From here she has a clear view of a Goddess statue she hadn't noticed before, nestled against the side of the house. As she eats, she listens to the conversation around her and watches as shadows from the apple tree wave across the stone, giving it a sense of movement.
But, one issue that has remained unaddressed throughout the entirety of the LOZ canon and apocrypha is the lack of a royal mint.
This implies that rupees are a commodity (a physical material that has value) rather than a fiat currency (a currency not backed by a commodity but by faith in a specific government that ensure it's value).
Most modern governments use Fiat currencies because:
"Fiat money isn't a scarce or fixed resource like gold so central banks have much greater control over its supply. This gives them the power to manage economic variables such as credit supply, liquidity, interest rates, and money velocity." [1]
We can see evidence of Hyrulean government's failure to manage their economy during the runaway inflation of Wind's era
This graph depicts the price to buy an arrow in each specific era of the Legend of Zelda games. The price of arrows between Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass jumped by two rupees and arrow, indicating inflation.
The Origin of Rupees
So if Hyrule's Royal Family isn't minting rupees, where do they come from?
The Hyrule Compendium entry for blupees mentions that "these peculiar little things have a penchant for collecting rupees" but the identity of the compendium's author is unverified and so is their research.
The unregulated nature of Hyrule's commodities-based currency becomes a problem in Tears of the Kingdom, when Koltin asks Link to slaughter all 167 bubbelfrogs.
The life cycle of blupees, bubbelfrogs, and the King of the Mountain requires further study but it is evident that when a blubbelfrog is killed, a blupee is generated. So Link's quest to collect bubbelgems introduces 167 more blupees into Hyrule's ecosystem. These 167 extra blupees eat, drink, and more importantly to us, shit.
So how much did this quest impact Hyrule's economy? To answer that question, some math is required.
The first number we need is the average amount of rupees that blupees shit. To determine this, I shot 30 blupees and fitted the resulting data to a standard distribution.
Blupees Moneybags Georg who shat 51 rupees was an outlier who should not be counted and thus was removed from the dataset.
Multiplying that average amount of rupees that blupees shit by the blupee population [2], gives us the amount of rupees being shat in hyrule.
As you can see, a lot more rupees are being generated during the events of Tears of the Kingdom than in Breath of the Wild. How big of a problem is this? Well, to answer that, we need to know the size of Hyrule's economy.
The Size of Hyrule's Economy
I deciding to determine the size of economy by collecting the prices of every item sold in Hyrule by every merchant (except Ramella, I forgot Ramella).
With the collected price data, we are able to estimate the amount of currency changing hands among the people of Hyrule every year.
So after all this, we can see that the amount of rupees being shat per year should cause significant inflation. And yet, you may recall from our first graph, the price of arrows hasn't significantly changed and neither has the cost of most goods and services across Hyrule with some limited exceptions.
So why aren't prices skyrocketing?
Because the Great Fairies act as the Federal Reserve. They regulate the economy by removing varying amounts of money from circulation via their enchanting services.
In Breath of the Wild, the Great Fairies collectively charge Link 11,600 rupees to wake all 4 great fairies.
In Tears of the Kingdom, they charge Link per individual item of clothing enchanted. This, in total, costs 78,280 rupees.
Accounting for a target 2% rate of inflation, the Great Fairies remove 3.28% of all rupees shat during Breath of the Wild. In Tears of the Kingdom, their rupee removal rate is 5.17% of all rupees being shat.
The Great Fairies are definitely removing less rupees than are being shat but most blupees inhabit far-flung locations that most Hyruleans are not venturing to in these chaotic times. I have confidence that the Great Fairies can adjust their rate of currency removal should the need arise.
But who is attempting to cause this inflation and why?
One thing has always bugged me about Tears of the Kingdom, it wasn't the emptiness of the depths, or the fact that it was easy to miss out on the paraglider, or even the fact that that one cutscene kept being repeated after every temple. It was that Koltin asks you, Link, to go on a rampage of ecological destruction, to hunt the species of Bubbelfrogs to Extinction.
Koltin is clearly passionate about his quest to become a Satori, but he also has a secondary motive, to help out his brother: Kilton.
Kilton started his own currency that competes directly with the rupee and admits as much.
Kolton recruits Link under false pretenses in order to destroy the Bubbelfrog population, increase the amount of blupees, and cause skyrocketing inflation. This would devalue the rupee and incentivize the adoption of mon as a currency.
In the end, Koltins crimes caught up with him and Link helped the Great Fairies stabilize the economy, but Kilton is still out there and who knows what he has planned next.
Across the bridge, the damage to the town is undeniable. The tree she saw leaning against the shrine covers the ancient structure completely, roots ripped from the ground and tangled in a mound of dirt nearly as big as the shrine's platform. As they approach the nearby houses, Zelda can see missing shingles and broken signposts strewn across the walkway.
