The Mystery of the Arbiter's Grounds (Zelda Theory)

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  • The ruins of Arbiter's Grounds in the Gerudo Desert of Breath of the Wild have left many a Zelda theorist questioning everything from its origins to whether or not it was the real Arbiter's Grounds from Twilight Princess. Could it be that the ruins themselves were destroyed by familiar faces?
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  • @BanditGames
    @BanditGames  5 років тому +319

    Do you have a theory about the Goddess of the Sand or the Arbiter's Grounds/Spirit Temple?
    Also. Thank you all, once again, for 2019. I can't say that enough. And I can't wait to see what 2020 holds. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

    • @Cliffordlonghead
      @Cliffordlonghead 5 років тому +2

      Awesome Video

    • @Sonia-ib5nm
      @Sonia-ib5nm 5 років тому +1

      Thank you for your great videos 🌟

    • @rodrigroudon1872
      @rodrigroudon1872 5 років тому +1

      MaskedNintendoBandit thx you too

    • @Cliffordlonghead
      @Cliffordlonghead 5 років тому +1

      Thank to you too dude first

    • @ryumajin7568
      @ryumajin7568 5 років тому +12

      I don't really have any proof to make it a plausible theory. but considering how Ganon is kind of vengeful. I would imagine he would want destroy Arbiters ground himself. until it can be confirmed I wouldn't rule out the possibility that Calamity Gannon. or some of the many Mechs that he possessed destroyed Arbiter grounds.

  • @zedbags
    @zedbags 4 роки тому +314

    Me, frantically digging around the Arbiter's Grounds ruins: *"WHERE'S THE MIRROR I NEED TO SEE HER AGAIN"*

    • @boocolo1046
      @boocolo1046 2 роки тому +11

      It's in botw you Can find part of it around thé coast

    • @cloudydays4825
      @cloudydays4825 2 роки тому +13

      @@boocolo1046 its actually never proved that its the mirror of twilight

    • @Voidthe47th
      @Voidthe47th 2 роки тому +17

      As a Twilight Princess fan I did the exact same thing. 😂
      Where the temple at fr though

    • @reddiamond66
      @reddiamond66 2 роки тому +5

      Except that, the twilight mirror is actually broken, not ripped to simply shards to find. It was destroyed.😢

    • @thorwhoisacat
      @thorwhoisacat Рік тому +1

      Palmorae Beach, and all the pieces are really close by too

  • @54667991
    @54667991 5 років тому +1087

    The Gerudo themselves destroyed the Arbiter's Grounds, it was a place where many if not all of their race was banished/imprisoned/slaughtered there. The Gerudo then built the Seven Heroines in honour of all the great Gerudo they lost in the Hylian Royal family's purge.

    • @ordonlink259
      @ordonlink259 5 років тому +36

      Exactly this! I completely agree with you

    • @rayrevolta6198
      @rayrevolta6198 5 років тому +39

      Great Theory, Oh Great King of Evil.

    • @HeadHunter-mv2ht
      @HeadHunter-mv2ht 5 років тому +13

      Yeah i was just about to say but didn't alot of Gerudo die in the Arbiter Grounds?

    • @Samwyze
      @Samwyze 5 років тому +41

      Plus that place was infested with bugs, it had to go.

    • @Luci2310
      @Luci2310 5 років тому

      And nr. 8?

  • @oscca7756
    @oscca7756 5 років тому +195

    I always just assumed it was covered in sand. That what we are seeing are the remains of the top of the temple, and the rest is still there. Just below your feet.

    • @kennyboy1435
      @kennyboy1435 3 роки тому +3

      That's the same thought I had. It's within the realm of possibility.

  • @dowbailey6033
    @dowbailey6033 5 років тому +2216

    This is off topic but...Urbosa’s abs tho...

  • @54667991
    @54667991 5 років тому +274

    I enjoy visiting the Arbiter's Grounds, so many things went wrong there.

    • @shawn4116
      @shawn4116 5 років тому +25

      ok ganon

    • @yamisarkar91
      @yamisarkar91 5 років тому +1

      yeah great spirits where to do the thing right then freak out and do a kind dummy-move and the kingdom so teenager had to do it right and now years later still another teenager goes to do it right so epic horror and so epic funny too

    • @54667991
      @54667991 5 років тому +9

      @@yamisarkar91 ....Ok? I think I had a stroke reading your comment or you had one writing it.

    • @yamisarkar91
      @yamisarkar91 5 років тому +2

      @@54667991 oh sorry just writing about the fun game

    • @54667991
      @54667991 5 років тому +3

      @@yamisarkar91 Sorry also, I didn't mean to sound rude.

  • @Pandabarrel
    @Pandabarrel 5 років тому +426

    Sand happened to Arbiters Ground, after all its coarse, rough and gets everywhere.

    • @stardustcomet4714
      @stardustcomet4714 5 років тому +33

      You forgot irritating...

    • @KimsLantern
      @KimsLantern 5 років тому +9

      I see what you did here... lol.

    • @renstr1f3_VII
      @renstr1f3_VII 5 років тому +13

      Not a happy landing

    • @gameman3981
      @gameman3981 5 років тому +7

      If there's anyone who doesn't get that reference i don't even know what to say.

