At the Graveyard.

[blindcourage]

[The skies are dark and overcast, and chilled snow drops quickly from the clouds above, down onto the Kakariko Graveyard. It's fitting, perhaps, for a place of the dead. Living souls, however, are not too terribly fitting for a place of the dead.]

[A man walks slowly, carefully, across the graveyard, snow crunching loudly beneath his worn,

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[twilit_scholar]

[Shad does not frequently come to the graveyard; it gives him an uncomfortable sensation. But he has come across, in his readings, mentions of this or that tomb that has him curious, so he comes there today to see what he can learn.

It is not readily apparent to him that the stranger can't see. The way the man is walking looks, from Shad's angle, like he may be ill or injured.]

I beg your pardon; are you all right?

[twilit_scholar]

The Assassin Lord? I have never heard that name.

[Shad ponders the matter.]

In my Hyrule, the Twilight in and of itself was not evil, but it was turned to evil purposes. It came from another world, the Twilight Realm, whose true ruler was deposed by a usurper king. This usurper served a wicked master, and together they plotted to use the Twilight to conquer Hyrule. But through the efforts of our Hero, as well as our fair Princess Zelda and the true ruler of the Twilight, their machinations were thwarted. What...what other name do you believe your antagonist to possess?

[He's got a pretty good idea.]