Ancient Hero's Aspect - Tears of the Kingdom Theory
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- The Ancient Hero's Aspect, the Link before Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild Link. He was not just a Hylian...
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What do you think The Ancient Hero was?
Hylias First chosen hero.
I feel Nintendo needs to give us an Ancient Hero story we can see how the first Calamity is connected to the Imprisoning war since Calamity Ganon is obviously a perfect puppet of Ganondorf.
The species that lived in the depths
I honestly wish your opinion was longer. Probably would have had a better view. Longer videos
i always thought he was the offspring of Sonia and Rauru
The animal faces on the ancient hero's aspect are an owl, a dragon, and a boar; the three animals that represent wisdom, courage, and power respectively in TotK in the Lomei mazes
Funnily enough some believe that the statues depicting weird "beings" on the Depths plus the labyrinths across the gameworld were all belonging to the Lomei tribe which makes many theorize that a third game could be in the making representing the Triforce of _Power_ and the Lomei tribe just as Breath of the Wild did with Wisdom and the Sheikah and Tears of the Kingdom did with Courage and the Zonai.
@@javiervasquez625 Well, we probably only have to wait a couple years to get our first peak. 2024 will be...interesting, so a 2025 peak at a new Zelda would be highly welcome.
Which one represents power and courage? The owl must be wisdom
@@jeremybrandt5779 the boar would be power as Dark Beast Ganon, classic Ganon, and Calamity Ganon have boar-like features. This would leave the dragon left as courage.
Could these animals be this timeline's version of the Triforce?
You know, since the Triforce is glaringly absent in both games so far other than for decoration inside the Sanctum...
I think the ancient hero is Mineru's descendant, carrying on the spirit ability, and is Link's ancestor. this is why Link has always been able to see and hear spirits that no one else can. the goddess statues, the kokiri/koroks, the dragons, ghosts. he can see it all when very few others can. like, we know Zelda can see the koroks and speak to the deku tree, but I don't think she could hear the statues, but Link always could. and maybe it's just cause he's Hylia's chosen knight, but if one of the past heroes was what looks like a Zonai, maybe it's a bit of both.
YES. I thought he was probably Mineru’s too! With no Noble Zonai left, she married a barbarian (I call them Mining Zonai) and named her child after the promised hero before passing into the Purah Pad.
Yeah I'll adopt that into my headcannon
This theory kinda makes the Zelink ship a little incestous since Zelda descended from Rauru/Sonia and Link descended from Mineru (Rauru's sister).
@@_Just_Another_Guy LMAO omg no, that's not how incest works, like at all😂it's so far back in history it doesn't even matter.
not to preach at you, but let me put this into perspective: every single dog breed came from a single wolf's mutated litter. but we don't think of every single dog, with ALL their crazy variations, as inbred or related to every single other dog in the world/to have ever existed. but by that logic, no dog to ever exist has ever not been inbred/the result of incest beyond that first litter of pups.
same with blue eyes. it's a recessive gene that can be traced back to a single man who's gene mutated, who then passed it onto all his children, none of whom had blue eyes. it wasn't until the gene spread enough across the population that couples began seeing blue eyed children, which could only exist because both parents had to have that gene, and to have that gene, both have to be related to that *one* original man. but no one looks at someone with blue eyes and thinks that person is inbred/the result of incest, just inherently.
*because it's so far back in the family tree that it's no longer incest*
we don't know exactly how far back Mineru, Rauru, and Sonia are, but the war of 10,000 years ago alone is 500 generations. first Mr. Blue Eyes was only 7,000 years ago, a cave man from Spain. every single person with blue eyes is more closely genetically related than Link and Zelda in this theory. in fact, no person alive today can say every member of their family is that far separated genetically. you went to school with 2nd cousins and had no clue any of you were technically related. genealogists have held events where they invited hundreds of people all across the country, all of different races, just to announce to them that every single person in the room is 2nd cousins with each other, and not a single one of them had ever met. many came from families that as far as they knew, were all black/white/asian/ect and would never have guessed they would be related to someone different.
if you want more info on what it actually means to be inbred, look up on here a video titled something like "how inbred is England's king?". it's not only fascinating, but will make all of this a lot more clear.
Mineru existed thousands of years after Kokiri Link.
The Hero's Aspect is a lot like the masks in Majora's Mask that change Link's appearance to other species.
Did you ever stop to think that when Zonai are young they have red hair and when they age it goes white, such as Rauru and Mineru's advanced age.
A very interesting idea, might be the same case with their tails. They might fall out
@@commonwealthrealm I didn't even think about their tails. I mean Rauru's might be hidden under his massive hair. Never bothered to check Mineru though.
I feel like people aren't considering that this hero has something from MANY groups - Zonai, Hylian, Gerudo, some other group with tails, another group with a different kind of face (as the Ancient Hero's aspect does not show the same facial features as Rauru and Mineru). Perhaps some hero underwent several trials to inherit "aspects" from these groups, including special abilities as well - maybe even hidden in dungeons back then.
Maybe, though we haven’t really seen that so directly before, and doesn’t solve the digitigrade legs or tail.
What do you mean by "it doesn't solve the digitigrade legs or tail"? What problem did it not solve? @@mackenziebeeney3764
Potential game story? sounds cool for one
When I first played botw, I always wondered why the hero who once saved hyrule was red, then when i found the aspect i lost my mind I was so excited
I totally agree. Wanted to talk about it for a while, but waited until September to give people time :)
It's forced
what does that even mean lmao@@chrislevack405
It was the perfect sequel it explain every item every weapon
It’s really hard to determine what the rest of the zonai actually look like when the only two examples are siblings
Also there's the chance there might be different _breeds_ of Zonai kinda like the Lake Zora and River Zora we've seen across the timeline. The Ancient Hero might have belonged to a different breed which lived in the Depths hence the different look.
