Coenobium of the Unassailable Truth

Overview

The Coenobium of the Unassailable Truth is an expansive temple and monastery complex of the Immaculate Order, located in the city of Ballico, on the coast of the Calin Shogunate. The Coenobium was built by House Iselsi in the years when the Scarlet Empress set them as overseers of Her Port Calin tributary, and offered as a donative to the Order, who employed it as a base for itinerant monks and Wyld Hunts ranging out into the River Province, and as a refuge for the faithful who wished to seek enlightenment and entry into the Order.

Layout

The Coenobium grounds are enclosed by a high fortified wall, constructed in Calinti style. Within these grounds can be found a number of dormitories, smaller temple structures, large halls for sermons, meditation gardens, and fields for agriculture. The wall has two gates, one opening to the East and the other to the West, where the Coenobium wall juts out over the beach into the sea. Beyond this gate, stone quays lead further into the waters of the Inner Sea, allowing ships to dock directly at the Coenobium rather than using the city port. The Order uses these docks only for its own vessels, and patrols of the Colossal Fleet ensure that vessels of the Imperial Navy or Scarlet Dynasty do not violate Calin's waters to moor there.

The Coenobium is home to the Temple of the River Procession, where the Paragon of Sextes Jylis keeps chambers so they might visit and accept grey-robed applicants for the Order directly once every few years.

Religious Diplomacy

The Coenobium lies just to the west of the School of Honourable Virtue, a local thaumaturgy academy which hosts visiting Immaculate Sohei teachers from Lookshy. While they do teach an occasional class, those Sohei spend a great deal of time across the road visiting with their peers who are pledged to the Palace Sublime, an unofficial embassy for theological discussion and coordination across the schism between the Imperial and Lookshy branches of the Immaculate Faith, whose participants hope might one day help heal the divide.