Essence of theSheikah Slate

This Essence tastes like innovative ingenuity.

• When you first consume this Essence you will happen across a curiously iPad-like/tablet-like device very soon afterward.

• This device comes pre-loaded with a number of features, most prominently a number of nifty runes, but there are a handful of other features that this bad boy comes with that aren't runes as well.

• The first rune is the rune of Cryonis. This rune allows you to create a solid platform out of any sufficiently large amount of a liquid such as water. The main use of this is to facilitate travel across a large body of water without doing something like swimming. Your slate can also connect existing platforms or even direct the platforms to move so long as they remain connected to the body of liquid that spawned them. This means that you don't need to jump from stationary platform to stationary platform to use this rune to traverse the world. You can have ten platforms up at once, but once you travel a decent distance from the platforms they begin to melt.

• The second rune is the rune of Magnesis. This rune allows you to use magnetism to manipulate magnetic objects.

• The third rune is the rune of stasis. This allows you to effectively freeze time around a person or object provided the object isn't colossal such as a building. If you freeze something and strike it the kinetic energy behind the strikes will build up and be released when the object is unfrozen potentially allowing you to redirect a big enough object even if it's in motion if you have enough force. Living beings stay frozen for much shorter periods of time than objects do. At most something stays frozen for two minutes, and at the shortest, they stay frozen for thirty seconds. You can freeze three objects at once.

• The fourth rune is two runes in one and both are simple remote bombs. These bombs come in two shapes; square, which are largely stationary and deceptively heavy, as well as round which are very mobile and can even be moved with a simple gust of wind. These bombs can be denoted remotely and will not explode unless you remotely detonate them. You can have three of each shape out at once. The bombs explode with enough force to easily break bones.

• The final rune summons a sick looking motorcycle when activated that you know how to drive intuitively. It is fueled by anything you drop into the fuel gauge, and even trash gives it some juice.

• Another critical function of the slate is its camera function. This handy feature comes tied to an encyclopedia that is built into your slate and whenever you take a new picture of something you've never pictured before your slate catalogs it and puts it into a database you can access at any time. This is also tethered to your slate's sensor, which can be tuned to look for anything you've taken a picture of.

• By drinking the essence you've also enacted subtle, at first at least, changes to the world. Sheikah towers and shrines will be erected all over the world. By climbing the towers you will be able to access a terminal atop them that contains information for your slate. This information includes both an active, real-time mini-map and also data on how to build guardians and other Sheikah technology yourself. Shrines are also placed in isolated locales all over the world and by exploring them and conquering them you can get heart containers and stamina vessels that boost your vitality and endurance whenever you collect four of either objects. History is minimally edited to explain why shrines and towers are all over the place, stating that they are leftovers from an ancient civilization. No guardians exist until you make them, and they are incorruptible.

• You can use towers and shrines you've visited as teleportation points, even crossing continental distances with ease and in seconds.

• You can take anything on your person with you, and can even build teleportation pads to transport bigger objects.

• The slate is a powerful telescope and can place pins on objects and people that you can track with your mini-map or your slate when you are using it as a telescope.

• If you diligently explore towers and shrines and create guardian and Sheikah technology ,you can eventually learn how to create new runes that are related to items and magic from throughout the Zelda-verse.

• If you have an essence or some other ability that lets you leave your current world and explore a new one things like shrines, towers, and will appear in new worlds, even hundreds or thousands of them if you go to a multi-planetary setting.

• This slate is keyed to you and will only ever work in your possession or in the possession of those you let use it, which you can stop doing at any time. If you lose the slate or it is stolen from you it will reappear in your possession in less than an hour unless you'd not want it too.