5 Mysterious Ruins Found in Breath of The Wild! 

I always hated how, even after you buy the house, people act like you've never set foot there

I mean, with this Lynel, the Colloseum is still an execution chamber...

I always liked going to these places and imagining what they were like in their prime

You’re forgetting the DLC, which states that the coliseum was “a place for soldiers to test their might.” I think that it was more a place for nights and soldiers to train - with the added benefit of entertainment for the spectators. Edit: exact text is “a battleground where brave souls tested their skill,” so interpret as you will.

I really hope to see restoration to the ruins/villages/castle town in the new game, I think it would bring so much more life to the game. Maybe more sidequests like Terry Town to help build up new settlements across Hyrule

“Only the most mysterious ruins” *the temple of time*

- "This is familiar if you played the older games like Twilight Princess" - Now i'm the one who feels old...

If the temple of time put link in a sleep for 7 years that's not really time travel. They should call it temple of bedtime 😂😂😂

I mean if Botw2 explores underground we could actually maybe cause like sand, be exploring under the desert, and maybe we might end up in a darker and refurbished Arbiters grounds which would be amazing. And say we got the chance to explore underwater to make a even darker aspect you could explore in lake kilsie and maybe find some secrets down there.

There’s a theory that lake kelsie was the site of one of the divine beasts excavation. Possibly vah medoh

Wow, you're the first I've ever heard mentioning Lake Kilsie. Very original, nice!

My theory for Lake Kilsie is that it used to have a way that you walk up or down, and there was possibly a village there too. But due to a rock slide, most of the village (except the bridges and boats) were destroyed, and most likely everyone in the village died.

So, this my theory. I think, they're using botw's engine and map, I think there'll be a time jump back in time, and I think we will see hyrule in its previous state prior to the calamity, I think we will see all the ruins and structures in there prime. I also think there will be a third game in the series. It's gonna be a trilogy.

Lake Kilsie is definitely one of those locations that strikes me as 'weird' in the meaning that nothing about it adds up. The lake strangely has no fish, but has 3 docks. There's no signs of life; not from Hylian, Zora nor Rito. There's some monsters around sure, but asides from the usual pigeon and rhino, its unusually devoid of life. The lack of trees, flowers, weapons, campfire, settlements, or even tents and corpses certainly imply that nobody has even bothered to live there. The lack of a path to even go into the lake is so strange too. It reminds me of TP's Lake Hylia in that regard; in that the journey to get there requires unusual methods that most travelers wouldn't dare to use given the harsh climate conditions of the Hebra Region. Its also unusual that it boasts a secret hot spring, but a little west of the lake, there's a Hinox and a Lynel just roaming around. Not to mention that getting to this particular shrine is tricky in itself, as the way to it is rather unorthodox. Its also strange that there's such a huge cave right next to the lake that is perfect for housing the shrine. How did this lake even came to be? why is it so devoid of life? What purpose did it serve, if any?

About the Temple of Time and the Great Plateau, there is also a theory that not only GP is the old castle town, but it is also the Skyloft. The shape and the landscape of GP all match up more or less with those of Skyloft.

Maybe Lake kilsie could possibly be where Divine Beast Medoh could have been found?

I think the docks on Lake Kilsie were made by the Rito, as a fishing spot, either before or after the Calamity. Edit: In the DLC for Breath of the Wild, the bandit, Misko, hid a piece of armour in the coliseum and wrote in his journal: "...one found in the place where soldiers used to train,..." So, technically, the coliseum was used to train soldiers and give entertainment to the residents of Hyrule.

Imagine a pvp-ish area in BotW 2, that lets you choose from the (maybe) different style of weapons like a spear, club, greatsword, and sword (with or without shield) , while also adding new ones like dual swords, scythe, and maybe a polearm Then you can fight either a cpu, or a player. and then get bodied by the people who've mastered the combat system

Hyrule gamer: Ganon killed thousands of people The music in the background: *happy piano music*

1:43 Ah yes. The heroine statutes. Lore says thousands of people od'd everyday at this site.

