The Cloisters
Since the disbanding of the rule of hiding mysterious of the world the studious population of the big has determined to take what scraps of knowledge they still have and build a new repository of magical and scientific knowledge of the world. To better guide these studies the groups formed around forces the people of the bog see as inherent truths or constants in the universe
The Cloister of Attraction and Repulsion
Situated near the Waterworks of the fortress city built under the directive of the god of Egnamtic decay.
Along with studying the attractive and repulsive flows of the waterways there is a magnetic hill that the cloister is built on that is theorized to have an effect on the water’s filtration. Rumour is that the wizard Vom crafted their ever spinning comet here, as the magnetism is a ripple from that epic fest of spellcasting. The cloister maintains the great aqueduct and water treatment that no one knows how to replicate, only maintain. The clean and diverted waterways make for great farming lands and a hamlet of farmers has arose around the plant. Rice, watercrest are planted in the flooded overflow and gourds and vegetables in the area the water is diverted from.
The Cloister of Patterns and Chaos
Situated in the Isole valley, whose perfected patterned land and motes have long been the wonder of adventures.
The cloister of patterns and chaos looks to the land and the sky to study its truth. the patterns of the clouds in the valley are the wonder of the Cloister at the moment and brings to question if that’s why the ancient arch mage Fondurwhipple shaped the land into what some theorize is a map and others an equation that unlocks knowledge now lost to the scholars of the bogs. The higher perch and open land of the cloister makes its the perfect settlement that the locals then harvest the area for wild animals and plants in the well kept boglands around. They teem with life but are free of the more dangerous creatures that prefer the wood swamps for their homes and hunting grounds.
The Cloister of Vitality and Decay
Situated in the fetid oasis, a perfectly clean and lush pool of water in the center of the darkest and most dangerous swamps.
The Cloister of Vitality and Decay is not a place for the timid. There is as much growth as there is death in that place, many predators, prey, insects and parasites call that swamp home. What better place however for the Cloister, which can survive off the magically pure waters and plants of the Oasis. The village around the oasis maintains fruit bushes in the clean spaces and a prolific alchemist creates tinctures of pure essences of that fruit to heal worms or repel blood eating flies. The oasis is thought to be the creation of a great elven mage of a time before recording, a testament to the magical powers of the Enigmatic race.