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My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.

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THE TRUTH-SENSE.

Let me begin this with; It isn’t impossible to lie to a Sheikah– it is however, very difficult… Or rather, you can try, but it’s unlikely they’ll believe you.

Every Sheikah has the truth-sense, passed down from the First Impa, Hylia’s hand-maiden*. The intensity of the gift differs— were you to lie to Impa herself.. Well, it would be known immediately, where for Prince Zamir, it would be an itch at his mind, requiring him to focus further.

Those who have the strongest Truth-Sense are the ones picked for succession, an often are the ones named Sheikh / trained to be the next Sage.

Zamir’s Truth-Sense grows more refined as he ages, rivaling Impa’s by the time of her ascendancy– where as Zelda-Asheral has very little of the gift** to speak of.

On the opposite end– the stronger their Truth-Sense, the harder it is for a Sheikah to lie— this, in part, is why they speak in vague circles and riddles, and why as a people they are very, very blunt. vague texts from ancient days imply that the first Impa would become violently ill if she were to lie.

Those who see the Truth, but keep the secrets, must trade something for it.

* Sheikah history quotes her as Hylia’s consort, Hylian history cites her as a protector, after the tri-war, a ‘compromise’ was ‘discovered’.

** Impa’s theory is that Zelda’s being the voice of Hylia, a sage in her own right, she has no need for the Truth-Sense in the way Zamir does.

Queen Zelda Asheral of Hyrule, given the title of ‘ The Divided’ by some, and “The Forgiving’ by others.

The Zelda of the Era of Discord, all depictions of her in history show a young girl, not yet a woman, with a sword on her hip, a veil over her hair, and a pendant with the Sheikah Eye around her neck.

Zelda-Asheral Hyrule is the first Zelda in recorded history to be born half-Sheikah. She was born directly following the closing of the Tri-wars, and her birth was greeted with a divide between the Hylian people; The Faithful praised the coming of Hylia, the embittered called her an ill-omen.

She, like most Sheikah babes, was born with brilliant red eyes, and silvery white hair– by the age of ten, her hair had taken on an ashen but overall more ‘yellow’ tone to match her fathers, and her eyes had fade from brilliant blood, to a more muted rust easily mistaken for brown.

She took the throne at 20, after her father fell ill. She appointed Impa her general, her Right hand, and Zamir her brother as her advisor, her spymaster, her left hand.

During her reign, it was said that Hyrule prospered, the Sheikah rebuilt, and a stable peace was built with the Gerudo– She did not leave any blood heirs, declaring on her death-bed that Hylia’s line ended with her.