    • @pacampara123
      @pacampara123 4 роки тому +8

      Hello there...

  • @ShinyGoldBacon
    @ShinyGoldBacon 5 років тому +218

    I had a interesting thought: Remember how there's the spiral thing that you make rise up and then climb using the spinner just before the boss in Twilight Princess? What if the whole Arbiter's grounds can be made to rise or sink that way, and it's not destroyed but under the sand?
    That would fit with my theory that a lot of underground stuff will be central to BotW 2's theme. In that game's trailer, Link and Zelda are travelling underground. In the first BotW, there are big cracks all over Hyrule where powerful gusts of wind blast out of the earth. Where the heck are those coming from??? And of course, the Guardians and Divine Beasts were all buried using Sheikah technology. Add the idea of a buried Arbiter's Grounds to this.

    • @roryfriththetraveller4982
      @roryfriththetraveller4982 5 років тому +2

      ShinyGoldBacon OH BOY i would love that so much

    • @Apollo_G
      @Apollo_G 4 роки тому +5

      And how a lot of shrines are underground

    • @timetotango9453
      @timetotango9453 4 роки тому +4

      That would be a logical way for dungeons to exist.
      They probably won’t add new temples in botw2 and pretend it was there the whole time

    • @Voidthe47th
      @Voidthe47th 2 роки тому

      That's one very interesting theory

    • @VictorJulioHurtado
      @VictorJulioHurtado Рік тому

      Does anyone remember the Zuna from FSA? They were already in decline by the time of the game, but they appear to predate the Gerudo and were great builders (Ganon gets his signature trident from one of their pyramids). Makes me wonder perhaps all the ancient structures we see in the desert were built by them. Perhaps even the desert colossus. Perhaps they adopted the worship of the sand goddess, because they found references of her in the desert?

  • @Sophia-cz2eb
    @Sophia-cz2eb 5 років тому +258

    Theory: In the sequel, the Arbiter‘s Ground Ruins serve as a/become a traditional dungeon by rising up from underneath the sand or the sand flows away to uncover the underground entrance. AAAAAAAND this is were Link and Zelda will find the mummified body of Ganondorf, who is/was held prisoner at Arbiter‘s Ground.

    • @jordanjoestar9096
      @jordanjoestar9096 5 років тому +10

      Like the swamp temple in majoras mask but sand instead of poisoned water

    • @sackthebastard
      @sackthebastard 5 років тому +1

      The comment above yours is literally the same “theory” lol

    • @yamisarkar91
      @yamisarkar91 5 років тому +1

      oh what an awesome story twist

    • @rat4sale254
      @rat4sale254 4 роки тому +7

      @Akitsu no, botw is the converging of all of the timelines, making it the final game in the timeline. this means that arbiters grounds can exist as it is after twilight princess which also means that the rest of the landmarks in the game from previous titles can exist together

    • @woomyonavroomy6445
      @woomyonavroomy6445 4 роки тому +7

      I think Ganondorf would rather be under Hyrule Castle, since the place has more significance to the franchise
      Although it still makes sense that he would lie in the Gerudo region, since he is one of them

  • @jaylenpurvis1224
    @jaylenpurvis1224 5 років тому +148

    Instead of the Gerudo destroying it, maybe Ganondorf destroyed it out of his rage for being imprisoned there.

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +7

      Could be just a why not decision for one of his many forgotten incarnations or instinct

    • @lestade682
      @lestade682 5 років тому +2

      He wasn't imprisoned three tho. It was in the Twilight realm.

    • @Physictsdrumtoo
      @Physictsdrumtoo 5 років тому +11

      Lestad E he was imprisoned there. Waiting to be executed. When the execution failed, he was then sent to the twilight realm

    • @lestade682
      @lestade682 5 років тому +2

      @@Physictsdrumtoo
      It's that mentioned in Hyrule Historia?

    • @trappersshadow9751
      @trappersshadow9751 4 роки тому

      @@lestade682 I believe it was

  • @arynashryver61
    @arynashryver61 5 років тому +51

    I think it's the sand overtook the temple-prison, and that Molduga is the reason the parts of the place we see are destroyed as they are.

  • @tyrnan7321
    @tyrnan7321 5 років тому +68

    Personally I feel the answer is more simplistic but also a lot less satisfying. The temple is old, very old. I feel that it just got swallowed by the sand, its happened in real life so why not in BOTW as well.

  • @MrDexSat
    @MrDexSat 5 років тому +65

    A wild theory: the Arbiter's grounds are in ruins because they stopped being used and 10000 years have passed since OoT

    • @IamSupreme333
      @IamSupreme333 4 роки тому +18

      It takes place even more than 10,000 years after OoT and TP. So that gives it even more time to be in ruins

    • @Vivian_Wong
      @Vivian_Wong 4 роки тому +15

      I’m surprised there’s even ruins left, 10,000 years is a LONG time

    • @mrlborges
      @mrlborges 4 роки тому +4

      How long are Hylian years though? It’s a completely made up universe so the way they count time may be wildly different than our 365 day year. Would love to see what a Hylian calendar looks like.

