"I'm interested in meeting all kinds of people, travelers are likely to have lots of stories to tell. I have heard more or less the same from other sources. Is there some way it might be fixed or disabled?"

"I hear one of the Rito nearly died trying to do just that."

"I'm harder to kill than most people but I'm in no particular rush to make an attempt. What's your story how did you find yourself here?"

"Oh, I work for the stable. It's decent money even for old bones. I don't suppose you have any Goron spice on you? I miss curry, is all."

"I'm afraid I'm not carrying any, sorry."

"Eh. I'm sure some trader will have some eventually. If you want to meet lots of different kinds of people... Hm, all the big villages... Rito village, here. Goron City's where my favorite spices come from. Kakariko village and Hateno town over in the Necluda. You got Zora's Domain. They're fish-folk. Then there's Gerudo Town but they don't let any men in. And I heard of some fishing villages down in Faron."

"Thank you, I'll keep that list in mind. Is there somewhere I might be able to look at a map?"

Old man looks at the traveler, who shrugs. "I just went by the trails. Avoided the dark castle, though. I could draw a really rough one, maybe?"

"I'm alright, maybe someone in the village will have one. Is there anything else you'd like to discuss before I start heading in?"

"Gets cold at night. If you need a bed to sleep in later, they run only twenty rupees here. But you're welcome to sleep by the campfire if you don't want to pay."

"I can take it being cold but I might take you up on the offer anyways."

"Don't have a horse, do you? I guess there's nothing else then."

"Like I said, I can probably handle the cold on my own, and some nights I don't bother with sleeping I don't need it as much as most people."

"Convenient for you. Have fun in the village."

He walks across the closest bridge and into the village. He looks around for where to go next.

He meets a Rito holding a spear that lands in front of him halfway across the bridge. "Good day, traveler. You look like you're from further away than usual. How do you like the place?" He(?) gestures behind to the tall, terraced rock spire. Wooden buildings and platforms crawl up the rock formation, sometimes branching to nearby spires but mostly staying vertical. None of them are really enclosed.

"It looks beautiful. It definitely looks like it would be easier to navigate if I had wings though."

The guard laughs. "Well, we put in stairs. Even we don't want to fly all the time, it's exhausting. Shame about Van Medoh, though. It's screwing up the air, we can't get very high before it becomes impossible to fly straight."

"That's a shame, I hope that some way of fixing that will come up."

"Old stories say you just need to get to the control box. Harth... Well, I told him trying that was a bad idea, even if he is one of the best flyers here. Turns out it has the same weapons as Guardians..."

"I haven't encountered a guardian yet, could you describe this weapon?"

"This one traveler I met described it as 'explodey light arrow'. That... Pretty much sums it up, even if it sounds a bit silly. We just call them Guardian beams."

"I suppose I'll have to find a guardian and run some tests at some point."

He winces. "Uh, maybe find a weapon and try to take one with you if you're that suicidal..."

"Perhaps, I'm not quite as unarmed as I appear."