100 Interesting Bits of Lore in Tears of The Kingdom! 

Link is able to drink booze. Link has to be at least 25 years old because of one main reason. Mattison Hudson’s daughter. First of we don’t even see her in breath of the wild so we can assume she was born around a year later. Second in the time of tears of the kingdom she’s said to be 7 years olds so at least 8 years have passed making Link 25 so he’s very eligible to drink booze😊 Second fav:the suns location changed probably because the earth moves around the sun so yea

I think that the botw and totk games are a parallel universe. The same sort of stuff happens, but at different times. I dunno, but I am kinda sort on it.

Not too far into the video so idk if you cover it later but the horned statue has dialogue when you first meet it saying that it was first cast out to the outskirts of town (probably hateno village) and then it says it was sent to a pond. I think the pond it’s referring to is the pond on the great plateau where you find the small bargainer statue after breaking the breakable wall, this would make sense for the horned statue to be a sort of bargainer statue because we know the bargainer statues deal in life and death with the poes. Just thought I’d throw that in there, gonna go back to watching the video.

Personally I think tears of the kingdom isn't that great I think it's good don't get me wrong but if you list all the major story beats it's the same. Wake up on the great plateau Wake up on the great sky Islands Meet an old dead king of Hyrule Meet an old dead king of Hyrule After collecting the four abilities from the four shrines he tells you to to kakariko village. After collecting the four abilities from the four shrines he tells you to to lookout landing. You meet an old shika woman. she tells you to go solve the problems of the four other kingdoms. You meet an old shika woman. she tells you to go solve the problems of the four other kingdoms. Afterwards you're told of a fifth dungeon. Afterwards you're told of a fifth dungeon. And after beating all the dungeons you go fight Gannon after you beat him once transforms into a giant monster that you take down with the help of Zelda. And after beating all the dungeons you go fight Gannon after you beat him once transforms into a giant monster that you take down with the help of Zelda. I still like the game it just doesn't different. Feels to similar with the ancient technology from a race long gone.

@@haydenpaulson8375 but the rest…. Ultrahand, fuse, recall, ascend, all the mechanics, make it amazing, the depths too, sky islands, I can’t name it all. Don’t base the game on the story, there are way more fun elements to it. And I don’t think there was a 5th dungeon presented in botw, (it got presented on dlc).

That's an AMAZING fact, wow

Um Zelda is in the zonai outfit at the end?

​@@Vincraft787yes

@@Vincraft787 yeah because that's how she was when she ate the stone

@@sdani. ngl the secret stones look tasty

It also represents that they've moved on from their grief rather than clinging to it like they were before. They still revere her, but they're not actively mourning her all the time now.

When I originally went to Zora's domain I was like "oh god how could they do this to mipha? Lol

Isn't Polymus Mountain also where Link and Mipha rescued young Sidon from a Lynel? That would make the area even more significant to the Zora.

@@lesshagitz5704 That was in Age of Calamity.

@@paulrance5445 I could have swore there was a Zora stone tablet in botw that mentioned Link defeating a Lynal at Polymus Mountain years prior

Plus, they are still honoring her with Mipha's court. Having the Statue in a shrine dedicated to her memory is only fitting. She's literally overlooking the domain.

It’s avenge not revenge but still cool idea!

I never thought of it like that. I always hated the fact that they moved miphas statue, mind you when I first cleared the gunk and saw it was link riding Sidon I was furious! But yeah the way you described it, makes sense and calms my fury somewhat lol

Yeah, I liked that they moved her statue to a place of "peace and restoration" where you can pilgrimage to enjoy the peace of nature and wellspring; away from the bustle of town.

Wow, that is super cool!

How many of these memorials are there? So far, I’ve encountered 3

​@@narfaresgo to the forgotten temple to find out

​@@Ad0kqdragon tears are not what they seek

@wilhowie3378 mb I thought it said memories not memorials

she says that her father, king Rhoam forbid her because it was a rule that no one could break including him or any other royal member, not even king Rhoam himself knew what was under the castle, but since it was a rule passed down through countless generations, he simply followed said rule without questioning the why, the only reason Zelda went down there with link is because she noticed that the origin of the gloom was under the castle itself.

