5 Secrets You MIGHT Have Missed in Tears of The Kingdom! 

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Gloom hands mainly spawn near ruins, and most often nearly military ruins. The reason why they spawn near these ruins is because they were military bases in Ganondorfs time, and he is still mindlessly focused on taking those bases down despite the fact they were long abandoned. The hands are like his subconscious lashing out at the old Hylean military.

I love how they continue the stories of many NPC you helped back in BOTW. For example the Voe captured in jail in the Gerudo shelter. He is the one Link helps on the heart shapped pond.

Small but distinct correction: the Typhlo ruin tablets are Hyrulean, not Hylian. That is, the four sages were of the kingdom of Hyrule. Hyrule is the untied kingdom that includes Gorons, Rito, Zora, Gerudo, and Hylians. So the overall message here is that the tablets honoring Rauru’s sacrifice were done with the combined efforts of all races in Hyrule, showing that the sealing of ganondorf is what truly united the kingdom.

I would like you to discuss the "Gloom roots." I have noticed that within the depths there are root legs structures made out of gloom and if you touch them the same effect occurs. however, I've also noticed that there is a pulsing going through them and that it all heads directly towards Gannondorf. I believe he is using these to absorb power throughout the depths and the surface and that all health taken via the gloom is actually siphoned to him directly. This is obviously just a theory of course.

We know from in game texts that Sonia and Rauru created the shrines to banish monsters in an area. The Zonai civilization in the Depths would have been ancient even to them. I imagine they created the shrines over the existing light roots to tap their energy. Or, perhaps the light roots grew downward from the shrines instead and was not something created by ancient Zonai.

A few notes about the house, it is one of the few beds link can sleep in without paying, and the only one that specifically resides in another npc's house and there are two sets of dishware.

Something I find odd is the fact that the Barbarian set still has a description that implies that the tribe it mentions is still unknown, especially since the Zonai doesn't exactly match a "warlike" description.

Interesting fact: Every chasm is at the location of a BOTW shrine. Not every shrine became a chasm though.

2:44 did you know that in the "Tears of the Kingdom official trailer number 2" at the end where Zelda's lullaby is played an instrument is used called a kokyū which is the exact same instrument which plays the dragon's theme in both TotK and BotW foreshadowing Zelda's fate.

The weird thing about "Zelda's House" is that quite a few characters in Hateno talk about Zelda and Her House, but nobody really seems to recognize Link aside from the Shiekah guy, meaning that Link wasn't around Hateno village very often.

One thing of interest regarding the Typhlo Ruins is that the reward for doing those sage quests: the Dusk Claymore, was originally kept in the Sage Temple near Satori Mountain. If you go to the cave underneath the temple, you will find a stone plaque similar to the one in Typhlo saying as much. It's an interesting lore point because it suggests that Satori once wielded this weapon before he turned into the Lord of the Mountain, then was interred in his temple before being moved to Typhlo.

Maybe not a ‘secret’ per se but something I missed until recently - all of the stone monuments around Zora’s Domain have been updated with Sidon’s personal accounts of the Calamity and events of BOTW. It’s basically Sidon’s diary but carved into massive rocks in the landscape for anyone to read 😂

Something I found out yesterday; after you finish the Lucky Clover Gazette side quest line, if you talk to Traysi she tells you where Penn has gone. If you go there you can find Penn hanging around a spot Kass used to, and he even talks about “a legendary bard”. (There’s also an Ancient Blade in a chest under where the Sheikah platform used to be)

SPOILER ALERT A cool thing abt the dragons is that if you look at the light dragon, she has Zelda's hair as her mane. If you look at the other dragons, they have zonai like hair (the same kind of hair that rauru has) as well as having big long ears (bigger than hylians, which the Zonai also seem to have)

At 325hrs in, still finding new things and secrets, references.....loving every bit. The gloom spawn hands remind me way too much of the Dead Hand

Another very interesting one I can see people missing is the truth of the Gerudo heroines. (since its a VERY long and tedious questline), but one of the coolest to do imo

Some thing I noticed. If you look at the map when trying to work out Korok Rock puzzles, the map will show you the answer to the pattern. Probably well known fact, but I was pretty pleased with my self when I found it haha.

