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Hey guys, been a while, hasn’t it? Just a gentle reminder that I am archiving this blog. See this post here.
I am in the middle of moving blogs. (Have been for a while.) Also just busy with life as well. And the like. But also… yea, if folks really want to follow the new blog - whenever i do FINALLY get that finished, PLEASE feel free to let me know. Either here or in discord. Or if you just wanna stay in touch in general. My discord is listed in the post that i linked above. I’m here, just been super busy irl. I hope you all are doing well though! I am sending much loves. 🥰
Some updates below, i guess... if anybody would like to know what is going on.
and reason why i haven't been on here.
I know, i know. I don't need an explanation. I don't owe anybody here one. Yes, I understand. But also... I would like to at least explain the current status of this blog, and possibly the future status of it as well. Anyway...
I... have a life. ( amazing right?? )
Outside of tumblr that is. That is obvious and apparent. I also genuinely would hope that people can assume that I have a life outside of tumblr. But, no, really. I have a life. I am VERY busy.
I do not need to get into the details of how i am very busy, but I will say this: i am also back in school.
I love school. So much. I love further education a lot because i love to learn. I want to understand things. I want to learn how i can maneuver through things in live. Learning is something that make me feel fulfilled in life, aside from helping others. ( helping others is also very fulfilling for me as well . )
So, yea. I am just busy. I cannot always be here.
i also have feelings.
I am a person behind the screen. ( i really hope that people understand that. ) I'm not a monster. I'm not a robot. I have feelings, i have emotions. I laugh and smile at things that make me happy. It's natural. Writing is fun. It should be fun. Writing with others is also fun. I like meeting new people and sharing thoughts and making new friends. That's great. and this site has been able to help me in finding people that I have known for years. I have met so many people for which they have made me have positive feelings.
But I can also be hurt. I can be sad. I can have negative feelings. I can feel scared. I can feel uncomfortable. I can feel unsafe. And... If i had to be honest....
Being on this blog makes me feel a really bad ick.
trying to write on my other blog as well makes me feel the same way.
I am not here to name people. I am not here to point fingers and have a blame game. I dont want to pick fights with people. Because that is not my intention. I, however, want to address something that has been very pervasive here. It actually reeks so bad, and i am tired of people pretending that it doesn't exist. Because while it may not exist for some folks, because while people can be illusioned to the fact that its not there, others, especially those who have been ostracized and cut out, have been feeling a very heavy weight.
Conform, or become the public's enemy. That is what I am feeling. What probably many have thought, but do not dare say it for fear of becoming the next person targeted. And gods forbid i actually compare it to and say that it is a cult because 'its not a cult' will be the defense. 'we are a great community! we do not harm others!' No. I need the delusions to stop. It is like a cult. And I'm tired of people pretending it isn't one. The echo chamber needs to stop.
Im also sick of people warping the truth and making unofficial HCs 'official' and then villainizing other folks who don't want to abide or follow those personal/custom HCs. It is not a crime to be canon divergent. It is okay to admit that something in the canon isn't going to be followed because it wasn't liked. But to outright deny the truth of official content, because its not liked? or because it doesn't fit to what people wanted?
Are we so disillusioned and so delusional that we are going to pretend that something didn't happen? Or that something isn't true? What revisionist history is that?
I am really going off on a tangent. And I am sure not many folks are going to read all of this. But... for those who have. Thank you.
I just want people to understand where I am standing, currently, about this blog, this fandom/community, and about how I am feeling. And, while yes, I admit that there are some people here that make me feel unsafe, that is my own personal problem, I just also no longer feel happy here anymore.
I love this muse. I love this character. I love writing him, and i am very proud of the style i have made... specifically for him. I just cannot be here without just feeling some sort of animosity and discomfort.
But I also don't want to come off and tell what people should or shouldn't do either. Because people are adults and can make decisions for themselves. I try to be very welcoming and understanding towards everybody, and I really hope that I have done that to some extent. If I haven't, if i have made you feel like I am unapproachable, I am very sorry.
Moving forward, though....
What is to become of this blog?
I don't know. Actually. I am thinking of moving. Again.... sadly. This blog and also @legacyshero. I am just unsure where. I don't know how or what I am going to do. But I know that I cant stay here. It is too stagnant, and, again, I feel too unsafe.
