Built by Gatehar Clerics during the Age of Re-Discovery, the Monastery is a sparling compound dedicated to the Goddess of Life. A small band of Clerics known as the Founders pleaded with the King of Xonthian City to set up a school based on their arts and magical abilities. The king granted them their school and gave them the island south of Port Orlynns.
The clerics were charged with building a place where those gifted with the healing magic can learn to extend their abilities further. A call went across the known world for any and all that were gifted in the arts of healing to join the Founders on their journey to their new home. The Founders landed on Angelic Island on the northwestern tip of the island two years later. They were given very little in the way of goods and building materials and would have to make do with the natural materials the island provided. Just north from where the Founders had first landed rose a sharp cliff face overlooking the ocean along the northern shore. A spot on the eastern side of the mountain rain was the chosen spot to build the monastery and tower which they chose to represent their order. This gave the monastery natural protection from being invaded since there were no viable landing locations along the north and eastern sides of the mountain. Because of this, the Passage was created, and the stone used from the mine was used in the building of the Cathedral.
The main building of the monastery is the cathedral. Built in the shape of an Ankh, the symbol of life, it sets in the direct middle of the grounds. Because Gate’Har was considered to be the moon, they wanted to build a tower that reached high into the sky, to try and touch the very thing they worshiped; GateHar Moon. Various stables, gardens, barracks, and a small archive. Cathedral, like its counterparts all over the world, are designed and built between large flying buttresses that hold up the walls of the building, like stone fingers. Masterworks of religious arts can be seen in various rooms and halls of the Monastery, mostly concentrated in the mess hall, library, and the Cathedral itself. Statues sculpted from the purest white marble in Xonthian, straight from the mines of Jek’lee, were transported here and turned into sculptures.
The tomes that were scattered in temples around Xonthian were brought to the monastery to be preserved and used as learning instruments. Many years passed on the island as the clerics began to slowly build their envisioned home.
