That was easy! Today I look into the mysterious statues found within the Gerudo Wasteland and try to find out who they really are! discord server: / discord
Evan Poirier “hmm these blueprints are kinda blurry and really faint and herd to see. I’ll just work with it anyways.” *rolls up the blueprints when done* “oh shhiiiii those where upside down!”
I was hoping they'd double down on the open-world idea by setting the sequel in hyrule's rebuilding stage, where Zelda is re-establishing government, the Bolson crew is restoring Hyrule castle, and Link is serving as Zelda's envoy while she is busy in the castle. You'd need to direct the Bolson crew in new developments around the Castle and in the other towns. At first you'd have to attend to monster attacks yourself, but eventually you can build up the Hyrulean Guard to keep regions safe. Different races will sometimes conflict with each other, and you need to mediate (or fight for one side against the other!). And the Yiga clan will still be working behind the scenes, attempting to thwart your efforts. Industry and trade will need to grow and develop. AND THEN! A larger threat appears, either invaders from Lorule, or the Twili, or foreigners from across that big Dinraal canyon that blocks Hyrule off from the rest of the land. But how cool would it be to completely shape Hyrule from the ground up?
@Evan Surdey lol Did you really need to clarify that it was you that was the one replying in your own comment? Yes, BotW is quite perfect in many ways but why not increase the amount of things that made it so great and add new elements to it to make it even better in it's sequel? If it wasn't messed with to create a different/new game then it would only be a re-release of the same game which would be pointless. If you want the same game then just replay BotW again lol
@@jerotoro2021 that would perfect imo and a huge step for the franchise now that they can do really big games, it'd be a great way to keep the world alive and the sidequest interesting. Coming back from cleaning a region from evil just to find the perfectly healthy region you left in the middle of a civil war threat... or just to find a growing prosper town where everything goes well thanks to your past efforts... Would be great
The eigth heroine also has the left hand on top of their right hand, while all the others have right on top of left. Nintendo just mirrored the entire 3D model, that's why the text is reversed lol
Why would it need to be reversed at all in that case? The seven statues were rotated, but the eighth was reversed? There's got to be more to it than just that.
We have to consider, if this was a copy of the other models, why would they remove the sword? Also, does the 8th heroine have a emblem? Like how the other statues had orbs that matched up with a garment that had an emblem on it?
The Eighth Statue could be representational of Ganondorf, as he was originally born a Gerudo. Discarding the Eighth Statue to the Highlands could be a symbolic way the Gerudo have essentially rejected him as a true Gerudo.
I don’t think the eighth heroine statue was moved, but built there. The rock textures and colors don’t match up and the Eighth Statue is obviously built in the wall
I think it will have to do with how the underground caverns work in the new zelda game. we already saw in the trailer that some of it takes place under the castle, why not inside of a mountain?
@@ih7552 theres also zonai ruines un the desert and at just in the place where is the cannon tower is a construction very big that sees very old like a temple Under the ground. And in the trailer the fate of the temple where zelda and link are looks like the famous statue in the desert in the Real life that I forgot the name xd
Yeah! Let's spend thousands, probably millions of Rupees to hire workers to spend years pushing and hoisting a giant stone monument up a mountain, which will result in many Gerudo deaths, just to show the Eighth Heroine that we don't like her! It totally won't bankrupt our society, forcing us to settle in a small town where Gerudo men mysteriously do not exist, and were probably the ones who helped move the statue which is why there are none left now because they died trying to move it. I mean, there were obviously men, there had to have been because according to Zelda OOT, one Gerudo man is born every 100 years or so, and Gerudo, Hylians, Zora, all seem to have lifespans that go well beyond 100 years, look at Impa, Purah, Robbie, King Dorephan, Sidon, several other Zora who remember you, the list goes on. I have no doubt this is exactly what happened, the Gerudo women seem very violent at times and we can see how much they do not respect men, I mean, I don't blame them for how they feel, a Gerudo male turned out to be the king of evil one time, who's still alive in the form of Calamity Ganon, so obviously they refuse to give men any sort of power in fear that this event will happen again if a Gerudo man were to have power.
Someone may have already said this, but at 3:35: Skill: Impa Spirit: Nabooru Endurance: Darunia Gentleness, Saria okay, but: Knowledge: ! Zelda, with the Triforce of Wisdom Flight: ! Rauru, who can turn into an Owl Motion: ! Ruto, the flowing motion of water Then every sage from OoT is counted. Aside from the mysterious #8.
The 8th could be Link? The sages always helped Link. Maybe because Link died in BOTW, moving the 8th statue and placing the sword somewhere else was a cermonial thing
The 8th heroine was a deserter out of a band of 8 gerudo heroines. Her sword lies between her and the rest of the group, implying she "dropped" or laid down her sword, as she ran away. If she had back stabbed the rest of the group, she woudn't have ever been considered a heroine in the first place, as the legends were later told to warrant such statues, and would've just been considered a villain versus the 7 heroines. Also, her sword doesn't point towards the rest of the group, implying she didn't point her sword at the other 7 heroines. Initially she wasn't seen so disgraced in the gerudo tales, or else the 8th statues in the yiga hideout would've been disgraced/smashed/moved. They were 8 heroines of the Gerudo in unspecified times, probably sometime before the 10,000 years between BotW and when Calamity Ganon first showed up that players are never given more backstory into (the 7 giant statues must have been built before those 10,000 years happened since they were built around one of those shrines from 10,000 years ago). She wasn't initially seen as disgraced for her desertion, but as time went on the tales probably painted her more and more cowardly. The 8th heroine giant statue was built at a different spot because she was seen as disgraced. The text is reversed to show that she is disgraced. They would not have made her text inscriptions reversed if she was moved. Further, the 8th statue is carved out of the mountain, there is no way it could've been moved. At the site of the 7 giant statues, it appears that there was stonework where an 8th statue might have been, indicating that there was a statue possibly there that was later destroyed, but the stonework base does not line up properly with where an 8th statue would've been placed. Further, there is no pedestal for it, or foundation for a pedestal. The 7 giant statues site was built without an 8th statue, despite what seems to be a foundation for an 8th statue. The statues in the Yiga hideout are there because that was originally some sort of gerudo temple of sorts, that is even more ancient than the other giant statues, from before the time the 8th heroine was seen as disgraced (or else the original builders would've smashed/moved the 8th heroine's statue). It's obvious the Yiga did not originally own that hideout, they just hastily placed cloths over the original gerudo structures that had gerudo text, whereas if it was originally a Yiga hideout it would've had Sheikah (or atleast hylian) text. Further, if it was originally a yiga hideout they wouldn't bother creating statues to foreign gerudo legends, but rather have made statues relating to their own legends. It is obvious that the Yiga Hideout is an ancient forgotton temple that the Yiga took over, and the fact that they are on the other side of the map from Kakariko Village tells you how intensely the Sheikah tried to wipe out the Yiga for them to travel so far to safely make a base. Also, all the building structures and building scaffolds in gerudo canyon areas are originally Gerudo structures, you can tell because there's writing on the banners saying "Safety first!" in Gerudo text along those scaffolds. Obviously the Gerudo were trying to build something there, maybe more monuments like 7 heroines or temples of some kind, but had to stop because the construction sites were overwhelmed with monsters (that are still there to this day). It's obvious those monsters weren't making those construction scaffolds, pulleys, weights, or writing banners saying "safety first!" in Gerudo. What really gets my noodle cooking is if the 8th heroine's stone sword was moved by some super giant monster, perhaps a super giant hinox. But that's pretty unlikely, anything that big would probably have its own weapon by the time it got that big. The most logical answer is that the 8th heroine's stone sword was carved away from the 8th's statue, and is between the 8th & the other statues to show she was probably a deserter & purposefully gave up her sword.
When u said that the yiga would make there own statues of their legends.the yiga clan worshipped ganon and that's why they betrayed the sheikah but they just wanted to make there base there probably because it seemed like nobody could get their and it's pretty hard to find
@@matty_playz5228 I've seen people use their/there/they're wrong a lot and I usually don't care... But how in the name of God fucking jesus in some weird religious hentai did you use there every single time except for when you needed to use it and then used their instead
3:59 Or you could put: Skill: Impa Spirit: Nabooru Endurance: Darunia Knowledge: Zelda (triforce) Flight: Rauru (Owl form) Motion: Ruto (Swimming = motion) Gentleness: Saria (I know other theories may make more sense in general but I think this is a better lineup)
I was thinking the exact same thing. Also for the 8th sage, there is evidence in OOT, the game and I believe that it is in the source code too, that there was suppose to be an 8th sage who was the wind sage, that plus the fact that it is stated that the power of all the sages together are needed to completely seal Ganondorf away forever and the fact that he breaks the seal himself in wind waker, and yet he has to use Aganihm in alttp to break the seal, Zant in TP to break the seal; leads me to believe that the seals placed on him during those times were more complete seals that the one Zelda and the sages of the future made.
@@meeguelangelo Well obviously but the Gerudo could just be shifting around their genders as propaganda. After all they are a nation of women, if they wanted these figure to be role models for their kids making them female would make it easier for the girls to relate to them growing up.
@@marche800 Or the heroines could just be an incarnation of the Sages that hasn't been in any game yet, like the Zelda, Link and Champions who fought the Calamity 10,000 years before BoTW. The sages in OoT each represent the different races, but the ones in TP are these weird ethereal ghostly guys, and the sages in BoTW are Shiekah, so who's to say there wasn't a generation of Sages that were comprised of all Gerudo women?
What if the Eighth Heroine was a member of the Sheikah Tribe and a friend of the Gerudo, but helped betray and create the Yiga Clan and was then banished?
