Ok , but Did anybody else tried to go to an island in the central hyrule i think , it had trees similar to the ones you see entering gerudos desert (large ones but short ) but the game won’t let you got there? I totally forgot the exact location and I don’t know if there’s a name for it
Dayala Singh nop , it doesn’t apear any message , and its in the middle of the map , if you try to go there link just kinda dies and re-appears near the “island” (like in a near mountain or something)
Practically all of LoZ games have this, it's just people don't realize it cuz of the game's light atmosphere and think nothing of the eerier stuff (like Redeads or Dead Hand in OOT). Put it at a more "reality check" tone and you have Majora's Mask. That game just refuses to sugarcoat the twisted and tragic!
Man, no one ever talks about those... massive submerged flowers that are in Skull lake and the horse goddess shrine. Just looking at them... gives me anxiety, for some reason...
oml same, they give me anxiety so bad! maybe it's because of the bottomless water effect they give off or just the "creature rising from the depths" aesthetic but something gives me the heeby jeebies with them
Raptor Hawwke YES! Both of those! I have a deep fear of that “Bottomless water depth” stuff (Subnautica is a horror game for me because of this) and, I don’t know how to explain this but, plants of... unnaturally large proportion give me anxiety too. It is comforting to know I’m not alone in this feeling!
I know!! Those huge flowers are found on these two particular places, and the conection between them is that somehow both are related to death in their own ways. Maybe those flowers represent death or even, resurrection? Remember thst this game has a lot of symbolism with flowers, hence why we have the blue flower representing Princess Zelda.
Omg, swear to god i thought i was the only one who had this feeling. It is actually a botomless lake, because i threw some trashy weapons and they just disappeared. The fact that there could be a misterious and unknown creature underneath gives me chills
Huh?? It was one of the first details I noticed about the landscape when exiting the Shrine of Resurrection. It's a GIANT HOLE, I'm genuinely blown away (pun intended) that so many people didn't notice!
Oki I noticed a weird thing in Botw that doesn't line up with logic, when you take a selfie with the camera on the Sheika slate, the slate is still on your belt🤨🤯
and yet Nintendo went out of its way to populate the underwater animal and plant life most notably seen when you clip under the dock at Lurelin Village (Outset Island)... so we can't fully be sure that the bottomless pit wasn't intended to not be bottomless and that it might have been the Yiga Tribe's attempt to dig down into whatever cave system that Mummified Ganondorf is tucked away in. as we know that Breath of the Wild 2 started out as the countless ideas that Nintendo had concocted for DLC and snowballed to the point of being enough to amass an entire another game.
@@bojangle8850 I would love to see it if you can find me it. Speculations of this scale are always fun, I think Kathleen Kennedy (of Lucas films) said it best that she loves to go online and see what the fans have come up with, and sometimes they come up with something that is so on the money that they could have been in the room where it happens. the great thing about fictional constructs is that we can speculate and adapt our Hypothesis simply by a single word (like in the case of the journal entries being written in first-person or third depending on the translation)
Well, he's obviously wearing face paint, and in "Creating a Champion," I read that he is, in fact, a Hylian. (Hylian's are weird looking people lol. Link just got lucky his ancestors have good genes)
Mekar island is a reference to the dead korok mekar. Mekar had very strong gusts. Therefore when you stand on top of the tree blistering winds start to howl around you.
For the ancient tree stomp, could it be the tree in faron wood in skyward sword? When the water go over everything and we can only see a little part of it. (There’s also wood bridge in it) but your theories are very well too! This is the fun with Zelda game. Everything can be possible!
The "Breach of demise" sounds a lot like An area where Demise, the original evil, may have risen from once in the past that corrupted the land around it.
The horse God's fountain also has similar rocks above it, and might signify that he comes from the same place as demise. He does wear a mask not unlike some of the denizens from there--though the style of it gave me heavy Majora's Mask vibes.
You know I have over 500 hours on this game, and I have the Creating the Champion book...and yet I’m still learning new things about this game. I would love a continuation of these kinds of videos with you and Zeltik! A few things I have to wonder about... The Sanidin Park Ruins...it wasn’t damaged during the Great Calamity... yet it’s labeled “ruins” and the fountains are still operational after 100 years. If some Hylians kept them working, you would think they would know how to build more or repair them? Also The Great Plateau... the enteance is caved in from the outside and the inside entrance is flooded... How did this happen? From Creating a Champion it mentions it might have been purposely done to stop the Guardians... Also the three small temples around the Temple of Time each have a symbol of one of the three Goddesses on the floor. Could these have been small temples to worship those Goddesses? I could go on and on... But there’s so much about this game we don’t know!
"Cast the shadow of a snowball" Me: oh so spending the entire day there so the shadow of my ice block wasn't the solution even though that's what I did
Well... um.. at least you didn't spend a few in-game days trying to make a massive snowball that would roll off the hill at just the right angle and hit the platform...
I had no idea what to, like I didn't even notice the pedestal since I came from the other direction and missed it. I ended up checking TH-cam for a video and it showed how to make the ice block at a certain time of day. I don't think I would have ever figured it out myself. Some of those clues are pretty vague.
I’m surprised no one mentioned that the peak laser scar is actually more visible up close because the inner part of the sphere is a blueish glass while the outer part matches the solid stone of the mountain. Kinda neat they went so far as to show the glassing you’d see from heat like that.
What about the giant skull that's in a tar pit? Why does no one ever talk about that? Is that also just carved out of rock? Because it doesn't look like any other monster in the game so either something BIG died in that tar pit or some sculptur got really creative one day.
@@nonoctoro4933 Yup! "Come see the giant tree! Buy your own giant preserved leaf to make your friends at home jealous!" I'm almost certain that's what it was.
