What Is INSIDE The Akkala Citadel in Breath of The Wild? (Zelda Theory)
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Does the Akkala Citadel have the highest Dungeon potential?
(P.S I am NOT 16, I didn't literally mean half of my life xD)
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@@brianess1290 Hello there
I certainly think so, it'd be cool if we got to explore the ruins inside maybe on a expedition with Zelda. It would also be a good way to add redeads to the game! Having the fallen solders reanimate and attack you would be pretty cool in my opinion.
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i think it dose
I've always thought it was like a mini Hyrule castle every time I was seeing it in the distance. I was pretty disappointed when I discovered it was just the akkala tower
What a great description! I love it tbh
Yeah, and then when it’s the last thing you need to fill for your map of Hyrule and there’s TWELVE GUARDIANS and you only have six hearts but the tower is **right there**
Actually, I’m pretty sure it’s where the monsters have meetings of where to attack next actually.
Haha imagine
Monster Hideout
What's inside is actually Tingle's Stronghold, as a matter of fact
I love this, Tingle best character
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watch out...
you have exposed truths that nintendo doesn't want us to know
These are secrets Tingle himself created. Don't steal them.
it is tingle's secret shop
he sells black market goods
You made me think about how in the sequel trailer we see Gannon possibly having power extracted from him and maybe he is hidden in one of the malice flooded places. Then I remembered how King Rome was always telling Zelda to stop doing research and focus on her training. What if he was afraid she would find something? She was snooping around and making him nervous. This has probably been thought of already but it was a fun lightbulb.
Good point there... 👀
I agree very good point...
VERY good point but there aren’t very many malice flooded places 😮
Hyrule after the calamity:
In terms of citadel we have no citadel.
H a
Maybe Ganondorf is under the Citadel, that could be the reason why there is so much malice there. We still don't know for sure, that he is beneath Hyrule Castle...
HMMMNMNNNNNNNNNMMMMMNNNNNMMMMM?
That would make sense, maybe a divine beast accidentally opened up an underground passage to where ganondorf is
Interesting... 👀
and maybe the castle rising could actually be defense by Zelda or Link kinda like the skyloft situation?
@@ReyhaofMidgard yeah, could be
Zelda team watching these videos:
“Write that down! Write that down!”
Haha
Plot twist: the real reason they've been delaying BotW's sequel is because they're implementing all of the theories
@@Alienguy500 We'll be waiting a hundred years then...
@@Alienguy500 using the theriores for the new game would of been cool
I wonder if this citadel is going to be where Zelda and Link are going to be entering to find Ganon, cause it being heavily guarded would make sense with it being a massive fortress
It could be 🤔
Same thoughts here!
Naw hyrule castle rose when he was set free so they are definitely underneath hyrule castle and in leaked concept art Gannon is wearing his TP armor and standing on the floating castle basically they went back to hyrule castle not the citadel.
@@Supersonicblue1027 Thats CONCEPT art though, and the fact the Malice is overfilling from this place, could be representation of the malice building up from Ganons body. I can respect your opinion but Concept art is very rarely what actually comes out, and shows their ideas along the way to the final design. I may be wrong, but its an Idea and a Theory, you cant be 100 percent correct until we see the actual reveal or gameplay when it finally comes out, and they may have returned to the castle but then fled when it came alive and went to find the cause of why it rose up, which could lead them to follow the Malice to its "source" which would be the overflow coming from the Citadel
@@HylianHuman Bruh the place in the trailer literally matches the architecture underneath the actual castle and secondly he's under the castle that's the whole reason calamity comes out from underneath it and not the citadel, because calamity spawns directly from his body shooting straight up to the surface and then calamity spreads it's malace across the land so the malace at the citadel is from all the dead guardians inside and from calamity Ganon, and the castle rose because Ganon woke up the trailer was suppose to tell us the castle rises after he wakes up so they didn't go to investigate because of the castle it's because Zelda said she felt something deep below and that they had to go back, (and where did they leave at the end of BotW oh yeah that's right the castle), like I would love to respect and agree with your opinion but it doesn't really make much sense.
If we're going full speculation, I'd love for Zelda to design a suit that allows link to temporarily dive into Malice, like a diving suit.
Then the entire citadel could be flooded, and it could be really creepy
Too similar to water dungeons from past titles, which are some of the most disliked dungeons in the history of the franchise.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 and? It would be a cool fucking dungeon so shut up shut up
Also we could fight dark link again
@@somerandomguywholikesULTRAKILL. Whoa! I gave a fairly accurate response; You didn't have to snap like a jackass.
