The Legend of Zelda
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Legend of Zelda: Ultimate Zonai Theory Part 5 (Conclusion)
The Zonai explained Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Update for Age of Imprisonment The Kingdom of Hyrule and the Decline of the Zonai. This (increasingly impenetrable) series has been in limbo for a while; I’ve been in a sci-fi mood. But there isn’t much more to say. The last post outlined the…
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Ultimate Zonai Theory Part 2
Origins, habitation and population movements. Part 1 Part 3 In part 1, it was argued that the Zonai King Rauru, in the flashbacks of Tears of the Kingdom (TotK), founded Hyrule between the events of Skyward Sword and The Minish Cap. There’s nothing particularly out there or groundbreaking about this conclusion, but the timeline was…
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Ultimate Zonai Theory Part 1
Introduction and Timeline Placement Part 2 Tears of the Kingdom (TotK) has thrown a spanner into the Zelda theory community. The Zonai, introduced in that game, are an entirely new element of the Zelda timeline, which complicates many old theories and established narrative details. The term Zonai was first used during Breath of the Wild…
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Nintendo Switch: The Ultimate Zelda Console
The Wii U was the ultimate Zelda console. Thanks chiefly to the eShop/Virtual Console, it could play an enormous library of Zelda games. It also had HD remasters of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess and the spinoff Hyrule Warriors. And whilst Breath of the Wild is a Switch game (the launch title, no less), it…
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Monstrous Hylians Treating Monsters in Monstrous Ways
(A new, more coherent, version of this post is available here.) The Hylians/‘good guy’ factions in The Legend of Zelda are doing horrifying things to the monsters. When you kill a monster in a Zelda game, it explodes in a puff of evil smoke. Then, depending on the game, it drops an item. Sometimes it’s…
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Zelda: In Defence of The Downfall Timeline
Ahh the Zelda Timeline, some hate it, some loathe it! I joke. But then there was a fair amount of disagreement when Nintendo, during Zelda’s 25th anniversary, published the official timeline (in the pages of Hyrule Historia). Fans had been theorising about it for years and so when the official chronology was revealed, some people…
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Secret Sheikah Ninjas in Tears of the Kingdom
(A new, re-edited version of this article is available here.) An almost completely unsubstantiated Legend of Zelda theory. In Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, there are Secret Sheikah Ninjas everywhere. I have practically no evidence for this claim but I stand by my assertion. There are Ninjas everywhere! Though my reasons…
Thoughts and Fiction 