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Place
the monastery
also known as monkery
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A small Cistercian monastery, home to no more than twenty brothers, with low stone walls and a thatched roof. It was abandoned after plague struck, leaving four dead brothers in the church and fresh graves out back, its stores emptied and its herb garden the only remaining source of food.
Description
- layout: A small monastery with low stone walls and a thatched roof; only the church and outer walls are stone; cloisters and dormitory are wattle and daub · revealed ch.4
- capacity: Home to no more than twenty brothers · revealed ch.4
- features: Has a gate with a wooden sign in burned-in Latin reading 'THIS GATE OPENSTO ALL WHO ENTERIN CHRIST’S PEACE' · revealed ch.4
- garden: Has an herb garden with edible greens, flowers, and poisonous monkshood · revealed ch.4
- cloisters: Open-air cloisters with statues of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Genevieve of Paris, and the Archangels Michael and Gabriel · revealed ch.4
Events
- Had its buttery, fishpond, dovecote, and garden emptied; the oven cold a long while · revealed ch.4
- Contains four puffy Cistercian corpses in the nave of the church, one an old man who died trying to burst a plague lump; flowers strewn on them · revealed ch.4
- Has fresh dirt mounds out back covering the first brothers who fell; a few brothers unaccounted for, likely those who emptied the stores · revealed ch.4
Nothing has been revealed about the monastery yet at this point in the book.
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