Brotherhood of the Underworld
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| Brotherhood of the Underworld | |
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| URL | http://www.northcastle.co.uk/botu/ |
| Language | English |
| Owner(s) | Kirsty Singleton |
| Webmaster(s) | Kirsty Singleton |
| Launch Date | 2000 |
| Status | On Hiatus |
History
Originally Brotherhood of the Underworld, more commonly referred to as BotU, was a subsidiary of its host North Castle. The sites purpose was to provide bestiaries from the Zelda World. However, it has since expanded to cover both fan artwork and fan fiction, highlighting the dark side of the Legend of Zelda series. BotU has gone through some ups and downs, of which it hit rock bottom after a server crash and all was lost from the site.
BotU did make a return later on and it expanded to cover more material. One of the great features of the site, was its BotUSupply for the villains of the Zelda series. This acts as a shop for the villains of Hyrule, highlighting all the various pieces of equipment that they use to try to achieve their goals of complete domination.
Layout
BotU is one of the few Zelda sites that still use frames as the main form of navigation with the design. The layout features a simple navigation bar on the left that expands with clicks, making every single page of the site easily navigable with no load time.
Forum Community
The message boards for BotU are currently shared with their sister website, North Castle. The forum has been online since July of 2004 and has amounted over 100 members and over 40,000 posts, making it one of the more active forums within the Zelda Community.
