A Marathon of Legend of Zelda Theories & Mysteries! (RYTM Season 1)

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Intro – 00:00
Episode 1 – 01:07
Episode 2 – 11:04
Episode 3 – 23:28
Update Episode – 37:46
Episode 4 – 40:08
Episode 5 – 57:09
Episode 6 – 01:11:49
Episode 7 – 01:26:07
Episode 8 – 01:39:36
Episode 9 – 01:57:43
Episode 10 – 02:11:16
Episode 11 – 02:22:02
Episode 12 – 02:33:09
Outro/Info – 02:44:35

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39 thoughts on “A Marathon of Legend of Zelda Theories & Mysteries! (RYTM Season 1)”

  15. Hey HG, love this video. It gave me something to listen to while at work. I have a question, is there a way for me to send you an extra long theory? I have a real doozy, but I think it's far too long to put in a comment.

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  24. Because Botw was the first Zelda game I played, I really hate Beedle. Threatening to steal from me, offering a crappy fairy potion in exchange for beetles. I can't go to stables without compusively stabbing him. He wasn't much better when I played Skyward Sword.

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  25. Honesty I always thought that the one Gerudo male every 100 years is basically made King due to rarity but then is also used as a sex slave to keep the people alive and is doomed to die (either natural or murder) at 100 either right as the new male is born or as soon as the mother of the male is impregnated.

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  27. Imo for a zelda movie is new idea within the timeline. So what imean is Link's goal is to prevent Ganon from obtaining the triforce. then add elements from all teh games. FOr exampe met Grouse from Skyward Sword as the 100 male child king of the Gerudo and have link be an orphan raised in Korok Forest. Zelda could be the teen queen after her father's sudden and supcious death and thats aa side plot and Impa and Paya are servants in her castle.

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  31. I love theories, and I will never stop telling mine until it is in a video !

    So, here's my theory in short: There is a split of timelines in Skyward Sword, but the developers/scenarists/whoever made the decision about that, didn't know how time travel works, and there are loads of inconsistencies about time travel in this game.

    The theory in not short: (and sorry it might take a while, and sorry if I make mistakes, English is not my native language)

    I have a very strict way of thinking how time travel works in fiction (and considering it doesn't exist aside from fiction, how time travel works at all) : what already happened can't not have happened anymore, even by time travel. That's why there are two ways of time travel to act on time :

    – in the case of a closed time loop, traveling in the past doesn't change the timeline, the time travel already happened before the time traveler traveled in time ; the time travel is part of the timeline.

    – in the case of a time split, traveling in the past does actually change the timeline, but considering what already happened can't be undone, the timeline from where the time traveler comes from stays unchanged, and a new timeline derivates from the original one, with a different course of event caused by the intervention of the time traveler.

    This was probably clear for most people, but it was important to state before talking about the main subject.

    Speaking of which : In the end of Skyward Sword, after Link fought the Imprisoned for the last time and used the Triforce to destroy it, Ghirahim kidnaps Zelda, and travels back in time to free Demise at a time where the Imprisoned hasn't been destroyed yet. Then Link follows him in the past to fight and kill Demise, before returning to his own time with Zelda.

    And here's the problem : in the future of that past, the Imprisoned doesn't exist anymore, because Demise was killed and NOT SEALED BACK INTO THE IMPRISONED as some people think.

    Because the Imprisoned is the restrained form of Demise caused by the seal of the Goddess Hylia; that's why Ghirahim needs Zelda, housing the Goddess's essence, to free him. In the original timeline, Demise was sealed until Link fought him several times before using the Triforce to destroy him. Considering what happened in the past in the final act of the game, they created a new course of event where Demise was sealed into the Imprisoned for way less time, freed by Ghirahim from the future and killed by Link from the future. In the future of this course of event, the Imprisoned doesn't exist anymore, so it can't be the past of Link's present, where the Imprisoned did in fact exist. So, at this point, a new timeline has been created, with a different succession of events, because the past was changed, but the original timeline still exists, unchanged, and continues to exist on its own.

    However, when Link and Zelda (and Goose) go back to the present, they find Impa and the Master Sword they just left in the past, like they've been waiting the whole time for them, which should be in a closed time loop case. That could mean they went back in the present, but of a timeline that isn't theirs. And I can't tell you how messed up this is.

    And there are a bunch of hints that lead either to one or another model of time travel, because I really think the developers didn't know how time travel works, or at least not as strictly as I conceptualize it. I didn't talk about Zelda in her cristal yet, I thought I could put it aside from the timesplit paradoxe because the loop was closed before Ghirahim created the new timeline, but Impa stayed in the past so the Gate of Time was never closed, so Ghirahim traveled in a past where Zelda was in her cristal, so what happens to her if there's a time split ? And if the ending really is the end of a timeloop, how comes that Impa is here all along but not the Master Sword ? And this is not the only time the Gate of Time is used in the game, when Link plants the Tree of Life is messed up too, because when he leaves, the Tree doesn't exist in his present, but once he planted it in the past and comes back, the Tree always existed here, so why did he have to plant it in the first place ?

    Now, I have a sort of solution to all the paradoxes and inconsistencies (except for the Tree of Life, this is hopeless), but it's more of a fanfiction that a proper theory. We know Goddess Hylia had a sort of foresight or future visions, and she created the Gate of Time, and I humbly assume she knows how time travel works. She may have known the Gate would be used in the future, and the possibility of either a timesplit or a timeloop. She could have given instruction to her servants who would be here at that time, namely Impa and Fi, to do so the paradoxes of time travel would go unnoticed by the mortals. That may be why Fi insisted to stay in the past after killing Demise and absorbing the remainings of his spirit ; to go back to her original timeline would mean there would be two of Demise in the same timeline, so Impa could have sent the Master Sword of the other timeline to the original one so there is one Master Sword and one Demise in each timeline. That may be why we can't see the Master Sword in the Temple during the game as we can see Zelda's cristal and old Impa. Same goes for Ghirahim, I don't really know what happens to him when Demise is defeated, but at this point there is two of him in the timeline, so Impa and Fi would have to send one in the other.

    And about Impa, actually I'm not sure, because she's from the past in the first place, but she traveled in time really early in the course of event, so I'm not sure there is another version of her in the past. But to be present in the original timeline in the end of the game, she must have used the Gate of Time to travel to it before it closes in this timeline.
    Anyway, this is so messy I don't have a final solution but here's what I had to address.

    Thanks for reading this far, I hope it was clear, I hope it will get someone's interest.

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