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What if that clip of link climbing the tree root was not only korok forest and the lost woods but maybe it also acts as something similar to the trial of the sword. What I’m going off of is that the environment is hazy and has that bluish tint with particles in the air, like the lost woods without the fog. The other thing is that the clip looks almost as if it was taken in a room with outdoor elements on the inside like the trials. The biggest part I want to point out though is the new thing on links hip is not present in it. The capsule thing is likely not connected to the tears shown around what I think is hylia in the carving because there are 8 slots and 7 tears, therefore showing it might instead be energy capsules for links new arm’s abilities. His capsules not being present there could mean 1 of 2 things and that is either he just obtains it later, or it was taken away before he entered the area, similar to how champions abilities cannot be used in shrines or the trial of the sword. Another detail I noticed while I was typing this was that link is climbing up the side instead of using his arm to clip through or his reverse stasis ability which would both be much mor efficient. Sooooooo…. Yea what do u think about it?
Keep in mind, "The Deku Tree rose into the sky" is our best case scenario. There's also the horrifying possibility that the lost woods erupted with malice and he was disintegrated.
Thought of this and went to the comments to share my theory and ya got it lol. I was gonna say maybe in the previous trailers the deku tree was straight up missing because they didn't want us to know quite yet. Much like we didn't see that thing on links hip until now.
It seems pretty clear the cave systems are connected under Hyrule and spreading malice. It’s possible the malice hit the root system of the great deku tree and killed him. Imagine how dark it would be to see the deli tree in the state of the other trees in the lost woods with a twisted hollow grimace and malice pouring from his mouth and eyes. 😮
The fact that Death Mountain is erupting with Malice may be linking back to Level 9 (Spectacle Rock / Skull / Ganon's Lair) in the original Legend of Zelda or Ganon's Tower in A Link to the Past, both being his fortresses on Death Mountain (or the equivalent in the Dark World). Breath of the Wild's Death Mountain OST is even a remix of Level 9 to further that connection.
You know, if the Lost Woods really did rise up into the sky then it might support the theory that it and the Great Plateau swapped places at some point in history.
I always thought if that was possible(especially with the champion's dlc revealing the Great Plateau to lift mechanically) That the map would line up a little more with the maps of OoT, and TP!
I know this theory has fallen out of favor, but I still find it very compelling, and ever since we saw confirmation of sky Islands in the sequel, now known as Tears of the Kingdom, I've had a renewed feeling it might turn out to be true. Can you imagine huge overworld-scale puzzles like the moving rooms in Skyward Sword's Sky Keep, only with whole regions of the Breath of the Wild map? It'd be incredible, that's for sure.
I wonder if anyone remembers, but during Link and Daruk's exchange (after he gets named the princess's knight), Death Mountain shakes. Daruk questions why it is becoming so active, saying something like "if it's shivering enough to send boulders, then..." and then just drops the entire thought and says NVM. Many may think that he was just referring to the fact that in their present time, the mountain was simply reacting to the coming of Ganon, but I always questioned it and didn't feel like I got closure from that exchange between the two, because it truly had no reason to awaken if the malice wasn't yet spreading nor was the divine beast being possessed or in the volcano to make it violent (and even when Ganon returned and there's malice on the land, the volcano didn't erupt with malice). So yeah, I like this idea.
Historically speaking, the clouds around Death Mountain have always had an ominous appearance when evil was approaching or present within Hyrule. That said, it DOES seem strange that malice would be spewing from the mountain in this new game. Perhaps there's always been some connection between Hyrule Castle, Death Mountain, and even the Sacred Realm wherein the Triforce resides. Maybe the mountain was created by the gods as a means of warning the peoples of Hyrule about oncoming evil?
Death Mountain will definitely be an underground dungeon. In the book "Creating a Champion" the developers even designed the inside of the Death Mountain as a dungeon (in a very similar way to the from Oot, the Fire Temple). Also, the giant tower of the skies might be the Tower of Winds from The Minish Cap. The Tower of Winds was the building where the Wind tribe lived.
The Minish were supposed to appear in Botw. Many of the ideas 💡 for TotK seem to come from scrapped material for the prequel. But I also feel like the majority is still brand new, so no spoilers from creating a champion
@@krishnamckay3247 the Minish might return this time as the mysterious Zonai race because the strange figure from the murals has very long ears as the Minish had too. It's possible that after all the incidents that happened with Vaati in The Minish Cap, the Minish felt remorseful and decided to go back to the skies and lived there with the Wind Tribe. Over the time, they probably mixed with the Wind Tribe and became much more bigger and ancestral. However, this theory has some holes :S
I'm still hoping for a huge underground network, one where we find multiple entrances to from multiple different areas but that are also connected by an underground Labyrinth. And that Labyrinth will be filled off Malice (that which Ganondorf released and it is now bursting from under Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain) , extremely Dark and dangerous to traverse with typical Ganon fodder but one creature in particular that will hunt you down when you try to traverse the Labyrinth, though killable, you won't be able to do so early game with your only option being to run and keep it at bay with "light". Personally I was thinking a Dead Hand redesign infused with Malice.
Actually, in the first trailer, you can actually see the malice flowing through the cave at high speeds. You know, I'm thinking the reason Hyrule castle is lifting isn't because Ganon wanted it to, but the Malice is literally flooding under Hyrule and areas, those being death mountain and those caves beneath Hyrule Castle simply just blew up. Think of it as a Super Volcano.
By the way- i might be wrong... but didn't they mention in BOTW that there was a giant supply of guardians underneath hyrule castle? If so, then i wonder if there might be another connection there.
@@_Zixen_ The supply of guardians was in the pillars. They came up from below the surface but went back down when the calamity went away. I'd say there's not really a connection there.
It could be possible since it is floating... but it appears to be lifted by the malice pouring out of the hole. Most likely, they are all shown together in the artwork simply to make a point rather than be geographically accurate.
I have two that excite me most. The Great Deku and Death Mountain. I hope that the Great Deku hadn't been killed and is up in the sky. Maybe if it did die, we would have to figure out how to heal the sword in another way? Death Mountain, what happens to gorons when malice touches them? Does it just hurt them? Possess them? What happened to them? So excited!
The ancient pillars likely just despawned. It's hard to gauge how far up Link is in the shot in the trailer, but objects in BOTWs world, and thus likely TotKs world, despawn based on distance from the player, regardless of which axis they're moving in. We don't see this happen often due to how ingeniously designed Hyrule is in BOTW, as the natural elements, mountains, trees, lakes, ruins and so on are placed with enough variety but also precision to always be obscuring the horizon in some fashion. As for the Deku Tree. Im not convinced it rose up. There's no evidence to say any of Hyrule is rising, people are just assuming so due to Hyrule Castle rising up.
Looking at the artwork and death mountain, my first thought that it looks like Demise with his hair and body color. I just thought it was neat to think that it’s meant to be an image of the fact that Demise still has an iron grip on hyrule by the form of Ganondorf
What I am hoping to see in Tears of the Kingdom is the return of the Successors of Hyrule’s Champions(Sidon, Yunobo, Teba and Riju). Instead being sidelined, they should be fighting along side Link as each have build confidence & strength to defend Hyrule from the very threat each shared. Maybe on a side quest perhaps since Death Mountain is infested with Ganondorf’s malice. Also, the sequel of Breath of the Wild needs to confirm whether if they remember their victories from the Age of Calamity timeline since each are pulled to this reality to save this version of the Champions, Link and Zelda. Just like Ocarina of Time, changing the past can create two or three diverted timelines. It is complicated but time travel has always been a part of the Legend of Zelda lore.
No, it hasn't always been part of the lore.. I mean I agree, I want to find out about the Successors too. But time travel didn't enter Legend of Zelda Lore till the OoT, and the Oracle games. The previously RELEASED 4 games (Legend of Zelda, Link, Link to the Past, and Link's Awakening) didn't have time travel.. note I said released, not placement in chronological history for the game worlds. Skyward Sword does make Time Travel something that's happened since the start of in game history... so it's weird. Eh, let's just hope the 4 allies come back. Who knows they might even become 4 of the new sages.
I have to say that other thing on the ground kind of almost looks like a dragon sort of But not like any of the dragons we've seen because it looks more like a Western dragon than the Eastern Style they've been utilizing in breath of the wild
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If the storm is supposed to represent Herba, that'd be another point for my theory that Ganon is using malice eruptions to 'cage' the Divine Beast and in typical fashion, it's all ironic cages. Rudannia engulfed in flame, Medoh in an endless cyclone, Naboris maybe buried in the Gerudo sand and Ruta frozen solid. Even if not, the idea of having mini dungeons lost in storm clouds is pretty cool.
Thats not hebra. I personally guarantee you its gerudo desert. Ive cross referenced it with the original map. That storm is absolutely in gerudo. I love that idea though. It sort of expands on botw’s thing with ruta making zoras domain constantly rainy and rudania causing death mountain to erupt. Each area could be encased in a giant supernatural storm or something that prevents the divine beasts from functioning maybe. And each time you confront the source and clear up the malice of an area, maybe it removes some malice from the castle which gradually makes its defenses weaker and weaker. So you can still technically defeat the final boss immediately (in botw fashion) but it would be immensely difficult unless you play the rest of the game and clear up some of its defenses.