Indeed. Now was it Tingle's shop before the calamity (because we all know Tingle is an immortal fairy goddess saviour) or Beedle's since he's mastered immortality from being in Skyward Sword
7:37 After the Master Khoga (sorry if I spelt this wrong) fight, did anyone try to fall down the hole to see what was down there? I know I did. And I regretted it. 😂😂
Regarding the underground shot from the botw sequel trailer, no this isnt about the zonai so put your torches and pitchforks down. I've been playing skyward sword for a while now, and made it to the Lanayru desert. And theres this time stone thingy around the mines that can reverse time in the area surrounding the stone. And ive noticed that the shape of the time stone thingy resembles the shape of the "luminous stones" We saw on the trailer. So, what if they didnt travel to the past, what if when they were researching that underground area they accidentally found the stone and hit them. And suddenly they reversed the time surrounding them, maybe thats why we can see ganon. Maybe they were transported to the time when ganon first resurrected. Idk tho, its just a thought
This could mean that the song track played in the trailer sequel has a double meaning. One of which is very obvious and can be understood once the Skeleton is seen without understanding the song track. The other perhaps hinting something about the game itself and when it takes place
@@paulhemebert496 Actually, it wouldn't have to. In the game the timeshift stones only affect a smaller, sometimes large-ish space, and they were presumably underground in the trailer. But I'm DEFINITELY on board with this theory!
I actually think the Hebra peak was shot by Ruta Bc why would meadow be behind the mountain? I think ruta missed and shot at the mountain because of where she would be on the map
In game there's a legend that that is dragon carve it out because they didn't want to go around it. If you follow the dragon's path it even goes right through the hole
I think you should study the concept of the constellations in the shrines and stuff They’re literally all over the sheikah technology It must be important
I heard a theory about Mekar Island that makes sense to me There was indeed a Korok there but he was killed by monsters. There are 3 ores that can come from under the rock: Amber, Opal and Flint. All of these can be formed from wood
I feel like the Zonai thing isn't going to go anywhere. It's probably just an explanation for the old structures that are everywhere. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
@@nationalsarcasticsociety1312 Same. I don't actually quite understand the whole Zonai thing at all, it just confuses me. It just seems as if it's a lazy attempt to cover up a mistake or shut up theorists/get them to get people to play more, that type of thing. I just don't understand the concept past that.
Please do a part two, this was so interesting! I'm obsessed with botw right now and also in my first year of an archaeology degree and I honestly cannot get enough of Hyrule's geological and archaeological history
10:41 I have almost 400 hours in this game, seen almost every TH-cam about it, and somehow never know that the snow bird quest was referring to that. I was always super confused about it but this makes sense
I’m really surprised you guys didn’t realize the secret to Mekar island. It’s named after a Korok in The Wind Waker. If you climb the tree at the center the wind mysteriously starts blowing very strongly, an homage to aforesaid game.
I think it’s more likely that that giant tree in the middle of the forest that’s partially submerged in water is the giant tree from Skyward Sword’s Faron region, as it’s the only other tree in the series that we see that would both fit that description and be a large enough size
To me the most mysterious place in Breath of the Wild Hyrule is the Shadow Hamlet Ruins. The first time I stumbled upon it, my reaction was : "Wait. People used to live in this isolated place? Who were they? What invited them here?"
I have a theory about the tapestry in the first game, as you know some people connect the hero to Ganondorf due to the red hair. Maybe the hero is in fact, Ganondorf ,and Zelda and Link were unable to defeat the calamity without the raw power of Ganondorf. If BOTW2 Ganondorf is the same one as you see in Twilight Princess maybe Link had sealed away Ganondorf around that time with the help of the Zonai tribe and through this process his evil began to leak out in the form of malice creating the beast that is, Calamity Ganon. They then, later on in the timeline, released Ganondorf to seal away the Calamity using the full power of the Triforce, this would stop the need for the Divine Beasts and use something else underground to defeat the Great Calamity thus making the fortune tellers prophecy ring true and fix the red hair of the hero in the tapestry. Ganondorf was then resealed under Hyrule Castle while leftover malice began leaking back into him as it was removed creating another Calamity (The one we fight in BOTW which is much weaker due to the leaking back in) and making Ganondorf evil once again. Calamity Ganon takes over the Sheika technology, defeats Hyrule, and the first game happens. Zelda and Link go adventuring to Ganondorf’s chamber where Link gains the power to restore the Master Sword with the Zonai’s magic and defeats Ganondorf until the next reincarnation.
Ganondorf is a mortal resurrection of Demise, caused by the curse he makes before he dies, so I doubt he would help defeat another reincarnation of Demise, which could have only appeared once he was dead, unless Ganondorf was Calamity Ganon.
I hope the sequel has a time-stone mechanic similar to that of Skyward Sword (maybe something that requires you to go underground to activate), so we can see these locations at different time periods. It'd be an easier way to re-purpose the map and add a ton of.... depth to the story.
I love it when Zelda TH-camrs collaborate! The details in this game's overworld is mindblowing. This game does a great job at giving you a sense of history wherever you go; moreso than any other game in the series. Whatever the game lacks in terms of story presented at face value, it more than makes up for in the details of the world. In my opinion, that's where the real meat of the story lies. I think it's amazing that Nintendo created so many locations with unsolved mysteries attached to them; it makes the world seem more real, as we have many unsolved mysteries attached to locations in the real world as well. I know Red Dead Redemption 2 gets a lot of (well-deserved) praise for the details in its game world, but this game also deserves much of that attention. Breath of the Wild not only came out before Red Dead 2, it also contained details exclusive to its completely fictional lore; that is to say that Red Dead 2 drew much more inspiration from the real world than from the imaginations of the developers themselves.
