I believe that the gerudo desert once held villages, as one of the memories states that the last free village of the desert had fallen to the demon kings armies. I also like to theorize that gerudo town was once just ganondorfs palace and that after the fall of the demon king, the gerudo all moved into the palace do to the villages being destroyed. Just my idea
that makes a lot of sense considering how open the central palace is and while maybe gerudo society considers it normal to just be able to walk right into the throne room of your leader with no doors and no hallways leading up to it, it does seem to be a bit close for lack of a better term
Interesting thing to note. Mineru stated that Dragonhead Sky Island was a place that received deliveries from the Depths. Which means that some of those sky islands may have been in the sky BEFORE zelda raises the temple of time. So that begs the question how many sky Islands were pre-established vs how many did she raise? At least the great sky island and the ones that have the tablets to be translated
I've thought about it a lot since TotK came out, but if there was to be another game in the botw saga, I'd like it to take place a good few years in the future, so Hyrule truly has a chance to recover and all these ruins would be reconstructed. Castle town reconstructed would be so fun to explore imo.
I feel like the main game play of that next game could be either defending hyrule from invaders, or getting to travel past the desert, great waters, or canyons to get to new land
I'd really like just a hyrule knight/soldier game where your just one of zeldas scouts, maybe clearing up monsters explorering ruins of the citadel to see whats fit to be rebuilt. Gather resources as you complete quests the kingdoms slowly rebuild etc. LOTZ : hyrule crossing lol
43:40 Sigh... My guess is they removed it from the map because it was a _lab._ Probably to do with their insistence in wiping almost all Sheikah tech from the game (which is odd, because I'm pretty sure the sheikah tech labs are still named).
3:56 regarding Deya Lake, neglect makes way more sense as a cause of the flood. Burms, levees, dams, weirs, any sort of earthen barrier against water, will need regular maintenance and inspection because water always wants to flow into adjacent soil. Deya Village would have depended on a specific group of workers in charge of maintenance.
The day I started playing BOTW, I always thought that there would be no other game like it, its ruins, its landscapes, the olocausts, the animals, the climate. For me, all Zelda games are contained in a single word, which is,,,,,, BEAUTIFUL.
when I first played, it was botw. I didn't know anything. after fighting monsters for a few hours I came upon a stable and thought it was the most amazing thing ever. I felt safe there. I slept in the inn, made and ate some food, talked with the locals, and did some side quests
the burnt-down village, i think, could also just be natural changes leading to abandonment and the wizardrobe later messing around with the ruins. isn’t the well there filled with lava? lack of water would definitely be a reason to abandon the settlement.
It still erks me that nearly every single bit of ancient Shiekah tech just disappears for no apparent reason, and there’s zero dialogue in the whole game about it, not even from characters who’s whole character revolved around studying Shiekah tech. It’s annoying too, because so many ruins looked so much better with the decayed guardians littered throughout.
the skyview towers literally have sheikah tech in them, its pretty obvious that the sheikah tech (guardians, towers, possibly the divine beasts) was broken down and reconstructed to make the skyview towers. plus, after the Calamity, it makes sense to get rid of the stuff was was shown to be vulnerable to Ganon's influence
@@juiced_juicebox makes no sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Some guardians were littered in very inaccessible and remote locations. Also doesn’t explain where the shrines, towers and shrine of resurrection completely disappeared without a trace. Let’s call it what it is, lazy world building on the part of ToTK’s devs.
@@see.eye.2361 It isn’t a stretch to imagine that the towers sunk back into the ground after the Calamity was defeated. After all they rose up out of the ground in the beginning of Breath of the Wild. The Shrines are shown doing the same thing, rising up out of the ground after certain conditions are met. Another case that could be theorized is that Ganondorf attacked some of the Shrines, so that Link couldn’t use them to gather more strength, the biggest culprits being the four shrines on the Great Plateau. In their place are Chasms, which opened up as a direct result of the Upheaval. Is this actually what happened? Maybe not, but the world of Tears of the Kingdom does some storytelling itself, and I believe this is one instance of it
@@see.eye.2361 There IS still one single Guardian on top of Hateno Tech Lab, and I am pretty convinced they either forgot to remove it ore didnt wanna make a new model fore the lab. And while I can accept the Towers and Gaurdians missing, they probably where dismantled, I agree that the Shrine of Ressurection and all that being gone makes no sense. ESPELEY the Devine Beats I find it wary hard to belive they could dismantle them. I would have preferd that you could find the Devine Beasts within the Depths, being slowly decayed by Gloom ore there in the middle of being burried again with only a few parts sticking out of the ground
My personal headcannon is that the lake Illumeni settlement and a few other ruins out of the way probably starved to death due to them being out of the way.
