The entire Gerudo area on the Southwestern side of the map has everything from giant stone swords on mountain peaks to giant bones in the desert-- what's your favorite landmark in Gerudo?
The area where the leviathan bones can be found, but solely for the fact that you have to traverse through the sandstorm to get there. Would love a dungeon that utilizes same idea in botw 2
For those who are confused about the comparing East Gerudo Ruins to the Highlands, if you look closely, the entirety of the peaks resembles the top down view of a heroine statue. You can see the top of the head, the arms, and then where the hands meet. The place where the map says "Gerudo Highlands" being the head, then pointing in a southeastern position.
So your saying the Gerudo Highlands text in the head area, and the random triangle up left are where the arms would have met? I think I see what you mean
As a small extension to your theory, maybe the reason they stopped carving the statue and the sword was that it was discovered that Ganondorf had less than honorable intentions. So why finish it when there was no longer any reason to celebrate him. Then they just change the story from the eight heroines to the seven and over time no one remembers there was ever a change to the stories on the heroines. There are plenty of stories in our real world where there are facts and also a story of how it happened where the details differ.
Alternative: the Yiga and/or Ganondorf purposefully "acted" while the Eight Heroine was being carved, so as to keep the statue separate, therefore representing him. Say that the Yiga/Gan. didn't exist yet, and the Gerudo just finished carving the Seventh Heroine. Now, the Yiga/Gan. appear for whatever reason and decide to "act," perhaps like a cou. By waiting till the last moment, they can keep the statue pieces where they are and separate, just like Ganondorf would be opposing what the Gerudo stand for. Now they can utilize that seperateness to gain the literal high-ground as well as the seclusion that provides secrecy. Idk, it makes sense to me 😂
The only issue I have with this idea is that the Eighth Heroine has the exact same carving on her that the 7 do: The Seven Sages, repeated over and over. If she was originally supposed to be part of a collective of eight, why would her own carving seem to deny her existence?
ONE MORE THING! The term used for the heroines in Japanese is gender neutral. Not only that… The statues are cowled and robed, and otherwise androgynous. So their gender is likely being applied by the current Gerudo. Take that Bembridge scholars!!
May be a moot point. As being within the Gerudo region, the Gerudo are 99% Female:1% Male (Every 100 years). There could be males depicted in the statues, but with the history of the Gerudo peoples, the only significant Males they'd depict are Gannondorf or Link/King of Hyrule. Knowing full well how the Gerudo have felt about Gannondorf since Nabooru. They frown upon him for treating the Gerudo as inferior to himself.
@@gabriellockwood2780 ah, but Ganondorf is not/was not the only Gerudo male born to the tribe for all time. It occurred once every 100 years, according to game lore. Ganondorf has been recurrent, but he surely isn't the *only* male ever for the entire history of the tribe.
@@MrJmZack True, but Urbosa said "Legend tells that Ganon came from the Gerudo." She doesn't mention Ganon as a 'he' so there for, it's possible they never even knew Ganon was one. They just say "Ganon is evil."
Zoom your vision out. Look at only one of the statues from above. Take the whole of the map in, instead of looking for smaller pieces. Or, that's what I did, and then it made a lot more sense. 😉 It's still a stretch, but theorising is sooo much fun. 😂
There's a huge problem, though. The Seven Heroines are made of yellow sandstone while the Eighth Heroine appears to be made of a red sedimentary stone tat seems more solid.
Well he did say it was carved out of the rock wall, like it was never moved. So it must have been an additional and even late, addition to the other Heroines. Probably did it for blasphemous purposes.
@@rooblixkewb7952 Considering that their difficulty rivals that of bosses, and offers even Link- a highly trained hylian soldier based on his skill with weapons- a major challenge, I'd say the Gerudo would be screwed if they happened to show up at the time of carving. It is worth noting that several defeated Lynel can be seen in a memory with Zelda, in the background as she treats his wounds, and this implies he defeated several of them without major injury while also preoccupied with more minor foes (again reflecting his skill in combat), but this is when he had the Master Sword and the Champion's Tunic, even, the highest defense torso armor in the game (without dlc). Their one advantage would be numbers, but a Lynel has incredible crowd-control potential with their large, precise weapons, multi-shot bow capable of hitting multiple targets, and resistance to the elements. This is never readily apparent when Link fights them, though, as 99% of the time it's a 1v1. So yeah, even Urbosa would likely be given a run for their money in a fight against them. And that's including her potential to use the same power they give Link. Oh god I did another braindump again. I put too much effort into UA-cam comments...
So, if the Gerudo carved an entire mountain to make the heroine statues, they must have had a lot more people when the carving happened, or they would never complete it. Any ideas as to why they’re so much smaller now, even though they weren’t affected by the Calamity 100 years ago and they weren’t cut down to size by a Hylian king, such as the Sheika and Zonai?
They can't breed as fast. Since no Gerudo males are born, Gerudo women have to go out and seek a male from the rest of Hyrule. That takes time and effort.
It could also be that the Statues are older than 10000 years and a lot can happen in that time frame. In fact, based on the fact that there's a Shrine puzzle in the circle it is possible that the statues were already "completed" before the Shrine was put there and the Eighth was already abandoned and forgotten.
Another big event that has been hinted at (primarily in Ocarina of Time) is that Hylians imprisoned and tortured the Gerudo after Gannondorf's evil intentions were discovered. So their race probably took a big hit from that, becoming almost extinct.
Going off of what you shown, I feel like the seven heroines were moved from the original spot which is where the eighth heroine is located. Just a theory but what if they moved the seven heroines from the eighth to show how upset they were at the eighth (Ganon) and distance themselves from his beliefs? (Just a thought)
"Each heroine had a different power: skill, spirit, endurance, knowledge, flight, motion and gentleness." - Rotana I wonder what the Eight's power was.
