All the towers and more than half the shrines originally rose kid of the ground, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they just sunk back down, never to be seen again.
@@jockson7574 They said more than half the shrines. There arent many chasms over where a shrine used to be. So the chasm part had to have been coincidence on the shrines part. Besides, Kobayashi explained that most Shekiah tech completely displays out of thin air, quite literally, so the shrines entirely popped out of existence because their ultimate purpose was to test the Hero of Hyrule.
@@jockson7574 those aren’t holes, they’re portals. The shrines are still there, just somewhere below the portal. Think about it: The Zelda series is no stranger to alternate dimensions, and The Depths are no normal cave system. An almost perfect inverted height map and Goddess statues above every bargainer statue isn’t something that just happens. The depths are clearly Hyrule in another dimension.
@@jockson7574 I didn’t say they were. I said that they sank below the ground before the chasms (aka portals to the depths) opened up above where they now are
How do the divine beasts just go kapoof when they serve their purpose this time but not 10,000 years ago in the last calamity? I think Fujibayashi made it up on the spot and they dont even really know why
A problem I found is that he said the tech disappeared instantly, yet in the BoTW ending zelda says vah ruta has a problem and went to investigate, so either vah ruta having a problem was it preparing to despair or they disappeared later. Also here's an another problem, in age of calamity we can still see every piece of sheikah tech is present after the ending so it's another weird thing. Also this feels like a lame explonation, sure I can see the shrines going down but the towers, beast, and guardians don't make sense, unless they teleport into a mountain or something
The real answer should’ve been that the Shiekah tech was dismantled and repurposed, minus the shrines. The shrines disappeared like the monks since they fulfilled their purpose.
Actually, I think you solved one question with another. It seems most likely that the decayed Guardians actually *didn't* disappear, and the ones near Fort Hateno were probably salvaged by Purah and Robbie in order to create the tech that remains.
I bet broken guardians remain. the remaining ones were harvested for parts used for purah pad and towers. All active guardians disappeared so it was safer to scrap the broken ones for research and development
Let's not forget that Sheikah tech is not only ancient divine beasts or shrines, but also what robbie and Purah who are sheikah, develop. So you could say that the ancient tech dissappeared since it had fulfilled its purpose (Including for example, the Sheikah Slate) but still new Sheiklah tech could both be (and have been) developed and preserved until it fulfills IT'S role and it's no longer needed.
I still think Tears is an incredible game, largely due to being able to build flying machines that can shoot lasers. But yeah this is inexcusable. And where is my boy Kass?
Although I'll acknowledge its a kind of cop-out, I don't see why people have such an air of disbelief at the idea that Sheikah tech could vanish into thin air. Not only have we been shown that Sheikah technology is perfectly capable of making things disappear into thin air IN Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom even utilizes an actual gameplay mechanism where the Zonai devices dematerialize after they have been "used up." I believe the Sheikah learned to tap into a similar resource as the Zonai, and were capable of making machines that disappeared after they had "served their purpose." Apparently that function was so deeply rooted in them that even most of the totally destroyed ones just vanished, given enough time after the Calamity was gone (though, as we've seen, it may have taken years). The Sheikah tech that remains is mostly stuff plundered, dismantled, and reassembled by Purah and Robbie's team. It's possible they deactivated the mechanisms which would have caused the devices to dematerialize after their purpose was served. This could have been done inadvertently, but I'm sure Purah and Robbie would do so on purpose if they figured out what such a mechanism was for. The majority of the people of Hyrule may not know or care to know what happened to the vanished Sheikah tech, but I suspect Purah and/or Robbie know. They just haven't bothered to educate everybody about it, for whatever reason.
I agree with you on this. I'll admit, it's not the "greatest" explanation that Nintendo gave us (I accidentally made it seem like a SUPER great explanation), but at least we have a bit of background information.
My headcanon is that after the Calamity was stopped, time started to catch up to them. Like, they were magically sealed in time, but now the seal has been broken. Surely some of it got better preserved than the rest and that got repurposed and some of what we see might even be recreations of the ancent Sheikah tech.
Maybe the Sheikah tech had some kind of mechanism build in that was able to remove it after Ganon cannot be detected anymore. The reason why the decayed guardian did not disappear could be because Robbie removed or deactivated it while taking it apart for his studies. The Purahpad did not disappear cause it did not had this mechanism build in.
But this still doesn't make sense for shrine of resuraction becouse it is used to revive one person at a time and it doesn't matter if there is ganon or not
The guardians probably didn't disappear, maybe even the divine beasts didn't. I think it's a good explanation for the shrines and towers because we saw them rising from the ground, which means they can probably go back. I think that the explanation for the sheikah tech that is in totk is that after the calamity the people of hyrule wanted to make sure that the sheikah machines (guardians and divine beasts) will not become evil again so they disassembled them. Purah and Roby used the parts of the disassembled sheikah tech to build the new towers and Purah pad.