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506 If I were you, I would learn to not be a procrastinator right now, as it will save you a whole world of trouble in the real world.
there’s definitely a lot of hidden lore in the castle library but it would be sick if there was an old zonai ruin that hasn’t been found with all the history
Losses of structures like that multiple times over the eons would likely play a large part in historical accounts degrading / fading away to be replaced with distorted legends and unbelievable mythology if the people lose access to their written records and get left with just the oral traditions to keep track of their heritage. Like having a big game of telephone going on for however many tens of thousands of years and not having an written copy left to compare to what the story turned into. The concept the devs mentioned (or strongly hinted at) somewhere around BotW's release is that so much time has passed on all three timeline branches that each timeline has sooner or later experienced their own events with coincidental similarities to what we players know as the events depicted on the other timelines (like there would be a flood event on all three, an encounter with people from the Twilight Realm on all three, an encounter with a version of Lorule on all three, etc. even if the timings of such events are many thousands of years out of sync with each other) and so they every branch inevitably ends up with its own variation of BotW that's practically indistinguishable from the versions of it on the other branches. Things get so jumbled up in myth that the fact that some story is said to have happened at some unknown point in time is more relevant than the exact timing of how long ago the real story behind that myth actually happened. If the current year is 100,000 how much difference does it make in the present day whether a Twilight incursion of some sort happened in year 15,000 or year 25,000 or year 35,000? (Whatever the years would be. Just spitballing baseless guesses here.) How many times could a new iteration of the kingdom have been founded and destroyed in so many years? Within TotK we've got stone tablets uncovered thanks to this game's Upheaval event that are teaching researchers things about this current kingdom's own relatively "recent" history some 20k+ years earlier... 20k+, right? Obviously BotW's 100-years-ago was expected to be a repetition of a Calamity prevention that had already occurred 10k years earlier. But then hadn't that 10k-years-ago event also been 10k years in the making? Not sure if I'm remembering that correctly. And then the actual founding of the current kingdom by Rauru and Sonia was an unspecified amount of time before THAT.) Researchers learn things from these tablets that had not survived in any other records. Plus, the murals at the beginning of TotK were giving Zelda clearer insights into the Imprisoning War than anything that she had studied in historical texts while she was growing up in the palace. That suggests that the palace's own library lacked reliable information about that era. An event that close to the current kingdom's founding was shrouded in mystery.
@@MuljoStpho where thing is that BOTW and TOTK takes place in the converge timeline where the 3 timelines converge together as one so events in one timeline will be felt threw out the remaining 2 timelines and vice versa . The forgotten Temple was to commerate the multiple heros threw out Hyrule history despite being Hylia's/Sealed temple in Skyward Sword. also in BOTW and TOTK there were 2 Kingdoms of Hyrule you had the Original Kingdom of Hyrule that was founded on the great platue which was founded between the events of Skyward Sword and Minish Cap and very same Kingdom in OOT, TP, WW and link to the past and then you had the Current Kingdom which was founded by Rauru and Sonia and also most people that lives beneath the great platue dont even reckonize the Temple of Time and its importance it once played.
it would’ve been really cool if we would work to rebuild some of these villages as a secondary quest in _TOTK…_ like the Tarrey Town quest, but more involved than talking to the right NPC and collecting wood. each settlement could have a different mechanic, like maybe Deya Village needs to be drained, so you have to clear out some rocks to create a path for the water, or build a dam?
@@dimsufferer9951 - yea… maybe there’s ten or so villages across the map, and hopefully each has something unique, and don’t just require fighting a bunch of bad guys.
I can't even describe the desperation I have to explore Hyrule pre-calamity AND during the Zonai time period. There doesn't even need to be a story line, I just want to explore the kingdom.
They could honestly do a spin off of pre age of calamity where you just explore, build, farm, animal crossing style, and that’s it. I’d buy that in a blink of an eye
@@PunsandPixelshell yeah, or just a dlc or something that adds the time periods to visit, doesn’t even need a story or anything. I’d buy it immediately
Around Tarry Town in BotW, there were a lot of ruins underwater, next to that large plain that contained a bunch of Decayed Guardians and two whole ones.
So it wasnt the robots, gravity defying islands, telepathic hands or flying machines that made you think the Zonai were an advanced civilization. What really made you give them that title.... was the air conditioning.... Fuckin gold xD
In the Depths, below Gatepost Town Ruins, sits a destroyed Yiga base. The notebook you find there is tattered and clearly implied to be barely legible - and the pages you can read simply say that that particular base is to be destroyed. What happened there? Personally, I think the destroyed base was the first one the Yiga built, before they had a grasp on just how dangerous the Depths actually are. Maybe the base was overwhelmed by monsters, and the Yiga were forced to destroy it and move elsewhere (and reinforce their bases with spike barricades).
Mabe Village in AoC probably was changed to be more like the village in LA because the ruins in BotW were too generic. Goponga Village in AoC seems to be a trade village for Hylians and Zoras, the shop belongs to a Zora, is close to water so the zoras living there won't dehydrate, but most houses are Hylian-based. Would be cool if we get to see it restored again. Oh, and thank you for talking about AoC in this video, most Zeldatubers ignore it because "not-canon!" but the world was supposed to be as accurate as it was 100 years before BotW and they had the BotW art team helping to achieve this and the discrepance between ruins is purely because BotW reuses assets like crazy.
Do we know for a fact that the other Zonai died out or is it possible that the rest moved to another kingdom? Maybe that's where Rauru and Sonia's child was when Zelda was there, off visiting family.
The game storyline makes it clear they were already long gone even before Rauru, Sonia, and Mineru founded the kingdom. Exactly what happened is never well explained.
