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Rock of Limitless Water
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A Rock of Limitless Water is a rock, stone, or other similar object that emits a steady stream of water from itself. Such an item is generally held as an object of reverence, either from a deity, other mystical force, or perhaps something more sinister. These items are generally desired for their otherworldly powers by heroes and villains alike. It doesn't have to be a rock; the trope can fit any object that breaks expectations as a water source. So it shouldn't have to be a bowl, cauldron, jar, etc. Rocks are popular due to the Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors associations; their solid, dry lifelessness contrasted with lifegiving water. Such an item can be found across media types, occurring in film, video games, and television alike. However, due to the nature of the trope, examples will generally occur in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and/or religious scripture. As this trope is at least as old as The Bible and Classical Mythology, it falls squarely into the realm of being Older Than Feudalism, and possibly is Older Than Dirt as well. These items, due to their immense power, are almost always going to be a Plot Device or otherwise sought after at some point. A spring gushing from one of these is often a Healing Spring, or imbued with some other type of power. A related object is a Philosopher's Stone. Whereas a Stone of Limitless Water is generally the mark of power of a deity or magic, the Philosopher's Stone is the mark of the power of science or alchemy. Examples |
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Such an item appears in an episode of Samurai Jack, the Neptune Jewel, and is the center of a heist in Episode XI ("Jack and the Gangsters"). | |
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Every map in Timberborn has "water sources", rocks that constantly spawn water during the temperate season. | |
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In Obduction, the stream in Hunrath flows from the top of a cliff without any source. This is taken by some as a sign that the sphere they're trapped in has a benevolent purpose. | |
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Lala-Ru's pendant in Now and Then, Here and There is sought after for its ability to produce large amounts of water. It's not limitless, though, as her using it is Cast from Lifespan. | |
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The top of Gerudo Town's palace in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a large boulder suspended over it, which dispenses water constantly into a series of canals. The water disappears when it reaches the wells at the ends of these canals instead of flooding them. This is one of the rare examples that are totally irrelevant to the plot. | |
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Fallout: Equestria: The StableTech Stables all have water talismans that can produce unlimited amounts of clean, pure water. Nearly all other water in the Wasteland is irradiated or worse, making them priceless artifacts. | |
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Tales of Vesperia: The lower quarter in Zaphias uses one of these, the Aqua Blastia, for their water source, building a series of pipes and fountains around it. The plot kicks off when someone steals the part of the pumping station that controls flow, causing the neighborhood to be flooded. | |
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The Orb of Tornami in Xiaolin Showdown is an artifact of this nature. It's a crystal ball that opens when activated to unleash an endless stream of water. In Omi's hands, his water powers also allow the water that it emits to become ice or steam. | |
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The SCP Foundation Inverted by SCP-402, which is a Rock of Absorbing Limitless Water. SCP-045 is a straight example, producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure. |
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The Aqualith in Legaia II: Duel Saga. A stone found in the protagonist's hometown, it is actually one of three stones needed to access the Source Forge, the beacon of creation in the world | |
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The Discworld appears to be a giant one of these, as ocean water constantly pours over the edge of the disc. | |
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Though they don't seem to have any special significance, there are a number of floating islands in Nagrand in World of Warcraft that have waterfalls continually coming off them. | |
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One example takes place in ARK: Survival Evolved on DLC map "The Center". Set centrally and to the east is a mysteriously levitating island with waterfalls that fall to a basin below that never seems to fill. This may be explained in that the players exist within a climate-controlled, A.I.-managed habitat created by technologically advanced humanity. | |
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A one comic in Disney Ducks Comic Universe had a solid stone bowl that gave away limitless water. Gyro Gearloose found out that the rock's surface turns normal evaporated water in the air into liquid water. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons The Decanter of Endless Water mimics this trope. Though not the cheapest or most common of items, wizards can craft them without too much difficulty, making them less desirable than some on this list. In the 1st Edition supplement Oriental Adventures, the shukenja spell Create Spring would cause a stream of fresh water to bubble forth from natural rock. Each ten minute period, the stream would produce 1 gallon per Character Level of the shukenja who cast the spell. The Imaskari if the Forgotten Realms were masters of dimensional and planar magic, and consequently hit upon their own version of this — an inverted No Flow Portal to the Plane of Water (with a function for shutting it off and activating it again). The rock aspect of this trope comes in with that this is not how portals usually work in D&D (normally they would let creatures but not water through rather than the other way around) and so breaks expectations savvy adventurers would have. The Imaskari did this with air, too. |
