What Happened to the Ancient Tree Stump? (Zelda Theory)

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  • Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
  • Breath of the Wild's various landmarks often hold significance far beyond what Nintendo tells us in game. From the Lon Lon Ranch ruins to the mysterious forgotten temple, some of the unique structures and ruins stand out as physical pieces and reminders of deep Zelda lore, and others carry stories we can speculate over. What could be the story behind the Ancient Tree Stump in western Hyrule? Join me to find out!
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  • @BanditGames
    @BanditGames  4 года назад +373

    What's your favorite/the most mysterious landmark in Breath of the Wild's Hyrule? Mine is probably the Ranch Ruins!

    • @maybenst
      @maybenst 4 года назад +9

      Hi bandit!

    • @miwhale2614
      @miwhale2614 4 года назад +29

      Probably the akkala citadel and typhlo ruins.

    • @averyvonfrank3282
      @averyvonfrank3282 4 года назад +20

      Definitely the Zonai Ruins. I want nothing more than to know more about them in BOTW.

    • @maybenst
      @maybenst 4 года назад +23

      Mine is the castle town. I really want to see what it was like

    • @GameBee33
      @GameBee33 4 года назад +6

      Hi bandit! Mine is probably Shadow Hamlet Ruins.

  • @logannance10
    @logannance10 4 года назад +699

    "Ganon has returned!!! Good thing we spent 100 years harvesting this tree."

    • @bup_dnq8440
      @bup_dnq8440 4 года назад +35

      "Covid-19 is here!!! Good thing we spent $10,000 buying toilet paper."

    • @Simply_resharkable
      @Simply_resharkable 4 года назад +7

      It would have been up to 10,000 years, as the 100 years was Link’s stasis after the Calamity

    • @r4yb0x39
      @r4yb0x39 3 года назад +5

      Balls King twilight paper

  • @jacobp4516
    @jacobp4516 4 года назад +1390

    A tree that big would also probably help prevent flooding. Imaging how much water the tree would draw from the ground, up the trunk and out of the leaves every day. Probably enough to prevent flooding of the hollow it was present in.

    • @gigyro
      @gigyro 4 года назад +27

      Exactly

    • @isaaczetino3399
      @isaaczetino3399 4 года назад +77

      Darn you beat me to it, that's exactly my thoughts, how much water does it take to create a tree of such magnitude. I hope he touches up on this in the next video when he talks about what he thinks this tree was.

    • @yugotuber
      @yugotuber 4 года назад +34

      Yes, agree completely, the tree took up all the water that now is collecting in the pool. Also the ground/ earth surrounding it gives rathervaway, that it is not super solid and stable. I believe the houses and other stuff collapsed into the center towards the tree. The sheer static weight of the tree, plus constant raining and eventually the water gathering up as a pool arround it, must have losened up the soil in the end, creating that crater and collapsing of stuff. I strongly believe that Hylians found that tree and chopped it of and made a settlement/ wood mill factory. Disregarding how they would affect the nature until the place collapsed. I think that this place shows how greedy and egotistical the people have been and paying for their overexploitation.

    • @paulnewhouse5126
      @paulnewhouse5126 4 года назад +4

      my thoughts exactly!

    • @spawny6191
      @spawny6191 4 года назад +5

      Which is why it’s so damn big

  • @braydenleaderofthetirkins1143
    @braydenleaderofthetirkins1143 4 года назад +1065

    You do know that Lon Lon Ranch was probably tended to and remade, remodeled, etc. The ranch, over time, would obviously be ruined, worn, so it would have to be remodeled multiple times. Who says this is the original Lon Lon Ranch?

    • @lanasmith4795
      @lanasmith4795 4 года назад +104

      Ranch of Theseus

    • @vetlestyve3571
      @vetlestyve3571 4 года назад +90

      My bet is that it is the original but it is obviously upkept by the owners

    • @braydenleaderofthetirkins1143
      @braydenleaderofthetirkins1143 4 года назад +74

      @@vetlestyve3571 I agree. I meant it as the same location as the original, just different fencing, houses, but maybe the large stone building could be the same. Stone structures, if built a certain way, can last for potentially over a thousand or more years.

    • @NerdySalemSays
      @NerdySalemSays 4 года назад +38

      Tod add to this, even if they keep the exact same lay out, wood can be replaced and if properly maintained and sealed can last hundreds or even of years (so long enough to at least last from the beginning of the calamity to the actual game events)
      (also an example of wood being much more durable than you'd think; there was a ship called the Mary Rose that was completed in 1512 and it went down during a battle in 1545 (so some of it was destroyed) and they discovered its remains in like the 70s and raised it from the seafloor in the 80s and its still around to this day... meaning its over 500 years old. its actually really cool...)

    • @totallyahuman5055
      @totallyahuman5055 4 года назад +10

      @@NerdySalemSays The reason for the Mary Roses lasting that long was because of very specific conditions that hasn't happened to other ships.

  • @CBZ-vk9bz
    @CBZ-vk9bz 4 года назад +414

    The draining system is much obvious: the tree itself.
    When fully grown, it would have absorbed all rain water, allowing construction over there

    • @spawny6191
      @spawny6191 4 года назад +7

      CBZ 1068 which answered why it’s so big

    • @ping_ms
      @ping_ms 4 года назад +14

      big brain answer, and when they cut it down it didn't need to absorb as much and they flooded.

