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Boss #3: Manhandla

"A large man-eating flower with hands sticking out in all four directions. it moves faster as it loses its hands. It's pretty mean. So, watch out!"

-The Legend of Zelda manual

In the far southwestern reaches of Hyrule lie the infamous lost woods, a strange and bizarre forest known to confuse and disorient those who dare to enter, its trees bestowed with a sense of feeling alive and somehow prone to taunting its inhabitants. Within the wooded labyrinth is an ancient and humbly constructed limestone mausoleum covered in vines and moss, within it a lone stone coffin with the image of a Manji carved onto its surface. The Manji image traditionally comes with the meanings of success and peace, and the grave is believed to have once housed the body of a peaceful forest sage. It has since been repurposed by Ganon as another underworld fortress, to be used as a home for one of the ancient demons he resurrected. Lifting off the stone tablet that conceals the coffin’s contents reveals a hidden staircase descending below the surface, leading to a network of plant-covered rooms, tunnels and passageways, haunting and unusually silent. The demon lord that lives within its walls is an abomination, a heaping mass of plant-like tendrils, with gaping claw-like maws at their tips. The beast has completely taken over the once sacred site, its body indistinguishable from the vines and plant life that choke the already dilapidated stonework.

Description

Boss #3: Manhandla

"A large man-eating flower with hands sticking out in all four directions. it moves faster as it loses its hands. It's pretty mean. So, watch out!"

-The Legend of Zelda manual

In the far southwestern reaches of Hyrule lie the infamous lost woods, a strange and bizarre forest known to confuse and disorient those who dare to enter, its trees bestowed with a sense of feeling alive and somehow prone to taunting its inhabitants. Within the wooded labyrinth is an ancient and humbly constructed limestone mausoleum covered in vines and moss, within it a lone stone coffin with the image of a Manji carved onto its surface. The Manji image traditionally comes with the meanings of success and peace, and the grave is believed to have once housed the body of a peaceful forest sage. It has since been repurposed by Ganon as another underworld fortress, to be used as a home for one of the ancient demons he resurrected. Lifting off the stone tablet that conceals the coffin’s contents reveals a hidden staircase descending below the surface, leading to a network of plant-covered rooms, tunnels and passageways, haunting and unusually silent. The demon lord that lives within its walls is an abomination, a heaping mass of plant-like tendrils, with gaping claw-like maws at their tips. The beast has completely taken over the once sacred site, its body indistinguishable from the vines and plant life that choke the already dilapidated stonework.