Zelda Wiki:Zelda and the Middle Ages: Difference between revisions

In comparison to [[Hyrule]], novels such as [[Wikipedia:T.H. White|T.H. White]]'s [[Wikipedia:Once and Future King|Once and Future King]] truly capture the picture and feel of the European Middle Ages, when looking from a royal perspective. The novel illuminates King Arthur's reign atop Camelot, his mighty castle, and his expansive conquest into the unknown around him. Like Hyrule, Arthur's empire encompassed forests, mountains, rivers, and deserts, all governed from the central, populated hub at Camelot. With Arthur at the helm and Lady Guinevere, his queen at his side, he ruled a sentient kingdom, in quite the similar way the land of Hyrule is overseen by its King and [[Princess Zelda]] herself, at his right hand. Camelot is a grand castle, and like Hyrule, even boasts a bustling courtyard town, of which the majority of the realm's inhabitants live. Back in 13th and 14th centuries, especially in England, but also seen in the Roman Empire, and across the reaches of early France, the majority of Europe's population either lived rurally, subsisting off of their own wares, or in clustered cities similar to [[Castle Town]].[[File:MightyDarknut.png|thumb|right|200px|Darknuts may be reminiscent of Knights of the Middle Ages.]]The [[Lon Lon Ranch]] region of {{OoT}} is a prime example of such rural living, as their business and subsistence comes from the raising of horses, one of the most popular replacements of human labor back in the Middle Ages.