Honestly, we need a group of hardcore Zelda fans come together and write a complete novel of zelda once and for all. Afterwards, Nintendo can make a complete Zelda game through the ages, aka Chrono trigger style. That would be sick!
When you notice Demise's pass and lanaryu promenade are very similar in shape when highlighted. That they are almost a straight shot from each other _across the map_ (more west-northwest but I digress). I believe north Akala could've been the original point, as it's rock formations feel larger and go much deeper. In an interview I believe they said that skull lake was originally going to be a lake of filled with malice, but figured the world was already dangerous enough and put in regular water instead. But being so close, this earthquake - as per sa in link between worlds - forced cracks that connects the two worlds to appear all around hyrule. If the focal point for the earthquake truly started anywhere near death mountain, the leviathon living at the time could've been caught in the volcano's eruption due to upheaval and subsequent shockwaves of the legions breaking through from the other side. On Demise's sword is an upside triforce and while this comes off as defecting and scorning the goddess, Lorule too had this upside version: their triforce is _inherently upside down._ not out of spite or rejection but in what the world is in relation to hyrule, the opposing mirror image _connected through cracks throughout the land between both worlds._ The chances of demise being from Lorule are actually fairly high based on this.
I've always wondered about the Breach of Demise, I mean, the stone in the area looks so off from the surrounding area, the pockmarked stone and white coloring kind of reminds me of a corroded, giant ribcage kind of, even the name is suspicious, Breach of DEMISE, as in the origin of all demons vanquished by the hero of the sky. What if, this was created by Ganon in some forgotten era? By Ganon destroying the earth itself with a blast or beam of energy?
Nah, you don't have to worry about Master Koga's corpse rotting or anything since the Yiga Clan members' bodies always disappear in a cloud of smoke upon death. I'm sure the only thing rotting in the bottom of that hole are the mighty bananas he undoubtedly dropped.
On the subject of "spiders nest mountain", I have a personal theory there. I think we see evidence of the spiders behavior in the lizal enemies with their extremely rapid and skittering movement, as well as their spit attack. These are more on par for fantasy world spiders that can swarm your flank and spit venom or some kind of web matter at you, and we did see that there was a much darker theme in the works. Could have been that the spider enemy got scrapped and replaced with the lizal enemy instead, since it's an enemy we're not quite used to seeing in the zelda universe and they don't seem to appear in the lore of previous iterations as far as I know. Could have been that getting immediately swarmed by 4 giant spiders proved to be too much of a shocker and they had to tone down the creep factor (also why we don't see those more messed up moblin type enemies or the floating skull man-o-war things that you see in the concept art). You have to admit, lizal spit looks really "webby" for being some kind of water gun sort of attack. Can you imagine rapidly moving skulltula on the ground? Yeesh, makes my skin crawl a bit with those spindly legs.
I’m finally playing this game on my own system for the first time- I’ve played before but only for an hour and wasn’t paying attention to the story. I’m so late but I’m honestly glad. This game is amazing for quarantine. And I’m just glad I get to play this beauty at all :) I hope everyone’s 2021 will be better than last year ❤️good luck
What about that cave in the hebra mountains with like 12 rusty shields? Like a group of people just got into some sort of cult meeting and dropped their best defenses on the floor.
Really love this in-depth Hyrulean archaeology. I'm curious if a connection has been found between BotW's Hyrule and Twilight Princess's Snowpeak Mountains/Mansion...?
The ancient tree stump... If the forgotten temple is rumored to be the Sealed temple and the Goddess statue of Skyloft, Faron woods would be way too far to be accurate to BOTW map of Hyrule. Perhaps the ancient tree stump was the great tree from Skyward sword? Could that be a possibility? The forest around it probably got cut down to supply wood for villages and building materials.
I have a theory that the reason why the bottomless pit exists in the Yiga Clan hideout is because the Yiga Clan wanted to keep it away from the hero. The Yiga didn’t want Link discovering the shrine, so they built their base around it to keep him away.
Love you and Zeltik collaborating. I just discovered you both and have binged almost everything. Zelda is the best video game franchise of all time, don't @ me
the first one with the stump, i STILL have that great flame blade from the very start of the game. Back when i first started i didn't know how valuable that type of weapon was so i figured just dont use it, dont let it break. Now i still have it in Links house almost 3 years later 👌 i know now its not the best, but its the memory for me
The Yiga Hideout pit is so large that Kohga's body would have burst on impact. At the bottom, there'll be a shrine pedestal, the metal ball, and some red paste.
Man..... there are a lot of wierd things in BOTW also I love both of your channels and am so glad you did a collab for this video!!! I also used ancient horse armor to bring a horse to Eventide Island........
while i can see you guys are slowly reaching the bottom of the barrel as far as botw content goes(not saying you are there yet but i would say if they delay botw 2 another year you might run out of easy stuff to cover) however you both manage to make even the simplest of things SO DAMN ENTERTAINING! you bring the most out of every video and make me genuinely enjoy watching so GG to that bois
I used theorize that hole in the mountain could have been from one of those giant gorons (like the one in Majora’s Mask) taking a big bite out of it. But I guess the battle scar explanation does make more sense.
10:54 judging by Nintendo’s fascination with mythology, I’d say this is a reference to Thor’s journey to untgard loki and the square incisions into the mountain sides
4:03 Reminds me of nearly every Zelda fan claiming that the big tree stump on the bridge over lake Hylia in TP was the Great Deku Tree on that basis that it was a big tree and therefore could only be a Great Deku Tree.
I might be thinking of the wrong place, it's been a while since I've played, but isn't the hole left in Hebra all smooth ice you can't climb? Not a big deal but I think it could've been mentioned during the giant laser blast part of the video, it just adds to that answer
I like the thought that the whoever Rito champion that piloted Medoh in the ancient war decided to attempt an attack *trough a mountain*. Something that I'd definitely see Revali do just to show his superior sniping skills
Even so, the Japanese doesn't mention any breach, it's literally called the Valley of Demise. Demise's japanese name transaltes to The One/Bringer of Demise, "Demise" is not his name, he has no name but a title.
