He finished playing with a flourish, then grinned a little at the earlier question. "It's an active volcano," he shrugged, "And has, in the past, caused death - there was an eruption that practically buried Kakariko about... a hundred and fifty years ago, I suppose?"

Quietly, softly, he started playing another piece - background music as he spoke. (It could count as third by his count - Sheik did not enjoy ripping people off.) "The mountain has been an ever-present part of Hyrule's landscape, and Kakariko has sat at its foot for nearly five hundred years. It started out as one of the annual settlements that the Sheikah took, we - they were nomadic back then. But around... three hundred and fifty years ago, the village became permanent, and became the home of the Sheikah in Hyrule. Even when the old village was destroyed by the volcano, we still remained there."

He could still vividly recall the sight of the ruined village - flows of ash that had scoured the little wooden village from top to toe. Only the Shadow Temple, largely underground, had survived.