    • @mokarokas-1727
      @mokarokas-1727 3 роки тому +2

      @@mrlborges - It's just Earth time. Link visibly ages 7 years in Ocarina of Time and there's talk of seasons of the year in various games... It's like saying "maybe humans in Game of Thrones are just very big (along with animals and plants and so on) and therefore travel many miles quicker than we could because miles are still the same length as ours". It's just never going to be the case, even if it would solve some inconsistencies or whatever. =')

  • @drewdiesinside9507
    @drewdiesinside9507 5 років тому +139

    Let’s not forget a huge divine beast was stampeding through the desert for 100 years

    • @azura-moonstar
      @azura-moonstar 5 років тому +16

      the way people talk, they only sprang up to life recently. much like how calamity gannon was dormant till recently.

    • @flowerchild354
      @flowerchild354 4 роки тому

      That smart tho

    • @Thecursedone2
      @Thecursedone2 4 роки тому +4

      He stomp

    • @tanandalynch9441
      @tanandalynch9441 4 роки тому +2

      @@azura-moonstar it's been 100 years. This is mentioned frequently. Even the champions themselves say how the blight ganoms killed them 100 years ago.

    • @way2dawn853
      @way2dawn853 4 роки тому +14

      @@tanandalynch9441 u didnt get what he wrote - he means that after the events 100 years ago everything went a little quiet again - and only in recent times the calamity and the beasts started ravaging again

  • @UndernetChara
    @UndernetChara 5 років тому +58

    The Arbiter's Grounds was my favorite location in Twilight Princess, so I'm very happy it made a return in BotW.

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +1

      Mark van der Wal
      You mean you’re glad you got to see its walls make a return

    • @dogestranding5047
      @dogestranding5047 5 років тому

      klop klop Nederland

    • @UndernetChara
      @UndernetChara 5 років тому

      @@dogestranding5047 ja precies.

    • @sackthebastard
      @sackthebastard 5 років тому +4

      I was reallllllly hoping to find the snowpeak ruins somewhere in Hebra. Or at least a big house that resembled it. It is one of my favorite Zelda dungeons of all time. Arbiters Grounds too.

    • @frz3rbRnotaku1
      @frz3rbRnotaku1 4 роки тому +1

      I wish there was more to take a picture of tho. like at least the long pillars with the medallion symbols.

  • @chacrawarrior
    @chacrawarrior 5 років тому +71

    When you realise that Hyrule Warriors was actually the Infinite Crisis of the Zelda games.

    • @Dogmaguy74
      @Dogmaguy74 5 років тому +8

      What i loved about Hyrule Warriors is that Zelda takes up her sword and kicks ass for hyrule!

    • @dman6093
      @dman6093 5 років тому

      Been my theory for over a year now, too.

  • @peterbaker6706
    @peterbaker6706 4 роки тому +3

    Bandit:Have a good 2020
    Me: tell Hylia ANYTHING BUT THAT

  • @diegolira7429
    @diegolira7429 Рік тому +3

    Lol that outro wishing everyone a great 2020, little that we knew

  • @rainbowkrampus
    @rainbowkrampus 5 років тому +88

    Maybe the 8th Heroine was the snake woman worshipped by the Gerudo.
    It could have been included as a sage during the transition period for the Gerudo. People don't tend to just drop their religious deities overnight. Later on, snake woman devotion could have become heretical, thus its removal from the area.
    The 8th Heroine's continued existence could indicate the past/current presence of defector Gerudo similar to the Yiga. Still worshipping the snake woman and possibly still carrying out the will of Ganondorf.

  • @dorothygale9648
    @dorothygale9648 4 роки тому +9

    "Let's have a great 2020!" Oh, honey....

  • @TheDisarminghinkle
    @TheDisarminghinkle 5 років тому +50

    There seems to be a huge amount of historical revisionism going on in Gerudo Desert in Breath of the Wild. There's also the whole thing with the 7th Hero statue.
    I can't blame them. They definitely have a bad reputation. It's nice to see them go so clean and legit that they actually were allowed to play an EQUAL role in the defeating of Ganon. They even got to be called a "champion".

    • @eri_noemi1462
      @eri_noemi1462 5 років тому +11

      Urbosa was really eager to beat the shit out of Ganon. She even mentions how legends say he once appeared as a Gerudo.

    • @Prince_Smugarina
      @Prince_Smugarina 5 років тому +3

      @@eri_noemi1462 "Legends" they say, lol.

  • @conn7900
    @conn7900 5 років тому +13

    I think Gurudo town is built over the spirit temple, while Gurudo Valley/Fort were in the Mesa/Canyon area.
    Perhaps we'll see Arbiter's Grounds from underground, but entry is under the palace and the city was built to guard it. If the game makes underground exploring a thing, then travelling across the regions, but under them, would be a cool lead up quest before the actual dungeons.

  • @orangeapples
    @orangeapples 5 років тому +18

    My theory: After the destruction of the mirror of twilight there was no more purpose to the arbiter’s grounds. The Gerardo then took the arbiter’s grounds apart to use as stone resources to build new structures like the 8 heroine statues.

