Constructs: Tears of the Kingdom’s New Guardians? 

The Golem and the ranger seem to be very different to me. The ranger has almost a dinosaur-ish body to me. Like a yoshi with a base instead of legs. The golem has those earring things going on and the front view looks very different to me. I get a mini-boss vibe from the golem one, maybe a Talus-type enemy?

I think its clearly in a different scale from the ranger. There is much more detail that represent a larger being. I also feel they dont look the same

The constructs look like the robots from skyward sword from the lanayru desert.

It may just be a perspective difference, like the camera angle was way up close. Or like others suggested, a larger, more advanced type.

What I'm thinking is that Link is on the ground and might be waking up with a ranger standing close and over him looking down, which is why it looks so much larger than what we've seen with the other on the islands. As to what knocked him out, I can only guess that it was the islands lifting or something to do with the hand.

That's a good thought, they have a pottery sound when they break though, but anything is possible in the Sky Islands!

@@shelinkzelda I absolutely love that sound when they break. It somehow sounds so crisp and realistic!

They look like 4 pieces of metal from Skyward Sword I'm sorry. I don't see the appeal. it's so basic, and so blatantly based on Skyward Swords creatures.. but in the SS graphics. It looks weird and wrong in BOTW. I hope I am proven wrong! Calling it: We will get 3 versions of these robots, just like in BOTW. Sentries, flying, and bigger version. Lazy

Copper alloys well with other materials. It could be an indication that as advanced as these machines, and the culture that created them were, that they still had far to go in potential advancement.

I'm sorry but the BOTW Guardian Scouts was an actual original, and very well done design This looks like a lazy slapped together scrap of Skyward Sword files they had laying around.

It's a must. I want to feel the terror of gliding through the sky while in a state of panic as I try to dodge the explosive beams again.

I was hoping for a large bird or wyvern but maybe there will be a large flying construct around the islands

@@ethanself2405 Yeah. That'd be amazing. Great way to test the new aerial combat that they're rumored to be making.

@@ethanself2405 There are those flying enemies now.

I DONT

The lonely days of Link are anyway over in this game! There seems to be a lot of work to restore Hyrule to his old glory! At least I hope that's also a right prediction!

@@dudenintendo605 It's highly possible your prediction! Well, in BoTW don't you feel that, as we progress, there is less friendly interaction and encounters left but only annoying repetitive banana assassins increase... Somehow this is a bit discourging --- the world doesn't get better after our hero's hard work... hope someday Nintendo gives us some kind of reward of gaming progression.

@@shinp0pp0 Oh yes! I think and hope they're just leaving this ever returning cycle of losing and freeing a princess as the main target of their games and will finally open the world after!

Pretty cool that they are moving away from the lonely vibe. Don’t get me wrong, I think that vibe is what MADE BoTW but they should change it up for a sequel.

​@@VV-om8vv agreed, I'm glad the open world is back but it's nice to see that Hyrule is gonna help link, at least that's what the trailers depict, one of the newer ones showed Sidon fighting also guide link as well as the random Hylian NPCs

I mean those ruins are referred to as the Zonai runis

@@s4v4gedragone43 not on Skyward Sword, they aren’t. The people of Lanayru who made the robots were never talked about.

That would be incredible!

I doubt this will be connected to taht as this story seems to be trying to be something new rather tahn full of callbacks to other games

That would be interesting but I think it was the Sheikah who actually used them. & keep in mind the Sheikah also have backwards tech, like Purah's deaging rune. It would also be nice to see the timeshift stones return. A lot more could be done with them

We know Green represents Courage in Zelda, and it seems to represent this entire sequel. I think the Zonai are on his side, and just testing him.

These are the connections that I see: Malice & Triforce of Power (both primarily red), Sheikah liquid & Triforce of Wisdom (both primarily blue), Zonai energy & Triforce of Courage (both primarily green).

That was it zoomed up

Or maybe, a Golem? 😂❤

@@anaudin Good one! xD

Zeltik IS the hottest Zelda theory RU-vidr 🥵

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@@maxwellclark2345 Not wrong... ;)

it wouldnt make any sense story-wise though

@@hamzabeg6882 with all the malice being spurted out of the Moon, it would make sense for them to be re-corrupted. That might even explain why the guardian remains are missing.

I think a handful of stalkers spread throughout the map would be cool. Not an enemy, you'll fight much but a fun surprise if you go poking around in a guardian graveyard.

