:: Legend of Zelda Theories ::

Before I get to start explaining with several theories I came up with and pointing out this and that throughout the game series, I just want to let you know there are some Zelda games I've never played before. Trying to make things clear, my first Zelda game is the Ocarina of Time during the N64 era. Now look at this chronology officially published by Nintendo from the book called Hyrule Historia. To be honest, they're quite confuse with the Zelda's choronology too.

Now, I'm not going to delve into EVERY damn game to point out my theories because that would take a lot of pictures to post up in here and I'll try my best in explaining them in a simpler way; besides, since I never played some of the games before, it would be hard for me to connect my theories with the series anyway, so I'll just point out on the games I've actually played before. We shall start on the top: Skyward Sword.

Skyloft is a piece of land that was cut out from the Surface (the Skyloft inhabitants called it with that name before it is known as Hyrule) that was sent towards the heavens by Hylia, the goddess chosen by the three goddesses (Din, Nayru and Farore) to protect the Triforce to fall from the wrong hands. I'm not going to tell the whole history of this though since it'll be quite lengthy. As generations after generations pass by, the huge birds known as Loftwing were said to be protecting the people of Skyloft. When the time is right, the children in Skyloft will find a suitable Loftwing for themselves to bond with and therefore, their Loftwings will remain forever loyal to them and would always protect them. Link's Loftwing is the crimson Loftwing which was known to be a rare one. Now my theory for this part is that, the Loftwings were created by the Goddess Hylia to protect her people and if you see at the Triforce crest, you will see the shape that represents like a pair of wings enveloping the Triforce symbol, and below, you will see two legs with talons and a structure like the bird's body in the middle. So I pretty much guessed that it is a Loftwing.

And before the creation of the Master Sword began, where Link have to go down to the Surface and seek out the three sacred flames, the sword he used was the Goddess Sword. Within the Goddess Sword itself is where the Goddess Hylia created the sword spirit known as Fi who will guide Link throughout his quest. At the ending of the game, Link is to put the sword back in its pedestal at the Sealed Temple deep within the forest, in which, within the sword is where the first Demon King, Demise, was absorbed into the sword once he was defeated; as a means to seal him away from the rest of the world forever. When Fi reveals that Link's quest has finished, she has no further use to him and therefore must sleep eternally within the sword itself. So basically, in a way, all this time - without us knowing - Fi resides within the Master Sword. And if you see both the Master Sword and the Goddess Sword's crossguard's colours and design, it looks the same as Fi. You can look it up if you want to. Furthermore, before Demise was sealed inside the Master Sword, he cursed Link and Zelda and their descendants (the people who carries the blood of the Goddess and the Soul of the Hero) that they will forever be plagued by the people who shared his hatred and challenge them for the Triforce eternally. So that explains why there's always evil plaguing Hyrule and bringing it to ruins. So those people would definitely be the likes of Ganondorf, Vaati, Bellum, Malladus and the list goes on.

And another thing I want to point out in this game is that, Link attends Knight Academy; where he learns swordplay and the likes to defend the people of Skyloft when they're being attacked. So like all typical schools, Link has a rival named Groose. Groose has red flaming hair and has a huge affection on Zelda. He also likes to bully Link just because he's quite close with Zelda. When Zelda was thrown off her Loftwing by the Demon Lord Ghirahim - Demise's spirit sword in its' physical form - Link have to start his journey and have frequent trips here and there. Groose noticed Link's suspicious activity; and when Link decided to depart from Skyloft for the Sealed Grounds (where the Sealed Temple is located), he actually followed Link. There's a hilarious cutscene about this when Link and Groose was about to land on the Surface, in which I'm not going to tell you. And that is when Groose first stepped on the Surface -- to his horror. And come to think of it, Groose actually liked staying on the Surface and decided to help Link from time to time. So, my theory for this is that, since Groose has red flaming hair, he probably MIGHT be Ganondorf's (since he has red hair too) ancestor. Besides, all the Gerudos have red hair. Groose was confident enough that his looks might attract girls and whatnot. And if remember Nabooru's quote in Ocarina of Time, she stated that the entire population of the Gerudo tribe are mostly females and every 100 years, a male is born. Here's a picture of Groose and his precious pompadour.

