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Hyrule History and Legends!; Friday, Second Period [09/16].
"Welcome back, everyone!" Sidon, of course, greeted the class with his usual enthusiasm and aplomb, but a big grin and a pump of his fist to get things started. "I do hope you're ready to dive into more exciting history and legends of Hyrule, because that is precisely what we shall be doing! Last week, we talked about the three goddesses said to have created Hyrule, and a little bit about Hylia, the goddess appointed by them to protect Hyrule.
"This week," he continued, "allow us to turn our eyes toward Hyrule itself, and get, as it were, a lay of the land, so to speak! Let us talk....geography!"
And that was when he stepped back a little to gesture to the very large map hanging behind him. "Behold!" he announced, opening his arms as he turned toward it. "The Land of Hyrule, as we know it, mapped out for all to see, from the scorching sands of the Gerudo desert to the icy peaks of Mount Lanayru! I'll have you know, physical maps of Hyrule are actually rather difficult to come by, so what you see before you is a rarity that I had acquired in the sleepy Sheikah hamlet of Kakariko Village to speak with a very old woman named Impa, and then I was able to expand it and blow it up, as they say, to this fine cartological wonder you see before you! Considering that Zora very rarely travel outside of our Domain, much less to places like Karariko Village, you might say that I gave the poor woman quite a shock! And then she, in turn, managed to shock me, because Lady Impa is so old as to have actually known me as a hatching, almost one hundred year ago! I was delighted, and she was able to share with me a few marvelous stories, because she was well acquainted with my dear sister Mipha, but anyway, I digress..."
Sidon? Digress? Never!
"Allow me to now introduce to you all the various areas of Hyrule that we shall be discussing in the coming months, so that you may have an idea of where you are in the grand scheme of things! We shall start here!" He pointed a claw toward the top left corner. "The Hebra Mountain, a vast mountain range in the northwest that is blanketed with ice and snow! The extreme cold climate makes it very difficult even for the more hearty Hylians to travel there without getting a little frostbitten and frozen, but it is said to be vastly beautiful, and, for the more adventurous at heart, there are a multitude of legends of secret treasure hidden in its snowy peaks and plains that may make the chill quite worth the effort!
"Just to the east of the Hebra Mountains," his hand followed his words, "and related to it with its frigid temperatures, is the Tabantha Tundra, where one might catch a glimpse of the mighty beasts that roam there, such as wolves, rhinoceros, and moose, oh my!
"When we move south of the Hebra Mountains and the Tabantha Tundra, we find ourselves here," his hand lightly smacked against the next region, "in the Tabantha Frontier! The weather gets a bit warmer here, although still crisp with that cold mountain air coming in from Hebra! Speckled with stately pines and treacherous cliffs. The Tabantha Frontier is also home to one of the five races of Hyrule, the majestic Rito, who are a feathered, bird-like race that live in a towering spire here," his finger danced around a large lake in the region with an island. "I've had the honor to visit them with some friends from Fandom once! Perhaps we may be able to take a trip ourselves! They are a wonderful people, very welcoming, very skilled with bows, although perhaps not a great place for anyone with a strong aversion to heights."
Sidon chuckled a little at his own joke before moving on.
"As you can see," he continued, his finger tracing along a dark line in the map, "the Hebra and Tabantha reasons are separated from the rest of Hyrule by this deep ridge, called the Tanager Canyon, and crossing that takes us into the Hyrule Ridge, which has a rockier terrain and is known for its uniquely trees, which grow tall and very wide and flat at the top, as well as for the treacherous Thundara Plateau, which, if you couldn't tell by its name, is home to a constant storm of thunder, rain, and lightning, so a terrifyingly beautiful as it may be, I must admit, you shall not find me traipsing about that Plateau any time soon!
