Description
Frosthold Monastery is a broad building composed of two abutting square cloisters with a sixty-foot-tall fortified tower rising between them, and an adjoining chapel of
Alexstrasza. Most of the plastered stone building is only twenty feet high with a sloping terracotta roof.
General Features
Blessings of Protection. Maple Smallfoot has permanently warded the monastery cloisters, tower, and chapel with hallow and forbiddance spells. As such, when a creature who is not a monk enters the area, it must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw or become frightened while it remains within. On a success, the creature ignores this effect until it leaves the monastery. These effects cannot be dispelled while the Brazier remains lit in the chapel.
Monastery Garden
Monastery Walls
. Rings of tiered lawns and a ten-foot-high fieldstone wall surrounds the grounds. Two wrought-iron gates allow access up a gravel path towards the monastery entrances.
Gardens. These are lush and peaceful gardens filled with snow covered trees and plants.
Cloisters
Each cloister consists of a ten-foot-wide pillared aisle surrounding a square courtyard. Stone benches and long-faded frescoes decorate the tiled path underneath the awning roof.
Entrance Passages. A ten-foot-wide covered passageway barred with heavy oaken doors allows entry into each cloister. They are kept open during the day, and barred at night.
Courtyard. The centre of each cloister is a broad lawn criss-crossed with gravel paths. Tall snow covered trees stretch up above the monastery rooftops, and the floor is covered in a thick layer of snow. At the centre of the north courtyard is a covered well that draws water from an underground source. The centre of the other is a circular fountain decorated with an angelic statue.
10d6 monks are praying or meditating in each courtyard.
Monk’s Cells. Along three sides of each cloister is a row of a dozen cells. Accessed via small rickety wooden doors that are seldom locked, these practical stone chambers are tidy and unadorned. Each is no more than ten feet in width and fifteen feet long, and contains two straw mattresses with rough spun sheets, a writing table, a bucket, a satchel with an extra set of clothing for each occupant, and a few candlesticks. Two small square windows look out from each. One row of cells each have a backdoor that leads to individual small disused vegetable gardens ringed by a four-foot-high wall.
Library. The shelves of the monastery library are filled with ancient book, some of whih are pile up next to a central desk to make room for new books. sheets of parchement, bottles of ink and bookbinding supplies cover the desk.
Common Hall. Inside this large hall are three rows of long tables set with wooden benches. Disciples of the way of mercy prepare simple meals of broth and gruel in the kitchen.
Abbess’ Tower
This sixty-foot-tall tower has four creaking wooden floors. One is used as accommodations for the monastery leader, the others are used for meditation or meetings. Much like the rest of the followers, the leader's room keep austere living conditions with a simple straw bed and a writing desk.
Chapel of Alexstrasza
This chapel abuts the main cloister and is accessed from the courtyard. It is a round building with a domed roof.
Chapel. The brass brazier at the heart is alight with continual flame. So long as this brazier remains lit, the hallow and forbiddance effects warding the abbey cannot be dispelled.
The
Frosthold Monastery keep the Helm of Perfect Potential here.
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