I still write. Just a lot more privately. I am still here, just in other places ( i lurk more often on my claude blog ). I just ask that people respect my privacy. If i havent shared something in public, don't go and tell other people. That's really rude and very disrespectful. I am and will always be passionate about the characters I write, even if I am not always active. But I really do not need a mob following me wherever I go.
If folks want to keep in touch with me, they may. You guys can add me on discord. I dont mind. Just let me know who you are. You may add me @ dilectam.
alright, because i am absolutely PISSED about it. and i said i would namedrop the next time it happened ( and i let it slide once, but it just happened AGAIN . )
To whomever is from the BRONX:
stop. HARD STOP. STOP GOING ON MY BLOG. i see your fucking IP. you're not fucking cute. it's actually really unnerving. it's upsetting. and given other past behavior and other things that have happened surrounding some incidents, i am PRETTY sure i know WHO it is. know that i am giving you SOME decency and not dropping your name or URL. For now.
since LATE APRIL, you have been coming back to my blog. over and over. checking in on my blog like some weird obsession to see if i have posted anything. its really REALLY fucking weird. its people like you that make me anxious to even be on this account.
LEAVE. ME. ALONE.
and i am PRETTY fucking sure that this obsession stems from the fact i see the yiga as a fucking cult and said something about it. because you didnt even BOTHER to pay attention to me UNTIL i posted about it.
Only go in the summer. The winter court will do you no favours. The summer court is less malevolent, but no safer.
When you enter, know that time will not work in your favour. You may lose entire lifetimes within hours.
Choose a new name, but don’t keep it for too long, otherwise you will belong to it.
Bring cold iron, wear red.
Carry red berries from a rowan, mountain ash, or holly tree. St. John’s Wort or red verbena flowers are acceptable as well. They will keep you safe, but not for long.
To see through the glamours, place four-leaf clovers in a pouch around your neck. It may help.
Children should wear crowns of daisies.
If you return home, and your child is different, do not go looking for what you have lost.
Leave the same way you entered, but never return through the same entrance. The second time, they will know enough to keep you.
Do not stand in the mushroom rings. If someone you know enters a ring, you cannot save them.
Never accept a gift. They will want something in return.
Be polite, but do not say thank you.
The food will be the best you have ever tasted. Only eat it if you wish to never leave.
If you must stay the night, sleep under the rowan, holly, or ash tree. The elder wood will make you tired. Do not close your eyes.
If you hear music, you are running out of time. If you hear harps, your time is up.
Don’t join the dancing unless they give you a token.
You cannot become one of them, however much you desire to leave your life behind.
If you see an alder tree, know you will not be lucky enough to go home unscathed.
Sit under a hawthrone tree or an elderwood tree on midsummer’s eve if you need to find the courts.
Place salt on your windowsills if you make it back, otherwise they will follow you home.
If you meet other explorers in the woods, do not help them. They have been there too long. Do not let them know you can leave, otherwise they will try come with you. Do not let them help you, they will try make you stay.
happy mothers day! for those who are mothers, in any capacity, i wish you a very lovely wand wonderful day. i hope you are celebrated.
I do, unfortunately, have something else i really need to say and address on this blog. It is incredibly important, and i have been very... disquieted about the actions, attitudes, and behavior of some folks. It has gotten to the point where i simply can no longer ignore it.
I do need to address some very specific boundaries that have been crossed.
I don't tolerate disrespect. I really dont. And i would really like to think that i am a fairly laid back and chill person most of the time. I honestly also dont mind block evasion most of the time as LONG as it is to try to contact me.
WHAT I WILL NOT TOLERATE IS PEOPLE BLOCK EVADING ME JUST TO KEEP TRACK AND WATCH WHAT I POST.
People literally do not have any good reason to go on my blog just to keep themselves updated on what i am doing. And i KNOW people are doing that because of how i set up my blog. THIS blog specifically. People are genuinely block evading JUST to look at my blog, and im not only sick and tired of it, but i am absolutely appalled at the behaviour.
PLEASE DON'T GO ON MY BLOG JUST TO LOOK AT WHAT I POSTED IF I HAVE YOU BLOCKED.
This HAS happened in the past before, and i had to confront folks before. Albeit it was done privately last time, but I will NOT be as lenient this time around. Especially with how AGGRESSIVE it has been this time around. Because the aggression has indeed been increased significantly recently.
