Tarial Abbey

Location: Tarial Hundred, Thelshire

GM Only

The Forbidden Archive: Beneath the abbey’s scriptorium lies a sealed vault containing texts deemed heretical by the church hierarchy — treatises on pre-Athanor theology and fragmentary accounts of Earthmaster rituals. The current abbot is aware of the vault and has been secretly studying its contents, growing increasingly obsessed with a particular manuscript that describes a method for communing with long-dead spirits. Two monks have noticed his erratic nocturnal absences.

The Tithe Dispute: A bitter quarrel festers between Tarial Abbey and the minor lords of the surrounding hundred over tithe collection rights. The abbey claims ancient charter privileges granting it a double tithe on all livestock within a league of its walls, but the local knights insist the charter was revoked two generations ago. The dispute has escalated to the point where a knight’s bailiff was found beaten on the road, and the abbey’s lay brothers are suspected. The matter may soon reach the Sheriff at Sirendel.