20 MORE Tears of the Kingdom Master Works New Lore & Story Secrets
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2024
- Here are 20 more new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lore and story secrets from the comprehensive 464-page Master Works book!
Currently available only in Japanese, this book offers an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look into Nintendo’s design process. There's a ton of stuff to look at and details to explore that have largely remained unseen by the gaming community.
This video explores the untold story arcs and cut content from Tears of the Kingdom that are examined in depth within Master Works. It covers deleted cutscenes and story elements surrounding key parts of the game, including Rauru, Ganondorf, and the Imprisoning War. These details, in my opinion, add significant depth to the game’s narrative, enriching the story beyond what was shown in the final release.
All Japanese-to-English translations featured in this video have been completed by me. As always, remember that translations can be subject to interpretation, and others may choose to translate the text differently. These translations are not intended to be definitive but represent my interpretation of the original text.
Here's 25 more Secrets and Lore from Master Works if you're looking for more:
• 25 NEW Zelda: Tears of...
Many pages from the history section of the book is written in a speculative manner in Japanese. My purpose with this video is to include and share those details.
Hearing more about the Imprisoning War (or ‘Sealing War’ in Japanese) from the Master Wars… makes me wished the Zelda team and Nintendo would make a Torna-esque TOTK side story where players get see more of Zelda’s journey in the distant past.
Hopefully they would consider it after the release of the Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (very excited for this 2D Zelda game).
I wondered if Ganondorf intend to use the Chamber of Six Sages to fulfill his goals as you mentioned in his motivations video before being sealed by King Rauru himself.
I REALLY want to see the adventures of the miscellaneous heroes; the Hero of Men, the Ancient Hero, and the Cycle Breaker from Hyrule Warriors.
Fantastic as always! Thank you for posting this!
If you’ll permit me, I’d like to copy over a point I tried to make elsewhere-Sonia being the “ancestor” of Zelda may not be as canon-breaking as we might think at first glance. _Zelda II_ has a “First of all Zeldas” in its backstory, and that got retconned eventually into a “First of all Zeldas within this kingdom/timeline/etc.” Sonia is probably just the first royal Hylian after the refounding.
Or.... Maybe not... Like for real, before the book i was 50/50 on trueFounding/Refounding, but the whole book seems to be more 50/50 towards True Founding or Alt. Timeline. Like there's not much in the book to support Refounding.
And I'm not being bias, I truly was looking for concrete evidence for the Refounding theory in the book, some fan theories were convincing and even reasonable, but there's not much...
It flows way easier as a different continuity than to try and cram it as part of the overarching story of previous games.
Just listening this makes me wish TOTK would get some DLC, we need to know more about this Era, The Sacred Trees (possibly connected to the Deku Tree?) and Ganondorf.
It sure is nice that 95% is not in the game or so obscured that it couldn't be understood. It also is just lovely that the biggest plot holes continue to exist even with these explanations.
I hope when Master Works is fully translated, someone will put all of this together in an in-universe chronological order. I WANT TO KNOW ALL THE THINGS!
So if Sonia was to be the ancestor of all Zeldas, what does that make her relation to the Zelda of Skyward Sword, the first Zelda, the mortal reincarnation of Goddess Hylia, and who was believed to be the progenitor of the bloodline of the Goddess?
They released a new time line update somewhere, where it was shown that BotW and TotK are their own timeline, disconnected from all others.
@@gammaraysummerhead
That’s not the case; they are stated to be so far into the future that all previous Zelda games have faded into myths and legends, not a separate rebooted universe.
thats just how they designed her doest mean she is the ancestor to ALL zeldas, yall reading too much into something that is just meant to convey a feel rather than be an actual truth
@@dreamer1292
I guess it was meant to be a metaphor.
@@chrispork1443 Exactly what dreamer said, there's no way Sonia predates all the Zeldas without confirming Aonuma and the Zelda team have to every brain cell they had left in their attempt to "reinvent" Zelda with the Wild games.
wow it sure as heck would've been cool to have these details in the game you know??????!
I wish this was in the game itself...
