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The dungeons of Twilight Princess are packed with lore & interesting secrets. Today we take a look at some of them.
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The Dark Purpose of Snowpeak Ruins
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As far as the Snow Peek Ruins go, there are at least two large portraits of note in the HD version that many seem to overlook. One is of the Zora Queen, and the other is of a man that is not fully in focus holding a child. My logical guess based on what I can make out in the picture, is That the child is a young Link, and the man is his father, possibly a man of high military status and nobility in service to the royal family, one day disaster befell them and Link was sent away, possibly in the care of Russel, who was either there as a distinguished warrior himself, or Link being sent to Russel without him knowing what befell Link's father, being rushed away before whatever disaster arrived. Link could very well be connected to a lost family of nobile warriors, who may or may not be connected with the Zoras, as they live adjacent to one another, meaning, the Zora king may not have been a Zora, but rather a Hylean. But that is just speculation at this point. If you wonder why I suggest this but not that Link himself is part Zora, his father could have had more than one wife. One Zora, one Hylean.
I could be 100% wrong, but hey, it could be possible.
I love twilight princess!!!
Infact, it's my favourite 3D Zelda game. My favourite Zelda game is A Link to the Past!!
Keep in mind, I'm old. Like played Zelda 1 when it was released, old. I was a young boy, but still
I think I read somewhere that Aonuma may have been mistranslated as having said TP takes place "a hundred years" after OoT when he actually meant "hundreds of years" or "at least a hundred years". Another explanation for the decay and overgrowth of the Temple of Time could be it's own mysterious time powers. Like, maybe it shifted itself and the surrounding area into a future state where its decay was much more advanced and a forest had grown around it in order to keep it hidden from intruders. The Temple of Time might also have been destroyed at the end of OoT, rather than fallen into ruin after years and years of neglect. The collapse of Hyrule castle may have caused an earthquake which made the nearby temple and castle town village crumble. Hyrule castle was later rebuilt in a different location while a forest grew around the temple's ruins.
Wish I could play this game somehow 🙁 I wanna play it HD and emulation is hard due it being a wii game.
Hyrule Castle? I don't recall seeing Hyrule Castle in Bandit's video, nor was it here. Did you mention why you skipped it and I just didn't notice?
Was it REALLY a "poor decision" to banish Gannodorf to the Twilight realm though? I mean, what exactly were their other options since they couldn't kill him? I mean, I guess they could've had the Link of their time, AKA the Hero of Time, AKA the Heroes' Shade take up the Mater Sword and cut him down, but, well, it seemed time was of the upmost essence then. I don't think they could've foreseen him suddenly gaining Triforce power (hey, I made an unintentional pun) and becoming unstoppable. Sure he did that in another timeline, but that was when he had access to the sacred realm, which he doesn't here. They even say it was "Some prank of the gods" that this all happened, what would you have done in their situation? Keep in mind that he already killed off one of the sages so it was likely a fight or flight response to use the mirror.
Fun fact. In the Japanese version of the game, Midna states that the dark fog in the Palace of Twilight is what Zant used to cover Hyrule in Twilight. Here's the translated quote:
Midna: "This black fog is the light-absorbing shadow crystals that Zant magically produced… It's responsible for stealing the light from the spirits and turning Hyrule into Twilight."
Collab Les go
My theory is that the Royal family is the only noble family left and they've exterminated all the other ones after the hyrulian civil war
I just felt that the Goron mines were where most Hylians got their metals to make their armor and weapons. It's also where the Gorons get their food source. I also like how Death Mountain feels much larger in TP than in BotW and how the tech is much more advanced in TP.
Also, I always felt that maybe Ashei was from the same region as the mansion but not the mansion itself. She said she was raised in the mountains in a place much like that. And the mini boss I always assumed was just a heavily armored variant of Dinolfos.
