Hyrule Castle Town Market
The event that had brought many strange people to the land of Hyrule had also irrevocably damaged the Kingdom's greatest city. The main street was eerily calm, the bricks whitewashed and polished. A door stood to the right built into the wall, no doubt some sort of guard station. A man dressed in full armour with a spear planted firmly in the ground stood just outside the door watching the street. It looked for all intents and purposes like an ordinary town. That was until you looked a little deeper.
As one moved down the street they would notice small discrepancies, single bricks that looked as though they'd been through a violent fire surrounded by perfectly unharmed ones. More and more such things would become evident till one looked upon the town square. The main market of Hyrule Castle Town was in every sense of the word erratic. It was as if a warhead had fallen on the town yet when rebuilding commenced only some buildings had been repaired. Not in a half finished construction either. There were full buildings that looked perfectly pristine and open for business, some even a little worn down like they had been there awhile. These were next to other buildings that were completely burnt out, collapsed roofs, walls falling in, wood rotting away.
A building with the face of a bearded man emblazoned on it along with the word "Bizarre" was completely untouched while the shop next to it had been leveled down to the foundation leaving only a mass of collapsed wood and the outline of a house behind. The buildings that lined the initial street were all in perfect order except the auction house had the awning in front of it ripped away while the Treasure Chest Shop was stable on the sides facing the street but two thirds of it facing the market had completely collapsed and burned leaving the remainder in nearly perfect condition.
Though the mask shop was still standing it was a travesty of its former glory, the bright and extravagant colors were gone and barely more than the skeleton of the place was still upright. The roof had collapsed and a mass off wood and other buildings materials littered the inside which was barely recognizable. Strangely though directly to the left of the Mask Shop was what appeared to be a near identical duplicate, albeit it was only about half the shop but it appeared that a section of it was double and placed in the center of the road. Most of the sign could be made out and the similarities with the building directly next to it were unmistakable. Unfortunately lacking a foundation in the middle of the road this mysterious copy had collapsed into any space it could find. Though it still held its shape more or less it completely blocked the road to Hyrule Castle.
The buildings in the Northwest corner of the square were oddly untouched though completely deserted. In the center of the market was a fountain. The stone it was made of was scorched black with barely more than a centimeter of putrid water in the bottle but the hand rail that lined it was perfectly intact, in fact it looked as though it had been polished just that day.
Between the collapsed Mask Shop and the remains of the Potions Shop (next to the bizarre) was a road which though scared in some places was more or less alright. It led to a small garden that surrounded a great cathedral (Temple of Time) which strangely enough seemed to be made of either brilliantly polished white stone or brown stone that looked as though it had been through a bombing, depending on where you looked at it from. The door to the cathedral was sealed from the inside while the garden outside was a combination of blooming plant life and very very dead flora. Four stones stood around a small pool at the entrance each carved with an eye that seemed to stare into a person's soul. The water in the pool was gone, boiled off years ago leaving only small puddles at the bottom.
The sides streets were not as damaged as the main area, the buildings were all standing though some looked severely damaged as though they were a good punch away from collapsing while others were like much of the town in pristine condition. For any who cared to look there was the body of a dead guard collapsed in a heap in one of the back alleys.
The strangest thing about this town however was the light. It was inconstantly, while near the pristine parts of the square there was brilliant sunlight which made the destruction in the area seem almost inconsequential as a magnificent castle looked down on everything from the distance. However when you stepped on the destroyed patches the light turned dark and sinister, the air became heavy and humid and a purple smog seemed to hover over everything. The castle in the distance shifted to a cruel tower suited only for a tyrant.
Scattered throughout the place were what looked to be serious burn victims scattered about, their skin was charred brown so they were indistinguishable from one another. In the daylight they looked strangely like ordinary pedestrians, though there physical appearance did not change while in the dark they looked like sinister monsters. These Redeads lumbered around the square but would not go near any part of the Market that wasn't in shambles.
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