The Miracle at Fort Hateno - Links to the Past (Zelda Lore) 

Hope you enjoyed! Follow me on Twitter for updates: twitter.com/Zeltik One amendment: We don't know if Link fought alone in the field, or if any soldiers joined him. Either way, when he fell, it was just him and Zelda there, alone. Be sure to check out all music used, in the description!

Really enjoying my Zelda History class at the University of RU-vid.

As Kass explains in his final song to Link it was Zelda's love for Link that awakened her sealing power, not so much her desire to protect Hyrule. "The princess's love for her fallen knight awakens her power." With Link about to die, that was when her love for him was strongest. Anyways, love this new series!

Many said botw doesn't have a good story. I disagree. The story just isn't obvious at first and is scattered across the game making the players connect the pieces themselves. This way of presenting the story of a game is also used in Hollow Knight, a masterpiece itself too. And just like that game, botw was destined to have a huge amount of DLCs which in the end became the sequel.

Never thought giant robots would belong in a Zelda game, but in hindsight they fit into the lore surprisingly well. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to fight giant robots while riding on a motorcycle...in a Zelda game. Gosh, that still sounds like I'm joking.

Can we just talk about how overwhelmingly powerful link really is to single handedly take on legions of guardians by himself and still survive ? Wish I could’ve seen the fight.

The Power of the Goddess seems to come from hope and love. Every prior Zelda used it to protect their people out of hope and love. The same goes from Hylia, who loved the races of the planet so much she was willing to fight to the death to save them from Demise. BotW's Zelda was put in a position where everything was technical. No one truly cared about her struggle from an empathetic and emotional standpoint. Her own Father, even after reading his journal, only ever cares about her needing to live up to a role. All they fostered in her was despair, and that makes it hard to love the people around you. It was only during the final days of Hyrule's existence that she began to have the bonds necessary to feel love for her kingdom that showed her none. The friendship she built up with the Champions and the budding relationship she built up with Link unlocked the power, and in the moment the person she cared about most was about to die, it was unleashed as her emotions poured out. She went from despairing, to having hope, because she needed to have hope. Link HAD to live, she couldn't let him die there. So she didn't.

Please do an episode on Snowpeak Ruins, like who lived there? What was it used for? Isn't it weird that they built it in such a desolate place?

Why am I more attracted to this than actual history????

What a cinematic experience. You capture the feeling of dread, desperation and hope perfectly with sequences that fit the narrative perfectly. I felt like I was watching a professional documentary. I can't wait to see what other surprises you have in store next week.

This series give me another look on breath of the wild.

A battle against Guardians is a battle of desperation. Facing off against one can feel impossibly difficult, but an entire army of them?

This is really awesome! One of your best videos yet. It really captures what I love about the game’s world building.

This really emphasizes how terrifying guardians are. The guardian battle music with the sharp piano and urgent music screaming danger shows that even Link who had been asleep for 100 years and lost all his memories still somehow knew how dangerous they were.

1:42 “Juuling peaks” That is one thick accent ya got there, bud.

Game or not. Imagine being in their boots there at the wall :o. Holy crap. Hyrule's Alamo!

5:41-10:44 This is the part of the story I wish we got to experience before waking up. Zelda's whereabouts unknown. No voice, no king to guide us. How heavy it'd feel.. Only to learn through memories Zelda tried to protect us, before we make our way to end the calamity, and see Zelda is truly alive. Amazing video as always. I look forward to more piece of BoTW lore.

You should do a video on Snowpeak Ruins. What was the abandoned mansion's purpose? Who originally owned it? There are so many interesting items inside, from a pair of oars to y'know, cannons! I think that this concept could have lots of potential.

legit this series is making me play botw more than i played it at release omg

I am so hyped for this episode.

Hateno Fort and Village are underrated places, in my eyes, and I'm glad you are making videos about them. I wonder if you'll be also making video about the lore of New Hyrule.