  • @ziyuanli7458
    @ziyuanli7458 5 років тому +123

    There's one problem, though: In the western corner of Gerudo Town in BotW, there's a goddess statue and Muava who seems like to be a homeless old woman companys the statue on a carpet day and night. If you ask her about the goddess statue, she would say following: "Oh, the Goddess Statue has been here since long before I was even born. No one here really believes in that stuff anymore, though, so they tend to avoid stopping here. Kind of like they avoid me..." However, if Gerudo don't believe neither the sand goddess or the goddess of Hylia, what are they believing now? They don't seems like atheists to me.

    • @andrewallred6954
      @andrewallred6954 5 років тому +36

      They believe in the Seven Heroines. I believe it’s stated in game and in the offical Creatinf a Champion book

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +13

      Andrew Allred
      Makes sense considering din created the triforce of power and who used said artifact
      Ganondorf
      They probably blamed din for that and stuck to something that has nothing to do with the incarnation of hatred
      Seven legendary warriors of the female gerudo variety

    • @untitlednobody9009
      @untitlednobody9009 5 років тому +27

      They believe in Hylia and the 3 goddess' but they don't really worship them, they have spiky ears so that they can hear the voices of the goddess. They worship the 7 warriors, but these aren't godesses they are legendary heroes and have a more spiritual role for the Gerudo than a religious

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +1

      【Cat】 yeah that makes more sense

    • @anonymousfellow8879
      @anonymousfellow8879 4 роки тому +5

      The Gerudo are probably agnostic vs atheist, and have a complex belief system around honoring their dead (especially since ghosts and spirits exist in Zelda canon, including BotW)

  • @germanquinonez7661
    @germanquinonez7661 5 років тому +25

    The music that the gerudo desert had was my favorite from Twilight Princess, they should've used that theme on botw tbh

    • @petery6432
      @petery6432 4 роки тому

      Yeah, it's really atmospheric, so it would fit perfectly with Breath of the Wild.

    • @frz3rbRnotaku1
      @frz3rbRnotaku1 4 роки тому +1

      I think parts of it might be In the Gerudo town theme but im not exactly sure.

  • @Ghostchickie
    @Ghostchickie 5 років тому +27

    I always thought the sand goddess was their interpretation of the goddess Din.

  • @doseofdion9667
    @doseofdion9667 4 роки тому +1

    1:23, that was REALLLLY cool! Great editing job on that!

  • @owenbyer4671
    @owenbyer4671 5 років тому +25

    Damn that intro at 1:12 is really cool

    • @BanditGames
      @BanditGames  5 років тому +3

      Thank you :)

    • @BenteinBjerke
      @BenteinBjerke 5 років тому +1

      Agreed!

    • @chanmarr8118
      @chanmarr8118 4 роки тому +1

      I randomly got a flashback to Mario 64, the desert painting world.

  • @gideonaland3487
    @gideonaland3487 4 роки тому +15

    "An even better 2020 to come" That quote did not age well.

  • @martymcflyy6775
    @martymcflyy6775 5 років тому +39

    5:05 if I hear that song one more time, I will...
    I don't know what I'll do.

    • @kokichiowo6599
      @kokichiowo6599 5 років тому

      😂

    • @thomaspereira1545
      @thomaspereira1545 5 років тому +5

      You too, watch Nintendo black crisis?

    • @chrisfaber6971
      @chrisfaber6971 5 років тому

      I got that as my legit ringtone 😄not too many people around me know what it actually is though

    • @martymcflyy6775
      @martymcflyy6775 5 років тому

      @@thomaspereira1545 Yes, He 's great but I've heard that song too much. I don't know what it is about it but when I hear I cringe.

    • @martymcflyy6775
      @martymcflyy6775 5 років тому

      @HyruleHero 333 I do too, but it gets annoying somtimes idky

  • @whatgsaid
    @whatgsaid 5 років тому +73

    I’m a simple woman. I see an upload, I click.
    I see a theory about one of my favorite dungeons in the franchise, I click twice as fast.

    • @IamSupreme333
      @IamSupreme333 5 років тому +5

      i bet u smell like exquisite European cheese

    • @Connorgallus
      @Connorgallus 5 років тому +3

      @@IamSupreme333 I bet you smell like AXE body spray

    • @IamSupreme333
      @IamSupreme333 5 років тому

      Double-0 Snake possibly

  • @victorevans2867
    @victorevans2867 5 років тому +9

    I feel that when the Gerudo started worshipping the goddess Hylia they abandoned the spirit temple / Arbiter's grounds, and the desert just reclaimed it

  • @sethmcbride8490
    @sethmcbride8490 4 роки тому +2

    Watching this in April 2020. When I got to the part in the outro when you said "here's to an even better 2020" I have to laugh

  • @59rlmccormack
    @59rlmccormack 5 років тому +19

    I think, over time, the Arbiter’s Grounds was burried by the desert and was destroyed, probably decaying until it was nothing but burried ruins!

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +2

      Remember
      The legend of the hero of twilight is more than 10100++++++++++
      I think it is more of a surprise that we can even see the pieces of fricking place

    • @sackthebastard
      @sackthebastard 5 років тому

      Just like a lot of ancient cities from back in the day that are under the sand now

  • @Crustystreet123
    @Crustystreet123 4 роки тому +1

    MNB: an even better 2020!
    Me watching it now: I wish.

