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Zelda! From All That Hurts Us by @karama9 :]

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Overworld Chapter 141 - Fashionable Occasion Is Out!

New Mark of a Hero chapter out on AO3!

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Mark of a Hero (Updates on Tuesdays & Fridays, 3 of 9)

Rebellion brews across the vast sands of Rahaal, the ancient home of the Gerudo. Link Sayre and his companions must journey the expansive deserts to uncover another Sealing Stone before their enemies. Rahaal hides secrets from the distant past and fable, but now another figure from legend stands to make his claim.

Start the Quest: Book 1 - Book 2

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Hi there! Expanding Hyrule has expanded a lot lately, and there's a lot of housekeeping with a blog like this, particularly as we've been learning and reorganizing as we go. We wanted to put out this infographic about some of our goals with the "Original Legends" tag to help clear up some of the mix-ups we see the most often. Alt text and expanded answers available below the Read More.

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Greetings!

Hi from the Expanding Hyrule team! It's been a minute since we've talked about the #Original Legends tag and we wanted to clear up some of our reasoning for using the tag we do.

Expanding Hyrule v Original Legends

#Original Legends is a tag our community voted on¹ to use to represent the niche of stories Expanding Hyrule archives. Those are stories focused on OC Links, Zeldas, Ganon(dorf)s, and original eras of Hyrule.

The community tag and community itself have two different names because Expanding Hyrule is just one group dedicated to promoting these kinds of works. But we want to encourage everyone to use the tag as well! So we made the name different to highlight this.

For example, @loz-untold-myths is another group run by @nocturnalfandomartist with its own community and events focused on #Original Legends works with different requirements for participation than Expanding Hyrule has.

Why Not Use Zelda AU? (Part 1) - Umbrella

We should specify that #Original Legends isn't a replacement for tags like #Zelda AU, it's a clarifying term. That's because when people go to look for #Zelda AU, they'll find all kinds of Zelda AUs, not just #Original Legends.

For example, we share space with a lot of #Links Meet creators who also use the #Zelda AU tag. But not all #Links Meet works are also #Original Legends. Same goes for any one making AUs of the canon stories that might also use #Zelda AU, be it your BOTW pirate AU or a ALTTP modern AU.

This makes #Zelda AU an umbrella term and we want #Original Legends to be a qualifying term to that hashtag for people looking for a specific kind of Zelda AU, ones focused on OC Hyrules.

Why Not Use Zelda AU? (Part 2) - Lots of Options

This also gets into the broadness of #Zelda AU as a tag. We've seen a lot of variety since Expanding Hyrule started, to include when we ran our polls for #Original Legends. Just a few options we've seen:

Zelda AU

LoZ AU

TLOZ AU

Zelda Fangame AU

OC Zelda

OC Link

OC TLOZ

OC LOZ

And on! Not to mention all of these we've seen variations flipped the other way around too. But because of how Tumblr's tagging system works, someone would have to be following all of these tag variations, which is no good for getting eyes on people!

That's why #Original Legends can help with sifting through #Zelda AU. Much like #Links Meet, it's a phrase and it's hard to flip. Which means instead of 20 variants to a tag to look through for works like this, you've only got a handful.

Tags We Do Follow

Our team keeps an eye on #Original Legends and #LOZ: Original Legends, as well as the major umbrella tags like #Zelda AU, for creators to reblog and to include in our archives here on Tumblr. We also keep track of the #Original Legends tag on AO3.

Tags are wonky and we're only human, so if we miss you, you're always welcome to tag us or DM one of our mods to make sure we get your work included. We'd also like to remind people that tags on reblogs do not make a post visible in the tag search, only the original poster's tags can affect that, so if you want us to see something, please tag the blog!

Our Mods: @amelias-hart | @the--voided | @karama9 | @doubtfulloser

That should be everything. Thank you for reading through!

1. Community Name Poll Post

2. Community Tag Poll Post

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A Bonus Mini-Fic for A Voice From the Desert‼️

A Voe in the Desert 🏜️

[A sketch of ity-bity chibi Ganondorf with two little sand seal pups begging for his attention.]

“I ✨EXTRA✨ Promise I’ll take care of them‼️”

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The Ritual of Lomei Labyrinth by @pocketseizure

Mythic Fantasy | Teen | AO3 | Complete

Synopsis: A vast labyrinth stretches under the ancient kingdom of Lomei. It is said that this labyrinth serves as the prison for a terrible monster known only as the Calamity. Every seventeen years, a sacrifice is performed in order to appease the monster. As the day of the ritual draws near, a young soldier named Link volunteers himself as the sacrifice, secretly hoping that he will be the one to put an end to the Calamity. It is tradition for the princess of Lomei to lead the sacrifice underground, a ritual for which Zelda has trained her entire life. Inspired by Link’s courage, she dares to reveal a hidden secret of the labyrinth that may save them both – as well as the monster trapped within a maze of deceit.

