Ahahaha, really? Really? No one else called this out before I did? I guess I'm old.
Well played, sir, well played!
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Ahahaha, really? Really? No one else called this out before I did? I guess I'm old.
Well played, sir, well played!
Just a triangle?
Nah, I just didn't bother calling it out because it was so obvious.
And then we'll get the most memetic phrases from the CD-I games...
2.4
[X] Go to Library
Returning to your room Zelda instructs you on how to use the scan feature with a book she borrowed from the innkeeper. Opening the book to a random page she holds the Sheikah Slate over the book. A beam of light shoots out from the "eye" and rapidly darts over the page, smoke rising up even if it didn't burn the page. In a second it had passed over the entire page, and then Zelda shows you page converted into an easy to understand text document on the slate.
"The Sheikah Slate is fairly intelligent as well. If you scan a map or a relevant excerpt from a book it'll update its own map and database with any relevant data. Scanning books, travel logs or even just transcripts about delivery time will not only make the map in-depth but could allow it to actually chart a likely route for a ship before it even leaves port," She explains, handing the slate over to you.
"Wow, that's... kinda incredible honestly."
"But of course, my ancestors thought of everything when designing it," She says with clear pride, she then fixes a serious look on you, "Do not let anyone see it. You'll also need to leave your weapons with me, they won't let you in armed."
Always a catch....
Zelda walks with you to the door of the inn after you ask for directions from the innkeeper, worried eyes constantly glancing to her precious Sheikah Slate. She does wish you good luck, though reminds you to be back by a few hours after midday so you have time to put some good distance from the city before it gets dark.
The city was as busy as ever, but you do manage to navigate your way towards the Academy. It was a large structure, with its own courtyard. Students in uniform and academics wandered about, though it seemed empty today. Signs easily directed you towards the library, and after quickly explaining what you were here for to the Librarian they direct you to a quiet study room and the sections you can find the books you want. Luckily no one found it particularly weird to study a place before going there, though as you didn't have a library card you wouldn't be able to take any books out. Which suited you fine, it might be awhile before you returned to castle town.
You gather up whatever recently published books, charts and maps you feel are relevant to Lanayru and the Zora domain before moving to the study room and setting them onto the table. Yet before you sit down a thought strikes you and you quickly return to the librarian. He raises a curious eyebrow when you speak about your request, but seems understanding when you say you were from the Ordona province and really knew little about it despite your curiosity. He directs you to several books, and you thank the man before returning to the study room and closing the door behind you.
Then, you get to work.
The maps and charts were easy enough to handle, you just scanned them in and watched as the map displayed on the Sheikah Slate lit up with new information. It even seemed to handle the less accurate maps, somehow finding where they were pointing too and placing down landmasses or buildings.
When you got to the books on Lanayru though, you had to view everything with a far more discerning eye. Most of it was useless fluff you didn't care about or ancient history that wasn't relevant. You needed more recent information which you found in immigration pamphlets for the region. It was strange, it seemed there was a large influx of immigrants to Lanayru which didn't make much sense. Lanayru was far more adapted to Zora life than Hylian, and its wetlands were infested with monsters. One of the older books had especially made that clear, warning of Lizalfos, Octoroks, and even the dreaded Lynel. In these harsh conditions, it was no small wonder that the Zora had become fierce warriors and expert healers.
You cross reference the population demographics in the imperial census book and the mystery deepened. Hylians were edging out the Zora in population size, concentrated mostly in the Zora capital and other villages that had cropped up. Strangely, the actual number of citizens were incredibly low yet the census information didn't list who those non-citizen Hylians were or from where in the Empire they had come from. In fact, there was a dearth of information available other than that of the citizens who all reported a gross income well in excess of any you had seen before.
Cross referencing the information in the pamphlet with the census information was providing a context you didn't quite understand. The Pamphlet boasted of the main industries of Lanayru which was its large rice fields and mining. The pamphlet boasted of the unique look of Lanayru rice, which was said to glow faintly, while mining it seemed to only consist of Luminous stone. Fishing was non-existent as an industry from what you could find, which seemed strange.
