haven't finished yet but linking to another theory of yours what if gannondorf did this to himself maybe gannon is not gannondorf but demise using him the hand saying seal gannon is him trying to save his friend link his people, and all of Hyrule when the hand left him he lost control WHAT IF HE IS USING THE CURSE TO GET LINK TO SAVE HIM AND HE HELPS THEM SAVE HYRULE MAKING THIS IS THE FINAL GAME IN THE SERIES AND AFTER ALL OF THE GANNONDORFS THANK LINK
I have yet to play BotW because I don't have a switch, but i've played a lot of Twilight Princess and it is by far the best Zelda i've ever played. If there's a connection and possibly see Midna again, that would be wonderful. Or an ancestor of Midna, who is just Midna, like they do with Link.
But, it's not the mirror of twilight, if you compare it in game to the twilight princess mirror, they don't share any resemblances outside of the same shape. The design is different, as well as the fact that it shouldn't even exist anymore. Edit: Additionally, the sealing point for Ganondorf, also known as the Mirror of Twilight, was located in the Gerudo Desert, not in the faron woods
@@Detura While yes, the shell of the mirror could have been relocated, that doesn't explain how it was rebuilt after it shattered into nothing via twilight magic. The better question is, why would they move it? The Arbiter's grounds are currently in ruins, and I'm assuming that the time it would take for it to collapse would be long enough for the people who know about the mirror's existence to forget. If the Twilight Princess Zelda/Link moved it, then again, why? If it's for sentimental value, why not move it to Link's home or closer to the castle?
I think the more important factor here is that it's implied to be a Shiekah artifact. It's being repaired reveals a shrine. Which makes sense if the Twili were a split branch of Shiekah, they have similar motifs and designs (the eye sigil, for example.)
@@tyrantworks9604 I don't think we're supposed to think it's the same mirror, or built out of the shell - the video argues a new mirror was built, for the purposes of bringing Midna/the Twili back (because they missed Midna?), in which case it easily could have been simply built down in Faron Province. How the Hylians built the new mirror or why Faron was chosen, who knows, but I mean, a suitable explanation wouldn't be hard to produce for the writers. The whole "Twili coming back via the new mirror, becoming the Zonai, sealing Ganon after the previous Calamity, then vanishing and becoming the Sheikah and Yiga" is a little much to accept outright, but it's kind of necessary to explain why this incarnation of Ganon is sealed by Twilight magic, long after Midna shattered the first mirror. But it all kind of fits and none of it is SUPER far fetched.
Very interesting...also I myself figured the hand left Ganon because Zelda was falling and Link catches her, but then he starts to fall and reaches out for anything to grab onto. Thats where we see that shot of the hand grabbing Link's hand. The ghost hand saved them both in exchange for letting go of Ganon and thus breaking the seal. This is how I interpreted that part of the trailer.
These were well-reasoned points, and you seem to have put a lot of thought into it. I've had my suspicions about the connection between the Interlopers, Sheikah, Twili, and Zonai. I think you're on to something here. And I'd be overjoyed to see a return of Midna.
Unless she's actually an immortal i doubt we'll get to see the "same" Midna from Twilight Princess in a sequel. 🙁😔 It would make more sense if her descendants showed up to help Link fight Ganondorf.
@@javiervasquez8995 You're right about that, as we don't know the average lifespan of the Twili. We can but speculate until we receive some sort of confirmation. (Until then, however, I'll hold on to my hopeful headcanon that they at least have extremely long lifrspans, as in centuries.)
Why do people take that Interlopers are sheikah and gerudo only? The wording is "they were banned to that realm" it doesnt specify any race. For all we know, individuals from all races could have been banned
@@CidPsy by the very nature of the sheika people being so secretive/advanced beyond most all other races of hyrule, this in tandem with the large number of dark secrets and mysticism we see in the Zelda series relating almost every single time to the sheika and a lesser extent the guerudo people tends to give little room for any other race... I mean sure it's always possible and I'm sure small groups of people from other races were indeed involved, but probably not enough to make that much of a difference. Then there is the matter this video brings up regarding the ancient helm midna used having a sheika eye on the back side of it. Pretty hard to see any other group of people being involved as the sheika eye isn't really known to be anyone elses moniker symbol in the entire franchise.
I think the twili might be the children of the gerudo and the sheikah interlopers forced into the twilight realm. Midna does have red hair and so do literally all of the twili and the have the red eyes of the sheikah that would literally mean midna would be distantly related to possibly groose, gannondorf and impa due my hypothesis concluding the twili being the hybridization of gerudo and sheikah forced to adapt to the twilight realm and forced to intermingle to survive. It is evident that the magic, culture and genetics of the gerudo and sheikah mixed forming the twili. It's in their clothes , architecture and even appearance the blueish skin and bioluminescence of certain parts of their body being an adaptation to the surrounding twilight realm.
If we got the twilight realm back in BoTW 2 I would be even more hyped than I already am for it. Plus, I really really really REALLY want this to have some connections to twilight princess, and I want this game to be *DARK*
Hunter Burry well lucky you because out of the 25 Zelda games only 2 are considered dark! So you should be very happy! But people like me who are dying for a horror style Zelda might never get even 1 game like that!
Lion of Truth Even non true horror, big dark fantasy world energy (kinda Witcherish, kinda Soulsborneish) would be very welcome. It’s not as though the lore is any stranger to super creepy shit after all.
I've never played Twilight Princess, so I don't know much about Midna, but I think Navi from Ocarina of Time was pretty useful and cool. Couldn't slaughter monsters, but who cares?
@Ethan C. Nintendo could easily make their way around that plot hole. Remember, Midna is a twill, and it would be easy to establish that Twili have an extended lifetime or the Twilight realm exists in a different field of time (ex: 100 years in hyrule = just 1 year in twilight realm).
As well, Midna was trapped into her impish form through Twili magic reinforced by Ganon. Cast by Zant. That seal taking the form of such similar symbols is likely no coincidence.
Do we know for sure that the malice is flowing away, and that the hand is spiraling upwards? The music is backwards, so maybe the footage is too. Maybe the malice is trying to reinfect Ganoncorpse
@@Xenogamer we know that music can influence the flow of time, maybe that's what's happening here. The Song of Time has been a great tool in the past, maybe it has been bastardized to the point of unrecognizability. Maybe it was flowing one way, and is now flowing another.
Actually the Rito Tribe DOES exists in this timeline. In the new TP HD remake, in the murals in the walls leading to Hyrule castle, it shows Link and another person bringing gifts to a bird-like people that looks EXACTLY like the Rito.
I have a feeling they just wanted to add the Rito in to have a champion from another race.. There's no reason for the Rito to exist in the child timeline. Hyrule was never flooded, so the zora never needed to evolve wings. Same goes for the Koroks.
Kayla Dingess If you head back to around 12:20 of this video, the official records already show / proof that the Rito race hasn’t been established within the “ Distant Past “ frame, yet.
There's also a theory that Ganon corpse was used as a source of power for Sheika technology, and the malice and reincarnations are like a nuclear failure, very related to what Japanese and his history often depict in his art. A super cool theory
Twilight Princess is my favorite game in the series. So if there’s a strong connection to that game, that will be awesome. And just imagine the Hero’s Shade returning to once again teach Link some special moves.
Unfortunately yes, but we can still be sweaty try hards holding out hope that all the Zeldaverse theories come true. Otherwise, what else is there to do? Go outside? Fuck that, I'd rather play BotW for the 5th time or OoT for the 50th.
When zooming in on Ganon as his eyes turn white, LOOK AT HIS COLLAR. At 12:53. Doesn’t that look like the representation of Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild?
Good video, and interesting take to connect TP to BoTW. The only thing I respectfully disagree with is that Link would willing release Ganondorf from his bondage. While Link has been shown in the past to tricked into freeing a villain, i. e. Vaati, I think this situation wouldn’t go the same way. Unless Ganon somehow brainwashes Link upon his arrival, I don’t think he saw a corpse with Malice emitting from it and thought, “Gee, maybe I should help release this guy.” Ya know? Still, I liked this video overall and a lot of it made sense.
That is a very good point, Ganondorf’s appearance alone should be a pretty good tip-off to Zelda and Link that this corpse might be evil. It’s definitely not full proof; there is still so much about the game we don’t know. I’ve come to the conclusion that two possible events could lead to Ganondorf’s awakening at the end of the trailer. Either Link awakens the hand, as I suggested in this theory, or the hand leaves Ganondorf of its own will to save Link. I just have trouble seeing the latter happening.
¿Has anyone considered the possibility that the Hand could actually make Link become slowly corrupted by it's power to the point that it would make him a slave of Ganondorf? Based on what the trailer has shown it's possible that the Hand could lead this incarnation of Link to become a new version of Dark Link.
My take: The hand is supposed to be sealing the Malice inside Ganondorf's corpse to stop the cycle of Demise's curse. It's failing slowly over time, allowing for the creation and cycle of the Calamity Ganon. This Zelda is known to be an explorer and seeker of knowledge. She's drawn to the immense magical power of the seal, which transfers itself to Link when it senses the Spirit of the Hero within him. It would be the best chance of the Malice being re-contained or destroyed.
i think people are over complicating the reason behind link and zelda going to the caverns a bit. they could be looking for more sheikah technology, as the divine beasts were found underground. but imo, they're probably trying to find the source of the malice to eliminate it without thinking it could have ties to ganon/ganondorf. they assume ganon is dead, but leftover malice still hangs around hyrule and inhibits their rebuilding process. they probably traverse underground for this reason-- although it is possible ganon is controlling the malice to make a trail leading to his corpse. no brainwashing required.
I like the idea of everyone forgetting about Ganon the man, after focusing on Calamity Ganon for thousands of years. It would be an easy way for Link and Zelda to discover a mummified body and wonder just who it is. Maybe they don't have to be tricked into it since his identity has been lost to time. Plus, they might not imagine he's still alive after being imprisoned for so long; they may assume the body is just a corpse that needs to be purified by the sword that seals evil.