This imagine a world filled with small hints to all this similar to from soft games
This would’ve been a great way to make Zelda playable if these contents are in the game.
If they still went this route, I would still HATE TotK as a final product. This is just a rehash of BotW with a new reality and bull origin story. It’s the same as Mario Galaxy 2 reusing the same exact premise. Nintendo can’t be original with ANYTHING in terms of plots. The only exceptions are the Splatoon franchise and Pokémon Ultra Sun/Moon.
We need Ganondorf DLC!! I need more lore on my man😭
Nintendo: No, we ran out of ideas. Maybe this Ganondorf will return in a later game, but no DLC
Screw this pathetic little hobbit. Calamity Ganon was a more terrifying threat and character than this forgettable one note villain. TotK screwed up so badly that I swear it’s just reskinned and rewritten BotW. It’s not a sequel worth $70 and is Nintendo straight up committing false advertising.
It would've been so awesome if we got a game with all this story and lore
Strange choice to just write a book but never make a game for it
Very interesting video. Nothing on the weird zonaï-ish hero yet?
This is exactly the content I was hoping for from masterworks!
Skyward Sword Interpretation: Din created the Land by burying the Old World, that of demons, alive.
From what I pieced together from the previous video;
The Zonai collaborated with the Mogma to mine the Depths, but they fled into the sky after they dug TOO deep, unleashing the demonic hordes of the Old World, prompting the War Between Gods and Demons.
And now Nintendo's claiming that, at some point in TotK's development, Sonia was intended to be an ancestor of ALL the Zeldas, including Skyward Sword Zelda.
But at the same time; the Master Works also proposed MULTIPLE answers to single questions in the same book, namely the depths statues possibly being an enemy faction, or an earlier form of the zonai, or something else entirely.
I think Nintendo wants us to pick and choose what we believe is and isn't canon for ourselves.
1:00 You have to be freaking kidding me!
I swear to god, I'm going back to the thing I believed in the first few weeks after TotK came out: that they had de-canonized all Zelda games prior to BotW and they were starting from scratch.
I stopped beliving that when Fujibayashi said in an interview that no, that the previous Zelda games were still in continuity, and that the Hyrule from the Wild era was essentially a third Hyrule after the previous two were destroyed. But I'm starting to believe Fujibayashi just made up that reply on the spot out of panic.
Yeah, Aonuma now has completely lost track of WHAT THE HECK they are doing if he's willing to indulge the notion Sonia is THE ancestor to *ALL* the Zeldas despite the explicit contradictions to the lore seen across the entire series to even entertain such a notion. If it's indeed the case that Sonia preceeds all the Zeldas across the whole timeline, then screw it: I AM DONE caring about the "story" in this franchise.
This is not the first time we’ve seen a “definitive first” Princess Zelda. Z2 had that element as a back story, and it got retconned too.
Sonia might have just been the first royal in the kingdom’s refounding.
It's obviously:
SS Zelda > Sonia > every other Zelda.
The refounding theory is dumb and is just fan cope.
@@stuffz1757 Yey, the misinformed, trolling party pooper has arrived to the comment thread.
I mean, that's what you should believe, seeing as Nintendo recently put out a timeline that says BotW and TotK are completely removed from all the previous games. They're not set hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of years after the ends of the other games. They're a brand new disconnected timeline.
(and for the people who need to hear this, Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity isn't on the timeline, proving for the billionth time that a spinoff "what if?" game isn't canon. not sure why people expected it to be canon in the first place because it would mean BotW doesn't happen if it is canon, but there we go, Nintendo confirmed it again so people can STFU about it)
would it had killed the devs for adding "Temple of Light" and "Chamber of Sages" to location names in the game? my god
I can see why they didn't given the fact that the actual Chamber of Sages from Ocarina of Time is outright stated to exist inside the _Sacred Realm,_ which is a different plane of reality to Hyrule. It wouldn't have made sense for a location called "Chamber of Sages" to exist within Hyrule itself without contradicting the established lore.
