Answer:
Born in the past, but only lives in the present. Sometimes false, always personal.
Pointing North, South, East, and West it saves the lost and helps the rest. What is it?
Who plays when he works and works when he plays?
What does a stone become when in the water?
Hot tempered and sometimes it blows its top, making a mess of everything.
I am the fountain from which no one can drink. For many I am considered a necessary link. Like gold to all I am sought for, but my continued death brings wealth for all to want more.