"I can make you unburnable but smoke could still choke you so that's not an improvement as long as you're sure you'll never be caught without your clothes. How tough is pretty tough? I can make your bones resist shattering even if you have a two-ton weight dropped on you from the top of a five-story building. I'll ward you against magical command now and... your shield is close to your door somewhere? I'm not traveling a mile in a foreign universe for you."

"Shield's in the Slate!"

She pulls it off her belt, a little stone rectangle about the size of two hands. Taps it and the front lights up. Tap tap tap. Here's a shield that appears in a small burst of blue light. It's shiny metal with an attractive, fancy design on the front.

"This thing's a beauty. Found it in an old fortress. But against Guardians it wouldn't hold for long. Until now. I have a bunch of swords and spears and an axe or two and some bows if you're offering to help with those too. Results not guaranteed, right? Oh, and I am gonna pay you. Not like I don't have enough rupees."

Well, he's not going to argue with helping her and getting paid!

"Thirty each for shields and weapons, results not guaranteed for anything but the shield, how does the Slate do that? Do you mind if I copy down the design from the shield?" He holds out a hand for it. Takes about a minute to get the metal indestructible without letting it lose its spring. Much faster for the leather.

"I don't know how the Slate does that. It does all sorts of things, I think it was very impressive even for Sheikahs. Maybe my friend Purah would, but she's nowhere near the door. Ah, on the shield... Leave out the parts in red. Replace it with something else, please. That's the Hylian royal family's crest. Only Knights' gear should bear that if I can help it, I think."

Link gets out a series of weapons after this. Including a giant sword that is slightly - more than slightly - on fire. "Flameblade. Doesn't do more than be warm unless you swing it. I have an ice spear and a thunderblade too."

Valanda's not enough of an artist to make changes to the design and have it turn out nice and if he did the copy wouldn't be any good for showing people and asking if they know anyone from the world it came from. He doesn't bother copying the other parts.

"What is a flameblade supposed to do? What spells are on it already? And the same questions for the ice and thunder weapons."

"It sets things on fire! Ice blade freezes things and thunderblade shocks them. Gorons are particularly good with fire-enchanted stuff but I don't know about ice and lightning."

"Does it ever need to change shape in a way a knife being used for its sharp edge wouldn't? Does it ever need to be made of a different material temporarily?"

"I don't think so? Yeah, no. Sheikah weapons are, like, made of magic light but these aren't Sheikah. They'll be fine. Thanks."

Valanda does all the weapons she cares to give him. "I can guarantee infinite tensile and and compressive strength but with the other enchantments on them and the casters unavailable to consult I didn't want to touch temperature resistance. Don't stick them in a forge, but nothing will ever nick them or break them. They'll stay exactly this sharp forever, if that was a mistake I can break the wards and let you sharpen them. Fifteen rupees for a command ward. Two for me to hold my door for a while and recommend other mages who can do different things. You want imperial rings for that if Bar can get them, my best guess is that one rupee is worth two and a half rings."

"Uh, imperial rings? Oh, a different currency." Shrug. "I'm not really sure I need other mages? Depends on what they do, which I don't know? The legendary sword is the last piece of the puzzle. I mean, I really should do extensive preparations... But you never know what will come up, you know? Oh, here's your money. My name's Link, by the way."

Lots of rupees. 225 of them. Link has finished her breakfast while she was working on the weapons.

"I'm Valanda, human defense mage. What makes the legendary sword capable of defeating Ganon? It's possible someone could make one or replace it. If Ganon is within a reasonable distance of your door, I'll take fifty rupees to turn him into a statue, if he's not warded against that and it would be safe to stand somewhere with a line of sight to him for a minute or so."

"No. I'd bet ten thousand Ganon's immune to statueing. He's not even really corporeal, exactly. And you'd never last that long. And he's miles away, anyway. The Master Sword is a thing of great power created by Goddess Hylia and passed down through generations. It shines with light that burns Ganon and his creations. It might be possible to beat Ganon without it, but I'm betting having it makes things a whole lot easier."

"I take it the Ganon-burning property of the light isn't something that could be replicated with a bright enough torch. Where is the Master Sword? What's between you and it?"

"I have to find the sacred forest. I don't think you can help with geography of my world. I'll manage it sooner or later, I expect. Have a few ideas. Some of the oldest Hylians told me things about what happened right after the Calamity. Even if I lost some of my memory... Well, most of it... It's coming back. Kinda."

"I can't but there are mages in my world who might be able to. You'd want a knowledge mage specializing in facts about locations. Or someone who knows how to scry specific objects from descriptions without having ever seen them. I wouldn't know who to recommend but I know who to get a recommendation from, it's not a rare skill at all, lots of people use magic to find lost things."

"...Eh. I'll pass. I know Milliways is safe-ish. I don't know about your world. Might be a bit hypocritical given all the monsters in mine, but... Yeah. I can only handle so much crazy new stuff at once. Also you haven't really looked at me once, it's like you're scared of me. Or of everything."

Valanda stares at her straight-on. He's a little unclear on the concept of eye contact that doesn't look murderous. "Like this? Where I'm from it's rude to look at people."

"-Ah. Not really like that. I gueeeeess it's an acquired skill. Which you never acquired. We Hylians are, uh, very in tune to behavior that's a little off, and we get, uh creeped out by it. Or so Princess Zelda told me. Humans are probably the same."

"Thanks," he says, looking away. "Why is looking at people the preferred way of doing things among Hylians?"

"I have no idea. Well. You can tell a lot about how someone's feeling by looking at their eyes if they're used to doing that I think? Why isn't it with you?"

"It's similar to trespassing or scrying the inside of someone's home. People want to forget they're not alone. A lot of politeness is about letting people live together without feeling crowded or threatened. Why eyes in particular? If you're going to watch, why not their stance or what they're doing with their hands if they have hands?"

Shrug. "I'm glad when I'm not alone. Ask Princess Zelda? If we see each other again after I fix everything. I seem to be saying that a lot today. Eye contact is considered polite. Uh, sometimes. I am not qualified to teach manners, I'm a weirdo."

"Oh? How impolite are you at home?"

"Like? I don't know people? I'm very brash and straightforward a lot of the time? I ask weird questions because of my lost memory sometimes? I'm a knight so my outlook on danger is a lot more casual than for most folks?"

Valanda writes down: brash, straightforward, weird questions rude in Hyrule; looking at people's eyes polite in Hyrule but only certain ways.

"Good to know, thanks, I meant how much it costs."