Settling New Hyrule – Whose Land is It?
Zelda Informer is officially entering the Thanksgiving festivities here in the United States tomorrow, and it always comes with a strange sense of appreciation from me. The history surrounding this old holiday is an intriguing one, as it raises many ethical questions about the nature of colonization. Under what right does one kingdom declare another land to be its own? What of the people forced from this land? The colonization of the Western hemisphere by European powers was an incredibly messy affair.
Contrast this with the strangely utopian colonization of New Hyrule portrayed in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Are we to believe the descendants of those who mastered a dominant power in the ancient world, now lost beneath the waves, landed on an already-populated continent and declared themselves the rulers of the land under the jurisdiction of their birthright as mandated by the gods, and not a single hand was raised in dissent?