The rest of the information you wanted to know was strangely missing, so you couldn't cross-reference what the pamphlet was claiming. The Lanayru region apparently boasted some of the empires crack troops, and the maps did seem to list a rather large number of forts scattered throughout the province. Reading further in the pamphlet urged citizens to stay to the roads, not due to monsters but 'feral Zora' who lash out any Hylian they see. It elaborated that while the Zora have been successfully integrated into the Empire to be truly safe citizens should keep an eye out for Zora wearing topaz necklaces. These signify their devotion to the empire, and they are perfectly willing to serve the needs of any citizen they meet.
Then before they can elaborate on it the Pamphlet immediately begins talking about the wonderful views of Lanayru, the unique glowing waters, the great monuments, and cities constructed at the behest of the regional governor, Duke Luca Abele. It waxes endlessly on about this duke, in fact, most of the pamphlet seems to be devoted to praising him. His diplomatic skills were said to be second to none, and he was apparently well loved by the Zora people and how he had successfully brought them into the empire. By his grace, Zora healers work tirelessly to preserve the health of citizens, as the environmental costs of firewood collection have been extinguished due to the Luminous stone mines. He oversees the running of Lanayru from his palace, which overlooks the Zora's capital.
But through all this, there was not a single mention of the Zora royal family. A feeling of dread rolls over you as you flip through the book on Lanayru's history until you find it, a short blurb before the book went into praising the duke.
The Zora royal family according to the book despised the Hyrule royal family, and when the great plague hit refused to offer their healers even as the Queen and her handmaidens died horribly under their care. They blamed Hylians for the great cost inflicted on their people, yet Princess Zelda soothed their hearts and for a time there was peace. Yet when she died that rage entered their hearts and the debased and rumored incestuous prince and princess took their royal guards and attacked the imperial diplomats who came to parlay peacefully with the Zora. The battle was fierce and costly, but the empire prevailed and the siblings were unfortunately struck down before they could be tried. The king was broken with grief, and the duke went personally to console him. The book goes on and on about he soothed the king's heart, and how King Dorephan was so moved he eventually became an advisor to the Duke only asking that his children would be remembered for all the good they had done before their tragic transformation.
You felt honestly sick reading that, as you had read in an older book outside the library about the Zora Royal family a few years back. It was only a snippet, but from that book, you could tell the inconsistencies here. Zoras live an incredibly long time, and because of that at one point it took an age for them to mature, far greater than a Hylian would. But increased pressure from monsters and disasters eventually caused their maturity rate to accelerate, until they matured at the same rate Hylians do. However, that old trait remained in people's thoughts, leading to the myth that Zora children were simply young adults and the telling of that event seemed to go out of its way to cast the Princess as such.
But that book you saw before contained the princesses birthdate. She was only eleven when she was killed.
You feel sick to your stomach, and your heart clenches when you think too what Zelda had said before. How are you going to tell Zelda her friend was murdered? That the Zora princess and her brother were painted as depraved lunatics by the emperor?
Damnit. Just... damn it all. She was a child.
You had everything for the Zora domain, but you didn't pack up. You just sat there, glaring at the book as though doing so would eventually change that horrifying history.
Eventually, you reached for one of the other books you had picked up, hoping for anything that would take your mind off that. It was a book on the old Hylian noble families written unfortunately after the deposing of the royal family.
All of them, save the ones that joined with the empire, were painted in negative lights. Pages were devoted to smearing everything about them. So when you finally reached your families section you were preparing for something ghastly but instead, all that was there was... well, basically just a few points. Despite having an entire province named after your family you were just... a footnote essentially. The really only negative thing that was mentioned was that your family were peasant born, who was given a noble title by Zelda's great something-or-other grandfather for their service. They were always fiercely loyal but it was your father who seemed truly notable, and that was because he was a childhood friend of the king before he became a royal knight. The Ordona province was just too remote for them to care about that line, and what information there was on your father was just basic cliff-notes someone probably scribbled in from a book of military achievements. You were even in there, except they called you "Lonk" for some reason and they listed both you, your father and the Ordona line as deceased.
A shame really, all you had really learned about your father's side of the family was that your house sigil was that of a wolf and you were the last of the line, house Ordona's line extinguished.
