The Cave of Passing

Hearsay: A cave known only to the eladrin is capable of travelling between Arborea's seasons. Chant goes that it can move its way around a single cycle in the past and future. If so, why have it not been used to prevent disasters or to discover great secrets?

Description: At a first glance it seems a regular dripping cave, full of stalagmites and stalactites from centuries covered in random plant formations, sometimes from winter, summer, fall or spring. Local bariaur legends speak of a cave from where all seasons come to substitute each other.

Inside the many passages and caverns, references to the seasons can be found in the walls, air and such and, at times, openings that lead back to the open.

Those who search deeper and deeper among the lower reaches near the openings finds strange tunnels. In autumn those are made entirely of dry leaves and fruits, rotten and fresh, with a strange light that eladrin call the Harvest of Fall, the harbinger of this season on the plane. Winter is made of snow and brittle rock, a certain placid touch to the Tear of Ice that scintillates while it is her time. Spring is a flowery passage, green and filled with dew, where the Bud of Blooming inspires the plane's plants and nature spirits to come out again. Finally, the Heart of Sol is in a cave filled with strange sounds and the smell of water evaporating.

Special Conditions: When one crosses a spring opening, he becomes a child; a summer one begets youngsters; autumn, middle-aged and in the winter, elders. The mind suffers the same effects for it, also. This also amounts for travel during the year, thus those who tamper with the cavern might end up in the future or past of said seasonal year. The eladrin do not like to enter the cave as they become all messed up from the time dilation, changing form and station.

Current Chant: A family was trapped in the cave when protecting from the snow in the night. They went to explore a little around and lost themselves from each other. When they finally found everyone again, their ages had all changed. The father grew too young, mother too old and the baby became an adult. They are desperate for help to decipher the cave's pattern.