Justifications aside, how freaking awesome would it be if the hand is Midna’s hand and she has a big part in the sequel? I really doubt that’ll happen but it’d be cool as hell.
I absolutely love the connection between TP Ganon. I of course knew of the spot on his chest but I never ever thought of him putting his neck back in place from it being broken by Zant!
the SEAL GANON text never happened in the trailer, it was somebody who loosely connected symbols that resembled gerudo text. You can even see in the image that the strings of floating "text" don't match the gerudo text for SEAL GANON. for the S, it showcases an O separated by 2 lines inside, with a curved line below it. Meanwhile, for the ACTUAL text, it's just a ball of light with wisps coming from the bottom AND top. This continues for the rest of the text, which doesn't resemble the correct gerudo letters in the slightest. This was most likely a troll by the OP
I've watched sooooo many theories on this, and entire channels are created around it, but this is the best theory I've heard yet. Nice work on this one!
Sadly yeah. I miss midna. I was bullied pretty badly as a kid when Twilight Princess came out. It got me through that. But she’d probably be dead at this point. It’s quite sad to be honest.
@@nichii1603 midna is so awesome...I really hope she comes back even though there is literally 1% left if she's still alive but then again maybe twili's live longer than hylians?
The neck crack detail was gold! I'm convinced now. This is Twilight Ganondorf's body. I don't know what spirit will settle inside it in the upcoming game, but the body seems to be authentic. Great job!
I want to see a family reunion between midna, groose, gannondorf the zonai, sheikah, gerudo and the twili. Because midna and the twili are related to all of them
I feel like your theory misses the gerudo's involvement in the matter. I love the connection to the Zonai and the twili, but implying that the husk is the same man as the one who fell in TP is a stretch, why is the rest of his garb more akin to the the more recent designs of the gerudo? In the final battle, Urbosa makes a comment about their people repenting for the past. I can't help but feel theres a story there, that perhaps another male gerudo was born, to mixed reception around the kingdom. As reports of growing hords of monsters he is called into question by dissenters. Hes then lead to the castle and murdered in a vain attempt to stop the malice, but only releasing it. Or perhaps it was an experiment of sorts, to remove either the malice or the triforce of power. I don't know, its just the tone of the trailer and some of the lore in BOTW seemed to imply that there's some dark secret, some fault of the original parties involved that started this calamity.
I usually don’t put much stock into game theories, especially not Zelda theories, but you brought up a lot of good points I hadn’t considered previously. If everything you’ve stated turns out to be correct, hats off to you. This was a very well constructed theory.
"The history of light and shadow will be written in blood" Ganondorf said, after already having lost.... With everything you've said here, it seems that Ganondorf was SO salty he waited thousands of years in order to get back at the heroes
When i first saw the trailer i instantly recognized the color of the hand being similar to the twili. Im glad that im not the only one that thinks that the twili may be related to the Zonai
So heres my theory. When Ganon was first imprisoned, they purposely ripped his soul out of his body, leaving it to linger, while his physical body technically lived. They figured that if he can't die, he can't be reincarnated.The hand was like a seal to keep his souls from returning to his body. But before Ganon was imprisoned, he set his body up to produce the malice, which he would eventually use to form himself a new body. This body was the half ganon half machine monstrosity that we saw at the end of the first game. The giant bull thing was pure, unbridled, malice. And the calamity Ganon we see from the first tower is simply his spirit. The hand was actually from the link before the Hero of The Wild. What no one knew was that Ganon planned all along to be imprisoned. It was all part of his master plan. But Ganon didn't anticipate Link being resurrected. So after 10,000 years, the seal is beginning to weaken, when suddenly, link wanders along, and the hand recognizes the spirit of its former self and attempts to return, which sets Ganon free and starts everything right back up again. The reason nintendo made it so difficult to connect this game to the others is because it's not supposed to be connected. It was made so that they could try again with the whole timeline thing. It's a soft reboot. They are acknowledging that everything else happened, but it doesn't affect anything. Nintendo is trying to right their wrongs without potentially digging themselves further into the timeline hole.
this >>>> So after 10,000 years, the seal is beginning to weaken, when suddenly, link wanders along, and the hand recognizes the spirit of its former self and attempts to return, which sets Ganon free and starts everything right back up again. i agree
I mean I LOVE the first part of this theory. The idea that it was an attempt to stop him from being reincarnated with the others is genius. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is, honestly. So simple.
Zeldas mother was supposed to help zelda unlock her seal power, the hands power was to seal what if the seal was slipping and her mom joined the seal to buy us more time to train and prepare for the calamity 100 years ago? We already know the sheikah were pretty big on sacrifice and researched heavily into souls (according to either Nintendo black crisis or Zeltics theory, cant remember) I think it would be interesting and worth looking into, since we dont know hardly anything about her mom.
Best Zelda theory I’ve seen on a Twilight connection to Breath of the Wild. A fantastically well done theory overall, definitely rivals theories of the more popular Zelda youtubers. This is top of line work, great job!!!
i'm questioning what if the hand is zants? i mean we never see a spirit disappear away from the dead twilight princess ganon, so perhaps zant couldn't leave? forever bound to Ganons power? therefore, he tried to kill TP ganon by snapping his neck to forever kill him, but to no avail. so when the malice came, he tried to prevent ganon to come back to life by using ganons old power? it'd explain why theres so much powerful malice, because his power never left because zants still bound to his power, and he never passed on
Though I would LOVE this to be the case(zant being my favorite zelda character), Zants hand is very different from the one shown in the trailer. And I mean very different. Zant's hand has a strange shape with the two fingers in the middle being half shorter than the rest, and his nails are square shaped. The one in the trailer has bony long fingers with sharp long nails. Though I still wish the theory could be true.
I’m glad you picked up on this because I’ve been waiting for someone to point it out.. It seems no Zelda YT channel has emphasized on how striking the resemblance is to Twilight Princess.. It’s jaw dropping, and it gives a mixed feeling of both nostalgia and excitement
Now this was a theory that blew me away, and I did see another theory before this about if the Twilight Realm could return. And seeing the link between my all time favorite Zelda game, would melt my heart.
Link has a connection to the fierce deity gannondorf has a connection to demise and zelda has a connection to hylia so this is a story of three immortals made mortal repeatedly their mortal incarnations forced to fight each other.
I'm pretty sure Fierce Deity was never an actual person. It took a long time, but I think I've figured out that it was the personification of the people of Terminas hate towards the skull kid/majora. I remember seeing a snippet in an interview that said something along the lines of fierce deity not existing as a being. You only get the mask if you hand over all the masks you've collected, which are obtained from people who have been wronged by majora in some way. Those masks harbor the resentment those people had. And when link dons a transformation mask, he takes the form of that person. When he dons the fierce deitys mask, he doesn't change form, he is still himself(his older self). When you receive the mask it also says is it's dark power as bad as majora. Dark power meaning hate, vengeance. Basically the people's resentment turns to a dark power and Link uses that to combat majora.
Steven Smith Wasn’t it Aonuma that stated the FD mask was the collective negative emotions/ feelings of the Terminians? It makes sense. What’s curious is why these emotions look like Adult Link(not being from Termina) before Link even wears the mask... Zelda.Gamepedia states “The Fierce Deity is the representation of the feelings of all people populating the land of Termina. This representation is reinforced by the fact that it was necessary to exchange all the masks obtained thanks to the different interactions, actions and help provided to the characters of the game in order to obtain the Fierce Deity's Mask.”... I wonder if the appearance of the mask then simply matches the person wearing it, rather than looking like Link by default.
@@MrZangetsu468 In the interview I read Aonuma simply stated, "The best I can give you is just a suggestion. The best way to think about it is that the memories of all the people of Termina are inside of the Fierce Deity Mask.”, so if he did actually state it it was in an interview that I haven't read lol As far as the appearance of the mask, I have 2 theories. First being that since it contains the memories of the people of Termina, those memories have Link in them because he's the one who helped them. Second theory is that Majora made it look like Link because that's who he made it for. I learn towards the first one, but regardless, Majora had to have created it. The main point I was trying to get across in my original comment though was just that there is no soul attached to the mask.
If the royal family of hyrule wanted to make a new mirror and bring the Twili back, it could've been not because of Midna but because the Twili and their technological advancements could help the royal family a lot, probably by mixing both Sheikah and Twili knowledge and thus forming the Zonai tribe. If that broken mirror in Faron was anything important, it could've been the new mirror, which was given to the Zonai as a memorial of their relations or something. But I don't think it really matters anymore and will lay there until time gets rid of it. Also, as stated in the video, I think the Zonai did sacrifice themselves to seal Ganon's malice. Since luminous stones are supposed to be made of people or living being's spirits, then that luminocity, which is the same as the hand's, could explain what the hand actually is: The concentration of all the Zonai's souls to create a piece of complex magic-based technology that could seal ganon until it sometime in the future fades away, and probably Link and Zelda go there to find a way of putting an end to it. Maybe they found something about the Zonai, Sheikah or Twili that could help them destroy the source of the malice once and for all. Maybe Link and Zelda will have to restore that new mirror and do... something with it. What if they had to go back in time and learn about the demons that once threatened the land prior to the events of Skyward Sword? I mean, Guardians and Botw's blue lights are supposed to be Time Stones from Skyward Sword, right? What if by knowing how the source of malice works, they could find a way to destroy Ganon? And by "the source of malice" I don't mean Ganondorf's corpse, i'm actually talking about Demise and his demon army. Malice also appears in Skyward Sword... an item has it as a purple substance, and beneath the Ancient Cistern there are pools of that same substance which turns the dead bokoblins into zombies just like in Breath of the Wild it can revive dead enemies during Blood Moons or just straight up making flying skulls... There has to be a connection between BotW, TP and SS... Sorry for my bad english, but I really wanted to theorize a bit...
