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Personally I think the Zonai were descendants of people who chose to stay behind in Skyloft and simply continued to evolve as they got closer and closer to the gods. Hyrule probably eventually fell as all empires do and the inhabitants became primitive. It was at that point that the Zonai came down to Hyrule and eventually founded a new kingdom thinking it was the first kingdom when unknown to them there was already a previous kingdom that had simply become forgotten.

I feel like Mineru SHOULD have been your companion ala Midna or Navi. She was in your Purah pad the whole time, there's so much Nintendo could have done for worldbuilding.

I think it just makes more sense to put these games in their own universes with sequels placed where they naturally fit. Plus if Zelda is breaking up timelines again then it just lends this theory even further. It also allows games like Skyward Sword to fit in multiple timelines such as before Ocarina of Time, being a timeline where the Zonai never visited and Hyrule is founded by Hylians only and advances more slowly but the tangent where the Zonai do visit leads to BOTW and TOTK with a bigger and more developed Hyrule with Zonai tech and the Sheikah who basically inherit the mechanical knowledge of their predecessors just to a lesser degree. This explains how both timelines have the Master Sword. But then you have the Four Sword games which includes Minish Cap having no mention of the Master Sword, one of the keys leading to Demise's defeat and Hyrule's founding. Instead making the Piccori Blade/ Four Sword the legendary blade to repel evil with it's own backstory of the kingdom's founding being tied to a different foreign tribe.

Long story short: There are two, if not more, separate realities of Hyrule’s history. Parallel or not. The original founding of Hyrule took place after Skyward Sword (debatably SS’s events were an entire time loop), the people of Skyloft began to settle in the surface. A few generations later, the people turned against each other and the Era of Chaos begins. Senseless violence and magic violations all for the sake of obtaining the Triforce. In the midst of it all, a group of dark interlopers with the Fused Shadows attempted to invade the Sacred Realm. They failed and were banished. Sage Rauru and others built the Temple of Time to seal off the gateway to the Triforce. The Era of Prosperity begins when the Oocca came to help the Hyruleans build and establish their kingdom. Labors completed, the Oocca left and maintained contact until time took its course. Hyrule as a kingdom was founded. The “Zonai” founding of Hyrule is completely different and bears no connection to the known timeline. They were awkwardly and uninterestingly placed THAT far back in Hyrule’s history. How Hyrule was “refounded” is beyond my understanding. So in all seriousness, I never want to associate the Twilight Era with this, I don’t want to associate the events of the Great Sea with that, I don’t associate the Sky Era with anything in BOTW/TOTK despite the references. There are just way too many inconsistencies to make it obviously clear that it’s a separate universe unto itself that basically has the actual timeline as mere reference. Just accept my point. There’s no point to make it more confusing.

I feel like the serect stones are connected to the triforce too, because it states in totk that they are gifts from the gods. It says that they have the ability to ampilify the power of there wielder. So it has to be connected somehow at least thats what I believe.

You have to remember that the interview with the Zelda producers said that Hyrule Kingdom was potentially destroyed before and Rauru and Sonia’s “founding” was basically a second iteration/rebirth of the kingdom itself.

This is all fun, but the truth is that Nintendo made up this shallow lore at the last minute to facilitate the game mechanics, similar to how they drastically changed the Sheikah lore to facilitate the Shrines and game mechanics in Botw. In Botw, "Zonai" was just the name of that particular set of ruins - like "Thyphlo" and the others. Does that mean that each set of ruins had a race of people to serve as the namesake? Nope. Nintendo implied that it was just ancient warlike Hylians that built these ruins, but fans for some reason started to theorize about "the Zonai people" - seriously, can anyone pinpoint where and why that started? The truth is that Nintendo picked up what fans were speculating and ran with it - but they didn't run very far lol TP introduced the idea of a race of people close to the gods that lived in the sky; well, that'd be Hylians as OoT told us that Hylians were close to the gods and had pointy ears to better hear the voice of the gods. TP introduced the Oocca, but heavily implied that it wasn't really them that created the city in the sky but had just found it (the owl statues and Hylian architecture Aang connection with the Sheikah are hints). Then, SS told us diffinitively that The Goddess Hylia created the city in the sky and the sky islands and her chosen people the Hylians to rule it. These later descended to the earth and built the kingdom of Hyrule. Botw and especially Totk are just anthology games that feature names and likenesses from every other game just because; they can't fit within any of the timelines, and Nintendo knew this so they arbitrarily set them "10,000 years after every timeline". They're filled with plot holes.

Cool video bro.

I NEED MORE!!! Great video 🎉

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