Ok , but
Did anybody else tried to go to an island in the central hyrule i think , it had trees similar to the ones you see entering gerudos desert (large ones but short ) but the game won’t let you got there?
I totally forgot the exact location and I don’t know if there’s a name for it
Oh frick, I forgot about the Crenel Hills! 😮
@@NintendoBlackCrisis whelp... guess you'd better get started on that next video then...
NintendoBlackCrisis omg hahaha
What do you mean the game won't let you go there?
Dayala Singh nop , it doesn’t apear any message , and its in the middle of the map , if you try to go there link just kinda dies and re-appears near the “island” (like in a near mountain or something)
I do love how downright _eerie_ this game gets as soon as you look past the surface.
This makes me so excited for the next game
Practically all of LoZ games have this, it's just people don't realize it cuz of the game's light atmosphere and think nothing of the eerier stuff (like Redeads or Dead Hand in OOT). Put it at a more "reality check" tone and you have Majora's Mask. That game just refuses to sugarcoat the twisted and tragic!
It’s just a game
@@ZestyPigeon It can still be eerie even if it is a game.
@@ZestyPigeon Games are capable of feeling a certain way by using music, landscape and location, culture or history. It's not that hard
I think the deku tree will die in botw 2 and you will be tasked with planting the 900 korok seeds you collected, and use the poop for fertilizer.
I like it (not really)
Steve Anderson I'll boycott
Now that's epic
I think Hestu's gift is made of Korok seeds. Please don't make a poop joke.
Also the great deku tree is a deku, not a Korok.
Has anyone ever mentioned the massive flowers in skull lake...? Those always gave me awe and creeped me out...
Same here
Yeah, they creep the fuck out of me the first time I was there
well nice to see there's plenty of people who hate those flowers
They are also found in the Horse God spring, but I find them very beautiful
Oh you mean the flowers that want to lure you into them so they could eat you alive! yeah they sound familiar.
8:30
Alternate ending to Champion's Ballad, The corpse blocks the orb from hitting the pedestal, rendering the challenge impossible
No, it just flattened the body...
or additional challenge: you have to go down there and move the body
Link throws the orb down and all he hears is "Ow !"
9:34 now i can't stop seeing an image of master kohga comically sneaking into the site.
Lol, pretty sure a giant stone ball at terminal velocity would crush the body anyway.
I love how we're all still talking about this masterpiece of a game even after nearly 3 years of it existing. Love Zelda, such a timeless series.
ONCE an ARMY always an ARMY facts,can’t wait for BoTW2
Toadw1 true
I got it recently lol
Unknown Kitterpurrmon i got it last christmas lol
“timeless” lol 😂
Man, no one ever talks about those... massive submerged flowers that are in Skull lake and the horse goddess shrine.
Just looking at them... gives me anxiety, for some reason...
oml same, they give me anxiety so bad! maybe it's because of the bottomless water effect they give off or just the "creature rising from the depths" aesthetic but something gives me the heeby jeebies with them
Raptor Hawwke YES! Both of those! I have a deep fear of that “Bottomless water depth” stuff (Subnautica is a horror game for me because of this) and, I don’t know how to explain this but, plants of... unnaturally large proportion give me anxiety too.
It is comforting to know I’m not alone in this feeling!
I know!! Those huge flowers are found on these two particular places, and the conection between them is that somehow both are related to death in their own ways. Maybe those flowers represent death or even, resurrection? Remember thst this game has a lot of symbolism with flowers, hence why we have the blue flower representing Princess Zelda.
Omg, swear to god i thought i was the only one who had this feeling. It is actually a botomless lake, because i threw some trashy weapons and they just disappeared. The fact that there could be a misterious and unknown creature underneath gives me chills
I remember seeing those when getting footage! Should have added it to skull lake in the honorable mentions haha.
Zeltiks voice is like relaxing, smooth chocolate, and NBCs voice is up beat and fun to hear. I could listen to him mispronounce words all day.
Awww
Pronouncing promenade like lemonade lol
Chocolate wut
Same lol
Chrajeck, tracheg. Trachek, draject...
The Trajectory Tragedy!!
Lol
Say that five times fast..
@@Diachron I know right lol
That's the joke
I wonder if NBC could do it
@@Diachron can hardly say it once
The direction dilemma
"If you look closely, a giant hole can be seen going right through Hebra Peak."
...if you look closely? *Closely?* Bruh
If you aren't paying attention, it's easy to miss. Lots of people have admitted to never seeing it before.
Lol I know about it yet never seen it
Huh?? It was one of the first details I noticed about the landscape when exiting the Shrine of Resurrection. It's a GIANT HOLE, I'm genuinely blown away (pun intended) that so many people didn't notice!
@@NintendoBlackCrisis I was able to see it from the other side of the fucking map.
@@Mikeinator_ watch your profanity!!!
Oki I noticed a weird thing in Botw that doesn't line up with logic, when you take a selfie with the camera on the Sheika slate, the slate is still on your belt🤨🤯
OH NO WHY WOULD YOU POINT THIS OUT
He isn’t even holding it, how is it floating?
@@justsomeguy5390 that's true too, didn't think of it 😂
I took a picture of the sheikah slate with the sheikah slate 👍
@@RedBroski nice😂
and yet Nintendo went out of its way to populate the underwater animal and plant life most notably seen when you clip under the dock at Lurelin Village (Outset Island)... so we can't fully be sure that the bottomless pit wasn't intended to not be bottomless and that it might have been the Yiga Tribe's attempt to dig down into whatever cave system that Mummified Ganondorf is tucked away in. as we know that Breath of the Wild 2 started out as the countless ideas that Nintendo had concocted for DLC and snowballed to the point of being enough to amass an entire another game.
