The Minish Cap: A spinning wheel

 A spinning wheel

Phonograph: In the reasonably named Music House, Link can find a phonograph that can play almost any song in Hyrule. If Link wishes to spend some time relaxing between dungeon delves, he can simply visit the Music House and enjoy the music of Hyrule.

Spinning wheel operation guidelines. Load unspun fibers onto the distaff, avoid poking yourself with the distaff needle, it hurts. Draw a steady stream of fibers from the distaff onto the spindle while steadily spinning the wheel, avoid poking yourself on the spindle needle, it hurts. 

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Spinning wheels had two possible point parts a cursed princess might prick their finger on. Neither are particularly obvious until you do too much research into how a person might prick their finger on a tool that doesn’t have any obvious pointy parts. The distaff is a hopper for unspun fiber that is sometimes just a long spike for poking a mass of wool on. The spindle is a removable needle with an attachment to make it spin as the wheel spins where the thread is wound as its made. Now you know how sleeping beauty could prick her hand on something round and smooth.

I also think it is fascinating that spinning, the act of making thread and yarn, and its tools were so ubiquitous and well understood that someone could be said to prick their finger on a spinning wheel and it could be expected that the entire audience would understand how. Now the means of production have been so thoroughly separated from the workers that they have no idea how anyone could prick their finger on a spinning wheel, or what a spinning wheel even looks like.

*insert anti-capitalist rant from Spice8Rack*

Also, if you are feeling down, you should consider a traditional craft as a hobby. Creating something with your hands from raw materials is a transformative experience.

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The Minish Cap: The Minish Cap

 The Minish Cap

Minish Cap: The titular Minish Cap is actually Elzo, the wise Picori sage, forced into the shape of a hat by the dark sorcerer, and former apprentice, Vaati. The talking bird-headed hat allows Link to shrink down to Minish size and return to full size, as well as offering Link guidance during his journey. Link finds Elzo in his hat form at the Minish Gate in Hyrule Castle after Vaati escapes with Princess Zelda.

A wise sage sought to keep a powerful relic, the hat of the mage, away from a dark sorcerer. To punish the elder sage, the dark sorcerer changed the sage into a hat toped with a heron’s head so that the sage might see the domination the dark sorcerer would attain over the world. Now the hat waits and hopes for the arrival of a hero that might tip the scales of fate toward the light. 

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Enjoy the bonus red cap in the phyringean style. This could be the bloody hat of the murderous red cap fairies or the hat of a great archer that carries an echo of the warrior’s spirit that mentors a young hero.

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The Minish Cap: Sorcerers’ hats

 Sorcerers’ hats

Mage’s Cap: This magical hat was crafted by the great Minish sage Elzo to be the finest gift to the big folk of Hyrule. It has the power to grant wishes, but it was never given to the Hylians as Elzo’s apprentice Vaati stole the hat and used its power to transform their former master into the bird-headed Minish Cap before leaving to conquer the world.

As a magister grows in prestige, they adopt more and more ostentatious hats. These hats are both declarations of status, so an experienced mage might assert rank over a novice, and a warning to any that might to do the mage harm, as an attack on any mage from the outside is an attack on all mages. There are rumors of pretenders moving through the world under the protection of great hats without any true power, but the Parliament of Magisters flatly denies any truth to these vile rumors.

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Mages from The Lies of Locke Lamora are very interesting from a world building standpoint. You should check that wonderful book out as soon as your TBR list allows.

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The Minish Cap: The Sword in the Stone

 The Sword in the Stone

Bound Chest: In a time lost to myth, the small folk, known as the Picori or the Minish, gave the people the blade that seals the darkness and the goddesses’ light force so they could conquer and contain the evil plaguing the land. All the evil vanquished by the hero of myth was locked away in a great chest, and when all the land had been cleansed, the blade that seals the darkness was thrust through the chest to seal it for the good and safety of the big and small folk. This bound chest is still a royal treasure, but in the long ages since the time of legend, the knowledge of what it contains is only remembered as a powerful force, forgotten is the truth that it is a great force of evil. The chest is presented to the champion of the annual festival tournament, but no one has yet been foolish enough to try and remove the blade.

When a greybeard druid appeared in the central city square with a shining golden sword, most people expected a declaration of war by the followers of the old way. Then the druid drove the sword through an anvil into the stone below and offered this challenge, “Whoever draws this sword from the stone and anvil can use its power to claim the throne and seize the crown.” The Regent, ruling in the absence of a royal heir, has forbidden any touch the sword, but that hasn’t stopped would be rulers from trying. 

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