The belief of the Tapestry is the ideal that the world and existence is a woven thing, that each person is a thread and the stories, legacies, cause and effect of our interactions with one another are what come together to sew the grand Tapestry. It is believed that the observation and recording of lives and history and the practice of recording these stories is a holy and sacred duty; these monks who do so wear tattered burlap like cloth to hide their identity and take a vow of anonymity, completely shedding their name, family, and any right to a history or legacy of their own as to not tarnish the records they themselves are tasked to write. This ensures no records can be viewed with any skewed perspectives.
Upon taking on the life of a monk, one is tasked with a region or family house depending on the necessity of records needing to be taken. The monk is then given as much material as they need to create massive ropes and banners with great length which they use to dye thread and weave the stories they are tasked to record into a single tapestry design. Once a banner or section is finished, it is hung in a hall where a multitude of stories all hang together at varying levels and across different walls or simply hung from the ceiling.
Some monks are taken in by whole royal houses and their work is kept there in the house records. This is only permitted if the house upholds as a sect of The Tapestry, allowing monks to use and work and travel there without fee or worry, and must be supplied traveling goods, food, and places to sleep while passing through and that all their family records are always accessible by any monk of The Tapestry.
While without identities or lives of their own, monks are fierce fighters. Though they refuse to be warriors or take any sides of any conflict, they are among the most capable swordsmen when it is necessary to defend their monasteries and their work. It is said that even if someone were to lay siege to them, it would take the forces of the entire known world and then some to overcome their defenses and tactics.
A monk is provided no more than cloth clothing, basic plate armor, sometimes passed on from previous monks, and a single weapon of their choosing. The rest they must provide for themselves or work for, however are not permitted to give themselves a name and must relay all praises or achievements to the will of the Grand Design. If a monk ever takes a name or becomes a “torn thread,” they are sentenced to exile of the most isolated natures. In some instances, they are stripped of all things and cast out with a mark burned into the side of their face which signifies all to ignore their presence. Ignoring the presence of someone earns them no place among the tapestry and therefore will be forgotten by history itself. In the most extreme cases of heresy, a ritual is performed where-in the one who broke their vows to such an extent are sent into the hall of the Grand Tapestry, the largest and most dangerous place to wander without a map or guide. These people are given to the “Grand Design” for judgment and will either starve to death, or simply vanish. While some speculators believe they are simply lost too deeply to be retrieved, those who catalog and map the Grand Tapestry find it impossible that these individuals would simply vanish and so it is believed that they are taken out of the Grand Tapestry entirely. But as only one person has even been charged to this sentence, no one knows for sure.