This isn't Hyrule (Genshin x Linked Universe)

Chapter 8

Truthfully, Four was not expecting to land in an unfamiliar Hyrule when they stepped through that portal. At this point, they had all gotten used to cycling through familiar lands so getting dropped here had been a shock. Granted they learned about it after everyone else, courtesy of the portal.

Hylia, that portal was the roughest they've ever had the displeasure of going through. It was like they were being forcefully split apart and then smashed together, being stuffed in a body even smaller than they already were. It was no wonder they passed out the second the cursed thing spat them out, the pain was unbearable.

After waking up they'd been somewhat disoriented; They felt both like shit and like the best they'd ever felt after coming out of a portal. Vio thinks the forced nap allowed their soul to settle, settling them into their places without them awake trying to either split or pull themselves together.

They had woken up to the sound of a fight, which did not help Red's nerves, but it was finished quickly enough. Then they'd been subjected to a feral teen, a wolf pack, and watched their brothers get used as floor wipes. Then they'd learned that what their brothers fought was a god, which everyone freaked out about. They learned that the Master Sword was practically mute right now, which was never a good thing.

And now here they were, walking into what they assumed to be the Castle Town of this era.

Immediately, their ears had honed into the repetitive clangs of a blacksmith working on a blade, and it only took a quick turn of the head for them to spot them. To the left of the entrance was a pavilion with two men under it, one of them hammering what they believed would be a sword. It was a large, burly man with a scowl on his face as he hammered at the blade while what they assumed to be his apprentice just seemed to check the forge and clean blades.

As much as they would've loved to go over and chat with the blacksmith, Razor and their brothers had already started walking farther into the city. Following them, they spotted a little girl with multiple flowers around her to the right of them, a woman standing primly under an enclosed canopy to their left, and further up the stairs a woman calling out to the people who walked by.

One thing that caught their attention as they walked by were the boards and signs lining the streets. At first glance, their eyes had skimmed over the letters, dismissing them as the usual strange words they had come to expect in different lands. But then Four did a double take, and the realization hit: These signs weren't written in Hylian at all. The symbols were completely foreign — unlike anything they had ever seen in any age or version of Hyrule. Sure, language could evolve over the centuries, but... this was something else entirely.

Four couldn't shake the unease gnawing at the back of their mind as they moved on. Maybe it was just another strange dialect, they reasoned, but the thought lingered. They were still mulling it over when they passed by what looked to be a food stall. Something caught their eye—a transaction between the woman in the stall and a man. The man had opened a leather pouch and handed over a handful of... something, to the woman. Four had instinctively glanced at them, expecting to see the familiar glint of rupees. But instead what they saw were round, golden coins.

Those weren't rupees. Not in shape, color, or design. They looked more similar to fused Golden Kinstone pieces than any currency they've seen, but those weren't used as currencies.

That little piece of information — does it count as information if they just looked at it? — is even more damning than their strange, definitely not-Hylian language.

Hyrule is a land with multiple species; the main ones being Hylians, the Zora, the Gerudo, Gorons, and the Sheikah. There are smaller species that vary from time to time, like Koroks, the Rito, the Minish, and the Deku. They all have their own languages, and they also learn Hylian to communicate with other species easily. The strange language in this land could easily be explained as a local language for their species — even though this place looks like Castle Town, which should be crawling with Hylians.