    • @theartshow1476
      @theartshow1476 4 года назад +5

      PingMS and then they probably filled the dent in the ground that felling the giant tree made using construction sand. Lol

    • @olivierverberg897
      @olivierverberg897 4 года назад +1

      and the leaves helped

    • @michellephillips9570
      @michellephillips9570 4 года назад

      Your very correct

  • @kathleenm6715
    @kathleenm6715 4 года назад +252

    The creators of Breathe of the Wild: idk i thought it looks cool so lets put a giant stump
    This guy:

  • @angelhernandezvega6064
    @angelhernandezvega6064 4 года назад +547

    NMB: *talks about lumberjacks*
    The Great Deku Tree: *sweats nervously*

    • @dennisjohnson1809
      @dennisjohnson1809 4 года назад +11

      Angel Hernandez Vega -
      Lumber jacks- don’t worry deku tree it won’t hurt much
      Deku tree-*nervous* umm Zelda Please come and get these guy, they making me nervous😬

    • @paulnewhouse5126
      @paulnewhouse5126 4 года назад +8

      made me think of the lumberjacks from link to the past before u get the master sword

    • @michellephillips9570
      @michellephillips9570 4 года назад

      Read my comment if you enjoy this

    • @blakeswanson1322
      @blakeswanson1322 4 года назад +1

      So many deku shields......... BUT AT WHAT COST???

    • @thenerdyweeb4899
      @thenerdyweeb4899 2 года назад

      The deku tree is dead

  • @Matt-Pare
    @Matt-Pare 4 года назад +820

    I’m at the point in quarantine where I’m enthralled by a theory video about a fictional stump

    • @lanibird2182
      @lanibird2182 4 года назад +12

      I'm at the point to where I'm looking at old gravity falls theories lol

    • @Kwizii
      @Kwizii 4 года назад +24

      I'm more pathetic, I subscribed to all the Zelda theorists way before the lockdown :D I have no excuse!

    • @9r3y_s7d
      @9r3y_s7d 4 года назад +3

      SAME!!!!!!

    • @Kidgib5
      @Kidgib5 4 года назад +1

      I'd be enthralled during normal times as well. I like these videos. A bit better then NBC's content and I really like NBC as well. Keep it up MNB

    • @Kwizii
      @Kwizii 4 года назад +1

      @@Kidgib5 I recommend Rinkuto videos (in French but production quality is great and theories are awesome). And Zeltik but he is well known :) (and a few smaller ones as well).

  • @NintendoBlackCrisis
    @NintendoBlackCrisis 4 года назад +518

    Waht the stump.
    Personally, I think the ancient stump was used as a lookout post for that small village. Because it's in a basin, there was no way for the residents to see possible invaders. The ancient stump was the perfect lookout post, plus there's a house built close to the bridge!

    • @DimitarPenkov
      @DimitarPenkov 4 года назад +28

      I personally think it's part of the Great Deku Tree family since The Stump if it was a fully grown tree could be as big or at least at a similar height to The Great Deku Tree in BOTW. The only Tree of that size that I've seen at least.

    • @DimitarPenkov
      @DimitarPenkov 4 года назад +17

      And the houses could mean that people were simply living around The Deku Tree similar to The Kokiri or in BOTW's case, The Koroks

    • @spect80r
      @spect80r 4 года назад +2

      Waht

    • @pankajsaroj8937
      @pankajsaroj8937 4 года назад +5

      Has anyone noticed that how on earth is a house made of wood underwater!

    • @9r3y_s7d
      @9r3y_s7d 4 года назад +2

      Yah but i think it was the old bridge of hilia

  • @triveeh5071
    @triveeh5071 4 года назад +181

    I think it's more likely the "construction sand" and rubble is evidence of a land slide that caused that building to slip into the lake.

    • @kingdaniel3519
      @kingdaniel3519 4 года назад +7

      I think that most likely as well.

    • @davidquezada50
      @davidquezada50 4 года назад +1

      Yep

    • @ryubaku
      @ryubaku 4 года назад +1

      My thoughts exactly

    • @seantheimp
      @seantheimp 4 года назад +7

      Maybe not that exactly, but perhaps it destroyed the primary drainage(if natural evaporation from the tree's leaves wasn't enough). The building(and especially its floor) does look pretty intact for having fallen down a hill.

  • @chysavrc.3643
    @chysavrc.3643 4 года назад +176

    I always thought that the tree was a reference to The Windwaker:
    The tree represents the Deku Tree from that game, the thin trees surrounding it represent the Korok, and the house underwater represents the flooded Hyrule.

    • @RayMora-RaychaelsaurusRex
      @RayMora-RaychaelsaurusRex 4 года назад +17

      I thought so too, but the Deku tree is alive and well in BOTW, what surprises me even more is that this stump appears to be almost as big, if not bigger, than the Deku tree

    • @RandomSime
      @RandomSime 4 года назад +30

      @@RayMora-RaychaelsaurusRex Deku trees can die, like we saw in Ocarina. Maybe the Ancient Tree Stump is a Deku tree corpse!

