"I, uh, don't know? I don't think they hear you if you're not praying."

"So you have to choose to send them your thoughts? Can you send other people your thoughts?"

"No. Well, maybe someone can, I don't know. Gods are different."

Wow explaining this is surprisingly annoying?

"Thank you. That's... thank you."

So they're probably reading his mind all the time and lying about it. Great. He hates them all.

"Hylia wouldn't read minds even if she could, I'm sure! She does so much for people. But anyway... Death magic. If you just got here you probably don't know about the Great Calamity?" 

"Not much yet. What is it?"

"Ganon's moment of triumph one hundred years ago. He... Controlled all the mechanical soldiers. Guardians. And. Told them to kill everything. Hylia couldn't stop him. We couldn't stop him. They destroyed lots and lots of stuff before eventually getting stopped. They were pretty good at their job. Killed me, or nearly, anyway."

"He sounds obnoxious. I hope it turns out I can kill him."

"Yeah, that's the idea. Ganon deserves it if anyone does. I don't really think it's likely but it's definitely worth trying, right?"

"Yeah." And then all of the others so he can stop having his mind read. "How far away is Ganon?"

"He's trapped in the Great Castle, in central Hyrule. Locked in time by the Princess's power, somehow? A week or two to get there."

"Past the Guardians?"

"Yeah... They're not fun. I can probably deal with them one at a time. Sometimes he comes out as a giant black serpent thing?"

"I probably can't kill mechanical things with magic. Might be worth learning to do it another way if I'm going to go play in central Hyrule."

"That's called 'learning to use a sword'. Or a bow, or spear, or a claymore... Swords and bows are probably the most practical."

"Thanks. How do I learn that, are there teachers?"

"Well, there used to be a Knight School. I'm the only one who was there left now, though... I guess I can probably teach you?"

"How much do you charge for lessons?"

"...Come with me and see if you can kill Ganon for me while I teach you? And maybe kill monsters in our way along the way. It'll make the trip faster."

"How soon do you want to leave?"

"Probably tomorrow. I kind of had to pull an all-nighter, running away from a Hinox. Be nice to get at least one night's rest in an actual bed first."

"And I paid for a few nights already and this place is nice. So what's a Hinox and are any of its body parts worth anything?"

"Fair enough, I could use a bit of a break. Ganon is - contained, for now, it's not urgent on a scale of days. Hinox is a giant cyclops thing. Probably valuable, yeah. But Hinoxes are serious stuff. If some monsters can't be death magicked they'd be one of 'em."

"And Ganon wouldn't? Or it's just worth trying anything that might kill him?"

"Yeah, that. I don't actually expect you to be able to kill him. But it's worth trying. And maybe you could help me get to where I can kill him faster, even if you can't." She shrugs.