The Lore of Zelda’s Famous Locations (The Wind Waker) 

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Actually, there is a couple of spots that comes to mind, and it is the giant fish skeleton on the beach, where the fisherman is saved. And at first glance it looks like the desert or the side of a mountain and in BoTW I always thought they were being cheeky with sly references.

@@HyruleGamer April Fool's Day is just around the corner! ;) Famous locations of Wand of Gamelon would make a pretty good light-hearted video for the holiday.

​@@HyruleGamerI'm curious what Zelda game are you going to cover next with your lore?

yesss, it's such an amazing scene!

Does anyone realize that the Koroks are like the Ewoks from Star Wars? Both live in a forest and both are cute!

Windwaker Link seeing koroks: Oh dear gorgeous!!! Wild era Link seeing koroks: YOU DUCKING DONKEYS!!!

Koroks are little monsters! Got to throw boulders on them.

That still doesn't explain why they didn't just become lizard people or smth, for God sake the og Zora looked a lot more reptilian.

In majoras mask the zora live in the sea which is probably salty.

@@emjay_blng whatever, you get my point...

Zora live in the ocean on Majora's mask because it's an alternative dimension.

the great sea is barren of life, no fish for the zora who primarily eat fish. I don't remember where exactly is says that, but i do remember that being a thing.

Maybe BotW gives us a potential hint, they could be early Yiga symbols. Before they changed to the upside down eye. Of course that would require a version of the Yiga we haven't heard of to both form and disappear again between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker.

​@@OtakuUnitedStudio They could also be trophies from slain sheikah warriors.

Could also be that in the time since Ganondorf was sealed, the Royal family had the Sheikah invade the Gerudo lands and attempt to wipe them out or arrest them as well for their relations to Ganondorf. Some real police state stuff, but we don't see Gerudo in the adult timeline (to my knowledge)

@@OtakuUnitedStudio yiga exists only in the new hyrule the zonai created (botw/totk). No yiga before that because sheikah tech is post zonai.

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if i recall correctly valoo was a deity of the sky also i think the third sage the one with the flute and also the one that got cut was going to be links sister she seems like shes supposed to be important but she drops out of the story after being saved only having a few letters to show that they are alive and well also jabun is probably the guardian deity of the fish people found across hyrule the only people shown to survive in ethereal water proof that its not normal is that link cant drown in water that is not from the sea

Apparently Fire Mountain is supposed to be Death Mountain? Kinda makes sense but not really?

@@OtakuUnitedStudioisn't that south of dragon roost? if so then the only way its death mountain is if its the southern foot of death mountain

The only problem being the location of spectacle rock/island. In OOT spectacle rock was inside death mountain for some reason. The placement of spectacle rock in WW actually lines up nicely with the original LoZ and LttP. Making Dragon Roost Island more akin geographically to Turtle Rock from LttP (or some other entirely different location).

@@bagofshhhspectacle rock is a land mark that changes location from game to game its an iconic landmark but its not as usable as a location like death mountain that stays in the same location also spectacle island does not line up with a link to the past spectacle rock its too far west

Yeah it's a bit strange to exclude it. It holds a massive mystery. The Shiekah relic you find underneath, the random teacher who just owns the island, and the fact she just traded a random child the island for some necklaces. That's not to mention the wooden butler that seems to be alive, and the creepy puzzle that somehow pictures the booger kid that is many miles away, unconnected to the situation at all.

@@FerociousMit and the weird bubbling spring at the top of the waterfall. I always thought there was more to that place.

