## Two Cascades Abbey #### Location: #Tevrand/Ebonwall_Range_and_Northern_Wilds #Tevrand/Tyrille #### Type: ### Description: Built on a massive stone monolith jutting from the cliffside, Two Cascades Abbey is filled the constant roar of water as one waterfall crashes into the base of the stoney protrusion and another flows off it’s outward point into the lake below. The monastery thrives in this constant state of damp, mist-filled atmosphere due to the innate magic of the place. The monks who reside here tend to live unnaturally long and healthy lives, something that comes from both their pescatarian diet and the wild magic that seeps into them from the place they live. Nobody has been able to identify the source of this natural magic, but its benefits are easy to see. The sheer abundance of fish and other wildlife in the lake below is the most obvious of these. Spending every day traversing the slick stones of Two Cascades, the monks who live here naturally develop phenomenal footing and an acrobatic knack. Their lives revolve around routine practice of their martial skills, which they view less as a means for combat and more of a means of respecting their body that absorbs the magic of Two Cascades. In addition to physical fitness, the monks are trained through meditation to sense the environment around them and interrogate the innate magical flows of a place, partially in an endeavor to learn about the magics of Two Cascades. In a broad sense, the monks here have a goal of understanding the natural magics of geological locations, such as why Alvarr’s Leap far to the north is haunted by an unnerving sadness, or why those born in the city of Whitevein have a higher probability of being born with a magical gift. Those who leave the monastery are urged to seek out and understand places of local power. Two Cascades has only two ways in or out. The easiest way in is reserved solely for the current residents of the monastery – a pulley system that lowers their fishing canoes into the lake below. In order to enter the monastery from the outside, one must climb the nearly three thousand stairs carved into the cliffside behind the waterfall, a task made difficult by the slick mosses that grow in those conditions and the constant downpour from above. ### Notable Associations