You can cut some of them down? Holy- what sometimes the new information I end up finding about this game is either the smallest detail or the coolest thing ever or the craziest or biggest piece of info ever. This isn't big, but it's definitely cool and crazy, or to put it simply; _wack._
@@Memi1423 I don’t know about him, but weirdly enough, the idea to cut down those trees never came to me; this is brand new information that I may have to try, lol
Just want to add my two cents on how to see the mountain heroine (9th heroine). Stop video at 11:26 so you can compare the shape of the statues. The statues clearly form a triangle with their arms. Across their hands is a line (hilt of the sword) that you can see for all the 7 heroines. Now look directly below the zoomed in map of the East Gerudo Ruins and a bit to the right. This is where the hands would meet to form the triangle. You can even see that the mountain has the "line" going across it like the other statues. The orientation of the mountain heroine is similar to the top-left heroine in the zoomed in map.
i also noticed the angle of the 8th statue fits in the missing gap where the 8th should be in the ring. like if it was transposed directly onto the circle of heroines, without changing its direction or angle, it would fit perfectly
A gerudo male is born. Gerudo: evil time. Seriously tho this theory is fire it makes so much sense that the ganon worshippers once had more influence and integrated ganon into their pantheon!
At 7:25 when you mention that there is space among the seven for the eighth heroine I wanted to add a note. The 8th heroine in it’s location in the highlands faces exactly the direction it would if it were placed within the circle of seven heroines.
More on the 8th Heroine statue, the Gerudo script carved into it reads in reverse "Seven Sages". Also at it's feet is a series of fissures in the ground, some of them with an air current coming from underground. The fascinating thing about all of this is the Gerudo Highlands on the map itself resembling the statue and if you look at where it's feet would be? The Yiga Clan's hole to the underworld.
Well done and very interesting theory! Another interesting observation: the eighth heroine is the only statue with it’s left hand resting on top. Go back to the Yiga Hideout and climb up for a good view: you’ll notice that all eight statues have their left hands resting on top as well. There are also 3 visible triangles to the right side of each statue, one of which is located on the right arm/wrist. In OoT, Link’s Triforce is on the left-hand, and Ganon’s (and Zelda’s) is on the right.
I’ll post this here for those who don’t see it. The entirety of the highlands forms a triangular shape very, VERY similar to the top-down shape of the heroine statues. Look at the left side of the highlands. See the big straight line? Now look at the right side. See the acute angle? Now look at the mountains on the top of the highland. It almost forms a side, right? And the center peak with “gerudo highlands” it close to the position of the head, maybe.
Carmen Aguayo if I’m not wrong what he meant was, the shape of the entire highlands is similar to the shape of you look too down at the heroine statues....they form a triangle like shape....so you see it now?
Wasn’t there also a theory somewhere that Gannon Dorf was supposed to be a sage in ocarina of time but because of his betrayal he was replaced in so he was like an “8th” of the 7sages Since all of the seizures are of different races or origins in ocarina
Functional illiteracy in america is at 20%, that means there's at least 30 million people that stopped at the first 3 letters and thought "no, it ain't".
@@broodypie2216 Functional... illiteracy? HEY! I ACTUALLY MISREAD THAT SENTENCE TOO! THAT THERE ARE FIGHTING WORDS!! .....Lol, am Not actually THAT mad. . but still. . . You just shot a bullet there pal. just because something can easily get misread going right into a comment on the first go, doesn't mean people have reading and writing skills that are below basic levels. its more about how one INSTINCTIVELY picks up a word while having the CORRECT word already imagined in their heads. I can understand if You simply had said whatever to go along Your factual post about how 30 million people would have Noticed it, but to say that the rest are grammatically inadequate just because they didn't read it right IS in fact a serious insult. Good Day. .
0:32 they're not actually mushrooms... they are some oddly shaped TREES !!! When you find a smaller version of it and try to cut it... it sounds and the inside IS WOOD!..... i was shocked at first too. EDIT: i found another comment saying it's called dragonblood's tree! And they're real CT Him.. i forgor his name tho.
@@janeenschultz8502 IKR ! I found out while at a stable and pressed Y instead of A i was instead grab a torch but ended up with a weird and shocking discovery
Okay... That ending got me! That is really cool and so subtle on Nintendo's Point.. Wow there's no way I would have seen that without that clear reference to the the group of heroines
I think that, assuming the statue is ganondorf, the missing sword might be a reference to the 'death sword' (which has been theorized to be ganondorf's sword) that was tied down at the execution site, removed from ganondorf during the execution in twilight princess. Also if the 7 heroines are the sages, the 8th could easily be ganondorf with his sword removed. Just my personal theory!
Great theory. I actually believe the Gerudo Fortress from OoT is the same as the Yiga clan hideout in BOTW. They both feature jail cells throughout. The yiga clan hideout has the same gerudo heroine statues as found in the desert, so it most likely used to belong to the Gerudo. And the hideout is obviously at least a spiritual successor to the Gerudo Fortress.
The sword of the eighth heroine being pierced into the top of Gerudo Summit (and that same mountaintop resembling the head of a heroine) reminds me of Ganondorf's demise in the Wind Waker.
Y’know, on the topic of Ganondorf, I’ve always wondered why there wasn’t even passing mention of any other male Gerudo before or after him. I mean, the timeline gives plenty of span and they’re supposed to be born every century. So when we get to the tens of thousands of years, it’s just kind of odd that he’s the only one we ever know about, period. Especially since I’m pretty sure said male Gerudo is supposed to be born as king or whatever.
I can't tell, it's either him remarking that there's an "East Gerudo Ruins" on the map, or, more likely, that the peaks resemble the top down view of a heroin statue.
If you look closely, the entirety of the peaks resembles the top down view of a heroine statue. You can see the top of the head, the arms, and then where the hands meet. The place where the map says "Gerudo Highlands" being the head, then pointing in a southeastern position.
It seems like they were trying to carve an absolutely ENORMOUS version of the heroine statue into the entire mountain. That’s just what I took away from it though
I beleive the eighth was carved by Ganon Dorfs loyalists after his death. The sword is angled strangely like how Ganon's head was peirced by a sword in the Child timeline. This seems kinda strange.