I need this addressed because while i dont truly believe that it is my mutuals, i DO need my mutuals to know and understand that i also dont tolerate folks going to others and updating other people.
I need people to understand that my rules and what i have on my rules aren't there as optional things. Every single thing that is found in my rules has been placed there because of what i have experienced in the community. i NEED folks to understand that and RESPECT that.
I also genuinely want people to understand that, again, while i am a fairly lax and laidback individual, i have been incredibly unnerved by this.
i genuinely dont feel comfortable because of what i have been seeing - because i DO see it - and after having spent YEARS to try to get comfortable on this blog again, i cannot believe we have gone back to this.
DON'T block evade to track other people's activities.
I think something that i tend to do with A LOT of the games that i play is that I NORMALLY tend to look only what is found WITHIN the game itself when it comes to my characterizations. I don’t do this for every game, mind, but i think i have done it for so long for A LOT of my characters. Yes, this also includes this muse as well. Specifically this muse when I FIRST started writing him.
This normally stems from the fact that i have always done this with my older muses due to not always having other content available for me at the time.
For example: Twilight Princess was the first Zelda game I started playing. I didn’t have any other references to the other games. So i didn’t understand the nods to the other older games. I only started noticing the references when i started playing Skyward Sword.
Even after I started learning more about outside lore that wasnt found within the game, I STILL tried to keep it within the scope and lens of JUST the game itself. Sure, I was, and still am, open to outside factors and external content, but I purposely tried to keep a more narrow lens for a MULTITUDE or reasons. One being that I just genuinely didn’t want to overwhelm and overload myself with new information to the point where i just wasn’t enjoying myself.
Placing a limitation in regard to what content i could use in my scope actually helped with creating and writing my own characterization though. I didn’t have so many rules and stipulations that i had to follow to make sure it was ‘canon’. As long as it was found WITHIN the game, i was completely fine with it.
Again, bringing up this muse. We all know that there is a manga version for Twilight Princess. And it DEFINITELY is something. Canon material? Sure. It can be classified as that. However, It is VASTLY different than the game. To the point where key components and parts of certain characters’ personalities are incredibly different. ( and , in some cases , they actually clash with one another . )
I have definitely gotten a bit more lax compared to how i used to be, at least when it comes to the characterizations of most of my Zelda muses, HOWEVER, for the most part, i try to stay WITHIN the game. And i try not to use a lot of external factors like other games and media to sway my characterizations.
In all honesty, I STILL do this today. With my other muses and characters. I think, the best example(s) i could probably take from are the h.oy/o games. There are A LOT of external media and content for all of the games. Even some of the characters are found across multiple games. As much as it is NICE to consume other media and content for the characters that are found outside the game, i don’t normally put it into play when it comes to MY OWN characterizations. ( and sure, maybe sometimes I will, but it’s really not all the time . )
I think i also do this because in high school, we had an activity where we all had to read the same book, but some folks were forced to write book reports in certain lens/perspectives. ( modern lens vs. traditional lens ; feminist lens, etc etc etc . ) Being forced to read something in a very specific lens really just made me realise that…. There are multiple ways to consume and analyse media and content. Not saying that each and every way is the right way - which we had also learned as well - but it is a DIFFERENT way. It also helps you see that, through limited scopes, people will have a different understanding of content.
Anyway i rambled. But, bottom line, the thing that i want to say is that… My interpretations/characterizations often come from a very specific scope. Im not consuming every piece of media of Zelda when it comes to portraying Twilight Link.
Does it make my portrayal different? Yea, i mean i think so. But it also makes it really unique too.
so anyway, i was thinking about this last night when i saw a shiba inu training to be a service dog. and then i was like... omg.... come to think of it...
Twilight, in BOTW, probably DOES serve/act like a support animal to Wild.... Like for as cheeky as he can be, he probably DOES take necessary steps to help and assist when it comes to probably anything. From panic attacks and episodes of PTSD ( which he also gets himself ) to probably other physical assistance as well. Since most folks don't realise or know that Twilight is human so it probably gets turned into.... Support services.
Like yea, we know he's a big ol' wolf. ( giant actually . He's almost the same height as Wild . ) But it's evident that he just want to help too! He wants others to feel safe and comfortable. And, also, he just wants to do something meaningful if he's going to be in the Wild Era.
