The bones should be modeled after a human spine and are floating.” The designers were successful in their goals for this entity, creating something that is wholly unnerving and otherwordly. The developers continue: “He doesn’t have an actual body and should instead appear to be held together with some kind of cursed magic. As the developers say, “His appearance may be startling, but he will not harm anyone who cares for horses, though he has a strange sense of humor on the subject.” This god himself is largely composed of flesh and cloth, and, ringed in a deep purple as he is, his appearance is more than a bit disturbing. He can heal injured horses and revive those that have died, although any damage to one of his equine children tends to evoke a rather horrifying remonstration. It is here that Malanya, once rescued by Link, attends to the needs of horses throughout Hyrule. Malanya Spring can be found near the Highland Stable in southern Faron close to the Lake of the Horse God. And one of the strangest and most curious beings in Hyrule has this niche as his domain. Yet, with this newfound realism, we must also face its darker side: horses can be injured, and they can die. It is safe to say that horses have never had a better instantiation than in Breath of the Wild. Proper relationships take time to build, and the player can offer caresses and food to this end in return, horses will show affection in their own ways, turning their faces toward you and whinnying softly. Horses need to be tamed, and they drain Link’s stamina greatly during their initial training. But, of course, husbandry is occasionally a difficult matter. Herds of them dot the land, from icy tundra to temperate meadow, and each horse is able to be ridden and domesticated based upon the player’s skill. Horses get their fullest treatment in Breath of the Wild. Yet protecting them from the elements, as with any settlement on the frontier of things, requires both money and time, and much of the stables’ income is garnered from registering and boarding horses. Interestingly, and fortunate for the innkeepers, these stables are places that monsters never seem to bother due to the nearby presence of armed travelers or something unknown, these lodges are some of the safest places in Hyrule. And like Hrothgar’s Hall in the tale of Beowulf, they serve as beacons of light in a world that has largely gone dark. They are the balance to what Link is doing in his efforts to save the land - they are keeping Hyrule sane (while Link is working to make it safe ) for a future time in which life can again bloom with possibilities. Echoing their modest size, these stables are humble and unassuming in their goals, focusing on the smaller, day-to-day issues of Hyrule. They are gathering places for sidequests and travelers’ errands, serving as guild-esque meetinghouses wherein people can request help or leave gossip. They are the centers of communication and the transmission of knowledge for all travelers, and they serve as havens for the weary and wayward. The rest is wilderness but for the stables.
While the major races of Hyrule all have their individual cities safeguarded against the darkness, the Hylians have only a few battered communities - Hateno, Lurelin, and Tarrey Town among them - huddled in the corners of the world. The last ragged elements of humanity take shelter in these canvas sanctuaries against all the forces of the world, and these waypoints therefore contain the continuance of the Hylian people.
The network of stables peppered across Hyrule, easily overlooked and seemingly unimportant, stands as both a symbol and a testament: it is one of the only indications of the vitality of the Hylian civilization and a witness to all that has come before it.
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