    • @sandycat1423
      @sandycat1423 4 года назад +5

      Nice theory

    • @char5285
      @char5285 4 года назад +8

      I thought it was a reference to the one in the very first game

    • @Gamemaster-64
      @Gamemaster-64 4 года назад +6

      @@char5285 that be great if they put a door and a dungeon that similar to that from LoZ.

  • @mrsnos
    @mrsnos 4 года назад +67

    When trees die the ground around them tends to sink due to root death, we tend not to notice this as they usually fall over. Hope one day we get answers, love this kind of stuff, thank you!

    • @obamnaprismus
      @obamnaprismus 3 года назад +6

      THAT'S WHY THE HOUSES SANK WITH THE TREE
      Man, that's interesting

  • @767KirbyLord
    @767KirbyLord 4 года назад +71

    The Ancient Tree Stump did always stump me.

  • @JustINsideGaming
    @JustINsideGaming 4 года назад +237

    The remains of Lon Lon Ranch didn't have to survive thousands of years, only 100 at the least

    • @lanasmith4795
      @lanasmith4795 4 года назад +42

      If you take a broken section of fence down and replace it with a new section that matches the old is it really a new fence? Even after you've done this enough times that the entire fence is made out of new material. I'm thinking that but the entire Ranch

    • @anialator1000000
      @anialator1000000 4 года назад +37

      @@lanasmith4795 Theseus's fence. But yeah i agree its not technically the same fence as Ocarina of Time, its just been repaired, replaced, or rebuilt in a near identical layout until 100 years earlier when the inhabitants were killed.
      The more mysterious thing is the trees that didn't grow at all in 100 years, looking in the present identically to as they were 100 years earlier in the memories.

    • @Spork15
      @Spork15 4 года назад +2

      @@anialator1000000 omg I never noticed that

    • @lanasmith4795
      @lanasmith4795 4 года назад +2

      @@anialator1000000 that is something that irked me as well.

    • @CrimsonRayne
      @CrimsonRayne 4 года назад +6

      It could of been Lon Lon ranch was the place the royal family breed their horses (like epona) And over thousands of years, that places purpose was just for that and kept it around. Ezy pzy

  • @pinsandpatches5951
    @pinsandpatches5951 4 года назад +24

    "You've all seen it, we've all seen it"
    I didn't even know it existed until this video came up in my recommended

  • @slashinswingin4369
    @slashinswingin4369 4 года назад +104

    I like theories like this. They don't try to theorize about something everyone already knew and theorized about, and it doesn't try to shoehorn it into being related to something else in the franchise. Just the small things, with interesting details and history. I urge you not to talk about how it may be connected to a Deku tree, etc., to keep that bliss and individual quality.

    • @Swaxeman
      @Swaxeman 4 года назад +3

      I think that that’s caused in part by the fact that BOTW is so detailed that you can make a story about one small area

  • @theonionator7366
    @theonionator7366 4 года назад +151

    Today I just realized that there is an area called “Breach of Demise”
    Why the heck would this be here?
    Btw, it is southeast of the Ridgeland Tower

    • @kellanheikkila3553
      @kellanheikkila3553 4 года назад +42

      I watched a video (I cant remember what channel) that said it was the place where demise broke open the earth to call forth his army before skyward sword. Or it was at least named after it.

    • @hallowseve6340
      @hallowseve6340 4 года назад +24

      Demise came from a hole in the ground in skyward sword. Demise was the imprisoned who came from the pit under the peg/stake in the ground in the Faron Woods. That spot was a breach of the seal the goddess put in place to keep him at bay.

    • @morphstarchangeling8024
      @morphstarchangeling8024 4 года назад +7

      Yeah it's super weird that it's there. The part that is interesting isn't the same but the lack of life there.

    • @thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys
      @thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys 4 года назад +2

      It’s probably where demise was killed. I don’t know never played skyward sword

    • @davidrobles1165
      @davidrobles1165 4 года назад +6

      Destiny Leonard the peg/stake area in skyward sword isn’t where demise came from. Remember that when demise appeared the great statue of the goddess hylia (and the second part of the sealed temple) used to be where the stake/peg that imprisoned him is so he couldn’t have come out of there

  • @fax8553
    @fax8553 4 года назад +110

    Funny thing the ranch ruins are called Lon Lon ranch in german

    • @sandycat1423
      @sandycat1423 4 года назад +1

      Yay hollow knight

    • @Matthew-sj2kp
      @Matthew-sj2kp 4 года назад

      @Silvertd 159 If you really wanna know, just turn the language in your game to German and check it

    • @nailclippers7409
      @nailclippers7409 3 года назад

      @Silvertd 159 try finding it then putting it into google translate

    • @nailclippers7409
      @nailclippers7409 3 года назад

      @Silvertd 159 lol same

  • @sheikuh7736
    @sheikuh7736 4 года назад +58

    There is a flooded village close to lake Hylia with a significantly larger hollow tree

    • @thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys
      @thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys 4 года назад +1

      Sheikuh 7 can u tell me the exact location? I’m having trouble finding it

    • @sheikuh7736
      @sheikuh7736 4 года назад +3

      @@thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys between north east of lake Hylia and north west of the fountain of courage
      Is right in front of one of Link's memories

    • @drfoto2673
      @drfoto2673 4 года назад +4

      @@thomaswoodenrailwayjourneys It's probably Deya Village they are talking about, if you trek towards the twin peaks from the plateau and take a left just before you reach that mountain you'll end up in Deya Village ruins, it's a shallow lake and there are two giant fallen trees there where most of them have rotted away.