  • @BirdieSenpai
    @BirdieSenpai 5 років тому +3

    Amazing analysis, especially considering how little Nintendo gave us to go on, Mask! As someone who never finished Breath of the Wild, videos like these help me wrap my mind around the implications of where the lore has gone and how it's progressed. Proud of ya!

    • @levie8269
      @levie8269 5 років тому

      Yay birdy senpai

  • @davidnewbon4385
    @davidnewbon4385 5 років тому +8

    The funny thing is, Urbosa literally says that Calamity Ganon took the form of a Gerudo, and no one really talked about it. I think this means Nintendo has been planning the sequels story for quite a while. Longer than most people think.

    • @hiimchrisj
      @hiimchrisj 5 років тому +2

      Yeah, I don't know where it was stated, but from what I understand the sequel was initially intended to just be an expansion of the main game but they had so many ideas for it they ended up altering their plans and turning it into its own game so it's safe to say they had the main ideas for it, like showing Ganondorf's corpse, already planned out during BOTW's production.
      That said, the line's not really an indication of anything. She's just stating a fact cos, yeah, Ganondorf was in fact a Gerudo.

  • @rodrigroudon1872
    @rodrigroudon1872 5 років тому +20

    Happy new year

  • @Houndlock643
    @Houndlock643 8 місяців тому +1

    If BOTW and TOTK are indeed on a fourth timeline, then what if the Arbiter’s Grounds wasn’t a prison for the Kingdom of Hyrule, but instead, a prison for the Gerudo, way back when Ganondorf ruled.
    That might be a good reason why the Gerudo; after Ganondorf was sealed, destroyed the Arbiters Grounds; like Bandit said, to remove that stain upon their legacy.

  • @herrkrause1103
    @herrkrause1103 4 роки тому +6

    I believe that a cult took shelter at the arbiter’s grounds to carry out rituals and try to summon/support ganon or ganondorf. That’s why there’s a shrine there in the DLC, and instead of summoning Gannon, they accidentally summoned or empowered a very powerful Molduga, which is why the king molduga is there. The king molduga, afterwards, destroyed the arbiter’s grounds.

    • @sillycat4273
      @sillycat4273 Рік тому +1

      that's the east barrens which is literally on the other side of the gerudo desert LMAO

  • @scarletknightreterns1893
    @scarletknightreterns1893 5 років тому +4

    TP was the first Zelda game I ever played- and my childhood favourite. Played BoTW the other day, and discovered the Arbiter's Grounds within the desert after wondering around. I must say... My mind was blown with nostalgia and immediately I began to try and figure out WHAT had happened to... such a big place. You, sir, who I am a fan of, have spoken my thoughts!! I had thought that the most plausible explanation for the Arbiter's Grounds Ruins was that the Gerudo had simply destroyed it, to erase the darkest parts of their history and perhaps ease their minds- and who knowns, the minds of all their future children. I mean, them stories gotta be passed down at bedtime. LOL

  • @tomsimpson357
    @tomsimpson357 4 роки тому

    ‘That will make this victory all the more..’**ADVERTS** lol, it was so perfectly timed it makes me think Truman show/simulation theory! Great vid though man, sitting in the woods listening to some Zelda speculation is always great

  • @hungerycascio
    @hungerycascio 5 років тому +7

    I could be wrong, but I swear they said that no male had been born since Ganondorf.

    • @BanditGames
      @BanditGames  5 років тому +5

      I was thinking that too! But, for the life of me, I can’t remember when or where I heard that. Plus, I was just pointing out a possibility. The dude could’ve just dyed his hair and gotten a tan 😂

  • @cuckoo61
    @cuckoo61 5 років тому +11

    A theory linking the Peak Province to one of its possible locations in botw would be interesting 🤔 thanks for the great videos Mnb! You've quickly become my favorite zelda theorist 😁

    • @R1IY2N
      @R1IY2N 5 років тому +1

      I think it would be the Hebra province in botw

  • @johnnyneutron1530
    @johnnyneutron1530 4 роки тому +1

    “Here to an amazing 2020”
    Big oooooooof

  • @peanutbutter6720
    @peanutbutter6720 5 років тому +27

    You said they might worship the same gods (Hylia) as the Hylian’s. The Gerudo clearly don’t worship Hylia as the Hylia statue in Gerudo town is abandoned, the presence of one indicates they may have at one time worshiped Hylia, though they most likely don’t as of the events after the great calamity.

  • @SanguineDoe
    @SanguineDoe 4 роки тому +7

    "An even better 2020 to come"
    That didnt age well 😬

  • @matthewdickendasher1956
    @matthewdickendasher1956 5 років тому +11

    What’s a mystery to me is what happened to laynaru desert in sky ward sword. It is obvious connected to the mountain where the spring of wisdom is? Also why is the spring of wisdom on the right not the left to represent the triforce

  • @7th_Link
    @7th_Link 5 років тому +5

    1:00
    Wouldn't have even noticed if you didn't point it out 😂😂👌

  • @randomtheorist251
    @randomtheorist251 3 роки тому

    Bandit: "There might actually be a fairly dark reason for its destruction."
    Camera pans to show Korok.
    Me: "My God. I knew something felt wrong about them."

