This is a summary of The Year of Spring, seventh chapter of A Brief History of the Order. The original is in 6 parts.
- The philosophical innovations of the late third century achieve physical manifestation in the year 303, when seven new covenants are founded. This burst of expansion is perceived as final proof that the Order has recovered from the Eleanorean Purge, and the year 303 quickly becomes known as the "Year of Spring."
- Members of the new sub-Houses of the Linguan Lemmites, the Nephythusians, and the Amicitians all found their own covenants in 303: respectively, Lingua Sophiae, Praeterita, and Calvus Grigori. The Circulan Lemmites also expand, founding Pilleus Gilvus.
- The late third century interest in foreign cultures is reflected in the foundation of both the Covenant at Attica and the Carnifex. While the Covenant at Attica is sympathetic towards foreign culture, however, the Carnifex's mission is to seek out and destroy diabolic and theocratic sorcerors throughout the Known World.
- Perhaps the most radical in its own way of the covenants of spring, Covenant Plenilunium Album, is founded late in the year on the principles of democracy, egalitarianism, sexual equality, and openness to non-Cholaeic magics and cultures. It is to become one of the most powerful and influential covenants of the Order.