There’s two place settings at the table in Zelda’s house. Plus why would she need to add a room on the back of the house, PLUS a work area down the well if she had the whole house to herself? When I first saw this I absolutely believed they were together. I think you really have to do some mental gymnastics to believe otherwise.

Link surely has some form of PTSD when getting "booted up" by the Guardian legs when activating tower for the first time in Lookout Landing 😂But not gonna lie, the game surely can be fantastic when it comes for small things. spoiler:: One of my new obsessions in the game has been the Blupee Burrow. It resides in the depths, just underneath Satori Mountain. A small little haven for these little creatures who probably come and go to above ground showing cave entrances for Link to find. Also in the burrow, there's only one lonely, full-bloom cherry tree. I'm pretty sure that cherry tree is the only full bloom tree like that in the Depths, which just intrigues me..

One small detail I noticed: When you go to the Construct Factory in the Depths (doing the Fifth Sage quest, or independently), you'll encounter the "Caretaker Construct" who welcomes Link. It tells link that construct parts are delivered from the depots and assembled into constructs, but that the finished products are shipped to Dragonhead Island. And of course Dragonhead Island is in the sky, where Mineru's quest begins. I kept thinking: since the Zonai would've built the factory (and presumably zonaite mines), 20,000 years ago in ancient Hyrule, did the Zonai rule the depths and the sky at the same time? They would've had to otherwise constructs couldn't be shipped from the factory to the island. I first thought maybe the current Depths was the surface in ancient times, and just buried over many millenia. But the Depths are a mirrored-Hyrule, and Zelda's tear memories of ancient hyrule don't reflect that. Even the plants look different in the Depths.

I love how when I first started this game, my first thought was along the lines of "OH MY GOD IS THAT A ZONAI SWIRL!?!?!?"

For as far as i know, yes Zelda and Link do live together and people are saying that the bed got larger and Link can only sleep on beds that he owns (besides the one in deku tree but he can sleep there for free) and in Zeldas diary she says that she needs free space sometimes in her Well so she can study peacefully 😊

The sky labyrinth theme is so similar to the opening notes of the Guardian’s theme that I was incredibly tense and ready for a fight all through them.

my theory about the lightroots is that they are perhaps physical manifestations of rauru's light powers & sonia's healing powers? i've always viewed the green-blue zonai magic spirals as rauru's magic, based on how the same magic swirls emanate from both shrines and rauru when he was sealing the demon king. one can presume that the disembodied 'voice' inside the shrines guiding you is rauru, based on how the statues talk to you after you complete the shrine. maybe he blessed each shrine with his own magic? i think somewhere it's mentioned that he filled each shrine with magic that draws out & purifies evil. my thought is that the shrines are like seeds, and they were planted within the ground and rose up during the upheaval. the seeds would have been 'growing' for tens of thousands of years by that point, and their roots would eventually grow their way down to the depths. they have the power to dispel gloom, so not only do they have light powers, they can heal gloom affliction, so basically they have sonia & rauru's powers combined.

The Guardian at Hateno lab was already there in BoTW. It also has a korok seed in both games

If you go to the Sturnida hot springs cave northwest of Rito village you’ll find by going through a little tunnel,a room full of large glowing white crystals with mushrooms all over too.

Not really a mystery or big secret, but in the sturnida spring cave, there’s a small secret room with big glowing ice crystals. It just has a bunch of mushrooms inside, but it’s pretty cool nonetheless.

Guardians were probably just put back into the five guardian storage containers that appeared around Hyrule castle in TotK

i have a whole theory about exactly who the dragons were in ancient times. side quest spoilers. basically in both botw and totk, each dragon flies in parts of the map opposite to one of the lomei labyrinths. these three labyrinths are governed by spirits of zonai called the ruler of boars, the ruler of owls, and the ruler of dragons. these are the same beasts that correspond to the virtues of the triforce, as established in the theory about the faron ruins statues. farosh flies in faron, which is far to the south, and the dragon's labyrinth (for courage, farore) is in the northeast. dinraal flies in the north above eldin, and the boar's labyrinth (power, din) is in the south. naydra flies in the east, around mount lanayru, and the owl's labyrinth (wisdom, nayru) is in the northwest. i think that the disembodied voice of each ruler heard in each labyrinth is similar to the image of herself that zelda left behind in the temple of time at the beginning of the game, and that the rulers of boars, owls, and dragons became dinraal, naydra, and farosh. i also think that the ember, frostbite, and charged sets might have been the robes associated with their sagehood, since they have the same triangle pattern we see on mineru and rauru, who are also sages of the zonai.

