#ordona

[hnnn-zelda]

I decided to redo an old zine piece of mine from about 5 years back. I really love how this new version came out; I feel like this really shows the progress I've made in my art over the past several years.

Old version below the cut:

[brainlessbaguette]

Linktober Day 5, Sacred

Ah yes my "we wanted to paint but also wanted to be lazy" day, how I missed you

[fwoosheye]

Holiday Piece for @limited-hero's discord prompt "Christmas". I just feel like Ordon probably have some version of the Yule Goats, considering it's a farming community with a lot of goats, goat themed decorations, and a goat shaped guardian spirit.

Happy Holidays y'all!

[iffondrels-library]

Idea spread of Ordona and Satori because these two have some really cool similarities.

[linktheacehero]

Linktober Day 21 - Spirit

goat spirit themselfff

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

The true origin of the zonai cutscene that Nintendo scrapped from the TOTK game because they were COWARDS!!!

[orixi-389699]

no its not 2am what are you talking about

kindof blacked out and ended up here, the past 2 hours have been a blur but um anyways. Ordona! The 1st spirit you talk to in Zelda: Twilight Princess, the spirit of Ordon! Based on the Ordonian goat, this one has always been my favourite even though you dont really have to do much for it to show up, there’s no tear vessels to collect and no bugs to hunt, just a friendly fellow who wants what is best for its’ kin and fellow spirits. Idk, Ordona always looked to me like a friendly easy-going yet stubborn spirit, maybe that’s why the Twilight hadnt gotten to its spring yet but *had* gotten to the one right next to it, Faron.

“why did you draw this oh my god” idk ive been replaying twilight princess and everytime I do I always go “this is my favourite game of all time” and yet again I went “this is my favourite game of all time” so yeah. Theres much more I want to draw out of my love for this game and out of finally being able to find myself worthy to lift this sword (pen) and defeat my enemy (artblock)

[snowiwyvern]

day 28 light/sparkle/bright

[aikoiya]

LoZ - Ordonian Folktales: The Tale of the Stáblad & the Tangled Capaill

This story is about a stableboy who had been stealing from his boss' stash of homebrewed booze & drinking on the job. (Ordona tends to have a pretty low drinking age. About 15 or so.)

In an attempt to hide this fact from his boss who was on the warpath searchin' for the culprit, the stableboy poured the moonshine into the horse's drinking trough without thinking.

The horse got so terribly drunk that he began to dance, but ended up getting his hooves all tied, resulting in him falling over & breaking his legs. Meaning that he would need to be killed in order to prevent him from suffering.

However, the horse had been the owner's prized stallion, which he'd been planning to enter into the Hateno Rodeo next week, but now that was impossible. The old man was furious & was determined to find the miscreant responsible.

Despite this, the stableboy was unapologetic, more concerned with keeping from getting caught than the unfortunate death of the rancher’s beloved horse.

That night, however, the stableboy was visited by Malanya, the Goddess of Horses, who lectured the young man & turned him into a horse to replace the one that his negligence had needlessly killed. The stableboy turned out to be quite blessed in being very fast.

So, despite only having a week to practice, he ended up winning the horse race at the Hateno Rodeo.

Yet, even then, he remained a horse. Several years passed by, the transformed horse winning many a rodeo event, but even still he sank deeper into despair due to isolation, until a new stableboy was hired, who, wouldn’t you know it, began to steal the rancher’s booze & drink it on the job, much like the transformed horse had.

He too found himself getting absolutely shitfaced on moonshine & much like the horse he’d replaced, the once stableboy began to dance, before tripping & breaking his own legs.

When it came time for the rancher to put the once stablehand down, the horse neighed loudly, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I filched the moonshine an' poured it into the drinkin' trough! I didn' mean to kill the horse, but I did & now I don' wanna die!” (Forgive my butchering of an Irish accent. I tend to see Ordon being an interesting mix of Irish & southern US country.)

Though the rancher did not understand, someone else did. And in that moment, the horse turned into a man… with a pair of broken legs.

All around were shocked & the man cried in jubilation before confessing his theft & mistreatment of the old horse.

The man was given several lashings, but he took it on the chin like a champ, knowing that it'd been a long time coming, & the once horse was never hired by any other ranch or farm in Ordon again.

Since then, Malanya has been one of the patron deities of Ordon alongside the Light Spirits.

