#lanayru

[iubworks]

Happy birthday, Twilight Princess

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Skyward Sword Zonai AU!

Meeting the Dragons! Link must prove himself to each of the dragon spirits so they will help him on his journey and he can claim their Secret Stones. Hopefully, with their power, he can muster up the ability to defeat a deity, Demise.

Lanayru is not impressed with how little he knows at first, being the spirit of Wisdom, and mourns that it must be a child on which they all rely to strike down such a powerful evil. Link gains her respect as he learns and grows along his journey.

Eldin only cares about those who prove themselves enough to be interesting to him, as most mortals are too weak and short lived for them to deem worthy of their attention. While he cares not for Link’s gentle character, he does respect his warriors nature and ability to enact ruthless ends on his enemies.

Faron is very kind after he is revived and finds a kinship with him as the spirit of Courage, standing up against impossible odds. He guides Link and admires his cleverness and daring, while appreciating Link’s respect to all innocent creatures around him.

{Zonai Designs} {Shenanigans} {The Beginning} {Fi Design} {Dragons} {Finding Zelda}

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This is all I have of this au for now!

[deathlyfruit]

The Temple of Naydra

A bit of a mix of fanart and a landscape study~ 2022 has been a lot me realizing i really really enjoy making zelda art and i hope twilight princess is brought to switch soon so i can finally play it

[id: digital fanart of Link from the legend of zelda: breath of the wild standing in the ruins of the temple of time looking up at a stained glass window of the dragon Naydra on top of Mount Lanayru /end id]

[baileyboo2016]

i put the footage in and it looks SO COOL 😌😌😌😌

edit: putting the voices together was not my idea, but i wanted to see what it looks like too :)

[littlesakis-aubade]

Day 16 - Dragons

Completing the Hero’s Song was always so great and cinematic. I really need to replay Skyward Sword hahah

[rrinku98illusts]

"Master Link, based on my calculations, this reanimated fossil of long gone species bears 75% similarity from your Crimson Loftwing. Or perhaps, this was one of the Crimson Loftwing in the distant past."

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Actually just wanting to practice grassy/mossy rocks but ended making another Lanayru region piece. I might draw the living version of the ancient Loftwing(s) I previously did! Or maybe other animals/plants of the past Lanayru region too.

[agsilverart]

Gift for @thebaileyboop, for the Lu gift exchange! This was inspired by one of her sweet fictions, Lanayrulie! Go check it out! (on Ao3)

[the-east-art]

The dragons in Skyward Sword always have way too human of faces to me, so here’s some idea for alternate face shapes or Lanayru and Eldin

[vaathnaos]

Shifting Sands!

Chapter 1

Part 7

NEW CONTENT (for those who follow on IG)

This is it! The whole point of chapter one was just to get the bois onto this DARN SHIP!

Also the first page, with the time bubble dividers, has my favorite paneling so far!

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[mango-unit]

post number three will be kind of a two-for-one zelda theory post. theory one is the placement of minish cap on the timeline. theory two is the connection between the lanayru desert, the wind tribe, and the gerudo.

look at these maps

(relative to hyrule castle) forest with lost woods magic to the northwest. village to the west. big lake to the southeast. river leading from castle moat to big lake. desert to the southwest.

(relative to hyrule castle) forest with lost woods magic to the west. graveyard to the west. big lake to the southeast. river leading from castle moat to big lake. new river leading south, and southwest, into a forest. the further south you go in said forest the more dehydrted the grass looks.

(relative to central lake/moat) forest with lost woods magic to the southwest. graveyard to the west. small lake to the southeast. no river leading from central lake to small lake. river leading south.

i should probably get to the point now.

i believe that minish cap takes place between alttp and tloz. the lost woods began moving progressively further south into kakariko, so hyrule town was built in order to prevent people from being lost. the village was repurposed as the graveyard. by the time of tloz, the lost woods have moved fully south, and the graveyard is just a regular non-lost graveyard.

as for the rivers. the hylians dug a channel from the moat to the desert in an attempt to terraform it and add forests. this was largely successful; this is why the lost woods were able to move into the area, but it isnt fully complete, which is why the grass further south (around the wind tribe ruins) looks almost dead. there is more full desert off-screen; this is where the gerudo live, so i doubt the hylians would encroach on that land.

by the time of tloz, the southbound river takes over, and the river leading to lake hylia dries up. as a result lake hylia shrinks. then ganon shows up and destroys hyrule castle, turning the moat into a massive lake with fractured islands in the center.