Something to support your theory: the Adventure Log mentions that the Eighth Heroine is "still worshipped by her faithful to this day in the Gerudo Highlands." Thing is, no Gerudo actually live in the highlands, but the Yiga DO have their hideout closer to it and there's even a Yiga encampment in the highlands (I think at the Sapphia's Table)
Yeah, I actually was thinking this! The highlands are so barren and empty, the only people close to the area are the YIga Clan. Could they be worshiping the heroine? Could it actually represent Ganondorf since they are loyal to Calamity Ganon? And does this mean that Ganondorf use to be a sage? Who knows
+NintendoBlackCrisis that, or maybe this heroine was somehow responsible in some way or another in the return of calamity ganon and setting up the trap of using the skeika guardians against hirule. Like maybe the prophet?
That's what I thought too xD...who knows...but the trailer in botw 2, indicates that his body is underneath hyrule castle...but that it's only a thing that we are gonna find out, when the game is released 😎
@@ichlovemusik4ever i totally agree, but in the trailer, there seems to be at least two, possibly three different types of underground places; different marking on the walls, different stone types, etc. - wouldn't it be awesome if the whole of hyrule was hollow and had a tonne of cave dungeons linking them? i always said i wished botw had caves!
yes! that goes with my theory that botw 2 is gonna follow and take inspiration from zelda 2 the adventure of link. basically i think the yiga are trying to resurrect ganons body.
@@haresmahmood so its more speculation and theory but i think the 8th statue was created by the yigas or someone/thing else to hide the entrance to a temple or dungeon that is guarding ganon. also with the trailer another youtuber pointed out that the markings on that bed thing that ganons on are gerudo and the yiga clan are like right outside the gerudo ruins. i feel like this is hinting at the resurrection of ganon like in zelda 2. i havent really looked into it too much yet though, this is all off the top of my head, so fair warning, it may seem off
idk why but when he mentioned the script on the eighth statue was backwards I thought of this little scene where the Gerudo were like: "gosh dang it Tod you literally just had to write the SAME message on EVERY statue...how did you write it BACKWARDS?!" "ok....we've been working on this for months and I haven't had almost ANY sleep ok....cut me some slack" "ugh...whatever just like,...move out of here or something" "where? oh yeah, let's just throw the GIANT statue away. Problem solved, Helen" "I don't know! just like...ugh put it in the highlands...that can just be the reject pile since NOTHING is up there." "ok...whatever you say"
The Eighth Heroine Statue in the Highlands was clearly being cut from the mountain itself, and isn't finished. It begs the question if the other Seven were made in a similar fashion, but the eighth was intentionally left unfinished.
true, my only question would be how the sword got on the highlands. Plus, the statue is super old so it could have got stuck inside of the cliff due to the landscape changing/mountains forming over thousands of years. Thanks for watching!
These are great questions! At some point we have to ask: How did the sword get moved? If the statues were carved in the mountains, how did they get moved? If they weren't made in the mountains, how did the 8th statue get there? At some point, some weirdness is involved. I agree, over millennia the mountain could seem to absorb a statue. I'm puzzled.
Hmm, I would think that if the statue were standing there long enough to absorbed by a mountain, it should be far more eroded and weathered than that, especially since it's in a snowy region. I'm pretty sure all the statues had to have been carved from the mountains and then carried into the desert. However, if the makers always intended to make 8 statues, it's pretty weird that the eighth statue was carved all the way on the opposite side of the mountains, where they'd have to cart it all the way around the mountain for it to join the rest of the statues. I think this 8th one was carved in secret by someone else.
The eighth heroine looks as if it was carved in the wall of the redness in the Gerudo highlands, so, this might mean this heroine was built there for a reason.
Why didn’t he connect the 7 powers to the champions in BOTW ? Skill - Urbosa Spirit - Zelda Endurance - Daruk Knowledge - Impa Flight - Revali Motion - Link Gentleness - Mipha
If that was true, that would mean the Eighth Heroine's Sword, the highest point in the game, would represent the Master Sword... Interesting... On a side note, if this is in the Downfall Timeline, and Link died in the battle with Ganon, it would make sense how he would be forgotten over time, remembered by only a select few.
Well, most of the Links are left-handed, so I wouldn't say that proves anything, but, if the other statues are right-handed, then it could very well be some incarnation of Link. (Actually, now that I have come back and edited, it occurred to me that if this is the case, it could just be another case of "mirroring" the other statues, just like how the text on the Eighth is reversed.)
Okay, theory time: it is important to note a couple of distinct differences about the hidden statue. 1) it is call the "Statue of the 8th Heroine," not the Statue of the 8th Sage, so whoever this person is, she does not need to be a sage herself, but rather just related to them in some way. (since the other 7 were all together, let's assume they are the classic "sages" that we see in Zelda lore) 2) the statue's writing is reversed. This leads me to believe that this statue could be considered some type of mirror image, which I believe to be an homage to the Twilight Realm. That would make the 8th Heroine Midna herself, heroine of Twilight Princess who helped defeat Ganon and shattered the mirror connecting the two worlds, while the other sages are those who initially killed Gannondorf in that timeline.
At riju's house in her room a pedestal says in gerudo script: gerudo a resilient desert flower, facing the sun's gaze. Gerudo grows brilliant, while others fade. We stand vigilant over everyone. Vigilant in the sun growing brilliant gerudo never outdone. Gerudo brilliant in the sun.
The Yiga definitely took over a former Gerudo hideout. It is also was closer to Gerudo Tower than Gerudo Town. the Yiga Hideout statues are like a blueprint, complete with a shrine in the middle with the steps to the shrine leading to the way out between 2 statues. If the 7 Heroines had the 8th heroine there the shrine would lead to the 8th and not the exit. One thing about the statues though is that in the hideout the 8 have a definite left hand while the 7 in the desert have their right hand over the left. The 8th heroine however has her left over the right. Curiously the statues in the Gerudo throne room are left over right, and Buliara is right over left. Now that I’m paying attention the heroines have their icons in interesting places. Stepping out of the shrine, going counter-clockwise it goes: Left foot Amulet Sword (facing shrine) Crown Sword (away from shrine?) Amulet Right foot Now if this was done for symmetry and not a mistake then that means the 8th heroine’s mark would be on her left hand as all 8 have a spot on their hand for a mark, but none of them use it.
There is one Possibility to why the 8th statue is reversed and alone. If you think of the statue as a reflection, it could represent the Twilight realm, I know this is a long shot but hear me out. In the game if you have the Wolf Link Amiibo you can actually call him to your side, Now my question is, Why is that? Out of all the Amiibo's only Wolf Link and Super smash Bros. (SSB) Link gives you an actual Character, SSB gives you a one per game Epona so an early unlock and not a big deal, but Wolf Link can actually only be able to help if Summoned with the Amiibo. So taking the Statue as possible reflection of a Mirror (Possibly the Twilight Realm Mirror or Link to the Past/Between worlds Mirror) and the fact Wolf Link can be summoned as a NPC to help, plus there is a story about a Sage from the Twilight Realm, It could mean that the Unknown/Extra Statue actually represents a Sage not of Links world but from a world beyond a Mirror. Lets be honest, Link has used Mirrors many times to go into other worlds and has made allies in them as well so it would not be a surprise if there was a Sage from one of the Mirror worlds that came into ours, not to mention it could be possible that Midna might be considered a sage by Links world for her help in the Twilight Princess. Its just a theory on my part, Would be pretty cool if they make an expansion that lets you open the statue behind it was a Mirror of the Twilight realm or a Shrine dedicated to it.
I actually really like this theory; I honestly think it has some credence. With the the cold of the Highlands being the opposite of the hot desert the other statues are located in, it may refer to Midna, or perhaps Hilda from the other "opposite" world.
@@aliciau86 Well, sometimes games are built with the idea of adding to them after release, you can logically deduce at lest part of the intended functions of objects like this.
It turned out the 8th Statue was after a heroine that in reality it was a cross dressing man, pretending to be a heroine. So the Gerodu royalty did not want to let this fiasco get known (imagine many more men would try to sneak in) so they did what they had to, extinguish the 8th Hero(ine) from the books of history... He was truly a hero!
that wouldnt make sense bcos the sword was far away from the statue.. if they hid the statue buy continue to honor him then they wouldve atleast put the sword in the statue's hand.
Riva1er Plays Now that I think about it, it wouldn’t make sense because of the dialogue. If I remember correctly, some of the Yiga say they love Master Kohga. (It could be platonically)
The eighth heroine statue got demonetized and was so shocked she fell down the cliff leaving her sword behind because she couldn't do anything about it!
I played this game for hours every day which caused me to complete it within just a few months. I wish I would’ve taken more time to enjoy it because the feeling this game gives you when you are exploring is truly breathtaking. Now that I have beaten it, I can’t get that feeling back. I want nothing more than to erase my memory, just like link, and to experience this masterpiece again.
Also the jewels are in different places for each heroine, could this show which heroine relates to each power? (Like the jewel on the head could show the heroine of knowledge) I don’t know though
Hm...could this have something to do with why one of the Yiga's signature weapons is known as the EIGHT-fold blade? And why and HOW could they have moved a statue that massive to the middle of the highlands? You'd need advanced technology - Sheikah technology - to pull off a feat like that. You sir, may have uncovered a massive cover up hiding in plain sight.
You don't need special pieces of Sheikah tech to move a statue if it's in separate parts. The swords of these statues appear to be detachable, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume the main bodies were built in separate parts to be assembled on site or blocks of stone were moved to the site, assembled, and then carved into shape.
One other thing! Look at 5:56, notice that Buliara's posture is the EXACT same as that of the seven heroines. Hmmmm......interesting! ;) ANOTHER THING: there's a chance that the Yiga didn't create the statues in their base. Look at how the text is cut off at the bottom of each one. Could they have been sitting there for a long time? Also, I can't thank you guys enough for 5,000 subscribers. Thankyou for your continued support of the channel
I assumed that the Yiga didn't make the statues, and they have covered the faces of the statues with the Yiga symbol, a sign of disrespect to the person the statue represents.