I think you’re the first youtuber who’s mentioned Lake Kilsie. It’s one of my favorite locations in the game. Everything about the place seems eerie and lonely, and it’s just so strange. I always notice that it’s always snowing whenever I go there. Is that just me? I’ve never seen it in clear daylight. I also thought the same about the docks... I always thought that maybe the people who used to live in Tabantha Village would occasionally come here, but I purposely made it my mission to find a pathway that the people could take to get to this lake... But there wasn’t any. Like you said it’s a giant pit surrounded by steep cliffs, with no way down. Also I was able to take pictures of underneath the lake, and it’s actually extremely deep... More so than most lakes in Hyrule. Also another thing about it... Notice how there’s A LOT of air currents around the lake? Why is there so many here? Where are all these updrafts coming from? Also notice the Flight Range is extremely close to this lake... and that big pit has a huge constant updraft for whatever reason just like the one’s in Lake Kilsie. Could the two locations be connected by underground caverns? Also sorry for the huge comment... I just got excited about Lake Kilsie!!!! Hehe

Guarded by a Korok LMAO

Take a shot everytime he says 'kengdum'.

See, what you didn't think of is that Hyrule's people used Sheikah's internet in order to watch live the fights. They didn't need to be there in order to enjoy the spectacle :P

My theory on the coliseum is that hundred years ago, it was where Hyrule’s greatest warriors demonstrated their skills, and likely where Link rose in his ranks after becoming knighted upon finding the Master Sword at least when he was around twelve.

It's crazy to imagine the vast, underground expanses of Arbiter's Grounds now completely filled in with sand. Every room. Stallord's chamber, the massive room with the Sand Goddess statue, all of it. Either it was completely destroyed or buried up to what appears to be the very tips of the original Mirror Chamber.

We still know more about these structures than I do about my dad.

I was thinking how bored I was and then another awesome Hyrule Gamer video appeared :D

What if...now just hear me out. What if The Arbiters Grounds dungeon in TP was just the Spirit Temple in an area called the Arbiters grounds in the Gerudo desert?

I always assumed that the Great Plateau was where the original castle was located and the current castle was built later. Since its impossible to scale OoT's map to any other game plus with the size and daylight span differences, the distance and location to Death Mountain and other landmarks would be greatly off. My theory is with the further expansion of Hyrule that included the Hebra Province and the Rito people along with possible wars with distant lands and prosperity brought on with the Sheikah the royal family had a new castle constructed, leaving the older one more as a pilgrimage landmark that eventually became abandoned and then unreachable as time went on, later further damaged by the gaurdians.

One point that backs up the arbiters ground theory is that in the botw2 trailer, the figure has a striking resemblance to twilight princess Ganondorf. This could mean that after thousands of years after being imprisoned there, it was covered in a lake of sand, just like you said.

I've barely explored any of the Hebra region I just realized. (I'm on my first playthrough)

Great video. Exploring the ruins is one of my favorite things to do in BotW

Excellent and spot-on as always, my Scottish brother!

I know I'm a bit late to this, but I had a realization when he started talking about the Temple of Time on the Great Plateau. About how the windows are broken, walls are smashed, moss is growing all over it... but honestly most of the ruins around don't even _have_ windows or walls left at all, every one of them has Bokoblins around and a lot of it is overgrown. The Temple of Time looks like it's been _protected_ all this time, as supposedly it would have been there _longer_ than the ruins around it. I think the real point about the Temple of Time is how much better off it is than most, even considering its obvious structural damage. Also, no Bokoblins or enemies are ever _inside_ the temple itself. They can be out on the steps, "inside" the bare remains of other buildings, but the Temple's main interior seems protected.

I got the impression of a sporting arena due to it's proximity between Gerudo and Hylian territory. 1:56 Also, I hope you don't mind me leaving a tip for script editing. It's good to avoid using words like "possible" and "also" twice in a sentence. "Likewise", "too", "as well" just to name a few other examples. It's really easy to do it without noticing. I still catch myself doing it all the time when texting, commenting, or writing emails for work. Cheers!

I really hope they rebuild a hood amount of ruins like can you imagine exploring ALL of hyrule Castle in BOTW 2 how cool would that be!

Lake Kilsie after inspection seems like it could’ve been directly related to the Rito, there’s vents for them to get up the cliff and it is in very close proximity to the flight range. Maybe it was a combination of additional training grounds and a place to get fish so they don’t overfish their own waters surrounding the Roost.

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Urbosa' s fury is my favorite champion move

Great vid concept I’ve always loved exploring these places

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Love the video mate. I always look forward to these.

Glad that in AoC, we got to see places in their prime, like the great plateau and the ancient tech lab.

