#mudora

[knightofhylia]

The rising sun will eventually set A newborn's life will fade. From sun to moon, moon to sun... Give peaceful rest to the living dead. Restless souls wander where they don't belong, bring them calm with the Sun's Song.

[alexsgrimoire]

Sword, triforce, dungeon boss

Sword: Name a kind of magic you have that gives you an “edge.”

While I haven't done any direct sex/kink magic, I definitely feel magick coursing through me when I'm channeling my sexuality/sensuality. So doing drag, burlesque, being with my play partners, etc. That also really connects to my work with Lord Dionysus, being in the whole performing-arts-gender-fuckery-sex domain!

A local dungeon was doing a class on kink magick for the spooky season, but they're very much a Do Not Go There dungeon/infamous in the community. Which is a shame, because I've been having a super hard time finding actual resources on kink magick.

The Triforce: What wish would you make if you could have any wish granted, and is it a wise wish to make?

I would wish to successfully get my degree and my dream job! I'm applying for a BFA in Costume Design (need to work on my portfolio next week), and it would be the best thing in the world to actually get to do that! (And maybe get nominated for a Tony 👀👀👀) I feel like it's pretty wise as I feel like that's what I want to do in life, but if the universe has other plans for me, I'm not sure what they are :p

Dungeon Boss: What has been your greatest challenge to overcome in your Craft?

This has less to do with my actual workings and more to do with myself, but getting over my emotional baggage and trauma has been a roadblock in a lot of my Craft. I get spiritual blockages due to it, such as the Samhain ritual this year, when I tried to use a spirit board, but was (and still am) going through so much that I couldn't communicate. I want to do some Shadow Work, especially with the Full Moon ritual I'm leading next month!

Thanks for your questions!

[knightofhylia-sageofthetriforce]

Lady of Light

Goddess of Time

I come to you seeking refuge.

You know my pain

My insecurities

My struggles.

I ask that you reside with us

Healing our hearts

Guiding us on our paths.

-Florian Knight

[mudora]

sometimes I let my stupid 59 year old son be happy.

[yugiohcardsdaily]

Mudora

"Gains 200 ATK for each Fairy monster in your GY."

[fyeahygocardart]

Mudora the Sword Oracle

[pixelartpeach]

By Hylia, TELL ME about your Mudora theory!

THIS POST CONTAINS HEAVY SKYWARD SWORD SPOILERS

I MEAN HEAVY

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

The Book of Mudora is an item you get in A Link to the Past.

Looks a lot like Hyrule Historia, doesn't it?

The Book of Mudora is, according to the ALttP manual, "a collection of Hyrule legends and lore," that contains stories about the Triforce. In-game, its use is in tranlating the game's Hylian script.

Unlike all other Zelda games, its script doesn't translate into Japanese or English, instead having three unique glyphs depending on which localization you play.

But why? Why is this particular script so unintelligible?

My theory is that Mudoran Hylian is the very first iteration of Hylian, from before even Skyward Sword.

As far as language goes, plenty of languages tend to start out as logographies (hieroglyphic systems) before they turn into simpler, easier to write markings. Look at the Latin alphabet, for example.

The Proto-Sinaitic pictures up at the top got progressively simplified into the Greek alphabet, then turned into Archaic Latin. The reason Roman Latin looks so crisp and clean is because they started carving these letters into stone. The serif (the little stroke at the ends of the lines) is a chisel mark.

Given how similar Mudoran Hylian is to Egyptian hieroglyphs, we can make that connection and say that Hylian started out the same way.

HEAVY SKYWARD SPOILERS BELOW

Skyward Sword has a LOT of architecture in it. Despite it being the first Zelda game, before Hyrule was ever established, we find ruins of ancient civilizations.

A cistern so good at purifying water that the impurities of it creates the world’s first redead-esque monsters. It contains mechanical wonders like Koloktos and the elevators, and marvels of plumbing and watercourses all throughout.

Colorful palaces capable of channeling LAVA. The kind of structural integrity this would have to have, and the Fire Sanctuary is almost completely untouched by ruin!

Factories! Circuitry! Usage of stones that literally CHANGE TIME, as an integral mechanic!

Even Skyview Temple has a working water system, despite everything, and contains the best item Zelda’s ever come out with.

The civilization that came before Hyrule was ADVANCED. Insanely so. Using everything from AI to magic, these people knew how to fully take advantage of the world the goddesses left them, perhaps even through use of the Triforce.

Back to Mudora.

Although plenty of stuff on the surface uses Skylian text, mostly as easter egg content from the Zeldevs, you can find a lot of designs in Lanayru that capture interest.

Particularly this marking on the ground at that one roller coaster island in the sand sea.

The swirly marks here aren’t seen anywhere else, to my knowledge, and they look a lot like the cover of the Book of Mudora.

Now, why Mudora? Why is it called Mudora?

It doesn’t mean anything in English. And it’s the same name it has in source Japanese.

ムドラの書 | Mudora no Sho

Which, I checked; also doesn’t mean anything different from English.

Here’s the thing. The Surface is nameless. We know it’s later called Hyrule, and that’s derived from Hylia; if it was named that before, Impa or Fi would have called it such. And it had to have had a name before the tragedy of war struck it down.

So, my theory is that Mudora is the name of the world before the Battle of Demise.

When the demons broke free of the ground, Mudora must have been THRIVING. Automatons! Port cities! Dragon nobility, the Triforce itself being a well-known treasure! All of that lost in the destruction that followed.

When Hylia sent humanity skyward, it was her last resort. Almost everyone had perished in the war.

Demise even brags about that conquest.

But...that time also had a hero.

Originally, I thought that this was a time loop; that the legends were about Link and Zelda, just post Gate-of-Time and passed down through legends. However...

By the time you get there, Skyloft is long gone.

They wouldn’t have known about you.

So the first hero, the original hero, was the champion of Mudora. We don’t know what happened to them, but we know that, from Demise’s dialogue, the two never faced each other.

They may have lived a hundred years before Demise, for all we know.

But they existed.

[thewittyphantom]

A lot of Ishizu’s cards got retrained versions that are wreaking havoc in the TCG at the moment. Here’s a handy guide to what’s new!

https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/yx6p7h/the_original_ishizu_cards_and_their_new_versions/