No. [ She corrects pointedly. ] Based on my own knowledge.
[ Zelda takes a few moments to organize her thoughts. It's challenging to put into words something she has known intrinsically all her life and yet has only recently learned about.
It wasn't the first thing she noticed that fateful day when she awakened her divine powers to save Link from certain death. Really, it wasn't something she paid attention to at all on her journey from Fort Hateno to Hyrule Castle, where she sealed Calamity Ganon. It came to her later, during the decades of semi-slumber Zelda spent sealed away with the monster: memories of the Goddess Hylia, her distant ancestor. They were sparse and fragmented, muddy from millennia upon millennia being passed down by Her descendants. It never felt to Zelda like remembering her own life; it was more like watching a badly-corrupted video recording of someone else's life. But she felt the truth of those memories. ]
Hyrule has no 'Hell' as you describe it. Nor is there a 'Paradise.' When we die, we pass onto the next world, and we continue the journeys we travelled in life. Our souls work to assist those who still live, be that by blessing harvests, protecting our descendants, or becoming the earth and nature itself.
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[ Zelda takes a few moments to organize her thoughts. It's challenging to put into words something she has known intrinsically all her life and yet has only recently learned about.
It wasn't the first thing she noticed that fateful day when she awakened her divine powers to save Link from certain death. Really, it wasn't something she paid attention to at all on her journey from Fort Hateno to Hyrule Castle, where she sealed Calamity Ganon. It came to her later, during the decades of semi-slumber Zelda spent sealed away with the monster: memories of the Goddess Hylia, her distant ancestor. They were sparse and fragmented, muddy from millennia upon millennia being passed down by Her descendants. It never felt to Zelda like remembering her own life; it was more like watching a badly-corrupted video recording of someone else's life. But she felt the truth of those memories. ]
Hyrule has no 'Hell' as you describe it. Nor is there a 'Paradise.' When we die, we pass onto the next world, and we continue the journeys we travelled in life. Our souls work to assist those who still live, be that by blessing harvests, protecting our descendants, or becoming the earth and nature itself.