Hey mate! Fabulous work as always! I have a small idea/feedback: you use a lot of lovely Zelda soundtracks in your videos, I particularly notice some TP and WW music, and with good reason obviously! Those games have amazing music. My idea is that you include some kind of music/soundtrack list so that others (maybe new Zelda fans) who might not know where to find all these great tunes, can actually find them as well and enjoy them on their own :)
so so good. have you spoken about the ruins inside some of the caves in upland zorana? the knight statues really had me scratching my head, it’s the biggest mystery to me thus far
An interesting thing to know is, if the guys who made the game had a vision of a place/building at its full glory before they made the ruins for the actual game out of it.
hang on a damn minute... those stone tablet things on the floating asterisk shaped islands, one of them says something about Zelda being at least partially responsible for the floating islands, and I think, that they were put up there so Link would have a safe place away from Ganondorf to recover or something along those lines
38:51 This is my favorite ruin in both games! It’s so self sufficient and tucked away. Other spots I like to visit is the homestead at Rikoka Hills and a house just off the southern road on the Firly Plateau. There’s a cooking pot there in BotW under the shade of a cooking pot and a little waterfall beside the single ruined home.
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This was a really pleasant watch. Thanks for the good work. Do you have a music list somewhere? Your choices were very relaxing and fit the tone perfectly.
I just want to see this Hyrule fully rebuilt and even expanded on in terms of villages and life. I would love to visit all the rebuilt towns and newly built ones with Zelda.
I love so much these videos! One thing I noticed, and I'm sure many have noticed it too, the geoglyph shown in 11:53 isn't the same as the entrance shown underground in one of the trailer videos?
If we are to believe that every Legend of Zelda game takes place on a singular timeline, it's kinda terrifying how old this civilization is. In real life, the human race is only about 8,000-18,000 years old depending on who you ask or the stretch of the definition of human. Yet the world of Zelda and the Hylian race? Easily 100s of thousands, maybe even millions of years old, yet not much about them has changed biologically or technologically. Historians in this universe would be fighting some serious battles to record this stuff.
Nah, it's not anywhere near that old. Genetic drift would be a huge effect on timescales like that, and species like the Rito and Zora aren't any different from "ancient" times. The 10,000 year figure that's often quoted is likely an artifact from the source translation, since in Japan "10,000 years" isn't a literal figure but often a way of indicating a vague, large amount of time, similar to "ages" or "eons ago."
Remember all the wild speculation we had in the days of breath of the wild before tears of the Kingdom. I should go back to some of those theories just to see how wrong they are. 0:51
@@Sasukeheart2 I think you’re talking about the thunderhead isles music. It’s incredible. I go wandering around there just to listen to the music sometimes lol
Raurus castle from the memories actually gives me OoT Hyrule castle vibes. When you look into the window with Zelda before being sent off to get the sacred stones, the throne room there is a long hallway as well
Brother, this video is a brilliant insight into the history of the land, and a well constructed effort to explain some of the more obscure (as well as the well known) areas in the game left to explore. I love comparing differences and anomalies between the previous game and the new game
4:53 in aoc i believe that deya village was mostly a zora village but i dont really remember, that could explain the shallow waters and the walls in the depths.
My favorite ghost town is Tabantha Village ruins, don’t know why, I just love it. Since there’s no guardians around I theorized the people moved because of the weather, as the Calamity must’ve stopped some food tradings from happening. And it was too cold to grow crops.
I wish that things like New Game+ and BOTW End Game Mode were added to Tears of the Kingdom. The Former starts you off with 2 additional Bonus Hearts and all Runes and Key Items that you have unlocked already so that things like the Travel Medallions and the Paraglider you would have unlocked from the Games Opening. The latter makes it an AU where when Rauru saved Link at the Start of the Game then Rauru called Sonia who then used Recall on both Link's Arm and the Decayed Master Sword. The Benefits being that Link now starts the game with his BOTW Hearts and Stamina from that Profile BOTW Save, Rauru would still fuse his Ghost Arm to Link's to allow him access to the Zonai Runes, People actually Recognize Link for his actions he did in BOTW, Link would start off the Game with access to his BOTW Paragilder and can choose to upgrade it to his TOTK One later on if he wants, When Link would send the Master Sword to Zelda in the Past for repair in the Original Mode, Here Link would send it to her to Power-Up as she would know that it's current power isn't as useful against Ganondorf thus leading to you getting a Stronger Master Sword then what you got in the Base Game when you find the Light Dragon here.
45:57 my theory is that place maybe belonged to a researcher or historian of some sort from Deya Village who noticed somehow the zonai ruins while excavating a well and set up shop to research there
ive seen quite a few people saying theres not really reason for a third game in this series because the story is pretty done, but i would absolutely love to see a sequel where the main storyline involves assisting with and making possible the reconstruction of hyrule's villages and towns. there's a lot of opportunity for unique puzzles along with the obvious "drive out the monsters" mechanic. plus that would put a neat cap on this particular zelda series i think. just showing how hyrule is finally moving on from the events of the calamity in a way that totk's rebuilding didnt fully accomplish
interestingly, there’s a shop near where lon lon ranch used to be that sells milk in the same bottles that they used on the ranch (maybe from the ruins? or somewhere else)
39:43 Hyrule Gamer admits to having dreams of a simple life of tending a garden he eats from and hunting on weekends for meat, almost entirely disconnected from society
For the next Zelda game I think it would be interesting to see two different directions. Keep it open world but have it take place in either a Hyrule that is currently thriving to see how the world would look when all the settlements are established or do something completely different and set it in the time of the Zonai to see more about their culture. My top choice would be to see more of the Zonai and see something like how the Ancient Hero came about.
