The 20 Biggest Mysteries In Zelda Games

[Music] welcome to Mojo plays and today we're exploring the 20 biggest mysteries in Zelda [Music] games for this list we'll be looking at curious elements in The Legend of Zelda franchise that leave us with more questions than answers oh and prepare for some spoilers for the whole series including tears of the Kingdom what do you think is the biggest mystery in the franchise share your thoughts and in the comments before we begin we publish new content all week long so be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos timeline placement The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild and tears of the Kingdom as I thought this is not the world I know although not everyone was pleased with it Nintendo's official timeline had a place for every Mainline game in the series until breath of the wild came out it's true we've been told it's at the end of the timeline but that's canonically split in three where exactly it sits is up to your imagination according to director hidemaro Fuji bayashi well with nothing official it's been left up to fans to theorize which timeline it falls under or how it merges all three tears of the Kingdom only made things more confusing with the memories of Zelda in the past Nintendo seems to want to leave the timeline behind for now so their concrete connection to the other games remains foggy I will pour my sacred power into it the Song of Storms The Legend of Zelda acarina of Time time travel brings all sorts of paradoxes one of the catchiest songs in Ocarina of Time also holds one of its greatest Mysteries when link visits the kakar RICO Village windmill as an adult the man inside complains of a boy who played The Song of Storms said 7 years ago causing the windmill to spend wildly out of control traveling back in time to play the song for him gets you into the bottom of the well mini dungeon so who wrote The Song of Storms because it sure wasn't link and it sure wasn't the man inside the [Music] windmill Majora's Mask also features the song and its composers but as Tera is a parallel world never seen again that's hardly an explanation The Interlopers The Legend of Zelda Twilight [Music] Princess there are many pieces of Zelda lore and history that are kept vague in Twilight Princess we learned through a unanimously creepy scene about the inter lopers they were a group of sorcerers that waged war in Hyrule in an attempt to take control of the Sacred realm and therefore the Triforce they were banished to the Twilight realm and are ancestors of midna's people the Twilight but everything else about them is a mystery including where they came from and what the source of their powerful magic was they're said to have been people of High rule but that doesn't necessarily mean they were hilan and whatever their ultimate goal was in seeking the Triforce is lost to the games history the Ghost Ship the Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker nothing like a good old-fashioned Haunting in the Wind Waker a mysterious Ghost Ship Sails the Great Sea of Hyrule appearing at different Islands during different phases of the moon only after finding the proper chart will link be able to enter it and find either a Triforce Chart or a shard depending on the version after which it will disappear forever so what's up with this Ghost Ship how does an entire spectral vessel come into existence and what's its connection to the Triforce if any we see another ghost ship in Phantom Hourglass but that's a different ship and a creation of the villain Bellum family history various for most of the games in the series link is a l own boy out to save the kingdom and it always makes us wonder what happened to his family of course there are exceptions the occasional game will include a family member like the uncle in a link to the past or his sister and grandmother and Wind Waker Ocarina of Time mentions the death of his mother and breath of the wild acknowledges his father but there's nothing deeper there the hero's family is missing from games like Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword where link is part of a tight-knit community for the most part Nintendo wants to keep him Lonely with any semblance of familial history being brief at best the Forest Temple The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of [Music] Time adult Link's first dungeon in Ocarina of Time is one of the most mystifying places in the series The Fire Water Shadow and spirit temples are all closely linked to the Goran Zora shika and gudo Respec ly however there's nothing to suggest any connection between this Temple and the Kiri the forever Children of the forest the sacred Forest Meadow that serves as its entrance is said to be sera's secret place implying the others don't know about it so where did this Eerie Manor come from who built it and to what purpose the fact that it's found in the depths of the Lost Woods which turns Travelers into stalos only adds to the mystery [Music] the mysterious hands various one of the most bizarre NPCs in the series is a hand link find sticking out of a toilet in both Majora's Mask and Oracle of Ages you can help this Unfortunate Soul by giving them paper things get even weirder