The Monastery of the Vigil sits at the top of the Shankari Plateau, a wind-polished bastion of marble and obsidian where the hero Azami Shah first sought to complete the Kshatriya’s Vigil - "A sword must be as steady as the hand that wields it, a hand must be as steady as the mind that guides it, and a mind must be as steady as the soul that sustains it ."
The sound of training rings through the courtyards—steel upon steel, the deep intonations of warriors reciting oaths, pilgrims reading mantras embroidered upon golden banners, and the quiet murmur of scholars meditating beneath the Celestial Dome.
Once a warrior and heir to the Empire of Shanakra, Azami Shah saw it all torn away by chaos and the death of his family and most importantly his daughter Shazadi. Returning from the War of the Nine Shards Azami Shah built the Monastery as a place of stillness in the maelstrom, a place where others could join the Kshatriya’s Vigil as protectors of the innocent and keepers of the lost.
To such a place came pilgrims seeking refuge, warriors seeking a cause, mystics and sages seeking enlightenment and merchants seeking wealth. Jahanara came too, the Dragonborn bard saw opportunity to shape not only a sanctuary, but a dominion. Descending down from the plateau he built the terraced courtyards of the Gilded Spires, where merchants and diplomat gather turning quiet courtyards into halls of diplomacy and intrigue, and bazaars where wealth is traded, pacts are forged, and betrayals are plotted.