TWW's mountaintop islands premise always seemed absurd to me given the design of OoT's map. (Or really given the designs of any previous maps in the series, aside from maybe AoL's map.) Because most previous map designs just didn't create super mountainous terrain. There would have been one peak to retreat to. Death Mountain. No others. But now BotW kinda establishes a new canon within which all the old maps would have to be retconned as being mostly inaccurate anyway but it would provide enough mountainous terrain for something like TWW's premise to be somewhat more plausible. (Although even then I think a far more likely scenario than what TWW presented would be something where the dam holding in the vast reservoir near Zora's Domain breaks and all of that water rages down all the riverways and washes over most of the land throughout the field area of Hyrule. Mountain ranges exist in a ring almost all the way around that field area so they'd define the boundaries of whatever (shallow?) sea that could form from such a flood. Possible outlets to drain the flood waters if more comes out than seems to even be contained within the reservoir to begin with would be the Menoat River, Lanayru Bay, and perhaps even Tanagar Canyon.) I mean, the Great Plateau is meant to be the walls and contents of OoT's Hyrule Castle Town (what BotW calls the "Eastern Abbey" is the ruins of OoT's castle) but the gate faces northeast now instead of facing south like OoT's map depicted it. BotW gave us ruins meant to resemble Lon Lon Ranch (however that would've survived countless tens of thousands of years) located roughly northeast from that gate consistent with how OoT had it located roughly south from the gate, and the Deku Tree is located further out in roughly that same direction as well. But then somehow OoT's map did get some things correct according to BotW's version of things despite this rotation of those few parts of OoT's story. Lake Hylia is true south. Gerudo Desert is true west. Death Mountain is true north. Zora's Domain is still (roughly) southeast of Death Mountain. The roads to get to those areas just aren't connected to the main field area in the same way that OoT depicted them. You'd turn right on your way out of the gate to head across the field towards the bridge that leads into the path that leads to the desert according to OoT, but the BotW canon is that you'd actually turn left and follow the plateau wall around until it turns a corner and you reach the multi-bridged pass that leads into the path that leads to the desert. The main palace is also a whole thing. I've had the impression for years (though it might be more speculation and not so much supported by any significant evidence?) that TP's palace / capital city originally started out as TMC's castle and has existed as its own separate thing from OoT's castle the whole time. It should have been present during OoT's time but we just didn't see it there since it wasn't used in the story. Granted, TotK throws this into question since we're now meant to assume that so much time passes in between the older games and the backstories for BotW and TotK that all traces of the versions of Hyrule in the older games became myths and the kingdom ceased to exist and was forgotten for some time until TotK's Rauru and Sonia founded the newest version of it. The palace / capital city location in BotW / TotK clearly seems meant to be the same location as TP's palace / capital city, but I guess we are meant to assume that it got destroyed at some point in the mythical times and the TotK backstory version of the Imprisoning War by coincidence happened on that site and then a new palace was built on top of that site. And they just happened to mimic the same style as the long lost palace and capital city that used to be there? And TP has its own map oddities anyway. Even before we saw BotW's version of things it's always seemed like the TP map got Death Mountain and Zora's Domain swapped from where they ought to be. In terms of BotW's map it seems that TP placed Zora's Domain in what we see in BotW as the flattest and most featureless part of the Hebra province, and it seems that TP placed Death Mountain right in the center of what we see in BotW as Zora's Domain. And putting a few things from TP in terms of BotW's layout it seems like in TP's time what we know in BotW as the Forest of Spirits (on the plateau) and the Forest of Spirits (east of the plateau) were blended together as one forest which bypassed the wall of the plateau. Also, what TP presented as a small wooden bridge over a narrow ravine that's on the way out of Ordon Village would actually be a massive downplay of passing over BotW's Lake Hylia bridge, and then Ordon Village would've been somewhere around what is the Highland Stable in BotW. And then what is TP's Lake Hylia? The positioning of it seems like maybe it'd line up with what we see in BotW as the Sage Temple Ruins, the shallow flooded area next to a part of the Regencia River.... Or perhaps something even closer to the palace than that, like the Quarry Ruins. And at the end of it all even the BotW/TotK map could still be thrown out by some new game in the future anyway. With the sky islands premise touched upon in SS, TMC, TP, and TotK (some cases present some sort of technological mechanism and some cases present it as pure magic) there's no guarantee against map-changing shenanigans altering the landscape occasionally. Some forces somewhen deep within the massive gaps in time between games, just lifting random areas up as sky islands for whatever reasons or bringing random sky islands to the ground for whatever other reasons and having them end up somewhere that might be different from where they originated. Imagine a scenario where perhaps at some point Hyrule goes through some disaster on a similar level as Lorule's erosion into the abyss underlying the fabric of its reality, and perhaps in this hypothetical scenario the only way to save the land is to lift it all up and away from the corruption. Perhaps it's more a case of something like the Gloom or Malice on steroids absolutely flooding the TotK depths to the point that it's overflowing? (Not little puddles of the stuff on the ground. More like an ocean of the stuff.) Peeling all the land up exposes the depths to the light in an attempt to purify it? And then after everything's cleaned up, stuff gets brought back down to reassemble the surface world. But this series wouldn't even necessarily spell out such an explanation, they might just change things without explanation and leave it up to speculation whether there is an explanation or whether we just had incorrect information to begin with. Oof, I tried to keep it short but rambled quite a bit anyway. Quite the messy subject here.

