Satiation Abbey (Say-see-a-shun Abb-e)
When one thinks of clerics in an Abbey healing the sick, they often result to images of a merchants son being cured by a caring woman in white. What festers beneath the surface goes untreated among many of the populace. Mental health is of vital importance to some religions, and scoffed at as factitious by others. Satiation Abbey is founded on the principles of two things. Cleansing the evil of the mind by way of catharsis, and cleansing of the worlds evil by killing demons.
Clerics of the Abbey dress in black robes, and welcome those with a build up of repressed emotion or violent tendencies. A patient is brought to their own private room, containing only a single bed and table. To perform the ritual, the patient lays upon the bed to sleep, and inserted into their dreams are the real battles fought by those protecting the material plane from demons. While realistic in the moment, the battles have long been fought, and many find the release of slaughtering demons to be an acceptable output for their anger.
Satiation Abbey is not open for public visit, but by referral from the Temples to Argyle, God of Compassion. Some find the presence of the Abbey under the wing of a God of Compassion to be ill-suited, but many know not the history between Argyle and the fiends of hell.
It is located in the city of Harkon, on the western outskirts of the Temple district.
Purpose / Function
The purpose of Satiation Abbey is to provide catharsis to those who may have repressed their negative emotions, or find themselves without an outlet to express them. Patients undergo a ritual that manipulates their dreams, allowing them to relive the events of Paladins and adventurers fighting hordes of demons.
Architecture
The abbey is made of plain wood and stone. It is kept to be as neutral as possible, as to not shock the patients waking up from their dreamy detour to hell.
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