"And speaking of places I'm not likely to visit, if we travel south, we will find ourselves here, in the Gerudo Highlands, an extremely steep mountain range that rises up from the ground with stunning red rocks and provides a sort of natural barrier to the Gerudo Desert. Vast and seemingly endless in its sandy dunes and hills, the Gerudo Desert is a very dry and arid place that a Zora like myself would find very hostile, indeed! But a more sturdy human might find any exciting surprises here, including, but certainly not limited to, the infamous Gerudo Town, right here at the center of the desert! Home to another race of Hyrule, the eclectic and sometimes secretive Gerudo, which is actually a female-centered society so much that, even if I could hand the harsh, dry temperatures of the desert, I would have a difficult time visiting them, because they only admit women into their cloistered city! They are fierce warriors, though, the Gerudo, and I hear many fascinating stories about their cultures from the travelers that sometimes make their way through Zora's Domain, but, alas, they are quite the mystery, as is the harsh land they call their home!
"From there, let us move east, into the Faron Grasslands, which are quite as they sound, a vast area of grassy lands, the most interesting place of note being the large Lake Hylia here toward its northern border. Wonderful fishing there, and traveling along the Hyrule River down to the Lake Hylia is one of a Zora's favorite leisurely pastimes, although it can be quite a dangerous journey! The Faron Grasslands then become the Faron Jungle and also encompasses the the southern shores of Hyrule, wherein you'll find a small Hylian fishing settlement called Lurelin Village, which is just incredibly charming and even better for fishing!"
And dates, but the only concession to that detail was the slightly distant smile on Sidon's face before he just kept moving forward.
"Traveling north from the Faron region will take us to Necluda, divided into East and West parts, where you will find the largest settlement of Hylians currently in Hyrule, since the destruction of Hyrule Castle Town many years ago. That town is the lovely farming village of Hateno Village, as well as Fort Hateno, which was key to preserving the aforementioned village in the Great Calamity. There will be much more on that later, but, since we are just laying out the land at the moment, let us move on, north, to Mount Lanayru, and, nestled deeply in its tall mountains covered in grass, is the home of the Sheikah, a very ancient and technologically advanced tribe of Hyrule, that find their home in the quiet and tucked away Kakariko Village. This also gives way to the Lanayru Wetlands, where you will also find my cherished home and kingdom, Zora's Domain, right here nestled by the Great Lanayru Spring! They are the most magnificent mountains, gleaming and stunning, so beautiful that we actually carved our Domain straight of of the sleek, stunning rocks! We shall definitely be making a trip there one day, as it is not to be missed, and perhaps I shall spare you the description now so that you may better enjoy it when you see it with your own two eyes!
"With that, let us then follow the Zora River down toward Central Hyrule, which, as the name suggests, is the central part of all of known Hyrule! Here is a vast and open plain with several rivers, and, at the very center of it, is Hyrule Castle, which was once the main center for one of the race of Hylians before the Great Calamity that besieged our land about one hundred years ago. Much of Hyrule Castle and the surrounding castle town was utterly destroyed in the war, and the Calamity has laid claim to the castle itself, making Central Hyrule not only an extremely dangerous place for travelers, but also a very grim reminder of the startlingly real danger we face every day...."
Sidon trailed off for a moment there, as if going into some secret, painful place, but he smiled softly at the students. "More on that, rest assured, another time. But we still have a bit more traveling to do! No rest for the intrepid historian! Let us move north, where we shall find the mysterious Great Hyrule Forest, an enigmatic place that is cloaked in so much fog that it is said that no one may venture forth without finding themselves terribly lost and venturing out as if they had never entered the forest at all! A great many stories and legends surround that place that I am excited to explore with you later!
"A place I may, alas, am rarely able to explore myself, however, lies just east of the Great Hyrule Forest, and that is a place rather ominously and excitingly called Death Mountain. Rising up from the land, Death Mountain is a mighty and fearsome volcano, boasting all the boiling rivers and lakes of lava and scorched, ore-rich stone you would imagine! And nestled in these fiery mountains, you'll find the Gorons and the Goron Village, our last race of Hyrule to mention, a swarthy and sturdy race of rock people that actually eat the very rocks they mine! Their teeth are incredible, as is their strength and enthusiasm, something I can only admire greatly!
