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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylites |pillar hermits]] from late Antiquity would live atop a column of stone for years at a time. The most famous one lived on a pillar for 37 years until his death. So this is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Rather ironically, they rarely succeeded very well at the "hermit"-bit. People from all over the nation tended to come to them pestering them with all sorts of holy questions, and sometimes threw rocks if they didn't like the answers.
** St. Anthony of the Desert spent most of his life living, well, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|in the desert]] trying to devote his life entirely to God. It worked so well that people kept coming to him for advice and he wound up basically forming an early monastic community, much to his chagrin.
** This has continued in eastern Christianity. A Russian equivalent is the ''starets'', the elder who lives as a hermit and grows in wisdom and holiness, until he is sought out for his guidance (and by then, is usually willing to break his isolation).
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