Danse Macabre Scenario 1-Explanations

What Happened ?

Place : (fictional Benedictine abbey) Saint Laurence of Valfranc in the French Alps

Date : August 1346

Forbidden Knowledge

The abbey is dedicated to Saint Laurence, holy patron of librarians. The purpose of this abbey is to preserve knowledge.

The Abbot Alberic von Brecht was a friend of pope Benedict XII (now deceased) in his youth and as such have obtained the right to preserve any books, even the ones prohibited by the church.

Nobles from all Christendom would pay fortunes to secretly store their prohibited books there, especially any books that would indicate them as former heretics (books about Catharism or the Templar Orders)

Descend into madness

Father Arnaud Capiton, the prior of the abbey