Ice Goddess Priestess and her helpers ( not Acolytes).

Priestess Arshara Strength 14, Wisdom 12 Gray-blond hair, green eyes, half-elf. Cleric 10th level.

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A vast ocean that covers much of Crestar. Deepest part is 3 miles deep, but most is 2,000 feet or shallower. A number of islands, island groups, atolls, and sea mounts are scattered across it. Some corals, atolls, and sea mounts are just below the ocean’s surface and are not mapped.

So far, I have written about only one legend. The Forever Fountain.

Where it was located, no one knows.

From time to time, someone will tell of it, while eating and drinking in a Inn somewhere. Oh, they haven’t seen it, but have heard the story.

Unusually, the story doesn’t change as typical legends get embellished and changed over time.

The name of the city that built it is lost, but the fountain did exist at one time. Long ago.

Some claim to have seen it, somewhere.

It is surrounded by ruins and sand. Yet, the fountain still works. Water splashing about, across the statues, spraying upward from the fishs’ mouths.

Some say the sand covers it from time to time. Then some one, or a group, cleans it off so the water can splash once more.

Some say it is just a story, but elves claim to have seen it, before humans arrived on Crestar.

But even they don’t remember where it could be.

No travelers nor merchants have maps to its location. Maps that are found to have it marked on their surfaces, show paths and roads to it that do not exist. And name nations that none have heard of.

Yet. There will be, from time to time, people who say they have seen it. Splashing across itself in the sunset. Or framed by a rainbow. Mountains in the distance, sand nearby. Or mountains and hills surrounding it, protecting it from distant sands.

Such stories come about it that don’t match the original legend.

These stories last for a few months, maybe a year, then the story teller says they were mistaken, they weren’t talking about The Forever Fountain.

If pressed, they will mention their dreams were haunted by the sounds of a weeping fountain…

Most change the subject, and tell the one story about it most everyone has heard.

For a few months or years, no one will tell the story of that fountain.

Then at some outpost, out near a great nothingness, the Wildlands, or the Empty Lands, a traveler will stop for the night. A look of wonder on their face. Then they will breathlessly ask someone nearby, if they have heard, of a most wonderful fountain ?

So some say, it is still out there, off the beaten track, splashing water about forever more.

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There are a number of empty places and lands on Crestar. There is no nation called Empty Lands, but rather areas where no one lives. No cities, not even a small village. These are not like various wild areas where wandering tribes of humans, demi-humans, or non-humans live, but empty lands.

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Note that Noral is on one side, and the Jungle Lands are across the Inner Ocean from that empty area. Apparently Noral has not expanded into those unpopulated areas. There are a few beings out there, but nothing organized. You would think someone or somebody would start up a civilization or city or town in an area that is almost completely empty of any intelligent beings. Yet. There are no permanent populations there… Its not that there is anything visible keeping anyone from building a permanent structure out here. Nor does it seem that anyone invisible is preventing anyone from building here either.

There are the Dust Maker Mountains, and points north and northwest. The soil is poor and the water very hard to find near those mountains. But that doesn’t explain the lack of settlements in the other areas of these empty places. The soil is good there, lots of water. Just, no people of any sort living there. No buildings. Not even haunted places. There are a few places with ruins in them. Some have even been gone over by adventurers, some loot was found. None of it seemed to be cursed nor did ill fortune occur to those who went there. Just doesn’t seem to be any reason why its empty.

According to local knowledge in Noral, about the empty lands near them, “We don’t live or go there.” and a vague puzzlement as to why anyone would think that was unusual. Yet, Trillolara’s knowledge is that Noral, along with Gashtra, are invaders always looking for more land… At least, the folks who invade Trillolara say they are from Gashtra and Noral. Indications they are from there. Weapons, speech, clothes, food, etc. show they are from there… but are they actually from there ?

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