@javiervasquez625 Totk's very story already contradicts established lore so I don't think they're very concerned about that
@@masterpig9485 Still, the Sacred Realm is not located in Hyrule, hence why Aonuma and co. didn't take the decision of conflating the lore surrounding the Ancient Sages from Ocarina of Time and A Link to the Past with that of the Sages from Rauru's Hyrule.
@@javiervasquez625 They soft rebooted the franchise, i dont think that matters no more, botw/totk and all games from here on out are not connected to the previous ones almost at all.
@@EberTLOZ "Soft" reboot isn't the same as a _hard_ reboot, in case you haven't noticed. The lore established in previous titles isn't magically getting erased just because Nintendo is resetting the timeline with a brand new kingdom thousands of years after the established three timelines vanished from recorded history. It's why we still got a Master Sword, Fi still living inside of it, the Triforce still been around (inside Zelda), Ganondorf still reincarnating as he's been doing since Four Swords Adventures and many callbacks, continuity nods and references to all the previous games in the timeline prior to Breath of the Wild.
I repeat: it's a *soft* reboot, not a hard reboot. The old lore is still connected to the Wild duology (as proven by Echoes of Wisdom).
Why is all of this in a book about the game? I wish we could've discovered all of these details in the game itself. Why do they not put these things in the games?
@@v7ave Because Nintendo is a _game developer_ first and a storyteller second. To them, an expanded and engaging narrative is secondary to your entertainment having fun playing a videogame.
Miyamoto hates stories. As far as we can tell, that's the only reason. Lots of devs at Nintendo would like to put more stories in their games, but Miyamoto hates it. Sometimes little bits and pieces leak out, like how they had to hide the story in Mario Galaxy from Miyamoto, and how he made sure that didn't happen again in Galaxy 2.
Whyyy is he like this 😢 @@mjc0961
It would be hard to balance this much stuff with the rest of the game's events, so I think it makes sense for the game's story itself to be more focused on Link's journey and for this book to explain the greater picture.
@@javiervasquez625Other Zelda games included their stories in the games themselves
Fire Emblem and Xenoblade also exist
God, i really wish this was all in the game, because this all would have given ToTK maybe rhe best story in the series, but this id all we get i suppose.
I wish Nintendo would just make a separate Legend of Zelda based in this Hyrule. They could cover the Zonai period, the Great Calamity, I’d even love a game or dlc based on the rebuilding of Hyrule between Breath and Tears. Maybe a post Tears of the Kingdom game, finding an older abandoned Hyrule.
I’d still love the mainline games to continue, but it almost seems like they could have both open world games and the traditional format. I also know it would be difficult to maintain two different teams for a franchise that would end up competing with itself.
Any you have learned the Master Works about Kotake and Koume?
The only thing that is said about them is that they were Ganondorf's "right arms", or collaborators. Nothing is said about them being TOTKdorf's mothers.
Wait, what?
"Sonia was designed to be the ancestor of all the Zelda's"
So much for refounding theory...
Maybe the Wind Waker Rito just took a metric fuckton of creative liberties with the art style? With Laruto and Koboli, I initially thought the Rito were the result of hylians and zora reproducing together, but now?
I wonder if Sonia being before all the Zeldas includes Skyward Sword?
thats so bs it just doesnt work at all. we have literaly skyward sword zelda. sonia looks the least like any zelda in the series. the devs honestly fcked up wtf
@@zakzerak7191 Maybe they designed Sonia with that in mind but ultimately scrapped that detail?
Refounding theory is dead. The timeline in Master Works heavily implies this Ganondirf comes before OOT Ganondorf too. Let it go and move on at this point lmao
@@abdieljove2011 it doesnt at no point in the book oot ganondorf is referenced or mentioned and the book still says that after totk ganondorf there was no record of other gerudo kings.
its still ambiguous as to wheter its refounding or not
Okay im probably crazy but hear me out. The TOTK stuff with the past is pre skyward sword. That would explain the robots and time shift stones. The robots in Skysword are probably zoni tech. The remnants of the zoni taught the sheika. Demise who was puppeting the first gannon got mad and revealed himself. Leading to the prologe of skyward sword. The big red pit in OoT is malice. That gannon is tapping into the sealed gannons power. That's why he came back with no problem in 2/3 timelines and created his own by winning. We've had two zeldas at the same time. Why not two gannons? That would also mean the dragon break that happens to unite all three timelines was probably zelda in dragon form, healing the master sword up in the sky barrier. This would also back up and be backed up IMO by the awesome youtber that made bideo connecting all the maps together. If i find the video again, I'll edit this.
