The Plenilunial Elementalist covenant Whitestone was destroyed by the rogue Savacion Siccoculus in 386. Most of its magi survived its destruction and were taken in by their fellow Elementalists at Covenant Hart's Desire, where they remained until Siccoculus' death in 390.
Most expected that the magi of Whitestone would remain at Hart's Desire. What was left of their covenant was now a nightmare of rubble and blocked tunnels, and its original construction in 361 had proved fiendishly difficult even with the aid of its two terram-specialized Touccian founders, both of whom had since effectively seceded from the Plenilunial Elementalist movement and gone on to found Covenant Rockroot. Nobody could imagine how the Whitestone survivors could even think of undoing the damage, and indeed, a number of them accepted that the covenant was a lost cause.
Others of the Whitestone survivors, however, absolutely refused to consider their covenant dissolved. They felt that to acknowledge the destruction of Whitestone would be to grant Siccoculus an unprecedented triumph—never before had one mage single-handedly destroyed an entire covenant—and they found this idea simply unthinkable. In 390, therefore, a group of five magi--none of them Touccians, none of them terram-specialized, and one of them quite elderly--returned to Ventria to attempt to repair the damages.
The chalk of the Ventrian cliffs in which Whitestone had been built had always been unstable, and it had been even further weakened by the collapse of 386. There was another cave-in late in 390, as the magi were attempting to clear out some of the rubble. Aestus Animae was injured, and much of the preliminary work negated.
In 391, just as the Whitestone magi were beginning to abandon hope, the Cristoferean Stiria , one of the covenant's original founders and the most adamant advocate of its resurrection, sent a message to Covenant Rockroot, demanding that its magi repay their debt to their parent covenant by, in effect, rebuilding it from the ground up.
It was an utterly unreasonable request. Nonetheless, the covenant's two original Touccian founders, [T43] and [T44], answered the call, arriving late in 391 along with T43's student, [T69]. Some have claimed that they only agreed to return to Whitestone because in her letter, Stiria had accused them of shoddy craftsmanship in their original construction of the covenant; both Rockroot and Whitestone magi have vehemently denied that this was the case. In any case, whatever Stiria's letter might or might not have contained, it worked: the Touccians remained in Ventria for two years, building a new series of tunnels for Covenant Whitestone: this task was far simpler, they claimed, than attempting to repair the old ones would be.
Covenant Whitestone was declared 'refounded' late in 393, after which the Touccians returned to Covenant Rockroot. They were accompanied also by two of the five magi who had returned to Whitestone in 390. Covenant Whitestone's "resurrection" was therefore a mixed triumph at best: at the end of the year of its rededication, there were only three magi remaining at the covenant.
