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The Priory of Snowstill is a small monastic cell in the Diocese of Myrken Wood.

Snowstill's main crop consists of potatoes and other tubers. Due to Snowstill's more mountainous location, it is extremely important that the monks harvest before heavy frosts begin. Field frost damages potatoes in the ground and cold weather makes potatoes and other root vegetables more susceptible to bruising and rotting, which can quickly ruin a large stored crop. As a result, the priory's yield is carted to the Priory of Stonebrook, where it is stored for monastic consumption. Since little-to-no farming can be done at Snowstill during the winter, the priory is largely abandoned during the winter months.

Snowstill is currently in a state of repair after a large fire at the priory.

Exterior

The Priory consists of two structures. The first is the main building, which serves as the monks' living quarters and dining facilities.

The other building is a small chapel that is rarely used by layfolk. It, like most other chapels of the One True Faith, was built in the shape of the Crusorbis.

The Fire

In the cruel depths of a recent winter, three warriors made the long ride to the Priory, on the basis of information given to them by the cultist Fawn. Throughout the coldest months of that winter, Fawn had explained, the Priory had stood abandoned -- and her master, Thadius Dhrin, had taken its empty halls for his home. He'd kept wisely to the inner chambers, where the light from his tallow candles would not be seen by any of the infrequent passers-by; he had made himself comfortable with silk and fur stolen from local merchants, had slain rabbits for their meat, with his own clever hands.

Most importantly, it was there, amongst the rats and dust, that he now held Governor Altias Bromn as his tortured prisoner.

On the night following this revelation, Ariane Emory, Councilor Kerrak al'Nerun and the drow Jirai rode to the Priory with two aims: the rescue of Governor Bromn, and the destruction of Thadius Dhrin -- along with the remnants of his cult, the Order of the All. Heedless of Fawn's warning that Dhrin expected them, they were accompanied upon their mission by the physician David D'Rael, Councilor Suede Roschen, and the engimatic Nightshade.

The fields of wheat which surrounded the Priory presented themselves as a simple and obvious target, for a group aware that it was already both outnumbered and outmaneuvered. A distraction was needed: something to draw attention away from those who would storm the Priory itself; something that might strike fear even into the heart of Dhrin himself. It was for these reasons that, upon arriving, Ariane made only a single request of Councilor al'Nerun: "Burn it all."

And so it was that a heathen set afire the fields of God, and created Hél on earth.