Bc it’s basically confirmed that the dragons are Zonai that swallowed secret stones and that the Zonai are gods that came down from the heavens, that could mean that Farosh, Naydra, and Dinraal, are Farore, Nayru, and Din respectively.

There's a side adventure that reveals that Rauru and Sonia built the shrines and lightroots to dispel evil! You can unlock it at Lookout tower :)

maybe those light roots have ALWAYS been there, and it’s those light roots that power the shrines above. Maybe those light roots were originally lit up, providing light to the entire area, but upon Ganondorf reemergence, the gloom seeps in and damages the light roots, essentially causing Link to have to “Kick start” their recovery again.

My favourite thing I noticed (which a lot of other people will have noticed because you get armour from the heads) but the skeletons under the Leviathans (the depths leviathans?) they had my theorist brain going haywire. I'm pretty sure there's a skeleton that extends the entirety of the depths too, but it's easy to miss cause you can't see anything so you just assume its a root or something... I'm super facinated by the depths

So according to lore books hylians were the zonai royal guards and the zonai armor is a replica to that Also after completing all shrines you get ancient zonai headgear (spoiler alert) (Which turns link into a zonai version the original sword sage links past form) fun little tip

I can't wait to get your take on "the guiding light of the gerudo" and the ancient hero's aspect

I’m pretty sure the 3 Dragons are based on Nayru, Din and Farore, the 3 Gods or deities from Ocarina of Time

quick theory: the shrines are called "shrine of light" Maybe the lightroots connect to the shrines and get the light from the shrines, they do go directly up.

Something I noticed with the Lightroots, I’d assume they were used when the Zonai had their Great Mines as well as the construct factory down there. Every mine and the factory has a light root near it that allows you to see what’s going on down there and the forge construct on the Great Sky Island points out the fact that they used to nine it, but are no longer able to. Just a thought!

Theory for the light roots: In the tutorial area, rauru said that he filled these shrines with holy light. I think that the lightroots were grown to absorb this light and keep away monsters. (This is proven by the fact that no monsters spawn on the sky islands but everywhere else since these shrines don’t have a lightroot underneath them) Also both the light in the shrines and the depths seem to have a healing effect so it must be the same light. This also explains why the sky islands have golden grass and plants that heal you from gloom just like the holy light in the shrines.

There’s a cute little hint at Yambi Lake, next to lover’s pond where Blue Nightshade’s grow which is a cute callback to the sidequest in botw with the Gerudo and Hylian with anxiety

adding on to the lightroots and shrines. the names are reverses of each other. the one showed in the video is Jiosin / Nisoij, but you'll see the same thing for every connected shrine root location.

Here's a mystery I really want solved: The Zonai constructs are just following their programming, and see Link as an intruder. They aren't being controlled by Ganon, like the guardians used to be. The blood moon amplifies Ganon's power to allow him to resurrect his minions that have been killed. Why does the blood moon revive constructs?

A while ago, I went back to my botw save file and thought over how I wanted Guardians back. After totk, I’m not scared of the Guardian piano music, I’m scared of a red sky (no not the blood moon) where the Gloom hands spawn. Maybe Guardians can come back in dlc. While the gloom hands are nowhere as abundant as Guardians, they are much scarier even if I know I can take them down. Phantom Ganon is just a mosquito, annoying but very manageable. Plz Guardians, come back. I speculated before that maybe Guardians could be in the depths, with their being 1 where each light root is. Once u defeat them, the depths will glow much brighter and u are sent to each Main Abandoned Mine, The Construct Factory, and Beneath Hyrule Castle. U receive reports of a wind guardian, fire guardian, lightning guardian, water guardian, spirit guardian, and gloom guardian and they’re pretty much super hard versions of the dungeon bosses in totk, with each being unique in some way. Once done, go to the Great Abandoned Central Mine and talk to a Steward Construct, who will use microchips from those guardians (like wind microchip for the wind guardian) and repurpose them into the Master Sword, giving it 70 power and 350 durability while also lett u send those elements for a duration. Like u can have a lightning sword, etc. I would love that as a dlc.

