Empty Sky
Monks who outlast catastrophe by refusing to become anything catastrophe can move.
- Scope
- Local
- Alignment
- Monastic sect
- The Three Honored SagesSubsidiary
Gar Torjeng leads Empty Sky as one of the Three Honored Sages.
- White CrystalRival
A neighboring Barrier Pass sect with a different discipline and emphasis.
- Unmoved MountainRival
A neighboring Barrier Pass sect with a different discipline and emphasis.
Stillness as a discipline, and a doctrine: do nothing, change nothing, weather everything. Empty Sky is the preservation-sect of Barrier Pass, where monks spend long stretches in meditative stasis while the world insists on happening around them.
They are led by Gar Torjeng, one of The Three Honored Sages, whose instinct is to avoid disruption and distraction. Empty Sky monks share the broader Barrier Pass discipline of spirit sight, endurance, hunger, cold, and deprivation.
In encounters
- Ignore suffering or needs and remain unperturbed
- Send their minds into the spirit world while their bodies are insensate
- Calm the elements around them
Hooks
Use Empty Sky when preservation becomes cruelty: refusing to intervene, preserving an old charge over living need, or maintaining stillness while the world changes around them.