The most logical thing is that the current hideout was originally Gerudo's... something (another hideout, a militarry base, a storage facility...) , and the Yiga took it as their hideout. The other thing is that a Gerudo, presumably the 8th sage, betrayed the Gerudo to join the Yiga Clan, and another more far fetched, is that Koga is actually a betrayer male Gerudo, but i doubth about that one
Yeah, the statues would definitely have been there long before the Yiga. It was just a convenient location for them to use. The real question is why there are eight statues in that location and seven in the other. In the real world, we could find out how old each location was to get a better idea of what might have happened.
What’s disappointing is that there could’ve been a huge quest about learning who they are (which could also lead to a dungeon), but once again this is another “eye-candy” thing Nintendo just stuck in the game that could’ve had potential but it’s just......... there. Like the 3 dragons and the Lord of the Mountain. Smh
Some thoughts: 1) How could that statue have moved? There isn't anything close to that size in the world as it is that could have even knocked over any of those statues let alone move it to a new canyon in the highlands. Even if the sword is in a different place it couldn't have happened 2) "Heroines" doesn't necessarily imply "sages" so the link between them and the seven sages may not be direct. All that can be objectively be inferred is that the statues were built after seven sages. 3) Myths get distorted over time. It's possible that the eighth heroine is "lost" as in the "eighth" statue wasn't built near the other seven and was literally lost and a myth sprung up around her existence without any other tales of her. It's also possible that she was once considered a heroine, but was later discovered to be a fraud and was cast out from the others. Then the statue could have been built by her followers that refused to believe she did anything wrong. 4) Don't read too much into the text being reversed. The eighth statue is a mirror of the other seven (her left hand is on top of the sword while the others' right hands are on top). It's likely just a X coordinate invert that the developers did to make it seem "off" from the others. 5) Finally, WW never directly states that the Zora evolved into Rito, just that Medli is Laruto's descendant. It's possible some weird cross-species "contamination" occurred somewhere between those two sages. Since they co-habitate in BotW we can infer that not all Zora mutated into bird people.
Remember in skyward sword - the ''great plateau'' of that game (skyloft) being placed back into the main land of hylrule below to form the eventual temple of time? Also, the ruined temple of time appears a little isolated too
Great theory! Well done research, an 8th sage? I feel like botw overall just created more questions rather than answering existing ones for the series. Congrats on being more than half way to 10K! That’s so awesome and I’m sure feels surreal to you! 2K being on the horizon to me is so crazy man, good luck on what the future may bring to you my friend! :)
Yeah, there are so many possibilities! Someone also had matched up the "wielded powers" to the 7 sages in a way that made some sense, meaning that the "forgotten heroine" could represent the Hero of Time. I guess we will see! (hopefully) Also keep up the awesome work on your channel, I'd love to do a collar theory with you sometime but idk what it would be about xpxp
This seems a likely answer. They imparted so much wisdom by commemorating the 8th's exile with that giant exiled statue (a male is born every 8 generations, and because it takes so long to happen, the myth became, "it feels like a hundred years"). This also points to the distrust the Gerudo have with men. I also wonder if the 8th had all other males killed so that only his offspring would reproduce. This would also point to their distrust in men. I mean, the red hair is a dead giveaway. =p
Here a theory on why the statue was moved. Let's build off your theory that each statue is a different Gerudo sage throughout the years. What if one of them allied with Ganondorf and helped the Yiga Clan instead of the other sage's. This would explain why the Yiga Clan are hiding out in the Gerudo dessert and why there hideout has these 8 statue. Perhaps the 8 sage lead them to that cave and gave them shelter there and just over time it became their hideout.
I would think Zelda as knowledge and Raoru as Flight would make more sense, since Raoru is Kapora Gaebora, and Zelda has the triforce of wisdom and wisdom and knowledge are similar
Yeah, someone in the comments organized the powers in a way that it made sense. Raru was in flight because he is believed to also be the owl that gives you advice in the child timeline. Zelda was changed to Wisdom and then Ruto to motion. It definitely is possible!
Imagine the eight heroine is just an accident to make a statue, they might have just wrote the language upside down and then they were like "oop, guess we discard this one"
Maybe in a future DLC something happens and if you return the 8th heroine's statue was destroyed and you find out who it is. Maybe it is Ganon ! You know ""He did something that bad he got kicked out of the Seven Sages"' and that is why he turned evil !! Just something I through out there ! Also I wrote the Ganon getting kicked out like that because you said something similar !!!
really, theorists have it pretty hard on the Zelda series becasue lets face it, major plot twists and bombshells are really really rare the surprises always have lurked in the deep gameplay - even here in Breath, you're almost forced to check into the hidden details and sidequests for plot revelations
The whole 3d model of the eighth statue is mirrored, just look at the hands positions when compared to the others seven. In the eighth statue the left hand is over the right one while in the other seven statues is the contrary, the right hand is over the left one.
Eighth? There are other seven races? Gerudo Zora Ruto Hylian Korok Sheika ...? Maybe we can count the Yuga too? Yeah that actually fits. But I still think it represents the Yuga
If I recall correctly, the reason the Sheikah have a tear drop under their eye symbol was as penance for something one of them did. What if this was the 8th hero/sage? They betrayed their duty and was cast out from their role as sage and was never replaced.
The quest says that The Eighth Heroine is still worshipped by her followers in the Gerudo Highlands. I figured that meant that the 8th was the inspiration/matron for the Yiga or leader when they actually left the Shiekah
I have an interesting thought about the "eighth" heroine. These statues were obviously made out of a mountain, right? They were 'carved' out, i believe. And notice how the eigth heroine's back is halfly part of the mountain? Its almost as if it was carved out of the mountain, not brought to it (as in, being discarded) Now what i think, is that maybe the eighth statue was the first one to be made. It was made as an example, for the people to see how the statues were going to look like. It was like a "sketch", a design they thought of before making the other 7 statues. Thats just my take on it
So Notice how the eighth sage is facing away from them with her sword broken? Maybe the eighth sage was an unofficial sage who died protecting the other seven?
Possible Sages (Heroines): 1. Zelda (Legend of Zelda 1 and 2) 2. Zelda (Link to the Past) 3. Zelda (Ocarina of Time) 4. Zelda (Twilight Princess) 5. Zelda (Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass) 6. Zelda (Spirit Tracks) 7. Zelda (Link Between Worlds) Typically Zelda has always had a connection to the Shieka. Usually their guardian was Impa. I probably missed a Zelda or two, but that's the correct canonical number right? There were other games, but not really another Zelda in sight. Now get this. Lorule. That was another version of Hyrule, but reflected. Usually things would be reflected upside down, but maybe this is a hint, that the Eighth Heroine is a "reflected" heroine. One that shouldn't be spoken of because that would should not be realized. What if the eighth heroine is Hilda? So you would have 8 heroines and this would be speaking of 8 great events that happened in the history. Now here's where things get iffy... 3 timelines right? What if those three timelines were purposefully created? Think about it. You have a magic Ocarina and the Master Sword that brings in time travel. If that were possible, then how did Link go back and forth so easily? There has to be some kind of magic there... Also, Ganondorf gets sealed into the sacred realm and returns centuries later (OoT - Wind Waker), gets thrown to the realm of Twilight and comes back (Oot - Twilight Princess) AND wins and reigns for centuries in another realm but loses his mind (Oot - Legend of Zelda 1). What if they could somehow communicate? Through the power of the Triforce or something else, that should be possible. What if they put together a series of events to bring the three timelines back to one? That would explain the Rito and Zora coexisting. That would also explain some of the weirdness that is going on. But that's a whole different theory. My main theory is that maybe the 3 timelines are linked through Ganondorf himself and that the 7 heroines are all Zelda and the 8th is possibly Hilda? Let me know if you think I'm crazy. Just a fan of your stuff.
It could be a situation where the carvings were the reason it wasn’t finished and is still a part of the mountain. This happened a lot in Egypt, where if anything happened to one then it would be left unfinished and a new one started. A good example is the cracked obelisk, it was almost completely finished but a huge crack formed and they were forced to completely start over.
Um I just noticed at the end of the video you can tell those Little rocks with bags with the Yiga clans Sybil they look like gossip stones from ocarina of time
What if the seven heroines are important to the BotW lore AND references to the previous games?.. Nah, I'm just trying to tie things together and hoping to unlock the truth.
They're the Armos south of Spectacle Rock in the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. The Eighth one being moved means someone already found the power bracelet!
ooooh the idea of it hiding a dungeon is really interesting with the new trailer where link is flying towards the gerudo highlands!! considering totk was originally supposed to be dlc this seems very plausible. plus the proximity to the yiga clan (plus upside down text like their symbols), and the heavy connection to ganondorf hinted at in the totk trailers… i feel like its very plausible that the 8th heroine is ganondorf and we could get a dungeon, or even entrance to the underground there!
I always like side quests of botw because it gives you task which can only acquired by using brain or exploring not like other game which ask you some question and directly tells it's solution but yes some are filler. But all of the shrine quest (which is not considered as side quest and has more depth) are always fantastic for me. I think most of you are agreed with me. this is also a shrine quest.
That's Interesting, what if he was good when he was younger and then power got to his head and he became bad, that would be why they got rid of the eighth statue and why there is one in the yoga's base because they are followers of clarity ganon, ganon, or ganon, whichever you want to say.
The 8th one is Ganon I believe. It's the only explanation. Casted out because his evil took over, which is why the statue is not included in the original group. But because the yiga are followers of ganon, it makes sense that they would have that included in their statue group.
