Windsong Abbey

"'Balance, child. Balance is everything. Without balance, the spider breaks free, and the world dies.'- The Masked Abbess, in conversation with Callahen and Kyra."

Windsong Abbey is a religious site north of Sandpoint on Varisia's Lost Coast. The complex has several places of worship, one for each of the major deities, and a central abbey devoted to Pharasma. Windsong represents the balance of faith in Varisia. Its leader, the Masked Abbess, influences which temples are permitted to be established in the region, and attempts to prevent religious conflict between the various faiths. Like their patron goddess, the clerics of Windsong refuse to take sides in religious conflicts unless there is one clear aggressor. The Masked Abbess claims that this is to preserve the Divine Balance; that if any one god becomes too powerful, this will disrupt the equilibrium of the heavens, and Rovagug, the Rough Beast, will once again break free from its prison.

The Masked Abbess demanded that Callahen swear to respect the beliefs of the diabolistic Order of the Nail before giving him permission to establish a temple to Sarenrae in Magnimar.