This feels like a hint towards a potential 3rd game. Learning more about the ancient hero and Zonai civilization at its peak
Expect that this guy would have come after that time period so couldn't be linked with the Zonai at there peak.
That's if the guy is even a Zonai in the frist place.
The next game could be a prologue like A Link to the Past. The Link from that game also has red/pink hair.
If there's a third game then it better be about the triforce is all I'm gonna say
@@frewtlewps1152 The pink hair thing from A Link to the Past was due to a simple color palette problem to make the environment look more colorful without dull tones. There's no in-Lore foundation for why that Link's sprite has pink hair especially when considering his concept art where he sports _brown_ hair like most of his incarnations across the series.
You mean 4th game
Link's divine beast was the motor cycle
Maybe the ancient hero was part of the lineage from Sonia and Rauru that had to exist for Zelda to be their descendant, even though we never saw the baby. He looks like he could plausibly be a Zonai/Hylian hybrid.
That’s what I assumed. He also lived untold generations after them, so other blood could have got mixed in. Given that flame red hair is characteristic of the Gerudo, it creates the interesting implication that he is in some way a Gerudo man, like Ganondorf himself, which is fascinating
I think he was a descendant of Rauru. Sonia sensed a 'Blood connection' to Zelda, which means they had to have continued the bloodline. Given Ganondorf was already on Rauru's radar, he likely kept the boy hidden and before everything went south, had a trusted advisor/knight/somebody go into hiding with the kid. The red hair *could* have just been a side-effect of the interbreeding, but the Gerudo-like gem makes me believe that this hero has Gerudo lineage. Maybe Rauru Jr. married a Gerudo woman, and the Ancient Hero is their kid. It'd be cool if we got a Hyrule Warriors game going into detail on the 10,000 year ago Calamity.
Maybe a sequel to Age of Calamity.
That wouldn't be possible, it's been established multiple times the child of a Gerudo woman is ALWAYS a Gerudo, there is no Gerudo blood involved with the Ancient Hero at all.
Maybe but then where does the tail come from? There’s no humanoid races in botw/totk that have tails, so there has to be an entirely new race that mixed in to make the heroes aspect, will we ever see this other race not likely
There was a statue in the depths of a creature with a tail.
@@a.jthomas6132 Non canon but we all know you don't care even after playing through Tears of the Kingdom...
So the three beasts on both zonai and ancient hero aspect are owl, boar and dragon. These correspond to the three labyrinth quests where you get the evil spirit set. They can also be attributed to the aspects of the triforce with boar for power, owl for wisdom and dragon for courage.
personally?
i think the ancient hero was part of his own race, one we haven't seen before, and one that went extinct and/or possibly in hiding long after the calamity ended.
i don't know how the ancient hero would be a zonai since none of the zonai we've seen have tails and cat-like features. they all seem to lean towards dragons and goats, instead.
Like the potential offspring of a Hylian and a Zonai?
Neither of those races have digitigrade legs or tails though.
Yet the Ancient Hero shares the same Zonai _arms_ as Rauru which means he must have some "genetic" connection to the Zonai. My current theory is that the Zonai who lived in the Depths were a different _breed_ of Zonai seperate from Rauru and Mineru's which is why they had more lion-like features like a red mane and tail instead of the goat-like Zonai we've seen. Should a DLC give us more information regarding the Ancient Hero's origin hopefully we'll also learn more about the Depths and wether the Zonai tribe was far more diverse than we first assumed.
@@javiervasquez625 Maybe you're right, the statues in the depths depict 4 races: zora, rito, a woman with a sword which i assume are the gerudo or Hylia, and a buff figure with a large snout, and i theorize these were the Depths Zonai.
I love the idea of the Zonai Barbarians of Faron being Zonai-Hylian hybrids that survived longer than the rest of the Zonai
The implications here leave us open for so many possibilities for DLC or sequels, I'm so excited!
Very interesting theory I love it! Just a small correction here: we humans don't originate from apes but rather share the same ancestors. And apes don't have tails but monkeys do! Keep up your great work!
Depends how you’re sorting your evolution. Humans don’t derive from modern apes any more than you do from your cousin, that’s true, but our shared ancestor with chimps *was already* an ape. By the argument of cladistics (my favorite) humans *are* apes because if we’re not then gorillas and chimps couldn’t both be.
Also, birds are dinosaurs, thus reptiles, cause if the aren’t then neither are crocodiles. Which is the kind of statement that keep cladistics from being the only form of classification we use.
@@ginger-ale7818 hello thank you for your answer! Of course you are completely right with your statement thanks for the clarification. I wasn't really able to point this out as I'm not a native speaker and sometimes don't have the words to describe what I'm trying to say. I was trying to direct attention to the fact that as you stated we are apes. The words "to originate" from can be misleading,as there is this very common misconception that we Humans are a "step ahead " in evolution compared to our ape relatives. Best greetings and thank you
yeah, ancestors like Anadoluvius Turkae. Out of Africa theory is being disproven the more we learn. (Just a perhaps unnecessary clarification on the correction)
I think Mineru is the ancestor of the Sheikah. Shadow is the original Sheikahs element
Honestly Nintendo should make a game based on the first calamity where you play as the Ancient Hero
So Hyrule Warriors 2
Yep, my thoughts. For example: The legend of the Ancient Hero, idk. A linear and dark themed Zelda game, where the first calamity appears just after the events of skyward sword. Giant new beasts as the calamitys revival strategies (The explanation of the tree colossal fossiles on botw and totk, wich were probably killed by the ancient hero. Also A fierce battle against calamity ganon in its pure form (As in depicted in the mural) And the getting invoolved at the creation of the divine beasts, but theyre different, like if they were at their full potential. Idk
The tail and the feet of the heroes aspect are definitely different than the 2 zonai we see. Both rauru and mineru have no tails, and their feet are more human like, instead of the heros aspect doglike feet.