Daniel Saylors I’m not sure if you’ve seen the video but someone made a video basically saying what you are and it’s super intresting
@@bojangle8850 I would love to see it if you can find me it. Speculations of this scale are always fun, I think Kathleen Kennedy (of Lucas films) said it best that she loves to go online and see what the fans have come up with, and sometimes they come up with something that is so on the money that they could have been in the room where it happens. the great thing about fictional constructs is that we can speculate and adapt our Hypothesis simply by a single word (like in the case of the journal entries being written in first-person or third depending on the translation)
Every location of BOTW it makes feel like you're inside your dreams while playing the game
NBC: **Make statement at **10:21****
The 900 hidden Koroks that make up roughly 70% of the in-game completion tracker: *"YAHAHA!"*
I never thought Kilton was a Hylian. I mean, he could be, but he’s blue and has an oddly shaped head.
A living example of why you shouldn't cook with monster extract
ralph bluetawn...
Well, he's obviously wearing face paint, and in "Creating a Champion," I read that he is, in fact, a Hylian. (Hylian's are weird looking people lol. Link just got lucky his ancestors have good genes)
Looks like dampe
He pushes the boundaries of what a Hylian could look like...maybe pushes it too far.
Mekar island is a reference to the dead korok mekar. Mekar had very strong gusts. Therefore when you stand on top of the tree blistering winds start to howl around you.
Yeah why did they not mention that lol
Exactly!
That island is a reference to the first dungeon in the original legend of zelda.
@@BassMaster.454 yeah I guess that too
*Makar.
6:45 *photobomb lol* that lizalfo is a mood
The lizalfos was like: _I AM SPEED_
You and Zeltik upload at the same time stop making me choose
Woah it’s the real Barack Obama! I can’t believe I found the REAL Barack Obama
Vanessa A go to bed
"time"..."stop"...Is ThAt A jOjO rEfErEnCe?
Special thanks to Zeltik for joining me on this one. especially since he had more lines than me 😂
His video - th-cam.com/video/j42htr2vOes/w-d-xo.html
You two should collaborate more often
What if the hole from hebra peak is where vah medoh was dug out?
Guppoh I think it is a bit too thin for van medoh
According to Nintendo the hole was scar from10000years ago
@James Scott True lol
For the ancient tree stomp, could it be the tree in faron wood in skyward sword? When the water go over everything and we can only see a little part of it. (There’s also wood bridge in it) but your theories are very well too! This is the fun with Zelda game. Everything can be possible!
It could be that Life Tree that had its fruit used to save the Thunder Dragon in SS, but grown a whole lot more
hasn't there also been a big tree in oracle of seasons?
@@lunchen4700 Maku Tree
Stump*
Kim m. Yeah the Maku tree, another form of it was in ages too
Why is he not saying the Z-word.
Zonaï.
I'm going to say the *Z-word*
PSIPagliacci MRS ZOBAMBA GET DOWN
@@Jojordy2312 wait, that's illegal
@T.J. Cox :O
@jonathan jackson yup because he's talking about "ancient massive pillars" but not saying zonaï tho it has the Z symbol on it
The "Breach of demise" sounds a lot like An area where Demise, the original evil, may have risen from once in the past that corrupted the land around it.
The horse God's fountain also has similar rocks above it, and might signify that he comes from the same place as demise. He does wear a mask not unlike some of the denizens from there--though the style of it gave me heavy Majora's Mask vibes.
You know I have over 500 hours on this game, and I have the Creating the Champion book...and yet I’m still learning new things about this game. I would love a continuation of these kinds of videos with you and Zeltik!
A few things I have to wonder about... The Sanidin Park Ruins...it wasn’t damaged during the Great Calamity... yet it’s labeled “ruins”
and the fountains are still operational after 100 years. If some Hylians kept them working, you would think they would know how to build more or repair them?
Also The Great Plateau... the enteance is caved in from the outside and the inside entrance is flooded... How did this happen? From Creating a Champion it mentions it might have been purposely done to stop the Guardians...
Also the three small temples around the Temple of Time each have a symbol of one of the three Goddesses on the floor. Could these have been small temples to worship those Goddesses?
I could go on and on... But there’s so much about this game we don’t know!
Thanks to me, your comment is currently at 69 likes. 😉
"Cast the shadow of a snowball"
Me: oh so spending the entire day there so the shadow of my ice block wasn't the solution even though that's what I did
Well... um.. at least you didn't spend a few in-game days trying to make a massive snowball that would roll off the hill at just the right angle and hit the platform...
@@janeenschultz8502 Glad i totally didn't do that....haha😞
I had no idea what to, like I didn't even notice the pedestal since I came from the other direction and missed it. I ended up checking TH-cam for a video and it showed how to make the ice block at a certain time of day. I don't think I would have ever figured it out myself. Some of those clues are pretty vague.
Actually ice block is also work.
I did that too, it works also
I’m surprised no one mentioned that the peak laser scar is actually more visible up close because the inner part of the sphere is a blueish glass while the outer part matches the solid stone of the mountain. Kinda neat they went so far as to show the glassing you’d see from heat like that.
Bone rock is rich in calcium
I eat bones for my afternoon snack ●_●
@@ikodashiigo so your a goron?
@@qwertyrainetmir7743 stalgoron
@@ikodashiigo human bones?
Why did this make me laugh
Last time I was this early, Hebra peak didn't have a hole.
Before the great calamity ?
What?
😂
I've always been curious about that one giant dinosaur footprint that's in the Eldin region
The_Ultimate_ Faker where in the eldin region?