I get absolutely SO delighted when somebody sees me the go-to twilight princess guru. You know… The person to come to when you need to know something about the game. It has me 😍 like… omg i feel SO touched. 🥺 also love it when i get people wanting to play the game again.
I should…. Try to start writing my headcanon thoughts in the notes app of the iPad instead of just waiting and hoping i will drag myself to my laptop so that way i at least have the thoughts and brain worms somewhere. Especially since I get a keyboard for the iPad. Maybe…. I will do that. I need to ALSO find the rest of my headcanons from my old blog as well cause i am pretty sure i am STILL missing some stuff but… hmm…. Idk. We shall see. There’s so much stuff i wanna write and talk about though.
Also. Finally got out of lakebed btw. Haha. Time for one of my fav dungeons! :)
Love the hc so much :] do you think it's more comfortable for him to express his singing talent in wolf form?
oh! wow thanku!! this made my day! i am so glad you love it! 🥰
and, yes, i DO think he is more comfortable in his wolf/beast form! i really do think it comes from the idea that... he hears the howling stones, and then he gets really drawn into it and wants to harmonise with the stones. like he completely forgets that midna is there too. ( though i think her not saying anything also helps too . ) he just hears the stone and its an immediate... ' i must howl/sing. '
i also think that BECAUSE he begins to sing more in his wolf form, he starts to get a little bit more comfortable singing in his normal hylian form.
ALSO, as an aside, link NEVER forgot the lullabies that his mother sang to him as a baby/child. so he probably DOES sing them every now and again as well. not for anybody but himself though.
but i think when he truly believes he's alone, he'll sing. its something that calms him. it relaxes him. and he does get lost in singing. and he, VERY OFTEN uses his surroundings when he vocalizes as well. so like if he finds a place that has that a really good acoustics, he's gonna probably be more inclined to sing.
but again, yes, to answer your question, he DOES feel way more comfortable in his wolf form. Because he's not just... howling. like he is, we know he is, but he is also singing. also because he knows people are most liekly going to avoid his beast form anyway. so he knows he's more likely to be alone.
So anyway. Playing more twilight princess has me really thinking of another hc…. Cause howling stones…. And songs…
I write that link IS a very selective mute. Like he’s mute but it’s not that he CANT talk. He just doesnt like to talk. Of which i have discussed… but like… im thinking… he has a very amazing and very beautiful singing voice. IF he actually decided and chose to sing. ( which he doesn’t ) BUT if he did decide to actually speak and try to sing, it would be very… hmmm… breathtaking. Like… his vocalizations… his RANGE… im!!! GOD the amount of aura this guy probably has while singing is just jaw dropping.
And you wouldn’t even expect it from him either. Since, you know. He doesnt talk. But it doesnt mean that he doesn’t know how to speak.
Alright, this took me a bit because i actually... had to like... scrounge up an old document that i had shared with a single person that explained the deities at the time. Not to mention that I have had like really old convos that I sort of had to dig up as well as do some bit of TWEAKING to some of the original Lore I had. ( since the original lore still had hylia at the top and I simply just... don't think/believe that many of the inhabitants of Twilight Princess really.... pray to Hylia all that often. Because she's not considered a 'main' goddess to A LOT of folks. ( she's not the 'main' religion of TP )
Also, since some folks were a bit more interested and/or asked questions, I'll just tag them here so they can read it at their leisure:
@gerudospiriit / @llosgcariad
Im gonna.... put it all under a read more due to its length but also because there is an image incorporated as well. I do also apologise if this is all over the place as well beacuse I am trying to like... go through and explain anything and everything.
Alright, so I went an remade an old reference sheet that I had around. By remade, i simply just... moved the upper section a bit so that the 'gods not claimed' had a bigger/more balanced section. But let me just explain a bit about this.
Essentially... The Left side that has Hylia underneath is but ONE religion that may be found within Twilight Princess Hyrule. This.. religion is what would many consider like... the relgion that probably will be found/considered in other eras as well since it follows "Hylia and the Goddesses" faith. With Hylia being the topmost favoured/ruler of the other gods/goddesses. A 'king/queen'. If you will. Its almost similar in Greek Mythos where... Zues is considered the King of Gods but that doesn't mean that he is the ONLY God.
