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Hokuto is about “agriculture” hence the flower.

And Seito is about economics and military, hence the laurels and the coin behind the star.

So Touto is peaceful, hence the doves. But what’s the pattern that’s above them?
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I assumed, for no reason at all, that's it's a some sort of a basic Mandala (square, 4 gates and a centerpoint) to symbolize both the peaceful (supposed anyway) nature and the desire of heightening and transforming oneselves by creation and destruction, which in this case instead of being poetic takes literal form via. Faust and all their experiments. But that's just me.
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I kinda saw it as crossed hands like this
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My first thought was a simplified compass rose with Pandora's Box in the center, but looking at it I notice the angles match up with the Build logo (at least coincidentally) so that if you take the logo and rotate it and invert it a few times, you can complete a similar symbol (as seen in my very hasty version with limited graphics editing on this PC):

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Honestly, I thought Touto's was also a flower up until Luna pointed out the doves.

I don't know if it means anything, but the top and bottom halves of the pattern are separate. It's like two pretzels on top of each other.
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You question on the crests.. above the doves, could it be chains or handcuffs/ankle cuffs (peace through oppression?)
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Nice. I love it when these series put in little extra details like this.
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Maybe a way off, but to me it looks like those symbols in Budhism/Hinduism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtamangala

Hokuto --> Lotus
Seito --> Dharmachakra ( see how the 8 point of the star exactly the same as the number of the spokes)
Touto --> Endless Knot

As to their significance, hmm no idea. Hahaha
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I just read a discussion on DeviantArt about this, and from what they were guessing at, Touto's crest is the Bat (Night Rouge), Hokuto is the Spider and Seito is the Snake. But, like all discussions, take with a grain of salt.
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Strykor wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2018 9:06 pm I just read a discussion on DeviantArt about this, and from what they were guessing at, Touto's crest is the Bat (Night Rouge), Hokuto is the Spider and Seito is the Snake. But, like all discussions, take with a grain of salt.
That seems pretty off if you ask me. Bakaten's post seems pretty good though. Like some of those designs look uncannily similar.
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As I said, grain of salt. If you pretend you're looking at a magic eye picture you can kinda see it, but I agree, Bakaten's is a lot closer in my opinion.
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