@@orange_turtle3412 Edit: I forgot to finish the video before I wrote this I didn't even realize the storm is in a completely different part of the map than Hebra until you pointed it out lol. And maybe this part is just my crappy depth perception talking, but doesn't it seem a bit too close to Hyrule Castle to be the Gerudo Desert? It almost looks like the Great Plateau to me but I haven't seen the map in a minute
@@whyisyoutubeshowinghandles Look at the alignment of the landmarks. The storm, death mountain, and hyrule castle are all lined up along a straight line here. In the actual game, the castle is skewed a bit rather than being directly between them. It is, however, directly in between gerudo and eldin. Also hebra may actually be further away from the castle than gerudo due to it being a smaller region.
@@orange_turtle3412 I see what you mean about the alignment(I looked up a map), and in the video itself it's mentioned that scale in the picture is off which I hadn't considered. I guess all we can really do is wait and see though
While we haven’t seen this happen, is it possible that some landmasses have actually sunk into the ground? All the islands we see in the sky so far are unfamiliar. And it’s only Hyrule Castle we see lifted up by malice. What if the missing chunks of land are actually sinking into chasms underground? There’s still a lot of mystery as to what is going on underground as well. I just don’t buy that the holes in the ground won’t be explorable.
For the big door, my guess is that it's at the very beginning of the game, and when Ganondorf is resurrected and Link has to escape the caves, he will rush out the doors and look upon the sky kingdom, like he did on the Great Plateau in BOTW.
That's a good guess but I believe the game begins with Link & Zelda excavating under the castle 🏰 & finding Ganondorf, like we see in the 1st trailer...actually that could be somewhere else & so while Zelda falls Link is in the mass that's lifted, causing what you'd mentioned. But I figure he would be separated from Ganondorf @ some point...or he willingly leaves bcuz the Master Sword is damaged
Problably not, cuz tears of the kingdom/breath of the wild, takes place problably thousand of years after links awakening.... so uhhh seagull marin is problably dead-
@@tattertot8259 probably because Awakening takes place in the ruined timeline after Link to the past, which never got another game other than link between worlds which is also after Link to the past. So Seagull Marin doesn't exist in the other games since Link to the past, Link didn't exist in the other timelines and so he never ended up in the wind fish's dream island and so on.
I honestly believe the storms are there for progression purposes. As you go through the story, more storms will clear, allowing you to explore those new islands. Not sure how we will clear them, but that’s my guess.
*Skyward Sword Spoilers* At around 6:55, with the shots of Hyrule Castle in the air, doesn't it look like there's a spiral pathway leading down beneath it? Similar to the Goddess Statue in Skyward Sword and how it left a spiral path that led to Demise's seal after being launched into the skies? Idk what this could mean, not much of a theorizer, but thought it was interesting
DUUUDE I have been saying that for awhile now but no one cared ever Since twilight princess castle location was moved to the south where’s OOT castle was more to the north anyway when skyward sword came out I noticed this and the south where demise was defeated and layed his curse and now ganondorf being sealed here makes it EVEN MORE IRONIC!!!!! Why the hell is NO ONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THIS MAP LORE!!!! It blows my mind
@@thatjrpganimefanplayerjusi8003 No one is talking about it because the Zelda franchise LOVES spiral paths. It means nothing unless we see it up close.
Malice is consuming the entire surface, so Link has to take refuge in the Sky until he can use the 7 tears to disperse them, section by section. This includes the Great Deku Tree, which is trapped by Malice, and can only be freed by a tear.
Love it love it love it LOVE IT!!! Give me that sweet sweet Zelda speculation!! Seriously though, another banger of a video. You've grown so much as a RUclipsr. Can't wait for the next one!
My assumption on the green swirly vortex thing is it's an unlocked quick access point for either up or down. There'll probably be puzzles to get there the first time, then a quick point afterwards once activated
The storm in the official box art could be somewhere in the Gerudo region. But something that stands out to me is the fact that death mountain and presumably the Gerudo desert has malice/storms. It makes me question; what about the tabantha/hebra region and lanyaru? Could there be like a heavy blizzard storm and malice flood of the 2 regions respectively that involves malice or nature? And why I say that is because those are the regions where the divine beasts are located. We know that they aren’t present in the trailer especially rudania who settles on death mountain. What if the divine beasts may not be corrupted, but trapped underground? Like what if we need to help them before they get destroyed by these storms, thick spewing malice, etc? I’d love to see that.
This game doesn't seem like it's gonna focus on the ancient technology nearly as much so my theory has always been that the survivors of Hyrule destroyed all remaining technology, or at least sealed it away to prevent another Great Calamity from happening. They could come back for an ultimate final battle I suppose.
@@speedude0164 I understand that as it’ll be in the sky but there are shrines in the sky supposedly. Divine beasts could play a huge role especially with the new champions (Teba, Sidon, Yunobo, Riju) as they come from the past (age of calamity) to save their descendants. Perhaps we have to help them control their respective divine beasts
When I was first exploring BotW, I felt like there was something weird about the Great Plateau. It almost felt like it was placed there from above. The walls around it look slightly crushed.
I've said this before but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reveals is that Hyrule has always been capable of being rearranged in ways like that. Lorule showed that without the Triforce the Kingdom was cracking into pieces. Giant fissures separating areas from one another. Skyward Sword provided is with the Goddess sending chunks of land into the sky.
Just a thought... What if the "tears" are from the people on the surface, in sorrow, and pain because these islands are deteriorating and coming apart, thus falling to the ground, raining and destroying their kingdom again. The Tears of the Hylians. Just a thought.
I think that the carvings tell a story of a relationship between the "creature" and the woman (Zelda figure). I think the scene where it appears that she is falling indicates some sort of betrayal or tragedy. I think this betrayal or tragedy and the events that follow are where the "Tears of the Kingdom" comes from. I do believe the floating islands and sealing of gannon and the green hand (probably a past link who gave his life to seal Gannon) are all related in this past tragedy. It very well may be that in this past history, Gannon won to some extent. I think this game will resume that story with the same gannon (reactivated) and a new link and new zelda who will finish it once and for all.
@@AzureRoxe Well, rather than connecting tears to some type of tragedy, there are many suggesting that it is named upon the 7 "tears" around the creature in the carving... In other words, the game being named after an item... much like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. While I think that's possible... I think it is based upon some great tragedy that played out in the past... either kingdom of Hyrule or of the Zonai.
@@HyruleGamer I did! Ended up watching it with a coworker who hasn't played Zelda since the 90s. They want to get the new games now because of this video!
I don’t think the lost woods rose in the skies tho. So far we’ve seen nothing at all from the surface having risen besides hyrule castle, which is most likely due to being right on top of Ganondorf/Ganondorf’s new lair. I think either the deku tree is gone or its just a rendering issue in the trailer. Great vid tho HG!
in 2021 E3 trailer 0:38, the tree shadows directions are 11a-clock. but in BotW, at the same location, tree shadows direction can not be 11 a-clock. And the new trailer 0:40 the writing in wall mentions sun and moon. i think sun and moon are quite important in the game.
Hey hey, Big fan, im just curious about something. So the deku tree in the sky, lots of new floating islands, what if this is a repeat to the prequel event to Windwaker. What if a new great flood is coming and these sky islands are meant as refuge for some of the population to survive?
2:23 Did we ever figure out what those 5 large pointy stones surrounding gannon at 2:23 are? I feel like those are important. Like 5 temples that will need to be reactivated or something. They have carvings or circle on them. They are kinda pointy like the bottom of the floating islands
I have noticed that. I think it is a geological structure in the shape of a clawed hand... just like the clawed hand that sealed Gannon... and the clawed hand that Link will have once he gets the arm attachment. I think it's a symbolic structure.
I don't know if you played Twilight Princess. If not, beware of spoilers! But this place reminds me a lot of the spring of the light spirit Lanayru. Although in Twilight Princess they look like roots and not made of stone. They also had a similar pattern. But what also interests me is the one about Ganondorf himself on the ceiling. I wonder what that will be?💙
@@Jeremyb2023 I started typing about it looking like a clawed hand and deleted it before typing my comment. I def see the layout of the stones looking like the finger tips of a clawed hand kinda. Cool!
@@sarahangel3481 Yeah I have no clue either! However in the new trailer we see something like the opposite of it at the very end of it in the bottom ish left ish middle.
I have a theory. what if the zonai moved under ground and made their own version of the divine beasts? 6:46 to me, the green thing on the ground looks like a fish 6:43 it looks like a lizard or a dragon to me, but im not sure im not at all a theorist but thats what i think is going on
The storm is in the desert. Which is very odd 🤔 Also I think the big doors are the new shrine of resurrection. A starting area we wake up from and are immediately thrust into the sky
what if the map is taken from another prospective to the one we are used to? what if the map designed is view from the right side of the menu in game? so that the storm is in the bottom left of the map as we’ve always looked at it in this way it could be near the faron region as seen in the trailer
I just had a theory after seeing that picture again maybe the tornado represents Vatti, the castle for Ganondorf, and Demise for death mountain.. you can see like red eyes coming out of death mountain in that picture. That would be epic to have to defeat all the them all in the end of the timeline before a new arc/story can only hope but you never know
That sounds cool but the problem is that it wouldn’t work for Demise and Ganondorf to be around simultaneously as Ganondorf is the reincarnation of Demise
Since In the first game when ganon awakens, towers and shrines rise up, we can confirm that in the beginning of this game, an earthquake will cause the zonai sky islands to break free from the ground, and also cause malice to shoot out of hyrule castle and death mountain. The Gordons will likely be going through a drought due to this.
