Winter Covenants

Winter Covenants are dogmatic (about their oaths in the case of Winter CreedHolds?; about their liturgies in the case of Winter ChapelHolds?; or about their governance in the case of Winter RectorHolds?) and loathe to change. Long-time members restrict the input of newer members. Decisions made long ago, however, force it to accept the internal dissent which will one day mean some of its members will start their own orders.

Winter Covenants are only associated with a single eco-relation:

• Synnecrotic Conflict Because the problems of conflict and synnecrosis (mutually death-dealing ecological relations, think of it as the opposite of symbiosis) are well understood, most covenants recoil from development which leads to Winter Covenants even when that is the thing which their covenant most needs.

See also CreedHold, ChapelHold?, RectorHold? and Winter.

— Scotus - 14 Apr 2001