Then there are the minotaur like statues in the depths, are they a part of this mystery too?
Might be there's a second breed or "caste" of Zonai which lived on the Depths seperate to the goat-like Zonai who lived in the surface. It would explain the dimorphism between Rauru and Mineru's breed and those of the Ancient Hero's.
The legs keep bugging me. No species we see have digitigrade legs and tails.
So the ancient hero much he some other species that hasn’t been introduced yet. It would be interesting to see a prequel of that era.
Maybe it wasn’t as easy as the legend suggests, and they struggled to defeat Ganon. Maybe the monsters were a much larger swarm. The guardians seem like **a lot** of firepower for dealing with bokoblins.
The forest Minish have a red brush tail like that though... just a idea
@@bradlyhaskell9821 Yet the Minish's "tail" ressembles a _feather_ in reference to the game's prologue about the Minish/Picori coming from "the Heavens". The Ancient Hero's tail looks more lion-like hardly the same as the Minish's feathery tail.
Based on the evidence and past games I think this is a different hyrule than the one we know. Rauru heard the name in his research and decided to use it for his "new" country. The country has been reset before so it makes sense. Especially with the evidence in the 2 games.
What do you mean, Rauru and Sonia could have had direct descendants? We know they must have in order for Zelda to be related to them lol
This hero is a real mystery, is he Link reincarnated as a zonai? Or is he the first user of the Master Sword that isn't a Link?
More like the first Hero who isn't 100 percent Hylian! Personally I think Gerudo-Hylian-Zonai blend. Power, Wisdom and Courage ;)
@@commonwealthrealm This mixed race can prove that not all “Spirits of the Hero” are Link.
I feel like the outfit depicts the hero shown in the mural Impa shows you in BOTW.
Makes sense with the name link.
He is the Link between the Zonai and Hylians to ensure a prosperous future in the kingdom.
And that bloodline is destined to be the savior of Hylia against evil.
You've made INCREDIBLE transitions between the 3 "Links". Congratulations!
Another fact that let me curious is the history about the Eighth Heroine... Is there a possibility of the Ancient Hero is the 8th Heroine (actually, 8th Hero, once that was told that was a hero)?
Isn't the 8th Heroine Tingle?
Knew he would look primordial from the starting Mural of BoTW as the style and music was unmistakably Ancient Spring and Autumn, IE REALLY ancient.. What the Ancient hero is a riff on? In many ancient eastern kingdoms, from the Shu culture to the Chu kingdom of antiquity: Alien looking grave guardians yet still humanoid were the norm. The first Link is supposed to be looked upon with the same eye, something ancient, beyond our norms. He is likely far more ancient than even Impa thinks, a proto Hylian from before the main races split.
If there were anything to base TotK DLC off of, it would be The Hero's Aspect. A chance to re-live the first Calamity, a chance to see an undamaged Hyrule Castle, or a chance to learn how the Sheikah reverse engineered Zonai tech for their own gain? We'll have to wait and see...
I have a personal headcannon that The Ancient Hero was a bit of a tech nerd.
Since he is wearing the zonite armor, which boosts Zonai devices' efficiency. An ability that would be useless if he didn't use any form of Zonai-related tech. He was the hero during the golden age of Sheikah tech, but who is to say that he wasn't making his own hybrid devices?
The idea of the Hero helping to build stuff is a fun concept. He could've provided the knowledge on how to make Vah Medoh fly and the idea of the shrines. He could've also helped develop the runes on the slate; it isn't hard to imagine the Magnesis rune being inspired by Ultrahand.
The twist of the most animalistic-looking hero being the most science-loving hero is funny. It'd also be refreshing to have a hero who actually knows stuff.
Additionally, it fits the hybrid theme too. The Zonai tech development skills + the Hylian heroes' battle skills = A hybrid hero who is a badass fighter and total tech nerd.
I love the idea a little too much. Always a fan of fun twists.
it is also possible, not likely, but possible that Mineru found a image of the ancient hero tapestry in the pad while barrowing it from zelda and decided to craft an armor set based on it and had her constructs stored it on the floating island for link in the future.
Though the theory of the AH (Anceint Hero) is Sonia's and Rauru's son/decentend, I don't think it is because of one detail that no one else seems to bring it up. Rauru and Sonia's child/decentend was already around the time of the AH, and the two don't look anything alike in the tapestry.
I'm, of course, talking about the princess in the tapestry, and we know she's a princess and the two not being related is because the legend of the tapestry states in Impa's cutscene
"...by a warrior wielding the soul of a hero, and a princess who carries the blood of the Goddess..."
Granted, Impa was retelling the legend, but if the AH was a child/decendent to Rauru and Sonia (AKA, the princesses brother), wouldn't it have instead said "by a prince wielding the soul of the hero" or "a princess who carries the blood of the Goddess, and her brother wielding the soul of a hero."
Sure, you can argue that "The princess could have came from another land and was gonna marry the AH" but even then feels a bit of a stretch because, ones again, the AH would have had the title of "Prince" instead of "Warrior/Hero" in the legend.
At first I thought the ancient hero was from the same race as the mnysteryous statues on the depths that do not belong to any know race, but they do not have tails while the ancient hero does
¿Maybe the Ancient Hero is a crossbreeding between the goat-like Zonai and the weird statues's race from the Depths? This is starting to intrigue me with the many possible explanations for his unique look so i'm hyped to see a DLC/sequel been unveiled soon to explain away our growing curiosity.
Knight's/Soldier armor actually has the exact same defense stats, it's just also useless for anything else so saving batteries/slots is easier to just get/wear Zonai.