    • @lukebradbury3370
      @lukebradbury3370 4 года назад

      It could be that in ancient times there were lots of huge trees but due to the growing population they cut them down for resources and to make space for more settlements.

  • @kdm1234gmail
    @kdm1234gmail 4 года назад +116

    i wondered if it was one of the deku tree generations. Given that they have grown in other places with the forest. If maybe in some more recent 10,000 years. One grew there and the forest spirits having developed further with the people. Took a more adult form to blend in and lived with the people to a degree, but when the tree passed. The seed flew or was transported to the deepest thicket of woods that now became the lost woods and the deku's people left. The tree lay dormant for some years. Till as you said people found it and began harvesting it. Or a stray guardian beam sliced through it and the energy of the beam rattled the tree awake and it started to grow.

    • @kingdaniel3519
      @kingdaniel3519 4 года назад +5

      That's possible, however, I think it was probably just an extremely large regular tree. Besides, the Great Deku Tree is hardly the only giant tree in Hyrule.

    • @kdm1234gmail
      @kdm1234gmail 4 года назад +3

      @@kingdaniel3519 very true

    • @lorelikesthings
      @lorelikesthings 4 года назад +2

      Yes! I was thinking it was the Great Deku Tree or Ordon Village!

    • @Breached18
      @Breached18 4 года назад

      The deku tree was hollow, maybe more grew but were cut down and they eventually lead to the new lost woods

    • @IsidorTheNordicGuy
      @IsidorTheNordicGuy 3 года назад

      The stump makes me think of the great ancient tree from skyward sword. That's the only "ancient" tree in the series that wasn't a great deku tree so perhaps this could be that tree?

  • @tattertot8259
    @tattertot8259 4 года назад +12

    Your going to harp of the fact the ranch ruins look like lon lon ranch but just going to ignore the fact that Eventide Island is just Koholint island with the nightmare structures cut off right?
    Cuz that seems more ..... significant.

  • @maybenst
    @maybenst 4 года назад +24

    I think that the Ocarina of Time great deku tree was chopped down which left its remains as the Ancient Tree Stump. But, the great deku tree is in the Korok Forest, so that means that it isnt the remains of the great deku tree from OoT. Maybe the trees surrounding the stump was once the Kokiri Forest?

    • @maybenst
      @maybenst 4 года назад +1

      @@stuffz1757 true

    • @GameBee33
      @GameBee33 4 года назад +2

      @aidangallantyt I don’t think the giant tree is the Great Deku Tree from OoT because, as MNB stated, the giant tree is still somewhat alive, whereas we watch the Great Deku Tree die completely in OoT. But I could be wrong, there could’ve been another or many other GDTs who lived in different areas in Hyrule between the events of the two games, as StuffZ said.

    • @loganhanssler4419
      @loganhanssler4419 4 года назад

      IlluminaBee 33 In the adult time of OoT there is a 2nd deku tree born right in front of the old one

    • @kingdaniel3519
      @kingdaniel3519 4 года назад +2

      There is a real life phenomenon called forest migration. Where over centuries and millennia, entire forests can migrate from one area to a completely different area. Some studies have shown that a forest can migrate hundreds or thousands of miles over extended periods of time. However, I don't think it likely that the stump is the remains of a Deku tree. The Great Deku Tree may be the single largest, but it is not the only giant tree to be found in Hyrule. I think it most likely that the stump is a giant tree, just not of the Deku variety.

  • @MultiGameisland
    @MultiGameisland 4 года назад +13

    That's obviously The Beanstalk that was cut so the giants wouldn't come down from the clouds and the houses were little Jack relatives waiting for his return.

  • @Kahadi
    @Kahadi 4 года назад +9

    A couple comments to make:
    Regarding the ranch ruins, while not the focus of the video: aside from the Sheikah, over the course of 10,000 years, Hyrule has not advanced at all in technology or anything like that, including architecture. They have the same kinds of buildings now as they did in Skyward Sword. So while in real life, old buildings would get torn down and replaced with more modern ones, its quite possible that Lon Lon Ranch was maintained and rebuilt with the same architecture. Replace old logs and wood fences over time, maintain stone buildings, rebuild anything that is destroyed by disaster or weather. By looks, it would be the exact same thousands of years later. But at its heart, its like the ship paradox. Its the same ranch, but made from new wood and stone and such. Because of a lack of architectural advancements, it just requires the family line to never die out, for the ranch to stay running by new generations all the time. And being in ruins, we can't actually see how much has changed, we just recognize what's the same. A wood fence being there 10,000 years later isn't all that unlikely in a world like Hyrule, as long as you realize that its not the exact same pieces of wood.
    As for the lake surrounding the tree: considering the lack of ruins where the sand and rubble blockage is, it seems more likely to me that it was intentional, to dam the water and create a lake, flooding ruins or abandoned structures already there. Why would they do that? Hard to say. But the lack of Guardians and large ruins where the blockage lies suggests it wasn't caused by a building collapsing when the Calamity returned a hundred years ago. Look at other, similar ruined structures for what I mean. Building sand could be there intentionally as a dam as well

  • @liambecker558
    @liambecker558 4 года назад +56

    What if that big tree used to be the great deku tree, and the town in the crater was the old kokiri forest

    • @game_crasher5725
      @game_crasher5725 4 года назад +8

      That was my theory too

    • @tomshields5210
      @tomshields5210 4 года назад +5

      same

    • @SansMain
      @SansMain 4 года назад +3

      Yeah I thought of that

    • @Rydax
      @Rydax 4 года назад +6

      The buildings were made of stone. Kokiri live in trees.