It's a system is a bit similar in that aspect? But not wholly or exactly like it. Still though, you would also have something similar to the "Olympians" as well. The Olympians of this religion of hyrule being... Din, Farore, and Nayru ( the 'Goddesses' ).
In TP, the folks that normally follow THIS specific religion are namely the Hyrulian Royal Family, the Sheikah, and a few other notable Non-Hylian Royals.
This faith is a 'newer' faith system compared to the Right Side. But it should be noted that, for the most part, the faith/religion sort of 'takes over' very specific traditions over time for those who follow this faith due to the 'Triforce' also just simply comes from this side. IT is not ALL of it, but a good majority of it does, which is why... 3 of the 4 light spirits are also found on this side of the religion. It's also what the followers pass down to tell the story of legend.
This main issue with this religion, and why it is ultimately NOT followed well in Twilight Princess is due to the fact that this faith system puts an emphasis on very specific gods/goddesses. Almost like a take over, and there is an attempt to ERASE any other sort of faith system. It's pretty harsh in discrimination against any gods that don't FIT the model very well, and just... seems to ignore them completely.
I honestly do not have or know the words that can describe this well other that... a foreign entity comes and tries to take over what was originally there. You can actually see this in real life with some Western Religions actually. Honestly, Christianity is a primary religion/faith that I can think of where you this happening where there is an attempt to convert people over. My personal experience with this is the church of the La.tter D.ay Sa.ints.
A DISCLAIMER: This is by no means a jab at western faith for the most part ( though I do actually have a dislike for Christianity but thats neither here nor there and im not really intending to make a jab, but it IS an observation that I have personally seen ). BUT i DIGRESS.
Anyway... This faith system really isn't fully set into place in Twilight Princess due to the fact that a majority of Hyrule still follow the 'older' traditions. This actually also includes the Light spirits as well. Though 3 of them are 'Claimed' in this new religion, you do witness them sort of adhering to the more common faith that is found ( especially since Link would be somebody who would know more about the 'old' faith rather than the 'newer' faith that the royal family follows ). This could be a possible oversight for them ( Eldin, Faron, and Lanaryu ), but it could also mean that they dont really care or prefer one way or the other ( as the other 'unclaimed' deities also do not care either' ). To them they don't normally see the separate faiths anyway since for them, God's are gods. so its like... well who cares?
It's important to note that. Yes: Hylia IS a goddess. She is, however, an outsider goddess. A goddess that came from a different place/land. She is... as some would call... an 'alien resident'. But many took her in as a new goddess anyway. She, later and eventually, brings about her own faith system and tries to 'take over' ( for some odd reason that honestly I cannot explain. ) Take over is a rather strong word, though. I think its more of her trying to 'organise' religion and faith a bit more to her liking since, before, there really wasn't any sort of organized faith. ( i wouldn't say it was chaotic, it was just disorganized ). This also doesn't include the fact that hylia also had her own set of problems and ordeals to handle so she... more or less just tried to do things that made sense to her.
Some people obviously liked the 'order' hylia brought, naturally. ( these include skyloftians ). but there were a large group of folks just simply didn't take to the religion as well. Or rather, it was more on the faith and believe that.... some people just didn't like the erasure of the other gods - since for them, they truly believed there were deities for EVERYTHING. It was a very common faith.
Which brings us to the RIGHT side of the diagram. The more 'COMMON' Faith system found within TP.
The thing about the right side/other religion is that.... By technicality... Hylia and the 3 goddesses are ALSO found within this religion, though... They don't NEARLY have as much of an important role as the other religion. Instead of them being THE goddesses, they are simply.... just some goddesses found.
If we are following from top to bottom, we see that there are like... 'higher gods' listed. Now. in regards to WHAT these gods are and what they represent? thats a valid question and point. Of which i can only answer.... I don't know. I really do not know the answer to that one. Though I think it is REALLY safe to assume that some/many/most of the following are or would be considered higher deities: Life, Death, Sun, Moon, Water, Air, Earth, and Fire
I think another way to think about it is.... What would be the most common/general deities that would most likely be worshipped by EVERYBODY and that is what you would probably have for the 'major' gods. But also.. note that.... You have a few in there that would.... Follow or fit into the 'Hylia' Religion/Faith as well. This is actually done on purpose because.... Unlike the Hylia religion, this 'older' faith does/did genuinely take the Hylia faith into consideration. Some of the older gods were simply just 'repurposed' into the 'newer' faith so I think naturally... that's why the model is sort of... made into this specific way. Of course, if this doesn't make sense, feel free to let me know and I can try to explain it better. sdlsdkj
Anyway... Moving on...
