Aloy and Link cross the bridge. Up ahead on the other side are huge spherical lumps of blue mineral deposits covering the side of the mountain, showing this place to be rich in whatever those blue minerals are as they are liberally used to create these bridges.

"Hey! Link! Aloy! Look below! Down here!"

"Speak of the Metal Devil," Aloy said dryly.

They look over the side and see Sidon far below in the river waving back up at them.

"You are still pretty far off, my friends!" The Zora Prince clamored. "But I was sure you'd be passing over this bridge, so I have been waiting for you. You will be in Zora's Domain before you know it! In fact, I'm going to head that way too! I shall meet you there! Whoa! Link! Aloy! Beware, warriors! A monster approaches from behind you!"

The duo look back and end up looking up at a Moblin armed with a huge club as it comes running up to them.

The Moblin raises its club to strike them, but Aloy rushes toward it with her hunter bow and an arrow nocked. She slids underneath and releases the arrow, hitting it between the legs. The Moblin roars with pain, causing it to drop its club and clasp its neither regions and double over, and make Link wince as if in pain. The Moblin struggles to get back up, only to misplace its hand on the railing of the bridge and end up nearly falling over. Its upper body hanging precariously over the railing.

"Link, get back!" Aloy shouted as she puts her bow away while getting alongside the Moblin and takes out her rattler. She unleashes a blast wave at the Moblin, blowing it over the side of the bridge. They watch as the Moblin falls helpless and splashes into the river below. There is no sign of the Moblin, nor of Prince Sidon.

"I guess Prince Sidon left before he could be helpful," Aloy said snidely as she puts her rattler away.

They cross the bridge and the path takes them away from the river again as they pass another lamp post. They round a corner and encounter a moutain doe, which gets spooked by the duo's sudden arrival. The path takes them alongside a cliff that overlooks forested and grassy mountains. The path turns back toward mountains and they pass through it and go upwards, passing another lamp post along the way.

"They sure mark these paths well," Aloy mused. "I guess they anticipated the possibility of night travel."

They reach the top and find two forked Lizal spears. Link gets rid of an older spear, a simple Bokoblin one, and takes one of the forked Lizal spears. There are also crates, both wooden and metal, nearby.

A high pitched child like giggle gets their attention and they see white ripples like those on the surface of a still pool ripple through the air.

"What is that?" Aloy mused.

A figure appears standing in the air. It wears a white robe with a yellow hood, but has black limbs and a black space for a face with solid yellow eyes and a large jagged mouth gleaming in that darkness. It has a rod in its hand that glows yellow. It shoots balls of seething yellow energy at them from it, causing them to jump aside.

Link tells Aloy that it is a Wizzrobe. They see its ripples in the air and it next appears. Aloy's focus reads it as such.

The Wizzrobe hurls more ball lightening at it and they dodge them and try to score a hit upon the Wizzrobe, but it vanishes.

"Look! Follow the ripples it's making!" Aloy said eagerly as she watches them appear, showing that it actually turns invisible, though not completely. It reminds her of a Stalker.

Aloy anticipates where it will appear and springs into action the moment it doe so, attacking it furiously as she slashes it, causing it to fly with a squeal and land upon the ground. Link is quick to follow up as he ruthlessly stabs it repeatedly with the Lizal spear. The Wizzrobe manages to get up and do its disappearing act away from them.

"Think that's gonna stop us from killing you!" Aloy shouted as she takes out her hunter bow and shoots it the moment it appears.

The Wizzrobe squalls long and loud as it falls to the ground and melts away, leaving behind its wand. Link picks it up to study it. It has a handle with two flattened bars, one blue and the other yellow, crossing over and leading away from each other, with a seething ball of energy between them.

Link swings the rod and a ball of seething lightening flies slowly out of it. He keeps the rod, deciding to use it as a weapon.

The duo continue onward down the trail, fighting more Lizalfos and come upon another area where another such wall with writing is upon it. After dispatching the Lizalfos, they also take a moment to read it, or more accurately Link. It describes how around one hundred years ago after King Dorephan ascended the throne, a Guardian strayed into their territory. It seemed unstoppable until the king himself went forth to confront it and received a wound on his forehead. But with immense strength he lifted the Guardian and hurled it into a ravine, where it smashed to pieces. From then on, he became the most respected Zora of them all.

"He must've been massively strong," Aloy mused. "Those Guardians are large and heavy."