I think that branch is the deku's because the particles in the sky look like those from the lost woods. Also in the final scene where link lands on the bird glider thingie, u can see a huge thunder cloud above korok forest... Also the storm wouldn't be in hebra but in gerudo desert, hands why it's yellow (sandstorm) my theory is that every tribe (gerudo, Gordons, zora, rito, hylian) will have a problem of some sort. Gerudo storm, hyrule castle malice, Goron malice volcano. Maybe the Zora would have ice like in twilight princess, or a thunderstorm (Zora are weak to thunder). And the rito would maybe have earthquakes (with the village and everything collapsing) or heavy winds (can't fly)
I think the Deku tree is there, they just pulled an MCU and CGI'd it out probably because its a spoiler of some kind (wrapped in malice like death mountain maybe)
The storm doesn't really look like the same colour in the artwork, if the one in the artwork and trailer are the same or maybe it isn't even a storm, maybe a landmass?
@@TadGomer that makes sense actually Like the great plateau it would help players learn what's new with this game, such as the vertical movement mechanics (link "falling" upwards through a ceiling for example)
I think these desings are something that appears after finishing the dungeon and later on they would somehow connect together into some kind of spell, seal maybe, just like divine beasts' beams connectec in the middle to fire the beam onto ganon
Hi :) (google translate help me XD) I wanted to suggest the idea that some islands would rise from the ground, I also saw some Italian videos that talked about them (I'm Italian). In fact, it would explain where the Deku Tree is. Moreover, in the scene where Link lands on the fly-platform, under the nearest island there is something, is it a lake or a hole?
To me all those trailer have a common theme of "Past clashing with present", so I do believe that the game will have a sort of "Remnants of the past invade the present" plot, instead of "Link visits the past"
Also there's a strong imagery relating to "duality" in general, as if two very different entities meeting, and the changes in Hyrule may be the result of that
Not sure why the old ruins being missing still keeps being so relevant without anyone trying to disprove it, i remember trying to see them from the gerudo mountains once and following what i found, you could argue they are not even in Breath Of The Wild either, after a certain point they stop being rendered, and even if in the first game you went to the exact point from the trailers and could still see them, i don't see what keeps their render distance from being even lower in Tears of The Kingdom, after all, there is a whole lot of extra stuff to render with the floating islands.
When it comes to Zelda theories, you just need to ignore most of them. People can, and constasntly will, just pick something, ignore all arguments against it and make a random theory.
Just wanted to add considering in the video he said the areas are out of proportion that dust devil is obviously in the gerudo desert sand and dust basically link up
If the Deku tree 🌳 dies it would be nice to have an opportunity to see it return as a sprout like in other games. But that would also go along with when Aonuma said Tears of the Kingdom would be the new darkest Zelda 🎮 I haven't gotten that vibe from the more recent trailers, but again they're holding back a lot from us. I'm looking forward to the surprises in store
I think you're making an incorrect assumption about the artwork. you're assuming we're seeing the front of the castle. Because death mountain is in front of the castle in the artwork, isn't it a safer bet to assume we're seeing Hyrule from the north, looking south? that would mean the "storm" in the artwork would be in or close to the faron region. which lines up with the footage.
In the box art, death mountain is on the right. The only way the castle to be farther with death mountain on your right would be if you were facing west. So, on the box art, Link must be on a sky island on the east side of Hyrule, towards the Lanayru sea.
With the malice with death mountain and Hyrule castle, maybe the underground is filled with malice like the first trailer showed, and it just spews out any opening
The thing I want to know is how does fast travel work, how do we get a map without the shieka slate, and IS THE MASTER CYCLE GOING TO BE IN THIS GAME 😩😩😩. Anyways I’m mostly excited to explore the floating islands as the concept of floating islands is my favorite because of how interesting they are. I fell in love with it when I played that secret world in Donkey Kong Tropical freeze.
I haven’t seen anyone else talk abt it but have you noticed that on the door that Link pushes open, it’s hard to see but there’s a sheikah eye right where he pushed. You can see it at the bottom as the door swings open
The more I think about the new trailers, theories, and the timeline, the more convinced I am that the whole timeline is cyclical. Hylia created Skyloft from an ancient Hyrule to keep it safe, and now it seems like Zelda is becoming more like Hylia and we see parts of Hyrule floating back up to the sky. Maybe like the two dragons eating each other's tails(or being born of each other's mouth?), BotW is at the end of the timeline and also the cause of the beginning of the timeline.
@@howlbastion I should clarify that I think Zelda is becoming more like Hylia in TotK, and I have personal theory that she had been disconnected from Hylia in BotW. The very short of that is I think the green hand sealing Ganondorf is a part of Hylia, given up by a past Zelda to keep the Demon King down, and every Zelda since has been taught to reconnect to that missing part of the goddess by reinforcing the seal. But because Zelda's mother died before training her daughter, BotW Zelda remained partly separated from Hylia and the seal weakened. I think in TotK, Zelda will reconnect with her divinity, taking on aspects of Hylia herself. We see this if we assume the figure at the beginning of the trailer is Hylia, and as we see the depictions of Zelda throughout the trailer, we can see a progression of traits from the Hylia depiction being added to the ones of Zelda, until they stand mirroring each other at the title screen. So Hylia didn't answer her prayers because Zelda had been essentially cut off from her.
Thanks for the vid, and speculation - helps keeps us sane. Nintendo has a way of keeping us in suspense - which just drives us CRAZY! I keep my sanity by playing BOTW searching for koroks; and visiting places shown in the trailers. I haven't played Skyward Sword, but tempted to do so. (I'm uneasily thinking Nintendo will launch a new console before Tears - and we'll be forced to fight for consoles with scrappers - Nintendo, if you're listening, don't launch this exclusively on a new console - it'll just make us mad, esp. if we can't buy the console (if you do release a new console, let gamers buy the console via the Nintendo site, and only let those who've had a Switch for a set period of time, get in line - that way, you'll know that you are selling to legit buyers and you'll also know how many consoles they actually have; and limit to 1, of course. As a huge fan of the Zelda series, I'd hate to see spoiler while I couldn't get to play it, etc.)). Exeunt.
Of course it's not a secret the devs want us to learn, they've said FOR YEARS NOW that the subtitle was very important for the game and that just learning it would be a big spoiler. A kingdom only cries through strife and death. They already went through strife during the Age of Calamity, so there's only one thing remaining that would make the kingdom tear up.
Hear me out: if time reversal is an element in this, maybe the Sheikah Towers got reversed back into the ground? What we might be seeing is the old landmass that made up Skyloft attempting to "rewind" back into place. If that is the case, it would explain why all the Towers are gone, as before Link returns and activates them, they aren't visible anywhere. Just a crazy theory though.
I started playing Botw 1 again, checking every dialouge. Still more to do, but at the beginning King of the Hyrule tell us, that Ganon is rised from underground the Hyrule Castle. So im soo sure, that Link and Zelda was going under the Castle to stop next Calamity, but yeah something goes wrong, Zelda is missing, Master Sword is broken, Link got new Hand and new evil is awaken.
Hmmm… a thought that just came to about the setting of the game. Everyone, including myself, have just accepted that the game takes place more or less in the same Hyrule albeit one corrupted by malice and with mysterious floating structures throughout. But what if this isn’t the same Hyrule?! We see Zelda and Link exploring a cave in the first teaser and Zelda falling into an abyss. What if Link, upon going in to try to save her, finds himself in an alternate “twin” Hyrule (a reference to the twin dragon motif in the logo). We’ve seen a similar thing before, most notably in A Link to the Past with Dark World. It would be an interesting angle to explore a Hyrule that is similar enough to the one from BotW to feel familiar but different enough to throw us off by subverting our expectations. Anyone else thinking the same?
Love the videos ❤️. I also watched the new and old videos and heard many theorists talk about that big island and seeing links ancient clothes change I'm hoping maybe there is a village on that big island. Also what if that creature in the mural is what we call a zoni and it's the leader at that time
My theory is that there are more areas that are "malice infested" besides Death Mountain and Hyrule Castle and these areas indicate locations for dungeons (that are likely underneath the surface) and completing these dungeons will stop the malice from leaking out of them. My guess is that other important areas we haven't seen yet in TotK like Zora's Domain, Lake Hylia, Akkala Citidel, Great Plateau, and/or Gerudo Desert probably also have these spots where malice is leaking out that will also indicate dungeon locations. It could also be related to the missing Great Deku Tree.
I mean, let's say we do end up finding the Great Deku Tree in the sky, but my question is why would Nintendo reuse somewhat of the same concept for their sequel? In the first game, Zelda takes the master sword to the Great Deku Tree to help restore it, 100 years later it's mostly back to normal, but it's not at it's full power. So tell me why would Nintendo reuse that idea but just use Link instead of Zelda, plus Link doesn't exactly have 100 years to wait Most likely the Deku Tree is in the sky, and maybe he'll have some knowledge for us, but I don't think he'll help out with the master sword, plus if that were true we would all bolt towards him and the other sky Islands would be useless if the Deku Tree was the key to bringing the master sword back
I feel like the sky islands look like upside down tears, like the "medallions", as though the land of Hyrule is weeping land upward, as means of escape from the Malice. Also, in the first trailer, a water droplet is shown falling in reverse. So, maybe, the sky islands are literally tears OF the kingdom...
Definitely is about subterranean connection... All Hyrule is in chaos cause the malice is out of control, even seas maybe are spill of malice (water underworld cross the fingers) God this game is going to be awesome!
