The Brotherhood accepts both male and female monks, both of which wear simple robes. The monks of the Brotherhood originally had to remain silent, but the "silence is golden" tenet was dropped around the year 103. Besides studying, the monks were also in charge of the Empath Abbey gardens, which had begun when druids planted rosebushes in the area years before the formation of Britannia. During the cataclysm prior to Ultima IX, Empath Abbey was destroyed and the order had to re-locate to Britain in the newly founded Cathedral of Love.