So yea... You have the.... 'Higher Gods' of the Faith, and then, under them are the Light Spirits. Which are considered Deities in their Own right, but are sort of SEPARATE from.... the higher gods. Like in a tiered system, though, they would be underneath the higher gods, but still above all other 'minor-ish' deities. The reason for this is due to the fact that... They are still widely followed/worshipped by mortals. ( Though perhaps who worships them are not as intense since its more of a regional thing than anything ).
Example: Ordona is probably more worshipped by people in the Ordon providence. Though she is probably seen/recognized by other folks from the other providences, they just don't prey to her as much or often since she is not part of their providence. This is the same for the other Light Spirits ( Though in the case of the Other Light Spirits, They are also part of Hylia's Faith as well so they are also seen as the protectors/guides of their part of the triforce - meaning that they simple are seen with some extra stuff in Hylia's faith system. )
After/under the Light spirits, you essentially have like... every other god/deity that just aren't technically considered a major god - and therefore arent ALWAYS worshipped by everybody - but are still recognized as such. Normally they have a smaller set of devout followers for themselves, but... its more on a personal level than anything else? like people can pick and choose who they want to worship or celebrate but they wouldn't be punished if they didn't recognize all of them. ( its a bit like.. they pick whichever god speaks to them the most ).
These 'minor ish' gods probably would consist of stuff like: dreams, shadows, other elements not part of the major ones ( electricity, ice, etc ), medicine, seasons, desert, forest and sea/lake/river gods. Like there isn't really a limit to what could or couldn't be a god. If you can think of a subset/subject, there is most likely a god for it. Theyre just simply a bit more 'niche' in that aspect. Plus, there are minor gods always springing up and popping up. If somebody believes in it, then there is most likely a god for it.
In this section there also comes like the idea that some of the other immortals ( who aren't gods themselves ) can also become gods. Normally it is when... an immortal race becomes all dies out except for one. and then they become the personification of whatever they were meant to represent. I say this because I specifically have a draconic-fae deity that wasn't really a god to begin with. She was part of an immortal race. But her kin died out and she was the last of her kind and she like.... ultimately became another deity of what she represents ( dreams ).
These instances are QUITE rare to happen, and they normally don't realise they theyve become gods themselves until somebody directly tells them but the only way to really tell them is if another god recognizes it and says something. Which... doesn't happen often since Gods REALLY just simply do not care like that.
But ahhhh okay and then you have like.. the IMMORTALS that aren't really like... considered gods at all. but they aren't mortal either. These groups of people just.... aren't really worshipped by mortals at ALL, however, they ARE seen/treated as like... the 'children' or offspring/creations of the gods. Its almost like... demi-gods in a way? but also not really? This would include stuff like... the Fae ( and fairies included ) Forest/Flower/water spirits and nymphs. Dragons. Like.. think of all the things that would like... be plenty or have like a group of individuals. like there are races of folks found within and they are in some cases plenty. but they aren't gods themselves since... they are not a single entity.
these 'immortals' are atually often seen by mortals themselves, and they are USUALLY the ones that act as sort of messengers to the gods ( since the immortals can see the gods but the mortals cannot). The exception to this are the Light spirits, which CAN present themselves in front of mortals if they so choose. otherwise, in MOST cases, the gods simply do not want to be seen by mortals. Though... if they DO want to, they normally guise themselves as something else ( either as an immortal that isn't a god, or they guise themselves in the body of a mortal themselves ).
Naturally, I think... another example of.... a God putting themselves under a guise of a mortal body is Hylia herself. I would like to think that... she actually does this often in order to spread her teachings and faith across the land. This is something that wasn't typically done with the older faith system as.... I think the gods didn't really want to be so hands on in pushing the mortals into specific faith systems. ( essentially, they were hands off and allowed mortals to believe in whatever they wanted to believe ). The only other instances of divine intervention that happened in the non-hylia religion is when the gods were GENUINELY trying to protect the mortals from something that they would have otherwise deemed destructive.