Theory: Ganondorf was once a good guy, so the good Gerudo started building him as the Eighth, but when he became evil and the evil Gerudo turned against the good Gerudo, they stopped building because it would represent their enemy. As to why it's a darker color, it's probably why the 7 heroines were heroines (female), whereas Ganon was a hero (male) when he wasn't evil.
To lend credence to this, in OoT there are six sages with Zelda being the seventh. However, in the previous games, there are seven sages with Zelda being the eighth. As well, each of the six sages of OoT were either rulers or important figures in each vassal state of Hyrule, with Ganondorf's kingdom being the exception. Maybe that's why Ganondorf is shown swearing loyalty to the king of Hyrule in the beginning of the game-the sages are being gathered.
Omg... that top down view of the Gerudo Highlands combined with the top down view of the Seven Heroines. I never even noticed that about the Gerudo Highlands. The WHOLE Highlands region IS a top down view of a single MASSIVE Heroine Statue. That is just downright mind-blowing 🤯!
Oh my goodness!! I had you actually as "FL4SHK" on my list-- and when I was splicing the text across the screen at the end of the video, I think what happened is I looked at my list alphabetically at the "F-" names and accidentally carried over the other supporter "Felix K" thinking it was a duplicate of "FL4SHK". I am so, so sorry about that. If you look at my last video, I have you correctly in the listing at the end-- but my eyes must have glitched on me when I was editing the end of this video. I apologize deeply, I had and have every intention of putting you in my videos, and I made a huge mistake. I will make a verbal apology to you in my next video.
So this Hyrule is so big because it's actually so small. You're playing as a Picori. That's how the sword got there. Dropped by a hylian. Also explains the large bones
You should do a theory about who makes the lynel weapons, as it is said they are made from minerals at the top of death mountain. Maybe the gorons make it for them??? Idk because there aren’t really any lynels in death mountain.
while i watch the video, let me guess who moved the sword: it actually goes with another theory, i think it was the last giant Goron who also are the giant skeletons
Also consider the textures of the sword and the rock it's against. It's the same texture. I doubt it 'fell over,' they were literally carving it out of the rock it looks like it's resting on. Because if you look, the sword rests on top of the rock, and not slightly inside it (the rocks around it would be chipped and the sword slightly inside it.) So it's obvious, to me, that it was being carved from that rock itself.
OK- I’ve been looking at totk for a while now….and here’s whatI think- Th seven heroines are the seven sages. Rauru, Sonia, Mineru, Goron Sage, Gerudo sage, Rito sage, and Zora sage. There was an eighth built for Zelda when she transported back in time- but Mineru or the other sages ordered for it to be hidden, to not break the timeline. And in the process, the sword was dropped.
The real question is: How did they even move the statue in the first place? I do agree that must have they carve the statues from the mountains, I even went to the statue to look at it and couldn't see how it was moved there.
I like to believe that a battle between giants happened. All those large skulls. One ran and saw the statue and its sword and took it for the fight. Didnt get a chance to land it hit and fell down pushing the sword into the ground. The story I made in my head.
I’m pretty sure that collapsed sheet of rocks was actually Farosh’s doing. At the Lakeside Stable, one of the NPCs, tells you the tale of the dueling peaks. That they were one mountain that a thunder dragon split to carve a path through. I’m pretty sure Farosh just carved through the rock in the Gerudo Highlands just to make a path for himself.
Could be both possibilities; they made a road to go towards the statue and Farosh just went, “um, yeah, this is cute and all, but I wanna go through here”, tore down the road, and that’s part of why the statue looks abandoned; cause they thought the dragon was attacking them?
but has anyone ever talked about how some look like they have an outline, an outline that looks like they were carved out of a mountain. the heroines could have been found somewere and moved to the locations like how the Egyptians moved large objects. and they just haven't found the sword, I don't really have an explanation for the sword but this is just my nugget of idea
This is a great theory! There is one possible, well, possibility that I can think of if the sword were actually moved, and that is that it were moved by twilight. In Twilight Princess, it is shown that a powerful twilight sorcerer/royalty (Midna) can teleport large objects at will. The only issues are as to why Midna (or some other twili) would do this, and how they returned to the world of light when the mirror was shattered. However (and this is likely just an easter egg) there is a mirror of twilight somewhat near Lurelin Village. Perhaps someone recreated it or remade it, and then it was once again shattered after the twili did what they wished?
I was just thinking of how Ganon was defeated in Oot: Link/Master Sword, the Sages, and ZELDA. Zelda could be the 8th heroine, but I have no idea if anything connects. Great video man, big fan
I always thought that the eighth heroine is a call to Zelda in her various incarnations. She's integral to the seven sages, and the vessel of Hylia. She's also a woman like the Gerudo, and maybe the placement of the statue faces Hyrule Castle? I don't know. Also I kind of thought that maybe the sword being away from the statue meant that the current vessel of Hylia was not in touch with her powers, a strangely prophetic of the carvers.
One thing that confuses me about the Yiga clan being the ones worshiping the eighth heroine is that all eight statues in their hideout have their faces covered... If they really did worship the heroine, why wouldn't they leave just one uncovered?
@@BanditGames well it is unrelated to this. I am thinking of breath of the wild 2 and how it will likely deal with time timeshift stones because there is so much history in the map that I think they'll bring it to it's former glory with something similar
What if the eighth statue is a prophecy representing Zeldas struggle to awaken her power making her feel alone and apart from her predecessors and the location of the sword is the 100 year separation from her personal sword (Link)
makes sense there was a yiga spy within kakariko right under impa's nose for crying out loud, woulndt be weird at all that atleast inner conflict within the gerudo happened forcing people to pick sides, i always wondered about that and what happened with the gerudo during ganon and after also i think people heavily undersestimate the yiga cause theyre so goofy, if they really werent that much of a threat they wouldve been wiped out easy by the seikah genius people themselves, or the gerudo, with such capable people yet they survive so well that even with people knowing exactly where they are and theyre left alone? something is up
I’m am of coarse no way a theorist, I’m way to dumb for that, but what if the 8th heroine is Ganondorf but also a entrance. What if that statue is blocking the entrance to the cave that ran into Ganondorf in the BotW2 trailer. Like I said I’m to dumb for this so I’m probably wrong but I thought it was a cool idea.
