legend of zelda breath of the wild

It was a much more stern time in the history of Hyrule; a time when a younger form of the kingdom regarded offenders of the law as refuse to be cast aside. Not a century after the formation of Hyrule, the Shiekah - the guardians of the royal family - were to be given permissions in the realm of punishment and imprisonment. They would be granted authority to deal with criminals under the spoken (and highly open for speculation) constitution of Hylian law. In these Hyrulian dark ages, those who would violate the laws of the land were handled abruptly and harshly, as the Shiekah were, at the time, an entitled and highly powerful extension of the Royal family's sword. In the shadows, in secretly built rooms of untold horror and agony, the convicted would be chained, bound, flogged, burned, dissolved, poisoned, starved, worked to the beat of a drum and in all other ways tormented and tortured for their offenses. Though the possibilities of excruciation were nigh endless, cu...