  • @icedevil3795
    @icedevil3795 3 роки тому +1

    watching this in 2021 hits different when he has 'have fantastic day ... 2019 and a even better 2020'

  • @LordBackuro
    @LordBackuro Рік тому +1

    My theory on the goddess is that she might either be Din the golden goddess of power or a really old Gerudo version of Hylia. So old people forgot they were the same.

  • @thatonezeldagamer3424
    @thatonezeldagamer3424 5 років тому +23

    There are currently 5 Devine beasts that we know of the main 4 and links motor cycle if they add in 3 more it would be like all 8 Devine beast were piloted by a sage

    • @Ashley_the_proto
      @Ashley_the_proto 5 років тому +7

      6. There are 6 divine beasts. Vah Ruta, Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh, Vah Naboorus, The Mastercycle Zero, and simply Divine Beast. (I hope I spelled those right)
      Divine Beast is underneath the Shrine of Resurrection. Monk Maz Koshia actually waits for us in there. We know this is a divine beast since it literally tells us when we go to get the map.

    • @TotalInsanity4
      @TotalInsanity4 5 років тому

      @@Ashley_the_proto Isn't it implied that that's a scaled up version of the Master Cycle?

    • @Ashley_the_proto
      @Ashley_the_proto 5 років тому +1

      @@TotalInsanity4 No. I looks nothing like a horse. You can even go back to that divine beast after you've gotten the mastercycle zero.

    • @TotalInsanity4
      @TotalInsanity4 5 років тому +1

      @@Ashley_the_proto no, I mean the inside. It's a massive transmission with a clutch

    • @Ashley_the_proto
      @Ashley_the_proto 5 років тому +1

      @@TotalInsanity4 That would be physically impossible, as the Shrine of Resurrection is on top of the Divine Beast and may even be part of the divine beast. Also, this would explain why the Great Plateau is raised, it has a divine beast that it's covering.

  • @thelocalshiper1513
    @thelocalshiper1513 2 роки тому +1

    Why is no one talking about the fact that at the end of the video he said that 2020 would be a great year... he was wrong

  • @frz3rbRnotaku1
    @frz3rbRnotaku1 3 роки тому +2

    I have a theory that blew my mind when I realized it. Arbiters Ground had sinkholes around certain rooms. It was ALREADY SINKING! In he room with the torches and the Goddess Statue. I think the ground there is Actually covering the entrance to the Spirit temple. Like they covered and built up the wall to be on the same level as the Statue.

  • @grizzlymang1930
    @grizzlymang1930 5 років тому +6

    I really enjoyed this one not only did our Lord and savior say my name but you didn't have to stretch to form your theory witch is an all to common thing in the current between games drought

  • @regnar_flowlluks
    @regnar_flowlluks 2 роки тому +1

    Oh man. What an awkward ending.

  • @Karuminu2
    @Karuminu2 5 років тому +1

    Yaay! I was hoping somebody would get around to the mystery of the Arbiter's Grounds ruins! Thank you!

  • @BellaDeVilTV
    @BellaDeVilTV 5 років тому +1

    Your videos are so calming compared to other video game channels.

  • @anthonylamonica8301
    @anthonylamonica8301 5 років тому +6

    Great video!
    I hope to see a video someday covering the entire Hylian pantheon, and the significance of each deity to the history and livelihood of Hyrule itself. Your interpretations could make something coherent from the mess that the Hylia faction made of the state religion.

  • @eljaminlatour6633
    @eljaminlatour6633 5 років тому +8

    3:50 there was a secret in the spirit temple, if you have a Longshot and if you use it in any area in the statue it won't work, but if you shoot it where the nipple is located it works, but what does it mean?

    • @_whatgives_5939
      @_whatgives_5939 5 років тому +12

      Nintendo are perverts lol

    • @twobearshighfiving7660
      @twobearshighfiving7660 5 років тому +2

      The explanation is that the Japanese made it.

    • @eljaminlatour6633
      @eljaminlatour6633 5 років тому

      I still don't know what does it mean.

    • @twobearshighfiving7660
      @twobearshighfiving7660 5 років тому +3

      @@eljaminlatour6633 .... It has no lore implications, only that their perverted natures spilt over to game design. It's just a joke by the creators.

  • @spacemanifestdestiny3542
    @spacemanifestdestiny3542 5 років тому +10

    I wonder if there might be any connection to the Sand Goddess and the Eighth Herione if the Gerudo did convert to the predominant Hylian religion...

  • @bobjohnson3645
    @bobjohnson3645 4 роки тому +1

    How that “wish you a happy 2020” work out for you.......

  • @drolnogardgames4335
    @drolnogardgames4335 3 роки тому

    Me, watching this in 2021, hearing Bandit wish everyone a great 2020:
    YOU FOOL. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON. YOU HAVE JINXED US ALL!