This is really interesting. So, all of Gerudo Highlands was carved!🤯 I remember finally finding the 8th statue after a LOT of searching but finding that sword first and being like "What the heck!?" The first place I ever went after leaving the canyon and realizing I couldn't bring my horse was that ring of 7 statues. I kept searching the eastern mountains of Gerudo for the side quest. Then finally going north and finding out that I was in the wrong area before.
It's crazy to think we're still finding new facts out about this damn game. I'm so excited cause I'm going to replay the game and barely remember a thing.
With the comparison between the mountains and the ruins it just kind of looks like the random indents is where they sculpted out the Heroine statues then moved them with the triangular shaped indents
I'm still a bit confused; why would you carve the sword so far away from the actual statue? Who's going to move it all the way to the statue once it's done? Wouldn't you want it to be closer? ;l
The entire Gerudo area on the Southwestern side of the map has everything from giant stone swords on mountain peaks to giant bones in the desert-- what's your favorite landmark in Gerudo?
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Probably the leviathan skeleton. It just looks so cool! And it seems like it would be a really good boss if it were still alive.
The area where the leviathan bones can be found, but solely for the fact that you have to traverse through the sandstorm to get there. Would love a dungeon that utilizes same idea in botw 2
Where the king molduga is. I think that's a rly cool fight
For those who are confused about the comparing East Gerudo Ruins to the Highlands, if you look closely, the entirety of the peaks resembles the top down view of a heroine statue. You can see the top of the head, the arms, and then where the hands meet. The place where the map says "Gerudo Highlands" being the head, then pointing in a southeastern position.
So your saying the Gerudo Highlands text in the head area, and the random triangle up left are where the arms would have met? I think I see what you mean
Thank you for this I was so confused.
maybe a much larger one was to be made? or some other reason why it looks like this
I see now.. wonder if it is intentionally sculpted this way or a random coincidence.. or possibly a bit of casual forced perspective
So they were making a giant statue? Pretty cool
Obviously the Lynel uses it for his weekly bench pressing. We just happen to always walk in on him during leg day.
Honestly I did actually the lynel moved it because of its brute strength
That's because everyday is leg day. Arms are done in the morning for lynels. Like breakfast.
You fuckin genius
There’s also a moblin kneeling to the sword
Legs legs what’s on the menu
As a small extension to your theory, maybe the reason they stopped carving the statue and the sword was that it was discovered that Ganondorf had less than honorable intentions. So why finish it when there was no longer any reason to celebrate him. Then they just change the story from the eight heroines to the seven and over time no one remembers there was ever a change to the stories on the heroines. There are plenty of stories in our real world where there are facts and also a story of how it happened where the details differ.
Alternative: the Yiga and/or Ganondorf purposefully "acted" while the Eight Heroine was being carved, so as to keep the statue separate, therefore representing him. Say that the Yiga/Gan. didn't exist yet, and the Gerudo just finished carving the Seventh Heroine. Now, the Yiga/Gan. appear for whatever reason and decide to "act," perhaps like a cou. By waiting till the last moment, they can keep the statue pieces where they are and separate, just like Ganondorf would be opposing what the Gerudo stand for. Now they can utilize that seperateness to gain the literal high-ground as well as the seclusion that provides secrecy. Idk, it makes sense to me 😂
The only issue I have with this idea is that the Eighth Heroine has the exact same carving on her that the 7 do: The Seven Sages, repeated over and over. If she was originally supposed to be part of a collective of eight, why would her own carving seem to deny her existence?
Sephira Eferie That’s what confuses me too!
but don’t you think they would’ve destroyed the thing instead of leaving it there? idk maybe I’m just being dumb
ONE MORE THING!
The term used for the heroines in Japanese is gender neutral. Not only that… The statues are cowled and robed, and otherwise androgynous. So their gender is likely being applied by the current Gerudo.
Take that Bembridge scholars!!
May be a moot point.
As being within the Gerudo region, the Gerudo are 99% Female:1% Male (Every 100 years).
There could be males depicted in the statues, but with the history of the Gerudo peoples, the only significant Males they'd depict are Gannondorf or Link/King of Hyrule.
Knowing full well how the Gerudo have felt about Gannondorf since Nabooru. They frown upon him for treating the Gerudo as inferior to himself.
Humility is a virtue...
*being rushed by brainwashed Gerudo*
Not right now, it isn't!
@@gabriellockwood2780 ah, but Ganondorf is not/was not the only Gerudo male born to the tribe for all time. It occurred once every 100 years, according to game lore. Ganondorf has been recurrent, but he surely isn't the *only* male ever for the entire history of the tribe.
@@MrJmZack True, but Urbosa said "Legend tells that Ganon came from the Gerudo." She doesn't mention Ganon as a 'he' so there for, it's possible they never even knew Ganon was one. They just say "Ganon is evil."
Bembridge?
So you're telling me
THERE'S A 9th GERUDO HEROINE STATUE?? THE GERUDO HIGHLANDS ITSELF???
Is that what I was supposed to see? Lol
I thought that was Link
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I don't see anything lol
@@lepokebloc4198 me neither
Imagine being just "The Next Guy" haha. Never, you are amazing sir and this video is also amazing! Very interesting theory indeed :D
Hyrule Gamer ah thanks man!! :D
Ayy it’s the ol hg
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I’m getting all you zelda theory channels mixed up 😂
11:25 Ok, I hate and love how there is so much _still_ to uncover from Botw even to this day..Nintendo is slick
I’ve been looking at this for a while and don’t see it. Please help?
I am also unsure what I'm supposed to be noticing.
same. i'm trying to actually see something, but i don't understand
Zoom your vision out. Look at only one of the statues from above. Take the whole of the map in, instead of looking for smaller pieces. Or, that's what I did, and then it made a lot more sense. 😉
It's still a stretch, but theorising is sooo much fun. 😂
@@rileyrogers8309 the top of a heroin and the shape of the Gerudo region
There's a huge problem, though. The Seven Heroines are made of yellow sandstone while the Eighth Heroine appears to be made of a red sedimentary stone tat seems more solid.