    • @Dude-mu5xc
      @Dude-mu5xc 4 года назад +3

      Their was sort of a crater around the original deku tree

  • @ZeldaLore
    @ZeldaLore 4 года назад +26

    What if this is the same giant tree from Skyward Sword?

    • @ZeldaLore
      @ZeldaLore 4 года назад +7

      @@stuffz1757 the Skyview spring is the spring of power, meaning long ago faron woods extended aaaaall the way to akalla. If you look at the actual map of Skyward sword, the skyview temple stands where the akalla region is

    • @Natethegreat-tq4qh
      @Natethegreat-tq4qh 4 года назад +2

      @@ZeldaLore i never expected you to be here. I love your Zelda theories and Zelda story-telling keepup the good work

    • @ZeldaLore
      @ZeldaLore 4 года назад +2

      @@Natethegreat-tq4qh i follow all the zelda RUclipsrs, you are goung to find me everywhere XD

  • @RyanHaney55
    @RyanHaney55 4 года назад +7

    I just figured the individual parts of the ranch had been replaced over the years as it was a working ranch until the Calamity 100 years ago and not that each fence post was 10,000 years old. But, it's amazing that the developers put construction sand around an old tree to give eagle-eyed gamers and theorists something else to look at and think about. Very interesting video.🙂

  • @ringoognir629
    @ringoognir629 4 года назад +21

    now that I've seen this video another question came into my mind, did anyone ever cover a theory about how a decu tree "gets born" and if not, could you make one?

    • @0live0llie
      @0live0llie 4 года назад +2

      I'm ocarina of time, once you become and adult and you revisit the dead great deku tree, there is a baby deku tree next to it. It came from one of the seeds that the tree dropped. So, we can assume that they come from other/previous deku trees. The only problem with this is how do the locations vary between games?
      I may be mistaken, however, as I have not played it in a while

    • @ringoognir629
      @ringoognir629 4 года назад +1

      @@0live0llie I know about the Decu tree in OoT, but that still leaves the question how the first one came to existence 😅

    • @moutray77
      @moutray77 4 года назад +1

      @@0live0llie I just assume the kokiri and korok take the seed and change location.

    • @0live0llie
      @0live0llie 4 года назад

      @@ringoognir629 Maybe the goddesses created the first the first one?

    • @0live0llie
      @0live0llie 4 года назад

      @@moutray77 That would make sense

  • @goggles8691
    @goggles8691 4 года назад +58

    What if you wanted to go to heaven, but God said "What the stump is this??"

  • @zacattack7636
    @zacattack7636 4 года назад +25

    I really hope we see it grown in BOTW 2

    • @BenteinBjerke
      @BenteinBjerke 4 года назад +6

      I am no expert on trees, but I don't remember ever having heard or witnessed cut down trees grow. Would be pretty great to see big big trees covering the Hyrule fantasy tho.

    • @Sebastian_Hahn
      @Sebastian_Hahn 4 года назад

      @@BenteinBjerke woodlandinfo.org/managing-sprouts-in-your-forest/

    • @Lv-nq9qz
      @Lv-nq9qz Год назад

      Well, it didnt grow, but it is an interesting spot to visit

  • @KHolly-nn7bl
    @KHolly-nn7bl 4 года назад +7

    I was listening to the song 'Wannabe' when I got the notification for this video, and I was like:
    I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna
    I really really really wanna watch a new zelda theory
    Yep, that's how I look at things.

  • @AdmiralAwsm
    @AdmiralAwsm 4 года назад +2

    There are also massive tree stump/trunk remains in other areas of the world. Crenel Hills in particular have a series of hollowed out stumps

  • @isa-ah
    @isa-ah 4 года назад +10

    I'd love to hear more thoughts on the giant trees! the idea of hylians chopping down a deku tree is morbidly fascinating..?

  • @fancifulgamer28
    @fancifulgamer28 4 года назад +3

    Yeah we should get a second theory for this and speculate as to what this massive tree really was and why it stood out from the rest of the surrounding area and its trees.
    And also I think there should have been an added detail that because the tree was probably so huge, its large branches and tree limbs stemming from the top probably covered the basin area around it like a massive umbrella, preventing the rainwater from filling up the bowl surface.

  • @zerospace3565
    @zerospace3565 4 года назад +2

    i love your editing so much lmao, top tier

  • @abdulnasirbushra6049
    @abdulnasirbushra6049 Год назад

    You figured this out so well this video is so entertaining I was curious about how you can make a 11 minute video about a tree stump. But it was deeper than I thought!