@@MuljoStpho bro its not that deep...

Fun fact in tears there is a guardian on top of the hateno lab.

​@@badenanderson3504There's also the head of a Guardian Scout Mk. II on a gate somewhere in the game

There's also the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab's warp point.

Wow...just wow

I mean, that's a pretty valid thing to do so.... 🤷🏻‍♂️

OVERDUE. Hardcore agree

at this point they prob waiting on the new console

Why no love for the oracle games, minish cap, or link to the past

You're asking for way too much lol

That's a big wishlist. Maybe on the Double Switch. And hopefully the Double Switch is backwards compatible. And has the same emulators available as the Switch 1 at least, and rippers can make them available

While I do believe the Hyrule of the Era of Wilds is a different one than earlier games, I do believe that Rauru named it after the previous kingdom. One he may have actually been familiar with even though it would have been millennia since the events of any of those games. The idea that the Zonai existed during the original timeline is fine with me.

Fuck Zelda fans' opinions of the Zonai, to me, they're responsible for the Tower of the Gods and the Twili

Hate??? Zonai was the buzz word before Totk came out. They got what they wanted

The rito in wind waker are different from those in botw and totk, also the wind waker rito didn't have or use bows

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The island where Lake Hylia used to be is actually shown to line up with Great Fish Island, according to Nintendo.

Actually, in the timeline that WW takes place, Ganondorf wasn't given the chance to destroy the castle. In the Adult Timeline, Link didn't return to the past and just disappeared, so when Ganondorf attacks the castle (in OoT, this is when Impa flees with Zelda) there would have been no plan and no hero to stop him like there is when Link does travel back. With no other choice, the Royal Family called on the Goddesses to help them and they flooded the land and froze Ganondorf's invasion in time, so the castle still stands.

@@echostwitt9648 no no no you got it wrong dawg. Wind waker takes place right after you defeat Ganon in oot. Nothing changes time wise besides link disappearing.

@@llliwwille I won't spend a lot of time arguing with you but I will ask this one question: If it does take place after you defeat Ganon, then how would the king still be alive?

@@echostwitt9648 respectfully you’re arguing with things that are known fact in Zelda lore. And there’s two possible explanations to your question. None of which are confirmed. 1: the king in oot made it out of Hyrule castle and was not killed by Ganondorf. 2: King Daphness from wind waker is a different king then the one from oot. We do not know how much time passes betwene the end of OOT and the great flooding happening. So if the King in oot was killed by Ganondorf. It would have be assumed King Daphness is the descendant of OOT Zelda. Either her son or grandson.

He said Forest Haven is 3rd, I think he puts the Forsaken Fortress as 1st and Dragon Roost as 2nd

@@dominicmoisant8393 Oh herpaderp my bad

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"Link's first *real* seaside adventure" Link's Awakening : *cries louder*

the flood was not salt water it was ethereal water very few things can live in it and ganon says that the sea has no fish but also implies that he is not the reason for that

@@darkdagger5237 either they adress why the fish people die out in a flooded world.

@@bensell982well there are still fish people in that sea they give sea charts however they are not connected to the zora to my knowledge

@darkdagger5237 Yeah, he's the only non monster living in the water.

It really is an amazing game!

@@HyruleGamer it was my first Zelda game, it was the game that helped me through a dark time. This game is one of, if not my favorite.

@@Leeloo_the_fox i bought a new PCB for the gamepad and installed it :) Everything works and charges just fine, now I have to find a WWHD copy locally

It's also a fantasy world not the same as ours, as a very basic base value that info can be applied to explain the differences in how things work too lol

I want to say it's more that the younger Deku Tree created the Koroks while his father, the original Deku Tree, created the Kokiri, but there's nothing that suggests they're immortal.

You'd also need a good lawyer or a great ability to hide your identity, otherwise Nintendo will Nintendo.

Honest question but why? This art style is beautiful and fits the game and its themes. Just like Twilight Princess won’t fit in this art style. Very different games and visions

@@skateorpie Except that Twilight Princess is an art style I thoroughly enjoyed and felt with the right adjustments to the world scale and some layouts, Wind Waker and even Phantom Hourglass could feel right at home.

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same with ocarina of time!