I watched a video from Zeltik about the Goddess of the sand from OoT. I really liked it and if you haven't seen it I recomend go checking it out. It's a theory about how the Goddess depicted in and on the spirit Temple might be Din, one of the three Golden Goddesses and the Goddess of power. I have my own thoughts and interpretations that I will depict in this Fic! LETS GO!!
The nine heroes went from a serene flowery field to the harsh desolate wastland that is the Gerudo Desert. Unfortunately for the band of travelers they were sent to the middle of a raging sand storm, "Is this your era, Champion?" The Smith asked, shielding his eyes form the granules of rock and glass, "Don't know. My Pura Pad isn't working." The Young Knight responded. The group went back and forth on the matter at hand until the Old Man shut them up.
"This is my era." Their oldest spoke softly as though not to disterb the sand swerling around them, "How do ya know?" The Vertran questioned. He was the only one standing up looking around. The Vet seemed very unbothered by the whole ordeal, "I can see the Spirit Temple in the distance. Its not too far away. We could take shelter there until the storm wares down." With that they were off. The Old Man was right it was only about a ten or so minute walk. They reached the temple's entrance and looked up.
Towering above them was a large statue of a woman with a snake curling around her. Her face was unreadabul, yet the heroes could sense something sinister about her depiction. Just as they walked in they were attacked. Five women surrounded them weapons sharp and aimed to kill. The Oldest smiled at what looked to be the ring leader, "Good day to you too, Nabooru." Again his voice was calm, his body language relaxed. He did not see these women as threats.
"Gerudo Warriors?" The Champion looked around his own wepon lowering as though he knew the red heads, "Warriors?" the woman the Old Man referred to Nabooru asked, "No one has every called my people that before. I've heard many things shuch as skank, theif, cunt. Never something so dignified." the Kight looked at her then paused, "Right, not my era." He brought his hand to the back of his head, and scratched his neck.
The Old Man chuckled and started to explain who these young men were with him until a loud shriek was herd from behind him. The Vet stood there with a young Gerudo girl. Her arm clasped firmly in his hand. Nabooru looked at the young girl and asked, "What are you doing? I know this man." She pointed at the Old Man, "He would not bring people in here if he did not trust them." Nabooru started to walk over to the Vet and the gril, "That should be your first clue to not antagonize. Why do you think the others dropped their weapons?" The child stayed silent, "Well? Are you going to answer me?"
Tensions were calmed, and the young girl who's name was Norru apologized to the seasoned hero. It was revealed that she had attempted to take the Vets dagger that he always kept on his waist. Nabooru invited the band of heroes further into the temple, as they walked through Sky noticed a smaller version of the statue that towered over the entrance, "Who's that Old Man?" Sky questioned still staring at the Monument, "That's the Goddess of the Sand." Norru answered. She sounded smug and her body language confermed this.
"Does she have another name?" This time the Smith asked turing his gaze to Nabooru hoping to get a kinder answer. And just that happened, "You all may know her as Din the Goddess of Power." The Older Gerudo answered. The Old Man paused and turned around, "Really?" He was surprised, which everyone but the Vet thought was quite unusual. "Yeah figured you didn't know, you would've told us if ya did. Eh, Old Man?" the Veteran had a slay grin plastered on his face. "Did you know?" Sky question his decentednt, "Nah, I just figured she was a diffrent depiction of a familiar Goddess." He responded.
The Sailor was staring at the statachue with great intent, "Do you reconize it Sailor?" Rancher looked at the younger hero, his eyes were wide, full of wonder. "This is the Goddess Din?" The Salior asked again, "She looks so..." his voice traild off. Salior really started to think about it at that moment. "She looks so mean and cold. Nothing how she is depicted in our creation myth." He turned to the others, all were now examining the face of the statue.
Sky, who was now at the front look apone the stone monument with cold eyes, "She looks evil." he said no hint of emotion in his voice. Sky turned to the Gerudo and asked, "Why does she look like that?" his eyes were kinder more understanding now. Nabooru responded to the first hero with the same tone, "We live in the desert, what do you expect? Our home is hot and harsh, if you can't adapt and over come you will die." She said this with so much conviction that it wasn't even questioned anymore.
