This Has Always Been One Of The Many Confusing Things About Zelda Lore.

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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April Fools

Is officially the worst holiday ever. Can’t believe a word anyone says. XD

My life is now complete.

He’s real

You can do this IRL now

@inmost-dens Are there any accompanying screenshots or showcases of which demon is what? Because (Granted I didn’t get to play any of the Doom games growing up) I’m looking at the 3 types of demons in this screenshot and I don’t recognize them.

Name: Snarkel’s Meta Monster Masher Game: Doom (doom.wad), Doom 2 (doom2.wad), Final Doom (tnt.wad, plutonia.wad) Author: Snarkel Source port: GZDoom Type: Gameplay mod (monsters replaced) Link: https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=61735 Release date: August 20, 2018

A very lightweight monster randomizer taking heavy inspiration from the Doom RPG recolor monsters, implementing the varied bestiary into Doom as different tiers of baddies to fight. Interesting if you like monster randomizers but don’t want anything too extreme.