That’s a really cool idea!!!!!
Omg so cool
Getting to that tower without getting wasted by a guardian or falling in malice was the biggest pain in the ass
Ikr
And all for some broken tables and a few hoboing Moblins inside. Ahh, the charms of the 'Wild'.
My first play through I hadn't got revali's gale and distinctly remember a half broken archway I climbed about 10x to get hight leverage but the malice wraps around it so you had to be sooo careful
@@ellicerslavic Well, forget about that because *Tears* is here - and it's _Epic!!_ 💫🐲
oh my gosh I was so mad when I realized I couldn’t explore the citadel. After Age of Calamity I wanted to explore it even more, which didn’t seem possible
Yeah
And here we are in 2023, where the interior in TotK is somehow just a cave, even though we had a full interior in AoC.
Hey HG! Video idea: five pieces of armor/shields that should have had different/additional effects.
A few thoughts:
-Snow and Sand boots should have had cold/heat resistance respectively.
-Upgraded climbing gear should have reduced or eliminated the rain climbing penalty
And the biggest one;
*Fully* upgraded Wild Set should remove the cool down on the master sword. Yes this would be very powerful, but at the point when you’ve done all 120 shrines *and* gathered all those dragon parts, you’re at the end of the game anyway, and it would deliver the fantasy of letting you play as “classic link” in both appearance and style.
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I just want to see ALL the enemies we were missing in BotW make a return, ie deadhand, the werewolves, skultulla, all of it
Werewolves would be so cool. They come out at night, different types, n give em overworld boss level strengths.
Deadlhands for sure :D
@@pizzaboyglenn7066 different colors of werewolves oh boy oh boy!!!
Let me paint you a picture.....
All the overworld monsters have been hunted to extinction, excluding moblins, bokoblins, and lizalfos because of their sheer numbers. However, in the underground caverns, they thrived because of the lack of hylians. Shortly after the defeat of calamity ganon, the seal on the doorway down has been breached by zeldas own power, compelled to investigate because of the cries for help heard by both Zelda and link. With all information on these creatures lost to time, this makes link and Zeldas experience fighting them all the more terrifying to them. Dogs that fight? Insects too big to imagine? Deku monsters trying to bite your head off? That’ll make for some good gameplay potential.
*cough cough* dark link *cough*
My guess would be a "stealth dungeon". Think about it, without light, for 100 years, most of the creatures would be blind, guided only by sound and smell. And maybe you get the Light Arrows (or a Light Bow) here. Or a Mirror Shield, and there's light puzzles.
Or Akkala could be where Ganondorf's being leeched of Malice.
Oh interesting idea
So many of us have speculated that the Citadel is where he's at. Did someone do a theory video on that yet?
Similar to the falmer from Skyrim, interesting!
No please stealth should be optional and not be another yiga hideout so how about we make it optional or maybe they could have dark vision who knows
7:54 Never took notice of Zelda's words til now. Makes me think a sequel was always on the cards.
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Yes they were planning on making a continuation to the story, in the form of DLC, but they thought it would be better to make a new game rather than a biiiig dlc
@@BlaxeFrost-X I don’t buy that
@@jakedematteo2172 Why? It's official and they even announced a lot of DLC back then, they just released two then said "ok, we'll cancel the DLC and make it a game"
@@BlaxeFrost-X they clearly weren’t going to make a full sequel sized dlc
I admit it took me a few seconds to work out what you meant by 'Malice' because by the time I first came across the term in-game I'd already come across a fair amount of Malice and had been referring to it as 'Ganon Gunk'.
It's Ganon Gunk in my head now, forever.
I’d like to see it rebuilt much how Tarry Town was developed. The more people you gather to unbury and repair the fortress the further down you can go.
What if all the massive malice pools are stemming from an entrance where Ganondorf is being held?
Maaaaaybe 👀
What if there is underground malice pools not unlike magma pools?
Ooh, I like that idea!
Imagine going to the citadel in botw2 and having to fight hyrule soldiers taken over by malice.
If it was accessible in Breath Of The Wild and we had Poes, Redeads, Stalfos and Stalchildren in the game then those could be enemies in the citadel.
Zelda already knows why the towers rose when Link woke up. When she says "Head to the point marked on the map on your Sheikah Slate" at the beginning of the game she's leading him to the pedestal to make the towers rise.
i read zelda as zack
"A lifelong dream of mine, well-- more like eight years. So, almost half of my life." The shocking realization that I might be older than Hyrule Gamer... Idk how I feel about being older than people on the internet.
