Majora's True Identity? - Zelda Theory 

If you were about to comment about the manga being the explanation, I would like to address that first. While they were made by Nintendo, they were made after the fact and elements from them do not affect the main series. There are numerous instances where they directly contradict the games, and should be viewed as their own, separate canon. There are minor things, like Majora giving Link the Fierce Deity mask for no real reason, but also major things like an iteration of Link carving the mask himself; while that's an interesting plot point, it doesn't really make sense in reference to the games since there isn't enough information given, meaning you could assume pretty much anything and it most likely wouldn't have any more evidence than any other theory. As important elements like era, world rules and detailed origins are missing, as well as the overall presentation of the Majora chapter being very vague, I would argue that backstory took inspiration from old myths and is meant to be more of a legend. Sure, assumptions could be made, but it's difficult to quantify something like that when many important details are left unclear. While the manga should be viewed as its own canon, that doesn't make it worthless information. It might be possible to theorize about on its own, and it still stands as an interesting reinterpretation, but things presented in it do not apply to the games.

Everyone asks "Who is Majora?" but nobody asks "How is Majora?".

I still hate that out of all the great things in Majora's Mask, the ONLY thing that was carried over into other games was Tingle.

Majora's real identity was actually the friends we made along the way.

Everybody gangsta til the triforce puts on majora’s mask.

"where is Majora?" "I'll do you one better; who is Majora?" "I'll do you one better; why is Majora?"

Imagine if Ganondorf used Majora's Mask, and with that theory correct, imagine the boost the mask would give him by noticing he was Demise's reincarnation. Holy shit.

The "Shekia" theory is now even stronger thanks to the "Yiga" in Breath of the Wild and how some of them are evil

I'm so down for this, even the creepy way Ghirahim moves around is like Majora - honestly adored this so much

As you were implying Skyward Sword, my brain was going "If I spent 20 freaking minutes just for you to say the legendary Majora's Mask is Groose I'll eat my own hat"

Creates one of the most interesting bloodstained kingdoms in a Zelda universe. Only transfers Tingle.

“We’ve never seen Hyrule do anything... immoral.” How about the banishing of The Gerudo to the desert, and hoarding a beautiful and vast country for itself? “I coveted that wind, I suppose.” ~Gannondorf, (LoZ) Wind Waker

15:30 “majoras mask would make Ganondorf impossible to stop.” Bruh in LTTP he had the entire Triforce and got beat by some kid

I like how people are still making theories about a game that came out like 18 years ago. It just shows how great this game is. How did nintendo make this in only 1 year?

Majora's Mask needs a sequel... seriously.

There should definitely be another game that involves Majoras mask. There’s just so much mystery behind it.

More importantly whats inside the mask?? Mermaid man: Eviiiiiiiillll!!

Majora is a cucco from ocarina of time that wants revenge

" Is it even possible...? This whole time... could Majora be..." Me: GROOSE

As a child playing Majora's mask, I always believed that Majora's mask had come from some sort of indigenous like tribe; jungle like people with dark powerful magic. I would even picture the tribe wearing colorful feathers on their garments, in a jungle like setting, doing magical rituals during the night around a fire. 😂

Okay, all memes aside, this is one of the best made theories I have ever seen. It takes lore from a lot of places, debunks some popular theories, and has a twist that I didn’t see coming but still makes 100% sense with the lore. Nicely done, man, you just earned yourself a subscriber.

When you create an original piece of art and it gets possessed by a demon

Intro "What exactly is behind that mask?" The person who wears it

I literally found the loz Majora's mask manga in my school library A *SCHOOL* library

Actually, my theory is that Termina exists across the timelines, which could explain the mask in LBW. In WW, Phantom Ganon has text that references the two blacksmiths from the Mountain Smithy. Termina could be the secret to how BotW exists in “all timelines” as well

Why am I watching Zelda theories at 2 am

Manga Majora: I wish I could time could start and I could die Random hero: Then p e r i s h . *starts playing music*

"I don't think the interlopers created the mask, their aesthetic is all about lines, light, and stone...it was the Sheikah instead" BotW Sheikah technology: Am I a joke to you?

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Origins sounds like a good game title.

