"I just wondered," he asked turning to her "its because my last coven was to be honest very low on the food chain. hell we weren't even allowed to attend affairs of state." Vampires were a fractured bunch there was no doubt about that but the one thing they all did have was a shared chain of command: those older than you were in charge. by the same extension the older the coven you were in the more power over other covens you held. a new born vampire from a coven that's 2000 years old could still command an elder from a coven that's only 500 years old. this meant that should a threat arise then the oldest covens would get together in a conclave to discus the problem