THE MONASTERY OF THE RED BUTTERFLY Enclosed by a walled garden of fragrant flowering trees, its ivory-crowned gates attended by monks in scarlet veils, this rural temple complex is dedicated not to men or gods, but to monsters. Fair Folk, demons, ghosts, and monstrous prodigies of the Dreaming Sea wishing to join Prasadi society come here to learn from Pure Way monks. In a reversal of traditional teachings, the monks teach their students to immerse themselves in form, joining the illusion that is the world. The intention is for students to so thoroughly become part of Creation that they reincarnate as mortals do — and to learn to eschew the inconstant, self-indulgent cruelty endemic to their kind. Although this ideal is seldom realized, the monks persist. On those rare occasions when a Wyld Hunt captures a Lunar or Solar Anathema alive, the Exalt is imprisoned for life in the Monastery’s innermost chambers and mentored in the Pure Way that they might find a better life in their next reincarnation.