Make one of the hyrule coliseum, I want to know the purpose of it, it was like the arbiter's grounds??? Or was just a place with olympic purposes??? Because there's a lot of monsters there, and is covered with malice too, so this means the coliseum was a prison for the monsters too??? And Ganon freed them when he taken control of the guardians???

everyone said Breath of the Wild story was weak, it really wasn't look into it deeper and it is probably one of the best story's in the Legend of Zelda franchise

I'm going for the A+++ or the 10+++ or whatever mark in the Hyrule History Exam. Amazing video, simply brilliant. You filled the lore with so much more than just words, made it come to live. Thank you for this.

As a cinematographer I really appreciate the footage in the background. Like the low health guardian being finished off while you talk about the guards getting lucky shots on the eyes.

It will be an honor to play the link vs guardians sequence in fort hatteno. You'll play the highest tiered link ever.

This is what i love about games like BOTW and Dark Souls. Their subtle way of expressing a story through showing instead of just telling what happened. It's top class world building by utilizing the games environment to show it's story. A much better method of story telling IMHO than a character simply rambling on through expository dialogue. I find people often overlook just how much story is told through Hyrule's environment which ultimately makes the world fell alive, and further beckons you to explore what else could be lying around the next corner. So often i hear people say that "BOTW has an underwhelming story", which in part is true as the character building could be better. Story wise however; there is a rich and interesting tale lying under almost ever nook and cranny. Unfortunately many people just don't take the time appreciate why things are laid out in such a way to make you contemplate what may have occurred in the past. BOTW gives you just enough information to grasp the key points through memories, and by showing you the end results 100 years later it allows your mind to fill in the blanks of what happened. Call me pretentious for looking at things in such a way, but regardless great video Zelink. Your video perfectly epitomizes how great this subtle method of story telling can actually be.

Zeltik. You actually moved me and brought a tear to my eye with this video. You're the only youtuber that EVER did that. I want to compliment you on the way you put the video together. The way you tell the story is fantastic and the music choice is just perfect. I mean, putting on the appropriate armor and actually luring a guardian to Fort Hateno.. dedication and vision. I've been watching your content for a few days now and you blow me away. Keep up the good work!!!

Amazing video Zeltik!! This gave me some serious chills!!

Awesome backstory, tugged the heartstrings when the miracle happened.

Love the episode already! Will u collab with Commonwealth realm again?

This amount of detail really makes me want a live action Zelda film surrounding the events of the Clamity. It would be so interesting to see what all the characters went through to end up where they did.

I cannot get ready for work and put on my makeup when my EYES ARE LEAKING thank you very much

I'd love to hear your interpretation of King Rhoam's final years and how he came to be a spirit. Dude had a hard life.

I could literally listen to you tell stories about Zelda lore for hours

How in the absolute hell does this man not have more subscribers? This channel is amazing. I'll usually listen to it podcast style on my way to work. Thanks, Zeltik.

This video is why I love the Zelda community. This was incredibly well done, thank you so much! Your imagination and attention to detail is so appreciated

Wow, I don't know what to say… Your narration and choice of words was amazing, the soundtrack very well chosen and this story got me very emotionally invested. Awesome video.

Amazing work i have always agreed with these chain of events, so nice to see someone else agree. Only thing i might have thought differently was that Link may have led a small troop of brave soldiers to help him lead the Princess back from the fort to Kakiriko, soldiers who probably died early on in the battle, so all we see is Link who is left standing defending the Princess, using all his might destroy guardian after guardian. But as you said, the guardians were too many and the rest is history. Great video. Love your work.

First of all this is such a dope series! And second, this may be a stupid question but is this series going to be only about Breath of the Wild? Or will it explore other games as well? Great video though 👍

I don't even have to begin to watch these videos to give it a like. Anything to do with the Legend of Zelda, I like it.

Now THIS is how you do Zelda lore!

I literally just went there yesterday, looking for koroks ; ), after months of not playing the game.

Fantastic video man. Very well done. The lore itself is great, especially this story, but the delivery was awesome. Very cinematic indeed. I've only watched a few of your videos, but this one was particularly good. Keep up the detailed content sir, I'm loving it.

Please, please, PLEASE continue this series! I've been watching Zelda videos for years (and have had the amazing privilege to narrate some of them) and thought I had seen it all at this point. This video and the last are some of the BEST I have seen! Script is so well written, editing is perfect, it's just all awesome!