Well he did say it was carved out of the rock wall, like it was never moved. So it must have been an additional and even late, addition to the other Heroines. Probably did it for blasphemous purposes.
Maybe the Gerudo planned that since he's a guy, unlike the rest of the heroines. So it was just to differentiate him
He mentioned in the theory that he thought it wasn’t moved; rather, the statue was always located there.
@@xanderramsdell2919 isn't it like the ancient egyptian wallpaint ? Like the males are red skinned and females kinda yellowish skinned ? :O
The 8 statues are in the middle of a sandy desert,so maybe the color comes from hundreds of years of sand and dust getting blown into them?
"Why they're no longer here, I can't say."
*Ahem. Lynel. Right there.*
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Good point
That is correct
The Gerudo are skillful warriors, and I think they stopped carving before Calamity.
@@rooblixkewb7952 Considering that their difficulty rivals that of bosses, and offers even Link- a highly trained hylian soldier based on his skill with weapons- a major challenge, I'd say the Gerudo would be screwed if they happened to show up at the time of carving.
It is worth noting that several defeated Lynel can be seen in a memory with Zelda, in the background as she treats his wounds, and this implies he defeated several of them without major injury while also preoccupied with more minor foes (again reflecting his skill in combat), but this is when he had the Master Sword and the Champion's Tunic, even, the highest defense torso armor in the game (without dlc).
Their one advantage would be numbers, but a Lynel has incredible crowd-control potential with their large, precise weapons, multi-shot bow capable of hitting multiple targets, and resistance to the elements.
This is never readily apparent when Link fights them, though, as 99% of the time it's a 1v1. So yeah, even Urbosa would likely be given a run for their money in a fight against them. And that's including her potential to use the same power they give Link.
Oh god I did another braindump again. I put too much effort into UA-cam comments...
So, if the Gerudo carved an entire mountain to make the heroine statues, they must have had a lot more people when the carving happened, or they would never complete it. Any ideas as to why they’re so much smaller now, even though they weren’t affected by the Calamity 100 years ago and they weren’t cut down to size by a Hylian king, such as the Sheika and Zonai?
They can't breed as fast. Since no Gerudo males are born, Gerudo women have to go out and seek a male from the rest of Hyrule. That takes time and effort.
@@AdmiralAwsm also the other races kind of being wiped out means less prospective males to mate with.
@@AdmiralAwsm And we know that not all return to the Gerudo Desert as can be seen with the one who moves into Tarry Town.
It could also be that the Statues are older than 10000 years and a lot can happen in that time frame. In fact, based on the fact that there's a Shrine puzzle in the circle it is possible that the statues were already "completed" before the Shrine was put there and the Eighth was already abandoned and forgotten.
Another big event that has been hinted at (primarily in Ocarina of Time) is that Hylians imprisoned and tortured the Gerudo after Gannondorf's evil intentions were discovered. So their race probably took a big hit from that, becoming almost extinct.
What if it wasn't *moved*…
…And it was left where it was being carved?
CALLED IT! 😄
@@MrJmZack HAH! (you) GOTTI
I had been wondering that because when I look at it, it seems connected to the mountain.
Going off of what you shown, I feel like the seven heroines were moved from the original spot which is where the eighth heroine is located. Just a theory but what if they moved the seven heroines from the eighth to show how upset they were at the eighth (Ganon) and distance themselves from his beliefs? (Just a thought)
@@KM-md8cl you do know how hard it would be to move one of those let alone 7!!!
"Each heroine had a different power: skill, spirit, endurance, knowledge, flight, motion and gentleness." - Rotana
I wonder what the Eight's power was.
is Link gonna have something to do with those virtues in BOTW2?
It was Ganondorf so clearly it’s power was being a huge A-hole
@@lastactionhero7541 what if it was Ganondorf's mom tho :o
Then she unwittingly birthed an A-hole hahahohhgawd
Ganondorf had 2 mother's, Koume and Kotake.
Triforce of Courage
0:25 Those aren't mushrooms, they're actually called Dragonblood trees.
Plus, you can cut some down and get wood
You can cut some of them down?
Holy- what
sometimes the new information I end up finding about this game is either the smallest detail or the coolest thing ever or the craziest or biggest piece of info ever.
This isn't big, but it's definitely cool and crazy, or to put it simply; _wack._
Dragonblood huh
@@dunkleosteusterrelli .... you never tried to cut them down??
@@Memi1423 I don’t know about him, but weirdly enough, the idea to cut down those trees never came to me; this is brand new information that I may have to try, lol
Just want to add my two cents on how to see the mountain heroine (9th heroine). Stop video at 11:26 so you can compare the shape of the statues. The statues clearly form a triangle with their arms. Across their hands is a line (hilt of the sword) that you can see for all the 7 heroines. Now look directly below the zoomed in map of the East Gerudo Ruins and a bit to the right. This is where the hands would meet to form the triangle. You can even see that the mountain has the "line" going across it like the other statues. The orientation of the mountain heroine is similar to the top-left heroine in the zoomed in map.
Ohhh thanks! I was looking at it for like ten minutes and couldn't figure it out
i also noticed the angle of the 8th statue fits in the missing gap where the 8th should be in the ring. like if it was transposed directly onto the circle of heroines, without changing its direction or angle, it would fit perfectly
@@langsworth Yeah he said that in the video
A gerudo male is born.
Gerudo: evil time.
Seriously tho this theory is fire it makes so much sense that the ganon worshippers once had more influence and integrated ganon into their pantheon!
That moment when you realized you watched a guy talk about a rock
Ha, you should check out flint knapping 😂
Archeology in a nutshell
A *fictional* rock
At 7:25 when you mention that there is space among the seven for the eighth heroine I wanted to add a note. The 8th heroine in it’s location in the highlands faces exactly the direction it would if it were placed within the circle of seven heroines.
