Shadsie
Sage of Tales
Oh, Ravio, Ravio, Ravio, you greedy little salesman and house-squatter, how I love you. You dress in a silly hat, have a cute little pet bird, and really appreciate the simple things in life. Your items also, saved my butt.
Through the game, I did wonder just where our little Salesman of Mystery acquired all of those mysterious, magical goodies to offer up for rent and sale. Some of the items are fairly common weapons, but some are quite magical, artifacts that no usual medieval weapons merchant could be expected to have on-hand.
I just finished the game and learned Ravio was once a servant of Hilda and looks like a black-haired, green-eyed Link. (Handsome devil). He is, or would have been, the Hero of Lorule if only he had not lacked the courage - but displayed a more sly kind of courage by seeking out the unknown and untested Hero of Hyrule.
So, where did dear little Ravio get all of his wonderful gadgets? I think he may, at one point, not just been a wannabe Hero or an untested Hero, but an actual Sacred Hero for Lorule and while he could not handle the current danger, he had another quest and all of the items that he rents/sells to you are the arefacts from his past journey. Think about whenever you finish a Zelda game and you have Link there with tons of items he probably doesn't need anymore since he's going to be living in peacetime and isn't going to be doing any more dungeon-crawling (until his next lifetime).
In my mind, Ravio is a post-quest Hero, who saved his world once, has all these leftover items from the quest, but has to call in reinforcements on a quest too big for him. Or perhaps the crumbling of Lorule, itself, took the courage from his heart (though not as bad as all those people in the Thieves' Town who are so messed up in heart and head they're forming a monster-cult). A hero with crumpled courage renting the spoils of his last great quest out to a successor from another world...
... wow, I just kind of made myself sad there.
(The question now is... Do I fanfic?)
Through the game, I did wonder just where our little Salesman of Mystery acquired all of those mysterious, magical goodies to offer up for rent and sale. Some of the items are fairly common weapons, but some are quite magical, artifacts that no usual medieval weapons merchant could be expected to have on-hand.
I just finished the game and learned Ravio was once a servant of Hilda and looks like a black-haired, green-eyed Link. (Handsome devil). He is, or would have been, the Hero of Lorule if only he had not lacked the courage - but displayed a more sly kind of courage by seeking out the unknown and untested Hero of Hyrule.
So, where did dear little Ravio get all of his wonderful gadgets? I think he may, at one point, not just been a wannabe Hero or an untested Hero, but an actual Sacred Hero for Lorule and while he could not handle the current danger, he had another quest and all of the items that he rents/sells to you are the arefacts from his past journey. Think about whenever you finish a Zelda game and you have Link there with tons of items he probably doesn't need anymore since he's going to be living in peacetime and isn't going to be doing any more dungeon-crawling (until his next lifetime).
In my mind, Ravio is a post-quest Hero, who saved his world once, has all these leftover items from the quest, but has to call in reinforcements on a quest too big for him. Or perhaps the crumbling of Lorule, itself, took the courage from his heart (though not as bad as all those people in the Thieves' Town who are so messed up in heart and head they're forming a monster-cult). A hero with crumpled courage renting the spoils of his last great quest out to a successor from another world...
... wow, I just kind of made myself sad there.
(The question now is... Do I fanfic?)
