The Era of Horror in Hyrule (Zelda Lore)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- The Wilds Era of Hyrule has truely been through some of, if not the worst events the Kingdom has ever seen. Let's re-visit these horrible times in a grand recap of both Breath of The Wild & Tears of The Kingdom.
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Intro - 00:00
Before The Calamity - 02:04
Calamity Strikes - 03:03
The Aftermath - 07:05
Before The Upheaval - 09:24
The Upheaval and Beyond - 13:32
Conclusion & Outro - 16:32
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Fun Fact: There is a Gerudo in the Eldin Region who mentions Gloom Hands and how Link will not survive an encounter with them. Thus, implying that Link is not the only person who the Gloom Hands attack.
I don’t want to even think about how many have perished by the Gloom Hand’s, er, hand.
Bro I seen them once at the start
I never drank a hasty elixir so fast TF imma do with a stick and rock
Funfact:
If you manage to bring some members of this new Monster-Fighting-Group, which are indeed ready to kill a Hinox, to the Gloom Hands they instead start shitting in their pants instead of Fighting them.
As soon as the Gloon touches them they inmediately get knocked out
I wonder what their militaristic and brutal way of life is like in the time Hyrule is founded.
The most random new Gerudo, Tharatera. Not a soldier, not a king, not a child.
@@mangodango1733I like how most people's first reaction is to run and overcome by fear they forget they can just teleport away
The Wild era is truly one of the most scary and disturbing but also heartbreaking. One thing that’s really scary is that when Zelda stepped in front of the guardian, she had no idea that her powers would manifest right then. She was going to sacrifice herself to save Link, who probably would have succumbed to his injuries anyway if things had gone wrong,and Hyrule would have been without both a princess and a hero, leaving the Calamity (and Ganondorf) to completely take over. Which is utterly terrifying.
One of my favorite "creepy" places I've found is the small building at the base of the Great Plateau. In BOTW there were 3 stalkoblins just laying out. This is one of the few places they can actually be seen instead of just spawning in. In TOTK a gloom hand will always spawn there. I've always wondered about it and why darkness seems to cling to it.
I love the horror elements of the villain(s) of both games. Ganondorf, the true body of Calamity Ganon, has practically become a Cannibal. The Malice and Gloom are two parts of the same substance that allows him to feast upon anyone he could bleed dry. One burns away its prey by touching it like acid. One saps away life from the inside, like venom or disease (like how Gloom saps away heart containers).
After his failed execution in Twilight Princess, and reincarnation in Four Swords Adventures, this incarnation of the Gerudo King has become a parasite to the world.
Like Demise said, Hyrule is doomed to wander a blood-soaked sea of darkness for all time.
Yay, I am not the only one that is convinced of Gloom being some form of Acid
This is definitely the most deserved his monicker of "demon king" has ever felt. In the past he was basically just a dark wizard or at some points a monster, but now he truly feels like a vessel for something unimaginably horrible, the center of this world-spanning bloodsucking web of eyes and mouths and hands and molten toxic sludge.
My only complaint is that I wish he were *written* more like what he's become. Seeing this eldritch abomination prattle on about his moustache-twirling plan to get really really strong and beat up everyone and take over the world feels like the literal devil manifesting before you just to say "by the way, I'm gonna break your nose at recess tomorrow."
@@AlmyTheAlienthat's the groose in him tbh
Demise corrupted every male descendant of groose his children the people of the gerudo are forced as mothers as sisters as aunts and as cousins to see their only male family member be corrupted by a demon king
6:39 this got me thinking, in this Hyrule/story, Zelda displays great courage, Link displays incredible power and Ganon(/dorf) employs excellent cunning, wisdom, arguably, with his patience and planning.
That's actually something I always thought would be cool to explore in future games. If the power wisdom courage thing was shuffled, and that could take two forms; Zelda, Link, and Ganondorf exhibit different qualities, kinda like you pointed out here, OR, and this is more interesting to me, the same qualities, but shuffling the roles. A cunning Zelda as the player, a rock-solid ally Ganondorf, and a courageous-to-a-fault Link as the adversary. Or maybe Ganondorf and Link buddy up against a trickster Zelda who's WAY too smart for them.
I have a lore idea. The seven heroines were led by a male warrior, who, despite doing such great things for the gerudo, wasn't allowed to enter Gerudo Town. Perhaps the ancient hero, the being you can look like after all 152 shrines, IS this male?
Have you two been to the 8th heroine cave?