More on the 8th Heroine statue, the Gerudo script carved into it reads in reverse "Seven Sages". Also at it's feet is a series of fissures in the ground, some of them with an air current coming from underground. The fascinating thing about all of this is the Gerudo Highlands on the map itself resembling the statue and if you look at where it's feet would be? The Yiga Clan's hole to the underworld.
The "mushrooms" are real trees. They are called Dragon Blood Trees. Look them up.
Does the dragons bleeded and the blood made those trees grow like that? Fuck
@@eduardobustamante4749 I might get woooshed for this but, dude no.. that makes completely no sense.
@@eduardobustamante4749 I don't know i looked it up and it has some information about it but I haven't read it all...
Well done and very interesting theory!
Another interesting observation: the eighth heroine is the only statue with it’s left hand resting on top. Go back to the Yiga Hideout and climb up for a good view: you’ll notice that all eight statues have their left hands resting on top as well.
There are also 3 visible triangles to the right side of each statue, one of which is located on the right arm/wrist. In OoT, Link’s Triforce is on the left-hand, and Ganon’s (and Zelda’s) is on the right.
I’ll post this here for those who don’t see it.
The entirety of the highlands forms a triangular shape very, VERY similar to the top-down shape of the heroine statues.
Look at the left side of the highlands. See the big straight line? Now look at the right side. See the acute angle? Now look at the mountains on the top of the highland. It almost forms a side, right? And the center peak with “gerudo highlands” it close to the position of the head, maybe.
I still don't see it 😭
Thank you this helped
Carmen Aguayo if I’m not wrong what he meant was, the shape of the entire highlands is similar to the shape of you look too down at the heroine statues....they form a triangle like shape....so you see it now?
@@crunchyfresco the entire landscape forms the biggest statue I guess, why can't people just type that?
@@EclipseStudios970 landscape isnt a statue tho.
Wasn’t there also a theory somewhere that Gannon Dorf was supposed to be a sage in ocarina of time but because of his betrayal he was replaced in so he was like an “8th” of the 7sages Since all of the seizures are of different races or origins in ocarina
Accordion to scientific research, 90% of people reading this comment won’t realize that the first word of this sentence is an instrument.
Can confirm, 10/10 would get bamboozled again
...........oh. . . . . I think I get it. . Accordion... as in an Accordion! LOL!! Ya gotta love those wordy optical illusions. . .
Functional illiteracy in america is at 20%, that means there's at least 30 million people that stopped at the first 3 letters and thought "no, it ain't".
@@broodypie2216 Functional... illiteracy? HEY! I ACTUALLY MISREAD THAT SENTENCE TOO! THAT THERE ARE FIGHTING WORDS!!
.....Lol, am Not actually THAT mad. . but still. . . You just shot a bullet there pal.
just because something can easily get misread going right into a comment on the first go, doesn't mean people have reading and writing skills that are below basic levels. its more about how one INSTINCTIVELY picks up a word while having the CORRECT word already imagined in their heads.
I can understand if You simply had said whatever to go along Your factual post about how 30 million people would have Noticed it, but to say that the rest are grammatically inadequate just because they didn't read it right IS in fact a serious insult.
Good Day. .
@Samuel Arnold Same.
"Also because I want you to help me take over the world... K cool anyway, moving on!"
Holy crud, of COURSE I'll help you!
0:32 they're not actually mushrooms... they are some oddly shaped TREES !!!
When you find a smaller version of it and try to cut it... it sounds and the inside IS WOOD!..... i was shocked at first too.
EDIT: i found another comment saying it's called dragonblood's tree! And they're real CT Him.. i forgor his name tho.
I found that out by seeing them get hit by lightning and then collecting wood from the fallen ones. It was so weird!
My name is here. I'm the one who commented it.
WHAT!? U CAN BREAK THEM!?
@@victornyborg-christensen2213 only the small ones, like the ones by the stable.
@@janeenschultz8502 IKR ! I found out while at a stable and pressed Y instead of A i was instead grab a torch but ended up with a weird and shocking discovery
The eighth heroine was made from a different rock aswell
Okay... That ending got me! That is really cool and so subtle on Nintendo's Point.. Wow there's no way I would have seen that without that clear reference to the the group of heroines
I think that, assuming the statue is ganondorf, the missing sword might be a reference to the 'death sword' (which has been theorized to be ganondorf's sword) that was tied down at the execution site, removed from ganondorf during the execution in twilight princess. Also if the 7 heroines are the sages, the 8th could easily be ganondorf with his sword removed. Just my personal theory!
Great theory. I actually believe the Gerudo Fortress from OoT is the same as the Yiga clan hideout in BOTW. They both feature jail cells throughout. The yiga clan hideout has the same gerudo heroine statues as found in the desert, so it most likely used to belong to the Gerudo. And the hideout is obviously at least a spiritual successor to the Gerudo Fortress.
Considering you don't ever see their faces, maybe some of the Yiga are recruited Gerudo
@@charliekahn4205 Could very well be, although aren’t most, if not all the yiga, men?
I thinl we have to take a minute to appreciate how smooth that sponsor was. Quality 👌
3 years later and content like this can still be made from this game. incredible.
my theory was that they were car-ring the sword across the highlands and were then killed by the lynel up there
This why I love game design and world building I love the way the world itself holds so many hidden stories
"I would like you to help me take over the world...........K COOL"
Me: hmmmm I'm suspicious....
The sword of the eighth heroine being pierced into the top of Gerudo Summit (and that same mountaintop resembling the head of a heroine) reminds me of Ganondorf's demise in the Wind Waker.
Y’know, on the topic of Ganondorf, I’ve always wondered why there wasn’t even passing mention of any other male Gerudo before or after him. I mean, the timeline gives plenty of span and they’re supposed to be born every century. So when we get to the tens of thousands of years, it’s just kind of odd that he’s the only one we ever know about, period. Especially since I’m pretty sure said male Gerudo is supposed to be born as king or whatever.
