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===Buildings=== | ===Buildings=== | ||
[[File:TP Hyrule Castle Front View.png|300px]] | [[File:TP Hyrule Castle Front View.png|300px]] | ||
{{Image|image= | {{Image|image=OoT Back Alley 2.png|size=300px|right|caption=Note the crossed timber frames on the exterior of the house}} | ||
Much of [[Hylian]] architecture is heavily inspired by churches, bridges, castles and villages of medieval Europe.<ref name="Romanesque"></ref> | Much of [[Hylian]] architecture is heavily inspired by churches, bridges, castles and villages of medieval Europe.<ref name="Romanesque"></ref> | ||
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===Warfare and Combat=== | ===Warfare and Combat=== | ||
[[File:The Imprisoning War.jpg|350px]] | [[File:The Imprisoning War.jpg|350px]] | ||
{{Image|image= | {{Image|image=Darknut 2.png|size=200px|right|caption=A Darknut, described as knights}} | ||
Throughout the history of Hyrule, battles were fought for either [[Hyrulean Civil War|unification]], [[Imprisoning War|greed]] or other reasons.<ref name=Quote1>{{Cite|Some time ago, before the [[King of Hyrule]] unified [[Hyrule|this country]], there was a fierce war in our world. One day, to escape from the fires of the war, a [[Hylian]] mother and her baby boy entered this [[Lost Woods|forbidden forest]]. The mother was gravely injured... Her only choice was to entrust the child to the [[Great Deku Tree|Deku Tree]], the guardian spirit of the forest. The Deku Tree could sense that this was a child of destiny, whose fate would affect the entire world, so he took him into the forest. After the mother passed away, the baby was raised as a [[Kokiri]]. And now, finally, the day of destiny has come!|Deku Tree Sprout|OoT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Manual|quote=That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.|game= ALttP|page=5}}</ref> These wars relied on medieval weaponry and warfare.<ref>Opening, ('{{ALttP|-}}')</ref> | Throughout the history of Hyrule, battles were fought for either [[Hyrulean Civil War|unification]], [[Imprisoning War|greed]] or other reasons.<ref name=Quote1>{{Cite|Some time ago, before the [[King of Hyrule]] unified [[Hyrule|this country]], there was a fierce war in our world. One day, to escape from the fires of the war, a [[Hylian]] mother and her baby boy entered this [[Lost Woods|forbidden forest]]. The mother was gravely injured... Her only choice was to entrust the child to the [[Great Deku Tree|Deku Tree]], the guardian spirit of the forest. The Deku Tree could sense that this was a child of destiny, whose fate would affect the entire world, so he took him into the forest. After the mother passed away, the baby was raised as a [[Kokiri]]. And now, finally, the day of destiny has come!|Deku Tree Sprout|OoT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Manual|quote=That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.|game= ALttP|page=5}}</ref> These wars relied on medieval weaponry and warfare.<ref>Opening, ('{{ALttP|-}}')</ref> | ||