in Skyward Sword in this entry link can meet a ghost hand inside the skyloft Academy's bathroom only this time the character is given a name pheni through a side quest feni ends up falling in love with Colin one of Link's classmates these characters are based on Japanese ghost stories where a toilet hand grabs the person sitting on it and while they bear no impact on the overall story or lore of the series we can't help but want to know more about them the Barbarian armor The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom it may only be a single armor set from an admittedly gigantic game world but the Barbarian armor holds the key to a big mystery within the new Zelda era first appearing in breath of the wild the description for the attack boosting set linked it to an ancient warlike tribe from the faren region the only other ancient race to be referenced were the Zoni and so most assumed they were one and the same same but then tears of the kingdom was released and we found out the zonai were actually Godlike beings from the sky who favored diplomacy over Warfare there are several viable theories floating around about the makers of this armor but it remains unresolved in game the aliens The Legend of Zelda Majora's [Music] Mask clearly not every mystery requires an answer which is great seeing as how we probably won't get answers for most of them in Majora's Mask link can help Romani defend her Ranch from what she only refers to as them every year as the carnival draws near these alien-like beings invade the ranch to steal its prized [Music] cows almost nothing is known about them why they appear only once a year where they come from or why they choose to go after the cows Romani Ranch is famed for its shat Romani milk heavily implied to be alcoholic so maybe these aliens are just looking for a way to celebrate the carnival of time in their own way the RTO Zora problem [Music] various within the lore of the Wind Waker the goddesses that created Hyrule flooded it rather than have Ganon return to power when that happened many members of different races fled to the mountaintops which then became Islands over time the Kiri eventually evolved into the Koro while the Zora who couldn't live in the magical water became the redo Forest children to tree folk we get but fish people to bird people is a bigger stretch regardless both these Zora and RTO appear in breath of the wild the Koro also appear but the Kiri don't so what gives was there some branch of Roo that somehow Dev evolved or is this a retcon or if breath of the wild isn't in the Wind Waker timeline how did the r come to be wow I would love to see it skeletons of giants The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild and tears of the [Music] Kingdom a side quest in breath of the wild takes link to three distinct locations Each of which has a massive whale-like skeleton fans have speculated that these bones belonged to several deities seen in other games levas from Skyward Sword OAS in Phantom Hourglass and the windfish in Link's Awakening however there's no in-game explanation for them if these are the remains of those deities it's likely just an Easter egg besides they aren't the only oversized bones link can find in multiple places across hyru you'll see gigantic rib cages spines and skulls of long past behemoths tears of the Kingdom didn't give us any answers in fact Nintendo just added more giant skeletons navi's whereabouts the legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time hey more than two decades later and navi's iconicism remains unmatched by most Side characters in video games these sometimes overly helpful fairy builds a strong bond with link over their Adventure in Ocarina of Time and yet at the end of the game she simply floats off without another word to the hero [Music] maybe it's more thematically appropriate to not have dialogue between them but link begins Majora's Mask by looking for his friend before being sidetracked by the Skull Kid we've never been given a definitive explanation as to why she left or where she went this version of link is also never seen again safe for his appearance as the hero's shade in Twilight Princess so it remains a mystery the goddess of time the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask Majora's Mask is a peculiar game almost designed to be theorized on one of its most enigmatic characters and pieces of lore is the goddess of time who's never actually seen she's mentioned a couple of times in the game namely by Zelda during a flashback and tattle during the confrontation with skull kid at top of the clock [Music] tower but her identity and where she fits within the Zelda Pantheon has never been explained some have theorized that she's halia given that goddess's connection to the gates of time others believe she's neou one of the three golden goddesses but but as far as an official answer goes we're only left to piece things together ourselves across the canyon The Legend of Zelda breath of the wild and tears of the Kingdom this one is so simple it almost needs no explanation and yet it's one of the biggest questions we have about the latest generation of Zelda just north of the already massive game world is a large Canyon with a