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Simple proposal: Mixing kabal, cult, and coven keywords into a single detachment doesn't cause you to lose your obsession, but you can only have a single obsession per detachment.

So for instance, I might take a Poisoned Tongue Kabal detachment that contains kabalites, wyches, and coven units. The kabal units would get the benefits of the Poisoned Tongue obsession. The wyches and coven units could have their own Cult and Coven keywords (allowing them to be buffed by character auras, benefit from strats, etc.), but they wouldn't benefit from any obsessions.

What this does is remove some of the hoops drukhari players currently have to jump through to have access to their whole codex. It doesn't let you get multiple obsessions per detachment, so it's not giving drukhari players some advantage over other factions. If you want to benefit from Flayed Skull, Prophets of the Flesh, and Red Grief obsessions in the same armies, you'd still need three detachments. BUT, you could include a squad of wyches and a cronos in your kabal batallion without having to give up the kabalites' obsession.