  • @raineblackstar3522
    @raineblackstar3522 4 года назад +3

    Loved that you included that scene where Mark raged over "getting over it".

  • @athenaflanagan6306
    @athenaflanagan6306 4 года назад +3

    I would love theories on what that tree used to be, looking forward to that video!

  • @tailsthefox9275
    @tailsthefox9275 4 года назад +5

    I used to think I explored everything in BotW, but watching these videos, I found out that there’s a lot I haven’t even heard of

    • @kingdaniel3519
      @kingdaniel3519 4 года назад

      Same here. I like to watch the video and then go find the area(s) from the video to look for myself and come up with my own thoughts.

  • @KnightSirBrandon
    @KnightSirBrandon 4 года назад +8

    Oh idk. MAYBE THE GIANT TREE AND ITS GIANT ROOTS DRANK THE WATER.

  • @nachosareprettycool8344
    @nachosareprettycool8344 4 года назад +17

    I’ve come up with a conclusion:
    You guys are all overthinking this

  • @Tony_AM009
    @Tony_AM009 4 года назад +4

    Looks like this mystery didn't leave you stumped!
    Anyways, keep up the good work. Hope that you're doing well.
    Take care!

  • @houseofskulltulips
    @houseofskulltulips 4 года назад +1

    I've always wanted a video dedicated to this stump.

  • @millennial_fairy
    @millennial_fairy 4 года назад +1

    Great theory man!

  • @first3numbers
    @first3numbers 4 года назад +6

    This quarantine is sending you into a downward spiral of madness

  • @tomoruin
    @tomoruin 4 года назад +3

    the stump really stumped me when I found it

  • @LegendaryPokemon1221
    @LegendaryPokemon1221 4 года назад

    Super interesting! Subscribed!

  • @zeldanerd6010
    @zeldanerd6010 2 года назад

    Dude I love your videos I been watching them all day I just got into Zelda again after playing it years ago on N64

  • @jonatan6511
    @jonatan6511 4 года назад +6

    0:45 yeah bud you are. But it’s a nice reference and flashback for all the long time fans

  • @stefanpiccone9365
    @stefanpiccone9365 4 года назад +4

    Me: How do you know those leave come from an aspen tree?
    MNB: You can tell because of the way it is

  • @BagOyag
    @BagOyag 4 года назад +2

    You forgot about the Erosion of the land

  • @CheekieCharlie
    @CheekieCharlie Год назад +1

    Loved this theory! I bet the giant reach of leaves would have also kept the rain out!

  • @86jpw
    @86jpw 4 года назад +4

    Maybe its a reference to the great tree in skyward sword. since at one point it was surrounded by water.

  • @tangoop095
    @tangoop095 4 года назад +3

    I feel like the ancient stump was the original Deku tree
    And the deku tree in botw was the sprout from ocarina of time

  • @flamyangelwings7410
    @flamyangelwings7410 4 года назад +3

    I just assumed that the ranch kept existing and being rebuilt more or less the same. It was a functioning business in a good location and assuming there was a new person to hand it down to, be it child or loyal employee or whatever, it could have lasted. That wasn't the same buildings from OOT, they where just rebuilt in the same location whenever they got doo run down or destroyed.

  • @ConOn55
    @ConOn55 4 года назад

    Awesome theory dude

  • @emanolhasagreenhat3680
    @emanolhasagreenhat3680 4 года назад +11

    I like to think that the tree stump is a old version of the tree dungeon in Zelda 1

    • @emanolhasagreenhat3680
      @emanolhasagreenhat3680 4 года назад

      Silvertd 159, Yeah your right Mekar Island most likely the old dungeon, I kinda wish it still had the raft near it, what if that tree at Mekar island, was a shrine quest and if you find the opening you enter a shrine. That would be a great Zelda call back

  • @davidmartin5483
    @davidmartin5483 4 года назад +13

    Could it be that this three is the one we see in the oracle games?

    • @loganhanssler4419
      @loganhanssler4419 4 года назад +4

      David Martin Probably not, Holodrum and Labrynna are different lands but if the timelines collided then who’s to say Termina, Holodrum, and Labrynna aren’t there too...

    • @Varunic219
      @Varunic219 4 года назад +2

      @@loganhanssler4419 I swear to God, my heart would damn-near stop if the lands to the north, east, & west of BotW's Hyrule were those three kingdoms.