I do see this as a viable conclusion to draw, yet all 4 Devine beasts are named for specifically oot sages. Considering the location as so near the temple of time, I would guess va raru, or va saria 🤔

​@@jessieferguson4054 you seem to be forgetting that Vah Medoh is named for Medli, from The Wind Waker. The Sages of the Zonai era definitely share a connection with the Divine Beasts (looking at the helmets and so on), but we know from Urbosa that Vah Naboris was named after Nabooru. Could it not be the case that the world leaders took on new names when they became Sages (so the Sage of Fire takes on the name Rudania in honour of Darunia) and then Vah Rudania was named after him, making it a chain leading back to the OoT/WW Sages? Rauru may have adopted the name when he came to interact with the Hylians, to suggest to them what sort of an entity he is by mirroring the historical figure. Unlike the others, he's a different species to his namesake so he didn't feel the need to alter the name slightly. So given now that the Divine Beasts may be named after the Sages of the Zonai era, who are named after Sages from the OoT/WW era, it makes more sense to me that Maz Koshia's Divine Beast would be Vah Rauru.

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 your right about ww, and darunia I think is majora's mask too now that I think about it. Rauru must share a certain connection to oot rauru though, as he, in oot, is both light sage and an owl, and has the title lord of owls in totk. At this point I think botw, hyrule warriors, and totk, are the result of a timeline merger caused by (spoiler warning!) zelda's time travel in totk. It's possible that zelda might even have jumped realities to an alternate hyrule. The map layout is loosely based on NES zelda. Zelda even calls link "hero of hyrule" in botw (a title for the NES link). The scene of Gannon pledging loyalty to king rauru mirrors the oot scene, yet in totk, gannon doesn't dramatically look out the window to young oot zelda (perhaps zelda's appearance in the past influenced the birth of oot zelda? What if the king and queen were destined to get it on and make a zelda, but were distracted by company?). As interesting as this might be though, if we were to take rauru at his word as the founder of hyrule, then it would place these events muuuuuuuch earlier than NES zelda. In the Nes version of zelda 2, it mentioned that the first zelda was put into a deep sleep hundreds of years before Nes zelda 1. That would mean totk's time travel would have taken zelda back to between skyward sword and Nes zelda. This doesn't work though. The physiology of the geirudo doesn't match up. Pointy ears are a hylain trait. The geirudo we see in past and present totk have green eyes and pointy ears. Gannon totk and oot have round ears and yellow eyes as well as the oot geirudo. This means the Gannon and the geirudo in totk are the decents of Gannon oot. Hylians interbreeding with geirudo would explain the change in ears and eyes. Thus the switch trilogy must take place in an alternate timeline long after the events of spirit tracks and phantom hourglass.

@@jessieferguson4054 you are correct about the Gerudo; it's actually the Gerudo from the memories that proves Rauru didn't found the *first* Hyrule. The common Gerudo vai have pointed ears and green eyes way back in the Zonai era. The Gerudo gaining these traits is because of generations of breeding with Hylian men - there's only one Gerudo male per century, and both are human races (descended from Skyloftians). It's a noted evolution that famously occured *after* OoT. It's probably the case that every part of TotK and BotW happens long after any other games. Which timeline isn't clear, but doesn't need to be. Hyrule Warriors, a probably Child Timeline game, ended up connecting with the Adult Timeline (makes sense, since they are parallel unlike the Downfall Timeline). Something there probably messed everything up. Maybe even Cadence of Hyrule shares some blame; that had characters time travelling, like a bunch of other games. Everything could just be collapsing a bit from all the time manipulation. I suppose the references (Ganondorf bowing in fealty to the king, Koume and Kotake being his retainers) could be history repeating itself, maybe due to the repeating spirit of Demise. Zelda's time travel is weird. We know timeline splits can still happen, since Terrako split the BotW timeline. From the BotW timeline he sucked the Champion successors, and back there he sent them after his new timeline's problems were solved. Rauru claims that Zelda's timeline didn't have a Zelda appear in the past, but that seems to be wrong. The mural of the Light Dragon's birth was already there, so he must have been wrong about his claim. I'm not sure. It's all very odd, but it does give us a lot to think about.