This does seem a lot like the story leading up to Skyward Sword. Malevolence pouring out of the earth and Hylia (AKA ZELDA) causing the kingdom to rise to the skies. The trailers to this game have shown three different landscapes: 1- Normal BOTW landscape with nothing in the sky 2 - Malice pouring out and the castle rising 3 - Malice pouring out even further from the volcano and sky islands. Also, there are now holes seen in the earth perhaps either from damage blowouts from the malice or from the land sky islands rising up. My theory is that it is a progression that begins with the event with Gannon in the cave. It blasts the castle up, continues to blast through the earth endangering everything. I think that Link and Zelda might somehow have something to causing the Sky Islands to rise in order to save the land from the corrupted land. However, there seems to be a problem - The golden plant sky islands seem to have evidence that they are falling (remember link rides the rock up to the sky) and also that they are rising (holes seen in the surface, disappearance of Deku Tree). My theory is that they used to be in the sky during the time of the events of the carving (remember the creature on a sky platform) but that sometime between the events of that story and BOTW, they fell to the ground. The forgotten temple in the canyon looks like something that has fallen from the skies (perhaps the sealed temple from Skyward Sword). Perhaps Link and Zelda are using some type of technology to reverse time and cause them to rise back up. Link uses his arm attachment to reverse time on the spiked ball which turns gold and goes up the hill. He rides the rock up to the skies using a similar mechanic. Why are all the trees and plants in the skies gold? What if it is because they are all reverted back to their state from the past? He also uses the reverse water droplet technique to go to sky platforms. All three of these are reverse time mechanics... If you look closely underneath the sky islands you will see that most of them appear to have some strange structures on the underside. Almost like a technology of some kind. Okay, I'm done!
Hey the theory of the trees is cool, but I think the islands was there from the beginning, the hand who's seems to be originated from the sky world take Link to there and open barrier what separates the islands from the surface but you are right about the lost woods, it seems to be up in the sky and here begins the confusion hehe
@@ricardoenrik It also could be that the whole previous story (with link, gannon, and zelda characters) could have all been Zonai from the sky word. If this is the case, the green energy hand could be both a prior link and from the sky world.
Here is my theory: There is an entire underworld below Hyrule that is infested with malice, sort of being the opposite of the sky area. And some of it is bleeding into the over world, causing the malice in death mountain, a storm possibly on hebra mountain and maybe even gerudo desert, as well as freezing/flooding Zora's domain. There will be 8 dungeons total, 5 on ground (or underground) with Hyrule castle being the final, and 3 in the sky with the big doors potentially being the first dungeon.
OK maybe a wacky idea, but when you discussed Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain being shown, both with Malice erupting, it made me think: there is this, if not well regarded, at least persistent theory that Breath of the Wild somehow represents a literal fusing of the three timelines; what if, as a result of such a merger, there are three Ganondorfs, each sealed in a different location? Each causing different Malice eruptions, each signified by different green sealing spirals... I'm not sure it's exactly a *good* idea, per se, but I could see the Zelda team doing it.
This isn’t really a TotK theory, and it isn’t even really a theory but it’s about BotW. In the Hyrule Castle outdoor soundtrack, you can hear what sounds like the marching of soldiers in the background. I’m not sure if this is an Easter egg, but nonetheless my head canon is the ghost of every soldier, knight, and royal guard who died protecting Hyrule during the great calamity are marching with you as you storm Hyrule castle.
I think the Deku Tree in the sky has merit - because the sky island trees are not dissimilar to those in the Korok Forest, and when you look at the sky island below the giant root Link is climbing, there are three things visible other than trees. Possibly rocks, or something made of wood and what could have been a bit of a platform. Speaking of platforms, when you look at the path out of the big doors, the giant jutty out bits of wall start slightly higher than the enclosing walls. There's a possibility that this exit is at a right angle to Link when we see Link from the front, but I think it more likely that the doors are facing the tower from Links left when he's seen diving the first time. Anyway, it looks like a diving platform or something similar is on the top of the large building Link is running from. Also, with all the light emanating from the carved figures, is there really any doubt about it being Hylia and Zelda. Hylia only lived in the Skyward lifetime - her blood has run in the veins of the royal family of Hyrule, sure, but she had a mortal life, and would have returned to her divine form afterwards. Time Goddess though she may be, that sort of thing is going to drain you. I think this time, we may just see them as separate entities. Roll on May!
I was thinking that could certainly be one possibility, the theory I have is that when Hyrule erupts with malice and the sky islands appear, I belive that Hyrule is not just physically fractured but also has been fractured with time itself. I believe that certain areas of Hyrule are trapped in a far long past and the Great Deku Tree is trapped in one of these time fractures. There is also the popular theory that The Great Deku Tree was ripped into the sky as that is where the current pedestal for the Master Sword is. By raising the Lost Woods into the sky, that would cut off Link's ability to place the Master Sword into its pedestal for repairs. Ganondorf has had literally centuries of being held captive, he used the malice eyes to watch over everything happening in Hyrule prior to Calamity Ganon's defeat. We are just going to have to wait and see what fate befell the Lost Woods and the Great Deku Tree itself.
Okay so does anyone remember the storm in skyward sword? When you went into it, there was a Leviathan?.. what if the storm that's happening in botw 2 has a Leviathan in it and they're bringing them back? Theres bones all over Hyrule.. they cant all be dead!
Great video as usually keep it up HG. I notice In the beginning if you look below the island it look like a piece of that land became an island so maybe Zelda/hylia rises these island up when Ganon/demised rose again to protect the temple or something sacred from being corrupt. The bird is probably a mechanical loft bird that is scared to zelda or hylia to allow link to ride down or up.Anybody notice the very big island in the sky my guess is that it is that same island where link fought koshia( excuse my spelling) on or some other unknown island and at the end when link went thought the door does it remind you of skyward sword when link open the door to see Zelda when she was seal in a orange crystal maybe that will be a meeting place where he will see Zelda again before he defeat the king of evil or maybe is a meeting place for him and somewhere else that my theory. Here a theory what if link have to use the green magic to turn back time momentary to solve certain puzzle or get clues? Just wondering.
so I just noticed something, look at the bokos in the trailer, and then look at the botw bokos. their horns are different. botw boko's have a single stubby spike. the trailer bokos have moblin/lizalfo horns
I remeber a theory from the first game that said the Great Plateau and the korok forest switched places at some point. Now we have giant sky island that may or may not be coming from the ground as well as the sky. Could that be how they switched places? Has this happend befor? To strech it even further, does this happen alot? And is that the reason Hyrul is sometimes so diffrent between games?
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It looksike the storm in the artwork could still be in rhe Faron Region. Since the view is facing south. Or seems to be, anyway.
By ancient columns, I thought you meant the 5 pillars by Hyrule castle
Is no one gonna talk about the inactivated orange Sheikah shrine at 6:45 on the top right corner?
Greetings! No one talked about the title's background, where there is two tears above hand to hand the princess & the new creature.
What if that clip of link climbing the tree root was not only korok forest and the lost woods but maybe it also acts as something similar to the trial of the sword. What I’m going off of is that the environment is hazy and has that bluish tint with particles in the air, like the lost woods without the fog. The other thing is that the clip looks almost as if it was taken in a room with outdoor elements on the inside like the trials. The biggest part I want to point out though is the new thing on links hip is not present in it. The capsule thing is likely not connected to the tears shown around what I think is hylia in the carving because there are 8 slots and 7 tears, therefore showing it might instead be energy capsules for links new arm’s abilities. His capsules not being present there could mean 1 of 2 things and that is either he just obtains it later, or it was taken away before he entered the area, similar to how champions abilities cannot be used in shrines or the trial of the sword. Another detail I noticed while I was typing this was that link is climbing up the side instead of using his arm to clip through or his reverse stasis ability which would both be much mor efficient. Sooooooo…. Yea what do u think about it?
Keep in mind, "The Deku Tree rose into the sky" is our best case scenario. There's also the horrifying possibility that the lost woods erupted with malice and he was disintegrated.
Kinda like when the Deku tree dies in Ocarina of Time
Thought of this and went to the comments to share my theory and ya got it lol. I was gonna say maybe in the previous trailers the deku tree was straight up missing because they didn't want us to know quite yet. Much like we didn't see that thing on links hip until now.
It looks like it could be at the Thyphlo Ruins - which might make sense of they were Zonai
Maybe he's underground and the lost woods need to be reversed in time to put it back on the surface to save it from dying from the lack of sunlight
Or corrupted like naydra was and we have to save him
I think the ancient columns has to do with draw distance
It seems pretty clear the cave systems are connected under Hyrule and spreading malice. It’s possible the malice hit the root system of the great deku tree and killed him. Imagine how dark it would be to see the deli tree in the state of the other trees in the lost woods with a twisted hollow grimace and malice pouring from his mouth and eyes. 😮
Ganondorf will enslave all forms of life to toil in his underground sugar caves 😮
Ah yes the deli tree
@@aaronzaharias9110 guardián spirit of the Black Forest ham
The fact that Death Mountain is erupting with Malice may be linking back to Level 9 (Spectacle Rock / Skull / Ganon's Lair) in the original Legend of Zelda or Ganon's Tower in A Link to the Past, both being his fortresses on Death Mountain (or the equivalent in the Dark World). Breath of the Wild's Death Mountain OST is even a remix of Level 9 to further that connection.