I think that the ancient heroes aspect isn't zoni or gerudo or anything else but I think it has something to do with the statues in the depths, weird animalistic creatures with a dog like appearance almost like the ancient hero.
I feel like the DLC for TOTK is going to resolve a lot of these unanswered questions. Kinda like how the DLC for Xenoblade 3 really tied up a lot of loose ends from the base game. We might finally get some of our answers to the timeline mess for once and for all
You would think they’d do that, but knowing the zelda team they’re gonna make a dlc that gives more mysteries and that doesn’t answer the tons of lore questions we have
They have to fix the fact that the tapestry shows what we now know as the furry ancient hero, and a Zelda like figure, fighting Gannon that ended up turning into the calamity. It was different in botw where we were theorizing about why the ancient hero had red hair and green skin/clothes when the link In botw is associated with blue... Now we know it's this green skinned, red haired furry with DIGITIGRADE FEET (that detail is bothering me) I have a feeling it's gonna be a trilogy with a sequel/prequel with some time travel shenanigans. Maybe with link helping the ancient hero. And what I have a suspicion about is that a new race from typhlos ruins will be introduced with link helping and being the true hero, but this ancient "hero" takes the credit of something like that.
Edit/add;
Oooh! How about they pull the time travel BS and have link help this hero from a new race from the typhlos ruins, be the "hero" when it really was link helping behind the curtain, but at the same time, leads up to the heros race being wiped out, being the only option to finally end Gannon/gannondorf/calamity Gannon cycle once and for all??? That way it "kinda" closes the loop. That wouldn't make the ouroboros as the main symbol of totk, that would make sense with it Introducing the time paradox/cycle/loop. It would also go with what everyone has been saying with the whole blue=wisdom, green=courage, red=courage, cus it would take courage to wipe u and ur race and existence from the memory of the world , for the good of the world to end Gannon for good. Which would fit into why the typhlos ruins exist, but no one knows what they're for/from.
Just a thought...
@@danielkeslerjr4407 Red=Courage? ¿Don't you mean Power? Also regarding the DIGITIGRADE FEET stuff is it that big of a deal? We've ALREADY seen previous races in the Zelda world less toes than the average Hylian if the Tokay from Oracle of Ages are anything to go by so i don't see why it's such a big issue that an apparent previous Hero happened to belong to a _different_ caste of Zonai with red hair, lion tail and DIGITIGRADE FEET.
Just a thought...
I agree. No shot for a sequel, they'll never have us play a whole game as a Link that looks like that.
The Zelda team never answers questions. They give hints to answers then let us suffer in our cork board conspiracy theory rooms.
Very cool video. I'd like to add up a bit :
This ancient hero cannot be the first of the heroes that battled gannon since the unique dialogues with Impa, Tauro and Purah kind of confirm he is the one from 10,000 years ago, and the games make it pretty clear that there where several occurrences of Ganon threatening Hyrule before that time (cutsceen with Impa describing the events of the tapestry in BotW), and that each time there was a hero who stood up to him (Link's knighting sceen in BotW, and also all the hero sets except the dream set in TotK if you consider them cannon). 2:56
I feel like evidence for the sort of zonai hybrid race is pretty clear in the depths, with the path of statues who don't look anything like those currently living, but would reflect those who went to faron
My theory is that the ancient hero was a descendant from Rauru and Sonia, either direct, or slightly distant, since the calamity is most likely a product of an imprisoned Ganondorf, it's likely IMO that the ancient hero comes from a hybrid race of the last remaining Zonai (Rauru and Mineru) and early Hylians, like Sonia, even though there's no mentions of Sonia and Rauru's offspring in the game, for the royal bloodline to continue until TOTK's Zelda, they must have had some offspring, and most like it was a mix between pure Hylian, and Zonai-Hylian hybrids, from which the ancient hero eventually came, meaning that at some point the soul of the hero was tied directly to the royal family, until that bloodline either washed out, or the soul just chose to look for brave individuals wether or not they were royal.
You don’t suppose the red hair of the ancient hero could have come from a Twili/Interloper? Do some of the symbols match up between Twili and Zonai?
You know how we have OOT Rauru as the sage of light but now we also have a Zonai Rauru who fills a similar role in this game? I believe that King Rauru from totk is a reincarnation of Rauru from OOT (as we know, the curse of Demise doesn't only bring Link, Zelda and Ganon back, but several other recurring characters we've seen throughout the series) and maybe even Headmaster Gaepora from SS (a father figure to Zelda) the reason he's a Zonai now? Totk simply proves that characters who are part of the reincarnation cycle don't always have to look the same or be the same race as once before. I believe this is the same case with the ancient hero. He is a Link for sure, for only Link can wield the master sword. But he is the first Link we see who isn't a full on Hylian. I believe there had to have been other Zonai left in hiding besides Rauru and Mineru, otherwise his existence wouldn't be possible (the spirit of the hero is never directly related to the royal bloodline, so I don't believe he's a descendant of Rauru and Sonia or even Mineru) I'd like to think he did in fact come from the Zonai barbarians of Faron, who still remain mostly a mystery. I hope that turns out to be the case and this tribe finally gets expanded on more.
Considering the fact the many Links, Zeldas, Impas, Eponas, etc. are NOT the same beings reincarnated it's more probable that this Rauru is a _seperate_ being to the Light Sage Rauru from Ocarina of Time who happens to fulfill the same _role_ as his predecessor. There's no reason to believe this Rauru HAS to be the same oldman reincarnated given that there's nothing in the game which suggests his _soul_ is the same as the one from Ocarina of Time.
@@javiervasquez625 I mean regardless of how you believe the reincarnation cycle works and how the same characters repeat themselves throughout the history of the games my point still stands. He is this game's version of that role being fulfilled. Another reason I believe this Rauru is at the very least a reference to Rauru from OOT is literally because this game's whole plot is one big OOT reference/potential retelling.
