Myrlund – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:49:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png Myrlund – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 Who the Heck is Dragon Quest’s Mutsuheta? https://setsideb.com/who-the-heck-is-dragon-quests-mutsuheta/ Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=8580 Continue reading "Who the Heck is Dragon Quest’s Mutsuheta?"]]> Kurt Kalata’s Hardcore Gaming 101 posted an article telling us about Mutsuheta, renamed Mahetta in the English localization for the NES. Mutsuheta is one of those figures who only appeared in the original game’s manual. Mutsuheta was the prophet who foretold that a descendant of the great Loto/Erdrick would arise and defeat the armies of the Dragonlord. Other than his mention in the manual, however, he doesn’t appear in any of the games of the Erdrick trilogy, and never appeared onscreen until the first Dragon Quest Builders, where he’s an NPC. He was renamed Myrlund in its English translation, but in Japanese he’s got the name of the character from the manual.

The story from Dragon Warrior, the original English port of Dragon Quest (image from HG101)

Reading this, I was reminded of https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Impa, Zelda’s nursemaid/servant, who was a similar kind of manual-only backstory figure until Ocarina of Time, where Impa not only appeared as an important NPC, but was revealed to be of the secretive Sheikah tribe, and had ninja skills to boot. She looked a lot different from the aged figure in The Legend of Zelda’s manual.

Impa in the manual to The Legend of Zelda
Impa in Ocarina of Time. Quite a different interpretation.

]]>