I love these videos so much, I want to be a character artist or world artist after college, specifically for video games. This videos make me extremely happy!!! I love learning the things that people with my dream job do and the details they add!!! ❤
The Royal Ancient Lab ruins are actually marked on the map, idk if you just missed it or if it formerly wasn’t there but has been added, like sometimes a location name only appears when you zoom in or out to a certain point so maybe that’s why, but yeah I visited the ruins recently and definitely saw the name of the place
This was the only Zelda I found disappointing. Other than Purah being hot now, this game was a $70 DLC. Hope the next one has a coherent story, dungeons, and weapons that don't break.
I would imagine the houses near Lake Illumeni could simply have been abandoned, not necessarily destroyed by monsters or guardians. I would imagine if you get wind of the calamity and learn about how much damage other places have endured, you would prefer to live somewhere with a bit more of a presence from knights or simply more people able to help you in case of an emergency.
In looking at the old castle of the plateau in the memories, it has a lot of similarities to me to the temple of time ruins, like their thrones are the statue will eventually sit.
The saddest part about the Steward Constructs is that well, unless Hyrule rediscovers the ancient factory and how to make Zonai devices once more as well as the many Stewards on the sky islands... They will forever linger in their work places until they become too old to function, always waiting for their masters that will never return.
Not all these settelments had to be necesserely be destroyed by the Calamaty. It is also possible then when Hyrule fell, and the survivers all went to Kakariko and Hateno that trade simply collapsed fore quite a while so they had no choice but to abandone there home and move further into the east as they potentially relied on trade and traverlers passing by
43:23 I play the latinamerican spanish translation of the game, and the old lab is marked, it says "laboratorio real" which means royal lab - maybe it was just a mistake of whoever forgot to write it in english. What about the japanese version though?
i think you misunderstand what a "ghost town" is, its not ruins of a previously established settlement, its specifically a TOWN (not just a horse stable or a hamlet) that has been abandoned but is still mostly intact, giving it the feeling of "something still lives here, but i just cant see it" hence the name ghost town, a town populated by ghosts.
Ok I've come to the conclusion that someone from the downfall timeline wished upon the Triforce for Hyrule to be reborn thus merging the timelines and creating the breath of the wild Hyrule
We never see the zenith of the Zonai civilization in the game's memories and cut scenes. Even that was before the founding of the Kingdom. Rauru and Mineru were the last of Zonai. We never learned what happened to the Zonai. I suspect there might be more to the Crafter Construct Factory, Dragon Head Island, and Spirit Temple. If you look at the walls in sections of both Dragon Head Island's main building and Spirit Temple, you will see similar casts to how the Crafter Constructs were formed at the Construct Factory. I speculate if certain Zonai in the past were transferring their spirits into these Constructs as Mineru does in effect making them near immortal. The Spirit Temple might have housed these particular Crafter Constructs at one point.
It’s absolutely crazy to me that they modeled + textured + etc. so much of non-ruined hyrule for totk cutscenes and age of calamity and then never let us visit 😭 they made a whole hyrule with non-dueling peaks and a full kingdom on the great plateau and it makes me sad that i can’t see it for myself :(
I believe that the gerudo desert once held villages, as one of the memories states that the last free village of the desert had fallen to the demon kings armies. I also like to theorize that gerudo town was once just ganondorfs palace and that after the fall of the demon king, the gerudo all moved into the palace do to the villages being destroyed. Just my idea
North Gerudo Ruins could have been a village
Hmm
the zonai could have had a settlement outside the current map and that would explain the gleoke stage in the sky
that makes a lot of sense considering how open the central palace is and while maybe gerudo society considers it normal to just be able to walk right into the throne room of your leader with no doors and no hallways leading up to it, it does seem to be a bit close for lack of a better term
Interesting thing to note. Mineru stated that Dragonhead Sky Island was a place that received deliveries from the Depths. Which means that some of those sky islands may have been in the sky BEFORE zelda raises the temple of time. So that begs the question how many sky Islands were pre-established vs how many did she raise? At least the great sky island and the ones that have the tablets to be translated
I've thought about it a lot since TotK came out, but if there was to be another game in the botw saga, I'd like it to take place a good few years in the future, so Hyrule truly has a chance to recover and all these ruins would be reconstructed. Castle town reconstructed would be so fun to explore imo.
I feel like the main game play of that next game could be either defending hyrule from invaders, or getting to travel past the desert, great waters, or canyons to get to new land
I'd really like just a hyrule knight/soldier game where your just one of zeldas scouts, maybe clearing up monsters explorering ruins of the citadel to see whats fit to be rebuilt. Gather resources as you complete quests the kingdoms slowly rebuild etc. LOTZ : hyrule crossing lol
43:40 Sigh... My guess is they removed it from the map because it was a _lab._ Probably to do with their insistence in wiping almost all Sheikah tech from the game (which is odd, because I'm pretty sure the sheikah tech labs are still named).
It’s labeled now actually! They patched it in one of the newer updates
3:56 regarding Deya Lake, neglect makes way more sense as a cause of the flood. Burms, levees, dams, weirs, any sort of earthen barrier against water, will need regular maintenance and inspection because water always wants to flow into adjacent soil. Deya Village would have depended on a specific group of workers in charge of maintenance.
The day I started playing BOTW, I always thought that there would be no other game like it, its ruins, its landscapes, the olocausts, the animals, the climate.
For me, all Zelda games are contained in a single word, which is,,,,,, BEAUTIFUL.
Does that include the CD-I games?