some have pointed out that depths architecture doesn’t match “zonai” architecture such as typhlo ruins, but if they aren’t zonai at all that makes sense

I want to know what people think about the 3 dark skeletons in the Depths they're not leviathans like the great skeletons up top, they look to me like 3 dragons So how do we get immortal dragons and dragon skeletons? Theories please!

I kept thinking that the lightroots were actually connected to the shrines. But now I'm not so sure bcuz of 2 pairs: morok/korom & serutabomac/camobatures In both cases the shrines are above ground & so would not be connected to the lightroots underground

My biggest guess as to why the shrines also make the light roots is that they just needed the light lol they used to mine zonite underground since you can find it more easily. It was probably just a convenience thing.

Link can only sleep in beds he owns soooooo

I don't think Link necessarily lives with Zelda. If he did, everyone in Hateno should have known him as well. I'm guessing he only comes to visit her when he's needed. He probably sleeps outdoors most of the time, while also going around Hyrule on his own if Zelda's doing her own thing.

Another detail about the 3 dragons is like the Zonai, they have large, defined ears

Cool fact: The Igashuk shrine on Lomei Labyrinth Island in Akkala actually doesn't match up exactly with it's lightroot. I'm pretty sure it's the only one with this error. Now you'll never unsee it :)

So excited for the Tears of the Kingdom theories to drop! Stuff like the Shadow Temple from oot. I wonder what this games Zonai will be

About the "Light Roots", they should have been build in conjuction with the shrines which keep the evil at bay via sealing it, maybe the depths became dark and gloomy after ganondorf started too spread his evil and they simply needed some light. Or they started too grow as a reaction too Ganondorfs "Gloom Roots" slowly spreading and as a result they shine with light because that is what keeps darkness at bay. Just too share some thoughts on this

Worth noting that the faces and manes of the dragons resemble the zonai.

I’m glad you finally went over the secret stones in the three elemental dragons thing that I talked about earlier

The cinematic exploration feel to this game is top notch 🔥 it gives me nostalgia too

actually since the giant stones around hyrule castle are gone, and since they were guardian containers we can assume that the guardians went back into the rocks and are now burried under the ground

The shrines have statues of rauru and Sonia in them, they give link blessings of light to purge the darkness that sapped links strength from him. I thought it was pretty obvious that Rauru made the shrines? Lol

Interesting fact: you can sleep in Zelda’s bed. You cannot sleep in any other NPC’s bed except for hers.

A reminder that the dragons were probably large religious figures, as they serve the sacred springs. This probably means that it was very much a secret ritual made for those willing to give up their all to serve the goddess, meaning that it was also probably partly forbidden because of how religious it was.

"beedles work for ganondorf" almost lost it for a sec.. xD

One thing i realized is the hero aspect armor, that guy couldve potentially fought with the dlc guardian of aoc. But. Theres a high likely chance we will be getting another warrior game set between botw events and totk memories. Might even show us where the sheikah got lost in trnaslation about ganon. Or why they were so well prepared for him.

I'd like to throw out a few theories. (spoiler warning) 1) Nayru, Din, and Farore were Zonai. Some of the first Zonai to come to the land and sculpt it into what became Hyrule. To watch over their creation, they swallowed their secret stones and turned into Naydra, Dinral, and Farosh to become immortal dragons. After seeing how they completely changed, not just physically, the act was quickly forbidden. 2) The Shiekah were formed to safe guard Zelda and the kingdom until the fated day she spoke of in Tears of the Kingdom. Their eye symbol with the tear drop being the eye of the light dragon that Zelda turns into. 3) Nintendo is retconning the "what if" timeline and made The Imprisoning War into something else taking place between Skyward Sword and Minish Cap. 4) There must always be a Demon King. With Demise destroyed Ganondorf was able to claim that power and resemble Demise. With this Ganondorf only sealed away and not destroyed, all other Ganondorfs could only acquire a fraction of the power and resemble more of a beast.

