The Fountain Streitos

The Fountain Streitos is the bathhouse street of old. The old hot spring used to burst up from a fissure high on the shoulder of the mountain. The geyser used to shoot out from the mountainside and most of the water pooled just below the vent and formed the source of the powerful mountain stream that carved out the Fountain Cleft over the centuries. The Cyrads caught the water in an artificial reservoir and piped the high pressure hot water around their houses on the east face of the mountain.

The baths are sadly dry now, the plumbing is broken and the hot spring that fed them is now dry. The Rhona say that the spring still bubbles, a sullen, filthy puddle of water deep inside the mountain. As a result, the street has a sad, faded, somewhat tawdry look. The frescoes and mosaics are long ago soiled and stained. The stained glass windows which opened to the sky are broken.

Inside the bath houses, the floors are covered by the slag mounds left by the few actual eruptions of lava that accompanied the Devastation. In one of the lava flows in the Narsin bathhouse, the remains of a Narsi servant can be seen, half burned, half mummified by the poison. He lies, half sunk under the lava, his boney face staring blankly to the sky. The Gryphons have tried to cover him up on many occasions, but whatever shroud or barrow they cover him with always seems to fall away after a few years. Likewise, he cannot be moved. Tools blunt when someone tries to pick at the lava.

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