It’s not.
I did think that some of the ruined husks of dead/destroyed/rusted robots in TotK looked unusually similar to the robots in Skyward Sword
I'm sorry, but the more we learn, the more cheated I feel. I don't want to be THAT guy, but why the FUCK wasn't any of this in the actual game?! Seriously, this would've made the story SO much better!
Kotodama? how digimon in digimon survive can be called digimon i like because words can have power aka language or script and a program language of digital data can be language and when kotodama distorted aka corrupted data to a digimon and thizs spiritual power alter reality explain a similar but different how digimon use information manipulation can alter the real world. This just must theory, its not Zelda related just randomly throught of it
6:48 is why everyone shouts their special moves in anime?
I think Bleaxg explicitly states understanding the meaning of the word and screaming out loud evoke power. Plus I think this trope is all over the word. The very idea speaking out spells by muttering lost arcane runes to cast powerful magic.
I wish Nintendo’s design philosophy was more like Fromsoft, at least in terms of world building and lore. From what I’ve seen, it looks like Nintendo doesn’t see this lore being in the game as something that increases the fun of the game. It’s more of a thing they write to explain for themselves than something they intend the fans to see. They’re more interested in just delivering an adventure instead of a story or history lesson. Which is a shame.
It's more just a current Zelda writing team philosophy
Other Nintendo games including older Zelda games like OoT and TP had worldbuilding and lore in the games, and even the map designers for BotW/TotK include a lot of environmental storytelling that just gets ignored by the writing team
@@TommySkywalker11 I disagree.
Ancestor of all Zeldas, you say?😁
I know right? 😅 As many have pointed out, it's probable Aonuma was merely been metaphorical about it without _actually_ intending to say Sonia does in fact predate all the Zeldas we've seen across the timeline without contradicting everything we know about the established lore. Either he's using figurative speech or he's lost all his brain cells (i'm pretty much sold on the former alternative).
@@javiervasquez625 Oh, I've been theorizing that Rauru's Hyrule is the nation that fell before Skyward Sword from the moment I finished the Dragon Memories.
@@RyuuKageDesu That doesn't make any sense, no offense.
she was designed to look like the ancestor of all Zelda's but was put in the game where she's the reincarnation of all zeldas
@@javiervasquez625 It does make a crazy amount of sense, and has a lot of explanation power. It doesn't work with some commonly held fan theories, but the games are the primary canon.
Where can i buy this?
Wow
You know, a connection to think about i haven't seen anyone touch upon yet.
As far as i know there's only been one "Zelda" with darker skin like Sonia before: -Petra.- Tetra.
In which case, i wonder if Sonia is actually a descendant of Tetra's then. Being only the ancestor of all Zeldas that came after her, in a vast time-gap we haven't seen, instead of at the _beginning_ beginning before Wind Waker.
@@fallatiuso That would contradict Spirit Tracks where _Tetra's_ (not "Petra's") descendants already have fair caucasian skin as they rule over a brand new landmass they call Hyrule miles and miles away from the old kingdom where both the Master Sword and the latest incarnation of Ganondorf were left to be buried by the Great Sea, without any sign of either the sword or Ganondorf been salvageable from all that sea water trapping them for eternity.
The reason why Sonia is tanned skined is due to her been a Zonai-Hylian _hybrid_ just like all the tanned skined Hylians we see guarding over her during Zelda's memories of her time in the past.
@@javiervasquez625 ...i can't believe i misremembered her name. haha
Honestly i don't see why this can't be that new land either. The people in Zelda seems to have a habit of naming things the same names over and over. Though i am no surprised if it turns out to be a post-great-sea Hyrule.
