| “ | The Day of Unity approaches, where we'll celebrate the purification of magic under the coven system, just as the Titan intended. As heads of the nine covens, we celebrate your efforts to complete this plan. For this, you have earned a glimpse of the reward that awaits. | „ |
| ~ Kikimora explaining the Coven Leaders role in the Day of Unity. |
The Coven Heads, also refered to as Head Witches, are major antagonists in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House.
As their names suggests, they are leaders of the nine main covens and loyal followers of Emperor Belos, helping him oversee his Coven System and invoke te Day of Unity, intended to create a utopia free of wild magic, without knowing that Belos has manipulated all of them to achieve his true goal of the genocide of witchkind. Eventually, Raine, Darius and Eberwolf managed to see through Belos's façade and founded a rebel faction to stop him.
Members[]
- Raine Whispers (Voiced by Avi Roque) - Head Witch of the Bard Coven.
- Darius Deamonne (Voiced by Keston John) - Head Witch of the Abomination Coven.
- Eberwolf the Huntsman (Voiced by Kari Wahlgren)- Head Witch of the Beast-Keeping Coven.
- Terra Snapdragon (Voiced by Debra Wilson) - Head Witch of the Plants Coven.
- Adrian Graye Vernworth (Voiced by Noshir Dalal) - Head Witch of the Illusion Coven.
- Mason - Head Witch of the Construction Coven.
- Vitimir - Head Witch of the Potions Coven.
- Hettie Cutburn - Head Witch of the Healing Coven.
- Osran - Head Witch of the Oracle Coven.
Personality[]
As seen in various episodes, all the Coven Heads are arrogant elitists, only caring for their own interests. According to Hunter, the Coven Heads stab each other in the back all the time.
While Raine, Darius and Eberwolf realized that Belos was planning something horrible and became heroes trying to stop his plans, the other coven leaders remained loyal to him due to not knowing about Belos' true goals, being promised them that after the Day of Unity, all the coven heads would end up living in a "paradise". Of course, Belos never intended to keep that promise and later left them to die with everyone else when the Draining Spell began.
Powers and Abilities[]
| “ | The larger your covens grow, the more power we have to unite our realms, where the worthy shall inherit a utopia free of wild magic. | „ |
| ~ Belos telling the Coven Heads to gain more power for the Day of Unity. |
As the head witches of the main covens, all the Coven Heads are implied to be incredibly powerful in their own magical abilities, being these: Bard Magic, Abomination Magic, Plant Magic, Beast-Keeping Magic, Illusion Magic, Construction Magic, Potion-Making Magic, Healing Magic and Oracle Magic. The head witches studied at some of the most prestigious magic schools such as Glandus High, St. Epiderm, and Hexside School of Magic and Demonics.
To do the Draining Spell, Belos needed to channel other witches magic through the main coven heads, and needed all of them to be alive for the Day of Unity.
It is seen that the Head Witches have authority over other members of the Emperor's Coven.
History[]
Season 1[]
The Coven System gets introduced in "Covention", and one of the Coven Heads, Mason, the head of the Construction Coven, is seen presenting what his coven is about.
Some banners with the images of all the coven heads are seen through various episodes.
Season 2[]
The Coven Heads make their official debut in "Hunting Palismen", where all of them are shown by Belos, the Golden Guard and Kikimora a fake vision of what the Day of Unity will be and what's their role in it.
The later Coven Heads, Raine Whispers, Darius Deamonne, Eberwolf, Adrian Graye Vernworth and Terra Snapdragon are individually seen in various episodes. They also appear as icons in the new theme song.
In "Eda's Requiem" and "Them's the Breaks, Kid" it is shown that to do the Draining Spell, Belos needs to channel the witches's magic through the main coven heads, and that's why he needs them to be alive and finding new replacements just in time is hard.
Raine, Darius and Eberwolf end up creating their own rebellion against the Emperor, the Covens Against the Throne, and they are later joined by the show heroes like Luz Noceda, Lilith, King and Eda Clawthorne, among other ones.
In "King's Tide", they are seen finally joining the Day of Unity with everyone else present at the event. Belos was already aware of the rebels' deception with Terra and Adrian foiling it. This provoked a brief fight between all the coven heads, but Hettie Cutburn managed to end it by restraining Eberwolf with a knife menacingly close to his neck, forcing Darius to back off, then Raine was brought by some Abomatons and the Draining Spell finally commenced. The Coven Heads rejoice as they will finally enter their long-awaited "paradise", but then they realize that Belos deceived them like everyone else and they would be the first ones to die by the effects of Draining Spell. All the Coven Heads collapse onto the ground by the effects of the spell as their magic and life force get drained away by the power of the eclipse.
Season 3[]
Sometime after stopping the Draining Spell, the Collector turned all the Coven Heads into puppets, and kept them in the Archive House, all designated to guard and stop Eda from escaping, who is supposedly still turned into "the Owl Beast".
Terra was spared for some time, as she agreed to play as Eda in the Collector's game, but later she ended up being turned into a puppet too after she insulted him and called King a dog.
At an unknown point in time, King and the Collector had a "Tea Party" featuring the coven heads, with King being creeped out by the puppets.
After Belos' final defeat, it was shown that the Coven Heads were freed from being puppets along with everybody else from the Isles, and even though Terra, Adrian and Vitimir still wanted to cling to "the old ways" by trying to claim the now-defunct throne for themselves, they were held at bay by Darius and Eberwolf. It is unknown whether the Coven Heads are still plotting to take the throne until this day.
Trivia[]
- While some of the Coven Heads were never named in-series, one of the show's artists, Rebecca Bozza, revealed their names on Twitter to be: Mason (Construction Coven), Vitimir (Potion Covens), Hettie Cutburn (Healing Coven) and Osran (Oracle Cloven).
- The previous leader of the Bard Coven before Raine's ascension was called "Scooter Crane", but other than a banner seen in the first season, he was never seen in any episode, having retired before or during early Season 2.
- According to Dana Terrace, the series shortening, which attributed to the show not entirely fit to Disney's brand for pushing the apparent limit of its strict family-friendly image 24/7 by exploring darker and more serious themes such as LGBT+ representatives and genocide is the reason of why most of the coven heads were never explored as characters in Season 2.
- It is never explained how someone manages to become a "Head Witch".
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