Does anyone else find it strange that the shadow of ganondorf's body on the wall in the BOTW 2 trailer implies ganondorf looks just like the depiction of the hero from the previous calamity? Plus the body of the hero was made of green swirls like the hand. Makes me think this ganondorf was a previous hero who got corrupted and the same thing might be happening to link now, or Maybe the green was a blessing placed upon the previous hero's whole body that upon sensing ganondorf's corruption turned on him and has weakened to the state of only now being a hand. I think the connections to twilight princess are very likely, but this detail keeps nagging at me.
Since Ocarina of Time Ganandorf has always been a personal hero of mine. Just wanted to add that because if you're right then all my dreams will come true
I actually had a similar thought, but I also began to think, what if the Hero in the legend is RELATED to Ganon? Like his mother, or he had a twin brother something NEVER done in The Legend Of Zelda. There's also the possibility Ganon was the Hero himself but through some means he was over taken and corrupted by the malice sealing through him by the true evil he was facing.
I still feel Ganon is the villain. he is basically Demise reincarnated. like zelda is the goddess hylia and link is the first hero & hylia's champion whose name was also link. Ganon has always been a bad dude. I do not believe souls change in the zelda-verse that drastically because link and zelda don't and have pretty much always been the same basically. the Twili, Garudo, & Zonai all have red hair. Link could have very well been a Zonai in his past life even though it is unusual and Link normally has blonde hair and is reincarnated as a hylian. there is also high speculation that the Zonai were/are the Twili and disapeard some time in the distant past through the mirror that you can find near the Zonai ruins. also i like your idea of past Link being reduced to a hand because he is running out of power and will soon loose his grip on the seal anyway.
It's rare that I comment on stuff, but I just had to say that the editing of the intro to this video was really well done! The build up with the music with Zelda's original climactic moment then cutting to the very dark eyes and the heartbeat was absolutely perfect. It's the little details that people may not always consciously see that shows how much time someone puts into their work; I look forward to videos with content as good as the editing.
Interesting. My theory is that after twilight princess, the body of the deceased ganondorf was brought back to the castle to place him in a type of suspended animation that would prevent the cycle from occurring again preventing him from reincarnating. The first calamity was the first appearance of the curse of demise trying to free itself from the captured body and exist I think botw 2 will be then seeking out the forgotten body of ganondorf and finding away to stop the cycle of the curse. I also think that ganondorf is actually good but the curse corrupts the person that is ganondorf.
Did anyone else see the thumbnail and instantly think, "Someday we'll find it 🎶 The Twilight Connection 🎶 The lovers, the dreamers, and me🎶" like I just did?
I was thinking of a theory that This Ganondorf may have wanted to break the cycle of reincarnation and sever ties with Demise’s curse. But before he could do that, the Calamity struck and he ended up just going with the temporary solution that we see him in from the trailer. The curse was halted but not broken. This is also why there have not been any male Gerudo born since the first Calamity Ganon.
This all makes sense. Twilight princess is among my favorite zelda games and I love the fact that it is playing a huge role in the current lore. I hope the twili make another appearance they were an amazing race and it would be cool to see Midna again or at the very least one of her descendants. Regardless I love that every game is connected to every other game in some way. I love this series😁
Ok this is good. Honestly for a very long time I always took Zelda lore to be happenstance and random; I never felt like things were connected on purpose, other than random throwbacks. Recently, Nintendo has been making an effort to streamline the lore, but I have still felt like a lot of the things, like the Zonai, were just randomness. I really want this theory to be true, and I want Nintendo to have things connect in Zelda. Lovely video.
This theory is one of the best analysis of the trailer I've ever watched yet, I would like to combine this video with Monster Maze's video analysis and reconstruction of Breath Of The Wild 2 trailer "The Big Puzzle" in which he explains in great detail why Link and Zelda are actually in that cave. I don't believe Link would take the a sealing hand of a grim, evil looking corpse of which malice is escaping from. Anyway, this two theories joined together could actually give us an insight of the actual BOTW2 prelude and oh boy its making my mind fly.
I don't know if anyone else noticed but the sound for sheikah slate notifications (ie, when activating shrines etc) is a fragment of Midna's theme and plays when you summon her in Twilight Princess.
I actually think this theory is pretty plausible. Great job! However, the only thing I just can't wrap my head around is the hero depicted in the ancient tapestry, shown by Impa and Kass. The hero fighting Calamity Ganon with Zelda seems to be someone other than Link...A Red headed built individual holding a big weapon ressembling a claymore...could it be that he was the Zonai (Twilli) who sealed Ganondorf's corpse? What about Link? Where was he? Still in the womb?
That figure on the tapestry definitely is interesting to say the least. It couldn’t have been BOTW’s Link since the tapestry depicts the calamity 10,000 years ago, but it is possible that the figure is an ancestor of Link that belonged to the Zonai. The yellow and blue coloring of his hand also looks quite similar to the hand on Ganondorf, so maybe there is a connection there.
Caleb Tremblay Link’s sprite in A Link to the Past had pink hair. I just assumed the tapestry Link in BotW was a callback to that visual. Perhaps there is something more to it.
@@remylebeau8934 Actually if you look closely it’s link in zonai armor. If you compare the painting to the zonai helmet you can get in botw it’s an exact match.
It would be really cool to visit the twili world again, and since it has floating islands it makes some sense. Also the Ooccoo might return, they also live in the air
Your videos really have opened up the whole world and lore of the LOZ franchise in my opinion and to be honest with you I am so looking forward to the BOTW sequel even more than ever. So when I am able to get a Switch and both the original and new games, I will watch your videos, knowing that you and others are keeping all fans out there informed and entertained.
The first things that took my attention is hand, because it stylistically really look like it connected with twilight realm somehow, and speech on the background - it sounds like Midna speech, not the voice, but the way it speaks, and also like Midna's speech, if you'll try to reverse it you will get... reversed speech, or something that still impossible to understand, in case with Midna it heavily scrambled English, which not only reversed
@xenogamer great theory! it touches a lot of hyrule lore and makes great connections. Have you possibly considered the Master Sword and it’s abilities? For example: “The sacred blade is also capable of destroying magical barriers and breaking curses that involve powerful, dark magic. In addition, it has the ability to lock away the remains of a demon” I think it’s crucial to look at these aspects. Especially if we consider that the Master Sword posses the spirit of Fi, a spirit that is awaken within the sword. In Windwaker the master sword faces trials in which it awakens it’s true power before sealing away Ganon. The notion is that, perhaps Link sealed away Ganon through the sword. But when the sword was placed back in the pedestal by Zelda. It returned to its unawakened state, in which the ability to lock away “remains of a demon” were held dormant. Perhaps when Link appears in BOTW to wield the master sword for his second time, he breaks A curse and perhaps Link’s interactions with the master sword relate to the “remains of the demon” as seen in BOTW 2’a trailer. I think it’s even greater when you consider that Gerudo Ganon was killed and “sealed” away through the power of the master sword. BUT. Calamity Ganon is a pure form of hatred that embodies Ganon, in which Ganon prefers. Perhaps when Calamity Ganon dies, the curse is lifted and the return of Gerudo Ganon comes to fruition, finally breaking the seal but also restoring its curse. Perhaps the ending scene is very well gerudo dead ganon. Im guessing that dead Ganon has a connection to the twilight realm and this is perhaps what we see. Since that dead gerudo ganon in the basement was killed by the Twilight Princesses’ master sword. It’s just some thoughts I had considered since I haven’t really seen anyone go into the Master Sword. And you did make a great connection to indicate the similarities between BOTW Ganon’s corpse and TLOZTP’s Ganon. Especially the wound. So eh. Maybe worth considering.
I think the hand symbolises the triforce of courage and it was put there by an ancient hero or he's descendants. The Malice and Calamity gannon are actually Ganondorf's Soul, but solidified with the triforce of power. As Link and Zelda explore the Caverns, Ganondorf makes an earthquake and that causes link to fall. Because the hand contains the spirit of the hero, it saves link and breaks the seal of Ganondorf and he then awakens
Are we really forgetting that in OoT daddy G takes the master sword to the dome and still needs to be sealed away? The Master Sword does degrade malice though, and as far as I remember the master sword was never seen removed from Ganondorf. I find it likely he may have just been “sealed” at the time, and Zant snapping his neck could be a way of saying “even if you come back, have fun trying to take over Hyrule with your snapped vertebrae” They also had to do something with the body, as they wouldn’t just leave the “corpse” of an ancient enemy that keeps finding his way back out in Hyrule field, not to mention there is the ritual using Links blood that can revive him, though that may only be possible if he’s gone full Ganon for all I know 🤷🏻
I've been talking about this very connection and idea since September. I completely agree with you. Nice connection with the new dark mirror and the thought that the Twilii returned to become the Zonai. I also think it could be possible that before Midna returned back to the Twilight Realm in TP that Link and Zelda took Ganondorf's body to its location and Midna sealed him away with her magic there. The snippet shown in BOTW2 feels like perhaps a memory recall to the past of either the bloodline of the goddess or the spirit of the hero...the latter of which was indeed friends with the Twilight, and also had connection to Wolf Link.
When they are exploring the dungeon you can see the hand. Grabbing Link to stop him falling when he grabs Zelda. When the magic begins to infuse with Link's hand, I believe when he sees Zelda fall he accidentally touched it when running to save her. Then he went back to continue examining it and when he went back to examine it the magic began reacting to him in a way. I think it is a form of Twilit magic because looks at the Twili folk. They have some green on it so are the Twili sharing their knowledge on how to seal him away again? Or is it them donating their strength to get him back to his full power like he was in Twilight Princess? And could Link find the pieces of the fused shadow to give to a Midna esque character?
what i initially thought was that the 'hand' called out to link and zelda because it the seal was weakening, and it merged to link so that link and zelda had the best chance to defeat ganondorf (the hand ultimately gives link new powers).This would also make sense from a gameplay standard because it would provide a way for link to gain new powers (bear in mind this is the same link from BoTW who was already powerful) and introduce new powerscaling. Also the heroes hand on the tapestry at 6:47 does appear to have some marking which has some similarity to the hand sealing ganondorf, meaning that the original hero might be bestowing power onto link through this hand.