This explains the shrines and towers, but not the guardians I have a good theory though - during the first calamity, ganon possessed the guardians, leading to Hyrule's defeat To avoid a repeat, the people of Hyrule likely disassembled all the guardians and used them for parts (eg. skyview towers)
The guardians were sheika tech too, there's even concept art of them being "dispensed" from the five big pillars around hyrule castle, below which they were stored in great numbers. After calamity ganon was defeated its influence must have disappeared from them and they probably just returned to their original state, thus they just acted like all the other sheika tech.
I think the Purah Pad and Sheikah tech at Lookout Landing were simply created based on the old tech. It had no reason to disappear. The decayed guardian is a tougher one, but it could be that Nintendo just left it there as a nod to BotW.
Yeah it's lazy on their part, but also come to think of it, after Calamity Ganon disappeared/sealed, their roles were fulfilled, it makes absolute sense. The Shiekah monks would wait in temples to grant Link a spirit orb and then disappear right? The same with shiekah tech, once their role is fulfilled, they shall disappear. But still many questions remain: why didn't they resurface after Link and Zelda found Ganondorf under Hyrule Castle? Did Robbie and Purah take all of them apart after the sealing of Calamity Ganon? Like it's a good narrative, but still, it's lazy.
Maybe the busted one on the Hateno lab was from another era... like the founding of Hyrule. If it's gone after TotK, we know that *its* purpose was to ensure Ganondorf's defeat. Maybe there *are* other guardians out there that predate the previous Calamity, which that age's Sheikah reverse-engineered, just like the current Sheikah were doing with ancient Sheikah tech. Or maybe he just forgot about the Hateno lab and the Towers' guardian arms when he retconned a goof they made. ^_^
Zelda’s the culprit! After sealing Ganondorf’s spirit and its influence (malice), anything that Ganondorf’s malice had effected, vanished with him, so she did and/or causes a butterfly ‘like’ effect, 'cause Zelda can manipulate both time & space. And anything that aided the Hylians against Ganondorf’s spirit, which was some of the Sheikah tech, stayed.
I want some explanation for the massive durian extinction event... Seriously, from a scientific point of view it would be interesting Here's hoping the next gen Zelda game deals specifically with that! ("Breath of the Durian?")
And the disappearance of the Hearty Blueshell Snail and the Great-Horned Rhinoceros, too. Is it a different season and those two species are migrating/have migrated elsewhere?
@@ganonfanSome people theorize that these games happen in the same timeline as Wind Waker, just tens of thousands of years later, so New Hyrule is another country. The theory state that the depths are the original Hyrule, while the surface was the islands connected by the koroks planting trees.
All the sheika tech that was connected to / touching the ground disappeared which is why the one on top of the tech lab isn’t gone. The sheika slate stayed behind because it had another purpose other than to protect the people or to aid the hero; it was also meant to function as a way to accumulate knowledge for the hero and the royal family for the future. Or because it housed minaru’s spirit which prevented it from disappearing. Just my thought ✌🏻
That's not the Sheikah Slate, though. The Purah Pad is a new invention that was created by Purah and Robbie. They clearly based some of its functions on the Sheikah Slate, but it's not the same device.
Lazy story writing, plain and simple. If they all just disappeared, then why are there still remnants? For example, the guardian above the Hatano Tech Lab?
That's a terrible explanation and really somebody should have thought of something in universe. Why couldn't Ganondorf have destroyed them with corruption? a lot of the sites of shrines are corrupted, that's a better explanation than "I guess, like, uhh, they vanished or summat".
I'm sort of wondering if Nintendo never had an answer to what happened to the Sheikah Tech, and Fujibayashi was just forced to say something during the interview. Maybe they never wanted to come up with a reason because they wanted to leave it up to us players to theorize on.
@@ganonfanOr, crazy theory, they just didn't care enough to come up with a reason, and were so caught up with making their new game that they didn't put much thought into the continuity. Nintendo has shown in the past that sensible continuity is NOT something they're particularly interested in, looking at the timeline, maps, etc.
It'd have been more satisfying and believable if he'd said someone or something called to them and they phased back into the Sacred Realm. We don't have any evidence that they came from there, but it would have set everyone theorizing again instead of calling his bluff ;)
The sheika tablet of TotK isn't actually a sheika tablet. It's a purah-pad; a device designed and created by purah based on what she learned about BotW's sheika tech. that's probably why we have the purah pad too in TotK, since the sheika slate probably disappears too (...and maybe took all of link's items with it? 🤔) she had to make a new one. I assume the same is true of any other sheika tech we see in TotK (save say the guardian.) I doubt they just happened to find those massive telescopes lying around after all. Robbie made the ancient forge that can recreate ancient weaponry too, so it makes sense that they have the means of recreating it/creating new tech based on old sheika tech. Or so i've gathered at last.
