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11Covens are the structural friendship layer in Witchbrook. Every student at Witchbrook College belongs to a coven of fellow young witches moving through the same year together, and the player's own coven is a small fixed group of classmates the game places alongside them across the academic year. The coven shares lessons, group rituals, study sessions, and a steady rotation of shared events, and friendship within the coven runs on the same affection system the romance system uses. A strong coven is treated as a valid ending for the school year on its own terms.22Overview44Chucklefish has framed covens as the everyday friend group of a Witchbrook student, distinct from the wider population of Mossport. A coven gathers around a shared curriculum: members take the same classes, work through the same group rituals, and accumulate the same shared experiences over the course of the year. They appear together in classroom scenes, study together in the library, run errands as a unit, and turn up at festivals and seasonal events as the same recognizable cluster of witches.66Because friendships and romances run on the same underlying affection system, a coven also functions as the natural starting point for the romance system. Every confirmed datable character is also a coven member at launch: Hana Sato, Eli Ivers, Cormac Fitzroy, and Pip Marin all sit inside the player's own coven, which is why they tend to appear together across promotional material and in early dev blogs.88Quick Facts1010FieldDetailSizeSmall, fixed group of classmates around the playerMembershipDrawn from the same first-year intake at the collegeSharingClasses, rituals, study sessions, and seasonal eventsFriendshipTracked on the same affection system the romance layer usesRomanceAll four confirmed romance candidates are coven membersEnd-Of-Year OutcomeA strong coven is a valid ending on its own1212Coven Activities1313Coven activity in Witchbrook is woven into the ordinary academic week. The studio has called out a recurring set of shared moments, including:1616Shared lessons in the three magical disciplines, with the coven sitting through Alchemy, Divination, and eventually Arcane Arts togetherGroup rituals that the curriculum sets as collective work, where each coven member contributes a roleStudy sessions and group projects between class meetings, used as bonding beats alongside class itselfFestivals and seasonal events around the city calendar described in seasonal cycles, where the coven turns up as a unitDay-to-day errands around campus and town, with covenmates running into each other at shops, the editorial office, the harbour workshop, and the boardwalk1818The Coven Leader2020Each coven answers to a coven head, and the player's is Professor Carlyle, described as a benevolent guiding hand for the witches living and studying under her. Beyond pastoral support, Carlyle is the source of the player's spells: every time a witch passes one of the College's exams, she is entitled to one-on-one spellcasting tuition from Carlyle and learns a new spell. That makes the coven leader a recurring, practical fixture of progression rather than a background figure.2222Study Groups and Coven Stories2424Coven life feeds two systems directly. The first is exam preparation: a witch who is unsure whether she will pass can attend a coven study group, where covenmates run mock exams that test her knowledge before the real assessment. The second is storytelling. Each covenmate has a unique, bespoke story, and as the player raises her relationship level with them she is invited into those stories. They play out like mini visual novels that cover a wide range of tones, subjects, and perspectives, giving the coven emotional weight well beyond shared classes.2626Friendship as a First-Class Outcome2828Friendship in Witchbrook is not a consolation prize for failing a romance. The studio has framed the friendship track as a first-class outcome, and a player who chooses to spend the year building close coven bonds without entering a romance is not treated as having missed an arc. Coven bonds deepen through the same combination of conversations, shared quests, and shared experiences the romance system describes, so the cost of attention is the same whether the player is courting a partner or anchoring a friendship.3030Because covenmates are also potential romance candidates, the boundary between friendship and romance is porous. A coven member can stay a close friend for an entire school year, and the same character can become a romance arc on a later save without the studio framing the earlier ending as a failure. The studio has stressed that the colourful cast of the town is built for both friendship and romance, not just for dating.3232Coven in Co-Op3434Witchbrook supports four-player online co-op multiplayer, and the coven concept fits the multiplayer structure naturally. A four-witch co-op group can act as a player-driven coven, sharing classes, attending the same festivals, and running the same school year together. Because each player tracks their own affection with NPCs, two friends in the same save can pursue the same coven member on parallel tracks, and a group that wants to see every romance arc in a single year can simply assign one candidate per witch and compare notes at the end of the calendar.3636Confirmed Coven Members3838MemberCoven RoleHana SatoStylish, upbeat covenmate; works part time at Calico Fresh Threads on the boardwalkEli IversPostgrad, editor-in-chief of The Witchbrook Oracle; works part time at the College Shop and tutors on the sideCormac FitzroyGifted painter, self-proclaimed family black sheep; usually found at The Briny Brush gallery near Parasol SandsPip MarinWitch-mechanic with a dockside garage; combines magic with mechanical know-how at her harbour workshop4040Related Pages4141Romance System describes how affection, gifts, dates, and prom layer on top of coven membership. Academic Year covers the semester structure the coven moves through together. Co-Op Multiplayer explains how a real-life group of friends can mirror an in-game coven.