Random theory. What if the Zonai were primitive Hylians that were intervened by the Twili. The Twili used the Twilight mirror to open up wormholes into different multiverse, timelines, parallel universe ect. to join the twilight universe with other time lines. By the way thank you! That comparison of Midnas' crown and the Zonai gave me chills down the spine. Great minds think alike.
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I almost wonder if the hand is the spirit of the hero from 10,000 years ago. It's already believed that the ancient hero in the tapestry might have been part of the zonal tribe. Maybe that link possessed an incredible sealing power that put both him and Ganondorf into a sealed state. And maybe the reason links arm has the abilities similar to the sheika skate, is the previous hero was the one who helped design the slates functions. The ancient hero's spirit attaches itself to link s damaged arm and heals it while he embodies a limb for the hero of the wild.
The reunified timeline theory is definitely neat but, I can’t bring myself to believe Breath of the Wild is anything other than a Child Timeline sequel. With castle town being north of the temple of time, the connections to TP’s Ganondorf, the mentioning of the Hero of Twilight by title in a cutscene, and the creative director saying Twilight Princess is ‘the starting point’ of Breath of the Wild, it just fits too perfectly. Plus, no trains. Not adult timeline.
15:59 Twilight ganon has a small wound exactly whre the hand is on BOTW ganon. And its also exactly where twilight link does the final blow. Edit: maybe it was also a weak spot. Or a wound from an earlier time that slowed him down. And remember when midna was on the brink of death. A.K.A midnas darkest hour (Im pretty sure you can think of what im thinking since you've came up this video)
After every theory I've seen i think this one is the best. Although one thing I want to point out is that Ganon painted on the wall is holding a trident.
I think Ganondorf used his remaining power to trigger a small earthquake, causing Zelda to fall. Link tries to grab her, but he's pulled off as well. The hand is given 2 choices: Hold the seal and let Link and Zelda fall to their death, ending the bloodline of the Goddess, or break the seal and save them. It chooses to save them.
Also, with the Twili: A common plot point, found in some fanfictions, is that after TP's events, the goddesses forgive the Twili, and allow free travel between the realms. I know that doesn't mean it's canon, but still, it IS a fun theory.
Interesting analysis, though the Japanese series website establishes that Breath of the Wild is canon to all three confirmed timelines (something about how it's so far off in the future that the truth has been lost to time, I assume, so there are legends of all three timelines), so Twilight Princess isn't the only definitive history of BOTW's Hyrule.
This is probably the best LOZ video I've seen in a long time. I put this on for background noise at work but couldnt look away the entire time. Great job!
To me Ganondorf and Ganon are 2 differents characters. One is the gerudo king and the other is the reincarnation of Demise. They both can't live without the other that's why If Ganondorf is about to die then Ganon appear. In breath of the wild Ganondorf is sealed and can't move then Ganon has to be there during this time. And I guess the true form of Ganon when Ganondorf is sealed is the "Calamity Ganon". In every Zelda Game we never sealed both of them but only one. So I'm not surprised he can come back everytime.
What if the one who snapped Ganondorf'a neck was preserving him, but making it look like he died. That way, he can come back again someday. He was of the twilight and that shade of blue is common with them, so perhaps that was a twili's hand preserving him
great video man really good!!! I agree with with you it all make sense especially with the twili and zonai connection also I believe that link is the one that reached out the the hand not the other way around....just great video man
The main thing I don't get is how Midna says that light and shadow shouldn't mix. But otherwise, if the Zonai tribe sacrificed themselves to be the seal, that could mean that the luminous stones we see in Hyrule contain the lingering effect of the sacrifice: the souls of the Zonai. This would explain why we see so much of it so close to the seal in the trailer.
Yo that instrumental during the memories at the beginning, I could actually hear the bass and cello for once and it highkey made me tingle with excitement for adventure.
That hand could actually be a companion. The hand is conscious since it was able to catch and save link. This green energy is then absorbed into his hand. This potentially could be links companion. Like midna hiding in your shadow or fi in the master sword it would allow the companion to be easily hidden in the over world but called out by a player input or story segment.
Maybe the seal reached out to Link to grant him the energy. It can't seal Ganon for much longer given Calamity Ganon manifesting so maybe it was gathering them to grant a gift at a short term problem of releasing Ganon. Seems to be a running theme for those who are in this era.
I like to think Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf will join forces to break the cycle. I've always thought this wasn't what Ganondorf wanted to do, and it wasn't who he really is. Perhaps they have all learned of the original curse, and will try to break it.
@@grimmy7937 Also according to what's been stated so far regarding Demise's Curse it is fueled by his Hatred for the Goddess Hylia and her chosen Hero. Ganondorf has continuously shown throughout the series how much he hates Link and Zelda for getting in his way of obtaining the full Triforce so it just wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly change his personality just because he got sealed by a green Hand for over 10.000+ years. In fact i would say being him being sealed for THAT LONG would probably only increase his Hatred/Malice and he would probably want to finish Link and Zelda once and for all.
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Youve given me hop that we will get to meet the twili again
@@termlesscipher8045 ikr BRING BACK MIDNA!
haven't finished yet but linking to another theory of yours what if gannondorf did this to himself maybe gannon is not gannondorf but demise using him the hand saying seal gannon is him trying to save his friend link his people, and all of Hyrule when the hand left him he lost control WHAT IF HE IS USING THE CURSE TO GET LINK TO SAVE HIM AND HE HELPS THEM SAVE HYRULE MAKING THIS IS THE FINAL GAME IN THE SERIES AND AFTER ALL OF THE GANNONDORFS THANK LINK
Zelda theorists: There might be a chance that Botw 2 is linked to Twilight Princess
Me: Don’t do that don't give me hope
exactly my thought 😭
I have yet to play BotW because I don't have a switch, but i've played a lot of Twilight Princess and it is by far the best Zelda i've ever played. If there's a connection and possibly see Midna again, that would be wonderful. Or an ancestor of Midna, who is just Midna, like they do with Link.
@@Cthusiest_jeff Damn, it's the opposite for me, I have a switch and have played botw, but I don't have a game cube, wii or wiiU to play Tp on. 😔
@@ExquisiteCorpse_1919 I finally have a switch and giving botw a run through. I like it a lot so far
@@Cthusiest_jeff Ahh that's good to hear, I'm glad you're enjoying it!
It’s the hand from the toilet in skyward sword lmao jk
I think it was in another game too 😂
Majoras mask too 😄
It’s the hand of the Zelda incarnation from 10,000 years ago, she lives.
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... whoa... hold on now... you might actually be onto something here...
The placement of the dark mirror/mirror of twilight so close to the home of the Zonai in faron, its just too convenient.
But, it's not the mirror of twilight, if you compare it in game to the twilight princess mirror, they don't share any resemblances outside of the same shape. The design is different, as well as the fact that it shouldn't even exist anymore.
Edit: Additionally, the sealing point for Ganondorf, also known as the Mirror of Twilight, was located in the Gerudo Desert, not in the faron woods
@@tyrantworks9604 which was located in arbiter's grounds, which are now ruins, so its possible either mirrors or what was left of them were relocated
@@Detura While yes, the shell of the mirror could have been relocated, that doesn't explain how it was rebuilt after it shattered into nothing via twilight magic. The better question is, why would they move it? The Arbiter's grounds are currently in ruins, and I'm assuming that the time it would take for it to collapse would be long enough for the people who know about the mirror's existence to forget. If the Twilight Princess Zelda/Link moved it, then again, why? If it's for sentimental value, why not move it to Link's home or closer to the castle?
I think the more important factor here is that it's implied to be a Shiekah artifact. It's being repaired reveals a shrine. Which makes sense if the Twili were a split branch of Shiekah, they have similar motifs and designs (the eye sigil, for example.)
@@tyrantworks9604 I don't think we're supposed to think it's the same mirror, or built out of the shell - the video argues a new mirror was built, for the purposes of bringing Midna/the Twili back (because they missed Midna?), in which case it easily could have been simply built down in Faron Province. How the Hylians built the new mirror or why Faron was chosen, who knows, but I mean, a suitable explanation wouldn't be hard to produce for the writers. The whole "Twili coming back via the new mirror, becoming the Zonai, sealing Ganon after the previous Calamity, then vanishing and becoming the Sheikah and Yiga" is a little much to accept outright, but it's kind of necessary to explain why this incarnation of Ganon is sealed by Twilight magic, long after Midna shattered the first mirror. But it all kind of fits and none of it is SUPER far fetched.
Very interesting...also I myself figured the hand left Ganon because Zelda was falling and Link catches her, but then he starts to fall and reaches out for anything to grab onto. Thats where we see that shot of the hand grabbing Link's hand. The ghost hand saved them both in exchange for letting go of Ganon and thus breaking the seal. This is how I interpreted that part of the trailer.
Yes
That's what I was thinking.
The ghost hand is the Zelda from 10,000 years ago.
OH.
Squidkid aka Inklingsquad or link since the bracelet attaches to him
These were well-reasoned points, and you seem to have put a lot of thought into it. I've had my suspicions about the connection between the Interlopers, Sheikah, Twili, and Zonai. I think you're on to something here. And I'd be overjoyed to see a return of Midna.
Unless she's actually an immortal i doubt we'll get to see the "same" Midna from Twilight Princess in a sequel. 🙁😔 It would make more sense if her descendants showed up to help Link fight Ganondorf.
@@javiervasquez8995 You're right about that, as we don't know the average lifespan of the Twili. We can but speculate until we receive some sort of confirmation. (Until then, however, I'll hold on to my hopeful headcanon that they at least have extremely long lifrspans, as in centuries.)
