Shimmering Pool

A Shimmering Pool is a decorative feature found occasionally in the gardens and palaces of the Scarlet Dynasty and Threshold nobility. The simplest Shimmering Pools are simply small basins, urns, or Marble pools filled not with water but with silvery Quicksilver. Such a substance delivers the shimmer of the Most High's light upon water far more consistently than water itself, with a rarity that demonstrates wealth and power. The most extravagant Shimmering Pools include fountains, producing an eternal silver cascade to delight onlookers.

Some gardens and chambers incorporate Shimmering Pools to serve as the water in vast maps laid out upon the floors, liquid to mark seas and rivers without evaporation. Though splendid, these pale next to the now-rare manse-maps of the First Age, where Moonsilver allowed the waters of the map and rivers to move up and down coastlines with the tides or overflow their banks during flooding.