''the sheikah have always served the royal family without betrayal.'' BOTW: am i a joke to you?

wait.. impossible.. no it couldn't be... *GROOSE*

Majora's the sith Lord we've been looking for

So, weird thought: Lorule and Hyrule are like weird reflections of each other, Lorule having a darker twist to things. What if the Interlopers/Twili originally came from Lorule with Demise (separate theory, that), bringing the Fused Shadow with them. Meanwhile, the Hyrulean version, Majora's Mask, was found to be too powerful, and annoyingly sentient, and locked away.

Impa could be the empty part of the triforce. A empty (shadow) that still helps make balance among the power, wisdom, and courage.

"But most importantly what's inside it" Me: wood

Can we get a game where Ganon gets Majora's Mask and Link gets the Fierce Deity's Mask please?

Majora being Gman himself is a theory I adore now, he’s my favorite Zelda char

1) If you REALLY want to know what Majora's Mask is, take a closer look at it. Do you see it? It's a HEART with spikes coming out of it, it's a symbol of pain / despair. 2) Skull Kid is a foil for Link. Skull Kid is so depressed over his giant friends ignoring him, that he's going to throw it all away despite Tatl & Tael being there for him. This is a reflection of how of Link is so depressed over Navi leaving him, that he's practically throwing it all away, despite all the friends he's leaving behind (not just child Zelda, but every friend he made in Ocarina of Time). 3) The Happy Mask Salesman is based on Shigeru Miyamoto, kind of like how Stan Lee created J. Jonah Jameson as how everybody else in the office saw Stan Lee as, and Jack Kirby was worried about new owners devouring Marvel that he created Galactus who was a character that literally devoured worlds. ...also, not only is Tingle supposed to be the Termina version of Link, he is also a reflection of the player (a 35 year old who wants to pretend he's a boy dressed in green running around having adventures) imgur.com/a/pKRk552 Also, if you take a closer look, the Fierce Diety Mask, Majora's Mask, and Odalwa's Mask are all from the same "set" it seems. They've all got two curves below the eyes, and a weird curving shape above the area between the eyes.

The Twili are descended from a sect of the Sheikah, so they could definitely be responsible for the creation of the mask.

I always assumed that "Majora" was the name of the tribe that originally created the mask, and that the malice and insanity that resides within the mask (along with its power) was the collective of the tribe that created it.

For the limited concrete info we actually have on Majora, you really managed to connect a lot of dots (speculative dots, but still). Most theories are so far out there I can't get passed the first couple minutes. This was very well thought out theory that seems perfectly plausible to me. We may never know for sure, but this is so poetic it actually makes me love my favorite Zelda game even more than I already did.

Here’s a hot take: So, the war that created the Twili. People from Hyrule were sealed away in the Twilight Realm and became the Twili over time-in game these people are only referred to as interlopers. Interloper can be defined as someone who is in a situation or setting that they don’t belong in. Consider this, then: a group of Sheikah betrays the King and joins up with the people who were, in the time period around OoT, loyal to Ganondorf-the Gerudo. This is somewhere where they don’t belong, working together with a different tribe. They try to take the Triforce, and together, the Gerudo and Sheikah who participated in the war are sealed away in the Twilight Realm. Then, over time, they’re physically and mentally changed, as well as having children together, resulting in a new life form all together, with its own traditions, architecture, and art style. Perhaps, many of them even forget being anything other than Twili. (This could even be the source of the Yiga clan. We know in BotW that the Yiga have been around for at least 10,000 years, maybe even longer, so it could have been formed by the traitors who managed to remain in hiding after the war. This isn’t a statement on timeline placement.) So, while the Twili are very different than the Sheikah...is it that much of a stretch to say that the war happened because a faction of the Sheikah defected, they were sealed away, and over a long period of time they were changed, they evolved, due to the harsh, dark environment of the Twilight realm? I mean, we’ve seen fish turn into birds, and children turn into...tree...people... With that being said I agree with the rest of this theory as a whole. We also don’t know exactly when the Fused Shadow was created, only that it’s Twili related, and the Interlopers had it BEFORE they were sealed away. To the Twili, it’s ancient, and unlike anything they themselves have created in the Twilight Realm. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Man, when you said "childish mind," I was totally expecting Groose.

