Abbey of Song

Construction of the Abbey as it can be seen today took the better part of a century, bits and pieces slowly being added to over the years. The monks seem to cheerfully regard it as a work in progress. Visitors are welcomed and offered modest room and board for a donation, or a day’s work. At all hours of the day and night the monks tend to the monastery, building new structures, tending the gardens, cleaning and cooking – and singing the strange, haunting chant as they do. The Monolith rests much as it was found, standing at the center of the inner cloister, surrounded by sacred relics left by former brothers and sisters.   The Abbey is content to remain out of the political stage, the Cathedral of Light regard them publicly as an oddity, but welcome their kind nature as a blessing to all people. The Knights of the Word vested regularly for years trying to discern anything about the religion, but with no written holy texts, and their principles passed along as an oral tradition of simply being simple, honest and fair. The Knights found the task frustrating, the only other help the monks could offer were the same words the Maker of Stars gave to Lorn Elmennios – “Hear the song, and you will understand.” The Church of the Doctrine pays them no mind, considering their attention to others first as cowardly and denying the self, thus heretical in their eyes. The Monks are welcomed in the circles of the Neutral Pantheon’s loyal, and are the only ones willing to admit that they are not able to hear the song, but they’d like to.