The path takes them alongside past the writing up a hill overlooking a cliff. Once they crest the hill, they go down it and away from the cliff that turns into a wide trench that winds its way down with lamp posts on either side to disappear around a corner. They run into a Moblin armed with a bone tipped spear. This time the duo use their bows upon it, with Aloy using regular arrows and Link using bomb arrows. They keep up the barrage until the Moblin falls and Aloy runs out of regular arrows.

"Great, now I'll have to make some more," she fumed. "I guess I have enough ridgewood and metal on me for that."

That is when another Moblin from further down the trail comes stalking toward them. Aloy has her tripcaster out and shoots a tripwire across the trail, hoping that this one will be as dumb as the one she had used it upon. The Moblin stupidly touches the tripwire and it explodes, knocking the Moblin back with a roar. Link takes out bomb arrows and launches them at the Moblin, finally killing it and Link takes what he can.

Aloy looks down over the cliffside upon taking notice of Zora's Domain. It is a city made entirely from that blue iridescent stone, from the top of the huge fish statue down to the pillars supporting it. With the evening becoming later as the sun is closer to setting, the blue lights glowing from it make it look more surreal. The place reminds her of Meridian, save that it is more exotic.

"It's beautiful," Aloy said breathlessly. "It looks like a dream."

Link urges her to come and they head down the trail and finally up to the threshold after crossing its elegant bridge. There are two Zora guards on either side and on either side are water slides with water flowing down it that collects in one of two pools next to them.

Prince Sidon comes running up to greet Aloy and Link.

"Whoa! I've been waiting for you, Link! Aloy!" Sidon exclaimed with open arms. "Welcome! Behold the pride and joy of my people, Zora's Domain! Now I shall introduce you to the king. Hurry, this way!"

And he turns and runs off. Aloy and Link are about to follow them when the guard on their right exclaims, "Master Link! Is it truly you? The Hylian Champion?! It's me, Rivan! We used to swim together when I was but a child . . . Remember?"

But Link tells him that he does not remember.

"Well, it has been one hundred years since then," Rivan said. "And now I'm over one hundred and thirty years old."

"One hundred and thirty years old?!" Aloy exclaimed. "How long do you Zora live for?!"

"We can live for almost two hundred years, sometimes older," Rivan answered, then looks at Link. "I must say, you've aged well for a Hylian. Unbelievably well! Now that I think about it-shouldn't you be dead? Sorry. That may be too personal a question."

"Father," the guard on the left, a female by the looks of her, stated with sterness in her tone. "We are on guard duty right now."

"Or, right," Rivan said with embarrassment. "Sorry. The leader of the pack, Bazz . . . The heroine, Gaddison . . . And my father, Trello . . . They have all aged quite a bit, I'm afraid. But they are all doing well. Oh . . . But, Master Link, you probably shouldn't speak to the elderly. Oops! Sorry for keeping the both of you too long. You both have business in the throne room, right? Please proceed there at your earliest conveniences."

They walk past the guards.

"It must be pretty overwhelming having to wake up a hundred years into the future and still find some of the people you knew still alive," Aloy said.

They enter Zora's Domain proper. Part of the roof keeps the rain off them. The arches and pillars they see are all beautifully crafted in meticulous detail. Waterfalls are about the place. They even see one of the craftsman chipping on a pillar with his hammer and chisel. All around them are Zoras, none of them hugely tall like Sidon, though still tall with long torsos and arms, but with those disproportionately short and stubby legs. Their heads like fishes and a tail down at their bottoms. There are even children amongst them too. They have different colors to their bodies, though all have that same whiteness from their face down to their inner thighs. They are nude with apparently no external genitalia and wear adornments of worked metal around their wrists and neck.

Link stares up at a large statue of a female Zora holding a trident perched upon a large pedestal, which in turn is perched upon a dais that is surrounded by a pool of ankle deep water. He walks up to that statue while staring up at it. Aloy follows after him while also staring at the statue.

"Looks like somebody important," Aloy mused, then points out. "Hey Link, look. There's another Sheikah Shrine over there."

"Hello," a nearby female Zora said. "Are you . . . Hylians?"

Link tells her that he is but Aloy is not.

"Oh, where are my manners?" the female Zora said. "I am Laflat. I am chief secretary for the royal family . . . Are you curious about this statue of Lady Mipha?"

Link tells Laflat that he is.