"My research" = Played Majora's Mask

Thos is pretty interesting. Honestly back when I was a kid playing it on the N64, long before I ever thought about timelines and what not, I always assumed it was someone that was sacrificed by the unnamed tribe and sealed within the mask in the name of power. I assumed a kid or teen because he acts and thinks like a bratty child that has likely been abused. They were sealed inside the mask so the wearer could temp gain their powers to use in those hexing rituals that were mentioned in MM. Being, a ritual sacrifice gave the child immense power. Eventually as it was used, they became more and more aware, leading to them realizing just how much more powerful than their captors were. Angry about being betrayed by friends and family and only given attention when being used, it started to get angry. As the anger grew it started use it's new awareness to try and rebel in an attempt to break free. Fearing the worst they locked it away for who knows how long (cent I assumed,) which made it longer and more angry. Eventually being locked away with nothing but it's own mind as company, it thought and thought about it's state, leading it to go bat shit eating insane. Everything became irreparably warped as their original moral compass was already skewed due to being a child/teen. As for the similarities in the moon, I didnt think that it cared about the skull kid as much as it used his problems as a way to explain its feelings as it didnt know how to say it itself and it gave a way to express it (it used the images of things it had encountered recently to base things off of sort of like how a brain needs a visual history to create a dream. It may no longer remember the faces or exactly what happened to it due to the isolation. Such things can cause distorted memories. ) it wanted to play becaus it was a child and it wants to make friends but at the same time is mad at everyone because they'll just leave anyways (like an angsty but super psychotic, teen.) Or at least that is what I assumed when I was a kid. If you cant tell I loved to make up overly complicated stories when I was little. Lol you're theory I think is do much better. Haha

Honestly I don't want Nintendo to reveal who Majora is. All these mysterious and theories make the character who it is.

The trick-ity tick frick was up with that jump scare at the end?? I almost dropped my croissant

bruh

I would love for Majora to reprise its evil role as the boss for an upcoming title. I've had the idea of Ganon looking for this mask for his own gain and realizing that Majora is stronger than he, loses his autonomy and Majora completely possesses him, becoming stronger than before.

You did mention the fact that Majora seemed to have the absorb the intelligence/desires/wishes of those it ate. Perhaps the mask absorbed some of Skull Kid's loneliness...? I dunno, Zelda theories make me hurt, but I love them.

When Link see Majora's Mask: ''Why not pick it up and hang it on my wall'' Zelda Fans: ''So all the time Link has been Majora's true owner? good vid btw :)

8:50-9:17 Damn. And I thought the FNaF Timeline was confusing.

This was by far one of the most well thought out explanation and I absolutely love it. Thank you for all the work you put into this!!!

Wait But the manga makes sense now that i think about it. A hero that came and sang the song (link singing song of TIME) and killed him. The feirce deity mask (the warrior that sang the song in the manga) is given to link and cannot lose to Majora

Razanak:what is really behind that mask Me:hopefully not another mask I'll leave now

That was absolutely amazing. Thank you for all of the things you put together to create something worth watching and listening to

Mind blown I've been trying to figure out who the hell he was the whole time I was playing Skyward Sword. You can see who everyone else is in the timeline except for him. My mind has been blown. That is an awesome realization

How did he dance for three days if there is no time?

Just to add to possible evidence that Majora is Ghirahim; Majora gives Link the Fierce Deity Mask, turning him into what looks to just be an older, albeit slightly colour-altered, version of Link. It also allows Link to fire sword beams en masse. The Link that fights Demise and Ghirahim is an older Link, who is capable of firing sword beams. The Fierce Deity wasn't a real entity, it's what Majora thinks the original Link was. A monstrous villain, clearly godlike in his power, who couldn't be stopped and wouldn't rest until his opponent was destroyed.

I always thought the spirit of Majora who possessed the mask was just some kind of interdimensional or extraterrestrial entity or demon. I never considered that it could have had a traumatic backstory. Very interesting!

First of all, cud oust to you for your research, And excellent work my friend. This storyline is WONDERFUL. And whether you’re right on the money or wrong from all angles. The ending still has a beautiful conclusion. I love what you’ve done. Thank you. And Great Job.

"We've only seen one [Sheika] (idk if i spelt it correctly) so far." Just wait until BotW.

I think that the adventurer in the manga is the soul behind the fierce deity mask

This video is well reasoned and well executed. Your end result is very compelling.