Your mother though, your mother's house wasn't. They were minor nobility from East Necluda, the author apparently not even knowing the names of the line other than they were listed in taxes year after year. It was probably because they likely weren't even a real noble house, simply a family from one of the coastal or island tribes that lived there. But it gave you a sigil for you to search for, that of a seagull.
You scan the information. It'll be something to look up if you and Zelda ever go to East Necluda.
Closing that book your eyes now fall on the last book you took out, one you were dreading to read. Only your damned foolish courage kept you from returning it.
The biography of Princess Zelda Saria Ilia Hyrule.
With a significant feeling of trepidation, you pick the book up and thumb to a random chapter dreading what you will find within.
A moment later and you're very glad that you have a private study room, as you break down laughing. It was an entire chapter devoted to how Zelda never raised a hand against someone and always abhorred violence. Even with your terrible memory you distinctly remember the fights you had with her, especially as she tended to get bitey.
With the feeling your previous apprehension was unwarranted and chuckling to yourself you flip to another random chapter, shaking your head. What you read however sucks any amusement out of you, replacing it with disgust and anger.
Queen Tetra, the book claimed, was not actually the Saint Zelda's mother. For how could someone like her have Sheikah blood flowing through her veins? In fact, the book claimed that Queen Tetra was infertile and that Zelda was instead born from a Hylian mistress of the king what came from the Rozsa kingdom who was sadly silenced to keep this truth from escaping. The queen claimed Zelda as her own, as only a child could give her any legitimacy.
How dare they. How DARE they! You remembered the Queen as fondly as you remembered your own mother, how many times was she there with your mother when you and Zelda got roughed up? How many times did she put the two of you to bed, kissing her daughter on the cheek as your mother did the same with you? Save for the hair and her father's eyebrows Zelda was the spitting image of her mother, how could anyone look at her and think Sheikah blood didn't flow in her veins? How could anyone claim that wonderful woman was not Zelda's mother?
You stand up so violently your chair clatters to the floor, taking off your large floppy cap to run your free hand through your hair as you paced back and forth. You were angry, not just at the insinuation but at how much it'll hurt Zelda when she finds out. You have to tell her, not let her find out from some strangers again. Why would they even claim she was not Sheikah anyways? Is this why the portrait looked nothing like her?
You manage to calm yourself, setting your chair upright and sitting back down. You return to the book and instantly regret it as it heaped on insinuation after insinuation. Unfaithfulness, abusive, greedy and cruel, anything they could get away with they heaped on her and soon the king himself. Everything good people remembered of them was an act, and Zelda bore it all because she was chosen. The Zelda they portrayed was nothing like the Zelda you knew then and now. There were a lot of miracles happening around her as people said, flowers blooming or people being soothed or healed. Her mother's death was portrayed as incompetence, and you feel a hot flash of anger how they gloss over your own mothers death.
Then it goes to the coup. The Yiga were there on a rescue mission, to save Zelda from the evil king. But the whole thing went awry, and the king threw his daughter to her death in the moat.
Hylia's white wings, they even included an etching of it. Yiga collapsing in grief or rushing to save Zelda as this caricature of the king throws your friend into the moat. Or rather a shoddy copy of her that didn't even bear a resemblance to the girl you knew, clad in white with her eyes closed and her hands clasped in prayer in front of her as she plunged into the water.
She was entombed in a mausoleum at the Sacred Grounds, an empty grave devoted to a lie.
Gods this was sickening and you... you'll have to tell her. You'll have to be the one who hurts her because with anyone else it'll hurt so much more, but you still hate yourself for it.
The librarian looks very confused when you return the books, obviously not expecting someone to look so obviously enraged by something. You begin to storm out of the library before stopping and turning to the Librarian, taking a deep breath to calm your nerves.
"Hey, those silent princesses everyone's talking about. Realized I'll miss them so just um... wondering. Are they growing around the..."
"Oh! Um yes, they're growing around the Princesses mausoleum," The librarian sighs, "That poor child must be speaking to us from the goddess's embrace, showing us the beauty of the flowers she so loved and reassuring us in these trying times."
You close your eyes, taking a deep breath, "When... when did they start blooming?"
The librarian scratches the side of his head, thinking "Just the other day, I believe they were first spotted that morning."
You nod, and then leave the Library, grinding your teeth together. They bloomed when you and Zelda entered the city. Damn it damn it damn it.
