Challenge #04821-M072: Drop of Death

Ice from the south pole's glacier which once had been trodden on by a dragon, a diamond stolen from a queen's tiara in the midst of a dance where she finds her love, the lock of a babe's hair taken at midnight whilst the father does paperwork, the tooth of warrior freely given before he wins victory.

What in the world potion will these make? -- Deathshead419

Impossible ingredients make an impossible potion. Something to do that which could not otherwise be done. The ingredients have circulated widely since the dawn of writing. Whispers told that if one could make the potion, then one could defeat death itself.

And since the world knew of Wraithvine, everyone chasing the myth believed ze had it. How else, they supposed, could ze have become immortal in the first place?

They also theorised that the story about a god's heart was misdirection at best, and an outright lie at worst. Nothing is more resilient than a conspiracist's belief, and they will bend the reality in their heads to make it all fit properly.

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