Some parts of the land of Hyrule are rather peaceful.
It's pleasantly cool out. There is a wide open grassy field, cliffs on two sides, a patch of woods on the third, and an honestly intimidating view of high cliffs in the distance off to the right.
There's a campfire here, still burning, though no sign of whoever was using it.
All in all, not necessarily a bad place to get banished to.
"Nothing against you, but we're going to split the profits. That way nobody feels cheated, see?"
"Follow me, I know some good monster-y areas along the way toward Hateno Town! We'll still probably scare people but someone walking near it might calm them down. Uh, we might want to leave it away from the stable if we stop there for the night."
Link starts walking. "So where'd you come from again? Another universe apparently?"
"Yep. Got here by some magic accident. I'm not too sure what was going on, I don't know much about my world's magic."
"Magic is a potent and primal force. Some of the things we use it for a lot are well understood, but when gods and dragons start to get involved, lots of rules go out the window."
"What's it like to use magic? I can't use my world's magic, but I might be able to use the magic here."
"You can mix elixirs if you can cook. You can probably use Purah's tools if you learn how. Maybe if you pray to Goddess Hylia she'll talk to you."
"Advice and lending magical powers sometimes. Guidance. Goddess Hylia doesn't judge sinners or anything but she only grants power to those who will help others."
"It's just so weird. The only things like gods in my world are dragons. And if you make a deal with one of those you can basically expect to die within the next year or two, or wish you had."
"With dragons the issue is that they're always trying to one-up each other. So the danger comes from rival dragons. And they don't care enough about metahuman lives to coordinate to stop, so it keeps happening."
"Ganon wants to destroy the world. Hylia and the dragons and the sages want to stop it. They're a bit more unified than it sounds like yours are."
"Yeah, my world's a mess. Everyone uses the same weapons and wants their piece of the world, and if they're in power they want to stay there."
"Well, to be fair, I'm sure the King of Hyrule wanted to stay on his throne. It's just that the best way to do that is to keep Goddess Hylia's favor and the best way to do that is to be a wise benevolent ruler."
"I get the sense that she doesn't have enough attention for it... I'll ask her the next time I pray."
"Uh? How does praying work for your god? Gods. I guess it helps if you're looking at one of the goddess's statues."
"We don't have any gods. There used to be people who thought otherwise but corps mostly discourage the practice so they've mostly died out. I guess a lot of people are into spirit-worship? There've been a few tech cults but all the important ones died out during the last matrix crash." She shudders.
"Oh, sorry. Corps are -- they're like merchant operations, but really big and powerful enough to trade in lots of industries and all over the world. They're hierarchical and they can buy mercenaries so they can basically do whatever they want. I don't think there are gods because I've never seen evidence of one, but a corp is going to want people to be loyal to them, not a god.
Spirits on the other hand are a real thing -- they're magic but they're kind of -- inhuman. Like dragons but smaller scale, and weirder. Did that clear everything up?"
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