He's also said to be Hylian (at least in the English text).
I believe only foreign men are not allowed in gerunds town as the Gerardo male is king.
Correct, the king is male. However, he is the only male born in the Gerudo, born once every 100 years. And CaC states that it has been a long time since there was a male king
Sorry to shoot down your theory but if you beat the 7 heroines quest line you learn that the 8th heroine was a male hylian who helped the gerudo in a time of need but still wasn't allowed entrance into gerudo town
Doesn't someone in one of the games mention the dragons as a myth, or something only certain people can see? If so, I would LOVE to see the POV of someone looking at the castle and watching it explode and Link flying away, and everything is invisible otherwise.
So fun fact: the appearance Ganondorf takes on after transforming due to the Secret Stone closely resembles an Oni, he has the horns and Oni are always depicted as being evil.
He actually resembles a Demon, because it’s almost like he becomes “The Demon King”
The "Wild Tears" Era, I think that's the best name for the two game run
actually zelda didn't go directly to the castle after unlocking her power, because she also put the master sword in the great hyrule forest (so even more guardians along the way)
True, good correction!
Remember, most people can't even see the dragons, so Hyrule castle cracks open and Link is getting yanked around by SOMETHING a thousand meters up.
I imagine people could at least see the trail of gloom left in the wake of the Dragon of Darkness
While I am grateful Nintendo has given us the best version of Ganondorf there is, the lack of his background is one of the problems I have in Tears of the Kingdom. It would have been appreciated if there much in depth to his character that goes beyond his conquest of ruling Hyrule with an iron fist.
And since Kotake and Koume made brief appearances in two Dragon Tear cutscenes, how come neither Hidemaro Fujibayashi or Eiji Aonouma bother to bring Twinrova back after 22 years? I like to believe it is vital to see how Ganondorf learned the vile magics from his surrogate mothers while the Sacred Stone of the Zonai is more like an amplifier to boost a user’s abilities. A modern take on this iconic villain would not give us another great boss battle would’ve been great to have for Link to face in Hyrule Castle before confronting the Demon King.
Adding some dark and brutal history of the Gerudo in the time Hyrule is founded would have been included as well. All that put in my comment would’ve been a great dlc idea if not of the cancellation they put on.
Honestly this might be the worse version of Ganondorf he kind of feels hollow as a character.
I think it's because they were trying to hard to make him seem scary and not focusing on making him feel like a character so he just feels like a mess
More like worst version of ganondorf.
Bah everyone's a critic. It's a pretty great Ganondorf. Voice acting is on point. He looks awesome.
By watching this video that it sunk in, again, the fact that this was indeed the worst state the kingdom was.
And then I think: If Zelda's power didn't awaken when it did.. The goddess bloodline would've been gone for real in this timeline, which is a bit spooky to think about.
The spirit of the Hero is one thing, a spirit is not tied to anything except fate and reality, but a bloodline is a completely different thing. If it ended there, thats it.
At that point Hyrule would've, assuming they would somehow recover from the absurdity of the calamity, be broken beyond repair. The whole thing would need some kind of reset on Hylia's part, and even then it would not be the same thing.
Please note that i'm not a lore wizard, so i might just be spouting nonsense for all i know.
You're right. Bloodlines and spirits do behave differently. Impa knew this, which is why she sent every Sheikah Warrior she could to find Zelda, and why she wanted so badly to find a way to undo the Draconification process. Her family has been serving the same purpose since before the Humans returned to the surface, for countless millennia. Failure now would be inconceivable.
When I think of horror in zelda games I think of ocarina of time.
The well and the shadow temple were terrifying when I was young. They are still creepy and spooky as an adult.
I still think that, epic as it was, the final dragon fight could have had Farosh, Dinraal and Naydra swoop in to help, too. Even if only a cutscene. That said, it might well have been too many dragons then 😂
Maybe we didn’t play the same game. The dragon fight was far from epic. In fact it was the least impressive final boss fight out of the entire series. Right there tied with the final boar fight from botw.
It was a glorious final battle. I mean it wasn't difficult, but it was cool af
So Zelda is a descendant of Sonia and Rauru? And we saw Sonia die so their heir is out there. Also the hero’s aspect looks to be half Hylian and half Zonai, is it their son?
The hero aspect doesn't really look like a Zonai through he has quite a few different physical differences from the zonia seen and there is also the fact the great Calamity is impilled to take place a couple centuries after the sealing war.
@@4wheal no such implication exists. The first Calamity could have even been 20 years after.
