Jafah

While most of the cities of the Kaspari Empire contain mosques and are devout followers of the Karaslaa faith, other faiths still are practiced covertly in the land. Followers of the old Basaami pantheon tend to seclude themselves in monastic isolation along the fringes of Kaspari society, cloistered in dozens of secluded communities off of major trade routes and nestled in isolated valleys among the sparsely populated ranges of the Hulman Mountains. The most noted of these temple communities is the mountaintop pilgrim town of Jafah.
Built upon a wide cliff jutting off of the eponymous mountain, and from there carved directly into the peak itself, the monastery was founded in the year 855 by Alsha Jafah, a Basaami priestess now venerated as a saint by modern adherents of the old faith. Alsha Jafah's bones have since been slowly dispersed as relics across the face of the Basaam River valley, but the priestess' skull and several vertebrae remain at the monastery, clad in gold and housed in a small shrine atop an impossibly tall spire of rock near the mountain's summit. Suffice to say, the spire has neither steps nor handholds, and so only the most skilled and fervent worshippers possess the aptitude to reach the reliquary. In the past century, three attempts to pilfer the bones and their golden settings have failed horribly, with the thieves falling to their deaths - though it is significant that the thieves did not fall during their ascent or descent of the spire, but appeared to have been hurled to their doom only once they’d reached the unguarded shrine itself.
The village of Jafah lies below the peak, and is populated mainly by worshippers of the Old Basaami religion.
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