Helen's Pool

Helen's Pool is a famed sweetwater pool in the town of Cauldron Pool. A bathhouse has been constructed around it. According to legend, Ferkeo the Fool first saw Helen and her two teenage daughters and four of her daughters ladies bathing in the spring-fed pool during the Age of Conquest, inspiring the song "Six Maids in a Pool".
==Description==
The waters are said to be blessed with healing properties. The town of Cauldron Pool is named after the pool, and centuries ago House Foxworth built a great stone bathhouse around its waters. The bathhouse is maintained by an order of Holy Sisters from the Faith of Aslan. Men are forbidden from entering the structure and the pool.
==History==
Queen Swanwhite Stoneshire II and her husband, Prince Consort Ridoc Rutherford, visited Cauldron Pool during their second royal progress in 1029. Swanwhite was pregnant with her first child, and came to Helen's Pool to bathe in its healing waters. However, danger awaited her; nine women from Calormen were involved in a plot to kill the young Stoneshire queen, all of whom were lovers of Marnhaf Uber, a man dead because the queen personally killed him in the War of False Kings. They came to spill Stoneshire blood and avenge their lover. 
When she entered the bathhouse, Swanwhite was accompanied only by her ladies-in-waiting, and maids, while two members of the Queensguard waited outside. As Swanwhite disrobed, three of the women involved in the plot entered and suddenly attacked her with daggers. But the queen was not harmed due to the courage of her ladies and maids, who did not hesitate to protect Swanwhite despite being naked and unarmed, stepping between her and the assassins. Two of them were wounded by the daggers, and one was stabbed in the stomach and died three days later. Shouts and screams during the struggle alerted the Queensguard outside, who entered and slew two of the attackers. The third was spared for questioning, and she confessed the names of six others in the order who had helped plan the assault. The guilty were hanged by Lord Foxworth, who might have hanged the innocent members of the holy sisters of the order as well, but Queen Swanwhite convinced him to spare them.
In response to the attack, the royal couple postponed their progress to the Vale of Dragonstone, and extended their stay in Cauldron Pool, where Swanwhite took time to relax and recover from her attempted murder, and gain the courage to enter Helen's Pool again, and bathe in the healing waters. Ridoc sent a Raven to Saltwood, requesting their best knight or knightess to join Swanwhite's court as her sworn shield.