Initially founded by 'Lord Jack Hykil the Southerner, the Covenant was an informal gathering of his closest relatives and companions from the Citadel. However, they were more inclined towards ale tasting and story telling than to face the instability amidst the great Houses caused by King Robert Baratheon's death. As the group grew to be progressively disintegrated, one of their followers, a fellow apprentice named Rasco, stepped up and formed the New Covenant, with the same spirit of camaraderie but with a tad more ambition. And so The New Covenant opened up to the rest of Westeros, and what they found outside of the Ivory Tower of the Citadel was a clash of renegate kings. As the Crown's authority was mainly negliged, and often defied, the alliance sought warriors, merchants, diplomats,