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Foreword
Downfall of the Royal Family
This is the History of Hyrule as it has been told since time immemorial. After the end of The
Calamity, The Gloom Epidemic, and The Downfall of Ganondorf, Link, Champion of Hyrule,
took Princess Zelda Bosphoramus as his wife and queen. Together they rebuilt Hyrule to her
former glory and ushered in a new era of prosperity, a golden age of peace, as Husband and
Wife, and as King and Queen.
For twenty generations their house, the House of Ferus, ruled Hyrule with wisdom and
justice, and the goddesses blessed them. Hyrule's borders expanded to new heights.
Neighbouring lands such as Ordon and Hytopia were brought under the kingdom's dominion,
and the populations of all the races boomed. Even the divide between the Shiekah and Yiga was
finally mended. But this Golden Age came to an end.
It started with one king. King Hraban. He had been an only child, for his mother had died
in childbirth, and his father had refused to remarry. As a result, he grew up pampered and
spoiled. As a man he was greedy and gluttonous with a legendary lust for wealth. The taxes he
imposed on the people can only be described as iniquity. The economy suffered greatly under his
rule, and it never recovered. He was succeeded by his son Brand.
King Brand created a caste system based on race. It went as such: Hylians, Shiekah,
Gerudo, Zora, Rito, and Gorons. There was much outcry against the caste system. Some because
people truly believed it was wrong, more because others didn't like being treated as second class
citizens. Brand used the military to keep these protesters in line, and he used the Gorons, Rito,
and Zoras for cheap labour, "hiring" strong backs while paying green rupees. He was succeeded
by his son Hugu.
King Hugu was even crueller than his father. He put his workforce to great building
projects. New cities appeared all across the kingdom, and he had a marble statue of himself set
up in Castle City where a statue dedicated to the Four Champions had beforehand been. He also
had garrisons and burgs built throughout Hyrule: one on the foot of Death Mountain, one
overlooking Zora Domain, one where the stable across from Rito Village used to stand, and one
at the oasis in Gerudo Desert where the Bazaar had been. To keep his workforce in line, he
would scourge them with whips. To pay for these costly endeavours, he had rupees mass
produced, and the kingdom suffered from hyperinflation. He was succeeded by his son Bero.
King Bero was even more heinous than his forefathers. His father had scourged the
working classes with whips, he scourged them with worse: the Rito with scorpions, the Zora with
electric arrows, and the Gorons with boulder bashers. He was also the first Hylian king to
practice polygamy, marrying the daughters of his council to keep them in line. He was succeeded
by his daughter Brunna.
Queen Brunna was no less evil than her father, but she practised a different evil. She had
climbed to the throne by having her older brothers killed off, be it by assassins or by poising
them in their sleep. She practised sorcery and used her magic skills to tighten her hold on the
throne. She used magic potions to keep herself looking young and seductive until the day she
died. She was succeeded by her son Ward.
King Ward had to deal with the consequences of his ancestors' actions, for there were
many rebellions during the early years of his reign. The working classes tried rebelling against
him, but using the garrisons built by King Hugu he was able to easily subdue them. Less easily
were the Shiekah and Gerudo resistance. But eventually, Kakariko was pillaged and burned. The
shiekah were forcibly moved to central Hyrule where the king could keep a closer eye on them.
As for the Gerudo, King Ward besieged the desert for weeks, cutting all supplies from entering.
He then led a full assault upon the desert, mustering an army of twenty thousand. Despite this it
was not an easy victory, for the Gerudo used their own powerful sorcery and the Moldugas of the
desert to assail the Hylian army. Alas, they still fell one city at a time. When they finally came to
Gerudo City the Hylians rendered its mighty walls useless, for they had brought a new weapon
that few have seen outside death mountain since before the Great Calamity... cannons. When the
slaughter was over, Ward publicly executed the then king of the Gerudo and took his wife and
daughters as his concubines. All the Gerudo who were still alive were taken back to Hyrule
where they were reduced to sex workers. After all this, Ward led military campaigns against
Labrynna, Holodrum, and the lands of the Lokomo Tribe which were named New Hyrule. He
was the first ruler to take the title of Emperor, and he changed the house name from Ferus to
Indomitus. He was succeeded by his son Sigu.
Emperor Sigu made "reforms" to the caste system basing it on "usefulness to the needs of
the state." As such, anyone who could give military service was deemed a first-class citizen,
farmers, workers and labourers were second-class, artisans and merchants third class, and
everyone else were slaves. This improved the livelihood of the Gorons, Zoras, and Ritos, for they
could now get ahead as either a soldier or a labourer. Nothing really changed for Hylians or
Shiekah. However, things drastically turned for the worse for the Gerudo and women in general.
For Sigu also made reforms to regarding who could bear arms. Fearing another Gerudo revolt, he
had banned women from the right to bear arms. Any woman caught bearing or owning arms
could be imprisoned for life. He then banned women from taking part in the workforce (with the
only exception being farming).
