#okay im talking in hyrules curse now but- it is Ruining me imagining the gerudo nearly having a heart attack seeing them for the first time

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Okay so, I've been thinking about the termina gerudo all day and I need to make a whole post just rambling about how cool I think it'd be if the fierce deity was one of their patrons.

The whole ideology behind this idea was originally spawned from the fact that the gerudo in botw/totk seem to not be super crazy about hylia or the golden goddesses. This small detail always made me wonder if the gerudo tended to avoid hylia because she is heavily symbolized to be a part of the hyrulean royal family and the gerudo have long since had an uneasy history with the royal family. So, this small bit of history has led to the gerudo mostly avoiding hylia, as well as the fact that there's the whole uhhhhh cycle of reincarnation that has them birth a doomed king every so often.

But, considering that termina has neither the royal family or the cycle of reincarnation, would they then be more open to having patrons? Personally, I've always really loved to imagine that the gerudo's culture is largely one who holds dignity, strength, community, and justice in high regard, but the termina gerudo hold these ideas even higher. These ideals go pretty well with what I imagine for the fierce deity- which is that he's not a deity who represents war or anything like that, but he's instead a vicious, protective guardian. He represents justice, power to those hopeless, collective strength, courage, and protection. These are all ideals that the gerudo greatly admire, so... I just love the idea of the termina gerudo seeing the fierce deity being a sort of intimidating but loving and protective guardian over them. To them, the fierce deity is a powerful warrior who fights for the weak and for his own people, as while not being a perfectly moral deity.

Basically, the termina gerudo see alot of their own values in the fierce deity and that has led him to be a pretty popular patron in gerudo culture :] most than any other culture actually! It's not uncommon whatsoever to see moons used as sort of lucky or protective charms. Some like to carve moons into their swords as to wish for the fierce deity to bless them with strength! Other times, tiny moon pendants are hung outside of doorways to wish for protection for all who enter. It's basically just a tiny different ways that the fierce deity is seen as a protector, not a being of destruction <3

But, because the gerudo hold the fierce deity in such high regard, they're also one of the very few who know about the myth of the "moon children." The moon children are basically the fierce deity's children, or at least, the moon children are seen to be directly chosen and are therefore an extension of the fierce deity himself. Anyway this is my argument that the Link's would be called and seen as the moon children send post