Highborn Fountain Plaza

== Background ==
The center of the highborn gardens is dominated at its center by the Plaza Fountain. This fountain stands easily above one or two stories, being roughly one hundred meters in diameter. The grandiose nature of its size and ornate design, depicting various noble insignia and people, is matched by its interior. Never seen by any nobles of the gardens, let alone other castes of society, it houses a vast complex of machinery.
Said to be constructed when Granthelia first rose from coasts of the continent, the machines within the fountain produce melodies not unlike smaller music boxes that frequent taverns and homes across the civilized world, particularly Elterlein. The likelihood that the music's machinations are of this base origin is disputed, leaving the possibilities of its creation open to interpretation. However most assume it is powered by means of esoteric machinations.
== Superstition ==
The common folk of Granthelia, amongst their own social circles often speak of the fantastical music and its origin. Some say that arcane scholars in the beginning created a magical device to play soothing tones for the nobles of Granthelia. This perpetual device has been considered with more sinister possibilities however. Some say that the music is truly of a tonality to keep the Lord's docile and arguing amongst themselves. This is touted as a reason the reigning Wrenne’s have remained in power for so long.
Others speak of more bizarre situations. It is rumored by the more mentally questionable that old king lives on within the fountain, keeping the music going and taming the nobles with its sounds, until he might spring forth and reclaim his throne. The farther one travels towards the outer isles, the more inane the theories grow as to the nature of the Plaza Fountain's music.
== Slang ==
The fountain has drawn the attention of more than just the nobles that appreciate it daily. Words adopted to term it by the common class are widespread, but a few primary ones rise to regular use.
"Ballad Belcher" - Derived from the thought that the fountain's music is truly a tonal ballad to the existence of Granthelia
"Dastinwood Drencher" - Coming from the recent and unfortunate incident involving a certain noble falling into the fountain itself
"Wrenne Waterworks" - A less used and more esoteric terms referring to the fountain's fantastical connection to the rest of the city's plumbing through seemingly unconnected means
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