There are potential Champions in the ancient Sages, who all have a Divine Beast connection. If the Sheikah modelled the Divine Beasts after the Zonaite helms, it would only make sense if the wearers of those helms had an intimate connection, such as being the pilots.
Sheikah tech was present during the Zonai era in some fashion, as Mineru's Construct appears and disappears with blue Sheikah energy. One of her personal Constructs also had access to Ancient Blades when it was sealed in the Spirit Temple, answering only to her. Sheikah tech of some form was around before the Zonai, as it appeared in Tri Force Heroes: the Wallmasters. Why would the Zonai not know about it? They were basically usurper rulers. The Sheikah wouldn't trust them much, and might have planted Hylia's descendant Sonia to meet the future Zonai king just to keep this new Hyrule led by the righteous family.
The Ancient Hero's body and Rauru's arm seem compatible, nearly the same. There's *something* Zonai about the Ancient Hero.
I have always wondered why there are wrecked Guardians all around the Temple of Time in BOTW. They seem like they are frozen mid-attack. I've thought that maybe Zelda used her sealing powers once again to protect Link as he was being taken to the Shrine of Resurrection, and maybe they had gotten cornered on the Great Plateau.
I’m on vacation atm, hope everyone is having a blast back in Hyrule
It's my belief that, with the Guardian onslaught spreading across Hyrule Field, citizens, surviving soldiers and King Rhoam fled to the Great Plateau as a last stand. In BotW, the entrance to the plateau is collapsed to prevent entry. I think that was intentionally done by the Hylians to keep the Guardians out. Of course, we know that Guardians have little problem climbing vertical obstacles, but they might not have known that at the time.
@kingdaniel3519 That actually makes sense, and in Age of Calamity(though not canon) you do see this scenario play out, so it is possible
@@nathanapodaca3456 Well, there is other evidence in BotW to suggest it as well. Such as King Rhoam's grave being on top of Mt Hylia, for example.
@@nathanapodaca3456 I had a theory years ago about that and how the scenario could've played out, but no one seemed at all interested.
As much as I loved this video, I must admit I was a bit disappointed that you merely mentioned the Gloom Hands, & didn't go into any further detail about them. Those Gloom Hands scare me far more than any other Zelda enemy ever has before, even after learning how to defeat them...& you didn't even mention Phantom Ganon, whose also rather scary, on the first couple of encounters, till you learn how to beat it.
They both deserve more of a spotlight in these Halloween vids.
i absolutely love this darker take on hyrule's history. i do feel that at times the true nature of the calamity and upheaval is brushed over in the game, but this tells it in all its gory glory. also love the phrase "gibdoic sandstorms" u used (:
wow, what a spooky recap! suddenly I’m scared of guardians again 😳 can’t wait for part 2!!
Thanks a lot!
Boo
@@_Guardian 😱
Just imagine the shocking revelation of Link’s father and sister are brutally slaughtered when the Calamity have stroke Hyrule 100 years before Breath of the Wild. 👀
That would make Link more grounded and in depressed when his sister’s spirit spoke in these words: “You said you would come back but you never did.”
That’ll be more heart wrenching if his parents were in the game. Hurt😖😢
Wait, its confirmed that Link had a father and sister? But jeez, no wonder Link doesn't smile all that often.
@@LinktheCommunistWaifu Only in the concept art as shown in Creating the Champions. But that is not the reason Link is silent and stop expressing his emotions. So many people lay their eyes upon him ever since he pulled the master sword; a lot of expatiations are upon him. He thought staying strong and to silent any burdens is necessary which Princess Zelda knew that as well.
@@a.jthomas6132Might as well be considered canon just not shown.
Missed opportunity to add them in AoC
@@LinktheCommunistWaifu it should be a no brainer than he had a father. He had a mother two. She's never mentioned I'm sure, but Link exists, so both Link's mother and father must exist.
The sister comes from concept art that also seemingly featured a father.
@@xinpingdonohoe3978 I knew that he must have had a family, I just didn't know that they died during the calamity, or said that last quote.
You gotta imagine how horrifying the Master Sword breaking must have been for Link. You've been told your entire life that this sword which has chosen you to be its weilder is the most powerful weapon in the universe and then it just... shatters?
It had to be devastating.