Meanwhile the master sword's a divine relic that could probably find it's way back somehow in an unheard tale. (especially if this Hyrule is post-great sea, which would make it easier to recover it after the divine waters receded. )
But i don't know about Sonia being a hybrid tbh. I think she's a pure Hylian personally.
Not to mention, it seems more like she was the Hylian making the hybrids to me. 😏
@@fallatiuso Daphnes Literally wished the Triforce to _destroy_ the entire kingdom of Hyrule alongside Ganondorf and the Master Sword with it... could the Master Sword randomly make its way to the Land of the Lokomos without any logical explanation which wouldn't bypass Daphnes's wish "just because"...? Somehow i doubt it.
Did you just shove aside all those _other Hylians_ we see alongside Sonia in Zelda's memories? They also share her tanned skin and elongated ears as a direct cause of crossbreeding between Zonai and Hylian.
@@javiervasquez625
I'll be honest, somehow my mind bypassed them entirely due to being background characters.
Strongly doubt they're hybrids honestly. I think they're just regular if dark-skinned Hylians. Hylians have always had the elf ears if i recall.
And it's not like you need to couple with a space-goat-bunny to get darker skin either, or it would raise some questions for Tetra and them all. haha
Re-watching the ending of WW, He didn't actually wish directly for Ancient Hyrule to be destroyed, but to be washed away; He wished for a future with hope for Tetra, Link, and the world.
So i figure old Hyrule wasn't so much physically destroyed as much as it was flooded and forgotten. Left in the past.
But really, it still doesn't stop someone else in the future making their own wish to regain the sword, or beseeching the gods for assistance and it descends from on high, or by divine plan recovering it to fight yet another reincarnated Ganon/dorf, which seems to happen a lot.
Alternatively it just washes up somewhere, likely again due to divine providence.
(Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if _even after_ being physically destroyed the master sword could still somehow be reforged back into physicality "from it's spirit", in a spirit realm, from its "divine essence", or something else like that. Not the first time it's been physically reforged, or spiritually restored.
The master sword is a pretty exceptional object after all.)
(ahh, sorry for long response btw.)
This confirms the narrative potential of TOTK and the disappointing story of the final game. Maybe Nintendo could explore this narrative in another warriors game. But that’s just wishful thinking.
I sure hope not. Warriors is such a dull unfun game style. I'd rather they put this in something that's engaging instead. Even hiring some animators to turn it into a video series would be more interesting than another awful Warriors game.
Hearing all of this stuff just makes me dislike TotK more because of how much they left out of the game, this would've made it more to continue playing.
I really hope the intended.l Does a better job with the english localization... They are completely terrible when it comes to the legend of Zelda series regarding translation and Sonia Is confirmed to be a descendant of skyward sword Zelda
All of this is making me realize the Zelda fanbase is pretty stupid sometimes.
Zelda games retcon lore constantly, but for some reason forgot that upon Tears' release. The entire fanbase backlash of the story honestly even gaslit me into thinking something was wrong.
Nope! The retcons are intentional just like with every other Zelda game, and everyone is just overthinking themselves into a tizzy to cope with a story they dont like.
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This game, hoo boy…how much I HATED it by the time I finished the final boss with Dragon Ganondorf. It fails as a sequel, it fails as a game trying to capture BotW’s amazing atmosphere, it fails as a game worth 6 years waiting AND $70.
I wanted more about the Sheikah and their tech, the Divine Beasts and Guardians, the first battle with Calamity Ganon, the Champions and their successors. Instead, it copies so much of reused premises that make Nintendo games a bore to play because they like to just copy and paste plots and stories.
Even listening to this book makes me think they never wanted to actually follow Breath of the Wild, it’s established reality or anything. Heck, the Yiga Clan felt like an almost scrapped concept given how easy it is to overlook Kohga and those in the Depths. Everything about BotW is better than TotK and the “world breaking s***” they tried to replace it with. No building your own stupid mechs will replace what I experienced in the first game.