>>720037643
No, it's an NTFS reparse point. Most filesystem operations treat it in a transparent manner. This is unlike shortcut files, which need to be interpreted by the application.
>>720037556
I'm not sure if this image describing the lore is implying something about the depth and complexity of the lore or if it's a just a house that I'm impressing meaning upon like a 7th grade English Lit teacher. The irony is delicious.
>>720038173
I think you can manually edit a shortcut to point to a relative path, but I can't test it right now as I am phoneposting.
There's also utilities that you can download from online that allege to be able to do this.