You know, if the Lost Woods really did rise up into the sky then it might support the theory that it and the Great Plateau swapped places at some point in history.
I always thought if that was possible(especially with the champion's dlc revealing the Great Plateau to lift mechanically) That the map would line up a little more with the maps of OoT, and TP!
I know this theory has fallen out of favor, but I still find it very compelling, and ever since we saw confirmation of sky Islands in the sequel, now known as Tears of the Kingdom, I've had a renewed feeling it might turn out to be true. Can you imagine huge overworld-scale puzzles like the moving rooms in Skyward Sword's Sky Keep, only with whole regions of the Breath of the Wild map? It'd be incredible, that's for sure.
@@docAvid314 That would be insanely clever for them to pull off! A somewhat customizable overworld-
I was think the same thing 😂😂😂.
Compelling. 🤔
I wonder if anyone remembers, but during Link and Daruk's exchange (after he gets named the princess's knight), Death Mountain shakes. Daruk questions why it is becoming so active, saying something like "if it's shivering enough to send boulders, then..." and then just drops the entire thought and says NVM.
Many may think that he was just referring to the fact that in their present time, the mountain was simply reacting to the coming of Ganon, but I always questioned it and didn't feel like I got closure from that exchange between the two, because it truly had no reason to awaken if the malice wasn't yet spreading nor was the divine beast being possessed or in the volcano to make it violent (and even when Ganon returned and there's malice on the land, the volcano didn't erupt with malice). So yeah, I like this idea.
Yea I always wondered about that comment too but I never thought to link it to tears of the kingdom!
Historically speaking, the clouds around Death Mountain have always had an ominous appearance when evil was approaching or present within Hyrule. That said, it DOES seem strange that malice would be spewing from the mountain in this new game. Perhaps there's always been some connection between Hyrule Castle, Death Mountain, and even the Sacred Realm wherein the Triforce resides. Maybe the mountain was created by the gods as a means of warning the peoples of Hyrule about oncoming evil?
In many Zelda games, death mountain usually becomes unruly when ganon gains ultimate power, so this may be true.
I was just playing through this part and thought the same exact thing.
Maybe the sky islands are slowly falling because the cloud barrier is gone, and the magic holding them up is fading away with time.
Death Mountain will definitely be an underground dungeon. In the book "Creating a Champion" the developers even designed the inside of the Death Mountain as a dungeon (in a very similar way to the from Oot, the Fire Temple). Also, the giant tower of the skies might be the Tower of Winds from The Minish Cap. The Tower of Winds was the building where the Wind tribe lived.
Yeah it seems like there might be some type of civilization in the sky that Link interacts with. So a village or hub might not be too far fetched.
Also in TP you go into the death mountain mines, I really hope we get dungeon style stuff again!
@@howlbastion I wonder if the Zona are still alive in BotW era or they have gone extinct.
The Minish were supposed to appear in Botw. Many of the ideas 💡 for TotK seem to come from scrapped material for the prequel. But I also feel like the majority is still brand new, so no spoilers from creating a champion
@@krishnamckay3247 the Minish might return this time as the mysterious Zonai race because the strange figure from the murals has very long ears as the Minish had too. It's possible that after all the incidents that happened with Vaati in The Minish Cap, the Minish felt remorseful and decided to go back to the skies and lived there with the Wind Tribe. Over the time, they probably mixed with the Wind Tribe and became much more bigger and ancestral. However, this theory has some holes :S
I'm still hoping for a huge underground network, one where we find multiple entrances to from multiple different areas but that are also connected by an underground Labyrinth. And that Labyrinth will be filled off Malice (that which Ganondorf released and it is now bursting from under Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain) , extremely Dark and dangerous to traverse with typical Ganon fodder but one creature in particular that will hunt you down when you try to traverse the Labyrinth, though killable, you won't be able to do so early game with your only option being to run and keep it at bay with "light". Personally I was thinking a Dead Hand redesign infused with Malice.
I really hope that tears of the kingdom has traditional zelda dungeons.
Nice analysis!
Oot vibes
Well there no evidence of shrines or towers so it might be so! I just hope there’s still a quick travel system
@@nintendohub64 it could be just because of the way the trailer was shown. Wouldn't be surprised if they kept the towers around for quick travel
@@lildominator2953 yeah that would be nice
Actually, in the first trailer, you can actually see the malice flowing through the cave at high speeds. You know, I'm thinking the reason Hyrule castle is lifting isn't because Ganon wanted it to, but the Malice is literally flooding under Hyrule and areas, those being death mountain and those caves beneath Hyrule Castle simply just blew up. Think of it as a Super Volcano.
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By the way- i might be wrong... but didn't they mention in BOTW that there was a giant supply of guardians underneath hyrule castle? If so, then i wonder if there might be another connection there.
@@_Zixen_ The supply of guardians was in the pillars. They came up from below the surface but went back down when the calamity went away. I'd say there's not really a connection there.
"Hyrule castle isnt that close to death mountain." Me "unless... the castle moved!!" Well it did move but could you imagine it roaming around the map?
It could be possible since it is floating... but it appears to be lifted by the malice pouring out of the hole. Most likely, they are all shown together in the artwork simply to make a point rather than be geographically accurate.
I’m really interested in how the Sheikah technology will gone… I remember the after game cutscene saying something about Vah Ruta malfunctioning.
I have two that excite me most. The Great Deku and Death Mountain. I hope that the Great Deku hadn't been killed and is up in the sky. Maybe if it did die, we would have to figure out how to heal the sword in another way? Death Mountain, what happens to gorons when malice touches them? Does it just hurt them? Possess them? What happened to them? So excited!
The ancient pillars likely just despawned. It's hard to gauge how far up Link is in the shot in the trailer, but objects in BOTWs world, and thus likely TotKs world, despawn based on distance from the player, regardless of which axis they're moving in. We don't see this happen often due to how ingeniously designed Hyrule is in BOTW, as the natural elements, mountains, trees, lakes, ruins and so on are placed with enough variety but also precision to always be obscuring the horizon in some fashion.
As for the Deku Tree. Im not convinced it rose up. There's no evidence to say any of Hyrule is rising, people are just assuming so due to Hyrule Castle rising up.
Looking at the artwork and death mountain, my first thought that it looks like Demise with his hair and body color. I just thought it was neat to think that it’s meant to be an image of the fact that Demise still has an iron grip on hyrule by the form of Ganondorf
What I am hoping to see in Tears of the Kingdom is the return of the Successors of Hyrule’s Champions(Sidon, Yunobo, Teba and Riju). Instead being sidelined, they should be fighting along side Link as each have build confidence & strength to defend Hyrule from the very threat each shared. Maybe on a side quest perhaps since Death Mountain is infested with Ganondorf’s malice. Also, the sequel of Breath of the Wild needs to confirm whether if they remember their victories from the Age of Calamity timeline since each are pulled to this reality to save this version of the Champions, Link and Zelda. Just like Ocarina of Time, changing the past can create two or three diverted timelines. It is complicated but time travel has always been a part of the Legend of Zelda lore.
No, it hasn't always been part of the lore..
I mean I agree, I want to find out about the Successors too. But time travel didn't enter Legend of Zelda Lore till the OoT, and the Oracle games. The previously RELEASED 4 games (Legend of Zelda, Link, Link to the Past, and Link's Awakening) didn't have time travel.. note I said released, not placement in chronological history for the game worlds.
Skyward Sword does make Time Travel something that's happened since the start of in game history... so it's weird.
Eh, let's just hope the 4 allies come back. Who knows they might even become 4 of the new sages.
I have to say that other thing on the ground kind of almost looks like a dragon sort of But not like any of the dragons we've seen because it looks more like a Western dragon than the Eastern Style they've been utilizing in breath of the wild
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If the storm is supposed to represent Herba, that'd be another point for my theory that Ganon is using malice eruptions to 'cage' the Divine Beast and in typical fashion, it's all ironic cages. Rudannia engulfed in flame, Medoh in an endless cyclone, Naboris maybe buried in the Gerudo sand and Ruta frozen solid. Even if not, the idea of having mini dungeons lost in storm clouds is pretty cool.
Thats not hebra. I personally guarantee you its gerudo desert. Ive cross referenced it with the original map. That storm is absolutely in gerudo.
I love that idea though. It sort of expands on botw’s thing with ruta making zoras domain constantly rainy and rudania causing death mountain to erupt. Each area could be encased in a giant supernatural storm or something that prevents the divine beasts from functioning maybe. And each time you confront the source and clear up the malice of an area, maybe it removes some malice from the castle which gradually makes its defenses weaker and weaker. So you can still technically defeat the final boss immediately (in botw fashion) but it would be immensely difficult unless you play the rest of the game and clear up some of its defenses.
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I didn't even realize the storm is in a completely different part of the map than Hebra until you pointed it out lol. And maybe this part is just my crappy depth perception talking, but doesn't it seem a bit too close to Hyrule Castle to be the Gerudo Desert? It almost looks like the Great Plateau to me but I haven't seen the map in a minute
@@whyisyoutubeshowinghandles Look at the alignment of the landmarks. The storm, death mountain, and hyrule castle are all lined up along a straight line here. In the actual game, the castle is skewed a bit rather than being directly between them. It is, however, directly in between gerudo and eldin. Also hebra may actually be further away from the castle than gerudo due to it being a smaller region.