@@mayacabezas9761 Don't get me wrong i mostly agree with your conclusion but i want to point out that just because a character fulfills the same role as a previous character that does not mean they are in fact the _same_ individual with the same soul reincarnated in a body. If that were case we could easily say Purah is a reincarnation of Mineru considering they share the same interests in technology and they "coincidentally" share a similar set of glasses hanging on their heads suggesting they are the same person. As long as we can agree that reincarnation need not be a factor then i agree with your conclusion.
@@javiervasquez625 the reason I believe the reincarnation thing is because of what SS concludes, if you interpreted it differently as in the characters are brought back but aren't the same individuals that's cool but personally I took what Demise said at face value, that a direct incarnation of his hatred will forever follow those like Link and Zelda and the ones who aided them in his defeat. And they will all be brought back in a doomed cycle to constantly repeat itself. Again how exactly that works (whether it's bringing back their souls or they're just different individuals entirely set out to fulfill the same role) is up for debate and not too clear in the games. I guess I just personally interpreted it one way.
Also even if we did wanna go entirely with the "soul" idea there's no way that would work with Mineru and Purah because throughout the game we see and interact with Mineru's ghost proving she has not reincarnated. The reason I think there's more basis for well, Rauru and Rauru being the same or at least similar characters meant to play the same part, is because they share the name. Just Like Beedle, Impa, Zelda, Link, and so on have kept the same names throughout all the games.
@@mayacabezas9761 Thank you for pointing out about Mineru's spirit STILL been her own person despite Purah pretty much been a Mineru 2.0 in everything but appereance prooving that it's not necessary for a character to reincarnate for said character's role to be fulfilled by someone else. We even have the "New Champions" as proof of just that with Yunobo sharing Daruk's shield ability and yet been his OWN CHARACTER seperate from Daruk. As long as you understand that "reincarnation" need not be literal in the Zelda universe we can be in perfect agreement with one another.
To be fair do we even actually know for sure that the ancient hero is a Zonia as the hero has a couple of diffrent physically aspects and might just be a different unknown race
long shot but if we got a 3rd game that takes place during the first calamity and we play this "Link" (assuming the Hero's name is Link) i'd be SO DOWN for that. it would be so cool. plus the lil guy has a tail. what's not to love
,I would love the DLC to go over this ancient hero's aspect
This further connects Zelda and Links timeliness because they can BOTH be ROYAL decendants. It makes it super weird with them being a couple tho....
Awesome theory! I think the ancient hero was a zonai hylian and gerudo hybrid, and I’d say that Link is a descendant of that same ancient hero. The reason why is because Link’s original champion’s tunic has a gerudo design in the arm section, and the ancient hero has red hair similar to a gerudo. I’m guessing that he’s a male because gerudo can only exist if a gerudo has a child with a hylian and not a zonai. And because he was probably part hylian as well but overall more zonai than hylian and gerudo.
That "Gerudo design" you mention actually belongs to the original Ganondorf from Ocarina of Time though so it's NOT something "of the Gerudo" considering we've _never_ seen ANY other Gerudo in the series wearing such leather gauntlets aside from Ganondorf himself. That aside it's highly unlikely for the Ancient Hero to have been a part Hylian-part Zonai-part Gerudo hybrid due to the now confirmed rule that there can only be ONE MALE ALIVE within the Gerudo race at all times until said male has died. Since Ganondorf is clearly alive during the Calamity from 10.000 years that automatically prevents the Ancient Hero to have ANY connection to the Gerudo as that contradicts the law established in Breath of the Wild regarding no males been born since Ganondorf's imprisonment.
@@javiervasquez625that’s fair. Though, Nabooru also has that gerudo design that Botw Link has in his champion’s tunic, it’s hard to miss but it’s there, and she is mentioned in Botw by Urbosa. As for the there can only be one male gerudo at a time rule, I’m saying that the ancient hero being a zonai might bypass that rule due to being a zonai, since he might not actually be part of the gerudo race but has red hair cuz maybe his mother was a gerudo. Like how the gerudo have children with hylians and the children are still 100% gerudo, maybe the ancient hero being a zonai inherited gerudo traits but wasn’t an actual full gerudo. There could be another explanation, but it might explain the sort of gerudo motif connection between Link and the ancient hero.
@@liamruiz3196 If you mean the more pinkish leather gauntlets she wears on her arms then yes you are right although they look nothing like Ganondorf's which are the ones which the Hero of the Wild sports as his own. Ganondorf and Link are the _only_ characters to wear such specific red and blue ringed gauntlets making them stand out from the any other leather gauntlet seen in the series. Now as to the whole idea that the current Link has Gerudo ancestry i find that unlikely due to the simple fact that "Gerudo genes" are inherently predisposed to produce females as seen with ALL Gerudo seen in the series not to mention Hudson's daughter Mattison who, like her mother, was bound to be born a female member of the tribe. For Link to have "Gerudo genes" takes massive suspension of disbelief given the series track record of making clear that if a Hylian male mates with a Gerudo the result will _always_ birth a Gerudo until the current male (like Ganondorf) has been killed off. It's certainly an interesting idea worth considering for sure but seeing as the Lore is very clear on the matter it's very unlikely for this to ever be the case.
Now that you mention it, the Gerudo design on Link's outfit in BotW was never explained
The ancient hero could be a Hyrulean that was born in the castle and influenced by the power of both Ganondorf and Raru that emanated from the seal beneath the castle.