Why do people take that Interlopers are sheikah and gerudo only?
The wording is "they were banned to that realm" it doesnt specify any race.
For all we know, individuals from all races could have been banned
@@CidPsy by the very nature of the sheika people being so secretive/advanced beyond most all other races of hyrule, this in tandem with the large number of dark secrets and mysticism we see in the Zelda series relating almost every single time to the sheika and a lesser extent the guerudo people tends to give little room for any other race... I mean sure it's always possible and I'm sure small groups of people from other races were indeed involved, but probably not enough to make that much of a difference.
Then there is the matter this video brings up regarding the ancient helm midna used having a sheika eye on the back side of it.
Pretty hard to see any other group of people being involved as the sheika eye isn't really known to be anyone elses moniker symbol in the entire franchise.
I think the twili might be the children of the gerudo and the sheikah interlopers forced into the twilight realm. Midna does have red hair and so do literally all of the twili and the have the red eyes of the sheikah that would literally mean midna would be distantly related to possibly groose, gannondorf and impa due my hypothesis concluding the twili being the hybridization of gerudo and sheikah forced to adapt to the twilight realm and forced to intermingle to survive. It is evident that the magic, culture and genetics of the gerudo and sheikah mixed forming the twili. It's in their clothes , architecture and even appearance the blueish skin and bioluminescence of certain parts of their body being an adaptation to the surrounding twilight realm.
Someday we'll find it
The Twilight Connection
The Lovers
The Dreamers
And Link
PyroGothNerd t c t t
Sang that in Kermits voice.
Imagine all the gamers
If we got the twilight realm back in BoTW 2 I would be even more hyped than I already am for it. Plus, I really really really REALLY want this to have some connections to twilight princess, and I want this game to be *DARK*
•Gefroren • same. Same.
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Hunter Burry well lucky you because out of the 25 Zelda games only 2 are considered dark! So you should be very happy! But people like me who are dying for a horror style Zelda might never get even 1 game like that!
Lion of Truth Even non true horror, big dark fantasy world energy (kinda Witcherish, kinda Soulsborneish) would be very welcome. It’s not as though the lore is any stranger to super creepy shit after all.
@Hunter Burry I’m a weird case, I like the dark Zelda games but it creeps me out way too much sometimes as well😂
I would ABSOLUTELY love seeing Midna again, for me she is the best pal Link's ever got. Really good video bro, sorry for my english, I'm learning
Wouldn't make sense for her to come back, she should be dead after 1000+ years, maybe her descendants
I've never played Twilight Princess, so I don't know much about Midna, but I think Navi from Ocarina of Time was pretty useful and cool. Couldn't slaughter monsters, but who cares?
@@umbreongaming9921 I agree wih you man
@@umbreongaming9921 But I think she's dead 'cause of the final scene of Ocarina and the begining of Majora
@Ethan C.
Nintendo could easily make their way around that plot hole. Remember, Midna is a twill, and it would be easy to establish that Twili have an extended lifetime or the Twilight realm exists in a different field of time (ex: 100 years in hyrule = just 1 year in twilight realm).
Those green symbols look like the ones on midnas arms in her imp form
similar. they're the same colour but the ones in the video are gerudo text, however the ones on midna's arm are twili symbols
Your profile picture is really pretty. I like it.
And that's logic, since the zonai are related/ are the twili
OoO I never noticed that!
As well, Midna was trapped into her impish form through Twili magic reinforced by Ganon. Cast by Zant. That seal taking the form of such similar symbols is likely no coincidence.
Do we know for sure that the malice is flowing away, and that the hand is spiraling upwards? The music is backwards, so maybe the footage is too. Maybe the malice is trying to reinfect Ganoncorpse
WHOA that’s such an interesting idea!!! Since the music is playing backwards the flows we see could be too. I really like that idea.
@@Xenogamer we know that music can influence the flow of time, maybe that's what's happening here. The Song of Time has been a great tool in the past, maybe it has been bastardized to the point of unrecognizability. Maybe it was flowing one way, and is now flowing another.
@James Parker possibly. Parts of the trailer are obviously not reversed, Link falling being a good example, so who knows what's what.
@@SaxyCalzone so the rat isn't being eaten by malice?
@@josephrodriguez6124 i believe that is proof to debunk the theory, but it is a good idea nonetheless
Actually the Rito Tribe DOES exists in this timeline. In the new TP HD remake, in the murals in the walls leading to Hyrule castle, it shows Link and another person bringing gifts to a bird-like people that looks EXACTLY like the Rito.
That’s right! I totally forgot about that wall texture! It seems like such a weird thing to add in TPHD, maybe there’s still yet a reason for it?
Xenogamer I think so, they added it knowing BotW’s plot by that time, so I think there is definitely a purpose. For the timeline... 🥰
I have a feeling they just wanted to add the Rito in to have a champion from another race.. There's no reason for the Rito to exist in the child timeline. Hyrule was never flooded, so the zora never needed to evolve wings. Same goes for the Koroks.
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Kayla Dingess If you head back to around 12:20 of this video, the official records already show / proof that the Rito race hasn’t been established within the “ Distant Past “ frame, yet.
What if they kept him alive using the hand (which also is sealing him) to prevent a reincarnation appearing?
Well that clearly didnt work as calamity Ganon has appeared countless times in the game's story.
Emil Haugsbakk calamity ganon isnt really ganon
@@emilhaugsbakk7281 Calamity Ganon isn't Ganon, Calamity Ganon is his malice. Not a reincarnation
Sounds like Avatar TLA
There's also a theory that Ganon corpse was used as a source of power for Sheika technology, and the malice and reincarnations are like a nuclear failure, very related to what Japanese and his history often depict in his art. A super cool theory
Twilight Princess is my favorite game in the series. So if there’s a strong connection to that game, that will be awesome.
And just imagine the Hero’s Shade returning to once again teach Link some special moves.
Am I the only one who saw “camamity”
Camamity gang
Camamity Gamom
Caught it to lol
And Reponsible
No
You know it's probably just gonna be something 100x more simple.
Unfortunately yes, but we can still be sweaty try hards holding out hope that all the Zeldaverse theories come true. Otherwise, what else is there to do? Go outside? Fuck that, I'd rather play BotW for the 5th time or OoT for the 50th.
yep most likey.
When zooming in on Ganon as his eyes turn white, LOOK AT HIS COLLAR. At 12:53. Doesn’t that look like the representation of Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild?
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Thank you!
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Good video, and interesting take to connect TP to BoTW. The only thing I respectfully disagree with is that Link would willing release Ganondorf from his bondage. While Link has been shown in the past to tricked into freeing a villain, i. e. Vaati, I think this situation wouldn’t go the same way. Unless Ganon somehow brainwashes Link upon his arrival, I don’t think he saw a corpse with Malice emitting from it and thought, “Gee, maybe I should help release this guy.” Ya know? Still, I liked this video overall and a lot of it made sense.
That is a very good point, Ganondorf’s appearance alone should be a pretty good tip-off to Zelda and Link that this corpse might be evil. It’s definitely not full proof; there is still so much about the game we don’t know. I’ve come to the conclusion that two possible events could lead to Ganondorf’s awakening at the end of the trailer. Either Link awakens the hand, as I suggested in this theory, or the hand leaves Ganondorf of its own will to save Link. I just have trouble seeing the latter happening.
¿Has anyone considered the possibility that the Hand could actually make Link become slowly corrupted by it's power to the point that it would make him a slave of Ganondorf? Based on what the trailer has shown it's possible that the Hand could lead this incarnation of Link to become a new version of Dark Link.
My take: The hand is supposed to be sealing the Malice inside Ganondorf's corpse to stop the cycle of Demise's curse. It's failing slowly over time, allowing for the creation and cycle of the Calamity Ganon. This Zelda is known to be an explorer and seeker of knowledge. She's drawn to the immense magical power of the seal, which transfers itself to Link when it senses the Spirit of the Hero within him. It would be the best chance of the Malice being re-contained or destroyed.
i think people are over complicating the reason behind link and zelda going to the caverns a bit. they could be looking for more sheikah technology, as the divine beasts were found underground. but imo, they're probably trying to find the source of the malice to eliminate it without thinking it could have ties to ganon/ganondorf. they assume ganon is dead, but leftover malice still hangs around hyrule and inhibits their rebuilding process. they probably traverse underground for this reason-- although it is possible ganon is controlling the malice to make a trail leading to his corpse. no brainwashing required.
I like the idea of everyone forgetting about Ganon the man, after focusing on Calamity Ganon for thousands of years. It would be an easy way for Link and Zelda to discover a mummified body and wonder just who it is. Maybe they don't have to be tricked into it since his identity has been lost to time. Plus, they might not imagine he's still alive after being imprisoned for so long; they may assume the body is just a corpse that needs to be purified by the sword that seals evil.
I believe it’s the toilet hand from skyward sword after millennia of being alone, deciding to use its ghostly powers to rule all hyrule out of spite.
Yes, the best theory I ever heard on these kind of videos.
Literally give this man a Nobel Prize for his brilliance. *round of applause 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I knew it!
Man, this just makes me want Legend of Zelda games remade for Switch more.
I just wanna play twilight princess on my switch
mood.
@@emilybean9334 TP and Wind Waker are the ones I desperately want
@@soulsenthusiasts1015 If only they put them all on the switch 😔
I just wanna play skyward sword on switch
Justifications aside, how freaking awesome would it be if the hand is Midna’s hand and she has a big part in the sequel?
I really doubt that’ll happen but it’d be cool as hell.