Dinosaur? Are you sure it's not just like, vah rudania?
Might of been a dondongo. I theorize that they went extinct after the great calamity.
also what about how the eighth heroine's sword is cast so far from the statue and the kinda trench through that part of the mountain?
Where in the eldin region I wanna see it
What about the giant skull that's in a tar pit? Why does no one ever talk about that? Is that also just carved out of rock? Because it doesn't look like any other monster in the game so either something BIG died in that tar pit or some sculptur got really creative one day.
A 2 eyed hinox maybe?
@@Nonikt Hinoxen don't have horns like that skull does.
I thought it was the skull of a previous ganon
They cover 5 other bizarre locations over on Zeltik's channel, including that one.
3:22
I bet that house was actually a gift shop.
To buy souvenirs ? XD
@@nonoctoro4933
Yup! "Come see the giant tree! Buy your own giant preserved leaf to make your friends at home jealous!" I'm almost certain that's what it was.
Indeed. Now was it Tingle's shop before the calamity (because we all know Tingle is an immortal fairy goddess saviour) or Beedle's since he's mastered immortality from being in Skyward Sword
7:37 After the Master Khoga (sorry if I spelt this wrong) fight, did anyone try to fall down the hole to see what was down there? I know I did. And I regretted it. 😂😂
Everyone did, dude. Literally everyone.
i make the way from gerudo highland and found the pit first before enter the hideout
as expected, throw myself into that 😂
I immediately jumped it expecting something important
I tried my normal strategy to slowly fall down, spam X and B
@@Nhnhnfk I didnt! I threw a bomb and then saw it disappear so I thought, "Oh, guess I shouldn't go down there."
Regarding the underground shot from the botw sequel trailer, no this isnt about the zonai so put your torches and pitchforks down. I've been playing skyward sword for a while now, and made it to the Lanayru desert. And theres this time stone thingy around the mines that can reverse time in the area surrounding the stone. And ive noticed that the shape of the time stone thingy resembles the shape of the "luminous stones" We saw on the trailer. So, what if they didnt travel to the past, what if when they were researching that underground area they accidentally found the stone and hit them. And suddenly they reversed the time surrounding them, maybe thats why we can see ganon. Maybe they were transported to the time when ganon first resurrected. Idk tho, its just a thought
That would change the whole overworld completely. This solves the question what nintendo will do to keep the overworld new and fresh in the sequel
This could mean that the song track played in the trailer sequel has a double meaning. One of which is very obvious and can be understood once the Skeleton is seen without understanding the song track. The other perhaps hinting something about the game itself and when it takes place
@@paulhemebert496 Actually, it wouldn't have to. In the game the timeshift stones only affect a smaller, sometimes large-ish space, and they were presumably underground in the trailer. But I'm DEFINITELY on board with this theory!
I actually think the Hebra peak was shot by Ruta Bc why would meadow be behind the mountain? I think ruta missed and shot at the mountain because of where she would be on the map
In game there's a legend that that is dragon carve it out because they didn't want to go around it.
If you follow the dragon's path it even goes right through the hole
Crystal Thunderheart I was talking about the one with the hole in it
Andrew Silva I was talking about the one with the hole
Andrew Silva ah ok
Imagine that the orb pedestal was covered by Kohga’s corpse and the ball wasn’t able to get in the slot.
13:56 Lol as soon as Zeltik said "Surprise!" I got an ad XD
wait....
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PICK UP THE FREAKING SNOWBALL?!
I ALWAYS MADE IT HUGE, AND STRUGGLED WITH GETTING IT TO CAST THE FREAKING SHADOW PROPERLY
ME TOO 😭 and i’ve never actually completed that quest until now bc the snowball always fell off the mountain 💀
Is nobody gonna talk about the lizalfos that decided to photobomb part of the video by going "NYOOOM"
I think you should study the concept of the constellations in the shrines and stuff
They’re literally all over the sheikah technology
It must be important
The tree in the lake might be a reference to Wind Waker's Deku Tree, with the water surrounding it.
I heard a theory about Mekar Island that makes sense to me
There was indeed a Korok there but he was killed by monsters. There are 3 ores that can come from under the rock: Amber, Opal and Flint. All of these can be formed from wood
I greatly enjoy it when you speak about the Zonai, I always enjoy a great mystery.
I feel like the Zonai thing isn't going to go anywhere. It's probably just an explanation for the old structures that are everywhere. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
@@nationalsarcasticsociety1312 Same. I don't actually quite understand the whole Zonai thing at all, it just confuses me. It just seems as if it's a lazy attempt to cover up a mistake or shut up theorists/get them to get people to play more, that type of thing. I just don't understand the concept past that.
Please do a part two, this was so interesting! I'm obsessed with botw right now and also in my first year of an archaeology degree and I honestly cannot get enough of Hyrule's geological and archaeological history
The large underwater flowers in Skull lake and Spring of the horse god are freaky. You just know theres something down there, but you can't see it.
Yea the mystery of the bottomless pit didn’t age well with totk 😅
Dead tree? 9 dead enemies? Sounds like lord of the rings to me.
Gondor got feckin disintegrated
@@billystokes3917 ha
10:41 I have almost 400 hours in this game, seen almost every TH-cam about it, and somehow never know that the snow bird quest was referring to that. I was always super confused about it but this makes sense
Same
Went to click zeltik’s vid notification but yours popped up 1 sec after haha
Now we know what is down the pit
Now that I've played a bit of totk I now know that the pit leads to the underground
I’m really surprised you guys didn’t realize the secret to Mekar island. It’s named after a Korok in The Wind Waker. If you climb the tree at the center the wind mysteriously starts blowing very strongly, an homage to aforesaid game.
I remember being so confused on Mekar island and wondering what I was missing
Zeltik’s voice is like chamomile tea
Why?