"Oh, finally!" a familiar voice calls out as soon as the roar of the creek is behind them. A slender man wearing a shocking pink bandana waves lazily from beside the house on their left, and Zelda knows who he is without even having to ask. "I thought we were going to have to go looking for you!"
Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).
Holy Hylia! My first time being tagged by someone else, and that someone is the lovely @haste-waste! You should all go read her stuff, it's top notch!
I guess that means I've finally made it to the big leagues, huh? Here's my last line, blending a Tangled reference with a wink and a nod to the person who inspired my own username, @zeldaseyebrows
“I’ve seen dozens of these things now,” sighed Link, shaking his head at the cartoonish Yiga wanted poster, “They just can’t get my nose right!”
“Or my eyebrows, apparently,” lamented Zelda, scrutinizing the one depicting her.
Anyone who I'd tag has played this game in the last few weeks, so I'll just use this as a shout-out to all the writers and artists from the discord gang @zelinkcommunity whose works and art I've devoured this Zelink Week instead.
I saw your post about bringing back the random asks so: May I show you my onion? I discovered it in my cabinet this morning. It has pig tails. And possibly, personality.
Have I discovered a new pokemon?? 😂 I might have to sharpie a face on it.
Now that's a fine specimen. Let's not think about how long the poor guy was searching for the sun
Also those aren't pigtails, they're totally horns. And yes it is so Pokemon-coded that the fakemon gods possessed me and magically produced (get it? because onions) this on my phone-
It's a jackalope onion. Or a Jackabulb. Winds and Waves ultra secret leeked (I can do this all day) starter you see
@sparklyhyperbole It's a companion bulb for your FLOWERS fic! 🤣The rabbit was an early experiment into the genetic testing process of bringing bulbs to life, and the girls got to keep him as a pet!
Please give him a face! (He's giving me Wilson vibes🤣)
This was an idea I'd already written down notes for after "Its Your Sword", and the plot ended up fitting perfectly with the prompt. A one-shot that's now accidentally become a series. Whoops, I baked more cake.
Thanks to @summonerluna, who helped me untangle my run-on sentences and thoughts to make them more readable!
Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?
Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?
ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person
der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter
-ung = -ing
die Vermüllung = littering
ver- = see before
zweifeln = to doubt
-ung = see before
die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation
@shiplocks-of-love I don’t think that will happen. The words make perfect sense. I think if German is your mother tongue you get a feeling for combining words, like a
• irren = to become lost (also: to err, to be mistaken; to wander, to stray)
• der Garten = garden
der Irrgarten = maze, knot garden
• be- = prefix with a variety of functions: ¹as part of a compound word, it denotes a processing or change of state; ²as part of a compound word, it denotes a touch; ³as part of a compound word, it denotes a more intensive preoccupation with or thematization of something; ⁴it forms from a noun an adjective with a pseudo-participle form because the corresponding verb does not exist; ⁵as a prefix, it forms a transitive verb from a previously intransitive verb; ⁶as a prefix of a verb, it shifts the focus and thus changes the sentence structure
• lustig = funny
• -ung = suffix turning an adjective/adverb into a noun
die Belustigung = amusement, entertainment, merriment
der Beitrag = contribution, article in a newspaper or magazine, posting on social media, input to a discussion
The thing is, since in German you have to decline/conjugate many words in relation to the noun they are refering to those monster words actually serve a purpose of making the language simpler.
A common example is a (as in any) red wine (ein roter Wein) as compaired to the compound a red wine (ein Rotwein). If rot is an adjective it has to be conjugated: der rote Wein - des roten Weins - die roten Weine - and many more. But it if rot is part of the noun you only have to decline Wein: der Rotwein - des Rotweins - die Rotweine.
So, die Verzweiflung über die Vermüllung der Umwelt is way longer than Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung and you would have to know three grammatical genders and the words’ respective declinations. Whereas for Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung you only need to know that Verzweiflung is grammatically feminine (die) and its deklinations.
Another prompt brought to you by @raurusthirdeye thank you very much!
Sweet victory
Write a 50 word zelink fanfic and tag it at zelink-microfic. Don't forget to reblog and spread the word! If you have any prompt suggestions, please feel free to send an ask!
This is the story that sprang into my mind when I saw @between-star's BotW's 9th Anniversary post! She gets credit for being the inspiration 😁❤️
Sweet Victory:
The fruitcake tasted sweeter than any she’d ever had, including those before the Calamity. Perhaps because he’d made it for her. Despite possessing only a fractured memory of their previous lives, Link somehow still remembered this.
Zelda’s heart fluttered with hope as she took another nibble.
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