The Gardens of the Sanctified
“Here the faithful who served long are given rest, among the likenesses of those who went before them into the Light.”
The Still Gardens lie in the highest tier of Vatira, within the cathedral’s own walls, where the air is clean and the bells are near. The aged faithful are kept here in their final years, housed and tended by the Pale Sisters, walking among the statues of the Saints so that those who came before may watch over those soon to be received. It is the quietest place in the city.
A Plan of the Grounds
Click a marker to examine it. Every stone bears a name; the Register gives each a number. Some numbers have been… tended.
The grounds are numbered as the Register numbers them. Walk them, and read.
The Register Pavilion
At the centre of the Gardens, upon a stone pedestal beneath glass, lies the Register of Canonization — the public roll of every soul the cathedral has raised. The faithful may turn its pages, but not remove it. Some pages are marked, as if a hand lingered there.
“The Sanctified are kept here forever, and never released, in the mercy of the Light.”