Supreme Matriarch

When a Supreme Matriarch dies, the matriarchs residing at the White Hall of Morwyn’s Hand follow the exact rules of succession as handed down by Tyngelle. They paint the names of all the world’s high matriarchs on stones and place them in a great barrel, though there are few enough high matriarchs now that the barrel is rarely filled even halfway. They then go and find a young and innocent shepherdess who is usually around thirteen years old. They bring the child to the barrel, tell her there is one stone in it more valuable than all the others, and ask her to find it by whatever method she might choose. The woman named on the selected stone becomes the new Supreme Matriarch. A contingent of faithful sons is sent out to find her, for she might be doing great works on the other side of the world, and the high matriarchs of the White Hall act as a council in her absence. 
The Supreme Matriarch is addressed as “Your Holiness,” “Your Eminence,” “Your Grace,” or “Most Hallowed Mother.” She is introduced without her name and, indeed, her name is never spoken on formal occasions; she is called “The Supreme Matriarch of the Healing Halls of Morwyn.”

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The current Supreme Matriarch is Sylva Moonshadow.