This Legit Made Me Tear Up. :(

This legit made me tear up. :’(

Holy shit I didn’t even realize.

You ever think about how in most games Hylia is excluded from Hyrule’s religious canon? The royal family was vastly patriarchal and had her erased from texts. Especially since it was only daughters of the royal family that carried her holy magical blood. The men of the royal family wrote out a goddess because she did not benefit them personally.

In Ocarina of Time, when the child Zelda tells her father of her prophetic dreams of course he’s going to disregard it. She’s a kid with a big imagination. Nobody believes in the goddess Hylia anymore. Except for the Sheikah, as the tribe was close to the goddess in ancient times and continues to maintain a guarded relationship with the royal family. Sheikah, such as Impa, who believed in Zelda’s dreams.

Only after countless generations and eons was the goddess Hylia accepted back into Hyrule’s religious canon by the time of Breath of the Wild. Thanks in part to the Sheikah. Unfortunately, this also led to the royal family adopting an even greater superiority in that they could claim they were “chosen” because of their ancestor who was the goddess reborn in Skyward Sword. Between this and being subjected to having to abandon their technological advances, it’s no wonder a portion of the Sheikah splintered off into the Yiga who rebelled and swore fealty to Ganon. Returning Hylia to the canon also put a greater pressure on the family’s daughters as they were now expected to be able to tap into their holy heritage.

This is kinda funny. XD

DM idea

become an evil wizard in real life so when your players reach the final boss you can flip the table and engage them in real combat

By Alejandro Mirabal

This has always been one of the many confusing things about Zelda lore.

What’s Going On with the Ears in Hyrule?

(Or: A Needlessly Comprehensive Deep-Dive into the Myst-EAR-ious Duality of Round-Eared Humans and Long-Eared Hylians, a Very S-EAR-ious Write-Up)

As some of you may remember from a few months back, I made an off-hand comment about my ideas surrounding the disparities between the different types of ears we see in Hyrule’s human citizens, and my desire to further expand on that at a later date.  No, that was not a joke, and yes, I am finally Doing the Dang Thing.  So!  Let’s get started.

Long-time fans of the series will know that Hylians are a race of humans in the world of The Legend of Zelda with long, elf-like ears.  Hylians most always dominate the land of Hyrule in nearly every installment in the series, with round-eared humans only making their first appearance in Link’s Awakening, a game that - spoiler alert - was all a dream in the first place.  And though plain old humans again appear in the lands of Holodrum and Labrynna in the follow-up Oracle games, it is very in keeping with the theme of this blog that their most notable appearance happens to be in Twilight Princess.

Though it is never remarked upon in-game, Link is the only Hylian in a village filled with humans, such as Ilia and Rusl, leading the player to assume that he was not Ordon-born.  Other notable examples include Ashei, who hails from the mountains, and even the inhabitants of (New) Kakariko (though only three in number) are all mere humans.  The Hylians of this game seem to be centralized around Castle Town, with notable members including Telma, Shad, and Auru of the Resistance, and naturally, Zelda herself.  Yet as I’ve already stated, the fact that there are two different sets of ears among the humans is never even a topic of conversation; it makes you wonder why the developers bothered to make the distinction at all, and indeed, plenty of fans have never even noticed that such a disparity exists. I certainly didn’t notice when I was ten years old, playing through Twilight Princess for the very first time - but we’ve come a long way since then, and I am delighted to finally be able to tell everyone why I think this disparity exists, and how it has bled into other aspects of the series.  Let’s back away from Twilight Princess for a moment; all good theories have a beginning, and this one is no different.  To understand where this all began, we must look thousands of years into the past, to Skyward Sword.  More specifically, this all started…

…with this guy.

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