The Monastery of the Unbroken Chain

Situated high in the peaks to the north of Overlook in Thorast is the Monastery of the Unbroken Chain, a temple of the Dwarven deity Clangeddin.

Aerial View of the Monastery of the Unbroken Chain. Image © WotC

Description

The monastery, like many Dwarven structures is mostly underground. However the surface part consists of a hexagonal building set in a courtyard of statues, each depicting a famous Dwarven warrior from history. Many of these characters are quite obscure and only obsessive students of military history will recognise most of them.

History

The Monastery's history dates back over 600 years (and so is relatively new by Dwarven standards) to a point where the priests of Clangeddin decided to experiment with creating a "school" of combat where the noblest of Clangeddin's worshippers would also be trained in the martial arts by the finest warriors. The results were, at best, mixed.

Although the monastery did produce some very fine Paladins it also became a hot-bed of very militant ideals and a school of though of Dwarven superiority that the Kings found unhelpful, especially as the land cam under Imperial control.

In 200IC the monastery was ordered to stop producing warriors and instead to become a place of peaceful retreat and a hospital serving Dwarves injured in battle. These days, due mostly from its distance from anywhere interesting, it is considered an oddity even to the priests of Clangeddin and only has a few people manning it at any time.

Acknowledgements

"The Monastery of the Unbroken Chain" is a shameless copy of "the Monastery of the Sundered Chain" from the adventure, "The Siege of Bordrin's Watch". Although the name is slightly different and the monastery's history certainly is, the maps of the monastery's layout are all © 2008 Wizards of the Coast, Inc.