"And finally," that's right, folks, he was finally getting to the end, "we have the quiet and beautiful region of Akkala, a vast highland at the edge of the northern and eastern seas, home to brightly colored forest, fields of waving grass, and an old stronghold called the Akkala Citadel, a mighty fortress built ages ago to protect the Akkala region from any known threat, be it by sea, by land, or by air! Alas, even the stalwart Citadel could not escape the threat of the Great Calamity, and it has since been corrupted by it, much like Hyrule Castle itself. But even that cannot mar the beauty and wonder of the area, especially on a warm spring day when the sun is shining over the glittering Akkala Sea."
With that, Sidon finished his breakdown of the highlights of, yes, the entire world of Hyrule, and then turned toward his students with a bright smile. "And there you have it! That is Hyrule....quite literally on paper! Do you have any questions for me? I'll be more than happy to delve into more detail should anything in particular have caught your attention! But, if not, then we'll get on with today's activity. I have a map of Hyrule for each of you," which he went to fetch from the desk now, "they are labeled, although with Hylian script, which, unless you are quite the savant in foreign languages, I can't imagine you can read effectively, and so your job today is to familiarize yourself with the geography by labeling all the regions yourself! Never fear! I have a list of the regions and a key with English labels to follow if you're stuck, and I am also here to help you out should you go astray! So, unless you'd like to discuss any of the regions a bit more, I'll have you begin on your mapping out of this great land!
"And," he added, "I should very much like to have your thoughts about it if any of these lands or places or the details about them caught your interest, so that we might explore them with a particular focus in the upcoming classes. I would be more than happy to tailor our course of study to what you'd like to learn about most, especially since there is certainly no lack of topics to examine, and it might help me decide what we shall learn more about! So we'll discuss it, briefly, if you have thoughts or ideas, and then I'll let you get to your work!"
"This week," he continued, "allow us to turn our eyes toward Hyrule itself, and get, as it were, a lay of the land, so to speak! Let us talk....geography!"
And that was when he stepped back a little to gesture to the very large map hanging behind him. "Behold!" he announced, opening his arms as he turned toward it. "The Land of Hyrule, as we know it, mapped out for all to see, from the scorching sands of the Gerudo desert to the icy peaks of Mount Lanayru! I'll have you know, physical maps of Hyrule are actually rather difficult to come by, so what you see before you is a rarity that I had acquired in the sleepy Sheikah hamlet of Kakariko Village to speak with a very old woman named Impa, and then I was able to expand it and blow it up, as they say, to this fine cartological wonder you see before you! Considering that Zora very rarely travel outside of our Domain, much less to places like Karariko Village, you might say that I gave the poor woman quite a shock! And then she, in turn, managed to shock me, because Lady Impa is so old as to have actually known me as a hatching, almost one hundred year ago! I was delighted, and she was able to share with me a few marvelous stories, because she was well acquainted with my dear sister Mipha, but anyway, I digress..."
Sidon? Digress? Never!
"Allow me to now introduce to you all the various areas of Hyrule that we shall be discussing in the coming months, so that you may have an idea of where you are in the grand scheme of things! We shall start here!" He pointed a claw toward the top left corner. "The Hebra Mountain, a vast mountain range in the northwest that is blanketed with ice and snow! The extreme cold climate makes it very difficult even for the more hearty Hylians to travel there without getting a little frostbitten and frozen, but it is said to be vastly beautiful, and, for the more adventurous at heart, there are a multitude of legends of secret treasure hidden in its snowy peaks and plains that may make the chill quite worth the effort!