"If you do not mind . . . please allow me to explain," Laflat said. "This is a statue of the former Zora Champion. Her name was Lady Mipha. She was as kind as she was beautiful . . . They say her ability to heal wounded soldiers was beyond compare. Those soldiers she healed . . . they are old and decrepit now. But they remember. For this reason, the elders of the domain all love Lady Mipha dearly. If you would like to know more, I suggest you try talking to one of them."

Aloy and Link look over at the Shrine and Link suggests that they could get to it later, then turn to leave.

"That guard earlier said that you should best avoid the older Zora," Aloy whispered.

They head up one of the grand stairs and come upon an older male Zora trying to touch a shock arrow on a railing, then screeching with each try.

"Lady Mipha! Watch this!" The old male proclaimed proudly. "I, Seggin, the aptly named Demon Sergeant shall strike down the Divine Beast Vah Ruta!"

"Someone's trying to impress someone," Aloy quipped.

Link asks the Zora named Seggin what he is doing, of which he turns and is startled by the sight of Link.

"You," he exclaimed angrily. "You're Link! Finally, I can avenge Lady Mipha! It has been one hundred years since you last showed your face here! Now I, Seggin, will cut you down myself!"

Link asks Seggin what he meant.

"Playing dumb, eh?!" Seggin snarled. "Nice try, but you cannot fool me, Champion Link! You were unable to protect Lady Mipha from Calamity Ganon!"

"Um, hey, Demon Sergeant, but Link couldn't protect himself from Calamity Ganon either," Aloy said with sarcasm.

"What would you know about it, stranger?" Seggin said curtly. "It has been one hundred years since we lost her . . . Poor Lady Mipha," his tone regretful. "How heartbreaking."

Link then states that he won't fail her again.

"There is no way we would ask for your help now," Seggin sneered, "after all this time and after all that has happened! So says I, Seggin, the Demon Sergeant! Even if this body of mine is destroyed . . . I will drown Ruta in shock arrows myself! And in doing so, Lady Mipha's regrets shall be alleviated. If you understand anything of courage, then get out of my way at once!"

"Come on, Link," Aloy sighed. "Let's leave this bitter old soldier to his shock treatments."

They leave and are about to go up another set of stairs when they encounter another Hylian guard who speaks to them.

"Hello and welcome! Zora's Domain is currently searching for Hylians like you two," then mutters under his breath. "That said, that Hylian male . . . I get the feeling I've seen him before . . . Perhaps a long time ago."

As Link and Aloy are about to walk past him, the guard speaks once again, if only to himself.

"Now I remember! That male is . . . No, but Hylians don't live more than one hundred years . . . I'd better ask just to be sure," then speaks up. "I must ask something of you, male traveler. If you know it, speak it now. What is the Big Bad Bazz Brigade password? Fluffy white clouds! Clear blue . . . ?"

Link tells him, Zora.

"Yes! There is no mistaking it!" The guard whose name is Bazz exclaimed. "You are indeed, the real Master Link!"

Link admits that it is true.

"I knew it! The only people who know that password are members of the Big Bad Bazz Brigade!" Then in a calmer tone. "That said, you haven't changed at all . . . But what have you been doing for the last one hundred years?"

Link answers that he was sleeping.

"As though you could sleep for that long," Bazz sneered skeptically.

"You can if there is Sheikah technology involved that can put you into a timeless sleep," Aloy quipped.

Bazz stares at Aloy for a moment. "Anyway," he next said, "I am glad to see you here, Master Link. Zora's Domain is in dire need of a brave Hylian like yourself and your friend. I would ask that you meet with King Dorephan upstairs. Right away, please."

Link and Aloy go up the stairs next to Bazz.

"King Dorephan?" Aloy mused. "Wasn't that the Zora king who threw that Guardian off a cliff? It must be his son who now bears that name."

At the top, they are greeted by the sight of a massive blue Zora with Prince Sidon on his left and an old Zora with a manta ray-shaped head on his right. The massive Zora in question is sitting upon a throne that is shaped like a fish and wears a red sash with golden ropes fastened to a blue star-like brooch. He also has something else that Aloy is quick to take note of.

That scar on his forehead! That really is their King Dorephan! And I can see why he was able to do that too! Damn, he's huge! And over a hundred years old too!

Link and Aloy stand before the trio of important Zora. The tension of the mission is palpable in the air.