LOL Funny thing is, I thought about the dragon fight and remembered that only kids or those of pure of heart could see the dragons, however in perspective of everyone else is that there are mass explosions happening and seeing Link being flung through the air by some invisible force. xD
Am I crazy for thinking the past era that Zelda travels to in Tears may have occurred before Ocarina of Time? Perhaps that’s why the Stalchidren that pop up in OoT’s Hyrule Field have tribal clothing, because they were the Zonai tribes that were eradicated. Could be that Sonia and Rauru married in order to create peace between both of their cultures, but by then, most of the Zonai were already killed. After the events of the past Hyrule, Hyrulian culture flourished and the Zonai were lost to history.
I really wish we could see how Hyrule is slowly rebuilding itself and Link’s relationship with Zelda grew as they lived together in Hateno in the 7 year gap between the end of Breath of the Wild and before the beginning of Tears of the Kingdom.
They might have lived together as the game is kind of unclear on that definitely seeing that no one in town knows Link not even Zelda students or cleaning lady.
Also appreciate Zelda always had her door open for people to vist and stay the night
7 years? Could children like Cottla and, most crucially, Molli really look the same after 7 years?
We know bro, we know. You say this on every post about totk
@@ignorethischannel2161 Then you know why this an issue. Until it is resolved, I won’t quit on it.
👏 Spooky Times in Hyrule! Awesome! Exellent vid, can't wait for the Halloween special!
Thanks!
Phase 3 of the Ganondorf fight was frustrating xD the phase right before he turns into a dragon
Happy Halloween Hyrule Gamer!
Can't wait for part 2 Adam!
That evil laugh in the beginning
If I’m not mistaken that laugh is from diesel 10 in the end of Misty island rescue
Cool Video! If you're looking for a good music track for your next video, you should choose "The chaos". It's a good tune that'd make sense for a horror video!
loved this spooky lore video 🖤
Thank you! 🙏
So excited for this!!
Aw common you paint me in the most evil way possible
Link and I are best buds and we even play laser tag
Bruh
If by 'play laser tag' you mean one shot him into oblivion then yeah. Best buddies
WHO LET A GUARDIAN HAVE AN ACCOUNT💀
Also where were you and your kind during totk btw?
Laser tag of death lol 😂🤨☠️
Can’t wait to see what it is about
Yoooo nice video man!
Thanks!
Oh wait! I just thought of something thanks to what you (HG) said, if only those pure of heart can see the dragons (Breath), nobody (once again) would know that Link was the one who saved Hyrule. At best, if anyone saw Link it was just the castle exploding and Link blasting out of it (which is commical to imagine, nobody is going to believe a child talking of Dragons fighting above a floating castle (That is, unless the Light Dragon and Dragondorf are visible to the naked eye or an impure heart.
I imagine people could at least see the trail of gloom left in the wake of the Dragon of Darkness
Such beautiful, rich lore.
I would name it the Era Of Gloom. Everything seemed hopeless. Gloomy. And the Gloom itself spready. Either way, one of the worst times in Hyrule's history.
Can’t wait!
Stoked to watch this later with my snack and drink 🎃
Awesome!
Soo... Zelda at the end of ToTK is 10,117 years old? (10,134, if you wanna get really technical)
No. The issue is that "10,000 years" isn't going to be exact to the day. It could mean 9986 or 10032 years.
Like how Christians say "Jesus lived 2000 years ago" not "Jesus lived 2023 years and X days and Y hours and Z minutes and... ago".
How did the Guardians reached the Great Plateau??? That's a good question for a theory..
After playing Age of Calamity, i have been wondering about that if history hasn't been altered.
@@a.jthomas6132 Age of Calamity was a different timeline. It happened, but didn't affect BotW much. Only the Champion successors were affected, being temporarily taken into AoC, letting them train with the Champions, which is why when they were returned they were better warriors when TotK occurred.
Either through the door, or by climbing up.
We climbed, jumped and flew in to say hi
I've had my own theory about that for years. It's my belief that King Rhoam and other survivors attempted to flee the Guardian onslaught by fortifying the Great Plateau. The Guardians were able to climb the outer walls of the plateau and defeat most of the survivors, if not all of them.
This is incredible
When ganondorf became a dragon, i bet some ppl woukd be traumatized because ofnits similarities to the calanoty
I wanna see what others think about gaponga and all the tiny village islands in it
what if the botw and totk games actually take place in lorule after it had its triforce restored. that would explain the giant canyon that covers the north and northwest of the map as that would be damage from when their triforce was destroyed. and instead of destroying the triforce again and causing the land to die again they split the triforce into the secret stones.