What if the eight sege was Ganon and since he is well, the bad guy, they removed the statue so I wouldn't honor him, and put him somewhere else, mabey they built that statue to still worship the sages, but since they didn't like him they moved him, and that would explain as to why the yiga had all 8, since they do worship ganon
I like the idea that there could be a dungeon behind the eighth heroine statue! If they bring back proper dungeons in the sequel, that definitely needs to be a thing. This was my take on the list, based on the way water flows (motion) and the fact that Rauru has the ability of flight in Ocarina of Time through his avatar - Kaepora Gaebora. Skill - Impa Spirit - Nabooru Endurance - Darunia Knowledge - Zelda Flight - Rauru Motion - Ruto Gentleness - Saria Also, the recent timeline clicked for me when you mentioned the eight statues in the Yiga clan hideout. It all makes sense now, because I knew from other zelda videos that the Yiga clan hideout was an old Gerudo shrine that they took over and made into their base, but they must have done so far enough back in time that the Gerudo hadn't removed the eighth heroine from their history and exiled it's statue to the highlands!
Given the fact that the text is reverse maybe the 8th sage is meant to represent Lorule, the mirror version of Hyrule. Perhaps it represents Hilda or some other Lorulian that somehow made contact with Hyrule? Also when referring to the 8 Yiga statues, I think it's pretty likely that the Yiga simply found an old abandoned Gerudo temple and took it over. Notice that they places their insignia in a cloth over the statues instead of carving it into them. This would suggest that they didn't make them and instead simply found them and defaced them for the sake of marking their territory. This would also make sense given that this location is also the location of one of the DLC shrines that correspond with the Divine Beast Vah Naboris, meaning 10,000 years ago this place wasn't a Yiga Hideout. Also I highly doubt that the Yiga are adept in the Gerudo Alphabet.
I think the eighth heroin was link.....now bare with i have some evidence, The first bit of evidence is at 3:56 how he says he couldnt figure out the eighth word (motion) which means:the action or process of moving or being moved, now link can slow down time/ go into slow MOTION , and the second bit of evidence is at 4:45, it shows a ball that has a pause symbal ( | | ) which could also mean slow motion, now it does say heroin BUT remember when he said the graudo could of changed it to heroin, this is why I think the 8th stage is link, ALSO the eighth stautue has the left hand on top and remember that link holds the master sword in his LEFT hand.........another thing is uno how the sword isnt with the stuatue, and how link keeps on losing the master sword...............
My only theory is each of Urbosa’s ancestors with Ganon in between. He obviously wasnt a Hero”ine” or even a “Hero” so when he became evil back then maybe they cast him off and purposefully tried to forget? It doesnt make much sense but Ganon was the first I thought of when the Eighth statue came up
imma do a little stretching here but hear me out what if Motion = Time thus making Zelda the 7th sage and Hilda being the opposite of Zelda making her the 8th explaining the backwards text??
Hey, the eight heroine is Urbosa, as a tribute to her power or something like that (probably being chosen as a metal camel with thunder rider)they decided to make a statue for her, but the calamity and all that happened and.... they forgot about it. The statue is incomplete or perhaps the gerardo in shame dicided to eliminate it from history, because you know she failed and died.
When i saw the statues in the yiga clan's hideout with all 8 still there, i thought maybe there was a second sheika in the 8 sages but one of them turned with the yiga so they removed them from the sages. That is just my idea and i have no proof to back it up because i have not played many of the games, but it is just an idea i wish to spread.
To be fair. Motion for Zelda can make sense if you remember Princess Zelda's alter ego, Shiek. Shiek being a Shiekah is incredible fast and is seen making several swift escapes throughout the game. Even if we factor out shiek, there is another explanation. Zelda is the Sage of Time in Ocarina (suggested by her skill with the Ocarina of Time and her connection to the Goddess of Time). The flow of Time can be described as motions as things only move as time flows. It is very possible that the Motion Heroine is Zelda.
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"I accidentally made this entire statue backwards"
"Throw it out"
Evan Poirier “hmm these blueprints are kinda blurry and really faint and herd to see. I’ll just work with it anyways.”
*rolls up the blueprints when done* “oh shhiiiii those where upside down!”
Put it in the Highlands
Imagine the Gerudo were just like “Oh yeah, we didn’t like the way that one looked, so we tried to throw it out”
Or
“We just got lazy and didn’t wanna finish it lmao”
Plot twist:the people who built those statues can't count
What if the eighth heroine was actually exiled because she was Gandondorf's mother?
Interesting. 🤔
Agreed
🤔🤔🤔
Victoria culpepper did
exactly
Nice theory
We definitely need more actual world altering side quests like Tarry Town in the next Zelda game
I was hoping they'd double down on the open-world idea by setting the sequel in hyrule's rebuilding stage, where Zelda is re-establishing government, the Bolson crew is restoring Hyrule castle, and Link is serving as Zelda's envoy while she is busy in the castle. You'd need to direct the Bolson crew in new developments around the Castle and in the other towns. At first you'd have to attend to monster attacks yourself, but eventually you can build up the Hyrulean Guard to keep regions safe. Different races will sometimes conflict with each other, and you need to mediate (or fight for one side against the other!). And the Yiga clan will still be working behind the scenes, attempting to thwart your efforts. Industry and trade will need to grow and develop. AND THEN! A larger threat appears, either invaders from Lorule, or the Twili, or foreigners from across that big Dinraal canyon that blocks Hyrule off from the rest of the land. But how cool would it be to completely shape Hyrule from the ground up?
@@jerotoro2021 You got a great concept there
@Evan Surdey lol Did you really need to clarify that it was you that was the one replying in your own comment? Yes, BotW is quite perfect in many ways but why not increase the amount of things that made it so great and add new elements to it to make it even better in it's sequel? If it wasn't messed with to create a different/new game then it would only be a re-release of the same game which would be pointless. If you want the same game then just replay BotW again lol
@@jerotoro2021 that would perfect imo and a huge step for the franchise now that they can do really big games, it'd be a great way to keep the world alive and the sidequest interesting. Coming back from cleaning a region from evil just to find the perfectly healthy region you left in the middle of a civil war threat... or just to find a growing prosper town where everything goes well thanks to your past efforts... Would be great
Jero Toro that’d be cool but i honestly doubt that would happen. nintendo probably has different plans already
The eigth heroine also has the left hand on top of their right hand, while all the others have right on top of left. Nintendo just mirrored the entire 3D model, that's why the text is reversed lol
Good catch! I was curious as to whether the model of the statue was the same or not
But if that means that the eight heroine is link from oot he is left handed and he went back in time so he is not with the sages xD
But if that means that the eight heroine is link from oot he is left handed and he went back in time so he is not with the sages xD
Why would it need to be reversed at all in that case? The seven statues were rotated, but the eighth was reversed? There's got to be more to it than just that.
We have to consider, if this was a copy of the other models, why would they remove the sword?
Also, does the 8th heroine have a emblem?
Like how the other statues had orbs that matched up with a garment that had an emblem on it?
The Eighth Statue could be representational of Ganondorf, as he was originally born a Gerudo. Discarding the Eighth Statue to the Highlands could be a symbolic way the Gerudo have essentially rejected him as a true Gerudo.
But the title "Heroine" implies that the eight were women. Ganondorf was a man, so while this claim might make sense it can't be true.
Project Kurison YESSSSSSSSSSSS HES THE ONLY MALE GERUDO!!!!!!
@@flatd13tsoda56 hey gandorf can transform remember
imreallytired While this is true, I see no reason as to why he would transform into a woman. Lol
@@flatd13tsoda56 I mean shit link had to transform into a woman just to get in lol so why couldn't gannon?
I don’t think the eighth heroine statue was moved, but built there. The rock textures and colors don’t match up and the Eighth Statue is obviously built in the wall
But then why is the sword in a different place?
Beeply Boop52 maybe only the sword was discarded?
Twightlight
I think it will have to do with how the underground caverns work in the new zelda game. we already saw in the trailer that some of it takes place under the castle, why not inside of a mountain?
The coloration and melding into the wall could be a result of erosion
If botw 2 answers all the questions botw 1 has put forward, it'll be the game of the millennium....
and in the botw 2 trailer...zelda and link are in the desert...just saying.
Perfect scores and will wipe OoT off of the table
Matthew Da Re what? they’re underneath hyrule castle lol or in a zonai temple. one or the other, and the zonai built temples in the faron region
@@wolfieirium no
@@ih7552 theres also zonai ruines un the desert and at just in the place where is the cannon tower is a construction very big that sees very old like a temple Under the ground. And in the trailer the fate of the temple where zelda and link are looks like the famous statue in the desert in the Real life that I forgot the name xd
So our eighth heroine betrayed us. So what do we do with her statue?
How about we take the statue and push it somewhere else!
Yeah! Let's spend thousands, probably millions of Rupees to hire workers to spend years pushing and hoisting a giant stone monument up a mountain, which will result in many Gerudo deaths, just to show the Eighth Heroine that we don't like her!
It totally won't bankrupt our society, forcing us to settle in a small town where Gerudo men mysteriously do not exist, and were probably the ones who helped move the statue which is why there are none left now because they died trying to move it.
I mean, there were obviously men, there had to have been because according to Zelda OOT, one Gerudo man is born every 100 years or so, and Gerudo, Hylians, Zora, all seem to have lifespans that go well beyond 100 years, look at Impa, Purah, Robbie, King Dorephan, Sidon, several other Zora who remember you, the list goes on.
I have no doubt this is exactly what happened, the Gerudo women seem very violent at times and we can see how much they do not respect men, I mean, I don't blame them for how they feel, a Gerudo male turned out to be the king of evil one time, who's still alive in the form of Calamity Ganon, so obviously they refuse to give men any sort of power in fear that this event will happen again if a Gerudo man were to have power.
