#impaz

a comic wip I sketched for @origins-of-calamity last year (maybe late 2023 actually? I forget)

Context: Impaz, former handmaiden to the Royal Family before the Imprisoning War, has dedicated her life to protecting Rauru and Sonia's daughter, Zelda. This young princess has the ability to see the Light Dragon in places where it shouldn't be— and her connection to it suddenly reveals that Ganon isn't finished yet... Thus comes the Sheikah's prophecy of Calamity.

yeee impa time!!!

I think it's gotta be:

OoT Impa, because *gestures at my blog*

Skyward Sword Impa, her design is truly unparalleled and she's an amazing take on the character, ripe with very interesting ideas

??? this one is hard, I think it's a toss between EoW and the original HW one? And, you know, if Impaz from TP counts (I think she does), then let's throw her into the mix as well, because.... interesting....

working on more designs for my zelda au

ID: first image shows Ganon and Zelda at ages 10 and 9 respectively, Zelda in a blue dress reminiscent of her Link to the Past outfit, Ganon in a white tunic and patterned vest. In the corner is a drawing of the two sitting and laughing, his hands cupped and hers open to reveal a frog. Second is Zelda in her pink formal wear beside Impaz, a Sheikah woman whose much more detailed design here includes a keaton mask on her hip and Demise’s sword. Third image is of the Zora princess, based off the white spotted jellyfish, and Ganon’s sister, a Gerudo woman with a dark turquoise dress and white headscarf. end ID

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ilia/Link (Legend of Zelda) Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Ilia (Legend of Zelda), Renado (Legend of Zelda), Telma (Legend of Zelda), Impaz (Legend of Zelda) Summary:

Impaz, a Sheikah survivor, has a particular hourglass pattern on her dress.

The same pattern appears on Princess Zelda's shadowy cloak, which also sports a Sheikah crest!

If this *is* an hourglass, it would likely relate to Time. And considering the Sheikah's level of sophisticated "timeless" technology, ties with the Sky People, and with Goddess Hylia and her Gates of Time…

Well… 😏

       Not even the flowers showed their buds for the forgotten statue.

       The ancient stones long picked clean of their gems by thieves and bandits, the marbled stone buffed down to porous gray and stained with weather- and even the statue could not remember how it used to gleam and shine. The earth could not recall how its grounds used to bear the seal of protection against great evil. In this.... tiny hole where her home once stood as a mighty temple, Impa could only let out a mournful wail at the feet of the looming statue. 

       Hylia bless it, because no one else would.

       Just off the coast, the remnant of the sealed grounds lay in some sand bank like a swirling tide pool for the sea to wash over, as if it were not the second savior of the world, new and born again. As if it were not the same place used again and again to push evil back in to its shadowy domain-- where the damned cycle of incarnation began in the first place.

       Washed away, like the memory of the goddess whose statue she knelt before, trembling as sobs wracked her shoulders. Voice cracked as another cry, angry and violent, pierced the air and filled the region with the mournful howl of rolling thunder. There would be storms for days.

       Fingers digging in to the soft dirt a soft noise escaped her throat, weak, broken, and tattered in to near nothingness.