This blew my mind

Also it looks like the mini bosses are in the designs

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Maybe termina is out there somewhere

Labrynna and Holodrum are two countries outside of Hyrule and there's a Zora Domain in Labrynna. There's a possibility Yona comes from there.

@lambopambo1166 what if the big piece of land at the edge of the map is Termina? 👀

There’s multiple lands out of Hyrule that are confirmed to exist. Labrynna, Holodrum, Hytopia. I won’t include Termina and Lorule because they are separate dimensions.

The fact Yona is from another Zora’s Domain makes me wonder if she might have been a very important person in that domain? If she is then that would cause Sidon and Yona’s marriage to bind the two domains together despite marrying out of love!

Yo. I’m kind of loving it and also fearing it at the same time. I’m not sure if I want that to be true or not…

This truly is the downfall timeline

Omg I love this. No wonder they wouldn’t let him in 🤣

Well I wouldn't blame them. I don't want a pervert in my town! (Source: Tingle DS games)

The eighth heroine is Tingle confirmed

Cheers!

Nice fact!

Zelda 2 was my first Zelda game 30+ years ago. When I heard the name Rauru I was exceptionally moved.

Holy crap your right I totally forgot about that. We can prolly play the old games and there's a lot of things in totk that we have seen in old games

6:10 the blessings shrines or the labyrinth have Raaru refer to himself as King of the Owls.

Came here to say this

Wow I never thought of that, yet it makes so much sense. How did I not notice this lol

It's also a subtle visual reference to the Fuse mechanic, showing that the decayed Master Sword can indeed be restored in some way, shape, or form.

Wow that's cool

Full on power of love trope! Sonia and Rauru's love combined lead them to defeat Ganondorf, where they can finally have peace together, but they also combine their love to power Link and Zelda's love for each other, so they can go back to bringing hope and prosperity to the next generation of Hyrule. Love to see it!

That's very interesting!

Honestly, I think there's another reason why they couldn't beat Ganondorf: they literally couldn't even put a single scratch on him. The fact that Zelda felt inspired by a chip of the master sword actually managing to put a scratch says as much,

@@sinteleonNot only that, but it was when the Master Sword hadn’t been powered up by the Light Dragon

​@@darkmonger6244not necessarily just the light dragon, they made a big deal to point out just how long she spent charging the sword. If she left a dulled master sword with the great deku tree for the 100 years link slept, and it was able to scar Ganondorf like that, a sword healed and charged for 1000000000 years would definitely get the job done, whether it's from the light dragon or not. Clearly the Deku tree has some sacred light powers if it can also charge the sword.

@@sinteleon They couldn't beat him because they aren't supposed to be able to, Link the Hero with the fully charged Master Sword can do that canonically. it is why with him goner, Zelda could only contain the Calamity, and Rauru only imprison Ganondorf in the past in TOTK.

Something I'm curious about is Sonia's tattoos since Rauru seems to lack them altogether and Mineru only has a teardrop tattoo on her nose which makes me think that her tattoos might not be a Zonai tradition but might be exclusive to wherever Sonia grew up and the tattoo of the royal crest is a symbol of her family heritage.

@@annieandelsieofarendelle3294 I've theorized that Sonia's people may have been the barbaric tribe mentioned, but it's purely speculation

@@SlowWinterNuts I theorized she had grown up in Lurelin Village.

Sonia was a priestess before she married Rauru, her tatoos could have some religious meaning relating to her past as a priestess.

@@SlowWinterNutsthe barbaric tribe mentioned in BOTW IS the Zonai.

I thought it was because the lightroots took the Light from the shrines and trapping it, so when link comes and releases the light, the depths get a bit more clear, thats my headcannon

Shade, I thought the same thing!

​@hananaltair3563 well yeah, that's what they do. But they can only do that bc the lightroots are physically connected to the shrines. Like its roots...

They are. Don't worry.

Hyrulean is just to refer to someone who lives in Central hyrule. Hylian is used to refer to someone who is Hylian.

@@coryfreake9070 it demonstrates how the "founder" Rauru just made/rebuilt another Hyrule, and not the first one we see starting from The Minish Cap, which was made by the descendants of Skyward Sword Zelda.