CraiZen Creations ok sorry to tell you but that was a joke from Spongebob
I am aware, but I thought I could add upon the joke and insert my own theory on the matter.
CraiZen Creations good theory though
deep breath
you obvious lack the triforce of wisdom in you
Someone may have already said this, but at 3:35:
Skill: Impa
Spirit: Nabooru
Endurance: Darunia
Gentleness, Saria
okay, but:
Knowledge: ! Zelda, with the Triforce of Wisdom
Flight: ! Rauru, who can turn into an Owl
Motion: ! Ruto, the flowing motion of water
Then every sage from OoT is counted. Aside from the mysterious #8.
Wayne Feener that is very true! That could work
The 8th could be Link? The sages always helped Link. Maybe because Link died in BOTW, moving the 8th statue and placing the sword somewhere else was a cermonial thing
Link died in BOTW?
What fo you mean?
MegaDerp161 Have you played botw? The entire backstory is tgat link failed 100 years ago and had to be brought to the shrine of *resurrection*
ZeldaGamer747 he didn’t die he was badly wounded
Man, I hate it when I'm carving a statue and I accidentally write all the letters in the inscription backwards. I'm severely dyslexic .
The 8th heroine was a deserter out of a band of 8 gerudo heroines. Her sword lies between her and the rest of the group, implying she "dropped" or laid down her sword, as she ran away. If she had back stabbed the rest of the group, she woudn't have ever been considered a heroine in the first place, as the legends were later told to warrant such statues, and would've just been considered a villain versus the 7 heroines. Also, her sword doesn't point towards the rest of the group, implying she didn't point her sword at the other 7 heroines. Initially she wasn't seen so disgraced in the gerudo tales, or else the 8th statues in the yiga hideout would've been disgraced/smashed/moved.
They were 8 heroines of the Gerudo in unspecified times, probably sometime before the 10,000 years between BotW and when Calamity Ganon first showed up that players are never given more backstory into (the 7 giant statues must have been built before those 10,000 years happened since they were built around one of those shrines from 10,000 years ago). She wasn't initially seen as disgraced for her desertion, but as time went on the tales probably painted her more and more cowardly.
The 8th heroine giant statue was built at a different spot because she was seen as disgraced. The text is reversed to show that she is disgraced. They would not have made her text inscriptions reversed if she was moved. Further, the 8th statue is carved out of the mountain, there is no way it could've been moved. At the site of the 7 giant statues, it appears that there was stonework where an 8th statue might have been, indicating that there was a statue possibly there that was later destroyed, but the stonework base does not line up properly with where an 8th statue would've been placed. Further, there is no pedestal for it, or foundation for a pedestal. The 7 giant statues site was built without an 8th statue, despite what seems to be a foundation for an 8th statue.
The statues in the Yiga hideout are there because that was originally some sort of gerudo temple of sorts, that is even more ancient than the other giant statues, from before the time the 8th heroine was seen as disgraced (or else the original builders would've smashed/moved the 8th heroine's statue). It's obvious the Yiga did not originally own that hideout, they just hastily placed cloths over the original gerudo structures that had gerudo text, whereas if it was originally a Yiga hideout it would've had Sheikah (or atleast hylian) text. Further, if it was originally a yiga hideout they wouldn't bother creating statues to foreign gerudo legends, but rather have made statues relating to their own legends. It is obvious that the Yiga Hideout is an ancient forgotton temple that the Yiga took over, and the fact that they are on the other side of the map from Kakariko Village tells you how intensely the Sheikah tried to wipe out the Yiga for them to travel so far to safely make a base.
Also, all the building structures and building scaffolds in gerudo canyon areas are originally Gerudo structures, you can tell because there's writing on the banners saying "Safety first!" in Gerudo text along those scaffolds. Obviously the Gerudo were trying to build something there, maybe more monuments like 7 heroines or temples of some kind, but had to stop because the construction sites were overwhelmed with monsters (that are still there to this day). It's obvious those monsters weren't making those construction scaffolds, pulleys, weights, or writing banners saying "safety first!" in Gerudo.
What really gets my noodle cooking is if the 8th heroine's stone sword was moved by some super giant monster, perhaps a super giant hinox. But that's pretty unlikely, anything that big would probably have its own weapon by the time it got that big. The most logical answer is that the 8th heroine's stone sword was carved away from the 8th's statue, and is between the 8th & the other statues to show she was probably a deserter & purposefully gave up her sword.
When u said that the yiga would make there own statues of their legends.the yiga clan worshipped ganon and that's why they betrayed the sheikah but they just wanted to make there base there probably because it seemed like nobody could get their and it's pretty hard to find
This makes much more sense, thanks
@@matty_playz5228 I've seen people use their/there/they're wrong a lot and I usually don't care...
But how in the name of God fucking jesus in some weird religious hentai did you use there every single time except for when you needed to use it and then used their instead
In Gerudo Canyon the scaffolds were made for the excavation of Divine Beast vah Naboris
as indicated in the cutscene shown by Impa
i feel like this is probably very accurate but i dont feel like reading :)
3:59 Or you could put:
Skill: Impa
Spirit: Nabooru
Endurance: Darunia
Knowledge: Zelda (triforce)
Flight: Rauru (Owl form)
Motion: Ruto (Swimming = motion)
Gentleness: Saria
(I know other theories may make more sense in general but I think this is a better lineup)
It works
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Also for the 8th sage, there is evidence in OOT, the game and I believe that it is in the source code too, that there was suppose to be an 8th sage who was the wind sage, that plus the fact that it is stated that the power of all the sages together are needed to completely seal Ganondorf away forever and the fact that he breaks the seal himself in wind waker, and yet he has to use Aganihm in alttp to break the seal, Zant in TP to break the seal; leads me to believe that the seals placed on him during those times were more complete seals that the one Zelda and the sages of the future made.
Rule out any males, heroine refers to a woman.
@@meeguelangelo Well obviously but the Gerudo could just be shifting around their genders as propaganda. After all they are a nation of women, if they wanted these figure to be role models for their kids making them female would make it easier for the girls to relate to them growing up.
@@marche800 Or the heroines could just be an incarnation of the Sages that hasn't been in any game yet, like the Zelda, Link and Champions who fought the Calamity 10,000 years before BoTW. The sages in OoT each represent the different races, but the ones in TP are these weird ethereal ghostly guys, and the sages in BoTW are Shiekah, so who's to say there wasn't a generation of Sages that were comprised of all Gerudo women?
What if the Eighth Heroine was a member of the Sheikah Tribe and a friend of the Gerudo, but helped betray and create the Yiga Clan and was then banished?
Something to support your theory: the Adventure Log mentions that the Eighth Heroine is "still worshipped by her faithful to this day in the Gerudo Highlands." Thing is, no Gerudo actually live in the highlands, but the Yiga DO have their hideout closer to it and there's even a Yiga encampment in the highlands (I think at the Sapphia's Table)
GoldenYoshi1 That makes alot of sense. Maybe we'll find out more about it in the Dlc!
Yeah, I actually was thinking this! The highlands are so barren and empty, the only people close to the area are the YIga Clan. Could they be worshiping the heroine? Could it actually represent Ganondorf since they are loyal to Calamity Ganon? And does this mean that Ganondorf use to be a sage? Who knows
NintendoBlackCrisis The Yiga Clan could have even hid Sheikah Technology there!
+NintendoBlackCrisis that, or maybe this heroine was somehow responsible in some way or another in the return of calamity ganon and setting up the trap of using the skeika guardians against hirule. Like maybe the prophet?
As a Gerudo script translator we desperately need you to translate the Breath of the Wild sequel trailer.
I'm pretty sure that I'm some of the script it's saying "seal ganon" but I could be wrong.
@@graciesugarbee yup it is
Koma xd no
@@John4Dragon yes it is 😂
Nope 👎
Eighth heroine hiding a dungeon? BOTW 2 theory- guarding the body of Ganon
That's what I thought too xD...who knows...but the trailer in botw 2, indicates that his body is underneath hyrule castle...but that it's only a thing that we are gonna find out, when the game is released 😎
@@ichlovemusik4ever i totally agree, but in the trailer, there seems to be at least two, possibly three different types of underground places; different marking on the walls, different stone types, etc. - wouldn't it be awesome if the whole of hyrule was hollow and had a tonne of cave dungeons linking them? i always said i wished botw had caves!
yes! that goes with my theory that botw 2 is gonna follow and take inspiration from zelda 2 the adventure of link. basically i think the yiga are trying to resurrect ganons body.
@@frontdeskconcierge How do your theory and what DK Commander said relate to each other?
@@haresmahmood so its more speculation and theory but i think the 8th statue was created by the yigas or someone/thing else to hide the entrance to a temple or dungeon that is guarding ganon. also with the trailer another youtuber pointed out that the markings on that bed thing that ganons on are gerudo and the yiga clan are like right outside the gerudo ruins. i feel like this is hinting at the resurrection of ganon like in zelda 2. i havent really looked into it too much yet though, this is all off the top of my head, so fair warning, it may seem off
idk why but when he mentioned the script on the eighth statue was backwards I thought of this little scene where the Gerudo were like:
"gosh dang it Tod you literally just had to write the SAME message on EVERY statue...how did you write it BACKWARDS?!"
"ok....we've been working on this for months and I haven't had almost ANY sleep ok....cut me some slack"
"ugh...whatever just like,...move out of here or something"
"where? oh yeah, let's just throw the GIANT statue away. Problem solved, Helen"
"I don't know! just like...ugh put it in the highlands...that can just be the reject pile since NOTHING is up there."