I MADE A MISTAKE I AM NOT 16 🤣
BAHAHA DUDE
@@hollycasserly2875 Let me tell you about my youth before there was an internet. It was a dark age of card catalogs and phone books, truly a scary time 😜
It almost looks like the bridge was taken out by the Hylians trying to make sure the guardians don't get in.
As I just sat down and opened a bag of chips, this pops up. 🙏🏼
Love it :)
Sir, that, is a vibe.
just gonna say it: goddamn lays are hella good
Imagine the citadel being just completely filled with malice, slowly eating the structure from the inside while holding it in place, still. And ganon recalls all pools of malice at some point of Botw2 to gain the sudden power to be able to lift the castle. And that causes the citadel to just crumble in on itself, as well as some other structures that were held up by malice in botw
In totk we can go into a cave were the entrance would be. But sadly there’s nothing but dirty tunnels
I think this is the earliest I've ever been on any video.
Oh nice, welcome haha!
Same here haha, I’m normally 12-15 hours late 😂
Me too
Almost... my fastest was 10 minutes, but didn't comment
@@HyruleGamer for me it was 1 min
Waiting for my theory that Ganon is actually beneath the Citadel to pick up steam after this video.
Oh interesting 👀
Sounds plausible
Hm
I still think YIGA PIT bc the YIGA performed rituals and stuff to try to revive him
I posted a theory like two months ago about this in the discord server. I was thinking that the citadel connected to an enormous space underground. It could be used as a prison, some storage or even a super secret lab. The boss could be either a malice monster or a mega guardian, or even both combined, like the blights, but that would be too repetitive (both ideas were taken from your dream bosses video). This is one of my biggest wishes for the sequel, exploring this colossal building similar to Hyrule castle. It's nice so see some theories like this!
Oh interesting! I will try to find that :D
A blight-like boss or two near the beginning of BoTW2 might work well to lull the player into a false sense of security before burying us in more traditional, wilder bosses later lol.
Maybe the entrance to the underground where they find that "Ganondorf" in the BoTW2? basically your idea but the connection for the story.
Good theory but I think its in the YIGA PIT
Akkala Citadel is definitely one of the more interesting locations to me. Nintendo should expand upon it alongside some other places!
This is one of the best theory videos I have ever seen Hyrule Gamer. The use of the cinematic camera is incredible!
Thank you Ian :)
Your videos are insanely good. Idk why not many people are watching them. Like 100% you spend so much time to make the content in your channel. Your subscribers appreciate your work. Keep it up!
Thanks a lot :)
I think what would be cool is if the citadel was somehow connected to hyrule castle and Ganondorf (assuming that Gannondorf is underneath hyrule castle) by a tunnel of some sort. And that is why there is so much malice. Is it far fetched?
The Akkala Citadel is the coolest location in Hyrule ......the chills i got hearing it was the last stand of Hyrule during the great war. Its the most haunting area in the game.
Love your videos and how you actually respond comments. Keep up the good work
Thanks :)
Love your channel man keep up the amazing content ❤️
Fun Fact: Earlier today I beat Calamity Ganon for the first time. It's not that I was scared or not good at the game. I just wanted to get everything, but today I decided "Fuck it, let's kill him." So I did.
I did a similar thing “I have to get everything before I go fight him, that’s the end of the game!” Even though I knew I could keep playing the same file after killing him, it just didn’t feel right
Ayy a new HG video! Man your consistency is stronk! You're gonna hit 100k in no time at all!
Hope so!
Hope you get 100k soon!! You definitely deserve it!!
Thanks!
YEAH been waiting for a theory like this rock solid dude 🤘💪
Thanks :)
I'm loving the video grind recently! Good work
Glad to hear it!
I love the snack or drink part of your videos. I love seeing peoples snacks.
ty for keeping your self promo to 30s, you're amazing on your own but devoting so much time to these and still hyperfocusing on the video rather than pushing at people for subs puts you in a top ten i didnt know i had. Keep up the great work.
Congrats on almost 100k! I have been an og of yoursand love the vids so keep up the great work!
Thanks a ton!
I’m here so early! Normally I watch your videos before bed but it’s rainy here today so I’ve been on a hyrule gamer binge!
Ayy thanks for being here :D
These videos always make my day thanks so much Adam!
Glad you like them!
there is a single pot sitting at the bottom, hidden away by a master craftsman to protect it from Link.
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Well, we're gonna find it
And we're gonna break it
@Hyrule Gamer
I think it would be cool if we could blow up an entrance into the Citadel in BotW 2.
and the first things we see are Skeletons...