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 Oh, I completely misinterpreted what they said.

​@@xinpingdonohoe3978It could be possible that Rauru's Hyrule is a separate Hyrule from Skyward Sword Zelda's Hyrule. This could be the reason for the civil/unification war that precedes Ocarina of Time. Basically, one of two things possibly happened: 1) SS Hyrule fought Rauru's Hyrule or 2) sometime before the war SS Hyrule and Rauru's Hyrule married into each other's families as a political move and folks who were against it rebelled and started the war. The other thing to note would be that SS Hyrule would have to have been located elsewhere since Rauru's Hyrule is originally on the plateau but moves to where it currently is once the imprisoning war (specifically of ToTK, not of BoTW) is over.

@@nicodalusong149 there is a slight chronological issue with that though, and it's to do with the Gerudo. It isn't clear which Skyloftians' descendants evolved into the Gerudo, but at some point it happened. All Humans lived in Skyloft, so that includes the pre-Gerudo. The first Gerudo had round ears, and this carried over into OoT. It wasn't until after this event that you would slowly see the evolution of pointed-ear Gerudo. The Gerudo vai seen have pointed ears, so this group, which exists alongside Rauru and Sonia timewise, must be post-OoT Gerudo.

They also throw you in jail for going nude. Pfft, prudes.

Yeah i was gonna say that

Even if that isnt the case, Gloom also existed when Rauru fought him. I wouldn't be surprised if the robes were created AFTER the imprisioning war as a consequence of seeing it first hand

The goddess really doesn't like this guy

What did this guy do to make Hylia hate him so much?

hylia hates him because he is a selfish deity that only helps people in exchange for money, money is all he cares about, hence why hylia moved him from hateno to below the earth, so no one could make deals with him again.

Exactly. It doesnt move by itself.

Hylia gonna be pissed when she finds out we still doing deals with it

That is, unless even the Raru and Sonia story is at the end of the Zelda timelines we know. Devs recently mentioned it could’ve been a “re-founding” of Hyrule.

i was coming to say that. like, on earth the sun rises and sets at a different point on the horizon every day except for the few days around each of the solstices.

That is very good to know!

Also, if Kass had appeared during the Rito storyline, that may have pushed me over the edge of actually crying during that part of the story. 😅

@@mitwhitgaming7722 kass should have sang the song of the stormwind ark!!

​@inker_monkey Yes! I miss his accordion.

A MEMORIAL PLAQUE WILL BE CARVED AND BEJEWELED IM MY HONOR

Maybe a nod to Wisdom, Courage, and Power? The only animal mentioned that is tied to a character is the Boar with Ganon, but owls are often used as symbols of wisdom, and that leaves dragon as courage. Tho one could say it would take courage to undertake the process of draconification, so that could also be it?

Maybe the labyrinths will be connected to the three pieces of the triforce in the future

Probably three different tribes? Whether they were even more ancient Zonai before Rauru or that they split up from the central Zonai group that descended from the sky.

@@manicpanic1I feel like owls are clearly wisdom and that leaves dragons being courage

also! the sky parts of the Lomei Labyrinths are labelled as "castles" which if we assume that in the past the labyrinths were actually all connected, it'd imply that the labyrinths are in fact the rulers' castles.

New head canon

Would also explain how the spirits of the champions could still pilot the divine beasts despite being ghosts

@@griskin_8202 YES. It also might do a little more explaining as to WHY the sheika were questioned and outcasted after the calamity. Not only did the tech fail and turn against the people of hyrule but the method of powering it was a too nefarious for the what remained of hyrule to condone.

@@griskin_8202 YES. It also might do a little more explaining as to WHY the sheika were questioned and outcasted after the calamity. Not only did the tech fail and turn against the people of hyrule but the method of powering it was a too nefarious for the what remained of hyrule to condone.