You truly, utterly no longer know what to make of this situation, how to handle it. Which is why you were standing, staring at the door to your room. You don't want to hurt her, you don't want to add to her stress by telling her about the flowers, that she really did make them bloom with her presence. You just... want her to have something good happen to her for a change.
You take a deep breath, steeling yourself. Healing, you need to get her healed. That... that can be the start.
You open the door, slowly so not to startle her, "Zel-"
"Hahahaha! You think you've won but I was only buying time for my dark powers to fully manifest!" Zelda says, holding your thankfully still sheathed sword aloft with her back to you as she menaces imaginary foes with it. "Come, face the black flames of my sword but be warned, I do not know what I'll do when consumed by them!"
She swings the sword clumsily, twisting around as she laughs in the faces of those non-existent enemies, "Hahahahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-'
The sword drops from her hands, clattering to the floor as her arms seem to curl up like they belonged to some dying insect. Her skin paled, her mouth dropping open in a soundless scream as her eyes widened and her pupils shrank to pinpricks as Zelda realized the true cost of her 'dark powers.'
How do you deal with this?
[] ...Want me to teach you how to use a sword?
[] STARING INTENSIFIES.
[] ........What book did you even borrow?!
[] Zelda... we need to talk.
[] Just hold her.
[] Write-in.
Returning to your room Zelda instructs you on how to use the scan feature with a book she borrowed from the innkeeper. Opening the book to a random page she holds the Sheikah Slate over the book. A beam of light shoots out from the "eye" and rapidly darts over the page, smoke rising up even if it didn't burn the page. In a second it had passed over the entire page, and then Zelda shows you page converted into an easy to understand text document on the slate.
"The Sheikah Slate is fairly intelligent as well. If you scan a map or a relevant excerpt from a book it'll update its own map and database with any relevant data. Scanning books, travel logs or even just transcripts about delivery time will not only make the map in-depth but could allow it to actually chart a likely route for a ship before it even leaves port," She explains, handing the slate over to you.
"Wow, that's... kinda incredible honestly."
"But of course, my ancestors thought of everything when designing it," She says with clear pride, she then fixes a serious look on you, "Do not let anyone see it. You'll also need to leave your weapons with me, they won't let you in armed."
Always a catch....
Zelda walks with you to the door of the inn after you ask for directions from the innkeeper, worried eyes constantly glancing to her precious Sheikah Slate. She does wish you good luck, though reminds you to be back by a few hours after midday so you have time to put some good distance from the city before it gets dark.
The city was as busy as ever, but you do manage to navigate your way towards the Academy. It was a large structure, with its own courtyard. Students in uniform and academics wandered about, though it seemed empty today. Signs easily directed you towards the library, and after quickly explaining what you were here for to the Librarian they direct you to a quiet study room and the sections you can find the books you want. Luckily no one found it particularly weird to study a place before going there, though as you didn't have a library card you wouldn't be able to take any books out. Which suited you fine, it might be awhile before you returned to castle town.
You gather up whatever recently published books, charts and maps you feel are relevant to Lanayru and the Zora domain before moving to the study room and setting them onto the table. Yet before you sit down a thought strikes you and you quickly return to the librarian. He raises a curious eyebrow when you speak about your request, but seems understanding when you say you were from the Ordona province and really knew little about it despite your curiosity. He directs you to several books, and you thank the man before returning to the study room and closing the door behind you.
Then, you get to work.
The maps and charts were easy enough to handle, you just scanned them in and watched as the map displayed on the Sheikah Slate lit up with new information. It even seemed to handle the less accurate maps, somehow finding where they were pointing too and placing down landmasses or buildings.
When you got to the books on Lanayru though, you had to view everything with a far more discerning eye. Most of it was useless fluff you didn't care about or ancient history that wasn't relevant. You needed more recent information which you found in immigration pamphlets for the region. It was strange, it seemed there was a large influx of immigrants to Lanayru which didn't make much sense. Lanayru was far more adapted to Zora life than Hylian, and its wetlands were infested with monsters. One of the older books had especially made that clear, warning of Lizalfos, Octoroks, and even the dreaded Lynel. In these harsh conditions, it was no small wonder that the Zora had become fierce warriors and expert healers.