Doesn't really have to do with Heros Aspect, but I found out that if you hold the ZL while in the water in Tears of the Kingdom, you start treading water like Link from Ocarina of Time. Cool little Easter egg, I'm never swimming vanilla again lmao
You can use knight armor to get 88 total as well. Very interesting video
the hero's aspect is THE coolest thing in any zelda game. I'm so ready for the hero of courage's backstory to be unfolded
In alttp you turn into a red rabbit (pink, but whatever) when you enter the sacred realm. In the comic it’s a wolf instead. It’s supposed to be a reflection of your emotions, kinda like your soul. Both kinda resemble zonai. And he’s kinda the first hero to wield the master sword, in the downfall timeline at least and in that it’s the first game to feature the master sword. It’s the third game in the series, and covers a time before the events of the first two. Might just be links soul. Also it has 4 toes like a wolf.
If you were to use the tropes of BotW, AoC, and TotK, to reconstruct the Ancient Hero's story, how would it go? I could imagine the Depths beneath the Great Plateau would be the starting area. Maybe the Temples would be around the three springs. Would Ganon be the final boss, or resolved earlier thanks to the Shiekah Technology and have someone else as the big bad?
Maybe the third game in a potential "Wild trilogy" could involve the Ancient Hero been revealed as a "Dark Zonai" who lived in the Depths venturing on a Quest to stop the first incarnation of Ganondorf's Calamity form as his Malice first became too strong to be contained by Rauru's arm leading to him abandoning the Depths and claim the Master Sword to assist the current Zelda seal off Calamity Ganon. This third game could also involve a third tribe parallel to the Sheikah and Zonai who's _red_ Shrines would represent the Triforce of Power just as the Sheikah did Wisdom and the Zonai Courage. Lot of potential for such a game.
This is just Fierce Deity 2.0, You’ll never know the answer for sure.
The only thing that came to mind when I first unlocked this outfit, is that with the addition of the dozens of weapon types and various new characters, we potentially could get a new Hyrule Warriors that focuses on the first Calamity that Ancient Hero took part in. Maybe he was also the 8th Heroine s well. It would take place in an ancient, never before seen Hyrule (outside of the TotK flashbacks) and could include some of the Sages that survived the Imprisoning War. I mean, even one of the DLC updates for AoC included a playable Ancient Guardian. One that was far more capable of wiping the floor with anything that it comes in contact with. Which is interesting because it suggests that the ones we encountered in BotW were the weakest they've ever been. Probably due to Ganon's influence. I know AoC isn't technically canon, but Fujibayashi was the scenario supervisor of that project so in terms of the characters and details, aspects of that game could still be taken into account when piecing together BotW and TotK lore.
In anycase, all this is just speculation and most likely amounts to absolutely nothing significant.
Unfortunately Nintendo said there will be no more Zelda Warriors games 😔
Isn’t the Hylian Knight Armor also 84 when fully upgraded?
I believe the hero from 10'000 years ago simply obtained three artifacts representing the boar, owl and dragon that caused the transformation at some point, which he probably needed to fight or to prove his wisdom, courage and power. Maybe the master sword at that time was bound to those artifacts so that Link had to collect them first to claim it. We could also assume that whoever built the three labyrinths might have played a role in Link's quest back then, since they call themselves like the three symbolic animals. Who knows, maybe that was the same hero that helped the seven gerudo heroines.
All of this would make sense, the power of those artifacts could have been Link's titular powers of that era and it would mirror every introductive quest that many Links had to undergo to get the master sword or just to prove themselves. A game featuring that battle would be awesome as there would be many story elements to feature such as the building of the divine beasts, the four champions, the story of the boar, owl and dragon, the sheikah at their best , but at this point it would be mostly stuff we already know so they probably won't make it.
Also the meaning of the three colossal fossiles of botw and totk, like what if thy were whale-shaped giant beasts that got defeated by the ancient hero? Will we see zonai ruins at its max splendor? What if the zonai lived so much before hylia rised the land to the skies, and hylians didnt know about zonai existance, so hylia cut a piece of land and sent it to the skies (Hylians) But the zonai actually know how to do that ( In totk, the zonai made possible to set land to the skies, for the hero, but we dont know how they did it. Also what if the zonai lived a lot higher in the skies that isnt visible for the hylians to see them. So when skyloft fell, it was a gods will, a Triforce wish. But what if right after the zonai descended and hylians saw them as Gods? IDK
Just got this set tonight! Quickly upgraded it to see it had max defence.. pretty sweet reward.
Maybe it was Sonia’s spirit who looked after the world through her and Rauru’s descendants? Maybe she’s the one who brought the Ancient Hero’s aspect to the Temple of time? She was just as crucial to the shrines’ creation as her husband.
Wasn’t the Shiekah’s symbol is some sort of an inspiration to honor the first king of Hyrule Rauru?
Might very well be. The Zonai really messed things up when it comes to what we define as canon anymore.
@@commonwealthrealm I hope this layer can be added in so we can somewhat connect the dots in the First Calamity and the Imprisoning War. Thus, give the first ancient Shiekah in creating the Guardians and the Divine Beasts.
one thing i'm super curious about is what happened to the Gerudo after Ganondorf was sealed by Rauru in the ancient past?? In previous Zelda games we see the Gerudo are directly punished by the royal family (Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time), yet we know nothing about the direct consequence in their war with Rauru and Sonia's kingdom. Due to their appearance in BOTW, it can be pressumed there were no consequences, as Urbosa herself was made a pilot of a Divine Beast. The ancient hero's aspect could further suggest they were not held to any harsh punishments, due to the theory of the ancient hero being of mixed races ~nya
Ganondorf abandoned the gerudo
The gerudo got a new leader
And than the leader team up with rauru to fight against ganondorf
The rest is history
3rd, and final, game set in this Hyrule should be the story of the Ancient Hero from 10,000 years prior. Or they could do a Hyrule Warriors type spinoff with this story arc since it was described as this hero being involved in one massive battle. We may even see the hole being blasted in the side of Hebra Mountain. That’d be wild!
