Shockingly, there is just so much to do and to unearth that these detours will almost always yield some sort of productive result, even if it is just a picture of a never - seen - before animal or vegetable to be added to the Hyrule Compendium, an encyclopedia of sorts that can be filled up by dedicated players; a mushroom with heat - protection effects that will let the hero walk beside that lava river flowing down Death Mountain
without burning; a
mysterious salesperson with a weird fetish for monsters; or mythical
creatures that add magic and awe to the greatest open - world ever conceived up - to - date.