"So what, this is just how your people see the Goddess of Power?" the Captain finally asked after a long moment of silence. Nabooru looked in his direction then back at the statue, "Yes, though we see her as more fierce than how you Hylian's would depict her, she is still our Goddess, and we know she protects us." The Vet scoffed at that. The heroes knew that he was not particularly fond of the Goddesse. But to everyones shock Sky, the first hero, started to laugh as well.
"They don't protect us, all they do is send children to fight wars for them." The Vet had a cold hard stare plastered on his face. He had been through more shit then anyone else. He was a scape goat for the gods, a small innocent child, gullible. Nothing could convince him otherwise, all he had seen from gods and deities has been nothing short of Immoral, and Sky agreed. Sky had seen what a power tripping god can do, he has interacted with more deities than all the other heroes. They could not bring themselves to think anything else.
"Gods and deities are assholes, I Should know." The Old Man spoke to his brothers with kind eyes and a reasuring voice, "The Golden Three created this world and us, then left it to be cared for by an angle who wasn't strong enough to protect it." His face got darker as he continued, "They then resorted to their creations for help instead of just doing it themselves." The Old Man patted The Veteran and Sky on the shoulder and turned them away from the statue. The other heroes looked apone their brothers with simpothetic eyes. Each of them had been the victims of the gods own selfish game. All of them knew each others pain.
Nabooru was staring at the ground, a look of remorse apone her face, "I am sorry, I shouldn't have-" she was cut off by the Rancher "It's fine, really. We get it, most see the gods as though they could do no wrong." He patted the Gerudo woman on the shoulder trying to comfort her. "Still, I know what Link has gone through. I just... I don't know what I'm trying to say." the Old Man pulled her into a short but sweet hug smiling down at her. "Not your fault" he said shaking her shoulders a little. She giggled and shook him back.
The further they went into the temple the more remnants of Ganon they found. The Old Man had told them that this temple had been The Dark King's Fortress for awhile. Along with Ganon's belogings, they also found more smaller statues of the Sand Goddess. They were strewn about the large room they stepped into almost like they were thrown in here for nothing. Norru ran through the great hall gathering up the tiny statues, picking up each one with a tender hand. She then gentaly placed them back on the pedestals that surrounded the room.
"I have a question for you, the one with the pelt across his shoulders..." Norru was facing away from the band of heroes looking at the last statue she put up. "Though you didn't have much to say on the matter, I still want to know what you think of the Golden Three." The Rancher stayed silent for what felt like hours, then he spoke, "I have no opinons on Nayru or Farore, Din is a diffrent story though." his voice was soft and shallow almost as though he were giving a secret that could end his life.
"In my era Ganondorf was to be executed. The Sages of Old were given the task, and brought the evil king to The Arbiter's Grounds where he would take his final breath." he continued to lower his voice, "This was a couple hundred years before I was born, so I don't know a lot. However, what I do know is that once Ganon was impaled with a Sage's sacred blade he gained ungodly strenth, killed the sage of water, and escaped confinement. With nothing left to do the remaining sages banished him to the Twilight Relm, causing their people to suffer."
So much was said in so little time. The heroes were never ones to talk about their adventures like how the Rancher just did. "What does that have to do with Din? Are you just salty that she didn't step in to help? Or are you mad because the old bastered killed a sage?" Norru had whipped herself around to look at the much taller Hylian her eyes full of tears. "Ganondorf only escaped because the Triforce of Power appeared apone his hand. He should have been dead, but he lived for so many more years because the gods decided to give him the power to. That Divine Prank ruined so many lives, It destroyed my kingdom and my home."
The Rancher's voice was calm, too calm. He looked at the Gerudo girl her mouth agape, tears falling to the ground. She and the other Gerudo looked at the Rancher as though he just killed their dog. The other heroes were just as shocked though that did not last long. Almost everyone of them had fought Ganon with the Triforce of Power. He stole it from many of them, but to hear that the gods bestowed it upon him was gutrenching.
"That Is what I have to say about Din." is all more the Rancher had to say. the topic was dropped and the group continued farther into the temple. They go to the Gerudo camp and Nabooru explained to everyone else who the young men and boys were.
As they were getting ready to sleep away the sandstorm that was still raging Norru apered behind the heroes. No one turned to great her, they didn't need to. They knew why she was here, "I'm sorry." her voice was barely a whisper but they heard, "Thank you" the Rancher turned to look her in to eye. The heroes would be warmly welcomed the rest of the time they were in the Gerudo Desert.
