Gravite Schism

Schism which occurred at Covenant Westmarch from 301 to 303, eventually leading to the abandonment of the original Gravite School of House Lem in favor of two new schools: the Westmarchite School and the Linguan School. Dispute between the Gravite factions was rooted in long-standing doctrinal differences between the movement's two founders, but the sect did not actually schism until the discovery of the controversial Red Book of Westmarch. Traditionalist Gravites claimed that in this book Lem had prohibited his followers from the use of spontaneous magic, while the revisionist Gravites felt that he had done no such thing. An attempt to resolve the dispute at the Diet of Worms in 303 led to violence, after which the revisionist Gravites left Westmarch to found their own covenant, Lingua Sophiae, and began calling themselves Linguans, while the traditionalist Gravites retained control of the covenant and became known as Westmarchites. A few hold-outs, who favored neither Linguan revisionism nor the abandonment of spontaneous magic, remained simply Gravites; over time, though, their numbers dwindled, and the original Gravite movement is now extinct.