@@javiervasquez625Have you seen the memes? Immaculate works of shitpost art.
when I first played, it was botw. I didn't know anything. after fighting monsters for a few hours I came upon a stable and thought it was the most amazing thing ever. I felt safe there. I slept in the inn, made and ate some food, talked with the locals, and did some side quests
the burnt-down village, i think, could also just be natural changes leading to abandonment and the wizardrobe later messing around with the ruins.
isn’t the well there filled with lava? lack of water would definitely be a reason to abandon the settlement.
It still erks me that nearly every single bit of ancient Shiekah tech just disappears for no apparent reason, and there’s zero dialogue in the whole game about it, not even from characters who’s whole character revolved around studying Shiekah tech. It’s annoying too, because so many ruins looked so much better with the decayed guardians littered throughout.
Yea sadly, totk really screwed up a lot of good opportunities 😕
the skyview towers literally have sheikah tech in them, its pretty obvious that the sheikah tech (guardians, towers, possibly the divine beasts) was broken down and reconstructed to make the skyview towers. plus, after the Calamity, it makes sense to get rid of the stuff was was shown to be vulnerable to Ganon's influence
@@juiced_juicebox makes no sense if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Some guardians were littered in very inaccessible and remote locations. Also doesn’t explain where the shrines, towers and shrine of resurrection completely disappeared without a trace. Let’s call it what it is, lazy world building on the part of ToTK’s devs.
@@see.eye.2361 It isn’t a stretch to imagine that the towers sunk back into the ground after the Calamity was defeated. After all they rose up out of the ground in the beginning of Breath of the Wild. The Shrines are shown doing the same thing, rising up out of the ground after certain conditions are met.
Another case that could be theorized is that Ganondorf attacked some of the Shrines, so that Link couldn’t use them to gather more strength, the biggest culprits being the four shrines on the Great Plateau. In their place are Chasms, which opened up as a direct result of the Upheaval.
Is this actually what happened? Maybe not, but the world of Tears of the Kingdom does some storytelling itself, and I believe this is one instance of it
@@see.eye.2361 There IS still one single Guardian on top of Hateno Tech Lab, and I am pretty convinced they either forgot to remove it ore didnt wanna make a new model fore the lab. And while I can accept the Towers and Gaurdians missing, they probably where dismantled, I agree that the Shrine of Ressurection and all that being gone makes no sense. ESPELEY the Devine Beats I find it wary hard to belive they could dismantle them. I would have preferd that you could find the Devine Beasts within the Depths, being slowly decayed by Gloom ore there in the middle of being burried again with only a few parts sticking out of the ground
My personal headcannon is that the lake Illumeni settlement and a few other ruins out of the way probably starved to death due to them being out of the way.
Definitely didn’t see this mere minutes after completing a 4 hour video essay that affects like half of my grade…
Dude I still gotta write 600 words for mine and it's due 15:30 tomorrow
The grind is real
600 words ain't nothin... just pretend you're writing a Zelda theory comment.
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506 If I were you, I would learn to not be a procrastinator right now, as it will save you a whole world of trouble in the real world.
@@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506 couldm’t say 3:30 took my FIVE seconds to figure the time out
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I like to play the wild games and visit the places mentioned while I hear about them adds an extra layer to it
I wonder if this version of Hyrule ever had a grand library? Like this world's equivalent to the Library of Alexandria
there’s definitely a lot of hidden lore in the castle library but it would be sick if there was an old zonai ruin that hasn’t been found with all the history
Losses of structures like that multiple times over the eons would likely play a large part in historical accounts degrading / fading away to be replaced with distorted legends and unbelievable mythology if the people lose access to their written records and get left with just the oral traditions to keep track of their heritage. Like having a big game of telephone going on for however many tens of thousands of years and not having an written copy left to compare to what the story turned into.
The concept the devs mentioned (or strongly hinted at) somewhere around BotW's release is that so much time has passed on all three timeline branches that each timeline has sooner or later experienced their own events with coincidental similarities to what we players know as the events depicted on the other timelines (like there would be a flood event on all three, an encounter with people from the Twilight Realm on all three, an encounter with a version of Lorule on all three, etc. even if the timings of such events are many thousands of years out of sync with each other) and so they every branch inevitably ends up with its own variation of BotW that's practically indistinguishable from the versions of it on the other branches. Things get so jumbled up in myth that the fact that some story is said to have happened at some unknown point in time is more relevant than the exact timing of how long ago the real story behind that myth actually happened. If the current year is 100,000 how much difference does it make in the present day whether a Twilight incursion of some sort happened in year 15,000 or year 25,000 or year 35,000? (Whatever the years would be. Just spitballing baseless guesses here.) How many times could a new iteration of the kingdom have been founded and destroyed in so many years?
Within TotK we've got stone tablets uncovered thanks to this game's Upheaval event that are teaching researchers things about this current kingdom's own relatively "recent" history some 20k+ years earlier... 20k+, right? Obviously BotW's 100-years-ago was expected to be a repetition of a Calamity prevention that had already occurred 10k years earlier. But then hadn't that 10k-years-ago event also been 10k years in the making? Not sure if I'm remembering that correctly. And then the actual founding of the current kingdom by Rauru and Sonia was an unspecified amount of time before THAT.) Researchers learn things from these tablets that had not survived in any other records. Plus, the murals at the beginning of TotK were giving Zelda clearer insights into the Imprisoning War than anything that she had studied in historical texts while she was growing up in the palace. That suggests that the palace's own library lacked reliable information about that era. An event that close to the current kingdom's founding was shrouded in mystery.
