This Historical Fiction Novel Has A Breath Of The Wild Easter Egg

In The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, it takes apple, spicy pepper, Hylian shroom, sunshroom, ruby, fire keese wing, and a red lizalfos tail to make a red dye for clothes--and according to novelist John Boyne's latest book A Traveller At The Gates Of Wisdom, the exact same ingredients were used for dyeing in the fifth century court of Atilla the Hun.

Reddit user u/NoNoNo_OhHoHo spotted this curiously familiar list of ingredients in The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author's latest epic, where the dressmaker protagonist plots a poisoning using a red dye. Amidst an otherwise straightforward historical setting, the mention of Octorok and Lizalfos seems a little out of place.

In a Twitter thread, writer Dana Schwartz pointed out that Googling "ingredients red dye clothes" automatically brings up a list from Polygon's Breath of the Wild dyeing guide, which appears in the novel almost verbatim.