i theorize that the reason the hero of men needed the picori blade is because somehow the master sword went missing or was destroyed. (i have a real crackpot theory on how that happened, roping in botw and totk, but thats a whole other beast to tackle. for now we can just chalk it up to it getting so lost in the woods it could never be recovered.) the picori blade was forged into the four sword, which was used to seal vaati and later ganon.

as for why link doesnt use the four sword in tloz… hes, like, 10 in that game. its very likely that he just didnt think of it. he just did exactly as impa asked of him: collect the pieces of the triforce of wisdom, and use its combined power to defeat ganon, permanently this time. no more half measures by sealing him away.

going back to the topic of the wind tribe. i mentioned them before in my first post, but i left things a little… unfinished, so ill present my whole theory on the wind tribe.

i believe the wind tribe are the hylians who lived in the lanayru province before skyward sword. first lets look at the technology:

the lanayru province has a clear red and blue theming, and most of their technology consists of levitating machines. as does mazaal, the levitating machine built by the wind tribe to protect their home.

this carries over to the wind tribe members themselves, who wear only red and blue.

and speaking of the actual people:

every member of the wind tribe have red hair. every member of the gerudo have red hair. since the lanayru desert in skyward sword has a bug called the gerudo dragonfly, its a given that the lanayru desert becomes the home of the gerudo.

the lanayru desert is also where link finds the gust bellows, which grants him control over wind.

now to fit all the pieces together.

in ancient times, the hylians in the lanayru province rapidly progressed sometime after the discovery of the timeshift stones. they also gained a powerful mastery over the wind itself, reflected in their technology and in their magic. their advancements came at a cost, though; the once lush region became a harsh desert. in order to escape the deadly environment they created, the lanayru hylians used their mastery over the wind to escape into the skies. while many went into the skies, becoming the wind tribe, many decided to stay on the surface, receding further into the desert and becoming the gerudo. eventually, during the time of minish cap, the reforestation efforts of the lanayru desert reach the wind ruins - potentially some of the same ruins that the link of skyward sword explores, albeit much more decayed.

so yeah theres my two for one theory post

[baydrake22]

@baileyboo2016

BEHOLD THE THING WE TALKED ABOUT

[nedeii]

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Skyward Sword Zonai AU!

The Dragon Spirits! It was very fun seeing how I’d combine the look of the dragons from Skyward Sword and Tears of The Kingdom, they are so different.

They’d be a little confusing in this au, since their elements don’t line up perfectly in between games. Ignore the notes of the first slide, I was trying to figure out how Lanayru and Faron would work with their regions basically being opposite!

Lanayru would be the spirit of Wisdom with the element of water. She is a strict teacher and does not tolerate ignorance or laziness, so it’s a bit of bad luck for Link to come across her first in his journey at the Lanayru Great Spring.

Eldin would be the spirit of Power with the element of fire. They’d seem laid back at first until it becomes clear that they are simply uncaring for mortal lives that mean so little to them, only respecting those that stand out among the crowd.

Faron would be the spirit of Courage with the element of lightning. Once guardian of a vast jungle, his domain was the first to be destroyed in the initial war against Demise, as his love of mortals led them to congregate there in the lush land and invent amazing technology with electricity. He is deeply kind and grandfatherly, carrying with him a sadness for all that has been lost.

Levias would be the last spirit, that of Hylia and the element of wind. He is calm and jovial, content to let the bustle or mortals pass him by. While not a dragon himself, Levias would still be powerful enough to produce a Secret Stone like the dragons, granting Link the power to confront Demise.

{Zonai Designs} {Shenanigans} {The Beginning} {Fi Design} {Finding Zelda} {Meeting Dragons}

[deathlyfruit]

mt lanayru

next in my hyrule national parks posters~

[baileyboo2016]

Don’t ask me how I got the idea for this. Because I won’t be able to come up with an answer.

[lu-fic-recommendation-of-the-day]

Hey there! I’d like to recommend Ode to Storms by Sinnatious, which I think is one of the best Time-centric fics that I’ve ever read, like I still remember the title even after literally 3 years. Mind the tags tho, it did not end well

Summary:

Time is a paradox of Hylia’s own making, and this is how she deals with it. Linked Universe fic, Time-centric.

Tags:

Time-centric

Time Loop

Time Travel

Temporal Paradox

Tragedy

Angst

Word count: 16,558 

Finished: Yes