You cross reference the population demographics in the imperial census book and the mystery deepened. Hylians were edging out the Zora in population size, concentrated mostly in the Zora capital and other villages that had cropped up. Strangely, the actual number of citizens were incredibly low yet the census information didn't list who those non-citizen Hylians were or from where in the Empire they had come from. In fact, there was a dearth of information available other than that of the citizens who all reported a gross income well in excess of any you had seen before.
Cross referencing the information in the pamphlet with the census information was providing a context you didn't quite understand. The Pamphlet boasted of the main industries of Lanayru which was its large rice fields and mining. The pamphlet boasted of the unique look of Lanayru rice, which was said to glow faintly, while mining it seemed to only consist of Luminous stone. Fishing was non-existent as an industry from what you could find, which seemed strange.
The rest of the information you wanted to know was strangely missing, so you couldn't cross-reference what the pamphlet was claiming. The Lanayru region apparently boasted some of the empires crack troops, and the maps did seem to list a rather large number of forts scattered throughout the province. Reading further in the pamphlet urged citizens to stay to the roads, not due to monsters but 'feral Zora' who lash out any Hylian they see. It elaborated that while the Zora have been successfully integrated into the Empire to be truly safe citizens should keep an eye out for Zora wearing topaz necklaces. These signify their devotion to the empire, and they are perfectly willing to serve the needs of any citizen they meet.
Then before they can elaborate on it the Pamphlet immediately begins talking about the wonderful views of Lanayru, the unique glowing waters, the great monuments, and cities constructed at the behest of the regional governor, Duke Luca Abele. It waxes endlessly on about this duke, in fact, most of the pamphlet seems to be devoted to praising him. His diplomatic skills were said to be second to none, and he was apparently well loved by the Zora people and how he had successfully brought them into the empire. By his grace, Zora healers work tirelessly to preserve the health of citizens, as the environmental costs of firewood collection have been extinguished due to the Luminous stone mines. He oversees the running of Lanayru from his palace, which overlooks the Zora's capital.
But through all this, there was not a single mention of the Zora royal family. A feeling of dread rolls over you as you flip through the book on Lanayru's history until you find it, a short blurb before the book went into praising the duke.
The Zora royal family according to the book despised the Hyrule royal family, and when the great plague hit refused to offer their healers even as the Queen and her handmaidens died horribly under their care. They blamed Hylians for the great cost inflicted on their people, yet Princess Zelda soothed their hearts and for a time there was peace. Yet when she died that rage entered their hearts and the debased and rumored incestuous prince and princess took their royal guards and attacked the imperial diplomats who came to parlay peacefully with the Zora. The battle was fierce and costly, but the empire prevailed and the siblings were unfortunately struck down before they could be tried. The king was broken with grief, and the duke went personally to console him. The book goes on and on about he soothed the king's heart, and how King Dorephan was so moved he eventually became an advisor to the Duke only asking that his children would be remembered for all the good they had done before their tragic transformation.
You felt honestly sick reading that, as you had read in an older book outside the library about the Zora Royal family a few years back. It was only a snippet, but from that book, you could tell the inconsistencies here. Zoras live an incredibly long time, and because of that at one point it took an age for them to mature, far greater than a Hylian would. But increased pressure from monsters and disasters eventually caused their maturity rate to accelerate, until they matured at the same rate Hylians do. However, that old trait remained in people's thoughts, leading to the myth that Zora children were simply young adults and the telling of that event seemed to go out of its way to cast the Princess as such.
But that book you saw before contained the princesses birthdate. She was only eleven when she was killed.
You feel sick to your stomach, and your heart clenches when you think too what Zelda had said before. How are you going to tell Zelda her friend was murdered? That the Zora princess and her brother were painted as depraved lunatics by the emperor?
Damnit. Just... damn it all. She was a child.
You had everything for the Zora domain, but you didn't pack up. You just sat there, glaring at the book as though doing so would eventually change that horrifying history.
Eventually, you reached for one of the other books you had picked up, hoping for anything that would take your mind off that. It was a book on the old Hylian noble families written unfortunately after the deposing of the royal family.