"Just to the east of the Hebra Mountains," his hand followed his words, "and related to it with its frigid temperatures, is the Tabantha Tundra, where one might catch a glimpse of the mighty beasts that roam there, such as wolves, rhinoceros, and moose, oh my!
"When we move south of the Hebra Mountains and the Tabantha Tundra, we find ourselves here," his hand lightly smacked against the next region, "in the Tabantha Frontier! The weather gets a bit warmer here, although still crisp with that cold mountain air coming in from Hebra! Speckled with stately pines and treacherous cliffs. The Tabantha Frontier is also home to one of the five races of Hyrule, the majestic Rito, who are a feathered, bird-like race that live in a towering spire here," his finger danced around a large lake in the region with an island. "I've had the honor to visit them with some friends from Fandom once! Perhaps we may be able to take a trip ourselves! They are a wonderful people, very welcoming, very skilled with bows, although perhaps not a great place for anyone with a strong aversion to heights."
Sidon chuckled a little at his own joke before moving on.
"As you can see," he continued, his finger tracing along a dark line in the map, "the Hebra and Tabantha reasons are separated from the rest of Hyrule by this deep ridge, called the Tanager Canyon, and crossing that takes us into the Hyrule Ridge, which has a rockier terrain and is known for its uniquely trees, which grow tall and very wide and flat at the top, as well as for the treacherous Thundara Plateau, which, if you couldn't tell by its name, is home to a constant storm of thunder, rain, and lightning, so a terrifyingly beautiful as it may be, I must admit, you shall not find me traipsing about that Plateau any time soon!
"And speaking of places I'm not likely to visit, if we travel south, we will find ourselves here, in the Gerudo Highlands, an extremely steep mountain range that rises up from the ground with stunning red rocks and provides a sort of natural barrier to the Gerudo Desert. Vast and seemingly endless in its sandy dunes and hills, the Gerudo Desert is a very dry and arid place that a Zora like myself would find very hostile, indeed! But a more sturdy human might find any exciting surprises here, including, but certainly not limited to, the infamous Gerudo Town, right here at the center of the desert! Home to another race of Hyrule, the eclectic and sometimes secretive Gerudo, which is actually a female-centered society so much that, even if I could hand the harsh, dry temperatures of the desert, I would have a difficult time visiting them, because they only admit women into their cloistered city! They are fierce warriors, though, the Gerudo, and I hear many fascinating stories about their cultures from the travelers that sometimes make their way through Zora's Domain, but, alas, they are quite the mystery, as is the harsh land they call their home!
"From there, let us move east, into the Faron Grasslands, which are quite as they sound, a vast area of grassy lands, the most interesting place of note being the large Lake Hylia here toward its northern border. Wonderful fishing there, and traveling along the Hyrule River down to the Lake Hylia is one of a Zora's favorite leisurely pastimes, although it can be quite a dangerous journey! The Faron Grasslands then become the Faron Jungle and also encompasses the the southern shores of Hyrule, wherein you'll find a small Hylian fishing settlement called Lurelin Village, which is just incredibly charming and even better for fishing!"
And dates, but the only concession to that detail was the slightly distant smile on Sidon's face before he just kept moving forward.
"Traveling north from the Faron region will take us to Necluda, divided into East and West parts, where you will find the largest settlement of Hylians currently in Hyrule, since the destruction of Hyrule Castle Town many years ago. That town is the lovely farming village of Hateno Village, as well as Fort Hateno, which was key to preserving the aforementioned village in the Great Calamity. There will be much more on that later, but, since we are just laying out the land at the moment, let us move on, north, to Mount Lanayru, and, nestled deeply in its tall mountains covered in grass, is the home of the Sheikah, a very ancient and technologically advanced tribe of Hyrule, that find their home in the quiet and tucked away Kakariko Village. This also gives way to the Lanayru Wetlands, where you will also find my cherished home and kingdom, Zora's Domain, right here nestled by the Great Lanayru Spring! They are the most magnificent mountains, gleaming and stunning, so beautiful that we actually carved our Domain straight of of the sleek, stunning rocks! We shall definitely be making a trip there one day, as it is not to be missed, and perhaps I shall spare you the description now so that you may better enjoy it when you see it with your own two eyes!