@@orange_turtle3412 I see what you mean about the alignment(I looked up a map), and in the video itself it's mentioned that scale in the picture is off which I hadn't considered. I guess all we can really do is wait and see though
While we haven’t seen this happen, is it possible that some landmasses have actually sunk into the ground? All the islands we see in the sky so far are unfamiliar. And it’s only Hyrule Castle we see lifted up by malice. What if the missing chunks of land are actually sinking into chasms underground?
There’s still a lot of mystery as to what is going on underground as well. I just don’t buy that the holes in the ground won’t be explorable.
For the big door, my guess is that it's at the very beginning of the game, and when Ganondorf is resurrected and Link has to escape the caves, he will rush out the doors and look upon the sky kingdom, like he did on the Great Plateau in BOTW.
Yeah I also felt like that's a game opening moment like when link leaves the shrine of resurrection for the first time
That's a good guess but I believe the game begins with Link & Zelda excavating under the castle 🏰 & finding Ganondorf, like we see in the 1st trailer...actually that could be somewhere else & so while Zelda falls Link is in the mass that's lifted, causing what you'd mentioned. But I figure he would be separated from Ganondorf @ some point...or he willingly leaves bcuz the Master Sword is damaged
So this means we get to save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever in Tears of the Kingdom ?
Problably not, cuz tears of the kingdom/breath of the wild, takes place problably thousand of years after links awakening.... so uhhh seagull marin is problably dead-
@@GG-lk4xf There is no legend of a magic singing seagull in any other cannon game. The "real" ending can just be the one where she dies .
@@tattertot8259 probably because Awakening takes place in the ruined timeline after Link to the past, which never got another game other than link between worlds which is also after Link to the past. So Seagull Marin doesn't exist in the other games since Link to the past, Link didn't exist in the other timelines and so he never ended up in the wind fish's dream island and so on.
If the root does belong to the Great Deku Tree, it's possible he's frozen given the snow. Maybe there's some kind of objective tied to that.
I honestly believe the storms are there for progression purposes. As you go through the story, more storms will clear, allowing you to explore those new islands. Not sure how we will clear them, but that’s my guess.
Like the Thunderhead in SS
*Skyward Sword Spoilers* At around 6:55, with the shots of Hyrule Castle in the air, doesn't it look like there's a spiral pathway leading down beneath it? Similar to the Goddess Statue in Skyward Sword and how it left a spiral path that led to Demise's seal after being launched into the skies? Idk what this could mean, not much of a theorizer, but thought it was interesting
All the islands have a downward spire
DUUUDE I have been saying that for awhile now but no one cared ever Since twilight princess castle location was moved to the south where’s OOT castle was more to the north anyway when skyward sword came out I noticed this and the south where demise was defeated and layed his curse and now ganondorf being sealed here makes it EVEN MORE IRONIC!!!!!
Why the hell is NO ONE ELSE TALKING ABOUT THIS MAP LORE!!!! It blows my mind
@@thatjrpganimefanplayerjusi8003 No one is talking about it because the Zelda franchise LOVES spiral paths. It means nothing unless we see it up close.
Malice is consuming the entire surface, so Link has to take refuge in the Sky until he can use the 7 tears to disperse them, section by section. This includes the Great Deku Tree, which is trapped by Malice, and can only be freed by a tear.
Come to think of it... have we seen Zora's Domain in the new trailers?
Ganondorf did it again.
Maybe its area is affected my malice?
Zoras: ......you're gonna freeze our home AGAIN, aren't you.
Ganon: Maybe.
@@AzureRoxe you mean put it underwater
The water could get poison or just being frozen.
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My assumption on the green swirly vortex thing is it's an unlocked quick access point for either up or down. There'll probably be puzzles to get there the first time, then a quick point afterwards once activated
also I liked how you put song of storms in the background when you talked about the storm :)
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The storm in the official box art could be somewhere in the Gerudo region. But something that stands out to me is the fact that death mountain and presumably the Gerudo desert has malice/storms. It makes me question; what about the tabantha/hebra region and lanyaru? Could there be like a heavy blizzard storm and malice flood of the 2 regions respectively that involves malice or nature? And why I say that is because those are the regions where the divine beasts are located. We know that they aren’t present in the trailer especially rudania who settles on death mountain. What if the divine beasts may not be corrupted, but trapped underground? Like what if we need to help them before they get destroyed by these storms, thick spewing malice, etc? I’d love to see that.
I absolutely love that theory!!
This game doesn't seem like it's gonna focus on the ancient technology nearly as much so my theory has always been that the survivors of Hyrule destroyed all remaining technology, or at least sealed it away to prevent another Great Calamity from happening. They could come back for an ultimate final battle I suppose.
@@speedude0164 I understand that as it’ll be in the sky but there are shrines in the sky supposedly. Divine beasts could play a huge role especially with the new champions (Teba, Sidon, Yunobo, Riju) as they come from the past (age of calamity) to save their descendants. Perhaps we have to help them control their respective divine beasts
I hope the Deku Tree's okay. The voice acting made him so charming in BoTW. I'm more invested in it.
He is the same voice actor as Revali.
When I was first exploring BotW, I felt like there was something weird about the Great Plateau. It almost felt like it was placed there from above. The walls around it look slightly crushed.
I feel like Nintendo saw the theory that the great plateau and the forest were switched at some point in Hyrules history and ran with it.
I've said this before but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reveals is that Hyrule has always been capable of being rearranged in ways like that.
Lorule showed that without the Triforce the Kingdom was cracking into pieces. Giant fissures separating areas from one another.
Skyward Sword provided is with the
Goddess sending chunks of land into the sky.
Jeez after the intro music I got a heavy nostalgic feel
Just a thought... What if the "tears" are from the people on the surface, in sorrow, and pain because these islands are deteriorating and coming apart, thus falling to the ground, raining and destroying their kingdom again. The Tears of the Hylians. Just a thought.
I think that the carvings tell a story of a relationship between the "creature" and the woman (Zelda figure). I think the scene where it appears that she is falling indicates some sort of betrayal or tragedy. I think this betrayal or tragedy and the events that follow are where the "Tears of the Kingdom" comes from. I do believe the floating islands and sealing of gannon and the green hand (probably a past link who gave his life to seal Gannon) are all related in this past tragedy. It very well may be that in this past history, Gannon won to some extent. I think this game will resume that story with the same gannon (reactivated) and a new link and new zelda who will finish it once and for all.
So your thought is that the "tears of the kingdom" are indeed the "tears of the kingdom"
Whoa. Mindblown sir.
@@AzureRoxe Well, rather than connecting tears to some type of tragedy, there are many suggesting that it is named upon the 7 "tears" around the creature in the carving... In other words, the game being named after an item... much like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. While I think that's possible... I think it is based upon some great tragedy that played out in the past... either kingdom of Hyrule or of the Zonai.
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General Kenobi.
@@Link-to-the-Smash GENERAL KENOBI!
You always post just in time for my work breaks! I'm so excited to watch this one!
Hope you enjoyed!
@@HyruleGamer I did! Ended up watching it with a coworker who hasn't played Zelda since the 90s. They want to get the new games now because of this video!
I don’t think the lost woods rose in the skies tho. So far we’ve seen nothing at all from the surface having risen besides hyrule castle, which is most likely due to being right on top of Ganondorf/Ganondorf’s new lair.
I think either the deku tree is gone or its just a rendering issue in the trailer.
Great vid tho HG!
in 2021 E3 trailer 0:38, the tree shadows directions are 11a-clock. but in BotW, at the same location, tree shadows
direction can not be 11 a-clock. And the new trailer 0:40 the writing in wall mentions sun and moon. i think sun and moon are quite important in the game.
Hey hey, Big fan, im just curious about something. So the deku tree in the sky, lots of new floating islands, what if this is a repeat to the prequel event to Windwaker. What if a new great flood is coming and these sky islands are meant as refuge for some of the population to survive?
2:23 Did we ever figure out what those 5 large pointy stones surrounding gannon at 2:23 are? I feel like those are important. Like 5 temples that will need to be reactivated or something. They have carvings or circle on them. They are kinda pointy like the bottom of the floating islands
I have noticed that. I think it is a geological structure in the shape of a clawed hand... just like the clawed hand that sealed Gannon... and the clawed hand that Link will have once he gets the arm attachment. I think it's a symbolic structure.
I don't know if you played Twilight Princess.
If not, beware of spoilers!
But this place reminds me a lot of the spring of the light spirit Lanayru.
Although in Twilight Princess they look like roots and not made of stone. They also had a similar pattern.
But what also interests me is the one about Ganondorf himself on the ceiling.
I wonder what that will be?💙
@@Jeremyb2023 I started typing about it looking like a clawed hand and deleted it before typing my comment. I def see the layout of the stones looking like the finger tips of a clawed hand kinda. Cool!
@@sarahangel3481 Yeah I have no clue either! However in the new trailer we see something like the opposite of it at the very end of it in the bottom ish left ish middle.
I think Ganondorf killed the great Deku tree so Link won't be able to repair the Mastersword
I have a theory that in this game we are sent back to the time of the first champions because of disrupting Ganondorf seal.
I have a theory. what if the zonai moved under ground and made their own version of the divine beasts?