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@@MuljoStpho where thing is that BOTW and TOTK takes place in the converge timeline where the 3 timelines converge together as one so events in one timeline will be felt threw out the remaining 2 timelines and vice versa . The forgotten Temple was to commerate the multiple heros threw out Hyrule history despite being Hylia's/Sealed temple in Skyward Sword. also in BOTW and TOTK there were 2 Kingdoms of Hyrule you had the Original Kingdom of Hyrule that was founded on the great platue which was founded between the events of Skyward Sword and Minish Cap and very same Kingdom in OOT, TP, WW and link to the past and then you had the Current Kingdom which was founded by Rauru and Sonia and also most people that lives beneath the great platue dont even reckonize the Temple of Time and its importance it once played.
Ah, just what I needed. A mini Zelda marathon to finish my weekly food prep to. 😁
it would’ve been really cool if we would work to rebuild some of these villages as a secondary quest in _TOTK…_ like the Tarrey Town quest, but more involved than talking to the right NPC and collecting wood.
each settlement could have a different mechanic, like maybe Deya Village needs to be drained, so you have to clear out some rocks to create a path for the water, or build a dam?
Like the Lurelin Village quest but on a wider scale?
@@dimsufferer9951 - yea… maybe there’s ten or so villages across the map, and hopefully each has something unique, and don’t just require fighting a bunch of bad guys.
I can't even describe the desperation I have to explore Hyrule pre-calamity AND during the Zonai time period. There doesn't even need to be a story line, I just want to explore the kingdom.
There's always Age of Calamity? Idk
@@dewmilk17 That one at least gave us the Great Plateau to explore.
@@EliteAgent51 I’ve never played it I’m just assuming
They could honestly do a spin off of pre age of calamity where you just explore, build, farm, animal crossing style, and that’s it. I’d buy that in a blink of an eye
@@PunsandPixelshell yeah, or just a dlc or something that adds the time periods to visit, doesn’t even need a story or anything. I’d buy it immediately
Around Tarry Town in BotW, there were a lot of ruins underwater, next to that large plain that contained a bunch of Decayed Guardians and two whole ones.
So it wasnt the robots, gravity defying islands, telepathic hands or flying machines that made you think the Zonai were an advanced civilization. What really made you give them that title.... was the air conditioning....
Fuckin gold xD
In the Depths, below Gatepost Town Ruins, sits a destroyed Yiga base. The notebook you find there is tattered and clearly implied to be barely legible - and the pages you can read simply say that that particular base is to be destroyed.
What happened there?
Personally, I think the destroyed base was the first one the Yiga built, before they had a grasp on just how dangerous the Depths actually are. Maybe the base was overwhelmed by monsters, and the Yiga were forced to destroy it and move elsewhere (and reinforce their bases with spike barricades).
This was my favorite series on the channel so I'm so happy you made this! :D
Thanks!
Mabe Village in AoC probably was changed to be more like the village in LA because the ruins in BotW were too generic.
Goponga Village in AoC seems to be a trade village for Hylians and Zoras, the shop belongs to a Zora, is close to water so the zoras living there won't dehydrate, but most houses are Hylian-based. Would be cool if we get to see it restored again.
Oh, and thank you for talking about AoC in this video, most Zeldatubers ignore it because "not-canon!" but the world was supposed to be as accurate as it was 100 years before BotW and they had the BotW art team helping to achieve this and the discrepance between ruins is purely because BotW reuses assets like crazy.
'We find a Thunder Gleeok, which is not to be messed with!'
Me: Whee! More Thunder Horns for me!~
Do we know for a fact that the other Zonai died out or is it possible that the rest moved to another kingdom? Maybe that's where Rauru and Sonia's child was when Zelda was there, off visiting family.
The game storyline makes it clear they were already long gone even before Rauru, Sonia, and Mineru founded the kingdom. Exactly what happened is never well explained.
According to the game they “ascended to the heavens”
Thank you for still making lore videos and not crying about it like other RUclipsrs
I love this video. Sometimes, it's like a ghost story. Sometimes, it's like a real estate agent selling you on a neighborhood.
Hey mate! Fabulous work as always! I have a small idea/feedback: you use a lot of lovely Zelda soundtracks in your videos, I particularly notice some TP and WW music, and with good reason obviously! Those games have amazing music. My idea is that you include some kind of music/soundtrack list so that others (maybe new Zelda fans) who might not know where to find all these great tunes, can actually find them as well and enjoy them on their own :)
so so good. have you spoken about the ruins inside some of the caves in upland zorana? the knight statues really had me scratching my head, it’s the biggest mystery to me thus far
An interesting thing to know is, if the guys who made the game had a vision of a place/building at its full glory before they made the ruins for the actual game out of it.
I love waiting for your lore videos, excited to watch
Hour long loz lore video my beloved 💕
Hope you enjoyed it!
I really appreciate youtubers who make long calm videos, it really helps me sleep
hang on a damn minute... those stone tablet things on the floating asterisk shaped islands, one of them says something about Zelda being at least partially responsible for the floating islands, and I think, that they were put up there so Link would have a safe place away from Ganondorf to recover or something along those lines
38:51 This is my favorite ruin in both games! It’s so self sufficient and tucked away. Other spots I like to visit is the homestead at Rikoka Hills and a house just off the southern road on the Firly Plateau. There’s a cooking pot there in BotW under the shade of a cooking pot and a little waterfall beside the single ruined home.
I would like to thank you HG, I love watching your videos but they are just a touch too short for my view to fall asleep to, but look at this magnificient Masterpiece of Slumbertime.