"With that, let us then follow the Zora River down toward Central Hyrule, which, as the name suggests, is the central part of all of known Hyrule! Here is a vast and open plain with several rivers, and, at the very center of it, is Hyrule Castle, which was once the main center for one of the race of Hylians before the Great Calamity that besieged our land about one hundred years ago. Much of Hyrule Castle and the surrounding castle town was utterly destroyed in the war, and the Calamity has laid claim to the castle itself, making Central Hyrule not only an extremely dangerous place for travelers, but also a very grim reminder of the startlingly real danger we face every day...."
Sidon trailed off for a moment there, as if going into some secret, painful place, but he smiled softly at the students. "More on that, rest assured, another time. But we still have a bit more traveling to do! No rest for the intrepid historian! Let us move north, where we shall find the mysterious Great Hyrule Forest, an enigmatic place that is cloaked in so much fog that it is said that no one may venture forth without finding themselves terribly lost and venturing out as if they had never entered the forest at all! A great many stories and legends surround that place that I am excited to explore with you later!
"A place I may, alas, am rarely able to explore myself, however, lies just east of the Great Hyrule Forest, and that is a place rather ominously and excitingly called Death Mountain. Rising up from the land, Death Mountain is a mighty and fearsome volcano, boasting all the boiling rivers and lakes of lava and scorched, ore-rich stone you would imagine! And nestled in these fiery mountains, you'll find the Gorons and the Goron Village, our last race of Hyrule to mention, a swarthy and sturdy race of rock people that actually eat the very rocks they mine! Their teeth are incredible, as is their strength and enthusiasm, something I can only admire greatly!
"And finally," that's right, folks, he was finally getting to the end, "we have the quiet and beautiful region of Akkala, a vast highland at the edge of the northern and eastern seas, home to brightly colored forest, fields of waving grass, and an old stronghold called the Akkala Citadel, a mighty fortress built ages ago to protect the Akkala region from any known threat, be it by sea, by land, or by air! Alas, even the stalwart Citadel could not escape the threat of the Great Calamity, and it has since been corrupted by it, much like Hyrule Castle itself. But even that cannot mar the beauty and wonder of the area, especially on a warm spring day when the sun is shining over the glittering Akkala Sea."
With that, Sidon finished his breakdown of the highlights of, yes, the entire world of Hyrule, and then turned toward his students with a bright smile. "And there you have it! That is Hyrule....quite literally on paper! Do you have any questions for me? I'll be more than happy to delve into more detail should anything in particular have caught your attention! But, if not, then we'll get on with today's activity. I have a map of Hyrule for each of you," which he went to fetch from the desk now, "they are labeled, although with Hylian script, which, unless you are quite the savant in foreign languages, I can't imagine you can read effectively, and so your job today is to familiarize yourself with the geography by labeling all the regions yourself! Never fear! I have a list of the regions and a key with English labels to follow if you're stuck, and I am also here to help you out should you go astray! So, unless you'd like to discuss any of the regions a bit more, I'll have you begin on your mapping out of this great land!
"And," he added, "I should very much like to have your thoughts about it if any of these lands or places or the details about them caught your interest, so that we might explore them with a particular focus in the upcoming classes. I would be more than happy to tailor our course of study to what you'd like to learn about most, especially since there is certainly no lack of topics to examine, and it might help me decide what we shall learn more about! So we'll discuss it, briefly, if you have thoughts or ideas, and then I'll let you get to your work!"
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He is, however, eagerly hoping that there will be at least a few questions so that he might be able to talk even more, and he would also love to hear it if there are any regions that have piqued your interest in particular to explore in more depth for future classes!
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