@@friendlycanadian3150 It’d be really cool if they’re only in secret or very specific areas so then it’s a massive surprise when you find one. Kinda like the Shroob fight in Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story. It’d also give you that feeling of raw terror when you first encountered them in BotW.

Plz no the nightmares

The lore said that the Zonai were a barbaric tribe, so I wonder if the sheikah helped essentially "modernize" their kingdom in some way with magic hybrid technology.

No the sheikah are a offshoot of the zonai

@@portiac6097wait really? How does that explain the existence of the sheikah in oot? I’m not trying to disprove you, I’m just curious

@@Cannon_The_Guy sheikah are not the original sheikah there’s a chance that the modern sheikah are a offshoot of the zonai

Or the Sheika were like colonizers who stole their technology, killed them or banished them, and rewrote their legacy

So, Link waking up at the start of the new Zelda game?

5:05 when the old enemies from BOTW look 10x better designed and more original..

​@@ZeranZeran L

@@nikkothegoblin people that say "L" Nah. This ain't twitter.

@@ZeranZeranwhat was even the point of replying with that to a comment that wasn’t about designs at all

and the Golem has orange claws, something that the rangers don't seem to have, maybe an indication that it is an enemy?

@@meialua5178 Mmm, I don't think so, if it was an enemy, then the golem would've had had red eyes like the regular constructs and not hollowed out eyes like the rangers

Clueless

@@Demobunny166 The cube enemy doesn't even have eyes and it still attacks Link, i don't think "red eyes" is a necessity for an enemy

Considering the constructs basically have the Sheikah eye shape and that the game's title has "tears" in it I'd say the Tears of the Kingdom are the Sheikah, and the Zonai their ancestors.

There's a dragon flying above the sky islands, and each of the other dragons is connected to a goddess. This probably means that the sky island dragon is connected to Hylia, and thus the Zonai probably were too.

@@nexisvids I’m not so sure they are since the Sheikah were around since the age of when Hylia was around in Skyward Sword as Sheikah. Not the current age of that game, but Impa was of the past during the Age of the Goddess. They were not called Zonai nor were there mention of this race outside of BotW. So I think they existed after SS.

What about the 100+ monks that died in all the shrines to later be able to help the new hero? That feels quite religious to me.

"or were a tribe of lesser gods themselves" Considering that hand turned Link into a demi-god, I'm thinking this.

Could you give your pfp’s source please?

Ah, so it wasn't just me who thought that!

Considering that there’s a time travel mechanic in skyward sword which involves the ancient robots, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a connection

I was thinking the same thing

@@z0ru4_ Seems like it's official art of Makar from Wind Waker

Various languages are using Golem, it seems just English is using Constructs.

I can confirm it's Golem in the French version too.

That seems really funny because i have had this theory for a long time that zelda has 3 magic energies: spirit, magic/mind and body energy. Body makes up the body, spirit is the amount of mana capacity a thing has and the magic/mind provides the ability to cast magic. Think about it. Wolf link is transformed using a red/black stone to transform in wolf link. Link does have a stamina meter. The champions spirits are green but their abilities can be earned by link. The spirit defines the soul of the object, the mind its (magic) abilities and its body energy the body. Malice then would be literally body energy but it isn't red you would say. Yes its more dark pink/ purplish. Red with dark. Dark in zelda is malice like we see in skywards sword. In other words malice is hatred incarnated. It would explain why the master sword needs these tree. How the champions control the divine beasts. It would explain why the twili magic wielding people can use their technology without interfaces. How link can charge the sheikah slate but zelda not. Because i believe spirit energy is like mana it regenerates but people only have a certain amount. Hell even the enemy twili in TP have red in their heads after being transformed by Zant's power he had gotten by Ganondorf a shape shifting magician. I have been telling people for the past 3 years that likely the sheikah existed out of 3 clans. Each one focused on one of the powers. The sheikah from botw focused on the mind energy/blue sheikah energy. The Yiga whose art and combat style are drawned from the older styles of OoT and some extra are likely those who study th ody energy. And the Zonai are the ones who studied the actual magic/green spirit energy. And what is a Golem its stone brought to life with a spirit. Thats how alchemy defines it. It has a literal soul. It basically proves part of my theory.

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@@Feniksds you misspelled body

I think they started as pre historic barbarians, then turned into a high technologic civilization, like the Sheikah.

@@Mari_Izu pretty sure that was confirmed already by the hints left in BOTW

By the time Link finds the Barbarian Set the Zonai have reached the peak of their technological advances but now cease to exist as we think. The clothing set could be at most a couple thousand years old. Now that TotK is part of the official Zelda timeline the clothing set suggests that the original Zonai Tribe is still out there somewhere in the world yet Another of the same Zonai tribe but with tech?