Very cool video!! Subscribed & looking forward to more :)

Great video! as for the 3 dragons I think they are the 3 oracles Din, Nayru, and Farore after swallowing secret stones, as for why they did in the first place... I have no idea.

There is a statue in the central mine that talks about a war from a long time ago, that war imprisonned him, so I tought became gannondorf partially a demon statue.

“It’s not exactly clear yet.. oh, now it is!” 🤣😂

My personal theory is that when Rauru created the shrines they sprouted lightroots in the dpeths. One could think that the lightroots were there previously and the shrines would tap into them, but that doesn't explain how the lightroots appeared on top of the depths labrynths. As for why they need to be activated, it could simply be that the lightroots simply lost power over the several dozen millennia since the imprisoning war.

i dont think that the lightroots specifically were made because they were 'going to be needed'.... they were made to light up the depths to mine zonaite in the ancient past, and they just so happen to be useful to link now in the present

I always thought that the barbarian outfit and the famous war tribe of faron region were another tribe of hylians different from the one we see in totk alongside rauru on the great plateu... we know now that zonai are almost extinted since totk story so everything that were build is surely hylian made probably, and i start thinking that the darkness on thyphlo ruins was part of sheikah tech linked to the shrine, he disappeard after the sheikah shrine was dismantled

The guardian theme does bring tension But still a good song to listen to if you somehow surevive their attacks in the game

I have been trying to find out who the Statue voices are... In BotW I thought the Hylia statues were indeed the Goddess Hylia...although she is dead. Her unique ability to be outside of time might explain that but then she only helps BotW Link and no other Link? That would be strange too. In TotK the 4-eyed depth statues appear to be a hivemind, and are also connected to the Hylia statues giving Link Hearts and Stamina and trade Poe Souls for various equipment. Is it a God? Somewhat similar to the horned Statue... Also, Goddess Hylia appears to have received an equal and opposite God in the 'Horned God' (apparently not Demise?), whom she defeated and sealed into the 'Horned Statue'. I'm waiting for Japanese translations for those passages to come out. I hope this isn't just going to be thrown away and never mentioned again in future Zelda games.

The gloom spawn does not make up for the guardians in botw being weaker and slower than the ones seen in memories.

0:45 “nuke or cranny” man the subtitles are wild

7:59 an interesting thing I noticed is that wherever the ancient sages talk to the current sages, the ground looks like the ground under light roots after you activate them

One secret is that there is in fact, no CONCEPT GUARDIANS in the game/hj Perhaps I’ll stop with this thing someday. But not today! Also shoutout to the discord server!

2:34 I remember finding that and climbing on it. Then later on, I was thinking about history lessons about people who might have tried to bring down a kingdom, or did something to anger the leaders. Only those people would end up with their dismembered bodies tied up and hung off castle walls. They were put on display to show other potential enemies what will happen to them.

Interesting that the three dragons are connected to the armor sets. So then there’s a theory that since the Zonai came down from the heavens and were worshipped as gods. If this is true, then it’s possible that the dragons and the three goddesses are one in the same!😮

I watched this one video where they say the light roots might have been made by the zonai for mining purposes so they’re workers could see in the dark. Love this video and your channel!

Link has his new dream house outside of Tarry Town. 😊

Something I recently found on my own was while in the underground, at nearly every forge that's activated (where the smoke stack is active) you'll find a few pieces of crystallized charges at the top of the chimney. Nothing substantial but I thought it was cool

idk if it's been mentioned, but I have a strong feeling that the cave in the Ancient Zora Waterworks where you find the Zora Greaves in is the original OoT Zora's Domain. It has the central waterfall, the layout, and the raised platform on one side that you would have come in from had you gone through the waterfall on the river's side - collapsed now, of course. The completed quest also mentions that they were left there as "an offering" in the distant past. To what, I wonder?