Anyone else think the headpiece the hero wears looks super, suspiciously similar to Ganondorf's in thia game? Perhaps this backs up the triforce theory, that this hero was Gerudo/Hylian/Zonai cross?
The Soldier set also has 28 defense at 4 stars.
Its possible that we are seeing the ancient hero after undergoing a transformation of sorts. The thing i think people missed when analyzing this hero is that aside from the abnormal physical characteristics he has, he also seems to have a gem in the center of his head, similarly to Ganondorf.
In totk, after killing Sonia and taking her stone, Ganondorf starts to transform into a new form. And in this state his hair grows very long, his eye color and pupil size changes, he grows claws, and he grows some horns on top of that. All in all, he looks a lot like a Zonai, but his own version of such.
We could being seeing something similar taking place with this hero after possibly absorbing another stone. This could explain why we cannot seem to definitively link him with any race precisely. Because this is most likely not his true form.
We have seen through Ganondorf and Zelda that their hair color does not change upon undergoing their transformations. Therefore the ancient hero did have red hair and likely reddish brown skin as shown in the ancient mural. This means that the green skin and other physical traits are transformation changes, and do not reflect his base state, more than likely that of a Male gerudo. With the mural image, the red hair, and the gerudo jewelry....this seems to be the most likely conclusion
I would like to point out that all of the armour made for Hylians by the Zonai actually mimics the Zonai's third eye
Even zeldas zonai outfit, its got a third eye on her head.
I think it could just be a Zonai warrior. Everyone thinks that Rauru and Mineru don't have tails, however I would just think they are concealed by their long robes/shawls
Maybe the ancient hero is a devolved version of the dragons? Maybe he only swallowed part of the secret stone, and it transformed him into a dragon/??? Hybrid?
Part of me really wantes this ancient hero to be realted to Ganondorf somehow because of the Red hair..
3 days later.... Nintendo confirms no DLC planned for TotK
Fun lil theory to toy with
Ganondorf was the Ancient Hero and was rewarded by being given a Kingdom of sand while Rauru took Central Hyrule🤔
We know raru fought against Ganondorf, who was after Demise. But Link fought and defeated Demise. So how is Raru's hero prior to the hero of courage?
They need to make a game about it the missing link Or the Ancient hero which he did have a Zelda to help him and from the sky Kinda Like OOT … when link went in the past to Save Hyrule and was never noticed after Same w The Ancient hero came down when there was no hero nd was lost in time during Raru Reing
I prefer Zelda Lore's idea that the Barbarian armor isn't Zonai in origin, and the Faron Green Stone is a Hylian effort to preserve Zonai architecture.
What if, before Zelda became the Light Dragon, she warned the land about the Calamity, promptly the Shiekah's technological development in the first place? That'd explain why Hyrule was ready for the Calamity's emergence, having built the Divine Beasts in advance.
What if the Ancient Hero was a unique clone, using Zonai, Gerudo, and Hylian dna? That doesn't explain where the tail came from, but Rauru had pretty long hair, so who knows. Maybe he and Mineru had concealed tails.
I imagine the Ancient Hero's story would be similar to a combination of Age of Calamity and Breath of the Wild. This incarnation of Link would be awoken by the Zelda of the era, in the Depths beneath the Great Plateau. There, Link would be granted the Shiekah Slate and allowed access to both the Runes AND Zonai Abilities.
Properly equipped, Zelda would send Link to the Temples of Courage, Wisdom, and Power, so that he may wield the Master Sword, similar to Link to the Past.
Upon the completion of each temple, Link would acquire one of the three pieces we see the Ancient Hero wearing, with the final obstacle being a Temple within the Korok Forest.
With the Shiekah Technology, Hyrule is well defended, but Link was created and sent off on this quest because Zelda refused to take any chances. The only real dangers are within the Temples.
But then, something goes wrong; the Divine Beasts and their people are attacked, fought so that the Divine Beasts may never find their pilots. Namely four Boss-level monsters are involved.
The Gerudo Provinces, the Storm Temple, is assailed by an armored White Maned Lynel. A King Gleeok hovers over Lanayru. A Malice-corrupted Frox threatens Eldin, and an enormous Legion of Bokoblins swarm Hebra.
Link frees the Regions of Hyrule and finds the Pilots for the Divine Beasts.
Calamity Ganon erupts and is sealed away by Hyrule's collected efforts, brought about almost too late, but it is not the end. A villain lurks, one who unleashed Malice onto that Frox, a scientist who wishes to succeed and become the next Ganon.
The remaining mysteries to Botw and Totk are the Hylian goddess, the Sheika slate technology, and the legendary hero that seemingly had no legacy and no origin much like the Hero of Time.
There's also a possibility that this is just the shape of the hero's soul representing his ferocity, wisdom and courage. The first link did have a balanced soul and transcended most mortals who touched the triforce. Also, transformations are a big trope in anime, and the current duology is heavily inspired by them, so it might be a SSJ4 Goku situation.
It would of made more sense to get your item in botw since it focused alot on it, but also I think we might be overthrowing this
Just like with the Asoect of the Hero and the Zonaite armor, the Tunic of the Wild can be upgraded to also be 84 defense.
...tbh the red hair isnt the only thing tying the set to ganon.
the forehead gem headpiece actually looks almost exactly like the one ganon had his secret stone in...
maybe it was a bearer of a triforce of power? one that didnt turn out evil?
...heck maybe it might be something tied to ganons implied obsession with the zonai and their power.
My theory is that the ancient hero is a hylean who can turn into that hybrid form under certain conditions.
