil left the Thessalian with a boon of power — making her among the first of humanity's witches.

The Thessalian, at the instruction of her infernal master, would go on to seek out six other members from the corners of the known world, leading to the founding of Earth's very first coven, presumptively named the Grand Coven.

Following the plagues of Egypt, the Grand Coven was scattered. The Magdalene stayed in Egypt, attemptin to steal the power of the Gods of the Nile. Though she would be chased from Egypt, she would make other attempts to gain divine power. Eventually she found the seven remnants of Sin — the Ogdru Jahad — and successfully brought the entities into her and solidified their power with her own.

Unwilling to share her new power with the other members of the Grand Coven's inner circle, the Magdalene was declared a warlock and banished.

In 59 BC, Florentius Marcius Rex would go on to join the Grand Coven, first serving as a Bachelor in the ranks, before becoming a Shadow and eventually being elected to serve as the Coven's Chief — a position he would hold for three hundred years. In this position, Rex constantly contested his own mother and the two's arguments nearly tore the Coven apart.

During the 15th century, after several close-calls with the witch-hunter Geoffrey De Cantonna, the Grand Coven decided it was safer for them to travel alone. Rowena, coven's crone, and Rex, the chief, went to the British Isles. The coven's lady Lourdes Lucero went to the Iberian peninsula and Thessaly, the Shield, went to Greece.

After arguing with his mother for a millenium and a half, Rex orchestrated a revolt against the Grand Crone and her supporters. The division was split mostly along the gender lines of the coven and its affiliated allied covens.

Ultimately, Rex would be defeated. His mother and two of her closest allies, the Thessalian and the Iberian, each had farmore power and experience than the average coven. While most of the male witches were marked as *waerloga* (oathbreakers or "warlocks"), Rex was executed.

In 1983, when Lucifer gave up his position as king of Hell he was replaced by his daughter Aradia as the Benefactor of the Grand Coven.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* The original seven members that founded the Coven were the Caledonian, the Thessalian, the Iberian, the Levantine, the Aethiopian, the Scythian, and the Akkadian.
* Thessaly has most often served as the Shield of the Grand Coven.
* Though many of its members would die or be replaced (with the Thessalian killing several of them herself that had trespassed against the coven), the Thessalian remained for thousand of years.
* Before being banished from the Coven, The Magdalene was the Grand Maiden of the Grand Coven. She kept the Coven's sanctuary, treating the injuries of other coven members and looking after their needs of shelter food, drink, and entertainment. The Coven's sanctuary would be relocated and the Magdalene always went with it. As the Coven grew, the needs of the sanctuary required the trappings of civilization, requiring hiding the sanctuary in plain sight — the Magdalene favored using an inn for this purpose.
* While he was still alive, the Corinthian was a Shamanic Witch who got his powers from Morpheus and was a member of the Grand Coven acting as it's Stranger but he was eventually killed by his fellow Coven member Thessaly Fusco.
* The Baba Yaga and the Grand Coven don't have the best intercoven relationship.
* Elsa Grimston spent over a century traveling the world to study under the great mistresses of the Grand Coven: Rowena, Lourdes and the Thessalian. After many attempts on her life she had to cut contact with the coven as a precaution.

## Links and References

* Appearances of the Grand Coven
* Team Gallery: Grand Coven
* Membership of the Grand Coven

1. ↑ Network Files: Crowley
2. ↑ VOX Box: Hell of a Deal 9
3. ↑ Network Files: Thessaly Fusco
4. ↑ Network Files: Maggie Carpenter
5. ↑ VOX Box: Dream a Little Dream 27
6. ↑ VOX Box: Hell Hath No Fury 1
7. ↑ Network Files: Elsa Grimston