All of them, save the ones that joined with the empire, were painted in negative lights. Pages were devoted to smearing everything about them. So when you finally reached your families section you were preparing for something ghastly but instead, all that was there was... well, basically just a few points. Despite having an entire province named after your family you were just... a footnote essentially. The really only negative thing that was mentioned was that your family were peasant born, who was given a noble title by Zelda's great something-or-other grandfather for their service. They were always fiercely loyal but it was your father who seemed truly notable, and that was because he was a childhood friend of the king before he became a royal knight. The Ordona province was just too remote for them to care about that line, and what information there was on your father was just basic cliff-notes someone probably scribbled in from a book of military achievements. You were even in there, except they called you "Lonk" for some reason and they listed both you, your father and the Ordona line as deceased.
A shame really, all you had really learned about your father's side of the family was that your house sigil was that of a wolf and you were the last of the line, house Ordona's line extinguished.
Your mother though, your mother's house wasn't. They were minor nobility from East Necluda, the author apparently not even knowing the names of the line other than they were listed in taxes year after year. It was probably because they likely weren't even a real noble house, simply a family from one of the coastal or island tribes that lived there. But it gave you a sigil for you to search for, that of a seagull.
You scan the information. It'll be something to look up if you and Zelda ever go to East Necluda.
Closing that book your eyes now fall on the last book you took out, one you were dreading to read. Only your damned foolish courage kept you from returning it.
The biography of Princess Zelda Saria Ilia Hyrule.
With a significant feeling of trepidation, you pick the book up and thumb to a random chapter dreading what you will find within.
A moment later and you're very glad that you have a private study room, as you break down laughing. It was an entire chapter devoted to how Zelda never raised a hand against someone and always abhorred violence. Even with your terrible memory you distinctly remember the fights you had with her, especially as she tended to get bitey.
With the feeling your previous apprehension was unwarranted and chuckling to yourself you flip to another random chapter, shaking your head. What you read however sucks any amusement out of you, replacing it with disgust and anger.
Queen Tetra, the book claimed, was not actually the Saint Zelda's mother. For how could someone like her have Sheikah blood flowing through her veins? In fact, the book claimed that Queen Tetra was infertile and that Zelda was instead born from a Hylian mistress of the king what came from the Rozsa kingdom who was sadly silenced to keep this truth from escaping. The queen claimed Zelda as her own, as only a child could give her any legitimacy.
How dare they. How DARE they! You remembered the Queen as fondly as you remembered your own mother, how many times was she there with your mother when you and Zelda got roughed up? How many times did she put the two of you to bed, kissing her daughter on the cheek as your mother did the same with you? Save for the hair and her father's eyebrows Zelda was the spitting image of her mother, how could anyone look at her and think Sheikah blood didn't flow in her veins? How could anyone claim that wonderful woman was not Zelda's mother?
You stand up so violently your chair clatters to the floor, taking off your large floppy cap to run your free hand through your hair as you paced back and forth. You were angry, not just at the insinuation but at how much it'll hurt Zelda when she finds out. You have to tell her, not let her find out from some strangers again. Why would they even claim she was not Sheikah anyways? Is this why the portrait looked nothing like her?
You manage to calm yourself, setting your chair upright and sitting back down. You return to the book and instantly regret it as it heaped on insinuation after insinuation. Unfaithfulness, abusive, greedy and cruel, anything they could get away with they heaped on her and soon the king himself. Everything good people remembered of them was an act, and Zelda bore it all because she was chosen. The Zelda they portrayed was nothing like the Zelda you knew then and now. There were a lot of miracles happening around her as people said, flowers blooming or people being soothed or healed. Her mother's death was portrayed as incompetence, and you feel a hot flash of anger how they gloss over your own mothers death.
Then it goes to the coup. The Yiga were there on a rescue mission, to save Zelda from the evil king. But the whole thing went awry, and the king threw his daughter to her death in the moat.
Hylia's white wings, they even included an etching of it. Yiga collapsing in grief or rushing to save Zelda as this caricature of the king throws your friend into the moat. Or rather a shoddy copy of her that didn't even bear a resemblance to the girl you knew, clad in white with her eyes closed and her hands clasped in prayer in front of her as she plunged into the water.
She was entombed in a mausoleum at the Sacred Grounds, an empty grave devoted to a lie.
