I'm thinking about compiling a list of magical power sites of varying strengths on a world map, and I want to add some real-life places turned power sites. Can anyone contribute with their speculation on the areas around where they live? Religious places, ancient ruins, or the like?

Here's an example: about 200km west of here is a geographic anomoly called the Spirit Sands. It is a 2km wide patch of desert (technically not a desert, but it looks like it) created by some freaky coincidences at the end of the last ice age, set in the middle of a teeming temperate forest. I go hiking there a lot, and according to what I've read, the area was revered by locals for hundreds of years as a mystical place of healing and getting some face time with Manitou.

In my version of the 2060's, it featured prominently in the wars that established the NAN and is a major point of contention in this area because it's technically in UCAS but frustratingly close to the AM council. And now it is a full on power site aspected to healing.

Anyone wanna contribute?

In Austell, GA, there is an old graveyard known locally as the "Witch's Graveyard", a portion of which was used as a film location in Pet Cemetary. It has long been known to be haunted, I could see this as a power site aspected to Ascestral Spirits.

In Little Five Points, Atlanta, there is an old school, reputed to have a "fey circle" where local crackpots and street healers would practice their art. Mayhaps this is also a site aspected towards healing.

Well, here in Denmark there's lots of old stuff.

All the stoneage tombs, hills with stone lined rooms hidden inside. No wait. They've all been robbed over the centuries, been run down by tractors or made "civilized" by building walls and planting flowers all over.

Umm.. no.. hmm.. nope can't really come up with any preserved sites in Denmark. Not thats been around 4.000 years or more.

Oh, yes. Oaks. Got great oak trees around here. Cosy, hollow, broken but living oaks.

6 mio Danes on a piece of land the size of... well, its not big. Read all about it here:

Linky

And BTW, I strongly recent that Denmark had to take a Toxic dip in the SR3 background info, and the idea that neo-fascists would be any kind of large majority is abhorrent! (Ignore the fact that around 13% of the population voted for a rightwing socialist party, that has a declared goal of removing all immigrants from Denmark. - Either physically, or by forcing them to adopt Danish values. - That means scram. - No I'm not kidding, numbers from 2005 election. Yes I'm shocked too.)

I actually did something like this for TSS.

But, as long as we're on it: the Ave Maria Grotto in Alabama. The Cahokia Mounds in Illinois. Singer Castle among the Thousand Islands. Druid Hill in Massachusetts.

The Black Forest down by Colorado Springs, CO (Not in Germany!) has had several stories around it for years.

Supposedly regarded by many Native American groups as a "Rainbow Vortex," or place where the barriers between the worlds is weaker.

Sounds like one of those power sites to me...

At night, Montréal's skyline is dwarfed by the mountain at the island's center. Mont-Royal is only 223 meters high, making it more of a big hill than a mountain, but it's always been referred to as a mountain. It's topped by a 31-meter-high iron cross, illuminated by hundreds of white light bulbs.

The story of the cross is as follows : there was a flood in 1642 that was threatening the settlement of Ville-Marie (Montréal's original name). The leaders of the tiny colony prayed to the Virgin Mary for deliverance and the settlement's founder, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, swore a holy oath: if the flood receded, he would erect a cross on the Mont-Royal.

The flood did recede and they put up a wooden cross in 1643. The present cross is obviously not the same but was built in the 1920s on the same site as the original as a reminder of the original event.

The Complex is at the heart of downtown Singapore. It is designed with the principles of geomancy in mind. The structure of the complex resembles an open palm with fingers pointing upwards. The symbology is that of the palm of the Lord Buddha. Chinese folklore has it that not even the nearly invincible Sun Wukong who routed the armies of Heaven, the Chinese incarnation of the god Hanuman, could escape the palm of Buddha. With the complex at the heart of Singapore, the meaning is clear - the powers that be has any trouble well in hand.

Game info: The area around the Complex is an Astral Shallow and is a nexus of several manalines. It has a Background Count of 5 aspected towards spell defense and banishing.

Well there is the old Swan brewery in Perth, Supposedly it was built on a Native Sacred site... where one of the bigger dreamtime gods came ashore... that could be a power site.

Hell - Just say "Australia" and you'd have more then you'd need.

Ok, apart from what's in T_Wastlands...

Ball's Pyramid - mid-ocean peak.

Lord Howe Island. Have you ever seen pictures of it?

Lizard Island (Been used for a couple of thousand years by Aborigines as one anyway.)

Scawfell Island (Basically, the southernmost end of the 100 miles of the Whitsundays. It's an extinct continental volcano..looks like it should be out of Dr No.)

Lady Musgrave Island - classic coral cay, an oddity in Australian waters.

Stradbroke and Frasier Islands.

Black Mountain (Near Townsville - ie: 150 south of Cairns) it's a geologic anomaly, basalt that's been shaped into large round boulders by, best guess, glacier activity. Lost of ghost stories, rumours of doorways into different worlds, etc.

