[ Luckily, making the Outsider angry is also rather difficult. He's very used to people curing his name, after all. ]

Each Overseer has their own reason -- though many simply because it is what they are trained to do, from the time the Abbey takes them from their families and they watch those who were not chosen be killed. But above all, fear.

The Abbey of the Everyman does not enjoy that there are forces in this world besides their own, forces beyond human that they cannot control or predict.