Hm, this could also explain why the light energy aura Rauru has is more green, while the Shiekha energy source is blue. Rauru having the power to *purify* with his light, and the 3rd eye (of enlightenment) symbolism could be interpreted as the zonai energy being spirit based, as previously theorized (luminous stones = crystalized spirit energy, the green glow matches the spirits of King Rhoam & champions). Whereas the sheikha, who have a history in a darker type of magic, probably have their energy based on unpure spirits. Could recontextualize the Shiekha tearing eye symbol with the new zonai lore. We now know zonai came first, we see the eye motif in zonai art but it's based on their 3rd eye. If the sheikha tried to recreate zonai tech, meaning they need to recreate zonai energy, and zonai energy is based on purified spirit energy, but the Shiekha lack the power of purification, they use the next best thing, Poe's (who's spirit hasn't passed on), their take on the eye symbolism can be read as their tribe being mournful, or regretful, of having to master a dark magic for a good cause? Idk I'm extremely tired rn haha

Drinks made from fruit can be alcoholic too. Like grape juice vs wine. It's only a matter of fermentation.

You’re right. I don’t understand how everyone doesn’t, but if you pay attention to the description, it clears it up. saying it’s a “VARIANT of the Noble Pursuit” “For EVERYONE”

Could also be a localization change... Because letting the player buy and drink alcohol would probably up the age rating in some territories.

I live in a town that is famous for its sangria, an alcoholic beverage that's made with fermented fruit. Sangria is made with grapes and some tropical fruits, and if think about it, it's kinda like fruit punch. There's also non alcoholic cider, which is made from apples, and also regular cider, which is fermented apple juice. I think it's the same with Noble Pursuit.

It's also the same recipe as Age of Calamity's fruit juice replica - though it's smaller now, a little cocktail rather than a whole glassful.

Which one? Also, I think the reason she came there was to see the fairies which not many people can see.

The depths below it also have a lovers pond but reverse (a heart shaped land Mass with water around it). And a huge building next to it

Well considering that link is always with Zelda they both went to lovers pond with each other witch is really cute

This is proof that Link and Zelda did visit the Lover’s Pond… even most people won’t admit it.

Even Link's camera can't see them, interestingly - whip out the Purah Pad and they disappear.

The Water Temple for me, felt like a Sky Temple just with water. It'd be so cool if that was the case. I think the Water Temple would have worked better as the Ancient Waterworks location. Or perhaps deeper within.

You wanna know what's wrong with the Water Temple? Mucktorok. This is the most annoying boss fight in totk by far.

@@hedwigon6951how was it annoying? I found it fun and creative that the boss was two and one creatures that throw sludge at you- and it’s kind of gooey and cool

Yeah but I mean… absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The outfits still could have been first created after the Imprisoning War back in the day, but they’re probably gone now. So the statues recreated it for Link as a thank you

This also way Rauru operates under the assumption that Zelda is waiting for you at the temple of time, as he has no way of knowing what actually became of her as her own sacrifice happened after his.

Weren't they wielding Gloom Clubs when the dark Gerudo enacted the Molduga assault? That would explain the inscription.

You can translate the text on the sashes. They are Kotake and her sister. Ganondorf's sword has their names on the handle of his sword.

The Evermeans aren't Yiga. The Evermeans are just monsters. The Yiga trees are, you know, the trees that surround Mighty Bananas. When you go to pick up the fruit, the three trees poof into Yiga warriors. And it could be that, given the esoteric Sheikah secrets he possessed, Kohga may have mastered the power of Truth, the one replicated in the Lens of Truth.

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 wow I never saw a Yiga tree before thanks for telling me! I’ll edit the comment

@@-lowquality-3384 okay. They can be found in the locations where some Yiga Travellers were in BotW.

@@xinpingdonohoe3978 this is false, in one of the yiga dialogue lines, they state that Link will never suspect them if they hide as trees or something like that

@@sirsheep8011 what are you talking about?

All the dragons are referred to as female, though

@@thesetwofloofs5397 not in every version- i believe in german they are referred to as men. it varies language to language.

@@lilliahpasco Ah, very interesting! Thanks for sharing

In Spain, they are represented as spirits, not male and not female

​@@lilliahpascothat might just be bc the noun for dragon is masculine in german tho?? idk

Same with the other OoT sages!!! And Mido i think, i could be wrong

So he's getting a virgin noble pursuit

Virgin cocktails it is lmao

wow, same!