Hell, there's been a rumour in Queesnland of a strange, stepped pyramid uncovered/covered since the 70's. (It's also covered in gold.)

Sydney. Lots of weird stuff there, not counting the Funnel-Web spiders. Or the continuously -sighted Yowies in the Blue Mountains

Limeburner's Point (Geelong) - in 1846 workers excavating virgin ground for a liming kiln uncovered an anchient set of iron keys, from 15 feet down. They'd been there a while...

Bittananga Bay (NSW) - remains of a 16th century fort made from local stone and seashell motar. Best guess is that is was of Portuguese construction, 200-300 years before Cook sailed along.

Haunted Hills of Yallourn, Victoria. Strange noises, like underground echoes have been heard of for centuries.

Mooloolaba, QLD - the "Mooloolaba Monster" - eel-type seamonster was sighted in 1941 and oral records of tribal elders also mention a sea serpent. Note that Mooloolaba is now a surf and tourist town.

The Blue Lake at Mount Gambier (South Australia)

The Cylcons of the Darling River area of New South Wales. Basically, these are strange cylindrical and conical stones covered in markings and decorations - possibly linked to local Aboriginal ceremonial rites, but they say they don't use them. )A little head-up: Australian natives tend not to go in for the whole "make a shrine" habit of most Eurocentric "pagan" rites - they used what was there. But these things have been shaped, so it's a bit weird that they exist.)

Monkey Mia - apart from dolphins, there are some odd sightings off the coast and have been there for decades.

I'll stop now, but I'll leave you with this - there is a quite accurate map of Australia's northern and western coastlines in the Vatican's extensive anchient document archives, it is a copy of the original, the copy estimated to have been made ~50 BC.

Looks like the Phonecians really liked to get about.

-Tir

I would think that pretty much every volcanoe on the ring of fire would be a power site. So around the Seattle area that would make Shasta Lodge, Mt Hood, Mt Saint Helens, and Mt Rainier all power sites. There are a lot of Volcanoes in the ring of fire stretching all the way from north japan down to the phillipines, Hawaii, and back up the California cost.

Tiralee, have you got any links about some of those?

Particularly, the Mooloolaba Monster. That one caught my eye.

Mt. Timpanogas here in Utah. Legends about it refer to two native american tribes, and a woman and man that fell in lvoe (forbidden of course). The man was killed and the woman threw herself from the cliffs in sorrow. Her spirit supposedly dwells within the mountain. The mountain it's self is supposed to resemble a woman lying down on her back.

How about the Queen Mary? Extremely haunted sister ship to the Titanic, now in San Diego for tourists.

The Winchester Mansion (yes, as in Winchester rifles ) in San Jose, CA.

What about the White House? That may qualify. Seat of power, haunted, etc.

On the note of historical US sites, what about Independence Hall?
All that history right there, coupled with the fall of the US as the founding fathers intended? I could definitely see an ancestor worship shaman bent of a return to the US of A stopping by there for some mojo training.

If you end up in the free city of Denver, the stanly hotle would probabbly be a power site aspected twards conjuring. Suppose to be very haunted, orbs and stuff. + The shinning was filmed there.

"American Stonehenge" in Salem, New Hampshire. Its a site with interesting history... probably should be a significantly powerfully site.

Mt. Washington, Also in NH is the sight of the worlds worst recorded weather. Its got a train and a road up it too.

There are places in NH that have snow all year long (I think its the Flume a gorge in a mountain thats got really spectacular water falls) that could be a place of power.

The Old Man on the mountain (what remains) Was revered by the Natives before it became the state symbol. Though its not the same, it would still be an important place.. Spirits of Man, perhaps.
The USS Constitution, The Battleship Massachusetts, and the USS nautilus are all New england museum ships that where places of significant events. THe combat on the warships could make them haunted, or the public support for 'Old Iron Sides' could make it a place of power.

Along with independence hall, you have the Old North church "One if by land, two if by sea!" and Fanual Hall... also places of importance to the concept of the USA.

THere is a rock in, i think its East Boston Ma, that has some carvings on it. The locals believe that it was carved by a knight of the round table... While most people take this with a grain of salt, perhaps its important.


New England is a great Place for Oddities. Just ask Steven King. Perhaps the whole Region should have a background count or something >:)

I wrote the first of a few databases for keeping track of threads like these.

I entered one record from here to test with. If we can get some of the sites
added into the database, that would be a good start to keeping things organized.

I will add a search in a little while. Is there any other criteria to add to the sites?

(I am doing this because I know there is a massive wealth of knowledge here that is at times a bit combersome to get too.

Power sites listing

I'll recomend the Venice Beach surf spot where the Zephyr team once surfed. Not only is it a potentially dangerous and intense place to surf (providing that it hasn't been significantly altered) it is one of the most important spots in the history of skateboarding. It should be power spot aspected toward surf/skateboard adepts