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AITA for “Rushing head-long into the world-endling calamity with no preparation whatsoever because I was curious”?

Long story’s very long, I (???M) woke up a few years ago from what was essentially a 100 year power nap. It turned out that I was a Knight who was supposed to save the world from a calamity that went on a rampage through the kingdom 100 years ago, but I had no knowledge of this at the time ss I had lost all my memories

Shortly after I woke up, I met this guy I can’t remember the name of who I think was supposed to explain that to me, but I didn’t really pay much attention to because he made me run around the area I woke up in entering four shrines and collecting cool powers from them in exchange for a Paraglider that could help me access the rest of the world, and I just kinda zoned out while waiting for him to shut up and give it to me already. It was stupid, I know

But after I got it I did this sick kickflip off the side that of the area that led to me accidentally bouncing off of a dude’s head and gliding all the way to the castle where the big bad guy lived, and then I saw a light coming from the throne room and heard voices and I just had to investigate

But on the way there I noticed this investigation was gonna be more dangerous than I first thought, so I grabbed some weapons and armor and fought my way up to the throne room, where I had to beat up four weird monsters and then entered a fight with the calamity I was meant to save the kingdom from, still not really having any idea what was going on

So I beat him up and this beautiful princess who sounds just like the voice I heard, who we’ll call “Cass”, appears in front of me and thanks me for saving the kingdom, and then asks if I remember her. To which I say no, because I just woke up like 30 minutes ago. She then says that I should’ve reclaimed memories of her on my quest to come save her, and I tell her I didn’t go on a quest. I just saw a weird light coming from the castle and went to investigate. She then begins to freak out about me not doing anything I was supposed to do and asks me why I would do that, and I said I was curious and that got her REALLY mad. And she began going on this rant about how I risked the fate of the entire kingdom, and I was starting to get kinda stressed out so I just blurted out that the day was still saved in spite of everything and that seemed to calm her down. But THEN she mentions this “Master Sword” I was supposed to use to beat up the weird beast thing and freaks out again upon realizing that I don’t have it, but she basically nuked the guy so I highly doubted he was coming back and reassured her of such

Ever since then we’ve been all over the place restoring the kingdom to it’s former glory, and I’ve learned a lot about who I was thanks to a close friend of mine (???F) who we’ll call “P” taking me to a bunch of places captured in my camera roll, as well as Cass giving me some history lessons. Turns out I was really something back in my glory days. I try my best to be more like that for Cass’s sake, but it’s kinda hard with how emotional she gets whenever I get any details of our history wrong. It’s really hard to understand her when she gets like that, but I think I manage well enough

And that brings us to now. Laely we've gotten reports of people falling ill from this mysterious Gloom that’s leaking out of the castle, and when we went to investigate we found the corpse of the guy she nuked a few years back. Except it turns out he wasn’t really dead, and would’ve been if I used the Master Sword

And now everything is messed up. My arm had to be cut off due to a really severe Gloom infection (and was replaced with some other guy’s), and I’ve woken up on this “Great Sky Island”, Cass is nowhere to be found with the only trace of her I have being the device she left for me, and the kingdom is probably in great danger without me there to protect it

I took up an attitude with Cass when she said this was all my fault before she disappeared, but in hindsight she was right. Even if I couldn’t have known what would happen I can’t shake the guilt of knowing how none of this would’ve happened if I just listened to that old man instead of focusing so hard on getting that stupid paraglider. I mean, why else did I think he was forcing me to go around collecting superpowers?

AITA?