I'm not exaggerating when I say that your descriptions paint a very detailed picture of the events, and at parts even gave me chills. I absolutely love this series and can't wait for more!

And they say BOTW doesn't have a good story...

I missed you so hard, this new series is sick.

8:36 The effort to get the arrows at the Guardian and to blow up with the last eye shot, I am very impressed.

Dude! This narration style and background knowledge (and embellishment ;) ) is amazing. I loved this video!

This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Well done! Please keep going on these Links to the Past videos. I'm speechless

Your videos are always amazing, thank you SO much. The way you analyse content as well as present them is stunning. Your script is so well written, I could just melt away in the poeticness of your language. Thank you again.

Could you tell us what info you got from where? You did mention your sources, but I'm curious to exactly what you found in each source. I loved this, btw

I love this series... The first and second Video were amazing. Seriously, the narration, the editing, everything is just done so well. I'm really looking forward to your next videos in this series!

This gave me chills. Please do more. Maybe about each champions deaths? Like if they were murdered immediately or if they put up a little fight before dying.

I really love the environmental story telling in BotW. I like nice how you incorporate that aspect into your analysis of the game.

Zeltik, amazing work! Both videos by far have been rich with details and really put me on the edge of my seat wanting more! Keep up these perfect videos man!

Good work, this is what we've been missing front breath of the wild. It gives you a more in depth feeling towards zelda and links relationship in this era.

This is really well put together. Well done!

I have grown to love finding out all the lore in my favorite games and this just scratches that itch in so many ways. Very nice my dude

Because of this episode, I give you a sub good sir

This is like, a really, really good series! You compile the stories so well, I even got goosebumps watching this. I can so clearly imagine the scores of soldiers, feel their desperation... wow! I'll think of that scene every time I pass Fort Hateno, now! (Same goes for the Akala episode!) Thanks for your hard work! I really look forward to more!!

I'm late to the party but I'm so glad I discovered your channel. This content is lovingly made and so insightful. I'm a fan and subscriber for life. Thank you. 👍

I just love how u put these videos together keep em coming! 👍

Very nice story telling! You're like the Nobel of the Zelda universe!

This is my favorite series on any YT channel. I love history videos and I LOVE botw. Idk what else you could make a story out of, but keep it up 👍🏼😁

Really enjoying all this extra lore these places have. Keep up the great work Zeltik!!

These are sooo good, this is my favorite series. Its so well told, the dramatic editing. Cheers to you Zeltik. You give these stories the credit they deserve

Plz make a vid about the Imprisoning War and do a vid about the fight with Malladus that was prior to spirit tracks?!

That was so good! Felt like story time. Really got me emotional at the end. I may have shed a little tear. Haha.

This was really well done :) Fantastic narration and atmosphere!

These videos or so good! I love how you use gameplay to make it more cinematic! Amazing 😊

Better than my history class at school

Great editing, my dude. Sound effects and music on point. Script writing was great as well! Looking forward to more of this series. Breath of the Wild really doesn't give you much out front, so having something like this not only consolidate it all, but tell it in a more cinematic fashion is great! Hoping you cover some things from older games too, maybe some of Skyward Sword's story bits since the rumored HD is coming up? Either way, keep it up, man!

Love this format! Gives me chills listening to the details laid out so well. Keep it up! There's a ton of lore to go through!

That "and help was coming" part was great!

This may quite possibly be the best video you’ve ever made. In competition with the first LttP, of course.

Really nice video. Although it seems to be an unpopular opinion, Breath of the Wild's story is actually my favourite story in the entire series and this video really does a good job of capturing why. But it's true that they could have shown more, and some of it requires a bit of reading between the lines. I think it's a fantastic story nonetheless, and I'm actually curious whether Nintendo would ever shift their focus more to the storytelling side in future because I think there's a lot of potential there.

Started watching this Links to the past series and I'm loving it! Seriously, mate, this cinematic format gave me the goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes all at the same time. Bloody excellent work.

Your storytelling is incredibly immersive! Keep up the great work!

9:45 Stalkoblin: (throws rock) I'm hELpiNg!!