You’re so right! No wonder why I loved the wind temple so much

Also I'm pretty sure there was some sort of kingdom before Hyila had to create Skyloft. So Rauru could have founded the first Hyrule and then skyloft was created and then Hylia/Zelda created the "new" Hyrule.

Was way better than the Wind and fuck the Fire one was meh. Have yet to go the Gerudo... Seems enemies are getting harder with each 3 of the 4 sages I've gotten, so I've been just, combing the map from the very top left to the very top right, though I fucking hate shrines, so I just get to them for the fast travel so I can go back to them after a while. 8 hearts and 2 bars of stamina, and every amiibo card, so I get around easy enough lol... Maybe I should do those shrines so I can get more hearts they're just never any fun and more like Zelda Tears Solid: VR Missions than it feels like the game... Hated the shrines in BotW but they were better than these, and I hated the portals in Immortals Fenyx Rising which might as well be Assassin's Creed: Breath of the Wild and the first BotW esque game I ever played.

That boss is strangely hard for me. I liked taking it on again and again to find the others easier 😅 Also, #Zelink

Hope you enjoy!

You get the Recall ability from Zelda at the start of the game in a similar way you get the other sage's vows. So Recall is Zelda's ability. If Link got a secret stone he'd probably get a more powerful version of his flurry rush and bullet time... Oh god he would be able to stop time for a bit.

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what if the eight heroine is the ancient hero whose costume you get once you finish all the shrines??

@@sh4rkssthats what i mean, the refusal to let even him in implies that gannondorf’s betrayal is in more recent memory

It would be interesting having the ancient hero be another male gerudo.

@@ClaudevonRiegan_ i think it specifically states it's an outsider voe, they wouldn't call him an outsider if he were gerudo

What i want out of dlc. Being able to interact with Sonia

*SIMP*

I’ve seen people therize that link was a vessel because of his love for Zelda hence why she referred to it loveing when she woke up personally I agree with this but it’s not 100% what is certain is that embrace was link because if you go out of bounds when she says “loveing” he smiles so it was his embrace

Or the direct representation of the Tri-Force: Raru is Power, Sonia is Wisdom, and Link is as always stupidity/insanity…. I mean boundless courage.

The Beam Emitter looks like a unicorn. Have you forgotten about the dragon that the people of the land mistook for a unicorn, the dragon known as Aquamentus? Even the Beam Emitter then could be a dragon head.

I love Yona too!

I haven't seen people hating on Yona. What possible reason could they have? She seems like a perfectly fine character

@@louis559 mainly because a lot of people have a crush on Sidon lol. They’re jealous of her

@@louis559 Some fans ship heavily on Sidlink. But we already know that Zelink is officially canon (even Nintendo doesn't want to admit it).

Sidlink doesn’t make sense

The thing is, there's no such thing as a "past incarnation" of ganondorf, it's literally the same person every time. It'd be more appropriate to say alternate (timeline) iterations of ganondorf. Granted, that's only applicable for the pre-botw Zelda timelines, current ganondorf admittedly does seem incompatible with the past timelines as far as we know.

Do you think that after this battle for those that have not done the battle Scroll to the bottom Since he was sent to the surface thanks to his stupidity again. With the dlc do you think he will attack now from the surface. Although after he was defeated all the members attack more and say they are mourning him so no sign of him yet 🤔

@@crunchyfresco It's the same in BoTW. After defeating Master Kohga, the other clan member also mention they are attacking to take revenge for Kohga's "death". I doubt he died this time either. He might be stuck on a sky island, or shot out of hyrule into some other dominion, or ever in outer space. If he doesn't come back in a DLC, he'll certaily return in the next game (if it happens in the this same time frame).

To restore the status you need the claws not scales, you did say that to get the sword again you need to sacrifice claws, which is correct but wrong dragon part for the first time.

Umm… how are they jacked? They look like lanky armor suits

They can bench-press moons? "BARGANER STATUES ARE THE FOUR GIANTS?!?! Zelda Theory" lol

Maybe the three factions lived in the three areas. Sky, land, depths.

This is actually really cool. Considering how the sky Labrynths are called castles and how they have easy access to the depths and may have once had _proper_ bridges to the sky.

