Breath of the Wild first playthrough log part 12

I got reminded about the Spring of Power from North Akalla Stable... found it easily, but it's patrolled by some guardian drones... Offerring Dinraal's scale to the spring makes a shrine appear, with a flame weapon inside. And also found the memory there, where Zelda is frustrated because her spiritual training isn't going anywhere.

Hudson was one of the construction workers in Hateno Village... after buying that house, Hudson came to Akalla to try and build a new town. He's on this high, mini plateau in the middle of Lake Akalla. He's decided to call this place Tarrey Town, and he says he needs help finding some people to help build and populate the town... and due to the regulations of the company he works for, he can only employ people whose name ends in "son"... This seems like a really long quest where you need to find a certain character from each town and bring them here.

Spent a bit more time in/around Hateno, getting to know the characters better... I also found this weird horse target range area that I don't know what to do with yet.

Next I explored the 4 islands named after the Tingle characters from Wind Waker... This is a really confusing set of bridge paths connecting all the islands... some bridges go to lower sections and some go to higher sections of the same island... There's a bunch of enemies here that would be hard if I wasn't so stacked up with crazy good gear at this point... and not much else but tons of ore and koroks to find... and a few flying guardians that aren't even worth destroying because all their loot just falls down way below into the ocean.

Next, I went back to Foothill Stable and finally decided to start scaling Death Mountain for real. Death Mountain Trail is kinda scary at first... you need to search for fireproof lizards in order to make elixers to survive the extreme heat further up.

Found a Goron kid whose name ends in "son", his stronger older brother also has a name ending in "son" but I haven't found him yet.

Magma bombs are raining down around Goron City because of the divine beast, Vah Rudania, a giant robotic lizard that's climbing around the top of the volcano.

Oh wow, I got the flameproof armor already by selling the extra fireproof lizards I collected.

Greyson is here at the southern mine, but I can only talk to him at night when he's done work.

lol... dropping wood in this area creates a fire automatically.

Talked to everyone in Goron City during the day... there's some sidequests here that involve exploring some more parts of Death Mountain that I still haven't been to yet... Secret of the Hero... under the bedrock at Gorko Tunnel...

It took me a while to find that memory at the Southwest side of Death Mountain... this was an instance where the photo that Zelda took looks a bit different from how that area looks now in the present.

Then I started going around the hillside at Great Hyrule Forest... I explored here before, but that was a while ago, when I was much weaker than I am now.

Was gonna do Mounta Drenan and the other stuff north of the Forest/Death Mountain, but the bottom of Hyrule Ridge to the west looked more interesting... stopping here for now.