@Dog lover But Zeltik was in this video too
The kohga pit aged well didnt it zeltik? Totk depths is awesome imo.
What if when you sent Koga to his demise his corpse ended up plugging up the hole in the pedestal the shrine orb is supposed to eventually roll into?
Oof
I think it’s more likely that that giant tree in the middle of the forest that’s partially submerged in water is the giant tree from Skyward Sword’s Faron region, as it’s the only other tree in the series that we see that would both fit that description and be a large enough size
3 years laters KOGHAS ALIVE
To me the most mysterious place in Breath of the Wild Hyrule is the Shadow Hamlet Ruins. The first time I stumbled upon it, my reaction was : "Wait. People used to live in this isolated place? Who were they? What invited them here?"
I have a theory about the tapestry in the first game, as you know some people connect the hero to Ganondorf due to the red hair. Maybe the hero is in fact, Ganondorf ,and Zelda and Link were unable to defeat the calamity without the raw power of Ganondorf. If BOTW2 Ganondorf is the same one as you see in Twilight Princess maybe Link had sealed away Ganondorf around that time with the help of the Zonai tribe and through this process his evil began to leak out in the form of malice creating the beast that is, Calamity Ganon. They then, later on in the timeline, released Ganondorf to seal away the Calamity using the full power of the Triforce, this would stop the need for the Divine Beasts and use something else underground to defeat the Great Calamity thus making the fortune tellers prophecy ring true and fix the red hair of the hero in the tapestry. Ganondorf was then resealed under Hyrule Castle while leftover malice began leaking back into him as it was removed creating another Calamity (The one we fight in BOTW which is much weaker due to the leaking back in) and making Ganondorf evil once again. Calamity Ganon takes over the Sheika technology, defeats Hyrule, and the first game happens. Zelda and Link go adventuring to Ganondorf’s chamber where Link gains the power to restore the Master Sword with the Zonai’s magic and defeats Ganondorf until the next reincarnation.
Restore the Master Sword???
Ganondorf is a mortal resurrection of Demise, caused by the curse he makes before he dies, so I doubt he would help defeat another reincarnation of Demise, which could have only appeared once he was dead, unless Ganondorf was Calamity Ganon.
I just noticed something. The shape of the Breach of Demise and the shape of Spider's Nest Mountain are very very similar.
Oh my favorite game! The Legend of Zelda Absence of the Zonai
I hope the sequel has a time-stone mechanic similar to that of Skyward Sword (maybe something that requires you to go underground to activate), so we can see these locations at different time periods. It'd be an easier way to re-purpose the map and add a ton of.... depth to the story.
I just love how all these pop up right after another in notifications zelda back to back its amazing
*HOLDS UP NBC VIDEO*
NBC
*HOLDS UP ZETILK VIDEO*
Zetilk
*GOES BACK AND FORTH*
Me: Can't I just watch them both at the same time? I can't choose, man!
That's how I felt with the game awards XD
You can if u are on PC just open yt two times split it and boom you can watch both
I love it when Zelda TH-camrs collaborate! The details in this game's overworld is mindblowing. This game does a great job at giving you a sense of history wherever you go; moreso than any other game in the series. Whatever the game lacks in terms of story presented at face value, it more than makes up for in the details of the world. In my opinion, that's where the real meat of the story lies. I think it's amazing that Nintendo created so many locations with unsolved mysteries attached to them; it makes the world seem more real, as we have many unsolved mysteries attached to locations in the real world as well.
I know Red Dead Redemption 2 gets a lot of (well-deserved) praise for the details in its game world, but this game also deserves much of that attention. Breath of the Wild not only came out before Red Dead 2, it also contained details exclusive to its completely fictional lore; that is to say that Red Dead 2 drew much more inspiration from the real world than from the imaginations of the developers themselves.
Honestly, we need a group of hardcore Zelda fans
come together and write a complete novel of zelda once and for all.
Afterwards, Nintendo can make a complete Zelda game through the ages,
aka Chrono trigger style. That would be sick!
“Also Kohga’s rotting corpse.”
Me, from the future: 😏
No one gonna talk about the LEGENDARY outro tho?
When you notice Demise's pass and lanaryu promenade are very similar in shape when highlighted. That they are almost a straight shot from each other _across the map_ (more west-northwest but I digress). I believe north Akala could've been the original point, as it's rock formations feel larger and go much deeper. In an interview I believe they said that skull lake was originally going to be a lake of filled with malice, but figured the world was already dangerous enough and put in regular water instead. But being so close, this earthquake - as per sa in link between worlds - forced cracks that connects the two worlds to appear all around hyrule. If the focal point for the earthquake truly started anywhere near death mountain, the leviathon living at the time could've been caught in the volcano's eruption due to upheaval and subsequent shockwaves of the legions breaking through from the other side.
On Demise's sword is an upside triforce and while this comes off as defecting and scorning the goddess, Lorule too had this upside version: their triforce is _inherently upside down._ not out of spite or rejection but in what the world is in relation to hyrule, the opposing mirror image _connected through cracks throughout the land between both worlds._ The chances of demise being from Lorule are actually fairly high based on this.
6:44 "Photobomb lol"
I've always wondered about the Breach of Demise, I mean, the stone in the area looks so off from the surrounding area, the pockmarked stone and white coloring kind of reminds me of a corroded, giant ribcage kind of, even the name is suspicious, Breach of DEMISE, as in the origin of all demons vanquished by the hero of the sky. What if, this was created by Ganon in some forgotten era? By Ganon destroying the earth itself with a blast or beam of energy?
6:39 he fast boi
Nah, you don't have to worry about Master Koga's corpse rotting or anything since the Yiga Clan members' bodies always disappear in a cloud of smoke upon death. I'm sure the only thing rotting in the bottom of that hole are the mighty bananas he undoubtedly dropped.