6:46 to me, the green thing on the ground looks like a fish
6:43 it looks like a lizard or a dragon to me, but im not sure
im not at all a theorist but thats what i think is going on
Deku Tree definitely went on a ride into the stratosphere. ☁🌳☁🌌
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The storm is in the desert. Which is very odd 🤔
Also I think the big doors are the new shrine of resurrection. A starting area we wake up from and are immediately thrust into the sky
what if the map is taken from another prospective to the one we are used to?
what if the map designed is view from the right side of the menu in game?
so that the storm is in the bottom left of the map as we’ve always looked at it
in this way it could be near the faron region as seen in the trailer
I just had a theory after seeing that picture again maybe the tornado represents Vatti, the castle for Ganondorf, and Demise for death mountain.. you can see like red eyes coming out of death mountain in that picture. That would be epic to have to defeat all the them all in the end of the timeline before a new arc/story can only hope but you never know
Yeah no. Probably the whole death mountain thing is because Death mountain was where Ganon was in the original Legend of Zelda.
That sounds cool but the problem is that it wouldn’t work for Demise and Ganondorf to be around simultaneously as Ganondorf is the reincarnation of Demise
Since In the first game when ganon awakens, towers and shrines rise up, we can confirm that in the beginning of this game, an earthquake will cause the zonai sky islands to break free from the ground, and also cause malice to shoot out of hyrule castle and death mountain. The Gordons will likely be going through a drought due to this.
The "Gordons" lol
I think that branch is the deku's because the particles in the sky look like those from the lost woods. Also in the final scene where link lands on the bird glider thingie, u can see a huge thunder cloud above korok forest... Also the storm wouldn't be in hebra but in gerudo desert, hands why it's yellow (sandstorm) my theory is that every tribe (gerudo, Gordons, zora, rito, hylian) will have a problem of some sort. Gerudo storm, hyrule castle malice, Goron malice volcano. Maybe the Zora would have ice like in twilight princess, or a thunderstorm (Zora are weak to thunder). And the rito would maybe have earthquakes (with the village and everything collapsing) or heavy winds (can't fly)
I think the Deku tree is there, they just pulled an MCU and CGI'd it out probably because its a spoiler of some kind (wrapped in malice like death mountain maybe)
The storm doesn't really look like the same colour in the artwork, if the one in the artwork and trailer are the same or maybe it isn't even a storm, maybe a landmass?
Maybe the tower is where we come from in the beginning of the game
@@TadGomer that makes sense actually
Like the great plateau it would help players learn what's new with this game, such as the vertical movement mechanics (link "falling" upwards through a ceiling for example)
I think these desings are something that appears after finishing the dungeon and later on they would somehow connect together into some kind of spell, seal maybe, just like divine beasts' beams connectec in the middle to fire the beam onto ganon
3 areas with malace? Perhaps it relates to the triforce, the volcano is power the castle is wisdom and the storm is courage
Power to enter the volcano.wisdom to get into the castle and courage to enter the storm
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I wanted to suggest the idea that some islands would rise from the ground, I also saw some Italian videos that talked about them (I'm Italian).
In fact, it would explain where the Deku Tree is. Moreover, in the scene where Link lands on the fly-platform, under the nearest island there is something, is it a lake or a hole?
It looks that way, in my opinion!
I like that the name tears of the kingdom skins like tiers of the kingdom which is fitting for how many layers there seems to be to explore
To me all those trailer have a common theme of "Past clashing with present", so I do believe that the game will have a sort of "Remnants of the past invade the present" plot, instead of "Link visits the past"
Also there's a strong imagery relating to "duality" in general, as if two very different entities meeting, and the changes in Hyrule may be the result of that
Not sure why the old ruins being missing still keeps being so relevant without anyone trying to disprove it, i remember trying to see them from the gerudo mountains once and following what i found, you could argue they are not even in Breath Of The Wild either, after a certain point they stop being rendered, and even if in the first game you went to the exact point from the trailers and could still see them, i don't see what keeps their render distance from being even lower in Tears of The Kingdom, after all, there is a whole lot of extra stuff to render with the floating islands.
When it comes to Zelda theories, you just need to ignore most of them. People can, and constasntly will, just pick something, ignore all arguments against it and make a random theory.
I don't think the storm in faron and the storm in the box art are the same. Faron looks like a thunder cloud and box art looks like a dust devil
Just wanted to add considering in the video he said the areas are out of proportion that dust devil is obviously in the gerudo desert sand and dust basically link up
Love the video man!! Got me excited for the game!!
Thanks a lot!
Says less start on the ground and then proceeds to talk about the highest point on the surface 😅
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If the Deku tree 🌳 dies it would be nice to have an opportunity to see it return as a sprout like in other games. But that would also go along with when Aonuma said Tears of the Kingdom would be the new darkest Zelda 🎮 I haven't gotten that vibe from the more recent trailers, but again they're holding back a lot from us. I'm looking forward to the surprises in store
I think you're making an incorrect assumption about the artwork. you're assuming we're seeing the front of the castle. Because death mountain is in front of the castle in the artwork, isn't it a safer bet to assume we're seeing Hyrule from the north, looking south?
that would mean the "storm" in the artwork would be in or close to the faron region. which lines up with the footage.
In the box art, death mountain is on the right. The only way the castle to be farther with death mountain on your right would be if you were facing west. So, on the box art, Link must be on a sky island on the east side of Hyrule, towards the Lanayru sea.
@@bobsondugnutt2970 you're right! Well spotted.
With the malice with death mountain and Hyrule castle, maybe the underground is filled with malice like the first trailer showed, and it just spews out any opening
the storm has a massive korok seed in it
A Shit Storm😉👉👉
Oh no... 😭
The thing I want to know is how does fast travel work, how do we get a map without the shieka slate, and IS THE MASTER CYCLE GOING TO BE IN THIS GAME 😩😩😩.
Anyways I’m mostly excited to explore the floating islands as the concept of floating islands is my favorite because of how interesting they are.
I fell in love with it when I played that secret world in Donkey Kong Tropical freeze.
I haven’t seen anyone else talk abt it but have you noticed that on the door that Link pushes open, it’s hard to see but there’s a sheikah eye right where he pushed. You can see it at the bottom as the door swings open
The more I think about the new trailers, theories, and the timeline, the more convinced I am that the whole timeline is cyclical. Hylia created Skyloft from an ancient Hyrule to keep it safe, and now it seems like Zelda is becoming more like Hylia and we see parts of Hyrule floating back up to the sky. Maybe like the two dragons eating each other's tails(or being born of each other's mouth?), BotW is at the end of the timeline and also the cause of the beginning of the timeline.
But why weren't any of Zelda's prayers being answered when she visited the fountains? 🤔
@@howlbastion I should clarify that I think Zelda is becoming more like Hylia in TotK, and I have personal theory that she had been disconnected from Hylia in BotW. The very short of that is I think the green hand sealing Ganondorf is a part of Hylia, given up by a past Zelda to keep the Demon King down, and every Zelda since has been taught to reconnect to that missing part of the goddess by reinforcing the seal. But because Zelda's mother died before training her daughter, BotW Zelda remained partly separated from Hylia and the seal weakened. I think in TotK, Zelda will reconnect with her divinity, taking on aspects of Hylia herself. We see this if we assume the figure at the beginning of the trailer is Hylia, and as we see the depictions of Zelda throughout the trailer, we can see a progression of traits from the Hylia depiction being added to the ones of Zelda, until they stand mirroring each other at the title screen.
So Hylia didn't answer her prayers because Zelda had been essentially cut off from her.
I wonder if we'll see the outsides/ruins of some of the Sheikah shrines underground or lifted on islands
Thanks for the vid, and speculation - helps keeps us sane.
Nintendo has a way of keeping us in suspense - which just drives us CRAZY! I keep my sanity by playing BOTW searching for koroks; and visiting places shown in the trailers. I haven't played Skyward Sword, but tempted to do so.
(I'm uneasily thinking Nintendo will launch a new console before Tears - and we'll be forced to fight for consoles with scrappers - Nintendo, if you're listening, don't launch this exclusively on a new console - it'll just make us mad, esp. if we can't buy the console (if you do release a new console, let gamers buy the console via the Nintendo site, and only let those who've had a Switch for a set period of time, get in line - that way, you'll know that you are selling to legit buyers and you'll also know how many consoles they actually have; and limit to 1, of course. As a huge fan of the Zelda series, I'd hate to see spoiler while I couldn't get to play it, etc.)).
Exeunt.
Of course it's not a secret the devs want us to learn, they've said FOR YEARS NOW that the subtitle was very important for the game and that just learning it would be a big spoiler.
A kingdom only cries through strife and death. They already went through strife during the Age of Calamity, so there's only one thing remaining that would make the kingdom tear up.
Hear me out: if time reversal is an element in this, maybe the Sheikah Towers got reversed back into the ground? What we might be seeing is the old landmass that made up Skyloft attempting to "rewind" back into place. If that is the case, it would explain why all the Towers are gone, as before Link returns and activates them, they aren't visible anywhere. Just a crazy theory though.
The real and most important mystery is: CAN WE BOMB TRAVEL IN THIS GAME OR DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
I started playing Botw 1 again, checking every dialouge. Still more to do, but at the beginning King of the Hyrule tell us, that Ganon is rised from underground the Hyrule Castle. So im soo sure, that Link and Zelda was going under the Castle to stop next Calamity, but yeah something goes wrong, Zelda is missing, Master Sword is broken, Link got new Hand and new evil is awaken.