​@@sackthebastardrandomly came up with a theory after watching this video and reading some comments... Since the Tri-force isn't really brought up in these games, we assume it's essentially forgotten to this eras people. We know Rauru and Sonia had at least one offspring, because Zelda is a descendent, literally living proof. So what if at some point in the past, the Zonai did in fact possess the Tri-force* but had to split it in 3, one piece for each of those 3 zonai tribes. What if at some point the leaders of those tribes, to protect their triforce (either from themselves or outside forces, like a demise incarnation) underwent dragonification, the way Zelda did it to protect the master sword for Link?. They're immortal dragons, they share names with Farore, Naydra, and Din, the goddesses who were said to have left behind the triforce after creating the world. If the 3 goddesses were zonai, and they had descendents who would later inherit the triforce, and they became dragons at some point, enough time could pass where the Tri-force is mostly forgotten. Could explain its absence in verbal references in these two games, but it's clearly a big part of the series since the symbol is still everywhere. I don't mind that they take a break from the Tri-force, but this would be a cool way to explain it's absence, and I'd they ever want to bring it back within this current continuity, we get more cool dragon stuff!!! *Also, I wonder if the Secret Stones are somehow related to the Tri-force itself. We've seen older games break even a single piece of the triforce up into shards or whatever. What if the Secret Stones are just an ounce of the Tri-force power. That could be why it amplifies the power already within the wielder.

The stuff made by the ancient Sheikah is gone - as is the last surviving ancient Sheikah, that being Maz Koshia. Only the creations under Purah exist now. Maybe Maz Koshia took the technology to some ethereal realm, such as wherever the Trial of the Sword occured.

I personally think they simply buried/disassembled the tech. Shrines and towers can bury themselves. The guardians were stored in the huge black pillars around Hyrule Castle in BotW. I assume everything just got sealed away and the Purah Pad is a copy of the Sheikah Slate and removed any ability to control said tech ever again hence the loss of the rune abilities.

@@freshlymemed5680 but it can't have buried itself really. It doesn't have room. We can see that it extended to the Depths (Kihiro Moh Shrine, Gerudo Tower) and yet there isn't so much as one Guardian down there.

Yeah, but Zelda didn't take any Hylia-like form so I don't know.

@@coryfreake9070 no because she already resembles her. Also the stone amplifies her time powers, which come from Sonia, who is Hylia's descendant

@@adamH.1 Zelda doesn't resemble Hylia at all. Even from the silhouette we see of Hylia in Skyward Sword shows that Zelda would have to grow wings at least. Also, what does the power amplifying aspect of the Secret Stones have to do with this?

She resembles the reincarnated Hylia(SS Zelda)

@@TheNobleSeer That isn't Hylia. Hylia most likely looks more like the Goddess statues.

I don't really see the Link parallels on Rauru's part and I especially don't see Zelda parallels on Sonia's. I think it's more likely meant to represent Zelda's parents from BotW and what they were like had the Calamity not have happened.

@@coryfreake9070link Zelda can dress up like them they treat each other like equals and has the same eye color like them

@@That-girliscrazy ???

Don’t his gloom weapons say those names too?

It is more canon now! I wish we have more moments in TOTK.

@@KagomeYasha023 yep

They even respectively have blue and red trim on their garments.

Commie Zelda is canon, what a timeline we are in

Lmao just finished the video and I got a heart. Thanks bro 🗿

That's probably because they're in the Temple of Time, Spring of Power, Spring of Courage, and Spring of Wisdom. I think we should focus more on the "White Sword of the Sky" quest if you're interested in this bizarre kind of stuff involving Godess statues.

the thing is we never hear the names of the sages, everytime they appear in cutscenes, they only say they are ancestors of the current new sages, they never say their names, and that means that maybe their names could be the same names from the OOT sages. is just a little theory of mine

Wouldn’t be surprised if we got another Hyrule warriors game that covers that exact subject

​@@sackthebastardYeah, DLC should be made for something else.

I just want Kass -_-

@@sackthebastardI think we’ll get a Hyrule warriors game sequel to AOC which takes place 5 years after AOC and it’s about the imprisoning war in the past with Zelda playable and Upheaval with Link playable

This is obviously not the same Imprisoning War, but it'd be a nice spectacle regardless.