    • @loganhanssler4419
      @loganhanssler4419 4 года назад

      Vincent L Mine would too. I know GameTheory made a video of an idea that the colliding of the timelines in Hyrule Warriors was actually canon and BotW comes after that which would explain why there’s stuff from all 3 timelines, but those 3 kingdoms are also part of the timelines so she very well could’ve collided them. Someone needs to check if the maps line up

  • @JKMooreMusic
    @JKMooreMusic 4 года назад

    Nice vid man, I love looking at little details in games. FYI check out Namika Ozz Shrine in Crenel Hills SE of Hyrule Castle. There is a group of giant tree stumps almost identical to the ancient tree stump, and the shrine is inside one of the hollowed out stumps, which means these trees were all cut down long before the Sheikah built the shrines, meaning it really is an ANCIENT stump, not cut down 100 years prior (assuming the Crenel Hills trees were contemporaries of the one in your vid, which seems likely given their similar look, including branches sawed off almost identical to the ancient tree stump)

  • @YozoraCutie
    @YozoraCutie 4 года назад +2

    I had huge Lake Hylia vibes from OoT

  • @maybenst
    @maybenst 4 года назад +8

    I came as soon as i got the notification

  • @GameGarbage
    @GameGarbage 4 года назад +6

    Just wanna say this, when you said the thing that bothered you a lot I thought you meant the weird house under the water not leaves
    Edit: OMG MULTIPLE LIKES

  • @l8on8or164
    @l8on8or164 4 года назад +1

    Definitely wanted to hear what you thought it was! Future video please

  • @ericaking3052
    @ericaking3052 3 года назад +1

    This theory makes so much sense

  • @norton_antivirus
    @norton_antivirus 4 года назад +3

    The tree was more than huge it was the tree from skyward sword

  • @CeranVA
    @CeranVA 4 года назад +3

    "How can a ranch survive 10000 years? It makes no sense!"
    ...you know you can just... replace the fence pieces over the years, right? You don't have to just use that same wood for over a millenia.

    • @Mr.Scott86
      @Mr.Scott86 4 года назад

      But then who's replacing the fence and why, did they get killed off recently?

    • @Omnirok12
      @Omnirok12 3 года назад

      @@Mr.Scott86 descendants? got killed in the calamity?

    • @Mr.Scott86
      @Mr.Scott86 3 года назад

      @@Omnirok12 and why would they replace a fence even though it's so close to the castle

    • @Omnirok12
      @Omnirok12 3 года назад

      @@Mr.Scott86 why would a ranch not want to have fences?? its farm animal enclosure 101??

    • @Mr.Scott86
      @Mr.Scott86 3 года назад

      @@Omnirok12 and again its 100 years after a calamity how does it still have fences

  • @ns0557212
    @ns0557212 4 года назад +1

    I think it goes back to where you started with "Nintendo threw in all these random landmarks from the past" this is a throwback to the first dungeon in the first game.

    • @Selcryn
      @Selcryn 4 года назад

      But that dungeon had five trees around it that were close to its own size, plus there wasn't a building next to it.

  • @majjegaming5927
    @majjegaming5927 4 года назад

    Love yur videos man

  • @josephjoestar699
    @josephjoestar699 4 года назад +3

    Wow I got here early for once

  • @BirdieSenpai
    @BirdieSenpai 4 года назад +4

    Mask: What the heck? Why would you put that there?
    Markiplier: appears
    Me, someone who always gets called Discount Markiplier: What the heck? Why would you put that there?
    ALSO, CAN WE GET MY BRO MASK UP TO 50K TODAY? LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN, FOLKS!!

    • @BanditGames
      @BanditGames  4 года назад

      Discount Markiplier! With that voice, you're not discount anything!
      Also thanks man :)

    • @BirdieSenpai
      @BirdieSenpai 4 года назад +1

      D'aww, just for that, my not-discount voice is always available to assist you, my brother! LOL

  • @eljaminlatour6633
    @eljaminlatour6633 4 года назад +1

    I think that tree is a Maku tree, at Oracle of Seasons, the Maku tree helps Link to restore the seasons back, but then Holodrum is destroyed or flooded then the hylians took it as territory.

  • @conway1303
    @conway1303 3 года назад +1

    Hyrule: exists
    Ganon : we have a city to burn.

  • @ItazuraP
    @ItazuraP 4 года назад +2

    I always assumed it was the Maku tree from the Oracle games since its in water.

    • @levie8269
      @levie8269 4 года назад

      that or the tree from the first zelda game

  • @JarodJL
    @JarodJL 3 года назад +1

    I feel like this tree was cut, or at least recut more recently. Those branches growing around the side should be way larger if it was a living stump.

  • @ns0557212
    @ns0557212 4 года назад

    Great video. Your theory is close to mine. To me its just a settlement located near the coliseum ruins that was hidden and nestled in the hills giving them a natural barrier too and a bottleneck even to defend themselves. The house that still stands at the top was probably the lookout tower/guard post even as it's right at beginning of the bottleneck.

  • @ashton5061
    @ashton5061 4 года назад +2

    That thumbnail though. Funniest pun i have ever heard

  • @renevillanueva82
    @renevillanueva82 4 года назад

    Good video... make sense about the ancient stump

  • @lanasmith4795
    @lanasmith4795 4 года назад +2

    As for the ranch ruins I'm going to go with ship of Theseus

  • @dazeddamien5625
    @dazeddamien5625 3 года назад

    A video about what this tree could be would be awesome

  • @tonyvazquez7820
    @tonyvazquez7820 4 года назад

    Stump that sticks out to me the most is Link To The Past the Spirit Playing The Flute In the circle wooded area.

  • @DeathlyHolos
    @DeathlyHolos Год назад +1

    Couldn’t help but notice the settlement nearby is called “Rauru Settlement Ruins” which meant nothing to me in BOTW but with TOTK it’s making me wonder why it’s named after Rauru.