  • @jlucaschace
    @jlucaschace 4 роки тому +1

    MNB then: enjoy the rest of 2019, and an even better 2020 to come
    us now: 2020 happened to arbiters grounds

  • @JetHammer
    @JetHammer 5 років тому +1

    great video, amigo! Happy holidays!

  • @josh335
    @josh335 Рік тому +1

    With the new trailer for Tears of the Kingdom coming out, the Arbiter's Grounds may be accessible through the sink holes. Maybe they were buried due to the passing of time.

  • @workliferecognition7002
    @workliferecognition7002 5 місяців тому +1

    I'm still in question of some things. I know the woods above the castle is supposed to be lost woods but it was south of the castle in oot. The temple of time was next to the castle in oot but it's a ways away from the castle in botw. Same for kakariko village. It's south east of the castle in botw but it's east in oot. I'm curious about this why is everything in a different spot from before if those places resemble what was in oot. And the volcano has always been known to be neighbor of kakariko. Not now.

  • @stv0036
    @stv0036 5 років тому +2

    It could have been Ganon himself, destroying the play he was imprisoned previously so he can't be imprisoned there again.

    • @twobearshighfiving7660
      @twobearshighfiving7660 5 років тому

      Unlikely as he was executed at the end of TP by link while the arbiter grounds still lingered as you found them.
      Arbiter means Judge, so they were the "judgement grounds" where the Hylians genocided Ganondorf's Gerudo Regime after his attempted invasion, it's survivers likely exiled/fled further into the desert. The grounds are a stain on their history, as the video states, the Gerudo are not inherently malicious, so they likely destroyed the ruins themselves as to attempt and wipe the atrocity from their minds and history. All this on top of the fact that deserts naturally swallow entire ruins. (the real world Sphinx and great Pyramids were first discovered buried to their tips, and these are *massive* structures) Honestly, the desert environment is perfectly capable of destroying the ruins itself, but if it had help it was most likely the surviving Gerudo and not Ganondorf as he never had the opportunity before Link kills him.

  • @MarkusAndersen96
    @MarkusAndersen96 5 років тому +6

    "resemblances of shape and size" IT'S A CIRLCE!

    • @BanditGames
      @BanditGames  5 років тому +5

      Which is a resemblance of shape. Rectangular/square mirrors do also exist. It’s also rather large, of similar circumference and coloration- but yes, a circle. Lol

  • @sharongrant3987
    @sharongrant3987 4 роки тому

    7:54 A Gerudo near the goddess statue says that most of the Gurudo don't believe in it any more

  • @Notalizardspy
    @Notalizardspy 4 роки тому +1

    "And an even better 2020 to come"

  • @acgearsandarms1343
    @acgearsandarms1343 4 роки тому +1

    I think the simpler answer is that it fell to disrepair and exposed to the elements to get buried under all that sand and forgotten. What use is the Arbiter’s Ground to them considering there’s now more efficient methods at housing the criminals of Hyrule during the Age of Calamity.

  • @TheLadyLiddell
    @TheLadyLiddell 5 років тому +1

    For some reason it never clicked that Vilia could be the one Gerudo male, but thinking about it... holy shit.

  • @GrimViridian
    @GrimViridian 4 роки тому

    Did... did I just watch a zelda theory that was actually GOOD? what? Good job dude

  • @Meechree
    @Meechree 4 роки тому +3

    I'm watching this video in 2020, and I have bad news for past MNB...

  • @FallenAngel9594
    @FallenAngel9594 5 років тому +3

    I think that since twilight princess was in the child timeline and we don't see any gerudo besides ganondorf, the gerudo abandoned the grounds along with everything else and by the time they returned it had already started to collapse so they didn't bother trying to restore it since they were likely busy trying to ensure peaceful relations with the hylians

  • @the6ig6adwolf
    @the6ig6adwolf 5 років тому +1

    I like the video but with one exception: you mention Arbiters Grounds as a "vacation spot" and "summer plans aside" this is a huge mistake! Arbiters Grounds is way too hot for a summer vacation and if one insisted on going (which I recommend against) you would want to travel there in the winter months. Hope this helps.

  • @nodnarb3540
    @nodnarb3540 5 років тому +3

    Great video, although I would add that it isn’t speculative what deity the Gerudo worship: there is a goddess statue of Hylia in Gerudo town in breath of the wild.

    • @emma-janeulmer438
      @emma-janeulmer438 5 років тому +1

      The is, however, it is abandoned, implying that they at one time worshiped Hylia, but don't anymore

  • @ObeliskDemon
    @ObeliskDemon 5 років тому +3

    I'm under the impression that more than 10,000 years have past since it was last seen. it probably eroded and was buried (especially if it didn't have a good foundation) over time. I don't think the gerudo would've destroyed it within the generation or two that would remember their imprisonment because that would require numbers or tools they wouldn't have in that amount of time.

  • @Myzelfa
    @Myzelfa 5 років тому +2

    In this franchise, differences in appearance can always be explained by changes in art style between games. Each game is meant to be an interpretation of a myth.