My Thanks good Sir
Hellooooooooo
This was a really pleasant watch. Thanks for the good work. Do you have a music list somewhere? Your choices were very relaxing and fit the tone perfectly.
I desperately want some talented designers/artists/architects to mock up what these regions would have looked like in their prime
I have to say, I had a really stressful day at work and watching this video made me feel so much better. Love your content keep up the good work!
Thank you for this video. I love listening to these long lore stories and theories 😊
Glad you enjoy it!
I just want to see this Hyrule fully rebuilt and even expanded on in terms of villages and life. I would love to visit all the rebuilt towns and newly built ones with Zelda.
I love so much these videos! One thing I noticed, and I'm sure many have noticed it too, the geoglyph shown in 11:53 isn't the same as the entrance shown underground in one of the trailer videos?
If we are to believe that every Legend of Zelda game takes place on a singular timeline, it's kinda terrifying how old this civilization is. In real life, the human race is only about 8,000-18,000 years old depending on who you ask or the stretch of the definition of human. Yet the world of Zelda and the Hylian race? Easily 100s of thousands, maybe even millions of years old, yet not much about them has changed biologically or technologically. Historians in this universe would be fighting some serious battles to record this stuff.
Nah, it's not anywhere near that old. Genetic drift would be a huge effect on timescales like that, and species like the Rito and Zora aren't any different from "ancient" times. The 10,000 year figure that's often quoted is likely an artifact from the source translation, since in Japan "10,000 years" isn't a literal figure but often a way of indicating a vague, large amount of time, similar to "ages" or "eons ago."
Remember all the wild speculation we had in the days of breath of the wild before tears of the Kingdom. I should go back to some of those theories just to see how wrong they are. 0:51
I love all the music in your videos. What is the song that starts at 18:52 ? It's so haunting and beautiful!
@@Sasukeheart2 I think you’re talking about the thunderhead isles music. It’s incredible. I go wandering around there just to listen to the music sometimes lol
Your content is the most interesting coming from Zelda CC right now. Thank-you for immersing me in this world once again.
Raurus castle from the memories actually gives me OoT Hyrule castle vibes. When you look into the window with Zelda before being sent off to get the sacred stones, the throne room there is a long hallway as well
I finally started playing this game which means I can pick your channel back up 🤘🤪🤘🤪🤘
Brother, this video is a brilliant insight into the history of the land, and a well constructed effort to explain some of the more obscure (as well as the well known) areas in the game left to explore. I love comparing differences and anomalies between the previous game and the new game
I absolutely love these videos! The marathons are always my favorite ☺ There is so much to both games to discover and explore, endless content ❤
Glad you like them!
I would love to wander around Hyrule with you as the guide. Always interesting theories.
Man i love these long form videks your voice js so relaxing to listen to as i go about my day
The more I hear about the lore of Tears of The Kingdom. The more I want to play it
You should!!!!
I would love so so much to explore Hyrule pre-calamity
I ate a whole cheesecake while watching this
I am proud of myself
LET'S GO HG LORE VIDEO
Woohoo, just in time to cook dinner! Love listening to your videos.
Enjoy!
4:53 in aoc i believe that deya village was mostly a zora village but i dont really remember, that could explain the shallow waters and the walls in the depths.
Being speculative is the best thing you can do here
Thank you for adding captions!
Dude your videos are amazing to draw to, this whole video I was working on a drawing on my iPad and honestly it made it so much easier
Your videos are fantastic to work to! You’re a really skilled narrator, keep up the great work!
Thanks a lot! :D
day 40 of mentioning that on 6/6/2023 hyrule gamer made a video where, at 43.46, he spent 12 seconds simping about the ancient gerudo soldiers
Bro they need to make a game where we go back to before the calamity I want to see all of the villages and stuff before ruins
I wish we could explore this Hyrule at the height of it' s power: No ruins, no destroyed roads - everything living and nothing broken.
My favorite ghost town is Tabantha Village ruins, don’t know why, I just love it. Since there’s no guardians around I theorized the people moved because of the weather, as the Calamity must’ve stopped some food tradings from happening. And it was too cold to grow crops.
I wish that things like New Game+ and BOTW End Game Mode were added to Tears of the Kingdom. The Former starts you off with 2 additional Bonus Hearts and all Runes and Key Items that you have unlocked already so that things like the Travel Medallions and the Paraglider you would have unlocked from the Games Opening. The latter makes it an AU where when Rauru saved Link at the Start of the Game then Rauru called Sonia who then used Recall on both Link's Arm and the Decayed Master Sword. The Benefits being that Link now starts the game with his BOTW Hearts and Stamina from that Profile BOTW Save, Rauru would still fuse his Ghost Arm to Link's to allow him access to the Zonai Runes, People actually Recognize Link for his actions he did in BOTW, Link would start off the Game with access to his BOTW Paragilder and can choose to upgrade it to his TOTK One later on if he wants, When Link would send the Master Sword to Zelda in the Past for repair in the Original Mode, Here Link would send it to her to Power-Up as she would know that it's current power isn't as useful against Ganondorf thus leading to you getting a Stronger Master Sword then what you got in the Base Game when you find the Light Dragon here.
45:57 my theory is that place maybe belonged to a researcher or historian of some sort from Deya Village who noticed somehow the zonai ruins while excavating a well and set up shop to research there
i love all the parallels to other games in totk and botw i feel there is so much related to skyward sword
Thanks for keeping up with these videos
More to come!
