In total, there were seven separate laws within the Sacred Strictures; the Wandering Eye, the False Tongue, the Indolent Heart, the Roving Feet, the Ravenous Mind, the Lustful Flesh, and the Errant Spirit. Savants that willingly broke the Sacred Strictures were deemed heretics, and condemned to the Silence. The Silence was considered to have been a realm within the Void where life extinguished is barred from unity with the Void, and instead is excised into nothingness and destruction. The Animites, as well as their descendants and those that took up their system of beliefs, were all considered to have been heretics, condemned to the Silence.