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In Dwarf Fortress, aquifers and to a lesser extent brooksnote specifically the layer of walkable 'floor' tiles over the top of a channel full of water; it's a crude workaround for simulating a shallow, fast-flowing stream work like this in game-engine terms, with the slight difference that they will also absorb infinite water. Unlike most examples on this page, aquifers are usually more hindrance than help as it's impossible to dig through them without building an elaborate pumping system or abusing a glitch that happens when a chunk of terrain collapses. | |
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In one of the earliest examples of this trope, the Book of Exodus has Moses strike a rock with his staff, and by God's power, a waterfall begins spewing out. This is later repeated in Numbers 20:11, where Moses once again taps a rock twice so water flows. | |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement Terror Australis, adventure "City Beneath The Sands". The supernatural creature known as Power Boy can cause a spring to come out of a rock just by sticking his rangga (a ceremonial staff) into the rock. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the town of Skyloft has a magic island spring that floats just above and supplies the river with an infinite amount of water. The top of Gerudo Town's palace in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a large boulder suspended over it, which dispenses water constantly into a series of canals. The water disappears when it reaches the wells at the ends of these canals instead of flooding them. This is one of the rare examples that are totally irrelevant to the plot. |
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In Anyone Can Whistle, one of these appears in a Dying Town, which causes a huge boom to tourism. The trope is subverted in that the water is actually being pumped in from behind the scenes. | |
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The Imaskari if the Forgotten Realms were masters of dimensional and planar magic, and consequently hit upon their own version of this — an inverted No Flow Portal to the Plane of Water (with a function for shutting it off and activating it again). The rock aspect of this trope comes in with that this is not how portals usually work in D&D (normally they would let creatures but not water through rather than the other way around) and so breaks expectations savvy adventurers would have. The Imaskari did this with air, too. | |
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A gem temple in Steven Universe is a floating island with a seemingly endless lake feeding a waterfall. A comic adaptation story shows that this is due to magical crystals that condense water in the air. Steven retrieves one for Peridot to jury rig into what's essentially a F.L.U.D.D. unit. | |
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A similar feature occurs in Avatar. The floating islands have waterfalls constantly flowing from out of them, despite not having a source for such water. In this case, there is a somewhat logical reason given for such behavior that does not justify the amount of water created. | |
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The Crystal Stone in the first Paper Mario game is needed as part of a Fetch Quest in the Flower Fields. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the town of Skyloft has a magic island spring that floats just above and supplies the river with an infinite amount of water. | |
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Played with in an odd and horrifying way in Jade Empire, wherein most residents of the Empire think that this is what the Emperor found to end the hellish drought that was destroying them. In reality? He found the Water Dragon goddess and cut her innards open so she bleeds out of the basement of his flying castle and into the aqueducts on the ground below forever. | |
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The Sacred Orb in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time is a prized treasure of the Kingdom of Aquaria. As an exceedingly powerful artifact, it is desired by each of the warring factions in the galactic war. Later, it is revealed to be a debugging tool for use by the denizens of 4D Space. | |
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Played with in MouseHunt, where there is an item called the Oasis Bead. It can draw water from any water source to itself. | |
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It's not examined in the actual waking plot, but League of Legends plays with this in a background myth surrounding the element called True Ice, an ice that's so cold that it never melts and can kill on touch if you're not an Iceborn. One legend was surrounding Ornn, the Freljordian demigod of fire and forging, who was tricked by a crafty troll into a drinking contest, who then slipped a shard of True Ice into his drink. Ornn's godlike heat perpetually "melted" the ice (in that it never went away, but produced seemingly-infinite water anyway) and left him unable to finish his first drink. | |
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In Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the core city is elevated above a volcanic flow, its waters endlessly spilling over into the similarly inexhaustible magma (and creating a huge cloud of steam as a result). When the city's power source is stolen, the water ceases. | |
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In Shantae (2002), the Dribble Stone is one of the treasures that Shantae obtains and Risky Boots wanted to use to augment the Steam Engine, and is described as being this. The fact that the stone generates water would mean that the Steam Engine would be able to function indefinitely with it. | |
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The Water Crystal in Bravely Default II seems to do this, which is why it is viewed as an invaluable commodity for desert dwellers. This is a departure from the original Bravely Default, where the crystal just purified water, rather than making more. | |
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