Me and my snack are ready 🎃👻💀
I love this content
The Great Calamity was great
Ah man, I missed it
6:21 Can't Zelda Fly though? She does it in the battle with Dark Beast Ganon and she must have used that ability in the Imprisoning War seeing as Phantom Ganon replicated it when disguised as Zelda.
day 64 of mentioning that on 6/6/2023 hyrule gamer made a video where, at 43.46, he spent 12 seconds simping about the ancient gerudo soldiers
16:05 the average person cant see dragons
Ronn says you need a Goddess' blessing to see them. That makes sense for Link, Zelda and the Sheikah Monks, but then what's the deal with the Rito guard Mazli?
I imagine people could at least see the trail of gloom left in the wake of the Dragon of Darkness
How long will it take
The upheaval wasn't so bad maybe a bit of destruction but no deaths and I don't think it brought any of the battle talus I think some bokoblins just started building bases on them
Honestly, I think OoT and TP did it better as we actually got to experience Hyrule at peace before Ganondorf rise, and then afterwards, we get to see the actual difference and how it affected the people.
Like how castle town gose form a bustling town of happy people to wasteland filled with the undead.
Even TP does this with its very long opening as we get to experience the daily life of peace the people experience only to see that peace destroyed and the innocents hurt.
In both BotW and TotK, you only arrive after the villain has arrived, and so you never actually get to see the fall or the difference between the 2 sates.
We have no connection to this event as it has alredy happened and therefor it has less impact.
Remmeber only the pure of heart can see the dragons so noone besides link and kids
That was cool
Thanks!
@HyruleGamer hey, I got an idea for a lore video, so isn't it interesting that the pedestal that the master sword rests in remains seem to sit in a familiar place? Wasn't oot's castle and castle town surrounded by a moat? And is it possible that the pedestal can't move like how the goddess statues? And on top of that, could this be used to pivot the rest of the maps into orientation that have the pedestal in them? Love to hear what you think about it.
Nice
He know them cause he fight them for years (joke I know it's because rauru say link name 10.000 years ago before seal
Demon dragon fight is pretty incoherent.
I'm beginning to think all the Zeldatubers are burned out making theory videos. It's just you and maybe 1 or 2 others. Everyone else is just....silent.
It's a tough time for content. Mainly because TOTK uses the same world as BOTW and there just isn't as much new fresh stuff to discuss as there would normally be.
Yay 👻👻
I know the games been out a few months but a total spoiler warning would have been nice.
Sorry if you were spoiled. It has been out for over 5 months though, I'd say it's pretty fair to not include one at this stage and watch at your own risk this far out.
I remember being so worried in the leadup to TotK, that we were going to get another time skip. Wondering what horrors Ganon would have unleashed while Link was recuperating. Naturally, I am a bit disappointed they didn't go in that direction, but at the same time I am okay with the direction they did go.
If there is a third ‘Wild’ instalment, it would be great to see Demise… and maybe more of a story involving the Triforce?
I'd rather move on
I doubt we'd see demise, but I would like to see another villain. I love ganon, but I also love seeing bad guys that aren't ganon.
The developers have said they've told all the stories they wanted to in this iteration of Hyrule. It's also the reason we likely won't see DLC
Hi
i think "the age of burning fields" was referring to irrigation actually
I don't get it
People died.
this video is so redundant.
looking at the overview of the map did you ever notice how flooded Hyrule looks? you can almost imagine how few hundred or thousand years ago it was flooded completely and was part of the ocean like in Wind Waker.
it could be said that BotW was a restart of the franchise because the way Zelda locked herself up in both BotW and TotK is the same way Zelda sealed herself up Skyward Sword, that is to say became unavailable for many years for many years. and here i thought Hollywood was running out of ideas...
frankly i would soon rather delete both BotW and TotK from the canon lore because they both messed up everything so badly you can't even theorize about a lot of things because a lot of things seem to belong in the trash following those two games.
on and another thing if Link woke up not remembering anything why could he remember walking and breathing and needing to shield his eyes from the sun and not remember who he was supposed to protect or who he is? surely his memories aren't affected if he can remember how to walk and run and climb and eat and use his muscles and pee and talk even. also he wouldn't have been able to so quickly just run out into the world having been asleep for 100 years. his eyes, head, skin etc. would've been seriously screaming "get us back into the darkness of the shade you moron". *sigh* i really dislike stories of both games...
day 48 of mentioning that on 6/6/2023 hyrule gamer made a video where, at 43.46, he spent 12 seconds simping about the ancient gerudo soldiers