The Year of Spring: 303

The innovative spirit of the turn of the century reached its culmination in the year 303, when seven different covenants were founded. To many within the Order, this burst of expansion was welcomed as the proof that the long, dark winter of recovery from the Eleanorean Purge was finally at an end: as early as midsummer, magi had already begun referring to 303 as the "Year of Spring."