  • @maroftheflameandshadows
    @maroftheflameandshadows Рік тому +1

    personally I think the Arbiter's Grounds are separate from the spirit temple and link was not able to access it although I still believe it was built by the gerudo and was remade by hyrule for prisoners as the shadow temple was out of commission and as for the mirror the one in the spirit temple is just a mirror it's just round

  • @Dragynn999
    @Dragynn999 5 років тому

    Plot twist, the entrance to the catacombs in which Ganondorf can be found in BOTW2 is beneath the arbiters grounds all the time.

  • @RowdyruffPrincess
    @RowdyruffPrincess 4 роки тому

    definitely an interesting take, and perhaps the Gerudo slowly adopting more Hylian beliefs would tie into why they excised the 8th heroine from their history, so they could have Seven Heroines to better parallel the seven Sages.

  • @roberttysec4122
    @roberttysec4122 4 роки тому +1

    I always assumed the Arbiter’s Grounds were the Spirit Temple. Also that they were converted at the instruction of the royal family. It makes sense, we know that the family has acted like other royals throughout history (see banishing the shieka tribe because of the threat to their power). In the child timeline, once the king was informed of Gannon’s betrayal, he likely would have ordered the royal guard to ride to the desert, subjugated the Gerudo and then turned their holiest place into a prison to show you don’t mess with the royal family.

  • @rccola89
    @rccola89 5 років тому

    One thing that i believe most ppl forget is that CG was sealed 1000 years before Breath of the Wild starts and then its another 100 years when u awaken so ive always wondered when the sealing of CG took place in the timeline

  • @nmb-u-
    @nmb-u- 5 років тому +4

    "I was sealed here once.. hmmm, maybe i should destroy it just in case.. what do you guys think!? shigeru, Takashi!? and you Eiji!?"
    We might never know why it is destroyed in BotW :c

    • @stardust8797
      @stardust8797 5 років тому +2

      Demise and by extension Ganon is very petty
      In fact now that I think about that is literally why conflict exists in hyrule
      At any rate this could’ve happened at any time before the hero of the Zonai and the army of guardians put the wombo combo on the calamity

    • @nmb-u-
      @nmb-u- 5 років тому

      @@stardust8797 Maybe but.. there was a civil war before OoT, so i think all the humanoid beings in that world are pretty much as bad as humans being gannon some what worse :c thank Hylia they dont have nukes, imagine gannon possessing and launching dat!!!

  • @stevenxenoknight3845
    @stevenxenoknight3845 5 років тому +4

    It's definitely everything you described. It all clicks.

  • @Baltaj720
    @Baltaj720 4 роки тому +3

    What if the Yiga destroyed it because they swore an alliance to Ganon and hated the fact that someone tried killing him in the past

  • @sirachikenpatchi7035
    @sirachikenpatchi7035 5 років тому +1

    From what I understand, The Arbiters Grounds was originally a place of worship for the Gerudo. However after the events of OOT when Link warned the king of Hyrule about Ganondorfs plans, the Hylian army preemptively attacked the Gerudo and used the Arbiters grounds, their OWN place of worship, as a prison/ execution chamber nearly commiting genocide.
    SO, i think it was probably destroyed by both the Gerudo and Hylians with a common interest in mind. To forgive and forget

  • @Cliffordlonghead
    @Cliffordlonghead 5 років тому +2

    Happy New Year

  • @notorious_majora
    @notorious_majora 5 років тому

    Man, if I was Ganon, as soon as I currupted Vah Naboris, I would destroy that place immediately.

  • @L337M4573RK
    @L337M4573RK 4 роки тому +2

    In LoZ:TP, much of the Gerudo Desert had been lost to time and neglect, and the only Gerudo featured in the entire game was Telma (who ran the bar in South Castle Town). Considering the current state we find it in within LoZ:BotW, it's possible that the new Gerudo race had destroyed it out of respect for all their ancestors that had been sent there to die. However, it's equally possible that the Arbiter's Grounds had been destroyed over time due to a combination of natural erosion and destruction via Mulduga (you do happen to find one lurking around there in game)! Also, LoZ:BotW is depicted as taking place tens of thousands of years (or more) after any previous Zelda game (including LoZ:TP), so natural erosion is NOT out of the question. (Real world example: the great pyramids and the great sphinx located in Egypt.)

  • @AlexandraStubbs
    @AlexandraStubbs 5 років тому

    Last video for 2019! Thank you MNB for your lovely content this year! I look forward to 2020 and what you make next. 😊👍🎉

  • @erikstensaas1202
    @erikstensaas1202 4 роки тому

    It's surreal to see the Arbiter's Grounds during the day

  • @gavingrant7443
    @gavingrant7443 4 роки тому

    Man I bet Molduga kicked a bunch of sand up in Arbiters Grounds and took a fat nap right on top.

  • @abdallahrizq5124
    @abdallahrizq5124 4 роки тому

    "a even better 2020 to come" 2020: oh i dont think so

  • @crossingplays2155
    @crossingplays2155 3 роки тому +2

    3:48
    she is the sand goddess, goddess of the sand!
    Hylia quivers before her!!

  • @HeyhoBrando
    @HeyhoBrando 5 років тому +1

    How all these location came
    To be I always like the idea of hyrule warriors were Cannon

  • @Lighty-jz2gm
    @Lighty-jz2gm 5 років тому

    Please let this dude reach 30.000 subs before 2020.