Six items from Oracle of Ages found by archaeologists investigating the lost Terran civilization.
Library Key: Link is given the library key by King Zora during the current era after he cures King Zora’s illness with a magical potion in the past era. King Zora is healthy again, but there is a corruption in the seas pushing Lord Jabu-Jabu to the brink of death. Knowing that Link is the sort of person that can get things done, King Zora asks him to go to the Eyeglass Island Library and research if there is any way to cleanse the oceans and save Lord Jabu-Jabu.
This is the last key item I drew as an item that would get you access to a place. I think this one is pretty obvious as library cards are the “key” to services at the library. If you don’t have a library card, go get one. Libraries are wonderful resources. Many offer services that include more than just checking out books and if you don’t know what your library has to offer you are probably missing out.
It is generally understood by xenoarchaeologists studying the ruins of Terra that humans valued knowledge highly, but maintained tight control over who had the privilege to study and learn. Massive collections of written records were kept in even the smallest settlements across many regions of Terra. Even with the ubiquity of these archives, only those who carried the token of privilege were allowed into these prestigious buildings containing the collected knowledge of humanity.
Ricky’s Gloves: Ricky, the boxing kangaroo, needs his gloves. Link needs Ricky’s help to reach Tingle, the cartographer and weirdo, so he can get the island chart he needs to safely sail to Crescent Island without getting turned around by the violent currents. Ricky will only help Link get to Tingle if Link helps Ricky find his missing boxing gloves. Ricky remembers having his gloves last on the beach south of Lynna City. Link has to comb through the beach until he finds the gloves buried near a tree that Ricky probably napped under.
While there was an intellectual elite that collected and organized all of human knowledge, it seems the Terran masses were kept passive with great spectacles where the most violent blood sports were seen as grand entertainment. In many of Terra’s largest cities, the ruins of colossal arenas and amphitheaters stand as a testament to the status these bloodsports held to humanity. Archaeologists first expected to see signs of habitation in these massive temple-like structures, but the evidence suggests that humans left these titanic structures vacant even as vagrancy ravaged the poorest among them. Instead of sheltering the needy, humans used the space to keep large collections of artifacts associated with the blood sports' greatest champions.
Island Chart: During Link’s adventures in Labrynna he must find his way to Crescent Island. Unfortunately, the island is surrounded by violent currents that are impossible to navigate without a map. Knowing this, Rafton is unwilling to give Link a sailing raft until he has a chart of the currents. The only such map is made by Tingle the eccentric map maker who thinks himself a fairy. To get the map, Link has to ride in Ricky’s pouch while the kangaroo navigates the many obstacles on the path to Tingle’s lookout tower.
Evidence has been found that the most affluent humans of Terra greedily hoarded material wealth. It seemed of paramount importance to have more material wealth than any other person in your immediate social circle. Hoarding material wealth was so important that people began hiding huge caches of riches in dangerous isolated locations. This metallic sphere is supposed to be a map to one such hoard, but researchers have not yet been able to activate the device.
Scent Seedling: The Tokay of Crescent Island use scent seeds as a form of currency in addition to rupees. Many of the Tokay around the island robbed Link when he first washed ashore the island and are holding his possessions for ransom. Link needs to gather scent seeds to buy back his stuff, but the island doesn’t have a scent seed tree. That is until Link can plant a scent tree seedling in the past age. To earn the scent seedling, Link must win a mini-game that involves feeding every member of a tribe of wild Tokays. He can then take the seedling to the nursery where it will grow into a beautiful scent seed tree in the time between the past and the current age.
Some terrible calamity caused most of the habitable zone of the planet to become a lifeless wasteland. Researchers agree that this event was caused by human actions, but there is no consensus on whether humans destroyed the climate through willful action or as an unforeseen consequence of their civilization. After decades of exploration, a surveyor scouting a new dig site stumbled upon a nomadic garden of terrestrial plant life being tended by an ancient Terran gardening robot that had been following its prime directive to maintain the plants for millennia.
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Thanks for bearing with the interruptions last week. It is nice to remind people that I don’t just draw items from Zelda games. It is nice to take a break from this project with other drawing projects and the idle doodle.
The U.S. presidential election process has really begun to rear to life. This process takes a while and I understand that people get super burnt out with the whole thing long before we have to actually go to the polls and cast the actual vote. With that in mind, I implore everyone who is able to vote in their local/regional/national elections to go out there and vote. Everyone’s vote in important and everyone who can vote should vote.
Go vote whenever and wherever possible.
Vote.
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Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph
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