Are you going to add anything else to Lavertus's exile? Because only now do I realize that the crime of stealing chi he committed is less serious than what Cragger, Worriz, and Razar stole—absurd amounts compared to him—and they aren't punished for it. Perhaps the system of laws of the lions is flawed, or Lavertus may have committed crimes (without Crominus's intervention) in secret, which might balance out the fact that not all lions are of good moral character.
But knowing the character, these must have been crimes he thought were good deeds, but the Lion Tribe considered, or conspired to frame, them as heinous crimes that would weigh more heavily on his exile, At least that's what I think when Cragger and Laval question what he did, making it seem like he must have committed murder.
I'm just pointing out a likely plot role.
I had gone on a whole rant about this only to fact check myself and realise in the show Lavertus had stolen regular Chi and NOT Golden Chi 😭😭😭 My mistake. I was under the impression that he "stole" a Golden Chi orb and thought the punishment of exile was reasonable given the power it holds, but no he just picked up a few orbs of regular Chi which you are correct in saying is nothing compared to what was going on in season 1. So to start off, in my rewrite it is being changed to Golden Chi!!
The actual act leading to Lavertus's exile will still be changed however. I don't really plan on using the persuader plants in my rewrite as I feel the writers relied on them too much to make Cragger do bad things without making him unlikable. Lavertus just waltzing into the temple and picking up the chi before being immediately stopped was rather anticlimactic, although it was contained in a flashback so they were caught for time I suppose. Perhaps instead Crominus uses a Golden Chi he has already won in a race? Surely the rule doesn't only apply from stealing from the lions temple. He framed Lavertus for stealing his Golden Chi and using it do create something dangerous? That is my current idea, and I think it ties in nicely in a narrative sense to his hoarde of Golden Chi in the outlands he acquired fairly (which also gets stolen for real)