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A really nice take on myths featuring monsters that need to be appeased by regular sacrifices. This story packs an incredible amount of world building and characterization in a very small amount of worlds, and will leave you thinking of it for a long time! I particularly enjoyed how much like their game counterparts Link and Zelda were while being completely different, living in a very different world. It feels very much like something that could happen at some point in the timeline. - Karama9

A short but fantastic adventure about an eerie labyrinth and a quest to change fate. Amazing how much the author could pull from the inspirations of the Lomei Labyrinths in the game to build their own setting. The Greek epic aesthetic does not go unmissed for this one! - amelias-hart

Beneath the kingdom of Lomei lies a labyrinth of dark purpose; the home of a great monster. Every seventeen years it must be fed. Keepers of their kingdom's ritual sacrifice, only the Queen mother and princess dare to walk the dark halls. But princess Zelda's mother unexpectedly passes, and the greatest comfort in the face of her loss is the labyrinth's mysterious draw. Lomei suffers the signs of the beast stirring, hungering. It is time. A young soldier steps forward to be the offering, but what Zelda intends on sacrificing is something else entirely. Immersive and original, you'll find yourself right on Zelda's heels as she traverses the Lomei labyrinth! - SparklyHyperbole &/or CrepesnLasagna2

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You can find @pocketseizure at AO3.

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@skyloftian-nutcase 's Imprisoning War trio! :) I had a lot of fun drawing this and revisiting some techniques I used a lot in the past with a new perspective. And looking at Gerudo design. Eheh.

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The Baker and the Seamstress – Hidden

After five years of imprisonment, the seamstress found her new life incomprehensible. So she returns to what aided her in the past—she keeps things hidden deep inside her. But some things cannot be hidden forever.

Or, the baker and the seamstress learn how to thrive together, and welcome a new addition into their home that makes all the difference.

For day six of Zelink Week 2025: Hidden

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BOOM! CHARACTER DESIGNS :D

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Artfight 2025

Zelda Melody Hyrule for @cryiingcastle

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Contest prize for @virtualplays ! The request was their Link OC found here :) and their contest entry is here

Thank you again for your entry and I hope you enjoy your prize! <3

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AHDSAJHFGDSAG FUCK IT I'M DROPPING THE ART OF ZELDA AND LINK FROM AU AND A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC PREMISE.

(below a cut cuz. hsahfahsda)

I present to you, a summary of:

The Legend of Zelda: A Mirrored Fate

OKAY SO BASICALLY. the basic plot line is that Zelda and Link’s fates are mirrored. Zelda has the hero’s spirit. she’s the one with the Triforce of Courage. and Link has the goddess’s blood. he’s the one with the Triforce of Wisdom.

also everyone has a flower/nature related middle name. why? there's a legend that flowers gave good luck to whomever used it's name as their own. so it js became popular and common to give your child a name from a flower. AND it's also said that the spirits and divine are more likely to favor those with names that come from the land.

Link is brunnette. his shirt's green (duh). Zelda has dirty-blonde hair. her outfit is shades of blue w/ gold and white accents.

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Overworld Chapter 140 - Fables Under the Stars Is Out!

New Mark of a Hero chapter out on AO3!

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Mark of a Hero (Updates on Tuesdays & Fridays, 3 of 9)

Rebellion brews across the vast sands of Rahaal, the ancient home of the Gerudo. Link Sayre and his companions must journey the expansive deserts to uncover another Sealing Stone before their enemies. Rahaal hides secrets from the distant past and fable, but now another figure from legend stands to make his claim.

Start the Quest: Book 1 - Book 2

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Chapter 82 🍉, Emotional Support Sand Seals…

[Sirocco and Khamsin, blissfully playing with a leather jingle toy made to look like a hydromelon. All peoples of all worlds are susceptible to fear… and that fear can change and twist anyone. It is a blessing to have animal companions to help bring life down and into focus.]

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Read the comic from the beginning on Tumblr, Webtoons, Comicfury, or Tapas!

New to the comic? Check out the About page!  

❤︎  Many thank yous to my lovely patrons! You and your support help keep the comic going!  ❤︎

⭐ Patreon ⭐ Triforce of Power Zine ⭐ ToP: Ghost Stories Zine ⭐ Ko-fi  ⭐

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Hamuus!!! This is a character that appears in Mark of a Hero Part 3 by @amelias-calamity-quintet, which I've had the opportunity to read early, and let's just say you guys are definitely in for a treat!

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Overworld Chapter 139 - An Old Discovery Is Out!

New Mark of a Hero chapter out on AO3!

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Mark of a Hero (Updates on Tuesdays & Fridays, 3 of 9)

Rebellion brews across the vast sands of Rahaal, the ancient home of the Gerudo. Link Sayre and his companions must journey the expansive deserts to uncover another Sealing Stone before their enemies. Rahaal hides secrets from the distant past and fable, but now another figure from legend stands to make his claim.

Start the Quest: Book 1 - Book 2

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Quick little Link thingy. Poor little dead guy.