For more than a millennium, the Covenant of Quel'danas was run by the Dragonmoon family. What started out as private military training for the nobility grew over the many centuries to become one of the most respected academies among the Sin'dorei.
During the siege of Quel'thalas by the Scourge during the Third War, the academy had been completely obliterated. While defending with her sisters, Serena and Saichania sent Vych, along with a handful of able-bodied students, ahead to Sunstrider Isle where they began to summon the rest of the academy's pupils and faculty.
The Covenant of Quel'danas now lies in ruins within the scar in the center of Silvermoon. Many of the survivors had returned to their families or taken up arms in the war against the Scourge. No longer an academy, the family shortened the name to Coven to symbolize the unity of those left behind. Their tabard is blackened in remembrance of the lives lost defending the city. With Serena Dragonmoon taking her place as Head Mistress, the school had taken a new turn, catering to other groups of individuals as well, often being talented students who would have been otherwise overlooked. These students were sometimes of other races and/or deemed of little future value to society. It was Serena's skill as an auricle seer that now lead her to not only accept these unlikely students but also to seek them out. Serena still sends her Observers out into the world, now not only to locate and recruit new students, but to watch over the smaller communities, forming alliances and picking up the occasional 'straggler.' Coven has taken to accepting into their ranks the homeless, often shunned and those left helpless by ravages of war, as well as seasoned veterans and teachers who's ideals are like-minded.
As their numbers slowly begin to grow again, Coven's sights are set upon the horizon of a new home. Some place where there can be a new beginning. Such a site has been found, and with the aid of newly forged alliances, the rebuilding has begun.