I think because ganondorf doesm't die, they get no new king
"And uh hey, would you do me a favor? Finish your mid-fade without pausing." What a perfectly timed ad
Can you explain 11:24 a bit what was significant about the shape of the carved out cliff
I can't tell, it's either him remarking that there's an "East Gerudo Ruins" on the map, or, more likely, that the peaks resemble the top down view of a heroin statue.
If you look closely, the entirety of the peaks resembles the top down view of a heroine statue. You can see the top of the head, the arms, and then where the hands meet. The place where the map says "Gerudo Highlands" being the head, then pointing in a southeastern position.
@@metallicvoid1984 🤯🤯🤯 I see it now 🤯🤯🤯
It seems like they were trying to carve an absolutely ENORMOUS version of the heroine statue into the entire mountain. That’s just what I took away from it though
Look at the place labelled Gerudo Highlands and then look in the middle of East Gerudo Ruins
8:50-9:37 felt very smooth and the music went very well with it
I beleive the eighth was carved by Ganon Dorfs loyalists after his death. The sword is angled strangely like how Ganon's head was peirced by a sword in the Child timeline. This seems kinda strange.
Below the statue’s location (the mountain) could be where ganondorf lies.
the big mushrooms are actually “fossilized” trees, as the smallest ones give wood when destroyed
8:45
"at the base of the sword, there lies... a sword"
Idk why but that's the funniest shit I've heard all day lmao
Theory: Ganondorf was once a good guy, so the good Gerudo started building him as the Eighth, but when he became evil and the evil Gerudo turned against the good Gerudo, they stopped building because it would represent their enemy.
As to why it's a darker color, it's probably why the 7 heroines were heroines (female), whereas Ganon was a hero (male) when he wasn't evil.
To lend credence to this, in OoT there are six sages with Zelda being the seventh. However, in the previous games, there are seven sages with Zelda being the eighth. As well, each of the six sages of OoT were either rulers or important figures in each vassal state of Hyrule, with Ganondorf's kingdom being the exception. Maybe that's why Ganondorf is shown swearing loyalty to the king of Hyrule in the beginning of the game-the sages are being gathered.
I like how it has the Maz Koshia music
And the first talk with Sans music
Wait Hold up. The video came out 9 minutes ago but the first comment was 21 hours ago. I am confusion
... Aliens!
Omg... that top down view of the Gerudo Highlands combined with the top down view of the Seven Heroines. I never even noticed that about the Gerudo Highlands. The WHOLE Highlands region IS a top down view of a single MASSIVE Heroine Statue. That is just downright mind-blowing 🤯!
I think I got listed in the supporters list as "Andrew Close" rather than "Andrew Clark"
Oh my goodness!! I had you actually as "FL4SHK" on my list-- and when I was splicing the text across the screen at the end of the video, I think what happened is I looked at my list alphabetically at the "F-" names and accidentally carried over the other supporter "Felix K" thinking it was a duplicate of "FL4SHK". I am so, so sorry about that. If you look at my last video, I have you correctly in the listing at the end-- but my eyes must have glitched on me when I was editing the end of this video. I apologize deeply, I had and have every intention of putting you in my videos, and I made a huge mistake. I will make a verbal apology to you in my next video.
@@BanditGames You are so awesome. I'm not offended, but I was a little puzzled.
THE ENTIRE GERUDO HIGHLANDS LOOK LIKE A STATUE FROM THE TOP!!!! That actually blew my mind 🤯
Video: *dramatic shocked gasp of epiphany*
Me: huh?
So this Hyrule is so big because it's actually so small. You're playing as a Picori. That's how the sword got there. Dropped by a hylian. Also explains the large bones
The “Mushroom trees” you see early in the video, they are called “Blood trees” or “Dragon blood trees”
You should do a theory about who makes the lynel weapons, as it is said they are made from minerals at the top of death mountain. Maybe the gorons make it for them??? Idk because there aren’t really any lynels in death mountain.
while i watch the video, let me guess who moved the sword: it actually goes with another theory, i think it was the last giant Goron who also are the giant skeletons
Also consider the textures of the sword and the rock it's against. It's the same texture. I doubt it 'fell over,' they were literally carving it out of the rock it looks like it's resting on. Because if you look, the sword rests on top of the rock, and not slightly inside it (the rocks around it would be chipped and the sword slightly inside it.) So it's obvious, to me, that it was being carved from that rock itself.
Acting skills low-key on point tho
OK- I’ve been looking at totk for a while now….and here’s whatI think-
Th seven heroines are the seven sages. Rauru, Sonia, Mineru, Goron Sage, Gerudo sage, Rito sage, and Zora sage. There was an eighth built for Zelda when she transported back in time- but Mineru or the other sages ordered for it to be hidden, to not break the timeline. And in the process, the sword was dropped.
The real question is: How did they even move the statue in the first place?
I do agree that must have they carve the statues from the mountains, I even went to the statue to look at it and couldn't see how it was moved there.
Aliens, duh. It's all gonna be covered in the sequel.
They could probably have moved it with Medoh.
I like to believe that a battle between giants happened. All those large skulls. One ran and saw the statue and its sword and took it for the fight. Didnt get a chance to land it hit and fell down pushing the sword into the ground. The story I made in my head.
That sponsor message was the absolute best sponsor skit ever. I feel bad for people who skip those.
I’m pretty sure that collapsed sheet of rocks was actually Farosh’s doing. At the Lakeside Stable, one of the NPCs, tells you the tale of the dueling peaks. That they were one mountain that a thunder dragon split to carve a path through. I’m pretty sure Farosh just carved through the rock in the Gerudo Highlands just to make a path for himself.
