"I can really do that but that's a lot of reasons to think it won't work. How is Link or the Divine Beasts supposed to kill Ganon if he isn't material?"

"It's really unclear what Link does! Maybe he just bodyguards and fends off the minions until the Princess can do her thing? He has these... we called them Ganonblights. Creatures formed of his Malice and stolen ancient technology. Link says some of them are still sleeping in the Divine Beasts, one of them destroyed Akkala Citadel but we managed to take it down, there's one that came out of the Gerudo sinkhole and wandered off into the desert after ravaging Gerudo Town and no one's seen it again... oh, or are you asking what the plan is now?"

"Yeah."

"Well, the Princess is still around! Or her ghost, maybe! We suspected when a few weeks ago this bright light started shining from the Castle even as Ganon's muck started spewing around again, but Link confirmed it. He said the Princess spoke to him. The specific plan is that Link's supposed to free all the Divine Beasts so they can shoot their lasers to weaken Ganon, and then Linky goes into the Castle to I guess free the Princess' ghost, or something? He wasn't specific about it and nor was the princess, and Link was all just like 'I trust the princess' about it."

She makes a face.

"So maybe you can do your disintegration trick to speed along the middle part, but it sounds like a bad idea to run the risk of, like, Ganon possessing you? Or something? He didn't do that one hundred years ago, but maybe he just didn't have anyone important enough and possessable. Unless you're telling me you're immune to that too.

"But really, with all of these resources at our disposal, I think that's a tad unambitious!"

"He can possess people?"

"He possessed the Divine Beasts! In a sense. I think that's not exactly the same, though, since the Divine Beasts are designed to be possessed. He infected some Gorons with Malice one hundred years ago, we're not sure how, and they became violent and hostile until the Zora figured out how to fix them, but that's not the same thing as possession either. We don't know; that's the problem! He he's shown so many abilities it's possible that he can do anything he wants, just at varying cost... and what you can do is worth a lot, even to whatever kind of thing he is."

"You're not wrong. Uh, I mistook the salamander divine beast for just another magic robot like the little ones, and it seemed like it might hurt someone, and, uh, it has exploded."

"This is salvageable."

"It is! Totally is. No evidence we needed all four anyway, and you can make more, right? It'll be missing all the programming... not worth trying to reimplement all the software on Vah Rudania. We can just have two of one. We can have any number of them! This is fine."

"You can make more Divine Beasts, right."

"I don't see why not..." He makes a little model one. "Yes but like the Sheikah Slates they will not be charged."

She sighs.

"They are, strictly speaking, the same kind of thing as the Guardians... the Gorons did take a serious go at destroying Rudania sixty years ago, so they'll miss it the least, at least. Think of it, some Rito also tried shooting down Medoh a couple of decades back, but that was an accident. Mostly. So you're not the first to think of it... the first to succeed, I guess. Oh no, Linky will be so upset. And Zelda, too... did you see Daruk? The Goron champion, his ghost would be in Rudania?"

"I didn't get that close, no."

"...Well, nothing to do about it now."

The wind is taken pretty much out of her sails.

"Um, so I was going to say. If the ancient Sheikah were anything like modern-day ones, they would've had a lot of ideas they wanted to create, but couldn't. Especially since all the records suggest that their relationship with the Hylians, which provided most of the industry base for the projects against Ganon was... strained, at times. And they definitely had a much better understanding of Calamity Ganon than we do, seeing as their plan worked to a tee and ours... didn't. And was mostly recycled from their plan.

"So the first step we want to do, if we're taking this seriously, is to reconstruct as much of their knowledge as we can, and see what we can make happen. If we can seal Ganon for even longer, or forever, or even destroy him altogether. The powers of the Divine Beasts are very obviously tuned to oppose Ganon, so maybe there are methods even more extreme we can build with your powers, to remove him for good."

"That would be cool. Can you point me to some things to conjure, or like, tell me what their language is called and I can get whatever they wrote down in material format?"

"There was supposed to be a library of Sheikah knowledge in Hyrule Castle used by the Joint Corp of Royal Engineers, when the Divine Beasts were built. The wing it's supposed to be in was destroyed three thousand years ago in a siege of the Castle during a civil war, and it was probably long gone before then anyway. We don't know the specific room or name of the archive. Is that enough to get it?"

"Probably. Where do you want it, I'm worried that if I try to format convert it I'll be obscuring something about how it'll fail if it fails."

"Full size, outside, I'll find a place—we should get Robbie in on this; he's in the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab."

"I stopped by his place first and gave him some ancient stuff to study but I could go get him?"

"Oh! Why didn't you say so? He's going to be so annoying about relocating again... you know what, if you can make Sheikah Slates, we can whip up a few more and everyone can teleport to and fro as they like. I don't want to get in another argument about which site has better geothaumics. Symin, are you done?"

    He pokes his head in throught the door: "Just done linking the travel gate."

"Upgraded or standard?"

"Upgraded, may as well."