About the Zonai ruins built by the Hyrulians. If you go to the Sage Temple ruins. It is that flooded temple from BOTW in Hyrule Field and you go down the well there. It says that the sword you find in the Zonai ruins was originally there but they moved it. That is how I first found out about that area having something now. I first found it before I did any temples so I couldn't do anything yet but I did find that very interesting.

I haven't played the game yet, but I always like your videos! Take care! ❤️☺️

Another fun fact: the star shaped islands in the sky are shaped like silent princesses, down to the yellow tendrils. They also detail zeldas time there if you do the quest that ties into them

Ok- video idea- hear me out. In the depths, below each leviathan skeleton, there’s an even bigger skeleton called the “dark skeleton”. Maybe a theory on those three monstrosities?

I've watched a lot of videos and have never seen this mentioned, but when you return to the point at the start of the game to fight Ganondorf, you can actually find Zelda's torch that she dropped before she time travelled back to Rauru's era.

the shrine and lightroot connection is so helpful! once i figured that one i was like "oh fuck yah" great video!!!

I found a pretty well hidden area, but it doesn’t have any lore implications. At the Sturnida hot spring in the Hebra region, follow the current, or a Blupee, upstream to find a cave. At the cave’s end, opposite the Bubbulfrog’s hiding spot is a boulder blocked tunnel you have to crawl through. At the end of that is a chamber lined with white crystals and a variety of fungi, including three hearty truffles.

I always wanted to see Typhlo Ruins without the darkness, and it makes me so happy to see it now. Since they’re made by Hylians in honor of the Zonai or the King, it could also mean the Zonai ruins would also be made by Hylians too. There’s also that sword that was initially used to execute Ganondorf from TP and iirc, that sword was moved to the Typhlo Ruins and was initially under a well in Kakariko Village. I love that some Lightroots/Shrines have the word “Sus” in their names. I made sure to screenshot as many as I can find lmao. I love that Tulin can shoot his bow with his talons and when I saw it displayed in this game and Age of Calamity through Teba, I got so hyped because it was featured as concept art, but wasn’t utilized much if at all in BotW.

has anyone talked about the architectural/style difference between the zonai structures that we see in totk vs the typhlo and faron ruins? theyre actually significantly different, with the only similarity being the use of stone to build structures. the typhlo memorial states that the typhlo ruins were built after the zonais prime, so i wonder if the same applies to the faron ruins

I'm slightly assuming the 3rd secret might tie into the Barbarian set in some way along with the Boar, Owl, & Dragon imagery we've seen in some other "Zonai" areas, the ones that come to mind are the three mazes in BotW where we originally got the Barbarian set pieces.

i always enjoy watching ur vids ☺️

The use of light roots to the zonai is pretty clear, they had zoniye mining facilities underground that would greatly benefit from clear visibility

The charge set I’m pretty sure, also match’s with Rauru’s outfit (the shirt and pants do at least)

So something that i have been thinking of since the thyphlo ruins revelation, the three mazes share the art still as the ruins of thyphlo. So dose that mean they were hylian built?

2:12 Wow, this is some of the most expressive Link gets in this game And I can't blame him lol

I think that the lightroots were discovered in nature, and then the Zonai had used them to create the shrines so that they could house the Lights of Blessing. This is somewhat supported by how there's a Spring of Revitalization directly under the Shrine of Resurrection where Link had been recovering before the events of Breath of the Wild. I can see this as the Sheikah using a natural landmark with resources to create technology that facilitates some kind of purpose related to the natural landmark.

about the roots, we know the zonai used to have active mines in the underground, and we also know the roots are literally giant lightbulbs. They may just built them (or used plants already there) in order to bring light to their work environment, and the surface shrine could be more or less to remember where the roots are underground or they maybe were old elevators that were modified at one point. after all zonai were able to go up (and maybe down, we know only the powers Link was gifted , but they had more as we see Rauru use some of them) into the ground, and the shrines teleport Link into another area, when the underground was abandonned, they may decided to close the "doors" so nothing could go up to the surface?