Not Monster skeletons, but Hylian, Gerudo, Zora, Goron, and/or Rito skeletons...
All overgrown with moss, vines, other green plants... Just plain skeletons.
It's not until you get further in//down into the building that POSSIBLY ReDeads//"Mummies" awaken, etc.
Man I love your vids, and I've always wondered this
Thank you!
Its a top spot to put a dungeon for sure! Fun video thanks.
All your theories are amazing, I think that you should have waaay more than 100k subs from these theories! Keep going, and you’ll reach there in no time!
Thanks a lot :)
You don’t have to thank me for stating the truth(:
If ganon hadn’t been around for thousands of years, why did hyrule have a standing army? Who else were they fighting?
Monsters! It’s been shown that monsters are just part of life, but are stronger and more plentiful now because of the calamity
Also, it’s good to be prepared, and people from neighboring countries might be attacking.
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was some kind of underground ancient Sheika city with the Sheika towers as entrances? I would love a quest like that in botw 2
That would be really cool!
This is really cool and would be a fantastic way to expand upon the area we’ve already explored .
I’d love to see the bottom of the towers too . They go so ridiculously deep it’s crazy . But we do know thanks to masterworks and age of calamity that the towers are controlled from hyrule castle
I keep forgetting that you don't have millions of subscribers! You should have way more!
Haha well thanks :)
Well….no malice, no sheikah tower. No dungeon. No boss. And the only way to get inside is a hole in the wall and the only reason why you’d want to go there is for the fierce deity armor.
Well Gloom is practiclly malice but in steroids so and there are gloom hands in the top of the citadel, and since gloom hands are really powerful they could be classified as a mini boss, so there actually is a malice (Mini) boss in the citadel
This was excellent, I've definitely had similar ideas ever since AoC came out. Can't wait to see if there's truth to your theories!
Thank you :)
I believe the citadel was build with a specific purpose, for a specific person, to be kept in for eternity. It was built to keep in Tingle, the pictobox thief.
H a h a
yes, there needed to be more places to go inside in _Breath of the Wild…_ the Akkala Citadel, the Forgotten Temple, that Coliseum place, maybe some ruin in Faron, or the caves in Hebra… they could’ve been like Hyrule Castle with fleshed-out interiors, just to a lesser degree, with lots of goodies and a Shrine or two hiding within.
This is freaking genius!!! Thanks for making videos like these!
Thanks a lot!
Although I don't have an interesting comment,I have a theory, citadel might be the main armoury source/defence tower for hyrule,because of the way that the canons were placed and the stairs are perfect for archers to shoot at an army and since in a war it's better to attack the main defense point,that can explain the guardians/other monsters
Yeah. The Citadel is a place of defense and would possibly have a lot of rooms for different purposes.
Love the cinematography HG
Thank you :)
Great camera angles!
I hope that we'll get the chance to explore the Akkala Citadel, maybe Ganondorf's in there, who knows?
I adore your choices of music! But that could be due to a shared favourite Zelda game.
Haha thanks :)
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@Thomas Price it’s a great server! The best I have been on
Something about Akkala, both the continent and the citadel, has always intrigued me. Especially since the Spring of Power is there and yet there's not much there in terms of civilization compared to the rest of Hyrule. I think you talked theories in a video once about what the Citadel was used for, likely as a defense for that side of the continent. Which makes sense. I always wondered too if it could potentially be somewhere for the royal family to go similarly to possibly how the Snow Peak Ruins (which Nintendo, feel free to place somewhere in Hebra for BOTW2, maybe it was buried in snow).
Mmm interesting discussion
1:31 This looks just like that scene from the sequel trailer.
Expanding "Ganon is under the Citadel" theory with further points. Ganon has shown a proclivity to inhabiting towers before. So the Hylian structure could have been built as a defense structure to keep anybody else out of a dangerous place. The Citadel is also built around the buried Sheikah Tower, showing a possible focus point. An age old effort to keep monsters out, and investigate within. But not knowing it's the ancient grave of Ganon beneath. Additionally, there were no dormant guardians inside of the Citadel whatsoever, yet the ancient Sheikah plunged a tower straight down the middle. Could the tower have functioned similar to the sealing spikes in Skyward Sword? And then to bury the Dark King's body under the ruins of his own Tower Fortress. No guardians to draw attention, just a Tower much like the others. Leaving the husk of Ganon to decay, in secrecy and darkness, undisturbed.
this was super cool
Your videos are the best!
