The Heroes Awaken Within a Mountain Then Receive Their Quest From an Old Person
Oddly enough, both Link and Aloy start their journeys in a mountain. Actually, Aloy starts in a mountain twice. When she’s found as a baby, after the vault unceremoniously dumps her outside its door, she lays on the cold steel within the large mountain where the Nora tribe have built their home. Then, after the events of the Proven – where the Shadow Carja murder her only family along with many of Aloy’s people – she awakens in that same mountain, greeted by High Matriarch Teersa before being sent on her quest to stop the evil corrupting the machines.
The Shrine of Resurrection that Link finds himself in when he first opens his eyes after 100 years of sleep is in the side of a mountain. He awakens, not knowing what the heck just happened. Shortly after he’s given his mission by an old man, who turns out to be the spirit of King Rhoam, Zelda’s deceased father.
