Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Story Explained (Part 1)



A recap of the story and lore of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. In Part 1 of 2, we follow Zelda into the distant past, …

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  1. Related but unrelated, here is my theory that eventually leads to this:

    What if Nintendo is right in their later timeline from the original that Termina is just a dream world but in fact it is a dream world for Link, think about it like this, Navi leaves at the end of the Ocarina of Time game, the prequel so he is hurt, she was the only one with him the entire adventure. The story starts where he is on Epona going through the Lost Woods but why would he bring Epona if he really needed to look for Navi (if that is why he was there) , look in the woods and running on a horse is an easy way to both get lost and not see her. He has the "ocarina of time" stolen from him when two fairies bump his horse, so even if it wasn't a dream at that particular moment, it could have been then. To add more credibility to the thought, I know when I grew up and played the Ocarina of Time game that I genuinely loved going to the mask shop, trying the various masks, but one day I saw Majoras Mask on the shelf, unable to be obtained. What if one day Link got the mask, and he became the skull kid? Hear me out.

    Epona, no matter if she ran or not (while Link was awake) from him, she is loyal to him so she would have stayed. The events of Termina, they happen in three days time, but one thing odd is if the Ocarina was all that was needed to traverse time, as we see this every time we reverse it during the span of those days and the events of Termina tend to fall apart like a dream, you keep the guardians you unlocked and summoning them with Oath of Order is all you need to do but if you go to the respective areas, the events are as they were before you got to rescuing Termina. Perhaps what happened was Link was knocked unconscious, perhaps the Majoras Mask was just a fear from the subconscious of what it may have been able to do as we never could get it in OoT, and somewhere along the lines of him searching for Navi, without a fairy he would know better than anyone that traversing the Lost Woods without a fairy is very dangerous and in fact one of the kokori probably rescued him but the events of the dream still take place, in his mind.

    Perhaps later in his life he returns to the Lost Woods, as Epona grows older and a new Link rises to take care of her, it is the Spirit of the Hero, this can coexist with multiple Links in place, and a long while before TP Link rises to rescue Hyrule, the OoT Link died while in the Lost Woods. It can even be something as simple as OoT Link maybe being his grandfather and Hyrule could have easily changed over the course of decades when we mention plants such as why the Temple of Time is in the Lost Woods, castle town could have been moved to ensure when Ganondorf returns from the Twilight Realm that finding the sacred realm wouldn't be as easy for him and the master sword is still protecting it from him so he can't access the Temple of Light, but they probably didn't realize to much later the Triforce was already in the hands of the three holders; the only issue with this is the passing of the pieces and necessarily of what relation OoT Link would be to the TP incarnation unless there isn't relation at all and the Triforce of Courage just somehow got to him or is not with him, I don't think that piece was featured in TP, was it? We saw Zelda had one and passed her light force, which may or may not have been her triforce piece as she is out of her body when we initially go after Ganondorf and when exactly did Midna return her piece, as Midna was no longer invulnerable to light after Zelda gave her something.

    If nature could have overgrown a destroyed castle town (as I am sure Ganondorf still tried to fight Hyrule in fact may have even been stated in game and in Hystoria), perhaps Epona being the name also of TP Link's horse, he knew OoT Link at some point, why would he use the name Epona unless it became a good luck omen or something by that point in Hyrule's history?

    What are your thoughts? I kinda just got a lil high and typed this out so if it makes sense, feel free to make it more clearer, I wonder if perhaps the little details such as OoT and TP Link being of relation are not as important as we may think, although I am inclined to believe they are because of where Link lives and knowing Hyruleans, they probably moved into the Kokori Forest as humans do to make settlements, the kokori probably were transformed into the koroks at this point in the Child Timeline, the Rito existed before as the mural in the HD version exists, so what if BoTW takes place in all timelines but this is just how these specific games take place officially, as BoTW Hyrule castle is fairly similiar to that of TP hyrule castle, and by that time perhaps all the games did happen and in terms of geography, well the developers even said they intentionally didnt keep it the same. The events of Totk thousands of years before during Hyrules founding can still be true, maybe?

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  2. zelda is not zonai descendant. Sonai is not related to her, Sonai dies thus ending any bloodline Relation. no offspring no nothing. sonia say she thinks they are related yet that is not proof considering she dies.

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  3. My biggest question is do the Zonai Pre-Date skyward sword? Because when they say Rauru is the first king of hyrule do they mean the literal first king of the first incarnation of the kingdom of hyrule? Or just the first king of the hyrule of the BOTW/TOTK timeline? If anyone knows for sure please lmk

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  4. Okay, hear me out. Here is a crazy theory. The Sheikah have been servants of Sauron in Mordor or they will become servants of Sauron in Mordor. The sheikah symbol is an eye. Similar to the eye of Sauron. The shiekah are evil! hahaha. If only Nintendo can buy the rights to the Lord of the Rings and make this happen. lol

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  5. Hey, how did you get the Secret Stone symbols? I've been looking and I haven't found ones as clean as the ones in your videos; the ones I found were from screenshots of the gameplay. Did you find these or did you make them yourself?

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  6. My theory as to why all the Sheikah technology disappeared is because like the shrine monks, they faded away once they served their purpose. This is why there are several caves and chasms in the places where the shrines and towers once stood. Purah and Robbie then tried to re-create some of it like the towers and the Sheikah Slate, but since the full knowledge of the technology has been lost, they are not perfect replicas. The skyview towers can't scan land on their own and then distill it into the pad, and the Purah Pad is unable to re-create all the runes the Sheikah Slate had.

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  7. My theory is that Zelda going back in time is what caused the timelines to ultimately converge. Thus being a dragonbreak and the fact that Zelda herself becames a dragon…yeah that makes too much sense.

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  8. Not sure if anyone noticed but the triforce is in the game. In the memory where Zelda is healing the master sword you can see a vague triangle shape on her right hand

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  9. Can we agree that they reverse time to turn Zelda back to normal & give Link back his arm. Plus she can't remember some of things she's been through… Be blessed everyone. Game of the year

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  10. One other thing Zelda mightve done before becoming the Light Dragon is add Sheikah Tech to the Shrines Of Light so Link could teleport to them. I don't actually know if this is the case, but it's what I assumed when going through the game.

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  11. Great job on the video! As someone who has been following your channel since the Zelda Wii U days, it is great to see how much your channel has grown and consistently produces exceptional content. Looking forward to Part 2.

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  12. I just got here. And I wanna say. I really hope we get an answer as to why the triforce is no longer mentioned. I know it's on Zelda's hand. But what about it's story. How did she come to have it? Does she has all 3 pieces? Has the legend died and it's merely just a symbol used by the Hylians now?

    I hope some of these questions can be eventually answered.

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  13. Holy. I just have no words good enough to express how good this was. I cried. The Legend of Zelda is everything to me. I want to thank you so much for your passion. Your narration, editing and story telling. Just astounding. I honestly cannot wait for part 2.

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  14. If the Hero of Ancient is partly Zonai, that would in fact put him as a member of the Royal family and likely be ruler of Hyrule at the time of the Ancient Calamity.

    So my question is. Why did he banish the Sheikah tribe and their technology? Because wouldn't the technological advances of the Divine Beasts be a combination of both Zonai and Sheikah tech?

    Did they fear that they again would be responsible for letting their knowledge and powers fall into the wrong hands?

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