What's a Sanctuary
Neutral ground.
A Sanctuary is more than a building. It's an accord.
Rules of the Accord
Three laws hold here, absolute, no exceptions.
INo blood.
Disagreements are real, but they're settled in the open, not in violence.
IINo prey.
The vulnerable are protected here, never fed on.
IIINo crowns.
Whatever status, wealth, or bloodline you carry outside means nothing. All inside a Sanctuary are equals.
The rules are not posted at the door. They don't need to be. Everyone who belongs here already knows them, and everyone who doesn't finds out quickly.
Three Requirements
A Sanctuary Accord requires a confluence of three rarities.
Convergence
A major convergence of planetary Ley Lines. The thresholds are precise. A site sixty feet off the mark is useless.
Stability
Dimensional stability. The ground itself has to be willing with a natural give toward coexistence instead of rejection.
An Anchor
A Ley Line junction provides the raw current, but the anchor pins the space open. Without it, the relief of a Sanctuary degrades into static within hours.
An anchor must be an object of staggering arcane density. An artifact forged in the First Age or a relic touched by a Dragon.
The most potent anchors remaining to the world are the fragments of the World Tree from the First Age. Chronomists call the splinters Heartwood. Wherever a Heartwood fragment comes to rest, life flourishes. Trees grow through solid stone.
It requires a delicate touch to wake, and the Rite of the Accord to bind.