#just a boy and his sword spirit out to rid the land of evil-tainted robots

[noirandchocolate]

So I know I’m really late figuring this out especially since this is our fourth playthrough of Breath of the Wild since 2021, but. A few days ago I was undertaking a korok hunt and happened to be looking in my inventory to change my weapon when I noticed that the Master Sword was charged up to power 60. “But I’m not in a Divine Beast or the Castle, or fighting Ganon,” I thought, and then realization dawned. There was a seemingly dead stationary Guardian nearby. I walked up to it, it bonged into life, and I quickly equipped the Master Sword and dispatched it.

You may be asking: How did we go through three and three fourths playthroughs without noticing that the Master Sword powers up around Guardians? Simple. We’d only ever killed Guardians using the shield-reflecting Perfect Guard method. Never with a melee weapon. Oh we knew you could, we’d watched videos of people doing all sorts of impressive stunts to kill them. But why do that when you can just reflect their own beams back and do a lot of damage fairly consistently and safely? So we thought.

Anyway, I later wanted to show Bast this discovery I’d made and so went up to the Plateau where I knew there are some dormant-but-not-dead Guardians in the Eastern Abbey. I equipped the Master Sword and unsheathed it to walk around that area. And goodness, when I got closer to my quarry and the blade suddenly sprang into a blaze of blue light with an angry little *shing!* sound, I was enchanted.

Now, I know the Deku Tree did say that the Master Sword is most properly used against entities and in places imbued with Ganon’s energy, and I now realize that certainly includes Guardians (not little ones in shrines, those are good guys meant to help the monks train you—the big ones that were usurped by Ganon). So it makes sense even if you think it’s just that, that makes the sword power up around them.

But I believe it’s also because Guardians are what harmed Link to within the barest millimeter of his life, one hundred years ago. And the Sword that Seals the Darkness has a spirit inside who remembers that.

If only you know to consult her, Fi has Information for her beloved Master. She will warn him of the dangerous Guardians nearby.

And she will aid him with all her might.