The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nintendo last put down lover theories to roost when it released the official timeline forThe Legend of Zelda . Fans lastly had a reference to go to , but the timeline was befuddle for a loop , once again , with the tone ending ofBreath of the Wild .

Breath of the Wildfeels removed from the rest of the series , both in terms of its story and its gameplay . Ganon aim a much unlike phase this time around , as the iconic baddie was an ethereal calamity that destroyed the kingdom of Hyrule .

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Although Nintendo hasn’trevealed a lot aboutBreath of the Wild 2 , the plot ’s reveal dawdler raised a slew of motion for fans . master among those is which Ganon is under Hyrule castle .

Where Breath of the Wild Falls on the Zelda Timeline

The Legend of Zeldatimeline break up off in three different directions withOcarina of Time , ground on whether the sub bring home the bacon or go wrong in his quest . breathing time of the Wildis a act tricky , however , as ittechnically fall at the very destruction of all three timelines . In a 2018 interview with Famitsu , Producer Eiji Aonuma and Director   Hidemaro Fujibayashi addressed the interrogation .

Aonuma first said “ Well of form it ’s at the very end . But , I get what you ’re asking , it ’s which timeline is it the conclusion of ? ” Fujibayashi follows up on that by saying " That ’s … up to the thespian ’s resourcefulness , is n’t it ? ”

To this day Nintendo and Aonuma have n’t placedBreath of the Wildin an exact place on the timeline , meaning it could theoretically settle anywhere . There are similarity and cue scattered throughout the game , of class , such as the presence of the Koroks fromWindwaker . In term of Ganon inBreath of the Wild 2 , though , it open up up a net ton of possibilities .

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While Ganon has always been the master villain of theZeldaseries , Ganondorf ’s first appearing was inOcarina of Time . Ganondorf is the deadly personification of Ganon and a member of the Gerudo tribe . Because the timeline splits atOcarina of Time , the Ganondorf inTwilight Princess , Ocarina , andWind Wakerare one and the same . The trailer forBreath of the Wild 2clearly bear witness the mummified corpse of Ganondorf with his fiery red tomentum and treasure set in the frontal bone .

The clay is being held in place by an forbidding glowing hand , which seems to be drawing something out of the torso . The interesting part here is the exact spot on the eubstance ’s chest that the hired man is grasping . InTwilight Princess’backstory , Ganondorf is meant to be executed by the sages , and he ’s stabbed in that exact spot in the thorax , which leaves a glowing wound . At the end ofTwilight PrincessGanon is again stabbed in that exact place , which then suggest that it ’s the baddie ’s weak point .

Various versions of Link from The legend of Zelda on a landscape from Breath of the Wild.

A place onReddit from Eclipsed Gameralso register a salient similarity betweenBreath of the Wild 2’sGanondorf andTwilight Princess , with the graphic symbol have the same sharp eyetooth tooth on the bottom jaw . Another potential connection has to do withthe Zonai tribe , which has vaporize from the human race ofBreath of the Wild . InBotWthe Typhlo Ruins are load down with Zonai architecture , but they ’re also shrouded in darkness , which ca n’t be totally unmake no matter what players do . InTwilight Princessthe Twili are call up a " shadow race " and they exist in a different world that mass ca n’t see , a tail world . This could easily link up the Zonai to the Twili , and it ’s probable the Zonai will at least be mention inBreath of the Wild 2 , based on the underground ruin link and Zelda are move through .

There ’s nothing that outright affirm aconnection betweenBreath of the WildandTwilight Princessbut there are a shady amount of similarity between the two .

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Calamity Ganon Could Simply Be the Spirit of Demise

If the Ganondorf under Hyrule is fromTwilight Princessthen that arouse another question ; what exactly is Calamity Ganon ? The villain ofBreath of the Wildlacks any variety of personality and feels more like a fierce dark force . If the script is siphoning the spite out of Ganondorf , that energy could have transform into the Calamity . Skyward Swordrevealed the ogre mogul Demise , who ’s the one responsible for the cycle of renascence in the series . When Link shoot down Demise at the end of the game , the demon king places a bane on the three of them stating that whoever bears the blood of the goddess and the poor boy will evermore be keep an eye on by an incarnation of his hate . Demise ’s essence is sealed in the superior sword and is responsible for the nascence of Ganondorf inOcarina of Time .

The get-up-and-go that makes up Calamity Ganon may just be the essence of the devil god Demise , which could hold some interesting forking for Ganondorf himself . With Calamity Ganon defeated , theoretically , Ganondorf could be free from Demise ’s gist , which means he may no longer be constipate by the nemesis that pit him against Link and Zelda . This meansBreath of the Wild 2could do something incredibly interesting by flip the script andnot stimulate Ganondorf be the baddie .

breathing spell of the Wild 2is presently in ontogeny for Nintendo Switch .

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