Maybe TP Link went to the Temple of Light before the events of OoT, and by beating it, freed Rauru, which would explain why he's already waiting for OoT Link after 7 years
where can i read the zelda manga?
looking forward to more twilight princess content
7:55 For some reason, I forgot that I was watching an NBC video and just thought "Wow, this dude really slammed NBC like that" lmao
Gets to the part on what happens if you try to take a sol. Hears NBC call it Zant's hand.
Me: "yay I am not the only one that calls it Zant's hands instead of Wall master.
There are two times when I love Zelda. One is your Skyward Sword or Ocarina of Time type game. The type of game whose lore matters to the whole of the zelda series and understanding that game is integral to understanding every other game. But the other is your Twilight princess, or your breath of the wild. The kind of game that feels so disconnected from everything else Zelda, but still feels absolutely amazing. The kind of game that spends so much time on every intimate detail of every single temple, every tiny little room, item, everything, that you believe it's really alive.
It feels like a contradiction to love both of these kinds of games with all of my heart, but here I am. I will never not love zelda theories, whether they're timeline theories or whether they're just the storied past of a single mansion, temple, ruin, or anything else that somehow has as much lore as any immersive sim could pack into an area
Honestly I would love to see the Snowpeak Mantion refurbish and restored to it's former glory.
It looks so incredible.
Hecc I would even do it myself if I could….alldough I first have to learn how to do it.
Goron mines are not usually built strictly for commerce, they are also usually the Gorons primary food sources. add to that that these also appear the gorons main training areas, and the goron mines could definitely be considered sacred by a race who love to eat and train.
In the twilight princess manga they say that the mansion of snow peak is her old home
Edit : a second after I posted this he said that in the video 😂
Havent been around for a bit but Loving the new intro!
this vid has one of the only sponsers shoutout i sat through
Really hoping that Twilight Princess HD releases on Switch.
Additionally, while I do enjoy lore videos like this, where the video maker twists themselves in knots trying to connect events/locations/items from one game to another via the supposed history…. I will always prefer the take that the game are mostly set in alternate realities from one another (the exceptions being the obvious sequels like Majora's Mask or Breath of the Wild 2). For all the rest, you have to handwave away massive changes in geography and location and architecture and supposedly historic items that are wildly different or none existent in other games. Sometimes magic itself functions differently.
Plus, we already have examples of alternate worlds/realities such as the Dark World from Link to the Past, the Twili Realm from Twilight Princess, a similar but different shadow/twili realm in Skyward Sword, Lorule in Link Between Worlds (which is different from the Dark World in that same setting), and maybe more that I've forgotten about. How many more such variants of existence might there be? And what if each has their own history — often seeming quite similar to one another… and sometimes not. There are even realms of dream as shown in Link's Awakening (which also had a second dream realm within it). Assuming the games are set in some chronological order rather than parallel/concurrent realms of existence is actually kind of weird.
Also… what if one Link could cross over into the realm where another Link exists/will exist/once existed?
Given how the games are made, and that a "history" didn't really exist until sometime after fan-fiction based on it became such a big thing Nintendo decided to just agree to it… and yet still had to retcon the "official" history a couple times and it still doesn't make any real sense even with games made after Nintendo tried to stick to an official history. And I think it's because Miyamoto and Aonuma and others don't really care about a supposed history and are happy to just reinvent the setting and ignore established details of the world aside from the main themes. For that reason, a lot of the lore that's uncovered is probably just wrong — though Nintendo may adopt it as a retcon if a theory is popular enough — and a lot more will never slot into place because it was never intended to come together, at least not between games. But within a given game? Yeah, you can probably piece stuff together to figure out that variant's history in part.
A theory at 17:27 if you look at its attack pattern and armor it looks like the first enemy from legend of Zelda a link to the past👀
The mines would be considered sacred even just because it's the source of food and wealth for the Gorons.
My brother pointed out that the Ooccoo’s wings look like weird saggy tits. And I can never see them normally now
I don’t understand why Nintendo won’t port these on to the switch, don’t they want to make a shit ton of money?