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What isn’t known is that this tale is true & that though the owner was upset, he allowed the once-horse man lodging at his home until he'd recovered, found a new job, & a new home (because you can't expect them to have just left the man's house empty). During that time, the horse-man managed to convince the new stableboy to confess his own crimes. The boy was allowed to stay on, but his pay was cut in half until he proved himself trustworthy.

Something else that isn't told in the tale, the once-horse man ended up opening The Tangled Capaill Tavern that still stands to this day. Capaill being the old Ordonian word for horseshoes.

He really buckled down & ended up using the money he earned from it to buy his old boss a new horse who ended up being an even better rodeo horse than the horse-man.

Something interesting he discovered after paying for a new horse, though, despite being returned to the form of a man, the once stableboy seemed to retain the speed he'd had as a horse. Perhaps a gift from Malanya as a reward for good behavior? After all, he hadn't needed to pay back his old boss nor swear to give him (but only him) free drinks at the horse-man's new tavern.

Malanya is especially well-known for blessing the ranch that Twilight works at. Which is where you find her bud in BotW. It's what's left of Ordon Ranch on the Surface.

Edit: Hello! :3 @skyloftian-nutcase made something on my folktale!

Here. Twilight Spins A Yarn

LoZ Cultural Masterlist 1

[archi-pelago]

more zonai au

wanted to doodle the god of time for this au, meet "Ordona" aka the Fierce Deity of Time

Link is an ancestor of his and he's extremely hands off, usually passing shit onto Hylia or Demise or the three goddesses bc he's not invested in basically anything. when he is, its only when time and space is at risk, which isn't very often, but if he gets involved he's got a worse temper than Demise

Link bullies an Ocarina of Time out of him! here's a size comparison. Considering Zonai!Link is about the same size as Sidon, this dude's a bit toll. He also didn't used to be a god of time until he defeated Majora a long time ago through his music, when he was still very very young

it was a sad affair, and one of the reasons he doesn't participate in wars between the gods anymore. Majora nearly decimated the Zonai population and they never really recovered, even after Ordona took the helm. (as a result he's THRILLED that Link turned into a Zonai. hell yes my sonboy. furry upon thee!!)

[polychromatiica]

janna and tom singing a song together because, well truly, i have no idea why i wanted to draw thism,

[twilitfox]

Been thinking about that interview where they said most Links in LoZ probably weren't actually named Link. While I don't usually subscribe to that idea, I was recently reminded that I used to name Twilight Princess Link "Farren" when prompted 'cause I liked how it sounded and only retroactively realized it sounded close to "Faron". It's just clicked for me that, since I ADORE the idea of Rusl finding Link lost in the woods as a toddler, TP Link (at least the game version of him) was probably found IN Faron Woods, so now I have a new headcanon for the "Not Actually Named Link" 'verse that Rusl named him after where he was found, just slightly different so as not to insult the Light Spirit (Not that i think Faron WOULD have been, since that toddler's a future hero and all, but it’s best to be cautious about these things. I am also now realizing that this might have actually been a point in gaining Faron's favor, which later manifested as having the monkeys in the forest temple be extra friendly towards the guy who freed them. And maybe also part of why animals in general adore him. Hmmmmmmm....).

I also realize this is a headcanon very specific to *me*, but I might roll with it anyway cause it just. Fits weirdly well?? Idk.

[elfindreams]

I am a normal person with a job and various normal hobbies but also if you sliced open my brain you would find a region which has existed for years and is singularly dedicated to storing my needlessly overspecific post-OOT / MM Zelda headcanons covering the span of several in-universe decades and in fact aren’t headcanons because they are all completely correct and accurate and ~thematic~

[bitwa-lektur-szkolnych]

Stefan Żeromski – Rozdziobią nas kruki wrony…

Adam Mickiewicz – Reduta Ordona

[twlit]

okay. rules are updated. nothing's REALLY changed, but i know that i do need to make a pinned post. i'll probably keep the same-ish graphics and make some manga icons .... s l o w l y. this blog's been dormant since 2016 - 2018 so UNFORTUNATELY, the price to keep my favorite link url is steep, lol.

in the meantime, i got headcanons and verses to write up, but hit the heart to plot with me!

[polstoria]

When someone writes a non canon compliant ff about you and now everyone thinks you're dead 🙄