> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Saint Aveline's Cloister > [![[Saint_Avelines_Cloister_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Saint_Avelines_Cloister.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Val Noren]] | > Defining Feature | Healer-saint's monastery and siege infirmary | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Active | **Saint Aveline's Cloister** is a centuries-old monastery and chapel in the city of [[Val Noren]], dedicated to a healer-saint and tended by a small order of priests. Through the long siege of the city it served as the main infirmary, its cloister crowded with the wounded, and in quieter times since it has become one of the first places where the faith of the moon goddess [[Selûne]] is being rebuilt. ## Location & Geography The cloister stands in the eastern quarter of [[Val Noren]], among the Cloisters and the Wharf, where the Renite River bends toward its mouth and the ground levels toward the waterfront near the city's river gate towers. It is an old complex of pale stone — an arched cloister wrapped around a chapel — and was left half-ruined by siege bombardment, its walls scorched and broken open in places. Within, the smell of incense struggles against blood, and rows of cots fill the spaces meant for prayer. ## Faith and Healing During the occupation the monastery's cloister and chapel were converted wholesale into the city's main infirmary, crowded with cots, refugees, and the overwhelmed few who could tend them. With the siege broken, it has also become a quiet seedbed of renewed worship: among its first acolytes is [[Alyn the First]], who lives and studies there as the faith of [[Selûne]] is rebuilt from almost nothing under the care of the weary priest Brother Calem. ## [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 37 - March of the Dead]] Sheltering in rebel-held [[Val Noren]], [[Kai]] and [[Ryordan Silmara|Ryo]] were directed to the cloister to help with the wounded, where they and [[Lirien]] found the chapel turned into a crowded triage centre and worked alongside the exhausted healer [[Illaris Sharin]]. #### [[Session 43 - The Shield of the North]] [[Kai]] returned to the cloister to purify the cursed armour of the Dread General, and was drawn into a vision in the Astral Plane where he chose to heal his own shadow rather than fight it — cleansing the metal under the guidance of [[Selûne]]. The purified steel was later forged into the [[Moonlit Aegis]] at the [[Ashen Forge]]. Kai and [[Eryndor]] also visited to meet Brother Calem and [[Alyn the First]].