Watching this while I’m sleeping. God I love this
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@@thomazplays9305 Nuh uh
ive seen quite a few people saying theres not really reason for a third game in this series because the story is pretty done, but i would absolutely love to see a sequel where the main storyline involves assisting with and making possible the reconstruction of hyrule's villages and towns. there's a lot of opportunity for unique puzzles along with the obvious "drive out the monsters" mechanic. plus that would put a neat cap on this particular zelda series i think. just showing how hyrule is finally moving on from the events of the calamity in a way that totk's rebuilding didnt fully accomplish
You deserve so many more subscribers!
interestingly, there’s a shop near where lon lon ranch used to be that sells milk in the same bottles that they used on the ranch (maybe from the ruins? or somewhere else)
Have you thought about doing Ambiance Videos? I think with your Videos about Hyrule Ruins you'd be pretty good at them.
would the eastern abby of the great plateau have been the ancient castle ruins
39:43 Hyrule Gamer admits to having dreams of a simple life of tending a garden he eats from and hunting on weekends for meat, almost entirely disconnected from society
For the next Zelda game I think it would be interesting to see two different directions. Keep it open world but have it take place in either a Hyrule that is currently thriving to see how the world would look when all the settlements are established or do something completely different and set it in the time of the Zonai to see more about their culture. My top choice would be to see more of the Zonai and see something like how the Ancient Hero came about.
I love these videos so much, I want to be a character artist or world artist after college, specifically for video games. This videos make me extremely happy!!! I love learning the things that people with my dream job do and the details they add!!! ❤
Good luck! :D
The Royal Ancient Lab ruins are actually marked on the map, idk if you just missed it or if it formerly wasn’t there but has been added, like sometimes a location name only appears when you zoom in or out to a certain point so maybe that’s why, but yeah I visited the ruins recently and definitely saw the name of the place
Another fantastic video!!!!
This was the only Zelda I found disappointing. Other than Purah being hot now, this game was a $70 DLC.
Hope the next one has a coherent story, dungeons, and weapons that don't break.
what if zelda split the duelling peaks as a dragon?
I would imagine the houses near Lake Illumeni could simply have been abandoned, not necessarily destroyed by monsters or guardians. I would imagine if you get wind of the calamity and learn about how much damage other places have endured, you would prefer to live somewhere with a bit more of a presence from knights or simply more people able to help you in case of an emergency.
17:54 💀
Is there any lore on the captains that help you raid camps?
43:16 this is marked? Was it added in a patch?
In looking at the old castle of the plateau in the memories, it has a lot of similarities to me to the temple of time ruins, like their thrones are the statue will eventually sit.
castle town is also home to 2 gloom hands
The saddest part about the Steward Constructs is that well, unless Hyrule rediscovers the ancient factory and how to make Zonai devices once more as well as the many Stewards on the sky islands... They will forever linger in their work places until they become too old to function, always waiting for their masters that will never return.
Not all these settelments had to be necesserely be destroyed by the Calamaty. It is also possible then when Hyrule fell, and the survivers all went to Kakariko and Hateno that trade simply collapsed fore quite a while so they had no choice but to abandone there home and move further into the east as they potentially relied on trade and traverlers passing by
43:23 I play the latinamerican spanish translation of the game, and the old lab is marked, it says "laboratorio real" which means royal lab - maybe it was just a mistake of whoever forgot to write it in english. What about the japanese version though?
It was literally my favorite stable 😢😭
The Zonai castle was right over the river of the dead: or what i believe was Kakariko villiage from oot: and also the spirit temple from the same game
I hate you I am watching this game and I love playing the game so please make more like this
I did not mean to say hate
@@taylortharp9526 you can edit comments if you want to switch it to love
i think you misunderstand what a "ghost town" is, its not ruins of a previously established settlement, its specifically a TOWN (not just a horse stable or a hamlet) that has been abandoned but is still mostly intact, giving it the feeling of "something still lives here, but i just cant see it" hence the name ghost town, a town populated by ghosts.
Ok I've come to the conclusion that someone from the downfall timeline wished upon the Triforce for Hyrule to be reborn thus merging the timelines and creating the breath of the wild Hyrule
I live for videos like this :)
Oh no
zelda probably was the dragon who split the mountain
oh gosh thats a depressing thought
It was already separated before Zelda going back to the past. It's hinted it was Farosh who split the mountain in BotW.
@@Mari_Izu I thought it was whole in the background of the past cutscenes, no?
We never see the zenith of the Zonai civilization in the game's memories and cut scenes. Even that was before the founding of the Kingdom. Rauru and Mineru were the last of Zonai. We never learned what happened to the Zonai. I suspect there might be more to the Crafter Construct Factory, Dragon Head Island, and Spirit Temple. If you look at the walls in sections of both Dragon Head Island's main building and Spirit Temple, you will see similar casts to how the Crafter Constructs were formed at the Construct Factory. I speculate if certain Zonai in the past were transferring their spirits into these Constructs as Mineru does in effect making them near immortal. The Spirit Temple might have housed these particular Crafter Constructs at one point.
If there's a third Wilds game it should feature a fully restored Hyrule
It’s absolutely crazy to me that they modeled + textured + etc. so much of non-ruined hyrule for totk cutscenes and age of calamity and then never let us visit 😭 they made a whole hyrule with non-dueling peaks and a full kingdom on the great plateau and it makes me sad that i can’t see it for myself :(