"ok...whatever you say"
Fun fact: Tod is a female name in Gerudo culture ;-)
Honey Senpai
“Tod”? But all Gerudo are women (except Ganondwarf)
The Eighth Heroine Statue in the Highlands was clearly being cut from the mountain itself, and isn't finished. It begs the question if the other Seven were made in a similar fashion, but the eighth was intentionally left unfinished.
true, my only question would be how the sword got on the highlands. Plus, the statue is super old so it could have got stuck inside of the cliff due to the landscape changing/mountains forming over thousands of years. Thanks for watching!
These are great questions! At some point we have to ask: How did the sword get moved? If the statues were carved in the mountains, how did they get moved? If they weren't made in the mountains, how did the 8th statue get there? At some point, some weirdness is involved. I agree, over millennia the mountain could seem to absorb a statue. I'm puzzled.
WHY YOU CAME not a bad thought
Hmm, I would think that if the statue were standing there long enough to absorbed by a mountain, it should be far more eroded and weathered than that, especially since it's in a snowy region.
I'm pretty sure all the statues had to have been carved from the mountains and then carried into the desert. However, if the makers always intended to make 8 statues, it's pretty weird that the eighth statue was carved all the way on the opposite side of the mountains, where they'd have to cart it all the way around the mountain for it to join the rest of the statues. I think this 8th one was carved in secret by someone else.
The eighth heroine looks as if it was carved in the wall of the redness in the Gerudo highlands, so, this might mean this heroine was built there for a reason.
It really does look like it's hiding something important to me
Why didn’t he connect the 7 powers to the champions in BOTW ?
Skill - Urbosa
Spirit - Zelda
Endurance - Daruk
Knowledge - Impa
Flight - Revali
Motion - Link
Gentleness - Mipha
I'm pretty sure Impa wasn't a champion, idk I haven't played BOTW since 2 years ago, I already finished it
StoRM Advfyed Impa wasn’t. But it makes sense!
@@myapapaya2317 yeah it does 😅
Rule out any males. Heroine refers to a woman.
Miguel Garcia that’s true, but maybe it just represents them? I dunno. Maybe Nintendo didn’t mean for them to have any backstory at all.
7 Heroines are 7 OoT Sages. Hidden 8th Heroine is forgotten Hero of Time, who's legend remains obscured in history.
Hey, thats pretty good
Cov Fefe possibly
If that was true, that would mean the Eighth Heroine's Sword, the highest point in the game, would represent the Master Sword... Interesting...
On a side note, if this is in the Downfall Timeline, and Link died in the battle with Ganon, it would make sense how he would be forgotten over time, remembered by only a select few.
And furthermore, on the statue, the left hand is on top of the right, and in OoT, Link is left handed
Well, most of the Links are left-handed, so I wouldn't say that proves anything, but, if the other statues are right-handed, then it could very well be some incarnation of Link. (Actually, now that I have come back and edited, it occurred to me that if this is the case, it could just be another case of "mirroring" the other statues, just like how the text on the Eighth is reversed.)
Okay, theory time: it is important to note a couple of distinct differences about the hidden statue. 1) it is call the "Statue of the 8th Heroine," not the Statue of the 8th Sage, so whoever this person is, she does not need to be a sage herself, but rather just related to them in some way. (since the other 7 were all together, let's assume they are the classic "sages" that we see in Zelda lore) 2) the statue's writing is reversed. This leads me to believe that this statue could be considered some type of mirror image, which I believe to be an homage to the Twilight Realm. That would make the 8th Heroine Midna herself, heroine of Twilight Princess who helped defeat Ganon and shattered the mirror connecting the two worlds, while the other sages are those who initially killed Gannondorf in that timeline.
Yeah it's hard to say the mirrored writing(and the entire statue really) is a glitch when it's the only statue that's special....
At riju's house in her room a pedestal says in gerudo script: gerudo a resilient desert flower, facing the sun's gaze. Gerudo grows brilliant, while others fade. We stand vigilant over everyone. Vigilant in the sun growing brilliant gerudo never outdone. Gerudo brilliant in the sun.
what's it say at 10:15 on the statue in the Yiga lair?
6:23
"WAIT ARE YOU SERIOUSLY TRANSLATING
THIS RIGHT NOW? WOW, IMPRESSIVE"
In case anyone was wondering, and wasn't quite as nerdy as I am.
Mood, I didn't think to look in the comments
Thank you for that. I was curious but lacked motivation.
THANK YOUUU I was only looking for this comment 😂
I got about to the word "seriously" then thought to scroll down here
Daaaanngggg
The Yiga definitely took over a former Gerudo hideout. It is also was closer to Gerudo Tower than Gerudo Town.
the Yiga Hideout statues are like a blueprint, complete with a shrine in the middle with the steps to the shrine leading to the way out between 2 statues. If the 7 Heroines had the 8th heroine there the shrine would lead to the 8th and not the exit.
One thing about the statues though is that in the hideout the 8 have a definite left hand while the 7 in the desert have their right hand over the left. The 8th heroine however has her left over the right. Curiously the statues in the Gerudo throne room are left over right, and Buliara is right over left.
Now that I’m paying attention the heroines have their icons in interesting places. Stepping out of the shrine, going counter-clockwise it goes:
Left foot
Amulet
Sword (facing shrine)
Crown
Sword (away from shrine?)
Amulet
Right foot
Now if this was done for symmetry and not a mistake then that means the 8th heroine’s mark would be on her left hand as all 8 have a spot on their hand for a mark, but none of them use it.
orangeapples Interesting...I like all of the work you did looking into this!
But if it was done for symmetry, it means that one of the heroine's sword was reversed to face inwards.
There is one Possibility to why the 8th statue is reversed and alone.
If you think of the statue as a reflection, it could represent the Twilight realm, I know this is a long shot but hear me out.
In the game if you have the Wolf Link Amiibo you can actually call him to your side, Now my question is, Why is that?
Out of all the Amiibo's only Wolf Link and Super smash Bros. (SSB) Link gives you an actual Character, SSB gives you a one per game Epona so an early unlock and not a big deal, but Wolf Link can actually only be able to help if Summoned with the Amiibo.
So taking the Statue as possible reflection of a Mirror (Possibly the Twilight Realm Mirror or Link to the Past/Between worlds Mirror) and the fact Wolf Link can be summoned as a NPC to help, plus there is a story about a Sage from the Twilight Realm, It could mean that the Unknown/Extra Statue actually represents a Sage not of Links world but from a world beyond a Mirror.
Lets be honest, Link has used Mirrors many times to go into other worlds and has made allies in them as well so it would not be a surprise if there was a Sage from one of the Mirror worlds that came into ours, not to mention it could be possible that Midna might be considered a sage by Links world for her help in the Twilight Princess.
Its just a theory on my part, Would be pretty cool if they make an expansion that lets you open the statue behind it was a Mirror of the Twilight realm or a Shrine dedicated to it.
Nobody Gaming I would love for Midna to be the 8th sage! What an awesome theory
I actually really like this theory; I honestly think it has some credence. With the the cold of the Highlands being the opposite of the hot desert the other statues are located in, it may refer to Midna, or perhaps Hilda from the other "opposite" world.
@@creepykato yes, I love that theory.
Wow, this just becomes even more fascinating after the latest BOTW2 trailer theories! Maybe you've already been that close one year ago.
@@aliciau86 Well, sometimes games are built with the idea of adding to them after release, you can logically deduce at lest part of the intended functions of objects like this.
It turned out the 8th Statue was after a heroine that in reality it was a cross dressing man, pretending to be a heroine. So the Gerodu royalty did not want to let this fiasco get known (imagine many more men would try to sneak in) so they did what they had to, extinguish the 8th Hero(ine) from the books of history...
He was truly a hero!
Yoooooo, I think you’re right!!
Maybe Ganon’s mother?
that wouldnt make sense bcos the sword was far away from the statue.. if they hid the statue buy continue to honor him then they wouldve atleast put the sword in the statue's hand.
What if the eighth was originally Sheikai but became Yiga?
Cosmic X maybe but i think the yiga are only men idk
Riva1er Plays So does that mean that the men sometimes use women disguises?
Cosmic X i guess?
Riva1er Plays Now that I think about it, it wouldn’t make sense because of the dialogue. If I remember correctly, some of the Yiga say they love Master Kohga. (It could be platonically)
@@jadenk.5003 I mean some of them disguise themselves as women hylians
The eighth heroine statue got demonetized and was so shocked she fell down the cliff leaving her sword behind because she couldn't do anything about it!
You win the internet, sir xD
+NintendoBlackCrisis Link's are part of the internet and a part of "The legend of Zelda" of course!
PS. Thank's a lot for the heart!
I played this game for hours every day which caused me to complete it within just a few months. I wish I would’ve taken more time to enjoy it because the feeling this game gives you when you are exploring is truly breathtaking. Now that I have beaten it, I can’t get that feeling back. I want nothing more than to erase my memory, just like link, and to experience this masterpiece again.
Also the jewels are in different places for each heroine, could this show which heroine relates to each power? (Like the jewel on the head could show the heroine of knowledge)
I don’t know though
It could be that the eighth statue could be covering the cave shown in the BOTW2 trailer, maybe?
I think that that cave is supposed to be underneath the castle. That's why then, in the trailer, the castle rises or something.
@@estrenuro459 That's only what our brain makes out of it. ;)
@@aliciau86 :0
Hm...could this have something to do with why one of the Yiga's signature weapons is known as the EIGHT-fold blade? And why and HOW could they have moved a statue that massive to the middle of the highlands? You'd need advanced technology - Sheikah technology - to pull off a feat like that. You sir, may have uncovered a massive cover up hiding in plain sight.
It's not Yiga's. It's Sheikah's.
Not only is it a Sheikah weapon, but it may be referring to Buddhism's Eightfold Path.
maybe the highlands was where they carved the statues and they just never moved the eighth one.
+Sir Potato Bottom I totally forgot about that. But then, I don't think Buddhism exists in BOTW.