Could be both possibilities; they made a road to go towards the statue and Farosh just went, “um, yeah, this is cute and all, but I wanna go through here”, tore down the road, and that’s part of why the statue looks abandoned; cause they thought the dragon was attacking them?
but has anyone ever talked about how some look like they have an outline, an outline that looks like they were carved out of a mountain. the heroines could have been found somewere and moved to the locations like how the Egyptians moved large objects. and they just haven't found the sword, I don't really have an explanation for the sword but this is just my nugget of idea
This is a great theory! There is one possible, well, possibility that I can think of if the sword were actually moved, and that is that it were moved by twilight. In Twilight Princess, it is shown that a powerful twilight sorcerer/royalty (Midna) can teleport large objects at will. The only issues are as to why Midna (or some other twili) would do this, and how they returned to the world of light when the mirror was shattered. However (and this is likely just an easter egg) there is a mirror of twilight somewhat near Lurelin Village. Perhaps someone recreated it or remade it, and then it was once again shattered after the twili did what they wished?
2:16-2:19 accidental Game Theory plug
I was just thinking of how Ganon was defeated in Oot: Link/Master Sword, the Sages, and ZELDA. Zelda could be the 8th heroine, but I have no idea if anything connects. Great video man, big fan
“It was meeeeh”
I did it liek this!
*POW*
Whoopty doo!
I always thought that the eighth heroine is a call to Zelda in her various incarnations. She's integral to the seven sages, and the vessel of Hylia. She's also a woman like the Gerudo, and maybe the placement of the statue faces Hyrule Castle?
I don't know. Also I kind of thought that maybe the sword being away from the statue meant that the current vessel of Hylia was not in touch with her powers, a strangely prophetic of the carvers.
7:25 what is the name of the music I love it but I don’t know what it is called
It's just the shrine music or the final trial divine beast music
@@loek7531 no it's the shrine
One thing that confuses me about the Yiga clan being the ones worshiping the eighth heroine is that all eight statues in their hideout have their faces covered... If they really did worship the heroine, why wouldn't they leave just one uncovered?
I don’t see what he was talking about before the “ad” can some one tell me?
Honestly, I just stumbled across the seven statues before I even got the quest, and was super proud of myself when I figured it out.
11:25
What am I supposed to be seeing?
Seriously, I can't squint my eyes or cross them or see anything relevant whatsoever
The top down view of a Gerudo heroine and the shape of the overall Gerudo highlands is the same
I had no idea the highlands were shaped like one of the statues!
Me: what a boring resolution.
Also me: yeah... He's probably right
I wanted it to be giants so bad lol... evidence is evidence though!
@@BanditGames btw I have a really interesting theory for you if you're interested. I reached out to nbc and zeltik with no response
@@geslisond what's the thoery? I probably have the same question or would love to hear it
@@BanditGames well it is unrelated to this. I am thinking of breath of the wild 2 and how it will likely deal with time timeshift stones because there is so much history in the map that I think they'll bring it to it's former glory with something similar
@@VirtuousWanderer .
Okay, how has no one realised that Urbosa’s sword is called the ‘Sword of seven’ lIKE, SERIOUSLY, THAT’S SO INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS.
MNB: it has to be man made
Gerudo sculptors: I think you mean “vai” made!
This was a dumb joke I too stay up way to late
wouldn it be voe made
Gotta love this guy for answering questions i didnt know i had.
People who say first have no life
also the first one to like this likes me
:o
First
What if the eighth statue is a prophecy representing Zeldas struggle to awaken her power making her feel alone and apart from her predecessors and the location of the sword is the 100 year separation from her personal sword (Link)
There needs to be more theories that connect Twilight Princess to BOTW.
The entire Gerudo is my favorite area in botw, because all the hidden mysteries in there are really interesting
That sponsor ad at the end was so creatively done. I loved it! More like that please!
I like how all the other random videos that were in the background of the video were almost all ones I have watched. Creepyness
I think it is a reference to the sages from twilight princess and the 8th heroine is the sage Ganondorf killed
5:09 i have been on my computer for the whole day and that made me feel motion sick (which rarely ever happens)
makes sense there was a yiga spy within kakariko right under impa's nose for crying out loud, woulndt be weird at all that atleast inner conflict within the gerudo happened forcing people to pick sides, i always wondered about that and what happened with the gerudo during ganon and after
also i think people heavily undersestimate the yiga cause theyre so goofy, if they really werent that much of a threat they wouldve been wiped out easy by the seikah genius people themselves, or the gerudo, with such capable people yet they survive so well that even with people knowing exactly where they are and theyre left alone? something is up
I’m am of coarse no way a theorist, I’m way to dumb for that, but what if the 8th heroine is Ganondorf but also a entrance. What if that statue is blocking the entrance to the cave that ran into Ganondorf in the BotW2 trailer. Like I said I’m to dumb for this so I’m probably wrong but I thought it was a cool idea.
Thanks, it’s probably not the best out there but it’s one of the only things I felt like I did right
11:25 when i tell you my kind exploded i mean it
the edit was for a typo
When i first saw the sword i hadn’t seen the statues at all yet so i was freaking out wondering what it was
1:41 lol thanks for the help. I was literally just looking for it cause of the snow boots
I moved the sword, you caught me!
Probably the location of the classic gerudo fortress from orcarina of time
This is really interesting. So, all of Gerudo Highlands was carved!🤯 I remember finally finding the 8th statue after a LOT of searching but finding that sword first and being like "What the heck!?" The first place I ever went after leaving the canyon and realizing I couldn't bring my horse was that ring of 7 statues. I kept searching the eastern mountains of Gerudo for the side quest. Then finally going north and finding out that I was in the wrong area before.
Them status are mechas. Once powered they move like the Devine beasts and fight like giant robot women.
It's crazy to think we're still finding new facts out about this damn game. I'm so excited cause I'm going to replay the game and barely remember a thing.
With the comparison between the mountains and the ruins it just kind of looks like the random indents is where they sculpted out the Heroine statues then moved them with the triangular shaped indents
I can't help but imagine some giant yeeted the sword elsewhere i dont know why
I'm still a bit confused; why would you carve the sword so far away from the actual statue?
Who's going to move it all the way to the statue once it's done? Wouldn't you want it to be closer? ;l
I'd like it to be an Easter Egg to lttp, there are 7 girls (descendants of the wise men) you have to rescue, with another being Zelda.