@@Mari_Izu Still doesnt explain how they'd go from barbarians dressing up like ganon like they're worshipping him to creating the very seal that locked him up for 10k years

Maybe the Zonai and the Sheikah fought a war that the latter won, and rewrote history books as victors of war do, portraying their enemies as barabric and wrong. (An analogy: Germany lost both world wars and are depicted by probably every country as the bad guys of the wars, just because they lost, and the winners chose how history was to be written.)

Or a different theory of mine is that upon awakening Gannon we are somehow transported back in time to the time of the profecy where we play as a different link.

​@@KrulKrulSprietSpriet I was thinking the same, especially given links appearance now closely resembles the hero from the ancient artwork/mural from botws lore

​@@mt.crushmore OH MY GOD WAIT A FLIPIN SECOND YOU'RE RIGHT

​@@mt.crushmore WAIT. You're onto something. I just remembered that the logo for ToTK has the weird, bumpy looking sword in it. What does that match? A similar style of sword is present in the 1000 years ago artwork. Perhaps we ARE playing a different link after all...

​@@acyclicglobe7395 There is literal proof that this isn't the case, this theory has been dead for months

Same. I finished BOTW in early 2021, so I was VERY late to the party. I'll be glad to play it along with everyone else.

Same. I only got a switch a couple years aho

I hope you both found BOTW at a lower price than the $60 Nintendo wants to keep since day one...

I started playing it last month

dude same

The only issue I have with this is, why is there a fourth Dragon then ? If they worship a goddess of Courage, they should be related to Farosh, but instead they seems to have a dragon of their own.

@@Enowise when they were on the surface, they were mostly located in Faron, in Farosh’s path. When they fled to the sky, they could have found a different dragon to worship. Or who knows they may not even worship that new dragon. Or that dragon could be wholly unrelated to them.

THANK YOU! I kept thinking "why is he saying they're the same??" They look so different to me 😅

@@VickiToori yeah, me too. But the shot from the trailer may be a little misleading. 🤷‍♂️ we will have to see when the game comes out. Maybe there is big versions and small versions that are ever so slightly different?

Lol I was wondering if anyone else would think about this I was like yeah “similar” but “identical” is kinda a stretch! Lol

You're right, they are different

It could very well be the case. In Dutch for some reason constructs are called "Zonoïdes" so Zonoids, as in Humanoid, so maybe they are made in their figure?? Idk

That's why they shoot fireballs at me

Could be the zonai were also an off shoot/lost branch of the sheika

Yeah I was thinking something along those lines a bit, there isn’t too much proof right now but it does seem logical

Love this❤

Mind blown

So robots from the past actually come from the future?

I think the monsters are a product of malice

@@patoolian I suppose that’s right. I was kind of hoping for a more mechanical thing but that might just be it 😂

@@thesireverse3979 I'll still hold out for golems and maybe like a phantom Ganon stalking you from time to time

My personal theory: Monsters are connect to malice and power Guardians to the shiekah energy and wisdom Constructs to the zonai energy and courage

I know!!! We're definitely gonna be able to rebuild hyrule!

Their vehicle and weapon parts

You didn't notice they are at previous shrine locations.....

Impa says that the divine beats and guardians were built and used against calamity Ganon so probably not

@@zGoldenHawk But how do we actually know? History can very easily be re-written

because impa is over 100 years old

Yes it is

I second this yo yeehaw!

Yes, it would be logic from a gameplay and lore perspective, ifyou live on flying island and create robot, you will want flying robot. Plus we know zonai fan can lift obje t.

The French name is also Golem ! I wonder why they changed the name in English. Tbf the English translation sounds a bit dull from what we've seen so far, I'm not a huge fan of the English names for the new abilities, Ultrahand in particular sounds... very out of place.

What is it in French?

Ultrahand, I mean

@@Lloydoestuff "Emprise" which means "hold" (as in A hold, to have a hold on someone or something, not just the verb "hold"). It gives the ability a more "solemn" and serious tone imo, like a spell, whereas Ultrahand sounds like the name of a toy.

@@Livael23 that's because it is. It's a callback to a very old Nintendo produced toy lmao

Would be a great detail if they attack monsters as well.

@@BlackGamingDude yeah similar to how guardians attack stone talus’ since they aren’t made by Ganon

I feel like the name could also refer to their role as a caretaker. It could be similar to how park rangers tend to national parks.

airships too - love airships