Tree: exists
NBC and Zeltik: is this the level 1 entrance from zelda 1?
Legend of Zelda the forgotten ruins of the wild
On the subject of "spiders nest mountain", I have a personal theory there. I think we see evidence of the spiders behavior in the lizal enemies with their extremely rapid and skittering movement, as well as their spit attack. These are more on par for fantasy world spiders that can swarm your flank and spit venom or some kind of web matter at you, and we did see that there was a much darker theme in the works. Could have been that the spider enemy got scrapped and replaced with the lizal enemy instead, since it's an enemy we're not quite used to seeing in the zelda universe and they don't seem to appear in the lore of previous iterations as far as I know. Could have been that getting immediately swarmed by 4 giant spiders proved to be too much of a shocker and they had to tone down the creep factor (also why we don't see those more messed up moblin type enemies or the floating skull man-o-war things that you see in the concept art). You have to admit, lizal spit looks really "webby" for being some kind of water gun sort of attack.
Can you imagine rapidly moving skulltula on the ground? Yeesh, makes my skin crawl a bit with those spindly legs.
Legend of Zelda: The Ghastly Sand Timer
Aka Phantom hourglass.
Kyle Lundgren Exactly! It’s just like Legend Of Zelda Respiration of the Wilderness (Breath of the Wild)
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Thingy you put on your Face
Legend of Zelda: Late Night Royalty
@@gaspardsavoureux8680 , you mean Majora's mask.
I’m finally playing this game on my own system for the first time- I’ve played before but only for an hour and wasn’t paying attention to the story. I’m so late but I’m honestly glad. This game is amazing for quarantine. And I’m just glad I get to play this beauty at all :) I hope everyone’s 2021 will be better than last year ❤️good luck
Nintendo:
Zelda Theorists: BUT THE ZONAI
What about that cave in the hebra mountains with like 12 rusty shields? Like a group of people just got into some sort of cult meeting and dropped their best defenses on the floor.
Really love this in-depth Hyrulean archaeology. I'm curious if a connection has been found between BotW's Hyrule and Twilight Princess's Snowpeak Mountains/Mansion...?
The ancient tree stump...
If the forgotten temple is rumored to be the Sealed temple and the Goddess statue of Skyloft, Faron woods would be way too far to be accurate to BOTW map of Hyrule. Perhaps the ancient tree stump was the great tree from Skyward sword? Could that be a possibility? The forest around it probably got cut down to supply wood for villages and building materials.
I have a theory that the reason why the bottomless pit exists in the Yiga Clan hideout is because the Yiga Clan wanted to keep it away from the hero. The Yiga didn’t want Link discovering the shrine, so they built their base around it to keep him away.
Love you and Zeltik collaborating. I just discovered you both and have binged almost everything. Zelda is the best video game franchise of all time, don't @ me
the first one with the stump, i STILL have that great flame blade from the very start of the game. Back when i first started i didn't know how valuable that type of weapon was so i figured just dont use it, dont let it break. Now i still have it in Links house almost 3 years later 👌 i know now its not the best, but its the memory for me
The Yiga Hideout pit is so large that Kohga's body would have burst on impact. At the bottom, there'll be a shrine pedestal, the metal ball, and some red paste.
15:20
"shadow of a snowball"
Pretty sure I used cryonis in the pool to cast a shadow at the specific time, not a snowball!
Man..... there are a lot of wierd things in BOTW also I love both of your channels and am so glad you did a collab for this video!!!
I also used ancient horse armor to bring a horse to Eventide Island........
EWWWWWW THE GERUDO TOWER
sorry I just did that one without revali's gale and low stamina
Oof
Nice...
Sounds like you did Naboris before Medoh, and in that case, you’re insane
i attempted naboris and then realized that the yiga clan sucked so then left for rito village
Okey but why though
while i can see you guys are slowly reaching the bottom of the barrel as far as botw content goes(not saying you are there yet but i would say if they delay botw 2 another year you might run out of easy stuff to cover) however you both manage to make even the simplest of things SO DAMN ENTERTAINING! you bring the most out of every video and make me genuinely enjoy watching so GG to that bois
I like we all came back to comment about the Yiga Pit after TotK
I used theorize that hole in the mountain could have been from one of those giant gorons (like the one in Majora’s Mask) taking a big bite out of it. But I guess the battle scar explanation does make more sense.
10:54 judging by Nintendo’s fascination with mythology, I’d say this is a reference to Thor’s journey to untgard loki and the square incisions into the mountain sides
4:03 Reminds me of nearly every Zelda fan claiming that the big tree stump on the bridge over lake Hylia in TP was the Great Deku Tree on that basis that it was a big tree and therefore could only be a Great Deku Tree.
I might be thinking of the wrong place, it's been a while since I've played, but isn't the hole left in Hebra all smooth ice you can't climb? Not a big deal but I think it could've been mentioned during the giant laser blast part of the video, it just adds to that answer
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you.
More like "Attractive and impressive being richly colorful or STUMPtuous"
I like the thought that the whoever Rito champion that piloted Medoh in the ancient war decided to attempt an attack *trough a mountain*. Something that I'd definitely see Revali do just to show his superior sniping skills
cant believe it's been over 2 years this came out, coming up on its 3rd year.
Oh good, a theory video by my two favorite Zelda TH-camrs, and just a few days after having jaw surgery. Thank you, gentlemen. I needed this.
5:39 Yeah, OBVIOUSLY a reference to Skyward Sword. I totally put that together. (argh, theorists think of everything)
Even so, the Japanese doesn't mention any breach, it's literally called the Valley of Demise.
Demise's japanese name transaltes to The One/Bringer of Demise, "Demise" is not his name, he has no name but a title.