You don't need special pieces of Sheikah tech to move a statue if it's in separate parts. The swords of these statues appear to be detachable, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume the main bodies were built in separate parts to be assembled on site or blocks of stone were moved to the site, assembled, and then carved into shape.
One other thing! Look at 5:56, notice that Buliara's posture is the EXACT same as that of the seven heroines. Hmmmm......interesting! ;)
ANOTHER THING: there's a chance that the Yiga didn't create the statues in their base. Look at how the text is cut off at the bottom of each one. Could they have been sitting there for a long time?
Also, I can't thank you guys enough for 5,000 subscribers. Thankyou for your continued support of the channel
NintendoBlackCrisis First
To reply to your comment!
I assumed that the Yiga didn't make the statues, and they have covered the faces of the statues with the Yiga symbol, a sign of disrespect to the person the statue represents.
NintendoBlackCrisis Did you finished the mipha theory?
If you did, when you are gonna show us?
Warden YT still need to do some research on it, I've started a bit of the script so hopefully it will be done soon!
The most logical thing is that the current hideout was originally Gerudo's... something (another hideout, a militarry base, a storage facility...) , and the Yiga took it as their hideout. The other thing is that a Gerudo, presumably the 8th sage, betrayed the Gerudo to join the Yiga Clan, and another more far fetched, is that Koga is actually a betrayer male Gerudo, but i doubth about that one
You know... the entrance to the Yiga Hideout looks like the Gerudo Training Grounds...
I think the Yiga made their base where the statues were. They covered the faces of the statues.
That could be possible!
NintendoBlackCrisis or maybe that statue was like Dorian in sheikah village.
Yuvan-Théo Dumas
Wow that is very possible
Yeah, the statues would definitely have been there long before the Yiga. It was just a convenient location for them to use. The real question is why there are eight statues in that location and seven in the other. In the real world, we could find out how old each location was to get a better idea of what might have happened.
What’s disappointing is that there could’ve been a huge quest about learning who they are (which could also lead to a dungeon), but once again this is another “eye-candy” thing Nintendo just stuck in the game that could’ve had potential but it’s just......... there. Like the 3 dragons and the Lord of the Mountain. Smh
4 dragons though the last one is dead already, Eldin's flank on the far side of Death Mountain. I'm curious about that dragon tbh.
Stephanie Fahey I need to see this
She may be thinking of the leviathan, but not sure.
holman182 oh yeah, the leviathan over there. Forgot about that
Lord of the mountain was a tribute to Satori
Erbosas earrings are the same symbol as the ball in front of the broken statue
Maybe because she died
Rauru is flight as he has an owl form. Zelda is knowledge as she holds the triforce of WISDOM. Come on man.
But how is Ruto motion?
I guess zora can move through the water fast?
Some thoughts:
1) How could that statue have moved? There isn't anything close to that size in the world as it is that could have even knocked over any of those statues let alone move it to a new canyon in the highlands. Even if the sword is in a different place it couldn't have happened
2) "Heroines" doesn't necessarily imply "sages" so the link between them and the seven sages may not be direct. All that can be objectively be inferred is that the statues were built after seven sages.
3) Myths get distorted over time. It's possible that the eighth heroine is "lost" as in the "eighth" statue wasn't built near the other seven and was literally lost and a myth sprung up around her existence without any other tales of her. It's also possible that she was once considered a heroine, but was later discovered to be a fraud and was cast out from the others. Then the statue could have been built by her followers that refused to believe she did anything wrong.
4) Don't read too much into the text being reversed. The eighth statue is a mirror of the other seven (her left hand is on top of the sword while the others' right hands are on top). It's likely just a X coordinate invert that the developers did to make it seem "off" from the others.
5) Finally, WW never directly states that the Zora evolved into Rito, just that Medli is Laruto's descendant. It's possible some weird cross-species "contamination" occurred somewhere between those two sages. Since they co-habitate in BotW we can infer that not all Zora mutated into bird people.
Remember in skyward sword - the ''great plateau'' of that game (skyloft) being placed back into the main land of hylrule below to form the eventual temple of time?
Also, the ruined temple of time appears a little isolated too
NFITC1 Devine beasts
@@Anthony-uz4lm Divine Beasts were buried for like ten thousand years and only dug up during Zelda's lifetime.
That statue could be VERY OLD and it broke apart?
Great theory! Well done research, an 8th sage? I feel like botw overall just created more questions rather than answering existing ones for the series. Congrats on being more than half way to 10K! That’s so awesome and I’m sure feels surreal to you! 2K being on the horizon to me is so crazy man, good luck on what the future may bring to you my friend! :)
Yeah, there are so many possibilities! Someone also had matched up the "wielded powers" to the 7 sages in a way that made some sense, meaning that the "forgotten heroine" could represent the Hero of Time. I guess we will see! (hopefully)
Also keep up the awesome work on your channel, I'd love to do a collar theory with you sometime but idk what it would be about xpxp
NintendoBlackCrisis Thank you man! And a collab theory sounds on point. We definitely will eventually! (And it’ll be fire)
Quality, not quantity man
Being honest, I probably watch like 0.01% of a channel like say, gamexplain's content, lol
Hi...!
And if the seven heroines represent the Gerudo generations and the eight heroine is actually Ganondorf (since he is a gerudo)?
True
This seems a likely answer.
They imparted so much wisdom by commemorating the 8th's exile with that giant exiled statue (a male is born every 8 generations, and because it takes so long to happen, the myth became, "it feels like a hundred years"). This also points to the distrust the Gerudo have with men.
I also wonder if the 8th had all other males killed so that only his offspring would reproduce. This would also point to their distrust in men. I mean, the red hair is a dead giveaway. =p
Hey maybe we will see a dungeon behind the 8th statue in BOTW2
Urbosas ear rings are the same thing as one of the orbs
I think that the seven heroines represent each sage and the eight represents link himself, hence why is lefthanded.
Here a theory on why the statue was moved. Let's build off your theory that each statue is a different Gerudo sage throughout the years. What if one of them allied with Ganondorf and helped the Yiga Clan instead of the other sage's. This would explain why the Yiga Clan are hiding out in the Gerudo dessert and why there hideout has these 8 statue. Perhaps the 8 sage lead them to that cave and gave them shelter there and just over time it became their hideout.
I would think Zelda as knowledge and Raoru as Flight would make more sense, since Raoru is Kapora Gaebora, and Zelda has the triforce of wisdom and wisdom and knowledge are similar
"Hiding some sort of dungeon..." DLC 2
Holy fuck
William Jelgren Yeah, while I think it is highly unlikely it IS possible
William Jelgren maybe
Ok I doubt it but I WANT THIS.
is it a themed dungeon though? It has to be?
I'll be so peed if it isn't - they can't have a 5th beast now, it wouldn't make sense
The eight sage is obiously kohga
Idea: The Eighth Heroine was a Yiga Clan member
The only reason why the Yiga still have the statue is bc they still liked the heroine
Its late 2019 and im just now finding this video
To go from 500 to 5000 to now over 140,000 in 2 years. Big congrats keep up the grind
notice that the 8th statue is still a part of the mountain...
also the swords may have been escavated form a tottaly different area
Magic.
Water has often been seen as motion, or movement. I would put Ruto there.
Yeah, someone in the comments organized the powers in a way that it made sense. Raru was in flight because he is believed to also be the owl that gives you advice in the child timeline. Zelda was changed to Wisdom and then Ruto to motion. It definitely is possible!
It made me happy to see that in this video you're thankful for having 5k subscribers... Now you have 91k. Way to go man!
Imagine the eight heroine is just an accident to make a statue, they might have just wrote the language upside down and then they were like "oop, guess we discard this one"
Maybe in a future DLC something happens and if you return the 8th heroine's statue was destroyed and you find out who it is. Maybe it is Ganon ! You know ""He did something that bad he got kicked out of the Seven Sages"' and that is why he turned evil !! Just something I through out there !
Also I wrote the Ganon getting kicked out like that because you said something similar !!!
That would be very cool! Perhaps Ganondorf tried to use the triforce for himself and got kicked out of the group because of that. Who knows?
really, theorists have it pretty hard on the Zelda series becasue lets face it, major plot twists and bombshells are really really rare
the surprises always have lurked in the deep gameplay - even here in Breath, you're almost forced to check into the hidden details and sidequests for plot revelations
I Love this channel. You make botw so much fun to play!
Glad you love the content! I'll make sure to keep on making it
NintendoBlackCrisis Yaassss
These videos are fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to do this research!
2:00 jaw dropped!
Accel World poster, I was NOT expecting that!
*proceeds to sub*
The recent zelda 2 trailer seems to throw light on the 8th heroine me thinks.
Maybe it blocks the entrance to tye cave we saw in Botw 2's trailer?
How much do you want to bet, during Breath of the Wild 2, we come back to this statue and find out there is in fact a dungeon hidden behind it?
Celebrating 5k and now on 180k! Keep up the awesome content 👏🏼
The whole 3d model of the eighth statue is mirrored, just look at the hands positions when compared to the others seven. In the eighth statue the left hand is over the right one while in the other seven statues is the contrary, the right hand is over the left one.
Damn that’s some nice detail
6:25 translation “wait are you seriously translating this right now? Wow, impressive”
.......hehe
thanks
It's the representation of the eighth race, Zonai.
Eighth?
There are other seven races?
Gerudo
Zora
Ruto
Hylian
Korok
Sheika
...?
Maybe we can count the Yuga too?
Yeah that actually fits.
But I still think it represents the Yuga
@@FelipeKana1 no. goron.
@@xxlet7138 wow... forgot them.
Hey man, I love your content too. Im happy to be a new subscriber 😁
It's incredible how deep you went. My hero.
If the one that matched with the spirit orbs was the goron thing then... maybe thats why they are aloud in gerudo town?