Got to say this outfit along with a lot of the new lore they introduced I was not a fan of, great game play but felt the lore introduced was very jarring with what’s came before, maybe I’m just too much of a traditionalist. Hopefully any DLC clears up some of the gaps in what we know now but I’m not so hopeful.
Man, rememeber when we only knew the sheikah as servants to the Royal Family? So long ago...
One think you got off was that ganon wasn't under the castle just for the 1000 years before botw, hes been there since the FIRST king of hyrule, meaning between skyward sword and the 2nd game in the timeline. Hes been there theough every other itiration of ganon and link
Ganondorf and minerus child...
It would be nice to have DLC that expanded further of the origins of this Ancient Hero of who they were and how they came to be, because its this one right here that has the biggest mysteries of them all and no reasonable explanation of where they came from, other than from the fact that they were recorded on ancient history of The Calamity of 10,000 years ago. Perhaps they are a child descendant of Rauru and Sonia, a secret child they kept hidden from public view who carried the bloodline of The Hero.
¿Why would the Hero be born as a member of the Royal Family? The track record does NOT add up considering _all_ the Zeldas and _all_ the Ganondorfs have been born as members of royalty within their respective races. This would be the most random addition to the Lore if the Ancient Hero just happens to be Royalty instead of a commoner like pretty much every incarnation of the Hero in the entire timeline _including_ his successor from the Era of the Wild. Whatever origins the Ancient Hero has i'm sure they have nothing to do with the Royal Family of Hyrule.
There’s a ton of crazy things going on with the Ancient Hero’s appearance. I would have handwaved the Gerudo connection if it wasn’t for the gold jewelry sorrounding the head. Only the Gerudo use large gold hoops around their necks and ears!
I'm not convinced that when they say "spirit of the hero" they are referring to the nonphysical part of a person, but rather those qualities regarded as forming the definitive elements in a parson's character.
And as for the Ancient Hero's Aspect, I'm not convinced that he is the same as the one from the tapestry despite Impa calling out a similarity.
The fact that he wears the Zonaite Armor and has the ancient Hylian body tatoos is enough to tell me that he's not the Tapestry Hero since the timing doesn't make any sense.
It could also be possible that the Zonai possessed gene-splitting technology, so they could take DNA from all of the intelligent races of Hyrule & MAKE a hero who possessed an (artificial) ancestry to all of them.
So did the Zonai wipe out the Barbarians or were the Barbarians a splintered part of the Zonai?
Just going to put this out there….
Sheikah split and became Yiga.
Zonai split and became Lomei???
I still can’t figure out where I’m missing the last two dungeons so I can get this outfit.
It could also be Mineru's child and not Rauru. She survived after Ganon. It would likely be more than one generation removed but still.
When you think if Fierce Deity and The Ancient Hero meet at one place.
I look forward to a day when we get a game where all Hylians are extinct and Hylia reincarnates as a Goron, Link as a Bokoblin, Impa as a Lynel, and Ganon as a Hylian necromancer because of course physical form doesn't matter so much as the mind controlling that form.
Those are not the only sets that grant 84 points of protection. The Soldier's Attire when fully upgraded also grants 84 points of protection.
It's stated in Skyward Sword. Only Link can wield the Master Sword (Zelda as well because of blood.)
Nothing is ever stated that the Hero Of Time has to be strictly Hylian. So it's likely our mysterious savor was infact named Link and was of mixed race. Potentially Hylian, Zonai and Gerudo? What if he was bred solely to defeat Ganondorf as a back up plan? Considering they literally built an army just to kill one person. How far would they go?
Also, here's another thing I've always asked but could never answer. Why has Ganondorf never had children? Or more specifically, a son?
We know for a fact the kind of person he is. He's very much like the real Ganghis Khan, who is estimated to have had, 1,000 to 3,000 offsprings.
As someone as egomaniacal as Ganondorf. I'd imagine he'd want to continue his lineage. What are the chances of the Ancient Link being a decendant of the Demon King himself?
The Gerudo people can only have 1 male born per rule right? But how far the line does that heredity go? What if it's a race of half Hylian and half Gerudo? Can they still have only 1 male? Hard to say but interesting to question.
I also think that Shape Shifting might be a Possibility, maybe in order to switch between more physical and more magical attacks or something like that.
My theory is that the next game is gonna be The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Future. Being a prequel to breath of the wild and playing off BotW and TotK being like Zelda 1 and 2, while A Link to the Past was the prequel game in that trilogy. Not sure how the future element would play in, but a prequel game before/during the first calamity when Sheikah and Zonai technology flourished sounds very futuristic. I also can’t imagine the game developers doing something traditional in a traditional Hyrule again after BotW and TotK (or how they would even top those two games), so I feel like they need a game that has a very different distinct feel like a Wind Waker. And introducing the Triforce again is very likely, since A Link to the Past was the first game that really established the lore for the triforce (still think Zelda in TotK should’ve been brought back from Dragon to Human by Link touching/using the triforce and wishing for her to come back, would’ve made that part of TotK’s ending make more sense). Also a game focused around time/manipulating time would be a good opportunity to connect BotW/TotK to the rest of the timeline, if the timelines converge to BotW in the end (such as how Rito’s/Zoras co-exist and how there’s multiple things from the different timelines in BotW/TotK’s Hyrule)
I wish the max defence level was 88 to match my current setup. Diamond circlet, Champion's Leathers, and Zonaite bottoms.
88 defence, tier 1 attack up, and tier 1 energy up is far better than 84 defence and sword beam attack up.
What if the hero was hylian but was an honorary zonai for some great deed, so to the zonai, he WAS a zonai even though it's not in his blood that would explain the hylian shaped zonai form that why he doesn't completely look like the hero
Why did you remove the Paya documentary!? 😢
10:28 The soldier armor also has it iirc
Soldiers armor set also has Max owner of 84