The Vanishing Road

An ancient causeway known as the Glassway connects Ynys Wydrin to the nearby shore. It is ordinarily submerged, but changes in the local water level periodically expose the dark stone road. The fluctuations are influenced by the complex underground waterways, reservoirs, and old volcanic channels beneath the Jahassa caldera.

The Sisters know the rhythms and signs of their waters well, although the Glassway has never lost its air of mystery. Among the Faithful, a popular belief holds that Ceros reveals the road when the Sisters have need of it — a sign of his grace upon their good works.

Free Passage

Those who come peacefully to seek the Sisters, visit patients, bring supplies, study, or offer aid are granted free and safe passage to Ynys Wydrin. The Sisters maintain small boats when the Glassway is submerged, so access to medical care does not depend upon the causeway appearing.

The Sisters' Sanctuary

Ynys Wydrin is governed by an ancient right of Sanctuary. Church and secular authorities may visit, but they enter as guests and may not interfere with the Sisters' care or remove a person accepted into Sanctuary without the Order's consent.

The Church publicly recognizes this independence and presents the Sisters' work as blessed by Ceros. Whatever private tensions have existed across the centuries, the Sisters' reputation, ancient rights, practical importance, and independent resources have made their Sanctuary difficult to challenge and costly to oppose.