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You close your eyes and calm yourself. You must maintain a warrior's focus. It is clear that these are the secrets your grandmother expected you to discover here. It is clear that this <span class="mu-s">Trial</span> is an initiation into your people's most sacred duty, it is your inclusion in the knowledge of where you come from, and what you are honor bound to do. You understand that the unspeakable legacy of the <span class="mu-s">Sheikah</span> must remain hidden. Your tribe stays in the shadows, while striving for the light...
Taking a deep breath, you rise to your feet, and exit the burial chamber back to the first room with the stone bowls. You reference your map, and see that the one remaining path leads to a spiral staircase, which should take you to the <span class="mu-s">Shadow Temple</span> below. You are rattled by what you have learned, but undeterred. More than ever you understand the importance of your culture and your ambitions to serve the realm, body and soul.
The staircase is cool, and dry, with smooth, dark stone tiles that make hardly a sound as you tread across them. You move carefully down what feels like a dozen stories before exiting into a large atrium, which is illuminated by many dozens of black candles along either side of the room, all placed in large, eye shaped alcoves. Their flame is a pale blue that allows you to see clearly, but still reminds you of the seashore at night. You extinguish your torch once more and tuck it away. Opposite you, there are a pair of tremendous metal doors, each emblazoned with a large, crimson <span class="mu-s">Eye of Sheikah</span>. Curiously... One of these doors is slightly ajar, enough for one to pass through and into the <span class="mu-s">Temple</span> beyond.
You pause, and place one clammy hand on your katana. Perhaps there will be more dark spirits ahead...
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