Post by Head Moderator on Jan 25, 2013 21:20:10 GMT -5
The legend of the Fountain of Youth refuses to die, as old age and death fail to leave our mind. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it existed? And if it was out there, wouldn’t you want to find it? Deep inside, you know you would.
But some legends contain a warning: The Fountain is not for everyone. Maybe you shouldn’t attempt to fool your fate…
There are many legendary "Fountains of Youth" in our land, some have not been discovered yet and some are well known areas.
1. The Fountain of Rebirth
The basin of this fountain is carved out of the stone belly of a pregnant woman.
When you drink from it, you die. But then your immortal soul immediately enters an unborn child and you are reborn again.
2. The Fountain of Your Youth
This fountain shows an image of a father weeping surrounded by children, his tears flow into the basin you are about to drink from.
Summons any and all children you might have produced to your exact location.
3. The Necromancer’s Youth [Rumeria]
A fountain built out of the flesh and bones of 100 children.
The Lich Diverk in the Frigid Bluffs uses it to renew his failing flesh every 20 years.
4. Cliff-side Fountain
A fountain carved into the side of an ocean-facing cliff. For it to work you need to be there right when a wake hits and cling on long enough to drink from it.
This one actually works, but is incredibly hard to find. No one even knows which side of the world it's on, though some say it is in the Anoi'pua Islands..
5. The Full Fountain of Youth
Your typical fountain of youth blessed by the gods, you need to drink ALL of the water from it after a heavy rainstorm for it to work.
6. The Fountain of Baby Fat
A fountain surrounded by carving of chubby children.
You drink it and over the course of an hour gain back all the baby fat you though you had lost for good. If you weren’t chubby, your weight is adjusted back to what it was once.
7. The Cure
A simple stone basin in the middle of town. Every Monday morning the adults drink from it for reasons unknown to outsiders and younger children.
It is the ultimate hangover cure. More importantly, it grants the immune system of a child… can get over most diseases and stay up late at night, if you don’t mind the acne.
8. Fountain of Truth
Look at yourself through the merciless eyes of your childhood self. Did you become what you wanted? Do you have what you dream of? Most people end up with a depression.
9. Fountain only for Youth
Finely carved smiling faces of children and young people adorn this fountain with a strong flow.
It can be only used by the youth, to make them a bit younger. Sorry grandpa.
10. Fountain of Ages
A delicate fountain with many, many levels (over a hundred) and a beautiful, complicated design.
It will shift the drinker’s age depending from where the water is taken from. One could end up as a baby or a corpse…. choose wisely.
11. The Phoenix Fountain
It is dominated by an exquisite statue depicting the mythical phoenix.
Drinking from it will allow the statue of the Phoenix to be reborn. Watch for the flames.
12. The Fountain of Bathing
A deep fountain cut into living rock. The pictures show old people going towards it and young people from it.
You have to submerge yourself completely in it. Other application (like drinking) will renew only parts of your body, which may be very damaging to your health.
13. The Fountain of Home
This fountain seems little visited, a gentle wind plays with the trees that stand around it.
It will transport you to where you lived, when you were young.
14. The Fountain of Becoming Young
It would look nice, were it not for the obscene words written all over it.
When drinking, nothing seems to happen. But the drinker is actually becoming younger now, at a quite fast rate. He needs to wait a few months close to the fountain and drink regularly, or the effect will reverse.
15. The Destroyed Fountain
You come upon a place with the ruins of a fountain, there is no water.
But that is no problem, all you have to do is imagine the fountain and drink from it in your mind… the power is still there.
16. The Fountain of Feeding Youth
A simple fountain that constantly bubbles forth milk from an unknown source. Some refer to it as the "Teets of the Goddess".
The milk is granted many nutrients essential to a growing body by the magic stone is comes from.
17. The Fountain of Life
Completely submerging a dead body in this fountain will temporarily bring the person back to life, but only for a long as they remain in the water.
18. The Fountain of Given Youth
A simple, but finely crafted stonework, the central piece resembles a sundial.
The effect works only during a special constellation of the moons, once every few years. The moonlight falls in a beam through the whole sundial and the whole water surface begins to glow. Then, the drinker will be able to wish for someone else’s youth to return.
19. The Item of Youth
Spinning cogwheels are painted all around this perfectly preserved fountain, in some impossible continuous system.
The water of this fountain can be used to wash away old age from any item, it has no effect on anything alive. For most items this means any damage may be restored; but missing pieces will result in a smaller restored item, or no repair at all. Applying too much water may result in too much restoration, like falling apart into the components it was made from.
20. The Maddening Fountain of Youth
A grotesque behemoth of horrid green stone vomits forth black filth into massive malformed hands below that then spills onto the ground; turning the nearby earth into a landscape of disturbingly mutant vegetation.
Anyone who dares catch even a brief scent of the black filth will be driven to madness as the cries of every abruptly ended youth life invade their soft mortal mind and rend their sanity asunder.
[Idea from Strolen's Citadel.]