The area around Laymunt valley has a few pilgrimage points, and many people pass by every year. In the last decades, however, it seems that a new point was added to the list: a fountain inside a cave, about 10 miles distant from the covenant. Every year on the Assumption of Mary, 15th August, many pilgrims travel to the several holy sites in the valley, including a sanctuary built by the Telsberg family, but in the last years rumors have been spreading about the healing powers of the fountain, and a few dozens of pilgrims have taken to change their destination and gather in the cave. Reputedly there have been many miraculous healings on the 15th August, including an old paralytic man who was able to walk again after bathing in the water, and an infant who was brought back from certain death with no more than a small vial, sprinkled on his forehead.
While it is hard to distinguish hearsay from truth, Leonardus left behind a few notes about said cave. He went there on the 15th August almost a decade ago and was able to ascertain that there is a weak magical aura – not dominion – in the cave. According to his description a bit of water flows as a trickle from a stalagmite into a shallow pool, and from this water he was able to harvest a few pawns of Creo vis. Whatever methods he used to do this he does not specify, but there is little that an old magus cannot do. Leonardus does not discuss the source any further, and not many seasons later he went into Twilight. It’s likely that he never had the chance to return to the cave.
His notes also tell that there were indeed many pilgrims in the cave, and mention a plan of his to reduce the pilgrimage by spreading the idea that the spring doesn’t work. It seems that this plan was never implemented for you can hear, as August approaches, the villagers and covenfolk speak about the nearby fountain, and that a few of them intend to travel to Undervelier in August and spend the day fasting and praying for good health, either for themselves or for their dearest ones.
The covenant vis sources were disclosed and discussed with the magi of Tugurium in early Spring. This is currently the only Creo source of the covenant, and as such it was requested that someone prepare to harvest it in the Summer.
- Who is going?
- Who do you take with you? Any grogs, covenfolk, familiars?
- Do you make any kind of preparations for harvesting this source? Either in Spring or early Summer?
- Note that the covenant's library has a copy of Gather the Essence of the Beast. While this isn’t the best spell for the job (something like Distillation of the Purest Stream would be better) I reckon it is better than nothing.