I'm playing Breath of the Wild, trying to finally finish up the quests I never got around to before. I'm trying to play as spoiler-free as possible, so I'm not looking up the locations of things, but I do know that the hylian shield exists in the game and would like to get it. Is there anything in the game that directs you to the hylian shield? A quest that leads to it, or even just an NPC who says "I saw some fancy blue shield in this place"?
Note: I do not want to be told where the shield is. I want to be told where some hint pointing towards the shield is.
Best Answer
There is! If you buy all three shields from Russ the shield surfer, he will drop a hit to the location of the Hylian Shield. He is located in the Eldin Canyon below a tree by the Trilby Plain.
For completeness sake, I am adding the actual quote from Russ into the answer with a spoiler tag.