Regardless of the veracity of the charges, the tradition of the White Cloistered ordained the exile of those condemned. Only through joining the outcasts of the Coppice Coven was there any chance of survival. While the Cloistered Coven regarded them as lower than insects, they possessed their own history and unique spells which were passed down across generations. And the powerful Yahqi, once convicted of matricide and known as the "Sneering Hellion," had become their next leader.