I absolutely love the connection between TP Ganon. I of course knew of the spot on his chest but I never ever thought of him putting his neck back in place from it being broken by Zant!
the SEAL GANON text never happened in the trailer, it was somebody who loosely connected symbols that resembled gerudo text. You can even see in the image that the strings of floating "text" don't match the gerudo text for SEAL GANON. for the S, it showcases an O separated by 2 lines inside, with a curved line below it. Meanwhile, for the ACTUAL text, it's just a ball of light with wisps coming from the bottom AND top. This continues for the rest of the text, which doesn't resemble the correct gerudo letters in the slightest. This was most likely a troll by the OP
It's an interpretation. Some agree, some dont but who can say who's right? None of us know anything for sure but it's fun to speculate.
I've watched sooooo many theories on this, and entire channels are created around it, but this is the best theory I've heard yet. Nice work on this one!
This is all read like an actual murder case and it's juxtaposition is hilarious.
Imagine if Midna came back though, it probably will never happen but we can all dream
Sadly yeah. I miss midna. I was bullied pretty badly as a kid when Twilight Princess came out. It got me through that. But she’d probably be dead at this point. It’s quite sad to be honest.
@@nichii1603 midna is so awesome...I really hope she comes back even though there is literally 1% left if she's still alive but then again maybe twili's live longer than hylians?
It could be a descendant of Midna, who's just a sassy as she was.
The neck crack detail was gold! I'm convinced now. This is Twilight Ganondorf's body. I don't know what spirit will settle inside it in the upcoming game, but the body seems to be authentic. Great job!
He reincarnated after Twilight Princess, it’s not TP Ganondorf.
*WE WANT MIDNA*
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
*W E W A N T M I D N A*
I want to see a family reunion between midna, groose, gannondorf the zonai, sheikah, gerudo and the twili. Because midna and the twili are related to all of them
zero\space legacy A bunch of immortal beings and cultures, and also that fuckboi red head Groose
Triforce Pancake - (chanted) minda minda, minda, minda.
I’m not sure it’s possible to bring midna back in a main line Zelda title without butchering everything TP built her up to be.
why did I read that comment as I want to clap Midna LMAO
I feel like your theory misses the gerudo's involvement in the matter. I love the connection to the Zonai and the twili, but implying that the husk is the same man as the one who fell in TP is a stretch, why is the rest of his garb more akin to the the more recent designs of the gerudo? In the final battle, Urbosa makes a comment about their people repenting for the past. I can't help but feel theres a story there, that perhaps another male gerudo was born, to mixed reception around the kingdom. As reports of growing hords of monsters he is called into question by dissenters. Hes then lead to the castle and murdered in a vain attempt to stop the malice, but only releasing it. Or perhaps it was an experiment of sorts, to remove either the malice or the triforce of power. I don't know, its just the tone of the trailer and some of the lore in BOTW seemed to imply that there's some dark secret, some fault of the original parties involved that started this calamity.
Urbosa also mentions on top of her divine beast, that Ganon took on the form of a Gerudo, which means he’s not a real Gerudo.
I usually don’t put much stock into game theories, especially not Zelda theories, but you brought up a lot of good points I hadn’t considered previously. If everything you’ve stated turns out to be correct, hats off to you. This was a very well constructed theory.
1:04 basically just said,
“Hey, who put that disembodied arm on ganons chest, that’s not nice.”
Thank you, that made me laugh.
"The history of light and shadow will be written in blood" Ganondorf said, after already having lost.... With everything you've said here, it seems that Ganondorf was SO salty he waited thousands of years in order to get back at the heroes
This completely blew my mind. The facts and the plot just fits so well together. This is so well put together!
When i first saw the trailer i instantly recognized the color of the hand being similar to the twili. Im glad that im not the only one that thinks that the twili may be related to the Zonai
So heres my theory. When Ganon was first imprisoned, they purposely ripped his soul out of his body, leaving it to linger, while his physical body technically lived. They figured that if he can't die, he can't be reincarnated.The hand was like a seal to keep his souls from returning to his body. But before Ganon was imprisoned, he set his body up to produce the malice, which he would eventually use to form himself a new body. This body was the half ganon half machine monstrosity that we saw at the end of the first game. The giant bull thing was pure, unbridled, malice. And the calamity Ganon we see from the first tower is simply his spirit. The hand was actually from the link before the Hero of The Wild. What no one knew was that Ganon planned all along to be imprisoned. It was all part of his master plan. But Ganon didn't anticipate Link being resurrected. So after 10,000 years, the seal is beginning to weaken, when suddenly, link wanders along, and the hand recognizes the spirit of its former self and attempts to return, which sets Ganon free and starts everything right back up again.
The reason nintendo made it so difficult to connect this game to the others is because it's not supposed to be connected. It was made so that they could try again with the whole timeline thing. It's a soft reboot. They are acknowledging that everything else happened, but it doesn't affect anything. Nintendo is trying to right their wrongs without potentially digging themselves further into the timeline hole.
this >>>> So after 10,000 years, the seal is beginning to weaken, when suddenly, link wanders along, and the hand recognizes the spirit of its former self and attempts to return, which sets Ganon free and starts everything right back up again.
i agree
I agree with the reboot part. BOTW is literally supposed to be what was intended for the first Zelda on the NES to be.
They would make it so much easier by making hurdle warriors canon
I mean I LOVE the first part of this theory. The idea that it was an attempt to stop him from being reincarnated with the others is genius. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it is, honestly. So simple.
Zeldas mother was supposed to help zelda unlock her seal power, the hands power was to seal what if the seal was slipping and her mom joined the seal to buy us more time to train and prepare for the calamity 100 years ago? We already know the sheikah were pretty big on sacrifice and researched heavily into souls (according to either Nintendo black crisis or Zeltics theory, cant remember) I think it would be interesting and worth looking into, since we dont know hardly anything about her mom.
Best Zelda theory I’ve seen on a Twilight connection to Breath of the Wild. A fantastically well done theory overall, definitely rivals theories of the more popular Zelda youtubers. This is top of line work, great job!!!
That would explain wolf link being a addition to the game.
wolf link is not cannonly present according to the developers.
wolf link is because wolf link aimibo hes king or wolf link aimibo when he leaves it say he must have returned to HIS UNIVERSE
what does zeldas mom look like is she possibly twilight
Wolf link isn't canon
Dude you don’t even know how many time my jaw physically dropped after me saying “oh my god.” in this video. THIS IS SO COOL
i'm questioning
what if the hand is zants?
i mean we never see a spirit disappear away from the dead twilight princess ganon, so perhaps zant couldn't leave? forever bound to Ganons power? therefore, he tried to kill TP ganon by snapping his neck to forever kill him, but to no avail. so when the malice came, he tried to prevent ganon to come back to life by using ganons old power? it'd explain why theres so much powerful malice, because his power never left because zants still bound to his power, and he never passed on
Though I would LOVE this to be the case(zant being my favorite zelda character), Zants hand is very different from the one shown in the trailer. And I mean very different. Zant's hand has a strange shape with the two fingers in the middle being half shorter than the rest, and his nails are square shaped. The one in the trailer has bony long fingers with sharp long nails.
Though I still wish the theory could be true.
I remember playing twilight princess as a kid and not being at all ready for how dark it was
I’m glad you picked up on this because I’ve been waiting for someone to point it out.. It seems no Zelda YT channel has emphasized on how striking the resemblance is to Twilight Princess.. It’s jaw dropping, and it gives a mixed feeling of both nostalgia and excitement
Now this was a theory that blew me away, and I did see another theory before this about if the Twilight Realm could return. And seeing the link between my all time favorite Zelda game, would melt my heart.
Link has a connection to the fierce deity gannondorf has a connection to demise and zelda has a connection to hylia so this is a story of three immortals made mortal repeatedly their mortal incarnations forced to fight each other.
I'm pretty sure Fierce Deity was never an actual person. It took a long time, but I think I've figured out that it was the personification of the people of Terminas hate towards the skull kid/majora. I remember seeing a snippet in an interview that said something along the lines of fierce deity not existing as a being. You only get the mask if you hand over all the masks you've collected, which are obtained from people who have been wronged by majora in some way. Those masks harbor the resentment those people had. And when link dons a transformation mask, he takes the form of that person. When he dons the fierce deitys mask, he doesn't change form, he is still himself(his older self). When you receive the mask it also says is it's dark power as bad as majora. Dark power meaning hate, vengeance. Basically the people's resentment turns to a dark power and Link uses that to combat majora.
Steven Smith Wasn’t it Aonuma that stated the FD mask was the collective negative emotions/ feelings of the Terminians? It makes sense. What’s curious is why these emotions look like Adult Link(not being from Termina) before Link even wears the mask... Zelda.Gamepedia states “The Fierce Deity is the representation of the feelings of all people populating the land of Termina. This representation is reinforced by the fact that it was necessary to exchange all the masks obtained thanks to the different interactions, actions and help provided to the characters of the game in order to obtain the Fierce Deity's Mask.”... I wonder if the appearance of the mask then simply matches the person wearing it, rather than looking like Link by default.
@@MrZangetsu468 In the interview I read Aonuma simply stated, "The best I can give you is just a suggestion. The best way to think about it is that the memories of all the people of Termina are inside of the Fierce Deity Mask.”, so if he did actually state it it was in an interview that I haven't read lol As far as the appearance of the mask, I have 2 theories. First being that since it contains the memories of the people of Termina, those memories have Link in them because he's the one who helped them. Second theory is that Majora made it look like Link because that's who he made it for. I learn towards the first one, but regardless, Majora had to have created it. The main point I was trying to get across in my original comment though was just that there is no soul attached to the mask.
If the royal family of hyrule wanted to make a new mirror and bring the Twili back, it could've been not because of Midna but because the Twili and their technological advancements could help the royal family a lot, probably by mixing both Sheikah and Twili knowledge and thus forming the Zonai tribe.
If that broken mirror in Faron was anything important, it could've been the new mirror, which was given to the Zonai as a memorial of their relations or something. But I don't think it really matters anymore and will lay there until time gets rid of it.