Hmmm… a thought that just came to about the setting of the game. Everyone, including myself, have just accepted that the game takes place more or less in the same Hyrule albeit one corrupted by malice and with mysterious floating structures throughout. But what if this isn’t the same Hyrule?! We see Zelda and Link exploring a cave in the first teaser and Zelda falling into an abyss. What if Link, upon going in to try to save her, finds himself in an alternate “twin” Hyrule (a reference to the twin dragon motif in the logo). We’ve seen a similar thing before, most notably in A Link to the Past with Dark World. It would be an interesting angle to explore a Hyrule that is similar enough to the one from BotW to feel familiar but different enough to throw us off by subverting our expectations. Anyone else thinking the same?
"Heya folks, My name is Adam and I like to make tiny Zelda videos...."
Everytime Adam says hiya folks, my mind jumps straight to North of the Border
Love the videos ❤️. I also watched the new and old videos and heard many theorists talk about that big island and seeing links ancient clothes change I'm hoping maybe there is a village on that big island. Also what if that creature in the mural is what we call a zoni and it's the leader at that time
My theory is that there are more areas that are "malice infested" besides Death Mountain and Hyrule Castle and these areas indicate locations for dungeons (that are likely underneath the surface) and completing these dungeons will stop the malice from leaking out of them. My guess is that other important areas we haven't seen yet in TotK like Zora's Domain, Lake Hylia, Akkala Citidel, Great Plateau, and/or Gerudo Desert probably also have these spots where malice is leaking out that will also indicate dungeon locations. It could also be related to the missing Great Deku Tree.
I mean, let's say we do end up finding the Great Deku Tree in the sky, but my question is why would Nintendo reuse somewhat of the same concept for their sequel?
In the first game, Zelda takes the master sword to the Great Deku Tree to help restore it, 100 years later it's mostly back to normal, but it's not at it's full power. So tell me why would Nintendo reuse that idea but just use Link instead of Zelda, plus Link doesn't exactly have 100 years to wait
Most likely the Deku Tree is in the sky, and maybe he'll have some knowledge for us, but I don't think he'll help out with the master sword, plus if that were true we would all bolt towards him and the other sky Islands would be useless if the Deku Tree was the key to bringing the master sword back
I feel like the sky islands look like upside down tears, like the "medallions", as though the land of Hyrule is weeping land upward, as means of escape from the Malice. Also, in the first trailer, a water droplet is shown falling in reverse. So, maybe, the sky islands are literally tears OF the kingdom...
Definitely is about subterranean connection... All Hyrule is in chaos cause the malice is out of control, even seas maybe are spill of malice (water underworld cross the fingers) God this game is going to be awesome!
This does seem a lot like the story leading up to Skyward Sword. Malevolence pouring out of the earth and Hylia (AKA ZELDA) causing the kingdom to rise to the skies. The trailers to this game have shown three different landscapes:
1- Normal BOTW landscape with nothing in the sky
2 - Malice pouring out and the castle rising
3 - Malice pouring out even further from the volcano and sky islands. Also, there are now holes seen in the earth perhaps either from damage blowouts from the malice or from the land sky islands rising up.
My theory is that it is a progression that begins with the event with Gannon in the cave. It blasts the castle up, continues to blast through the earth endangering everything. I think that Link and Zelda might somehow have something to causing the Sky Islands to rise in order to save the land from the corrupted land. However, there seems to be a problem - The golden plant sky islands seem to have evidence that they are falling (remember link rides the rock up to the sky) and also that they are rising (holes seen in the surface, disappearance of Deku Tree). My theory is that they used to be in the sky during the time of the events of the carving (remember the creature on a sky platform) but that sometime between the events of that story and BOTW, they fell to the ground. The forgotten temple in the canyon looks like something that has fallen from the skies (perhaps the sealed temple from Skyward Sword). Perhaps Link and Zelda are using some type of technology to reverse time and cause them to rise back up. Link uses his arm attachment to reverse time on the spiked ball which turns gold and goes up the hill. He rides the rock up to the skies using a similar mechanic. Why are all the trees and plants in the skies gold? What if it is because they are all reverted back to their state from the past? He also uses the reverse water droplet technique to go to sky platforms. All three of these are reverse time mechanics... If you look closely underneath the sky islands you will see that most of them appear to have some strange structures on the underside. Almost like a technology of some kind. Okay, I'm done!
Hey the theory of the trees is cool, but I think the islands was there from the beginning, the hand who's seems to be originated from the sky world take Link to there and open barrier what separates the islands from the surface but you are right about the lost woods, it seems to be up in the sky and here begins the confusion hehe
@@ricardoenrik It also could be that the whole previous story (with link, gannon, and zelda characters) could have all been Zonai from the sky word. If this is the case, the green energy hand could be both a prior link and from the sky world.
Here is my theory:
There is an entire underworld below Hyrule that is infested with malice, sort of being the opposite of the sky area. And some of it is bleeding into the over world, causing the malice in death mountain, a storm possibly on hebra mountain and maybe even gerudo desert, as well as freezing/flooding Zora's domain. There will be 8 dungeons total, 5 on ground (or underground) with Hyrule castle being the final, and 3 in the sky with the big doors potentially being the first dungeon.
OK maybe a wacky idea, but when you discussed Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain being shown, both with Malice erupting, it made me think: there is this, if not well regarded, at least persistent theory that Breath of the Wild somehow represents a literal fusing of the three timelines; what if, as a result of such a merger, there are three Ganondorfs, each sealed in a different location? Each causing different Malice eruptions, each signified by different green sealing spirals... I'm not sure it's exactly a *good* idea, per se, but I could see the Zelda team doing it.
Hyrule Castle do have a hotsprings under it. That have to be heated by something naturally. So Death Mountain and Hyrule connecting was always likely.
This isn’t really a TotK theory, and it isn’t even really a theory but it’s about BotW. In the Hyrule Castle outdoor soundtrack, you can hear what sounds like the marching of soldiers in the background. I’m not sure if this is an Easter egg, but nonetheless my head canon is the ghost of every soldier, knight, and royal guard who died protecting Hyrule during the great calamity are marching with you as you storm Hyrule castle.
I think the Deku Tree in the sky has merit - because the sky island trees are not dissimilar to those in the Korok Forest, and when you look at the sky island below the giant root Link is climbing, there are three things visible other than trees. Possibly rocks, or something made of wood and what could have been a bit of a platform.
Speaking of platforms, when you look at the path out of the big doors, the giant jutty out bits of wall start slightly higher than the enclosing walls. There's a possibility that this exit is at a right angle to Link when we see Link from the front, but I think it more likely that the doors are facing the tower from Links left when he's seen diving the first time. Anyway, it looks like a diving platform or something similar is on the top of the large building Link is running from.
Also, with all the light emanating from the carved figures, is there really any doubt about it being Hylia and Zelda.
Hylia only lived in the Skyward lifetime - her blood has run in the veins of the royal family of Hyrule, sure, but she had a mortal life, and would have returned to her divine form afterwards. Time Goddess though she may be, that sort of thing is going to drain you. I think this time, we may just see them as separate entities.
Roll on May!
I was thinking that could certainly be one possibility, the theory I have is that when Hyrule erupts with malice and the sky islands appear, I belive that Hyrule is not just physically fractured but also has been fractured with time itself. I believe that certain areas of Hyrule are trapped in a far long past and the Great Deku Tree is trapped in one of these time fractures. There is also the popular theory that The Great Deku Tree was ripped into the sky as that is where the current pedestal for the Master Sword is. By raising the Lost Woods into the sky, that would cut off Link's ability to place the Master Sword into its pedestal for repairs. Ganondorf has had literally centuries of being held captive, he used the malice eyes to watch over everything happening in Hyrule prior to Calamity Ganon's defeat. We are just going to have to wait and see what fate befell the Lost Woods and the Great Deku Tree itself.
What if in death mountain ganondorf has revived Volvagia resulting in the malice spewing from it……. Hey just saying
Wasn't Death Mountain one of the lairs Ganon used in a previous game?
Maybe his previous final dungeons are becoming his Malic Hotspot now?
Okay so does anyone remember the storm in skyward sword? When you went into it, there was a Leviathan?.. what if the storm that's happening in botw 2 has a Leviathan in it and they're bringing them back? Theres bones all over Hyrule.. they cant all be dead!
Are my eyes deceiving me, or has the Malice stopped the Lava flows on Death Mountain? Maybe the Gorons are freezing
Great video as usually keep it up HG. I notice In the beginning if you look below the island it look like a piece of that land became an island so maybe Zelda/hylia rises these island up when Ganon/demised rose again to protect the temple or something sacred from being corrupt. The bird is probably a mechanical loft bird that is scared to zelda or hylia to allow link to ride down or up.Anybody notice the very big island in the sky my guess is that it is that same island where link fought koshia( excuse my spelling) on or some other unknown island and at the end when link went thought the door does it remind you of skyward sword when link open the door to see Zelda when she was seal in a orange crystal maybe that will be a meeting place where he will see Zelda again before he defeat the king of evil or maybe is a meeting place for him and somewhere else that my theory. Here a theory what if link have to use the green magic to turn back time momentary to solve certain puzzle or get clues? Just wondering.
so I just noticed something, look at the bokos in the trailer, and then look at the botw bokos. their horns are different. botw boko's have a single stubby spike. the trailer bokos have moblin/lizalfo horns
I remeber a theory from the first game that said the Great Plateau and the korok forest switched places at some point. Now we have giant sky island that may or may not be coming from the ground as well as the sky. Could that be how they switched places? Has this happend befor? To strech it even further, does this happen alot? And is that the reason Hyrul is sometimes so diffrent between games?