You know, if each location in BOTW tells a story, from Fort Hateno, to the garrisons, what does each settlement, ruined home, and region tell? Does this apply to all the other games? Like in Minish Cap, the Fortress of Winds, or in the First Legend of Zelda, the various dungeons. Good idea for a video? Or a series? An in-depth story of each region and sub region in each game could be quite interesting, if you are willing to try it.

These videos are amazing, keep the series going!!!!!!!!

Man, you really brought story to life in a way few “game theory” videos do. And all you did was give a representation of events as Nintendo implied they happened. Well done! My favorite Zelda video you or anyone has done.

You know what would be badass?? I imagine a Netflix series of Zelda to serve as a prequel to the breath of the wild game..animated and acted similarly to the Castlevania series, so we’d be able to see what happened before the calamity and the champions and maybe see more character development than was in the game. I loved BoTW, but the story and lack of dungeons was the only thing I felt it lacked...maybe this animated series would offer insight to what happened.. Zeltik, I’m a huge fan of your videos! Keep up the great work! I imagine this battle your talking about as being like the season finale in like a 2 part episode! Would be awesome I think!

This series reminds me of MrRhexx, and Shoddycast's Skyrim Lore videos.

Love this new series Zeltik. The editing and capture work for this video in particular was really exceptional. Can't wait to see more. This is great content.

This is better than the history channel.... this was my first ever zelda game properly played and I loved it, brilliant channel and thank you for putting these vids out. Learning so much about the history

YES🔥🔥can u do a video on URA OOT Zelda

@Zeltik I think that the corrupted guardians did not come through the Dueling Peak Pass. Instead they entered through the pass north of the Marble Ridge. The evidence? 1) The ruined bridge over Lake Siela and ruins near it (it is the path of an attack from this path, but out of the way if they had come by Dueling Peak Pass), 2) The two confused guardians in/near the pass, 3) the lack of guardians in the Dueling Peak Pass. Even more, it is likely that Link and Zelda used the pass also as it explains why they had a moment near the Hylia River. That spot is the midway point to Kakariko Village on a straight line path from Kakariko Village and the Castle. What I think happened is Link planed to go up Sahsara Slope to the village, but for some unknown reason bypassed it. But your idea he had refugees with him is and that is why he did not go directly to the village is clearly not true. They were clearly not in his memory. And there are no settlement he could have run into on the way there. And if he as so close to the village, why almost quintuple the distance he had to go buy going by that pass? A quick swim and some simple climbs with Zelda on his back or having her climb too and he would be there. Far quicker and off the the main roads. If I had to hazard a guess. As Link was starting to climb the last cliff, it started to rain. He had to divert south (sliding down a cliff is far easier than climbing one), but by then the two had been spotted by the guardians and they had to take Marble pass. And once through the pass they saw refugees fleeing the fort for a last stand. Between hoping for 11th hour miracle in Kakariko village or fighting to buy their people time, they picked the later. And realizing they would not make the fort, Link picked a high point with marsh to make a last stand. The guardians swarmed out of the pass behind them and spread out across the plain. This would also explain why Zelda confronted the guardians there. If they had come out Marble Pass, the last stand and the fort are about equal distant from Lake Siela. A fanning out invasion looking for targets would hit the fort about the same time Zelda and Link were making their last stand and Zelda sealed them. But if they had come out of Twin Peaks Pass, the entire guardian attack would have had to hit Zelda and Zelda's sealing would happened before they reached the fort.

Your stories give me chills! You narrate them so beautifully, the editing is amazing! I really like your videos! :) keep it up

This is a great new series, some of you best work! Can't wait to see more!

I literally started crying! : * (

*[completely impregneble fortress] me: climbs it.

This was amazing! Good job Zeltik!

i wouldn't mind an exam for this class, really well done and i like how you made the scenes.

You should do a “link to the past” on how the champions of hyrule pa greatest hero’s lost

I got the Creating a Champion book, it's crazy awesome!

Amazing! The cinimatic explanations and storytelling were amazing

The latest 2 vids of yours have me hooked. This new series is amazing! Thanks for the vids!