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And what's the rough outline of the hierarchy?)

//and if it isn't too many questions in one: what's the feel of the story, what's the main goal, or is there a reason it's set there specifically (?)

I really love your attention to detail and character designs so much!!

Their religion is called Madonicism and it's basically a fantasy variant of catholicism. It doesn't involve a christic figure, and mostly revolves around a big roster of saints, both common to all and local to each city/region, with various levels of importance. The main saint is the Madon, a three-faced motherly figure. It's the main religion in western europe and it's part of a wider group of religions called cruciphore religions.

The monastery is an Abbey, and it's ruled by a set of two people : an Abbess of the women, and an Abbot of the men. In reality, their functions overlap and men and women share most spaces in the abbey. Sworn brothers and sisters all work in the monastery, and some of them have specific functions like key keeper, librarian, lead cook, lead shefferd etc. The people in the green doublets are Acolytes, young nobles who are only here for a few years to learn to study. Kids in beige are novices.

Also... Fibert looks very cute. Who is more feral between him and Nanthilde?

There is magic in that world yes ! It's fairly limited ; it's some sort of divination magic based on linguistics. Their liturgical language can't like, summon demons or make fireballs, but it can grant images and visions of hidden truths (?) and answer questions if you're like, really good at grammar.

The Abbé's coiffe is inspired by 15th century hats and it's the headwear for abbots. I think it's common for noblemen of Massà to veil and hide their faces anyway, but the abbot probably has some type of scarring that he's obscuring somewhat.

Clomonde's eye is just like that, probably since childhood. I think it's just some type of strabism. Regular human uniqueness.

Also, how did you come up with their names?

In that world (and similarly to today, I suppose), Doctes are both teachers and researchers. They are, like others in the abbey, sworn to monastic vows, but they are not constrained to the walls of their monastery. They usually specialize in a particular subject and they go around advising rulers and researching their chosen topic.

Clomonde's title at the monastery is Soeur Claviste : she's the one keeping track of the keys to every room in the monastery, especially the scriptorium and library where the precious precious stuff is. High responsibility and high risk of corruption. The shitty sheriff of the abbey

Rafael is the Frère Bibliophore. He's in charge of organizing the library and carrying books around, except he doesn't really phore any biblios because he has arthritis. Loves a good decimal classification system though