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>>3933412

That is only technically true.

>>3934430

This is closer to the truth.

Link *was* knocked unconscious by a storm that totaled his boat. While unconscious, his body drifted too near the Windfish (which may or may not be a fish in its "true" form). The Windfish was currently being afflicted by a being known only as "Dethl", who manifested in shared dreaming as a nightmarish entity that was slowly corrupting and co-opting the Windfish's slumber.

Once Link joined their shared dream the Island of Koholint was born. It can be surmised that the only thing "real" on the entire island is Link, the Windfish, and the nightmare Dethl. Unfortunately the Windfish is the one generating the dream; ergo he cannot be directly manifested within it. That is why he had to send an avatar, which took the form of the wise owl who talks to and guides Link. Dethl, being something altogether different entirely, is able to summon and shape parts of the dream-island as well, and so were born his fellow "nightmares" and many of the monsters you see on the Island.

The entirety of the creation is a whole whose parts are the sum of Link, the Windfish, and Dethl's hopes, experiences, desires, wants....You name it.

>>2301013

I don't know. That's partly why I named the picture that way (the Namib desert, which is the location of that pic, is the hottest place on earth). The title is my layman's guess.