Also, as stated in the video, I think the Zonai did sacrifice themselves to seal Ganon's malice. Since luminous stones are supposed to be made of people or living being's spirits, then that luminocity, which is the same as the hand's, could explain what the hand actually is: The concentration of all the Zonai's souls to create a piece of complex magic-based technology that could seal ganon until it sometime in the future fades away, and probably Link and Zelda go there to find a way of putting an end to it. Maybe they found something about the Zonai, Sheikah or Twili that could help them destroy the source of the malice once and for all. Maybe Link and Zelda will have to restore that new mirror and do... something with it.
What if they had to go back in time and learn about the demons that once threatened the land prior to the events of Skyward Sword?
I mean, Guardians and Botw's blue lights are supposed to be Time Stones from Skyward Sword, right?
What if by knowing how the source of malice works, they could find a way to destroy Ganon?
And by "the source of malice" I don't mean Ganondorf's corpse, i'm actually talking about Demise and his demon army.
Malice also appears in Skyward Sword... an item has it as a purple substance, and beneath the Ancient Cistern there are pools of that same substance which turns the dead bokoblins into zombies just like in Breath of the Wild it can revive dead enemies during Blood Moons or just straight up making flying skulls...
There has to be a connection between BotW, TP and SS...
Sorry for my bad english, but I really wanted to theorize a bit...
Nacho Vennedictus yea...that makes sense
Does anyone else find it strange that the shadow of ganondorf's body on the wall in the BOTW 2 trailer implies ganondorf looks just like the depiction of the hero from the previous calamity? Plus the body of the hero was made of green swirls like the hand. Makes me think this ganondorf was a previous hero who got corrupted and the same thing might be happening to link now, or Maybe the green was a blessing placed upon the previous hero's whole body that upon sensing ganondorf's corruption turned on him and has weakened to the state of only now being a hand. I think the connections to twilight princess are very likely, but this detail keeps nagging at me.
Since Ocarina of Time Ganandorf has always been a personal hero of mine. Just wanted to add that because if you're right then all my dreams will come true
I actually had a similar thought, but I also began to think, what if the Hero in the legend is RELATED to Ganon? Like his mother, or he had a twin brother something NEVER done in The Legend Of Zelda. There's also the possibility Ganon was the Hero himself but through some means he was over taken and corrupted by the malice sealing through him by the true evil he was facing.
I still feel Ganon is the villain. he is basically Demise reincarnated. like zelda is the goddess hylia and link is the first hero & hylia's champion whose name was also link. Ganon has always been a bad dude. I do not believe souls change in the zelda-verse that drastically because link and zelda don't and have pretty much always been the same basically.
the Twili, Garudo, & Zonai all have red hair. Link could have very well been a Zonai in his past life even though it is unusual and Link normally has blonde hair and is reincarnated as a hylian. there is also high speculation that the Zonai were/are the Twili and disapeard some time in the distant past through the mirror that you can find near the Zonai ruins.
also i like your idea of past Link being reduced to a hand because he is running out of power and will soon loose his grip on the seal anyway.
It's rare that I comment on stuff, but I just had to say that the editing of the intro to this video was really well done! The build up with the music with Zelda's original climactic moment then cutting to the very dark eyes and the heartbeat was absolutely perfect. It's the little details that people may not always consciously see that shows how much time someone puts into their work; I look forward to videos with content as good as the editing.
Interesting. My theory is that after twilight princess, the body of the deceased ganondorf was brought back to the castle to place him in a type of suspended animation that would prevent the cycle from occurring again preventing him from reincarnating. The first calamity was the first appearance of the curse of demise trying to free itself from the captured body and exist I think botw 2 will be then seeking out the forgotten body of ganondorf and finding away to stop the cycle of the curse. I also think that ganondorf is actually good but the curse corrupts the person that is ganondorf.
Either that or someone wanted the evil of demise and captured ganondorf body
I had some ideas similar to that in this theory as well: ruclips.net/video/JNPW6cbDsn0/видео.html
chevyhs It isn’t TP Ganondorf, he reincarnated after TP
Jacob Reynolds I saw that. Well that is my theory. I’m sure Nintendo will surprise both of us
A B Yes, he reincarnated in Four Swords Adventures
Did anyone else see the thumbnail and instantly think, "Someday we'll find it 🎶 The Twilight Connection 🎶 The lovers, the dreamers, and me🎶" like I just did?
I was thinking of a theory that This Ganondorf may have wanted to break the cycle of reincarnation and sever ties with Demise’s curse. But before he could do that, the Calamity struck and he ended up just going with the temporary solution that we see him in from the trailer. The curse was halted but not broken. This is also why there have not been any male Gerudo born since the first Calamity Ganon.
This all makes sense. Twilight princess is among my favorite zelda games and I love the fact that it is playing a huge role in the current lore. I hope the twili make another appearance they were an amazing race and it would be cool to see Midna again or at the very least one of her descendants. Regardless I love that every game is connected to every other game in some way. I love this series😁
Ok this is good. Honestly for a very long time I always took Zelda lore to be happenstance and random; I never felt like things were connected on purpose, other than random throwbacks. Recently, Nintendo has been making an effort to streamline the lore, but I have still felt like a lot of the things, like the Zonai, were just randomness. I really want this theory to be true, and I want Nintendo to have things connect in Zelda.
Lovely video.
This theory is one of the best analysis of the trailer I've ever watched yet, I would like to combine this video with Monster Maze's video analysis and reconstruction of Breath Of The Wild 2 trailer "The Big Puzzle" in which he explains in great detail why Link and Zelda are actually in that cave. I don't believe Link would take the a sealing hand of a grim, evil looking corpse of which malice is escaping from. Anyway, this two theories joined together could actually give us an insight of the actual BOTW2 prelude and oh boy its making my mind fly.
This man just explained botw 2 before it came out
I don't know if anyone else noticed but the sound for sheikah slate notifications (ie, when activating shrines etc) is a fragment of Midna's theme and plays when you summon her in Twilight Princess.
I actually think this theory is pretty plausible. Great job! However, the only thing I just can't wrap my head around is the hero depicted in the ancient tapestry, shown by Impa and Kass. The hero fighting Calamity Ganon with Zelda seems to be someone other than Link...A Red headed built individual holding a big weapon ressembling a claymore...could it be that he was the Zonai (Twilli) who sealed Ganondorf's corpse? What about Link? Where was he? Still in the womb?
That figure on the tapestry definitely is interesting to say the least. It couldn’t have been BOTW’s Link since the tapestry depicts the calamity 10,000 years ago, but it is possible that the figure is an ancestor of Link that belonged to the Zonai. The yellow and blue coloring of his hand also looks quite similar to the hand on Ganondorf, so maybe there is a connection there.
Caleb Tremblay Link’s sprite in A Link to the Past had pink hair. I just assumed the tapestry Link in BotW was a callback to that visual. Perhaps there is something more to it.
@@remylebeau8934 Actually if you look closely it’s link in zonai armor. If you compare the painting to the zonai helmet you can get in botw it’s an exact match.
Eifey I guess... if you squint real hard... and use your imagination.... yes. Exact match!
@@remylebeau8934 lol ok
It would be really cool to visit the twili world again, and since it has floating islands it makes some sense.
Also the Ooccoo might return, they also live in the air
i'm still intrigued with the fact that the fuse shadow also has the eye of majora on it
Your videos really have opened up the whole world and lore of the LOZ franchise in my opinion and to be honest with you I am so looking forward to the BOTW sequel even more than ever. So when I am able to get a Switch and both the original and new games, I will watch your videos, knowing that you and others are keeping all fans out there informed and entertained.
The first things that took my attention is hand, because it stylistically really look like it connected with twilight realm somehow, and speech on the background - it sounds like Midna speech, not the voice, but the way it speaks, and also like Midna's speech, if you'll try to reverse it you will get... reversed speech, or something that still impossible to understand, in case with Midna it heavily scrambled English, which not only reversed
@xenogamer great theory! it touches a lot of hyrule lore and makes great connections. Have you possibly considered the Master Sword and it’s abilities? For example: “The sacred blade is also capable of destroying magical barriers and breaking curses that involve powerful, dark magic. In addition, it has the ability to lock away the remains of a demon” I think it’s crucial to look at these aspects. Especially if we consider that the Master Sword posses the spirit of Fi, a spirit that is awaken within the sword. In Windwaker the master sword faces trials in which it awakens it’s true power before sealing away Ganon. The notion is that, perhaps Link sealed away Ganon through the sword. But when the sword was placed back in the pedestal by Zelda. It returned to its unawakened state, in which the ability to lock away “remains of a demon” were held dormant. Perhaps when Link appears in BOTW to wield the master sword for his second time, he breaks A curse and perhaps Link’s interactions with the master sword relate to the “remains of the demon” as seen in BOTW 2’a trailer. I think it’s even greater when you consider that Gerudo Ganon was killed and “sealed” away through the power of the master sword. BUT. Calamity Ganon is a pure form of hatred that embodies Ganon, in which Ganon prefers. Perhaps when Calamity Ganon dies, the curse is lifted and the return of Gerudo Ganon comes to fruition, finally breaking the seal but also restoring its curse. Perhaps the ending scene is very well gerudo dead ganon. Im guessing that dead Ganon has a connection to the twilight realm and this is perhaps what we see. Since that dead gerudo ganon in the basement was killed by the Twilight Princesses’ master sword. It’s just some thoughts I had considered since I haven’t really seen anyone go into the Master Sword. And you did make a great connection to indicate the similarities between BOTW Ganon’s corpse and TLOZTP’s Ganon. Especially the wound. So eh. Maybe worth considering.
These patterns remind me of how musical notes might swirl around in the zelda universe.. Perhaps we will see instruments in the next game?
I think the hand symbolises the triforce of courage and it was put there by an ancient hero or he's descendants. The Malice and Calamity gannon are actually Ganondorf's Soul, but solidified with the triforce of power. As Link and Zelda explore the Caverns, Ganondorf makes an earthquake and that causes link to fall. Because the hand contains the spirit of the hero, it saves link and breaks the seal of Ganondorf and he then awakens
Are we really forgetting that in OoT daddy G takes the master sword to the dome and still needs to be sealed away?