There are plenty of instances where you see this happening where the gods genuinely tried to take care of the mortals. However... there are also A LOT of instances where it was a LOT of hylia's meddling as well. And her, along with the 3 goddesses, either tried to prevent the other gods from intervening or the other gods genuinely just did not want to get involved in hylia's meddling to begin with.
In all honesty, there were some gods that believed that hylia was an interloper herself ( she technically was ) because she came from a different place, but given that they gods were just so VERY old to begin with, i dont think they really had the energy to stop her ( or they simply didn't care ).
The REASON why, in Twilight Princess, you have a rather strange pocket of.... people following the older faith system is due to the fact that.... for some reason, Hylia just STRUGGLED to really make her mark here. The triforce was made and set, however, I think there was a lot of pushback as well from the gods. They really just up and went 'ENOUGH' for like an era ( which ultimately is the Twilight Era ). there were a lot more instances where the other gods got involved, which ended up with a REALLY convoluted faith system in Twilight Princess. ( it was an attempt to reclaim what had been more or less 'erased' ).
I think this is WHY many of the hylians/morals outside of the Hylian Royal Family just.... followed the 'older' faith system. Because there were A LOT more instances of 'divine' intervention happening. Not to mention that... Ordona somehow reclaimed a providence that didn't follow the Hylia religion. ( since Ordona was never part of the religion to begin with ). And because of that, I think a lot of folks 'defaulted' back to the older faith system cause like.... IT MADE SENSE for them.
Anyway... I rambled for a while... but let me uh.... answer something that was asked. also!!!
IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK AND I WILL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER.
is Hylia discussed in TP's era? She didn't actually exist when the game was made...which is honestly why I have such issue with her coming into existence and just becoming THE most worshipped goddess after SS. It's weird. But I am curious as to how you incorporate her into TP's religion.
aright I think... this was MOSTLY answered, but to summarize it for you. She is but also isnt worshipped in TP. The main people to really 'worship' her are the hylian royal family. as mentioned. But even then... I think MANY in that family also recognise her as... a god that was amongst the other gods - she simply just rose up to power on her own accord. Though.... she really isn't discussed that much in the .... main/old religion that is just more commonly found in Twilight Princess. Like I dont even think shes really ever mentioned/discussed or seen all that much. partially due to the fact that I think there was an attempt to paint her as some sort of 'interloper' ( not all but some ) by some of the gods. Rather... she was the cause and reason for the interlopers to happen.
It is also worth to note that.... there IS a cutscene.... where 'the goddesses' are actually discussed. I have linked that scene here for you. So its not like... the goddesses DON'T exist. And the Gods DO recognise that.... there was some order that had been made ( this is what Hylia attempted to do with the goddesses ). This also explains how the Triforce ( which also comes from Hylia ) had been created.
but again... Hylia herself is not even mentioned. The goddesses are actually BARELY mentioned themselves. I think the reason for this is to make it a bit messy and convoluted, but also to allow a bit more freedom to have faith in WHATEVER you wanted ( because if you believed in it then you should be allowed to have faith in it ) instead of what Hylia wanted ( which was very... constrained and limiting ).
I also like to think that... given the fact that Magic use was also something that was... more or less lost in Twilights Princess ( due to the interloper war ), a lot of people... turned back to the old gods and wanted to like... believe in them more since... THEIR faith and religion wasn't nearly as destructive as hylia's faith. ( if that makes sense, I hope this makes sense ).
like essentially, due to the magic just dwindling, I think a lot of mortals really just had no explanation for certain things and therefore defaulted to 'well it must be a sign from the gods.'
But again, its also because there was jsut so much more FREEDOM with the older faith system. So I think there were plenty of traditions/superstitions that followed that really just matched/aligned more with the system that... there were more gods than what Hylia initially created.
And! in case.. folks are curious to how i see the timeline, its pretty close to how the timeline was created with the Zelda franchise. The timeline being ( from the games that I played ).
Skyward sword came Before TP which came before BOTW and then TOTK after. Meaning that... the Hylia faith came prior to the events of TP despite TP coming out before SS. However!!! in order to follow what is shown/seen in TP and to explain it ( since Ordona truly does NOT follow the Hylia system with the 3 goddesses ), this is what I created lshwkfdhvfs. I really really hope that makes sense.
Lakebed isn’t hard for me in terms of enemy and boss difficulty. It’s difficult for me because I get so LOST. I feel like I’m going crazy just looping myself rn….