What's really creepy is Samala Plain in the Lanayru region. It has that one ruins ambience, too...

The part about lake kilsie was very interesting! I've never put much thought into it while passing through or playing around there, but you painted it in a very haunting way that I might be scared next time I find myself in the area haha. I hope you do another video with more places like lake kilsie, rather than the other more common places in the video that you mentioned.

Imagine you could revisit the The Arbiters Ground in Breath of the Wild 2. And I mean the Dungeon, changed similiar to Hyrule Castle That would be amazing

A little note, the kingdom's technology was not really in its prime, most Sheikah tech like the guardians was already ancient, it was forgotten even by that age's Sheikah, and the Sheikah were helping to excavate it in the laboratory. We can probably assume it was the workshop of Purah, Robbie and maybe Impa, and they probably would have taken anything left after the calamity to their new locations.

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I freaked out when I first heard the temple of time music in this game. It gave me major Ocarina of Time vibes

There is a temple of sorts located within the ruins of Castle Town. If you face the castle and head right you will eventually come to a location just south of the moat known as the Hyrule Cathedral. A Korok can be found here, and as barren as it is the location is important enough for its name to appear onscreen. I often wonder what it looked like.

7:07 "Koroq"😂

Being that lake kilsie is located in the hebra region, associated to the Rito, possibly the docks were built by the Rito themselves. Considering they fly, they have no need for an easily accessible foot path to the lake shore. It seems more logical than a lake of the dead without any further hint like graves or bones. I like where you were going with it though, but I'd associate death more with Mekar Island and its incredible amount of stal enemies.

Now that the prequel game has been announced, I look forward to potentially seeing some of these places in their prime. Especially the colosseum! How cool would it be if there was a scene in which we saw Link going sicko mode on some enemies in the colosseum!!

Great video! I’ve always thought there was something creepy and ominous about the three docks in the pit.

If we get to go underground to the ruins of arbiters grounds (as we see in botw it is somewhere deep under the sand) then I would definitely love that. Maybe we could even get something referencing twilight princess, like a broken lamp or something, unexplained on the ground, but it’s really from the poes that link destroyed so long ago. (Just one example of a possibility)

It's so cool coming back here after the release of Age of Calamity where we actually see the Ancient Tech Lab. Age of Calamity filled in some of the blanks that were left by BotW but I love how many mysteries the game still holds.

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I love coming back to these videos about locations in BOTW,& what they may have been,ever since AOC came out to see how accurate they were.

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I think the royal ancient lab was made to learn more about the ancient sheikah tech that was found underground. The Sheikah at that time were not advanced. The advanced technology belonged to the ancient sheikah, but that technology was forgotten, and the sheikah 100 years before the game were not advanced.

I found everything except for Lake Kilsie by exploring Hyrule. I think the docks were built by the Sheikah monks who made the shrine! They had to have a way to travel and bring supplies to the area (remember that it is nearly impossible to access the shrine except via the air current/bombable area) AND it's a super snowy area. It would be hard to air drop supplies via paraglider, as that needed specialty tools and people with immense stamina as well as warming potions/food/armour. Here's what I think. The sheikah were looking for spaces to hide a shrine. They saw the area as good (as it is cold and very closed off). The sheikah bombed out the trench looking lake, filled it with water and made the boat that floats there. They then used the boat to send supplies in to create the shrine and set up the challenges.

GREAT video, can’t wait for your next one!

10:40 I think the coliseum got destroyed, because during the events of Calamity Ganon, maybe he destroyed the coliseum, sending malice, and the monsters became overpowered.

I had a dream that i was in an art club and a Lynel was the top student, it was weird.

I'm not even halfway done yet but magnificent video so far!

It would be really cool if you can either A. Raise old ruined places up temporarily to explore them B. Go underground and explore the map that way C. Use something like the timeshift stones to bring old ruins back to life in the sequel to this game

i really hope in botw2 they expand more on old ruins, sorta like anthropology sidequests?? like what happened there, who lived there, etc. love the video btw!

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Auru was referring to Ganondorf; not to various criminals. 2) The Arbiter's Grounds was an execution base, not a prison (although dark magic was sealed there). 3) Although the term "underworld" (meaning "afterlife") is derived from the Japanese script, the literal meaning "that world", which explains where that particular misunderstanding came from. There's also the possibility that Auru was meaning "afterlife" and was simply meant to be confused. 4) It is made plain that the malice of the dead still lingers in the Arbiter's Grounds. People who know their Japanese mythology should be aware that emotions can take spiritual manifestations, hence the monsters there.

