#ordona

[rottencandyapp1es]

Let’s be silly with mama 💛✨💕

Happy Mother’s Day 💞

[hnnn-zelda]

I decided to redo an old zine piece of mine from about 5 years back. I really love how this new version came out; I feel like this really shows the progress I've made in my art over the past several years.

Old version below the cut:

[lightningclaw13]

A simple map I made showing off the world of Ever Diverging Paths. Eventide is where Zola live, Aluron is where the demons mostly live, and Dromiand is monster territory.

[fwoosheye]

Holiday Piece for @limited-hero's discord prompt "Christmas". I just feel like Ordon probably have some version of the Yule Goats, considering it's a farming community with a lot of goats, goat themed decorations, and a goat shaped guardian spirit.

Happy Holidays y'all!

[hotstreak2k3]

It’s finally here!

RwanLink’s 18th anniversary tribute to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is finally out on Youtube.

Check out this video and reblog it to pass it on. :)

[iffondrels-library]

Idea spread of Ordona and Satori because these two have some really cool similarities.

[gokuharaonyx-07]

The true origin of the zonai cutscene that Nintendo scrapped from the TOTK game because they were COWARDS!!!

[aikoiya]

LoZ: Ordonian Folktales - The Tale of the Stáblad & the Tangled Capaill

This story is about a stableboy who had been stealing from his boss' stash of homebrewed booze & drinking on the job. (Ordona tends to have a pretty low drinking age. About 15 or so.)

In an attempt to hide this fact from his boss who was on the warpath searchin' for the culprit, the stableboy poured the moonshine into the horse's drinking trough without thinking.

The horse got so terribly drunk that he began to dance, but ended up getting his hooves all tied, resulting in him falling over & breaking his legs. Meaning that he would need to be killed in order to prevent him from suffering.

However, the horse had been the owner's prized stallion, which he'd been planning to enter into the Hateno Rodeo next week, but now that was impossible. The old man was furious & was determined to find the miscreant responsible.

Despite this, the stableboy was unapologetic, more concerned with keeping from getting caught than the unfortunate death of the rancher’s beloved horse.

That night, however, the stableboy was visited by Malanya, the Goddess of Horses, who lectured the young man & turned him into a horse to replace the one that his negligence had needlessly killed. The stableboy turned out to be quite blessed in being very fast.

So, despite only having a week to practice, he ended up winning the horse race at the Hateno Rodeo.

Yet, even then, he remained a horse. Several years passed by, the transformed horse winning many a rodeo event, but even still he sank deeper into despair due to isolation, until a new stableboy was hired, who, wouldn’t you know it, began to steal the rancher’s booze & drink it on the job, much like the transformed horse had.

He, too, found himself getting absolutely shitfaced on moonshine & much like the horse he’d replaced, the once stableboy began to dance, before tripping & breaking his own legs.

When it came time for the rancher to put the once stablehand down, the horse neighed loudly, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I filched the moonshine an' poured it into the drinkin' trough! I didn' mean to kill the horse, but I did & now I don' wanna die!” (Forgive my butchering of an Irish accent. I tend to see Ordon being an interesting mix of Irish & southern US country.)

Though the rancher did not understand, someone else did. And in that moment, the horse turned into a man… with a pair of broken legs.

All around were shocked & the man cried in jubilation before confessing his theft & mistreatment of the old horse.

The man was given several lashings, but he took it on the chin like a champ, knowing that it'd been a long time coming, & the once horse was never hired by any other ranch or farm in Ordon again.

Since then, Malanya has been one of the patron deities of Ordon alongside the Light Spirits.

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What isn’t known is that this tale is true & that though the owner was upset, he allowed the once-horse man lodging at his home until he'd recovered, found a new job, & a new home (because you can't expect them to have just left the man's house empty). During that time, the horse-man managed to convince the new stableboy to confess his own crimes. The boy was allowed to stay on, but his pay was cut in half until he proved himself trustworthy.

Something else that isn't told in the tale, the once-horse man ended up opening The Tangled Capaill Tavern that still stands to this day. Capaill being the old Ordonian word for horseshoes.

He really buckled down & ended up using the money he earned from it to buy his old boss a new horse who ended up being an even better rodeo horse than the horse-man.

Something interesting he discovered after paying for a new horse, though, despite being returned to the form of a man, the once stableboy seemed to retain the speed he'd had as a horse. Perhaps a gift from Malanya as a reward for good behavior? After all, he hadn't needed to pay back his old boss nor swear to give him (but only him) free drinks at the horse-man's new tavern.

Malanya is especially well-known for blessing the ranch that Twilight works at. Which is where you find her bud in BotW. It's what's left of Ordon Ranch on the Surface.

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Edit: Sorry, for whatever reason, the original post was acting funky, so I deleted & this is me reposting it.

Okay, I don't get what's wrong with this specific post. I copy the URL & make a link, then when I click the link, it kicks me out of the app & puts me in the browser version.

Re-Edit: Figured it out! You get rid of the % in the URL! :D

Anyway, here's the link to @skyloftian-nutcase's post using this folktale: Twilight Spins A Yarn

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