  • @Dragon-fc6yu
    @Dragon-fc6yu 3 года назад +1

    Ok, but surely the levelling out to make the huge wood processing building thingy would have completed the basin anyway. And you said that the tree would have been huge, huge enough to need a whole lake's worth of water? but then when they cut it down, even though it continued to live, it wouldn't need enough sustenance to drain the entire lake below.
    Just an idea.

  • @DefenderofHyrule
    @DefenderofHyrule 4 года назад +1

    I suspected it was the Great Deku Tree (or maybe the sprout that grows afer completing the Forest Temple) so be great to hear your thoughts on it

  • @Richierickyrick
    @Richierickyrick 3 года назад +1

    My family: what are you doing up there?!
    Me: watching an expert theorize what happened to a giant ancient tree.
    My family: he’s so intelligent!

  • @Anittadp1
    @Anittadp1 4 года назад

    give him a like! This dude puts so much work into his vids.

  • @timdrus
    @timdrus 4 года назад +1

    I think this will be a dungeon in the next game. It seems like wherever the sand covers an entrance might be pre-planned for the future and easy to clear areas are likely going to be what they edit most. Trees in the game seem to be a bit more magic so it would explain why some of the 10,000 year old structures survived. I also think rather than going into the dungeon from a collapsed tunnel like other dungeons this one will open from the top of the stump which is why the center looks extra brittle and revealing a root system with possibly more of the underground and a whole dungeon is probably going to be found there. I think instead of relying on Sheikah tech we'll be looking for much older relics to fight Ganondorf like the Gust Jar, hookshots, etc. I also believe the Yiga started out as Lorulian Sheikah; not just because their symbols are upside down but their appearance in Lorule was a direct result to link's wish to restore EVERYTHING to what the world would have been without influence from Ganon. The Triforce wouldn't have a reference for the dark world to be based off of so it created Lorule with the same history of Hyrule but since it couldn't create the goddesses or destroy the darkness in its entirety (which is why you see huge holes of darkness in Lorule and the same monsters as the Dark World) Lorule was formed as a dirty mirror without Goddess bloodlines or influences. No goddesses mean the Sheikah of that world would only have darkness to turn to and would slowly invaded hyrule through malice and turn Sheikah against each other. Which is why the machines were flawed and could be over taken by malice; the elders separated from the Sheikah as a whole instead of fighting along-side them in the Yiga trap so the could pick up the mantle if their prediction came true. BotW also had a habit of slightly altering names (Yuga=Yiga), so while I don't think the current Yiga come from Lorule I think they practice Lorulian magic by studying their hidden history. Hence the scrolls, shapeshifting, and disappearance, which were all Yuga tricks. After all, Yuga somehow knew of Ganon. Also look at what you pass through in Between Worlds it looks like Malice and Magic. The upside down eye matches Lorule's history of reverse imagery as well and might be directly influenced by Yuga's robes.

  • @Lyoko012345
    @Lyoko012345 4 года назад +1

    Definitely make a theory video on what you believe the tree to be.

  • @lochlanmclean7694
    @lochlanmclean7694 3 года назад +1

    I love ur breath of the wild theory vids ur so funny

  • @batteryboi2
    @batteryboi2 Год назад

    This question really stumped me

  • @dogstuffs1286
    @dogstuffs1286 4 года назад +1

    For the lumber jack thing I think they did start to chop it from the top and stuff, but when the guardians went rogue I think they cut it with their lasers,and that’s probably why it’s such a clean cut (also the branch on the stump is in the middle where the lumber jacks couldn’t have cut which probably also means a Guardian also probably cut it with their lasers too) please consider my theory.

  • @connorshea9085
    @connorshea9085 2 года назад

    The attention to detail here is crazy

  • @dragnbane
    @dragnbane 4 года назад

    I used to do treework with my step-dad, and yes, if the tree was too massive to handle by just dropping it whole, or if there were fragile things around it, we actually would take it off chunk by chuck starting from the top

  • @roseheartfire
    @roseheartfire 3 года назад

    I'dlove to hear the theory. ^^

  • @HyruleGamer
    @HyruleGamer 4 года назад +2

    Never thought about this tbh, very well could be the case but who knows lol.
    Kinda mind blowing haha :D

  • @Angweenie
    @Angweenie 4 года назад

    Don't forget that there is also a massive tree stump and hollowed-out log on the plateau aswell. The one taking part in Champion's Ballad.

  • @danehyk9183
    @danehyk9183 3 года назад +1

    Me: *thinking it’s gonna be connected to lore*
    Him: “the lumberjacks, built a city here...”
    Me: *sighs in disappointment*

  • @Onsvaltti
    @Onsvaltti 3 года назад

    Ooh, good one!!

  • @satellachannel6423
    @satellachannel6423 4 года назад +1

    I think this is a reference to the Great Tree from Faron Woods in Skyward Sword.
    An area that is flooded at some point in the game.

  • @Magneekic
    @Magneekic 4 года назад +2

    I would love for a Great deku tree theory for this

  • @sadgiraffe6669
    @sadgiraffe6669 4 года назад +1

    I like to imagine that the years on hyrule are shorter than here on earth, beacouse we hadn't even discoverd iron 10000 years ago, it sort of explains the weird timing withing the world of zelda.