I will look forward tomorrow if you Twilight Princess content! It's one of my favorite games and it would be fun to experience it again. They can fix some of the weird graphical stuff they did in the Wii u version
Have you ever seen how fast some of the plants in LOZ can grow? Check out the Korok tree side quest in WindWaker, and then try saying a forest overgrowing a temple in 100 years isn't likely. Heck, they're lucky every last square inch of Hyrule isn't completely overgrown. (And that includes the Gerudo Desert.)
Thanks for your videos ! I totally fell in love with Snowpeak Ruins and Hyrule Castle when I first played it. They're among the best in the series !
on the topic of the snowpeak crest, im pretty sure there's a cave maybe near the lake or maybe hyrule field? idk it's been a while. anyway in the cave, if memory serves, there's intrusions of ice that give of a white hue like the mansion and (i think) a weapons rack like the ones in snowpeak. in HD the crest is visible there too maybe on the rack or a wall or something, at least it was in someone's video, sadly it's another one that doesn't show up on wii which is the system i had and checked it out on.
also (though this part i'm really unsure on) it maybe have had an actual name that came up when you entered it like a dungeon
This game is one of the Nintendo games that used the same exact sound effects.
I wanna love you but you toxic follower killed it
The Dungeon Item from the Goron Mine all but confirms that the Events of Majora's Mask actually happened seeing as the Hero's Bow that was in possession of the Goron's here is implied to be the exact same Hero's Bow that the Hero of Time acquired in the Woodfall Temple in Termina. He left it in their possession prior to his death.
The Goron Mines honestly rivalled the water temples in EVERY game bc i just died to lava SO many times!!
25:20 Were we ever told if the Royal Family was even AWARE of the Sages using the Mirror of Twilight that way?
The Goron Mines are the only dungeon, to my knowledge, that you can softlock yourself without any glitches
Any spot rich of ore and minerals is sacred to Gorons. It's just that simple.
a place doesnt have to be special just to be sacred
it could literally just be a place that has been inhabited for a while
you mine rocks in a place for a few hundred years
and the place is bound to be special for one reason or another
Okay so i have this theory i came up with while watching the video.
Navi flies off att the end of oot and, the hero of time (thot) goes to find his friend, majoras mask ensues representing the grieving process, with the grief being losing a friend and, reminiscing on the adventures with that friend with things that are similar, even coming up with two fairies to fill the gap.
Skullkid loner doesn't fit in makes no friends, ect.
Meets some young fairy children and befriends them.
Basically thot's story, he ends up betraying them, but in the end its revealed he was just a puppet.
He lost his friends but he didn't mean to.
Eventually he becomes the shade because he is unable to pass on his teachings to an heir.
Twilight princess reveals the dungeon behind the pane of glass illusion.
What if that was where Navi went.
The next step in his trial of the master sword.
But he was unable to enter it, perhaps he was too young he needed to just wait till he was adult links age and return, therefore never completing his trial, leaving him unfinished and resentful becoming the shade. a spirit with unfinished buisness.
Thot's trial being unfinished could be why he couldnt pass on his teachings.
Maybe the hero of twighlight can learn these teachings and finally put thot to rest because he did complete the full trial. He never followed navi, never seen her again. Maybe not finishing the trial is what gets him lost, and ends him up in termina anyway.
Hell the mansion could be the shades, he would defidently still have ties to the family, when we see him hes clad in armor, he would probably have the funds being right hand of the damn princess, would maybe explain some of the paintings like the zora. he would for sure be able to travel to the heavens.
or at least be qualified to speak with the ooca.
He couldve been trying to train others in the techniques he knew, this would explain all the arms and military esque equipment, yet the living quarters is luxurious.
maybe he even tried to make some monsters good and worthy soldiers, after his kids failed him.
But was ultimately unsuccessful, could even be what caused his death.
As we see his spirit clad in armor and a sword, ready for battle.
yet not with the master sword.
Still in the temple waiting for its of age master to draw it once more and complete his trial.
idk its just a theory, a zelda theory. leave a like and comment if you have anything to add.