The next theory will be Zelda's father, Gaepora in Skyward Sword. Gaepora is the headmaster of the Knight's Academy. And the name Gaepora automatically clicked on my mind that reminds me of the owl people hate so much in Ocarina of Time, Kaepora Gaebora. Looking at Gaepora's robe reminds me of Rauru's, the Sage of Light from Ocarina of Time. Maybe you can look at the similarities that these characters shared, and can perhaps possibly fit the pieces together by yourself. (From left to right: Gaepora, Rauru and Kaepora Gaebora)

And so we moved further down to Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess. You can also look out for videos about the theory connection for the Minish Cap (didn't finish the game.... yet) and the likes. Starting from Ocarina of Time, there's some confusion here with the Hyrule map because of the Temple of Time's location where the Master Sword is kept in its pedestal. Well, I can't really say the geographical landscape has changed overtime along with the Temple of Time but it seems unlikely. So I think there's an error in this part. (From top to bottom: Skyward Sword, Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess)

You can study the map closely if you like and maybe perhaps you'll ended up with an explanation as to why Kakariko Village moved quite further down a bit in Twilight Princess' map. 

Anyway, in Ocarina of Time, we met the Skull Kid in the Lost Woods as Young Link. If you ever talked with the Skull Kid before, he states that he doesn't like adults, so when you traveled in the future and return back to where the Skull Kid is as an adult, the Skull Kid would turn hostile towards you and attacked -- which he would then leave a huge amount of rupees once you defeated him. As young Link, you also get to teach him Saria's song. If you remember from the game, Saria stated that she only teaches her song to her closest friend, which is Link. So basically, in Twilight Princess, when Link needs to go to the Sacred Grove (twice) to obtain the Master Sword and to go to the Temple of Time (which is also situated deep in forest of the Sacred Grove; note that this is exactly like how it is in Skyward Sword), Link confronts the Skull Kid in the Sacred Grove. Apparently, the Skull Kid has puppet-like "friends" to do the dirty job for him. He likes playing the hide-and-seek game with Link in the forest. When Link has to find him in the Sacred Grove, the Skull Kid plays Saria's song with his trumpet-like flute. So I am assuming this Skull Kid is the same one from Ocarina of Time, because only one Skull Kid knows the tune to Saria's song. Well, who knows how long the life span of a Skull Kid's eventhough the event of Ocarina of Time was like around 100 years ago. (From left to right: Twilight Princess' Skull Kid and Ocarina of Time's Skull Kid)

Now for my favourite part! In Twilight Princess, whenever Link touched a Twilight fog or any area that was covered in a Twilight curtain, he would turn into a wolf; a sacred wolf. During his journey, he encountered a golden wolf waiting for him. Mistaking that the golden wolf was actually an enemy, the golden wolf entered his mind and talk to him. The golden wolf reveals himself as the Hero's Shade.

When I first saw him, he looked like a Stalfos, but then he could possibly be Link or any other previous heroes before him. Well, to answer your question, Nintendo confirms, logically and officially, that he is Link from Ocarina of Time. He teaches the Twilight Princess' Link seven hidden skills which is quite useful in battle. The way he formed his words were beautiful, and not to mention wise as well. There's two reasons for why he is called as the Hero's Shade: the first reason is that, Link could possibly just die because of old age or perished during in the middle of a war; which basically made him look like that, just like any other normal deaths. Another reason could also be (which I find it quite likely), that in the end of Majora's Mask, Link didn't actually succeed in finding Navi in the forest. Basically, Link is a Hylian, not a Kokiri. So instead of turning into a Skull Kid (which happens to the Kokiris if they wander in the forest for too long), Link turned into a Stalfos instead. Well, who knows for how long did Link wander around the forest.


Aaaaand, I guess that's the end of my theory. I might be missing something but mostly, some of them are quite obvious for you to fit them together, like the Zoras' evolution into Ritos and the likes. This post took me like a day and a half, or maybe more. I hope you guys like it and find it quite "interesting," if you didn't know anything about this though. SLEEP BECKONS!