#breath of the Wild

[hylianzs]

A confession !!

[lialivingart]

Work in progress. I'm working on some difficult art. Difficult for me. This fragment is good. Almost proud. It's a pity, I can't look at the other parts of the art without tears...

[babbletaels]

Before tears of the kingdom came out, I was watching a video on youtube that talked about volcanic signs around hyrule. As they pointed out what different structures around death mountain and akkala could've been, I started seeing those kinds of structures and shapes everywhere and I realized..

Hyrule is on top of a very large volcanic area

I started looking for signs. I realized there were hot springs in tabantha, and hot springs is not just something that cold regions have, no, it's something volcanic regions have.

When tears of the kingdom came out one of my top priotities was to get to the depths and see if there's lava underneath these hot springs, and sure enough there they were! Not only that, I found volcanic shapes in the depths themselves, as well as lava in other places I didn't know about.

Why am I talking about this?

Because they're not just there as decorations, at least not to me.

Look at Hyrule great forest. It obviously used to be a big forest spanning from above hyrule castle all the way to the top of the map, covering the west part of death mountains foot. Now the trees are all burned down from a volcanic eruption, except for in two regions that have strangely moat-looking "rivers" around them.

I'm not going to pretend I believe these are rivers. I'm 100% sure they are man made. These moats were dug in order to protect important land marks, because the people knew that they live on a volcanic region. It's no coincidence that the castle has a huge moat around it as well. They are trying to be safe from their inevitable doom.

But it's not just this. Moats don't always save you, and volcanoes eventually go dormant.

I imagine if you're the least interested in zelda lore and the zelda timeline, you've asked yourself the question, "Why does the map change so drastically?". Well, here's your answer.

Death mountain isn't just any mountain, it's always the most recently active volcano and the place where the gorons live! The gorons move around, when there's a new volcano they move there!

Towns safety become threatened, and so they move. Look at the ruins on the sides of death mountain, they're not burned, they're abandoned. So the people move around, they literally have no choice but to do so, unless they take to drastic measures, like raising your town high above the ground and building a wall around it, like the great plateau.

Why are the sheikah towers buried under ground and designed to shoot up with incredible force? Why not just build them in place and why do they need to be so tall? Maybe they were preparing them to be able to function even after lava has covered the ground.

The extremely mountainous nature of all of hyrule is honestly the best sign we have of this. By looking at the mountains we can conclude where the latest volcano was, and I think it was in Hebra.

So when trying to piece together how the maps work together, you can't look at things like a town, a castle or a volcano, because those things are constantly moving. I'd say maybe the desert could be the way to go, but we've seen very clearly that deserts used to be oceans. If you look to the horizon in gerudo desert in botw, you'll see water.

I think that the gorons migrate when their volcano gets too cold. If we look at majoras mask and assume that termina is in fact a real place, this is the first time we see gorons living in a cold place, and they don't seem to be thriving. Gorons like the warmth that the volcano provides.

So why does death mountain switch places?? Because it's not the same mountain! Death mountain is always the volcano! So one volcano goes dormant, another one pops up and the gorons move there. And this also explains a loooooot of other geographical questions. The people of hyrule are living under a constant threat of destruction by volcano, and that's why they need to move their castles and everything. If we were to assume the temple of time from ocarina of time is the same as in breath of the wild, we clearly see they moved/abandoned the castle and castle town because of the close proximity of death mountain in ocarina of time. It all makes a lot of sense and makes me feel like the map changing isn't such a big problem to me anymore.

[kaiayame]

🌿

[demiboydemon]

[snail-studios]

you hold my heart, (so don't let go)

[thestuffedalligator]

Option 1: Zelda is an average teenager in a modern AU Hyrule. One day she accidentally awakens Link, a knight from medieval Hyrule who was magically sealed away a thousand years ago and thinks Zelda is the same Zelda he swore an oath to protect a millennia ago. Zelda has to help him adjust to modern life, and also evil has returned and they probably have to take care of that.

Option 2: Same as option 1 but flipped. Link is the average modern teenager who accidentally awakens a medieval Zelda who thinks Link is the same Link who was made her champion a millennia ago. Also evil has returned and they probably have to take care of that.

[hyruleairbnb]

More spookiness ~

I had the thought that dorephan could just wreck a ship if he wanted to..

[retrogamingblog2]

Legend of Zelda Resign Lamps made by HirosArt

[dawnddoesart-reborn]

very close to beating totk for the second time! i love this silly little photo of the botw guys so here's a redraw

[battyccino]

husbands

[sidonisms]

The Yiga Architect, Kanzo

Aaaaa here he is!! I've been working on him for so long!! I started him back in February but I made his head too cunty that I was having a terrible time trying to find clothes that matched!!

Info about him under the cut!!

Kanzo was born in Kakariko village and raised with Sheikah ideals. His father worked as a merchant and when Kanzo was old enough to travel safely he and his mother Pitaya began to join him. During one trip the family was making to Kara Kara Bazaar they accidentally crossed into a molduga's territory and were then attacked.

Kanzo was separated from his parents, who he knew were almost certainly dead, and lost in the desert. It was after days of wandering and almost accepting that he was going to die out there that he crossed paths with Master Kohga, who took him in.

Despite being raised from then on by the Yiga Clan, he doesn't believe much of their dogma and has no interest in bringing about the end of the royal family or serving Ganondorf. This attitude, on top of generally being rather lazy and refusing to do any combat, has made him unliked and untrusted by the other members of the Yiga Clan. Kohga on the other hand, recognizes that Kanzo is fiercely loyal to him for having saved his life and even if he doesn't agree with the Yiga and their methods, he'll gladly lay his life on the line to repay his debt.

• Kanzo is an artist and when he isn't being lazy and sleeping, is often lying down on his stomach and drawing. He has a habit of recruiting footsoldiers to model for him - in ridiculous poses

• The reason the other Yiga go along with this despite how much they don't like him is because Kanzo makes the best Mighty Banana dishes in the entire clan

• Because of his artistic talent he was given the obligation to design and oversee the construction of the various Yiga Hideouts on the surface and in the Depths

• In response to how much time he's spent in the Depths his eyes have become incredibly light-sensitive and spending too long in the bright light will give him migraines. To combat this, he almost always has his parasol when on the surface

• The Sheikah charm on his waist was the only thing he managed to find of his mother. He refuses to throw it away or hide it. It's very precious to him

• Because of his lazy personality he slacks on dyeing his hair black - much to the annoyance of the other Yiga. It's gotten to a point where they'll dye it black while he naps since he won't do it himself

• Kanzo takes his life debt to Kohga very seriously. If it came down to it he would die for him. Something that severe hasn't happened yet so he usually ends up diverting/distracting anyone looking for him so that Kohga can nap and slack off uninterrupted

[adigitalsky]

I’m finally playing totk so here’s a quick farosh ❤️

[fortheloveofhylia]

Since I've written and seen a lot of Legend based fixs recently, here's our special boy.

My next character study for my comic Links in Time, Legend.

[demiboydemon]