Monk

They rise before dawn, shadows flickering between steaming hot springs and dewy gardens high on the slopes of Firefang. The Monk leaves the mountain tower with bare feet, robes light, hands empty. Where battalions march with banners, the Monk walks with palms open—repairing paths, planting wildflowers, mending torn cloth; each act a prayer, each breath a vow unspoken.
  When raids come, the Monk does not raise the sword. Instead, they tend wounds, soothe frightened children, guide fleeing souls through safe paths carved behind waterfalls and beneath pines. Their first response is never violence but the monks train daily to master both martial proficiency and stoic faith. If threatened they will defend themselves with restraint on killing so that Dhara is honoured not by blood shed, but by mercy given.
 
  The Saint's Congress supports the religious beliefs of the Church of Dhara but not their methods of spreading their beliefs.
  The monk leader Skaar moved his order into the mountains to avoid the militaristic ways of the church.
  The Congress now practices their peaceful rituals on a mountain in the Firefang Jags.
  Dhara seems to work in mysterious ways. The Saint's Congress believes that good deeds will earn their god's favour while the Church of Dhara believes that conquering any who do not agree with their beliefs is the correct way to honour Dhara.
  The monks shelter themselves from the petty quarrels of the Skygardian people.
  They live in the mountain tower surrounded by gardens and hot springs.