truly massive chunk of land on the other side and we've been wondering just what exactly lay there since 2017 some NPCs in tears of the Kingdom give slight hints about different lands Yona for example is from a different Zora's domain but no information has ever been definitively given on it presumably because everyone in high has their hands full with well everything else the history of the shika [Music] various most races in the series get their fair share of history but the ninjal like shik are fittingly mysterious they were first mentioned in Ocarina of Time where impa one of the last remaining members served as Zelda's protector and the sage of Shadow they're seen again on the brink of collapse in Twilight Princess while impa is the only one to appear again in Skyward Sword at the beginning of the timeline jump to breath of the wild though and the clan is thriving not only that but they also had the technological Wizardry to create the Divine beasts and the Guardians to Aid in the great Calamity 10,000 years prior simply put how in the world did that happen it has been quite a long time link snow peak ruins the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess the [Music] here one of the most mysterious places in any Zelda game is also one of Twilight princess's best dungeons the snow peak ruins are used as a home for a lovely Yeti couple though it becomes clear very quickly that they did not build them part Mansion part military stronghold the dungeon has been perplexing players for years suits of armor don't appear to fit humans or the yetis while a prominent coat of arms doesn't appear anywhere else in the game why was it built in such a desolate Place who were its inhabitants and why did they abandon such a useful structure and what were they defending against we'll likely never know any of these answers and that makes the dungeon one of the series's most enrapturing locations to be reborn various in an effort to tie the games more closely together Nintendo revealed a major point of connection in Skyward Sword at the end the Demon King demise cursed Lincoln Zelda so that those with their blood would forever be haunted Across Time by his hatred while that explains them and why Ganon keeps coming back it doesn't explain everyone else they're far from the only recurring or reincarnated characters in Zelda impa tingle Beetle dampa the gravekeeper and many other minor characters appear in multiple games that aren't connected and I doubt any of them have been with an ancient demon we'll admit this is a bit of a silly mystery but if you're going to explain some reincarnated characters it's going to make us question the others Majora's origins The Legend of Zelda Majora's [Music] Mask just like the goddess of time the malevolent deity at the heart of this game is shrouded in mystery The Mask salesman tells us that Majora's Mask was once used by an ancient tribe in hexing rituals though they hid it away out of fear the tribe no longer exists in game so that's really all the information we get where did this villainous entity come from how and why was it sealed inside a [Music] mask furthermore the the relationship between the mask salesman and Majora brings up more questions inside the moon link comes across five mask children by extracting certain files in the 3D remake fans figured out that these children look just like the creepy salesman so what is his relationship with the mask other than simply seeking it [Music] out the last of the zonai The Legend of Zelda tears of the [Music] Kingdom where am I the zonai were an enigma heading into tears of the Kingdom but after playing it well we still have a lot of questions just how they're connected to the hen Pantheon we know of since they're said to be close to Gods themselves is a big question more than that we'd like to know just what happened to all of them we know what happened to the last two at least rahu sacrificed himself to seal Ganondorf away while mino's spirit that resided in the construct moved on but why were they the last two was there some event that led to the deaths of the others were there only a small number to begin with whatever the reason we hope it's explored further in the future thank you all the pickory legend the Legend of Zelda the Minish cat [Music] the prelude for Minish Cap gives us very little information on the events that set up the game once Hyrule was under threat of being swallowed by Shadow before the piery appeared from the sky giving a hero of men a powerful sword every 100 years after hens celebrated the Picker with a festival [Music] was the shadow mentioned another instance of Ganon or something else where did the pickery come from exactly the Minish capap is also the only game with the Picker in it did they remain in Hyrule or did something tragic befall them and why did hens stop holding the festival the existence of a miniature world within Zelda is fascinating but we don't expect we'll get any more pickory lore anytime soon [Music] check out these other great clips from Mojo plays and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos

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Length: 20min 57sec (1257 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 14 2023