The Master Sword does degrade malice though, and as far as I remember the master sword was never seen removed from Ganondorf. I find it likely he may have just been “sealed” at the time, and Zant snapping his neck could be a way of saying “even if you come back, have fun trying to take over Hyrule with your snapped vertebrae”
They also had to do something with the body, as they wouldn’t just leave the “corpse” of an ancient enemy that keeps finding his way back out in Hyrule field, not to mention there is the ritual using Links blood that can revive him, though that may only be possible if he’s gone full Ganon for all I know 🤷🏻
I've been talking about this very connection and idea since September. I completely agree with you. Nice connection with the new dark mirror and the thought that the Twilii returned to become the Zonai.
I also think it could be possible that before Midna returned back to the Twilight Realm in TP that Link and Zelda took Ganondorf's body to its location and Midna sealed him away with her magic there. The snippet shown in BOTW2 feels like perhaps a memory recall to the past of either the bloodline of the goddess or the spirit of the hero...the latter of which was indeed friends with the Twilight, and also had connection to Wolf Link.
2:43 "Camamity"
When they are exploring the dungeon you can see the hand. Grabbing Link to stop him falling when he grabs Zelda. When the magic begins to infuse with Link's hand, I believe when he sees Zelda fall he accidentally touched it when running to save her. Then he went back to continue examining it and when he went back to examine it the magic began reacting to him in a way. I think it is a form of Twilit magic because looks at the Twili folk. They have some green on it so are the Twili sharing their knowledge on how to seal him away again? Or is it them donating their strength to get him back to his full power like he was in Twilight Princess? And could Link find the pieces of the fused shadow to give to a Midna esque character?
what i initially thought was that the 'hand' called out to link and zelda because it the seal was weakening, and it merged to link so that link and zelda had the best chance to defeat ganondorf (the hand ultimately gives link new powers).This would also make sense from a gameplay standard because it would provide a way for link to gain new powers (bear in mind this is the same link from BoTW who was already powerful) and introduce new powerscaling. Also the heroes hand on the tapestry at 6:47 does appear to have some marking which has some similarity to the hand sealing ganondorf, meaning that the original hero might be bestowing power onto link through this hand.
YES agreed
Random theory. What if the Zonai were primitive Hylians that were intervened by the Twili. The Twili used the Twilight mirror to open up wormholes into different multiverse, timelines, parallel universe ect. to join the twilight universe with other time lines. By the way thank you! That comparison of Midnas' crown and the Zonai gave me chills down the spine. Great minds think alike.
This is stunning! A very well produced video, excellent script and coherence. You deserve to have more subs! But by my side, I'm a new subscriber to your channel dude
I almost wonder if the hand is the spirit of the hero from 10,000 years ago. It's already believed that the ancient hero in the tapestry might have been part of the zonal tribe. Maybe that link possessed an incredible sealing power that put both him and Ganondorf into a sealed state. And maybe the reason links arm has the abilities similar to the sheika skate, is the previous hero was the one who helped design the slates functions. The ancient hero's spirit attaches itself to link s damaged arm and heals it while he embodies a limb for the hero of the wild.
“ganondorf in the sequel is not dead”
>is a literal animated corpse
The reunified timeline theory is definitely neat but, I can’t bring myself to believe Breath of the Wild is anything other than a Child Timeline sequel.
With castle town being north of the temple of time, the connections to TP’s Ganondorf, the mentioning of the Hero of Twilight by title in a cutscene, and the creative director saying Twilight Princess is ‘the starting point’ of Breath of the Wild, it just fits too perfectly.
Plus, no trains. Not adult timeline.
15:59 Twilight ganon has a small wound exactly whre the hand is on BOTW ganon. And its also exactly where twilight link does the final blow.
Edit: maybe it was also a weak spot. Or a wound from an earlier time that slowed him down. And remember when midna was on the brink of death. A.K.A midnas darkest hour (Im pretty sure you can think of what im thinking since you've came up this video)
After every theory I've seen i think this one is the best. Although one thing I want to point out is that Ganon painted on the wall is holding a trident.
I've suspected the Interloper/Sheikah connection too.
I think Ganondorf used his remaining power to trigger a small earthquake, causing Zelda to fall. Link tries to grab her, but he's pulled off as well. The hand is given 2 choices: Hold the seal and let Link and Zelda fall to their death, ending the bloodline of the Goddess, or break the seal and save them. It chooses to save them.
What an amazing video !!
But seal ganon isn't real the green energy is just random gerudo letters.
If they are random gerudo letters, then maybe it's an anagram. And when the true text is deciphered the seal is broken. Or something else, who knows.
Also, with the Twili: A common plot point, found in some fanfictions, is that after TP's events, the goddesses forgive the Twili, and allow free travel between the realms. I know that doesn't mean it's canon, but still, it IS a fun theory.
Interesting analysis, though the Japanese series website establishes that Breath of the Wild is canon to all three confirmed timelines (something about how it's so far off in the future that the truth has been lost to time, I assume, so there are legends of all three timelines), so Twilight Princess isn't the only definitive history of BOTW's Hyrule.
i didnt know this, that's really cool. finally officially tying all the time lines up into a straight line lol
This is probably the best LOZ video I've seen in a long time. I put this on for background noise at work but couldnt look away the entire time. Great job!
oh and something I strongly agree with is that defective sheikah were the interlopers....the more I think about it the sheikah are super shady people
They were the people that worked in the shadows after all.
Sheikahs has different clans and now is canon. Normal sheikahs working for the royal family, the yiga clan and maybe thr twili
And it makes sense that all but 1 Shiekah were missing in TP.
Now that TotK is out, I enjoy those theories all the more. There was a good potential that they missed.
To me Ganondorf and Ganon are 2 differents characters. One is the gerudo king and the other is the reincarnation of Demise. They both can't live without the other that's why If Ganondorf is about to die then Ganon appear. In breath of the wild Ganondorf is sealed and can't move then Ganon has to be there during this time. And I guess the true form of Ganon when Ganondorf is sealed is the "Calamity Ganon". In every Zelda Game we never sealed both of them but only one. So I'm not surprised he can come back everytime.
Huh, I’ve never really thought about it that way. That’s a really interesting idea that Ganondorf is not influenced by Demise, but Ganon is.
@@Xenogamer I did a 3D Zelda animation called "Ganondorf Dragmire" in 2 parts on my channel if you want to see that ;)
What if the one who snapped Ganondorf'a neck was preserving him, but making it look like he died. That way, he can come back again someday. He was of the twilight and that shade of blue is common with them, so perhaps that was a twili's hand preserving him
Very well thought out video! Very well edited. I enjoyed it a lot :)
Another very interesting detail is the face of Phase 1 Calamity Ganon looks a lot similar to that of Ganondorf from Twilight Princess.
great video man really good!!! I agree with with you it all make sense especially with the twili and zonai connection also I believe that link is the one that reached out the the hand not the other way around....just great video man
The main thing I don't get is how Midna says that light and shadow shouldn't mix. But otherwise, if the Zonai tribe sacrificed themselves to be the seal, that could mean that the luminous stones we see in Hyrule contain the lingering effect of the sacrifice: the souls of the Zonai. This would explain why we see so much of it so close to the seal in the trailer.
I would love if the hand is midna and then midna is able to summon twilight princess link and the hero’s shade too fight alongside botw link.
That would be fuxking amazing
But doesn't the Wolf Link Amiibo already exist?
Michael J I meant in entanglement to the story and in a human form. Also wolf link isn’t that cool if it was updated it could be amazing
This isn’t Castlevania Resurrection....
This is Brilliant! I especially love the fact you sourced Creating a Champion, as well as the format all together. You’ve earned a subscription. 👍
This was a real fun and well thought through theory.
Surprised to see you don't have more subs
Yo that instrumental during the memories at the beginning, I could actually hear the bass and cello for once and it highkey made me tingle with excitement for adventure.
I lol'd at "Camamity'
“Laughed out louded”?
That hand could actually be a companion. The hand is conscious since it was able to catch and save link. This green energy is then absorbed into his hand. This potentially could be links companion. Like midna hiding in your shadow or fi in the master sword it would allow the companion to be easily hidden in the over world but called out by a player input or story segment.
How do you only have 600 subs? This was a fantastic video! Its stuff like this that keeps me keen for the release.... eventually!
notice the fact that ganondorf in the botw 2 trailer has long hair, your hair can't grow if your dead...
i think he is just sealed and looks the way he does due to how long he has been there. he is alive and zombie like. but he isn't dead-dead.
ava winland google “will i grow hair after i die?” Hair and nails continue to grow for a while
Maybe the seal reached out to Link to grant him the energy. It can't seal Ganon for much longer given Calamity Ganon manifesting so maybe it was gathering them to grant a gift at a short term problem of releasing Ganon. Seems to be a running theme for those who are in this era.
I like to think Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf will join forces to break the cycle. I've always thought this wasn't what Ganondorf wanted to do, and it wasn't who he really is. Perhaps they have all learned of the original curse, and will try to break it.
That's somewhat interesting but na that concept wouldn't really work well in this type of game
@@grimmy7937 Also according to what's been stated so far regarding Demise's Curse it is fueled by his Hatred for the Goddess Hylia and her chosen Hero. Ganondorf has continuously shown throughout the series how much he hates Link and Zelda for getting in his way of obtaining the full Triforce so it just wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly change his personality just because he got sealed by a green Hand for over 10.000+ years. In fact i would say being him being sealed for THAT LONG would probably only increase his Hatred/Malice and he would probably want to finish Link and Zelda once and for all.
You have a true talent my friend. I LOVE THIS THEORY! The two mirrors, The Twili into Zonai, GENIUS!