But far worse deeds than these he committed, for he was the first ruler to commit incest, having
taken his Gerudo half-sister as a concubine. And later in life he killed his brother, for he had
coveted his brother's wife. When these things came to light, a priestess of Hylia challenged him,
saying what he had done was deserving of death. So, he led a cohort to the temple whither she
resided at, dragged her outside, and then he and his commanding officers publicly gang-raped
her. The goddess statue was pulled down and destroyed, and the temple burned to the ground. No
one knows what happened to the brave priestess afterwards. Sigu was succeeded by his son
Hraban.
Emperor Hraban (Hraban II) was a man who prided himself for his own beauty. Nothing
was more important to him than vanity and beauty. To him good breeding was everything, and so
he raised and lowered people's standings based on their physical appearances. The beauty
standards he set in place lasted long after his reign, (even after the fall of the royal family).
Indeed, many went to indescribable lengths to meet the standards he had set to the point where
marriage amongst the nobility (and to a lesser extent the peasantry) became little more than
selective breeding. He was succeeded by his daughter Ylva.
Empress Ylva was and still is a mystery. She stuck to the shadows and therefore most of
her deeds are unknown. But it is rumoured she had a spy network set up, and if anyone did
something that could be considered treasonous, she'd make said person "disappear." She also
loved wolves and kept many as pets. Many political rivals (mainly her own close and distant
relations) disappeared. One brave soul, a Shiekah, accused her of bestiality. They disappeared.
She never married and disappeared childless, for she aborted all her children. She was succeeded
by her nephew Wards.
Emperor Wards (Ward II) was a paranoid man. After the "disappearances" of his
parents, and then the disappearance of his aunt, he feared for his life. He saw an enemy in
everyone, a threat around every corner. So great was his fear that he had his own wife and kids
killed. Eventually, he took his own life. He died childless, and the empire went through a
succession crisis. His close and distant relatives warred over the throne. The conflicts lasted for
nearly a decade. When the dust settled, Harduz, a descendant of Brunna, was crowned Emperor.
Emperor Harduz was a tyrant, and his methods of ruling were draconian in nature. He
doubled down on the evil ways of past rulers. A famine covered the entire empire for five years.
He did nothing to help the people. When it ended, the rural villages had greatly depopulated, and
the cities were full of the hungry and sickly. He did nothing. The Shiekah and the Priestesses of
Hylia cried out against him, demanding he helped the people in some way. Their passion spread
to the poor, and the other races, and soon large crowds were gathering outside the castle
demanding he do something. He responded with military force. The army attacked the crowds
and put many civilians to the sword. Then the Emperor had the Shiekah matriarch killed and
made her daughter his concubine, seeking to controle the tribe by making his own scion their
heir. Then he banished the Gerudo to the desert once more, believing the waste of the desert will
diminish them. Finally, his greatest crime, he had all the priestesses of Hylia executed, and their
positions filled in by shrine prostitutes. He would have been succeeded by his daughter Hilda,
but her cousin Hraban usurped the throne and made her his wife.
Emperor Hraban (Hraban III) made his cousin his wife after usurping the throne from
her. During his reign, many rebellions broke out within Labrynna and Holodrum. He would go
on long military campaigns to quell the rebels, but they could never be stilled. He would
ultimately die on the battlefield. He was succeeded by his youngest brother Hlutwig.
Hlutwig was crowned Emperor Clodovicus Indomitus, and he was the last emperor. He
continued the sins of his fathers, amongst others. When newly come to the throne he married a
sorceress of unknown origins named Veran. She introduced to her husband—and through him to
all Hyrule—the practice of demon worship. Demon kings such as Demise, Medulas, and
Ganondorf were worshipped in place of the Golden Godesses and Hylia. Under her influence,
Clodovicus ordered for all the remaining goddess statues to be destroyed, the sacred springs to be
welled up, any other holy sites and images were to be abolished, and in their places statues of the
demon kings were to be set up. Human sacrifice was practised in the worship of these demons.
Child sacrifices were particularly common. The emperor even sacrificed his own firstborn, but
more so he sacrificed the children of Gorons, Zoras, and Ritos. The Hylians copied his ways.
Veran would sell to nobles and commoners alike potions that she guaranteed would inhance
one's youth and increase their longevity. These potions often proved costly, and if one didn't
have the money, then they would have to pay by other more nefarious means. The emperor
himself practiced other occult magic in an effort to lengthen his lifespan. He and his wife would
throw wild parties every season, and the nobles would engage in orgies. It was at the point where
no one was even certain if any of the emperor's children born by the empress were his own. But
no one cared anymore. Only a few among the Shiekah continued to speak against the royal
family. The Gorons, Rito and Zora were too scared, the Hylians copied their rulers, and the
Gerudo were seemingly forgotten and chose to stay forgotten (except for whenever they'd go
searching for mates or young men would go searching for their services). And so, it came one
night, during a party, that the goddesses themselves dealt out doom upon the royal family...
Yea, I am back.