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retrogamingblog2 · 1 year

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freeglassart · 11 months

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I Love the Great Fairies.

#art #pin up #the legend of zelda #botw #totk #great fairy #cotera

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thefaeriecreek · 9 months

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Reposting this because I still like it tkrbfjd. Based on the best audio from age of calamity faslkdf;

#such a good boooy #loz #botw #hwaoc #revali #cotera #thefaeriecreekart #breath of the wild #art #the thing that kills me the msot about this audio is that she ONLY says it to Revali djdhdjdjdjd

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illjustpretend · 1 year

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hope the great fairies are ok in totk 🧚‍♀️

#my art #sketch #loz #botw #great fairy #cotera #24m

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apocahipster · 10 months

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❗️Daily quest: Kiss them great fairies

#my art #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #loz totk #great fairy #cotera

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sokkas-first-fangirl · 4 months

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The musician smoothed down his feathers, returning Rivan’s grin.

“You’re certainly a motley crew,” he said. “And very well-armed. Good; you can never be too careful this close to Hyrule Field. A Guardian spotted me as I flew overhead. Dear, oh dear, I thought I was going to have a heart-attack…” He trailed away. His eyes suddenly widened. “That…that thing on your hips…”

Link’s hand went protectively to the slate, but the musician only smiled.

“Sheikah design, yes?” he asked. “Gracious, I bet that put a hole in your wallet.”

“Yep,” Link lied.

“I’m Kass,” the musician said. “My teacher was actually a member of the Sheikah tribe. Very talented man; he taught me all his very best songs. I actually know one about the Ancient Hero and the Calamity from ten thousand years ago. Would you be interested?”

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After a meeting with Cotera, Link and the gang begin to make their way to Eldin. On the way, they meet a certain Rito bard with a song to share. A memory hits Link hard and fast.

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abalidoth · 11 months

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The Pythagorean Identity

#botw #totk #tera #cotera #(for those who don't get it: sine²+cosine²=1)#(and the great fairies are called tera and cotera)#math stuff #tesserants

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golvio · 1 year

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Something I’ve noticed about the Great Fairy Fountains in BotW is that, although they look like standard flower bulbs when dormant, when they activate and open after Link donates enough money, they look like rafflesia flowers. Rafflesia flowers have no leaves or roots because they evolved to be parasitic, attaching themselves to a specific species of vine called the Tetrastigma that grows along the rainforest floor and siphoning water and nutrients from its host plant.

Now, there doesn’t seem to be any such vine in the temperate forest where Cotera’s rafflesia grows, but the base of the flower is covered with giant fungi, which suggests her flower gets its water and nutrients from the same symbiotic mycelium network that supports the nearby trees. The fungi near the fountain seems especially active and potent—not only are its fruiting bodies huge, the surrounding plantlife its roots are attached to seems unusually healthy and vigorous. There are even several rare species of plants growing in the area, including the Hearty Radish, Endura Carrots, and even the incredibly picky and sensitive Silent Princess, which was notorious among pre-Calamity gardeners and conservationists for being unable to survive outside of very specific natural conditions.

But what’s really curious to me is how Cotera and her sisters seem to also require a symbiotic relationship with regular mortal people to survive. They’re different from the animals that frequent their fountains in that, in addition to physical sustenance from water and root sugars, they also require some sort of magical/spiritual energy from visitors to stay healthy and happy.

I keep thinking of Skyward Sword’s yin/yang imagery with the dual forces of Malice and Gratitude in the materials you can collect to upgrade your stuff. Gratitude, like Malice, is a spiritual energy that’s released by living beings when they experience a sufficiently powerful emotion. The emotions associated with Malice appear to be negative, while the emotions that form Gratitude energy are positive. Both energies can “crystallize” into solid forms that can be handled, transported, and used in rites. Both have transformative and vitality-increasing properties for creatures aligned with their specific energy wavelengths, and can be poisonous to creatures not aligned to them, like how Malice is poisonous to the non-monster peoples of Hyrule while giving beneficial properties to monsters, boosting their physical strength, extending their vitality, even resurrecting them so long as they have physical remains to animate.

There have also been certain notable cases where certain beings were able to shift their energy alignments when exposed to enough pf the opposite energy. For example, gathering a high enough concentration of Gratitude Crystals was enough to transform Batreaux the demon into a human. Meanwhile, Rhoam mentioned that Ganon was formerly a human man who “became Malice.” I imagine the nature of his transformation and the reason why he was exposed to enough ambient Malice to become an entity that was composed of and could consciously control it will be expanded upon in TotK when it comes out.

But, anyways, Cotera and her sisters. It seems like her dependence upon travelers and their donations reveals a very interesting thing about “minor deities” and other beings of similar power who deliberately cultivate symbiotic relationships with humans through worship. The way she gathers Gratitude energy is initially through a symbolic donation of something of value to humans, in this case, money. The energy given by this donation is enough to revitalize her from her hibernation, and she continues gathering Gratitude by using her restored powers to improve the armor Link carries.

Basically, before travelers stopped coming to visit the fountains after the Calamity wiped out huge chunks of the population and made travel difficult, there was some kind of economy happening where the Great Fairies exchanged favors for the Gratitude mortal travelers released upon receiving those favors. Without that Gratitude energy, the fairies can at least physically survive, but are forced into a state of hibernation until a mortal radiating the positive emotional energy they crave draws near.

It reminds me a lot of the relationships between regular humans and kami in various depictions of Shintoism, where humans need the favor of the gods to survive, but the gods also require attention and energy in the form of prayer and symbolic exchanges of money used for the upkeep of their shrine. A lot of local folk religious practices in various parts of China involve a similar relationship, although in some cases the exchange of money/gifts is even more symbolic, with joss paper versions of “real” goods being burned in offering.

It makes me curious about what’s going on between the Yiga Clan and Ganondorf. The Yiga certainly seem to be trying to set up some sort of reciprocal relationship between themselves and Ganon in Age of Calamity, putting Ganon’s inert little robot vessel in a shrine and offering it food. Ganon, likewise, seems drawn to the Yiga because of the Malice they foster within their hearts from their own hatred of the Royal Family and the Hylians for their rejection and exile after lifetimes of devoted service. Harbinger Ganon depends on Malice in his environment for energy, violently wrenching out life energy touched by Malice from monster and human alike in order to restore himself as quickly as possible after each defeat.

However, if Ganondorf himself is freed and the urgency of his appetite is tamed by treating his obvious starvation…would it be possible for him to develop into a Malice-aligned version of the symbiotic relationship between beings like Cotera and her visitors? One where favors are exchanged for the voluntary, gradual release of the hatred and anger burdening his worshippers’ hearts, as opposed to him violently cracking their souls open and instantly slurping up the hate-filled juices inside, draining them of their life force and killing them in the process?

#long post #loz thoughts #botw #totk #cotera #the great fairies #ganondorf #calamity ganon #harbinger ganon #the yiga clan

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botw-photography · 2 years

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