I never looked for the royal ancient tech lab until after the demo for Age of Calamity! Crazy stuff man

the dlc clue for the phantom helm i believe, says that the colloseum is "where brave souls tested their skills" or something like that so i think that disproves the execution thing, it was probably just a training ground for the royal guard or something

I've always wondered about these. Its fun to get a good look at them.

For the second time I'll say this, the Temple Of Time in BotW is not the same one from OoT. Castle town and Hyrule castle was built near to the foot of the Death Mountain range. Standing at the temple itself, you could see the volcano of Death Mountain peak in the distance, rising above it. In BotW, not only is the temple on the Great Plateau but it is also on the opposite side of the world from the Death Mountain range. Buildings can be rebuilt, mountains cannot and all of the Zelda games have followed a fixed relative geography for its major landmarks of the desert, lake hylia and death mountain range. This is most likely because these three iconic locations represent the three goddesses and form a triangle when you draw a line between them. The BotW Hyrule castle is actually situated in exactly the right spot and the fountain from Castle town can still be found several hundred meters from the main castle entrance.

Goron City always looks like it’s in ruins

It feels like you have been living inside the story about the 5 mysterious ruins of Hyrule on your mind, until it's over with clear explanation

The official (Aonuma, et al.) line on the Arbiter's Grounds from Breath of the Wild is that it IS NOT the same as that in Twilight Princess. Perhaps the original IS under the sands (or, given Hyrule's tendency to alter geographically over the ages, in an entirely different region, altogether), but the one in Breath of the Wild's Gerudo Desert is not the one Ganondorf was held in prior to his botched execution.

I’m glad someone noticed the Royal Tech Labs

I think as you can find hints about the way to the castle on the plateau too. That not the temple was moved, but that in with time the castle and the main city moved to a new location (build).

Someone else has probably mentioned this already but castle town moved between OoT and TP which is why there are two castle towns in breath of the wild, thus why the temple of time is nowhere near Hyrule castle

OMG that sound that played when you said the channel was growing "insanely" - scared the ever living shit out of me.

there was this place near hyrule castle called crenel hills with a bunch of weirdly hollow tree trunks and wizzrobes in each of them. theres also a shrine there i think but ever since I found it the area always kinda struck me as weird and bizarre

Remember, in Oot Ganondorf replaces Hyrule Castle with his Tower, and then totally destroys it at the end of the game. My theory is that the new castle was rebuilt far from the original location, perhaps after some major conquest since Hyrule is clearly much much bigger now. The rest of Oot's castle town seems to line up pretty well with the ruins on the Great plateau, so I think it's safe to say the Great plateau ruins are the same buildings we see in Oot's castle town.

I love exploring the ruins! I wonder what the people's lives were like before the Great Calamity.

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That quack made me jump. Also, in Botw2, they should have a side quest like the Terry Town where you rebuild some ruins and towns. But it should be called, "Ruins of the Wild"

Fantastic job! :-D

The Colloseum: My sister made me fight the golden lynel from Master Mode in there. Let's just say that Lynel is regretting it's life choices.

the lake one gave me chills man

Lol, I'm going to start acting like that in real life to people I know like "Hello stranger, what brings you to this desolate landscape?"

"Great Calamii" Makes my day.

One person mentioned that the arbiters grounds might have been destroyed by the gerudo tribe. It makes sense, lore being showing that the tribe hates the memory of Ganondorf.

I definitely think a previous iteration of Zelda did something similar to the way Hylia lifted Skyloft into the sky. But she moved around the great plateau, the lost woods, and the arbiters grounds. Also I think the coliseum was a portion of the arbiters grounds separated off in this event, maybe to preserve the site of the twilight mirror.

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You missed some lore about the Colosseum. The quest for the Phantom set refers to it as a place where brave soldiers tested their skill in battle. Meaning the battles that happened there were done by willing participants, not prisoners. It was likely just a place where events similar to the classic medieval tournaments took place.

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The idea that all the previous Zelda games are legends actually helps explain the layout shifts.

i never played OoT, my first zelda game was WW, but i find the temple of time ruins to be so hauntingly beautiful even though i don’t know what it originally looked like