Queen Sonia In Tears Of The Kingdom Explained | Theory 

It's truly heart breaking how Zelda sadly lost three mother figures in her life

Anyone else smitten with Queen Sonia? Nintendo knocked it out of the park with her character. Her look, smile, gentle demeanor. Just gorgeous.

As a note: it was common to have other people care for the royal baby rather than by the queen. Rauru and Sonia must have had a child since Zelda shares a blood connection to both of them, so this child was probably kept out of the eye of their enemy Ganondorf and raised by a wet nurse perhaps an Impa of the past who was sworn to protect the child.

I know this is about Sonia but I like how Rauru seems like the father figure she didn’t get. The way he says “link? This is a name I have not heard before”. It screams loving fathers concerns lol. Zelda had such a hard relationship with her father and little memory of her mother. I feel that Rauru and Sonia are a healing moment for Zelda.

You know, this is a small thing…but it’s so nice to see a beautiful, gentle female character who is also fully tattooed. You don’t get that specific kind of representation a lot and it’s nice.

Another tragic aspect with Sonia and Rauru is they both mentored her exactly the way she needed to be mentored to be ready for the Calamity in BOTW, but in TOTK it wasn't enough. Sonia was the mother/teacher she never had and Rauru encouraged her academic curiosity, as opposed to Rhoam, who just had her "train" (whatever that meant). In the end, Zelda still lost her Mother/mentor and her father's (Rauru's) hubris still left Zelda to pick up the pieces and be trapped for longer and with no hope for a way out this time. In that way, it mirrors BOTW's story.

All I know is that we didn't get to see enough of Rauru and Sonia in general, hell Rauru could've stayed with us as a companion giving us potential lore about the Zonai, translating Zonai and maybe even ancient Hyrulian for us, etc.

The community does not fawn on Sonia enough. She is full of that feeling of what Zelda would be as a queen after she hones her trademark Wisdom with experience.

My theory is and will always be that the power that transformed Zelda back was a Triforce wish. Sonia with the Wisdom piece, Rarua with the Power piece, and Link with courage. Combined, as stated in lore of past games, can grant a wish. The shared a nod before the transformation, and that nod was an agreement to use the wish to bring back Zelda.

Another neat tidbit about sonia, i found out that apparently sonia is the slavic variation of the greek name sophia, and they both mean

You did a fantastic job of explaining Sonia's importance to the story. I hear some fans complain that Zelda should have stayed a dragon at the end, but that would have been a horrible ending. You're so right about the ending tying up the plot thread of Rauru and Sonia not only wanting to meet Link but to fulfill their promise to Zelda to reunite her with him; they loved her so much and wanted her to find happiness and live her life. So many people seem to miss that part of the story.

Someone had already mentioned this but I feel like there was a missed opportunity by having Rauru disappearing after the tutorial, he would have been a great companion to talk to whenever we saw him. And to expand this idea further maybe we could only meet Rauru on the sky islands and be able to meet and talk to the spirits of queen Sonia on the surface of Hyrule and Mineru down in the depths. It would be a small change that would make the game so much better and make the ending feel like it all came full circle with Rauru and Sonia rewinding both Link and Zelda.

Dlc should be the stories of the zonai that presumably became dinraal, naydra, and farosh. I'd like to see more of the zonai and specifically how they interacted with hylians.

She’s the embodiment of a nurturing mother. Beautiful, patient, slow to anger (except for her boo 😂) Fearless, and just amazing. 🥹

I'd love a bit of a speculation into Sonia's heritage, too!

If Zelda is related to Rarau, that explains why Twilight Princess Link is so good at wrestling goats.

Spoilers: Something I haven't seen anyone notice about Sonia is that, after seeing all the memories back to back again, I THINK Sonia always KNEW Zelda had to become a Dragon to save Hyrule, every time Zelda mentions she has to go back to her time Sonia stops her somehow and puts ideas in her mind to rather stay with them and make her come to that realization herself, even when they were having tea she reminds her of Link after saying "you also wanna help us, don't you?" she is in a way like Dumbledore always knowing Harry had to die and guiding him. Sonia is the sage of time after all, she knows where things were and why that's how she uses her power, I bet she probably even knew she was gonna be killed by Ganondorf.

Sudden realization: We don't know exactly how long Zelda was in the distant past between her arrival and the Imprisoning War. It could have been a few weeks or a few months, though I imagine it must be less than a year at most, I don't really have any logic to that, it's just a feeling. Zelda could have been living in the palace and training with Sonia for quite a while, building that trust, we just don't see it because the Dragon Tears do not show everything, just whatever memories happened to be contained within.

I could have the quote wrong, but the queen says something along the lines of “wisdom takes time” and that is such a goddess hylia thing to say to zelda lol

Sonia quickly became one of my favorite Zelda characters. I immediately fell in love with her design and she is so gentle and motherly.