Thanks a lot :)
WOW!!! I never knew there were/are stairs that take you to the top of the citadel lol. i guess i havent done enough exploring over there yet
Awesome theory. I honestly never wondered what was actually inside the citadel at the time of BOTW
I would love to more fully explore this location, possibly in the sequel. I tried like mad to get into the citadel, in Breath of the Wild.
These videos are a breath of fresh air. I love theorizing, but so much of the community is volatile.
I'd love to explore it in the Sequel too :)
@@HyruleGamer Just out of curiosity, how do you deal with it when you have a theory, and other theorists seem to ignore it, and pick on small things, as though that invalidates your theory?
What I want to know is the bottom of the Tapestry, it may show the champions, divine beasts, the Calamity and all that, at the bottom you could see what appers to be some sort of king sending out a army after a Yiga clan and they seem to head right for the giant Statue of Hylia. I always wondered what is that and why is it there
I just imagine going in finding just skeletons everywhere... Hugging each other with dead guardians (maybe a live one but can't move of course)
Imagine...
It be cool that it was a mini dungeon for the main story
Zelda should already know the purpose of the towers and why they were activated, as with Purah unless they both lost their memory. The towers were built by the Sheika to help defend against calamity ganon, like the guardians and divine beasts, and can be used to see enemy force's locations etc.
Play age of calamity.
I loved the shots of link in the video. It feels very realistic and cinematic
That was cool to watch. I am surprised CZcams didn't say anything on the notifications on my side.
Super awesome video, as always! I have an idea though, what if in BoTW2 we can go into the passage you talked about and it leads to an underground system that takes you to the place Ganon is being held in the trailer? :O
I mean maybe 👀
Honestly never even thought about going inside the citadel until I went inside during AOC. I never really went near the entrance but went straight to the stairs.
Cool video I liked big👍
Imagine if there is a quest/mission/objective/etc, where you hire the carpenters to unearth the front entrance and all the malice floods out and into the courtyard valley below to create Malice Lake!
It would be sick if the Citadel was the spawn point responsible for restoring monsters; the Blood Moon is the Why, the Citadel/Tower is the how.
Interesting idea
Brother Hyrule you posted new vid, awesome.
Indeed :)
Even the theories for this game are phenomenal!
Indeed :D
Yes
I literally completed this level in AOC yesterday and it was so freaking amazing! I would love to see it in botw 2 tho with malice enemies or such
Oh nice haha
I noticed something Interesting while watching an OOT 3D play through. During the battle against Twinrova, when they are using their magic, the wall appears a very similar green with similar characters as the ones in the BOTW2 trailer (both look like Gerudo text)
What a good video!
Thanks!
Skeletons of dead soldiers who fought bravely to the bitter end only to be corrupted by malice that plagues the citadel
5:43 Wha- 😧 oh my god this game is incredible, I thought I knew everything about the Citadel given how much time I spend there!
I am SUBSCRIBED NOW!!!!! Idk why it took me so long
Thanks!
Another possibility and super cool theory is what if akkala has a double purpose, what if it also serves as a prison and deep underground in the lowest levels is where Ganondorf is kept and that's why it's so heavily armed and garrisoned or maybe a long secret passage to hyrule castle.
Sometimes I wonder if the akkala span bridge is the eldin bridge shown in the Twilight princess title screen. They look similar and the landscape does too. The locations a bit different tho still leads to eldin and a field but now its by the zoras and not close to kakariko
Dude I love the camera angles in this! How do you do it?
Zonai magic init
Alright HG, my dear friend since 2017 or 18, I gotta let you know...your content is too good. Your thoeries are great, and a lot of people need you to keep up your great work. You make us proud, dear friend, and we enjoy your videos greatly. (I got the wrong CZcamsr but my words still hold meaning!)
Huh? I am not MNB lol
This is the result of watching too many theory videos at the same time. Why at the same time? Because yes.
5:33 in one of the tip slides, it says that malice pools were water "infected" by calamity Ganon, so I would think that it had been somehow flooded (kind of unrelated but interesting)
the actual quote: " Poisonous bogs formed by water that was sullied during the Great Calamity. Coming into contact with one will hurt you."
Could you imagine that the Citadel hides a tunnel system so immense, that after traveling for what seems like days, one would end up deep deep beneath Hyrule Castle, where there is Ganondorf. Bum bum buuuum... I know others had similar ideas but it'd be cool all the same lol
Ooooo was just thinking is the towers even there anymore ? I thought all the skeka stuff sunk back down. If that's true we have our entrance .... the top