#lynels

[myebi]

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[linktotheheart]

One of my personal favorite legend of zelda headcanons is that Lynels were either not always bestial monsters who would attack on sight (or can evolve to be an intelligent social race after being freed from Ganon's influence, but I like the deep lore of them having been corrupted by Ganon and being able to return to their previous state once he is gone).

They're already clearly very intelligent. They're the only enemy that can figure out you're not a Lynel when you're wearing the Lynel mask just by looking at you. They're able to fire an arrow up into the air and hit you even if you're standing behind an object that obscures you. They switch from ranged to melee weapons based on how far you are from them. It shows they have some reasoning abilities and even understanding of physics beyond a very base instinctual level.

I like to imagine that Lynels would still be largely solitary creatures in their uncorrupted state, sometimes moving about in small groups based in either family units or teams united for a common purpose. But maybe they did at one point in the very distant past have a homeland where they could congregate, perhaps outside Hyrule which is why it's unknown in the present.

I think they'd actually be very academic, and would travel a lot to study and document in their chosen field, hence the largely nomadic lifestyle. The combination of hardy hooves and dextrous hands would help them easily traverse places that would be impassible for normal hooved creatures and footed creatures alike. They are capable of feats of both great strength and delicate dexterity, and once produced great works of art.

Given the way they seek out very high, isolated places, astronomy may have been a common chosen field of study.

Their fall was concurrent with the beginning of the imprisoning war, which was the first time they were recorded appearing in Hyrule in official histories. They had previously traveled into the wilds of Hyrule, but any accounts made by people of the time were lost to the ages, and the accounts from the war only survived due to the fact that so many Lynels appeared together that they were witnessed by many people.

I like the idea of, after the events of ToTK, the Lynels regaining their full intelligence and appearing to speak to Zelda. Link immediately moves to attack but everyone is startled when the Lynel speaks. Zelda orders Link to stand down and gives him the chance to explain, and he does so and offers allyship of his people, who mean to reestablish a society outside of Hyrule. Zelda offers aid and they accept, and though all the races of Hyrule are extremely nervous about them, they start to interact and work together.

Also, in any story where a version of Ganondorf is saved, is able to return and be reformed, etc, the Lynels at first regard him as a mortal enemy for what he did to their people, and only eventually tolerate him if he proves he has changed (or, alternatively was corrupted by a being/force like Demise himself, in which case many Lynels actually turn around and accept him and mourn over what was done to all of them together).

I have so many fanfic ideas now, tbh.

[things-from-wings]

Majora Reclaimed.

[melancholicwriteaholic]

i used to be so good at killing Lynels in botw, guys. I seldom ever got hit by them. I was the Lynel boogieman. I was RELIEVED when i got to that one room in the Trial of the Sword (Master Mode) at 1 heart and it was just a lynel. I barely even dodged them since parrying their hits became second nature.

Now look at me. 3 years of no gaming and I'm using strategy to fight them like a coward. I used to be a Lynel killing GOD, but now all i have is a degree smdh.

[luna-lovegreat]

Was hunting white lynels in Totk and was like ooo that lynels white cause I really can’t tell the difference and then I was fighting it and I was like huh this seems harder than normal and then after I killed it I picked up the parts and. It was not a white lynel. It was a silver lynel. I killed a silver lynel on accident. Which is probably a good thing cause I might not have had the courage if I had known but still. Weird.

[maldrea-shoots-stuff]

Sorry to bother you, but I'm making a mounted lynel head and your pictures I've found through tumblrs half working search feature are INCREDIBLE but I was wondering if you have a side profile one that I can't find. Thank you so much for your time and your blog is a masterpiece for inspiration and references, may the goddess hylia smile upon you <3

It's tough getting side profiles because enemies tend to hone in on you during fights, but I can make that my new quest! In the meantime-- here's the reference I use when I draw @sparksplitter's character Leonus!

[golvio]

So, when the Lynels were said to "forge their weapons in the fires of Death Mountain," did they actually mean the lava floes in the depths beneath the mountain? Because that would make a lot more sense than hiking all the way to the caldera, either on the uninhabited but extremely steep and hoof-unfriendly rear path or the front path that takes you past the popular hiking trails and the city.

[enidsinclesbian]

the way totk makes you WANT to fight enemies simply to fuse their body parts to get better weapon damage numbers is actually amazing. you wouldnt have caught me trying to pick a fight with a lynel in botw but now? i am farming them like sheep now that i have a strategy that works for me

[daiki98]

me not playing totk a lot because of exams:

also me, killing two lynels with shit weapons and finding 4 random geoglyphs in the span of 1 hour with no clue of what's goin on: hehe noice

[non-cannon]

This morning I was thinking about the fact that despite having over (probably) 100 hours in TotK, I had somehow only encountered one Lynel, and that only happened while doing a sidequest that specifically involved a lynel. Today I stumbled into the floating coliseum (the one in the depths) while chasing an X on my map

[villanelleskiss]

my favorite gameplay video, tried to befriend a lynel and then a fairy fell out of my pocket

[myebi]

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[only-gooberstins]

Bruh i see everyone already having gone through the main story of tears of the kingdom and im just trying to savor the flavor over here like I don’t wanna know about the light dragon or the queen or anything right now im trying to fight 5 lynels back to back lmao 

[shishuri]

Surprisingly, i miss the gold lynels

[tirsynni]

So! My attempt to use my Lynel mask to take a picture didn't work, but I still got my pic!

[dualspinride]

good old lynel days