I mean technically no one knows what a female goron looks like.
the Eight Heroin could have been a rough draft for the sculpture, but that's a bit of a copout
If I recall correctly, the reason the Sheikah have a tear drop under their eye symbol was as penance for something one of them did. What if this was the 8th hero/sage? They betrayed their duty and was cast out from their role as sage and was never replaced.
The quest says that The Eighth Heroine is still worshipped by her followers in the Gerudo Highlands. I figured that meant that the 8th was the inspiration/matron for the Yiga or leader when they actually left the Shiekah
I have an interesting thought about the "eighth" heroine. These statues were obviously made out of a mountain, right? They were 'carved' out, i believe.
And notice how the eigth heroine's back is halfly part of the mountain? Its almost as if it was carved out of the mountain, not brought to it (as in, being discarded)
Now what i think, is that maybe the eighth statue was the first one to be made. It was made as an example, for the people to see how the statues were going to look like. It was like a "sketch", a design they thought of before making the other 7 statues.
Thats just my take on it
doesn't explain why it's a mirror of the others though.
So Notice how the eighth sage is facing away from them with her sword broken? Maybe the eighth sage was an unofficial sage who died protecting the other seven?
Possible Sages (Heroines):
1. Zelda (Legend of Zelda 1 and 2)
2. Zelda (Link to the Past)
3. Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
4. Zelda (Twilight Princess)
5. Zelda (Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass)
6. Zelda (Spirit Tracks)
7. Zelda (Link Between Worlds)
Typically Zelda has always had a connection to the Shieka. Usually their guardian was Impa. I probably missed a Zelda or two, but that's the correct canonical number right? There were other games, but not really another Zelda in sight.
Now get this. Lorule. That was another version of Hyrule, but reflected. Usually things would be reflected upside down, but maybe this is a hint, that the Eighth Heroine is a "reflected" heroine. One that shouldn't be spoken of because that would should not be realized. What if the eighth heroine is Hilda?
So you would have 8 heroines and this would be speaking of 8 great events that happened in the history. Now here's where things get iffy...
3 timelines right? What if those three timelines were purposefully created? Think about it. You have a magic Ocarina and the Master Sword that brings in time travel. If that were possible, then how did Link go back and forth so easily? There has to be some kind of magic there...
Also, Ganondorf gets sealed into the sacred realm and returns centuries later (OoT - Wind Waker), gets thrown to the realm of Twilight and comes back (Oot - Twilight Princess) AND wins and reigns for centuries in another realm but loses his mind (Oot - Legend of Zelda 1). What if they could somehow communicate? Through the power of the Triforce or something else, that should be possible. What if they put together a series of events to bring the three timelines back to one? That would explain the Rito and Zora coexisting. That would also explain some of the weirdness that is going on.
But that's a whole different theory. My main theory is that maybe the 3 timelines are linked through Ganondorf himself and that the 7 heroines are all Zelda and the 8th is possibly Hilda?
Let me know if you think I'm crazy. Just a fan of your stuff.
When you were talking about the sages, i was walking at the same places at the same time!!!
It could be a situation where the carvings were the reason it wasn’t finished and is still a part of the mountain. This happened a lot in Egypt, where if anything happened to one then it would be left unfinished and a new one started. A good example is the cracked obelisk, it was almost completely finished but a huge crack formed and they were forced to completely start over.
That sounds like literally the most annoying thing ever.
Tomsk Bromley I’m sure it was
Um I just noticed at the end of the video you can tell those Little rocks with bags with the Yiga clans Sybil they look like gossip stones from ocarina of time
Man I still love watching this a few years later
Last part was just what I was looking for
What if the seven heroines are important to the BotW lore AND references to the previous games?..
Nah, I'm just trying to tie things together and hoping to unlock the truth.
They're the Armos south of Spectacle Rock in the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. The Eighth one being moved means someone already found the power bracelet!
The Seven/Eight Heroines are on heroin
ooooh the idea of it hiding a dungeon is really interesting with the new trailer where link is flying towards the gerudo highlands!! considering totk was originally supposed to be dlc this seems very plausible. plus the proximity to the yiga clan (plus upside down text like their symbols), and the heavy connection to ganondorf hinted at in the totk trailers… i feel like its very plausible that the 8th heroine is ganondorf and we could get a dungeon, or even entrance to the underground there!
I always like side quests of botw because it gives you task which can only acquired by using brain or exploring not like other game which ask you some question and directly tells it's solution but yes some are filler. But all of the shrine quest (which is not considered as side quest and has more depth) are always fantastic for me. I think most of you are agreed with me. this is also a shrine quest.
I think it was Gannon because he is a Gerudo
Misspelled Ganon
+ it's ganondorf not Ganon
Not this shit again
That's Interesting, what if he was good when he was younger and then power got to his head and he became bad, that would be why they got rid of the eighth statue and why there is one in the yoga's base because they are followers of clarity ganon, ganon, or ganon, whichever you want to say.
Never mind cuz heroine means a women hero so ganondorf could not be one of the heroins he is a guy
it's pronounced HAIR-OH-WIN
The 8th one is Ganon I believe. It's the only explanation. Casted out because his evil took over, which is why the statue is not included in the original group. But because the yiga are followers of ganon, it makes sense that they would have that included in their statue group.
I just found them few days ago. It felt so epic finding something like that
What if the eight sege was Ganon and since he is well, the bad guy, they removed the statue so I wouldn't honor him, and put him somewhere else, mabey they built that statue to still worship the sages, but since they didn't like him they moved him, and that would explain as to why the yiga had all 8, since they do worship ganon
Eighth Heroine is Giratina, they were banished lol
Gigavolt the Pokemon?? Wrong franchise lmao
I like the idea that there could be a dungeon behind the eighth heroine statue! If they bring back proper dungeons in the sequel, that definitely needs to be a thing.
This was my take on the list, based on the way water flows (motion) and the fact that Rauru has the ability of flight in Ocarina of Time through his avatar - Kaepora Gaebora.
Skill - Impa
Spirit - Nabooru
Endurance - Darunia
Knowledge - Zelda
Flight - Rauru
Motion - Ruto
Gentleness - Saria
Also, the recent timeline clicked for me when you mentioned the eight statues in the Yiga clan hideout. It all makes sense now, because I knew from other zelda videos that the Yiga clan hideout was an old Gerudo shrine that they took over and made into their base, but they must have done so far enough back in time that the Gerudo hadn't removed the eighth heroine from their history and exiled it's statue to the highlands!
Given the fact that the text is reverse maybe the 8th sage is meant to represent Lorule, the mirror version of Hyrule. Perhaps it represents Hilda or some other Lorulian that somehow made contact with Hyrule?
Also when referring to the 8 Yiga statues, I think it's pretty likely that the Yiga simply found an old abandoned Gerudo temple and took it over. Notice that they places their insignia in a cloth over the statues instead of carving it into them. This would suggest that they didn't make them and instead simply found them and defaced them for the sake of marking their territory. This would also make sense given that this location is also the location of one of the DLC shrines that correspond with the Divine Beast Vah Naboris, meaning 10,000 years ago this place wasn't a Yiga Hideout. Also I highly doubt that the Yiga are adept in the Gerudo Alphabet.
one of the things i hate most about botw - i was so excited about this and in the end i just get ANOTHER SHRINE :(
I think the eighth heroin was link.....now bare with i have some evidence,
The first bit of evidence is at 3:56 how he says he couldnt figure out the eighth word (motion) which means:the action or process of moving or being moved, now link can slow down time/ go into slow MOTION , and the second bit of evidence is at 4:45, it shows a ball that has a pause symbal ( | | ) which could also mean slow motion, now it does say heroin BUT remember when he said the graudo could of changed it to heroin, this is why I think the 8th stage is link, ALSO the eighth stautue has the left hand on top and remember that link holds the master sword in his LEFT hand.........another thing is uno how the sword isnt with the stuatue, and how link keeps on losing the master sword...............
My only theory is each of Urbosa’s ancestors with Ganon in between. He obviously wasnt a Hero”ine” or even a “Hero” so when he became evil back then maybe they cast him off and purposefully tried to forget? It doesnt make much sense but Ganon was the first I thought of when the Eighth statue came up
dude nice MTT back there, i love that set
imma do a little stretching here but hear me out
what if Motion = Time thus making Zelda the 7th sage
and Hilda being the opposite of Zelda making her the 8th explaining the backwards text??
Honestly that makes sense. I haven’t played a link between worlds but I’ve watched people play it.
Edit: I know this was months ago BTW
Hey, the eight heroine is Urbosa, as a tribute to her power or something like that (probably being chosen as a metal camel with thunder rider)they decided to make a statue for her, but the calamity and all that happened and.... they forgot about it. The statue is incomplete or perhaps the gerardo in shame dicided to eliminate it from history, because you know she failed and died.
okay, but the statue was wiped from history. Pretty sure most of the Gerudo in Gerudo town remember Urbosa though, so that is an inconsistency.
The last heroine became a yiga clan member, hence y the yiga clan have the statues, and why he was kicked out
When i saw the statues in the yiga clan's hideout with all 8 still there, i thought maybe there was a second sheika in the 8 sages but one of them turned with the yiga so they removed them from the sages. That is just my idea and i have no proof to back it up because i have not played many of the games, but it is just an idea i wish to spread.
To be fair. Motion for Zelda can make sense if you remember Princess Zelda's alter ego, Shiek. Shiek being a Shiekah is incredible fast and is seen making several swift escapes throughout the game. Even if we factor out shiek, there is another explanation. Zelda is the Sage of Time in Ocarina (suggested by her skill with the Ocarina of Time and her connection to the Goddess of Time). The flow of Time can be described as motions as things only move as time flows. It is very possible that the Motion Heroine is Zelda.