Ancaster Abbey
by Dave

In Ancaster Abbey there are many resources which serve the church. There is a large novices school, the usual church industries (beer, mead, fruit wines and healing balms), the workers employed at them, an excellent scriptorium and a fine library which has become a repository for the eastern Sagronian adepts. The Abbey's modern construction, isolation and plentiful resources have made it one of the premier locations for knowledge and items of learning in the east despite its relatively young age of 63 years.

There are some wonderful collections to be regarded there (see below), some of the early works of the Lady Sagron, collected works of the minor holy workers, estate records for most of the eastern church and the Contained Works Sanctum. The Abbey is well respected in many circles of learning, containing many of the recently transferred collections from Kessel.

Situated as it is on the high way between two of the larger commanderies (P'eiml and Dalrys), the roads and towns are quite safe for travellers. The protections, guards and holy encirclements that protect both the sisters and students who would peruse the rarer collections are some of the better work done by the Church in this area (in recent memory).

There is also one of the few Sagronian Houses for the mentally weakened located on the premises.

Important personages in the Abbey include the Abbess Beatrice Fons, Mary Chandler (head librarian), and Jane Fields (infirmerer).

The Library

The Canticle of Refuge

dated to 43 AE, colored linen and wool thread on bleached linen, recovered from Castle Ancaster ruins in 915 AE, attributed to Lady Mirabelle Sagron

The Writings of Sagron, Acts I

second annotated Kessel edition in brown leather, gilt edges, with silk bookmark

An epistle upon the Cult of Set

red ink on tan parchment in a folio of essays, written by Sister Genevieve de Bohun, Anacritic Monastery, Ramsgate 816 AE

A page from the Book of the Dead Planes (expurgated edition)

stained black oxhide over wood, grey parchment with very cramped and spiky handwriting in rusty brown ink; the page smells of myrrh

A very bad poem by Lady Lipeth Ancaster

a page torn from Lady Ancaster's diary (also in the library), found in the spine of the Book of Dead Planes, along with a key; although unsigned, authorship was determined by handwriting comparisons

A story for children

a translation from a Conn Dwi children's book of stories by Merjor 846 AE

Excerpts from an expedition

from the collected works of an expedition into the western desert of Conn Dwi, near the Vale of Riven Tombs, interpreted by Sir William Blaenn, 447 AE

Tomb inscriptions

an amalgamation of inscriptions found on tomb carvings and steles in the western desert of Conn Dwi, near the Vale of Riven Tombs, collected by Sir William Blaenn, 445 AE

Diary of Barbara Zalozi

written in a very crabbed hand on very small (octavo) sheets of vellum bound in bleached calveskin, contained in a small reliquary with a blue silk strip of material

A page from an anonymous screed

double-sided page written with faded purple ink on unusually textured parchment, found as fragments under Lord Ancaster's castle and later restored; it is impossible to tell which side of the page was written first

An excerpt from the Revelations of Correllon Larethian

on perfectly made rice paper, written in grey with a brush in a precise, looping style

A series of rubbings made by Gudred of Ancaster Abbey

on parchment using charcoal

A copy of Noldi's last words

fair copy of the pages originally transcribed by Llwyd while in Belegost