Drakon Covenant
The Drakon Covenant is an Order of Nine Angles nexion based in Yorkshire, England, led by Ryan Fleming under the pseudonym A.A. Morain, which maintained documented ties to the American nexion Tempel ov Blood and served as the principal channel of O9A ideology into National Action during 2015 to 2017.
The Drakon Covenant is an Order of Nine Angles (O9A) nexion (autonomous cell) based in Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was led by Ryan Fleming, a regional organiser for National Action's Yorkshire branch, operating under the O9A pseudonym "A.A. Morain." The Drakon Covenant is the principal documented mechanism through which O9A ideology entered National Action's internal culture during the period 2015 to 2017, and it maintained direct editorial connections with the American O9A nexion Tempel ov Blood (ToB).
Leadership and Pseudonymous Identity
Fleming operated the Drakon Covenant under the pen name "A.A. Morain," a pseudonym confirmed by journalist Jake Hanrahan on 11 February 2021 and by HOPE not hate's "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism" chapter in the State of Hate 2020 report.1 Under this name Fleming authored at least two published O9A texts distributed within the O9A publishing ecosystem:
Scithain: Vampyric Witchcraft of the Drakon Covenant: a text positioned within the O9A doctrinal tradition on the Acausal realm and transgressive spiritual practice, with specific focus on vampyric initiation rites framed as Left-Hand Path occultism.
Codex Aristarchus: a second published text, the foreword of which was written by a figure identified as "Czar Azag-kala" of Tempel ov Blood, establishing a documented editorial relationship between the Yorkshire and American O9A formations.2
Iron March and International Connections
Fleming was an active poster on the Iron March neo-fascist web forum, where he promoted O9A doctrine and recruited for the Drakon Covenant. His Iron March presence connected the nexion to other O9A-affiliated formations internationally. The Middlebury Institute of International Studies Counter Terrorism and Extremism Center (CTEC) documented the Drakon Covenant-Tempel ov Blood connection in its "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action" profile, noting the foreword relationship in Codex Aristarchus as evidence of a direct transatlantic O9A editorial network.2
National Action Penetration
The Drakon Covenant operated simultaneously with Fleming's role as Yorkshire regional organiser for National Action, allowing O9A doctrine to be introduced to National Action members through internal channels rather than external recruitment. Police searches of National Action members' properties during the prosecution waves of 2018 to 2020 recovered materials bearing O9A symbols, attributed by investigators and journalists to Fleming's influence.3 The precise number of National Action members who were also Drakon Covenant participants has not been established in any public court document.
O9A doctrine's Insight Roles framework, first set out in "Insight Roles: A Guide" (1989, collected in Hostia: Secret Teachings of the O.N.A., Vol. I, 1992), frames infiltration of political organizations, law enforcement, and armed forces as spiritually meritorious initiatory practice. The presence of O9A texts and symbols in searches of National Action members' homes is consistent with Drakon Covenant recruitment into National Action as an insight-role activity, but this has not been established as the operative mechanism in any published court record.
Law Enforcement Status
No UK law enforcement press release, charging document, or court judgment has named the Drakon Covenant as a formal entity under investigation or prosecution as of mid-2026. All documentation of the nexion is secondary, derived from journalistic identification, anti-fascist research, and Fleming's own published works. The Drakon Covenant has not been proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom, and no application to designate it as an alias of O9A under proscription review has been publicly announced.
Fleming himself has not been charged with terrorism offences in connection with his National Action organising or Drakon Covenant leadership. His criminal record consists of three child sexual abuse convictions: 2012 (false imprisonment, torture, and sexual abuse of a boy), 2017 (rape of a 14-year-old girl, three-year sentence), and February 2021 (breach of a sexual harm prevention order by messaging teenagers, six months). The full record is documented in the Ryan Fleming vault entry.
Sources
- Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan). "Fleming runs a Yorkshire based cell (or nexion as they call it) of the O9A. It's called the Drakon Covenant. Under the nom de guerre 'AA Morain', Fleming has written some mental books about O9A vampyrism." 11 February 2021. https://x.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1360317804600324096; HOPE not hate. "Order of Nine Angles: An Incubator of Terrorism." State of Hate 2020. https://hopenothate.org.uk/chapter/order-of-nine-angles-an-incubator-of-terrorism/ ↩
- Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5 ↩
- Middlebury Institute CTEC. "Dangerous Organizations and Bad Actors: National Action." (Citing O9A symbol recoveries in National Action searches.) https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/dangerous-organizations-and-bad-actors-5 ↩
Local network
Drakon Covenant's direct connections. Click any node to navigate, drag to pan, scroll (or pinch) to zoom. + 2‑hop expands the neighborhood one level further.