This mountain monastery is home to The Knights of the Eternal Scroll, an order of warrior monks dedicated to preserving knowledge and guiding the nations to a brighter future.

Every faction respects its neutrality and this ground also serves as the place to resolve disputes, manage peace treaties and help navigate through all sorts of diplomatic and political crisis.

Rumors speak of ancient crypts in which dark forces dwell, but noone knows whether it is true or not... well, maybe except for the dark alchemist who found the hidden entrance years ago and made the crypts his home and place for experiments.

Monks themselves have their secrets too – although they believe in sharing the vital knowledge, not everything is for all eyes to see. The most powerful or hard to accept knowledge is stored in their secret vault beneath the monastery. It is accessible via hidden entrance in the mountains.

Key features:

- interesting angles creating organic layout

- fully decorated interior also including both taller towers which is not well shown on the renders

- hidden crypts and secret vault with various hidden entrances and passages

- the vault entrance in the mountains rotating the statue works only if there is a sword (or a long enough axle) put into the rotating mechanism

- crypts entrance is fully hidden and slides to the side by turning the log on the ground

- dark alchemist la bis accessible via removing the angled tower above it as well as by opening the secred entrance

- vault and crypts are also connected by secret passage (known only to the dark alchemist)

Inspiration and thought process:

I wanted to create a medieval build that is not another castle and stands out with its styling. Eventually I decided to make a monastery and after some brainstorming I decided to place it on top of a mountain to vary the exterior. Lower part of the build was a challenge due to a lot of rockwork, but I tried to do my best and bring it to life with various entrances, foliage a stairs.

I wanted to make it interesting both as a display model and as a playset always thinking about how my kids could play with it. Interior is fully equipped, but it is not always easy to show on the renders, especially the dark alchemist lab which. although hidden, is easily accessible by secret entrance and also by removing the removable segments above it (see renders).

I also tried to create a variety of secret passages and entrances - from simple one between vault and the crypts, through a nicely working turning mechanism causing the rock piece to slide and reveal a concealed crypt entrance. And finally a flawlessly working statue turning mechanism leading to the vault beneath the main tower - this one only works after inserting a sword (like the one on the statue) into it. I hope you enjoy it - there are more versions of the same build and I hope you check them all out.

Thank you.