"Powers it definitely does have: teleportation," I wouldn't say definitely, because it was on skull-kid and skull-kids can disappear like frikken ghosts. They could do it in ocarina of time too. "Telekinesis" But the moon is an entity, face and everything, so I was under the impression all the mask did was turn it malevolent, like how it turned the dungeons by awakening other things as malevolent. "Matter and life out of nothing" grey area. Rest of the stuff I can agree with easily enough. Then it's called Majoras mask but that doesn't mean Majora is in it. They use the sages seals to stop Ganon but they don't rename them to the Ganon seals. They also establish in Skyward sword that the link style heroes and Ganon style champions will rise in every era to face each other. After Majora/kid robs link, takes a special pleasure in mockingly playing his ocarina and after clearly escaping waits to curse link further before leaving. Also since all the different Ganons seek the power of the goddesses, the triforce power and in OOT he gets one third, since Majora seemingly has all three powers, could be one of the versions had the full triforce when they were sealed away. Would explain the power leaking out through the seal simply by way of the mask being handled.

just a little info the kids in majoras mask which wear the masks, they look like kid version of the mask man

The thing about majoras mask not bearing much resemblance to other twili technology other than the eye The eye, and the fact that it's a mask, would indicate that the fused shadow is a later creation, using majoras mask as a prototype. Throughout twilight princess, you learn through both the light spirit and midna, that while the twili were dangerous at first, they became peaceful over time in the twilight realm. It's possible that the twili's ancestors created the mask a great deal of time ago. They feared it's power and sealed it away, and over the course of tens or hundreds or even thousands of years, their technology grew and adapted, while the mask had been lost, stolen away by adventurers, or the mask salesman. Eventually they tried to create a new weapon to fuel their ambitions, the fused shadow, utilizing both new technology, and ancient techniques that had produced majoras mask. As a result, the fused shadow was a bit of the best of both worlds. While powerful, it wasn't nearly as destructive or chaotic. Either the proper techniques and resources were lost to time and they _couldn't_ produce an equally powerful tool, or they had learned from their mistake and intentionally made a weapon on a scale they could control. Or possibly both: perhaps the technique to create the mask was abandoned and made taboo because of it's destructive nature

I know it's been a couple of years but I just discovered this video I loved how you put emotion into the video especially when it seems like you realize that Majora might just be Garahim (not sure if I spelled that right) instant subscription from me keep up the good work!

he has returned in breath of the wild and he literally just makes it so monsters cant see you

Majoras Mask; im the creepiest loz game and give zelda fans nightmares BOTW 2; hold my switch

Breath of the wild didn’t exist at this time, but the Yiga clan is a strong candidate. ( Shiekah that broke away and helped ganon)

0:47 credit to original creator of the footage. Good.

Nicely F*ing done! The research and creativity in this, man! I loved that game and I don't know about all the back story and lore but I enjoyed this and found all your theories, plausible and satisfying, as you mentioned. Good work man

15:08 you remembered to include the most important impa in the Zelda timeline

Nice theory but I have one complaint. If Ghirahim is indeed sealed in the Mask, then why could he became stronger than is former master? You said it yourself: Ganondorf + Majora's Mask = nearly unstoppable but Demise + Ghirahim (Sword Form) was beaten by Link? There are also two other tribes who vanished long ago in Termina, the Garo and the Ikana and we don't know to much about them beside the great war. In my theorie Termina was cursed by the three goddesses during the great war, as the Ikana tried to reach the sacred realm through the stone tower to obtain the triforce. After "flipping" their world upside down and transforming Termina into a parallel world, the Ikana reached the deepest of "Hell" instead of the sacred realm where they find the mask. They used its power to win the war, but the mask became stronger for every soul it took and destroyed both tribes. The goddesses have to made sure, that Majora couldn't break the seal and came Hyrule, so they made the four giants, one of each species, a Zora, a Goron, a Deku and a Human. These 4 were friends with skullkid but had to leave cause of their duty. Well and the rest is nearly history, I guess... :D

This theory actually really makes sense because we never see Ghirahim in any game other than Skyward Sword, his fate is more or less a mystery. He's basically Demise's Master Sword but we never see Ganondorf or any of Demise's other reincarnations even mention the name Ghirahim or have a sword anywhere similar to that of the Master Sword.

Probably one of the greatest discussion videos I've ever watched, thank you.

Whats behond the mask? *ITS DIO*

I would love to see the next zelda game about ganondorf trying to gain majoras mask

Really happy a channel other than game theory is making a theory on a Zelda game. You earned a subscriber!