Plus we've already seen sheika tech appearing and disappearing in the shrines, so it's not too much of a stretch. -haha hell maybe it's actually time travel and once finished the sheika tech just returned back to the time it was created in haha-
A lot of people don’t seem to realize too: all the sheikah tech from botw was ANCIENT tech that were created specifically for the calamity, not ganondorf himself. Also king rhoam at the beginning of the game had mention how the divine beast had disappeared after the first calamity 10,000 years ago so it’s not the first time ancient sheikah tech had vanished in the games.
I definitely was not thinking when this interview was first released, but I realized about a month after releasing this video that it was a stupid explanation essentially.
I can understand stand at the shrines in the towers went back into the ground arguably you could say the leftover smaller type guardians went back inside the shrines, all the broken tech got recycled by the chico with the new tech they show in tears of the Kingdom, but I don't understand how all the larger guardians just finished maybe there's an undisclosed location it went to I can understand that one, but the biggest one that gets me is the Divine beasts they were found right before Gannon emerged maybe arguably that was because of him getting close to emerge but I feel like the Divine beasts big enough representations of their culture to not be talked about how they disappeared is wild.
So the sheekah didnt know the stuff they made would disappear and if the sheekah tech disappear because gannon lost then thats dumb cause he and his calamity powers r under the castle sooooo wouldn't them not disappearing scare ppl like oh hes not dead wth and cause a search other rhan oh tea there gone just because
i think the gaurdians would be gone i. the ways of if people saw the shrines and towers disapear than its most likely that the guardians would have been cleared out and reused for things such as the towers but really thats the only way i can tink of most of them disapeared and that also might be a mystery of hyrule aswell but it would be logical for them to be destroyed in case another event like the calamity happened and took control over them again maybe the guardians were also used or made for a different purpose before the calamity and were used in the first calamity because why not and maybe didnt disapear because it wasnt exactly yhteir original purpose but idk just some thoughts
Real answer: we didn't design ToTK to have both Zonaite and Sheikah tech, so Sheikah stuff disappeared. The lore can be rationalized all we want, but it doesn't matter. I'm actually quite satisfied with the handwaving of the topic.
very cool we got an official nintendo answer now! thanks for showing this i had subscribed to the theory that people dismantled it all fearing it could be taken over by evil again, which wld have explained the remaining parts, but knowing that the people of hyrule find it just as mysterious as us makes this super fun to think about again! 🤔🤔🤔
I think just getting an answer from Nintendo is what really excited me. Since they are the ones who make the game, we get to hear what they think on certain mysteries.
I really hate this explanation. Why should the goddes want that the technology just disapear's, if it could serve more than just the purpose of defeating ganon? It was so much work to get this far to invent this technology and it could help the people of hyrule so much and she just "welp, you had your fun, didn't you?" Now I won't let you keep it and I didn't even help coming up with it. Stupid move Hylia, I never thought I'd insult her.... oh man😅
Because the divine beast weren’t created by the goddess, they were created by ancient Sheikah. The divine beast, guardians, and shrines are all ancient Sheikah technology that would have no purpose in modern times. The skyview towers and the purse pad is actually are first glimpse into modern Sheikah since the split between the yiga and Sheikah
@@R.A.M_Games You know that the Sheikah monks that created the technology were given this task and purpose by the Goddes herself! Do you!? And the modern Sheikah would then pursue their own kind of technology by themselfs, maybe against the goddesses plan even, we know She wouldn't really do anything against that, but that would be still the case!
@@hinami-akane7074 the monks been given a task by the goddess Hylia to create the shrines still doesn’t disprove that the tech itself is made from ancient Sheikah. And none of the present day Sheikah in BOTW had the ability to use the ancient tech. Even the Sheikah slate you’re given in game is over 100 years old and derived from ancient Sheikah tech. Everything in TOTK is modern Sheikah tech built by purah herself and the help with the Hudson construction company
@@R.A.M_Games I know all that and I never said Hylia build the technology! She gave the monks their purpose and I think she gave them the order to let it disapear/ be destroyed after the calamity is gone! Hylia didn't build the tech and I never said she did!
I def far prefer the headcanon that all the Sheikah Towers and Sheikah Tech were disassembled for the Skyview Towers (we do see what looks like Guardian arms dueing the activation sequence for each). This is just so... stupid.