Gods this was sickening and you... you'll have to tell her. You'll have to be the one who hurts her because with anyone else it'll hurt so much more, but you still hate yourself for it.
The librarian looks very confused when you return the books, obviously not expecting someone to look so obviously enraged by something. You begin to storm out of the library before stopping and turning to the Librarian, taking a deep breath to calm your nerves.
"Hey, those silent princesses everyone's talking about. Realized I'll miss them so just um... wondering. Are they growing around the..."
"Oh! Um yes, they're growing around the Princesses mausoleum," The librarian sighs, "That poor child must be speaking to us from the goddess's embrace, showing us the beauty of the flowers she so loved and reassuring us in these trying times."
You close your eyes, taking a deep breath, "When... when did they start blooming?"
The librarian scratches the side of his head, thinking "Just the other day, I believe they were first spotted that morning."
You nod, and then leave the Library, grinding your teeth together. They bloomed when you and Zelda entered the city. Damn it damn it damn it.
You truly, utterly no longer know what to make of this situation, how to handle it. Which is why you were standing, staring at the door to your room. You don't want to hurt her, you don't want to add to her stress by telling her about the flowers, that she really did make them bloom with her presence. You just... want her to have something good happen to her for a change.
You take a deep breath, steeling yourself. Healing, you need to get her healed. That... that can be the start.
You open the door, slowly so not to startle her, "Zel-"
"Hahahaha! You think you've won but I was only buying time for my dark powers to fully manifest!" Zelda says, holding your thankfully still sheathed sword aloft with her back to you as she menaces imaginary foes with it. "Come, face the black flames of my sword but be warned, I do not know what I'll do when consumed by them!"
She swings the sword clumsily, twisting around as she laughs in the faces of those non-existent enemies, "Hahahahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-'
The sword drops from her hands, clattering to the floor as her arms seem to curl up like they belonged to some dying insect. Her skin paled, her mouth dropping open in a soundless scream as her eyes widened and her pupils shrank to pinpricks as Zelda realized the true cost of her 'dark powers.'
How do you deal with this?
[] ...Want me to teach you how to use a sword?
[] STARING INTENSIFIES.
[] ........What book did you even borrow?!
[] Zelda... we need to talk.
[] Just hold her.
[] Write-in.
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Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
That goes without saying.
Given that topaz is a lightning aspected stone, and the Zora vulnerability to lightning, I'm guessing these are shock collars, and the Zora wearing them are slaves.
A lot of people either haven't played BOTW or don't remember (or never did the relevant sidequest) that Topaz is thunder elemental.
WildCardFool
A Reaction Pic for nearly every occasion
- Location
- Earth
[X] Hug her
We has to.
We has to.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
We hug her than get the hell out of dodge because I no longer feel safe in the City. we need to leave NOW! We can tell her once we are safely away but not before because if we do. She will become an emotional wreck and we will lose precious time.
- Location
- Brazil
[x] STARING INTENSIFIES.
Absolutely no one has recognized you or Zelda.
- Location
- England
So the Empire happened to history.
Hmm. Right that's obviously pretty bad. Not much we can do about it of course, but we'll have to keep in mind that this is probably what a fair few people actually believe.
And of course Lanayru is apparently slavery central.
In short:
[OPPRESSION INTENSIFIES]
For vote:
[x] STARING INTENSIFIES.
Hmm. Right that's obviously pretty bad. Not much we can do about it of course, but we'll have to keep in mind that this is probably what a fair few people actually believe.
And of course Lanayru is apparently slavery central.
In short:
[OPPRESSION INTENSIFIES]
For vote:
[x] STARING INTENSIFIES.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
That's not the reason I am worried. its the news about what has happened to the Zora and that which lies in the garden that worries me. And then there is the Silent Princesses Showing up right when Link and Zelda entered the city. The sooner we are on the road the better.
reborn214
Deep in thought
- Location
- California
Fuck, this is this Luca Abele isn't it?
Luca Abele
Terrible corrupt and driving Sarkonos on Lanyuru here to the ground who probably has a few Zora sex slaves.
I am going to guess the Zora's feelings to him are on a similar level to Zelda's feelings towards the Emperor.
Thanatos757
Captain of the Four Knights
[X] Take a picture with the Sheikah Slate