Some Lunars became so disturbed by the physical degeneration of their kind that they took steps. Barred from meeting with their comrades in the Solar Deliberative they resorted to desperate measures to halt their condition. Fleeing into the Wyld and risking mutation they used it's reality warping effects to fix their bodies in shape. Using moonsilver to make nodes in the seething Essence saturated lands of the Wyld, as demesnes do in Creation they managed to stop their bodies from warping further. But it came at a terrible price; they could no longer shapeshift. The form of their Essence was totally fixed and could not be altered. Those Lunars willing to undergo the ordeal were readmitted to the Senate Chamber and resolved to rebuild themselves as a political force. These Lunars named themselves the Silver Pact after the tattoos that shone beneath their cowls. Although at a great disadvantage to the other Exalted they banded together and made sure their kind would not suffer such a indignity again. Fate had other plans.
While the newly formed Silver Pact consolidated their standing in Exalted society with a spirit of solidarity they realised they were now outclassed. The other Exalted lived on with their powers intact while the Lunars of the Silver Pact had robbed themselves of their once cherished Knacks. However there was another way. Learning from the skills of other Exalted and combined with their own intrinsic ability to channel Essence through their natural attributes they slowly but determinedly created a new set of powers, similar to those of their Exalted teachers but fitting for the Chosen of Luna. Just as the Solars and their counterparts used Essence to forge supernatural effects so they learned to do so in a way that imitated the effects of their Knacks. Their natural powers given to them by Luna were lost but they had created something new they thought would do just as well. And so the Lunars reestablished themselves as the greatest Exalted save their Solar mates.
This sacrifice and it's readmittance into Exalted political life was not universal. A great many Lunars saw this development as an unforgivable treason. Not only had they turned their backs on Luna and the wonderful gift she's given them but they'd also abandoned what it meant to be Lunar Exalted. Denied the right to live in civilised lands and spurned by all even the Dragon-Blooded they abandoned their peers to live in self-imposed exile in the wilds. The Lunars of the Silver Pact regarded them as regressive and weak, merely living out the Primordial's Curse to be nothing but animals when an alternative was so easily available. However these rustics saw the Silver Pact as no longer Lunars at all and wanted nothing to do with those who would turn their backs on their natures and the reason Luna chose them in return for power. Many of them thought that the Solars' rejection of their bestial Lunar cousins was an act of hypocracy. They couldn't stand the sight of them because it reflected their own degeneration and the Sidereals were too haughty and aloof to share the council chamber with a pack of beasts. Since the Lunars new Charms were based on those of other Exalted it made their powers easier to accept. Their presence was unsettling but at least it was tolerated by the majority of the Deliberative. The Lunars who rejected the ideals of the Silver Pact saw this as the final, decisive proof that they had abandoned their patron and all she held dear for the sake of acceptance and power.