When ever Razanak said "could majora be..." youtube crashed

Majora's Mask is literally a mask, no specific entity lives within it it besides itself. But it came to life anyway, likely in a way similar to Teddie from Persona 4, but instead of already being alive before meeting humans, it came to life through the interactions it had with humans, the hexing rituals. It probably even enjoyed being used by people to hex other people, but perhaps this tribe freaked out when the mask started acting on its own. This caused some bitterness within the mask, to be rejected by the people that had once before been it's friends. Or at least, if the mask didn't know what friendship was then, it had learned what rejection was. Another part of this is the nature of what a mask is. What makes a person who they are? It's obviously more than superficial appearance, but our appearance is still a way we communicate to others about what we are, and what our intentions are. Our face shifts to reflect our mood, and we adorn the rest of our body and our surroundings with items as an extension of our face. But our mood is not always the same, and neither is our face. We choose different decorations, feel different emotions. Are we then a different person after such a change? I would say no, but the idea of a mask arises from such a conundrum. A mask can be used to conceal who we are, but it can also be used to reveal our thoughts and intentions in ways we otherwise could not. Whether our goal is to simply use the mask as a temporary tool, or as a means of escapism, a mask that becomes a lived-in identity. Majora's Mask was crafted to hex people, and was made with an ominous appearance suitable for such a task. But it stopped being a mere tool when it came to life, and now it is an identity that lives-in itself. It came to life purely through the intentions it was used for, and the feelings of malice that its user bore within themselves. Nevertheless it was still a child, and it expressed itself in ways that an unchanging, static face could not. It was then sealed away by "the bad guys", the people it had thought were its playmates.

one shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty

This was amazing, then end gave me chills, MM is my favorite LoZ game and I've been hoping for a continuation ever since it came out.

Agree with it or not... This was a great freaking video. And the thought that went into it was great. I never thought of this, and it's things like this why I love Zelda so much, they leave so much to the imagination.

What if.....get this......the mask created itself

The only other things I'd've mentioned would have been the 3 golden triangles on the "eyebrows" of the mask & The correspondence to the 3 goddess's colors on the spikes at the bottom. Red Green Blue I think it's safe to say you have a solid theory but I can't help thinking it's missing something.

thanks for telling me about this three years later, youtube.

God your content is so good, from editing to your explanations, I wish you uploaded more

Anyone notice how the ''Moon child'' wearing majora's mask has the same haircut and color as the happy mask salesman

bro that sudden jump at the beginning just made me spit my food out thanks

5:18 he’s probably trying to send a hidden message that he is lonely. I think

This was so well put together.. Nintendo should hire you. Thank you for this interesting content! Definitely subbed! Never stop doing what you do! Keep em coming!

In regards to the Mask of Truth, [13:33] "A bit odd for any kind of righteous group to curse the wearer to turn into a mutated spider monster..." The MASK did not curse the man. When he went to look [in the cave], he was cursed by the Golden Skulltulas (via Spider's Curse), likely due to his GREED. He still wore the mask because he couldn't remove it due to having spider legs. Otherwise, I love this video and the theories you are presenting.

12:37 - "Most disturbing location in Hyrule?" I... I'd put the Forest Temple, Lost Woods, and Kokiri forest above the Shadow Temple. Darkness and Death are fine, there are no mysteries there, but that damn forest... there's something *wrong* with it... What the hell was the Forest Temple originally? Why is there a room with what looks like a pool of blood with a torch sconce in the center? Why are there twisting hallways? Fiendish hands dropping from the ceiling? A creepy basement? (Also... whatever happened to that phantom ganon? Did it ever reappear?) Why do people who enter the lost woods turn into stalfos? What about the skull kids? And why the hell is that one kid so nonchalant about people turning into undead skeletons (the Kokiri who gives you the saw in exchange for the potion in the quest to get the biggoran sword). If the forest is so "sacred" and in need of protection, why do terrible things happen to innocent people who venture into it unless they're Link? And why, especially if this theory is anything to go on, is there a giant nearly bottomless pit tree that one can fall into to reach Termina?!?

We really need Majora sequels! Great video! I love that theory quite a lot!

ive only played snipits of the zelda games and im working my way through a link in the past right now. while i dont know much about the game, this video was fucking awesome for a theory and it makes sense to me for it to fit. its really nice to consider. nice work man. subscribed!

I personally believe that the mysterious man who carved Majora's Mask was, or perhaps a ancestor of, The Happy Mask Salesman.

The Twili came from the Sheikah they were changed by the twilight realm. The Sheikah are the only tribe we know about that deal with magical masks (mask of truth).

I may be late, but you are a hell of a story-teller.