Theory: The Story Behind Breath of the Wild 2

From the two trailers for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, there is huge speculation surrounding the history of this one. Several questions are pending and no one seems to want to answer them. So much so that even Nintendo refuses to reveal the official name of the next title in the franchise, because it could unveil the story on its own.

We want players to be able to continue having fun imagining this world even after completing the game, so this time we decided to avoid issuing any clarifications. I hope everyone can find their own answers, in their own way.

Eiji Aonuma, creator of The Legend of Zelda franchise

If I go from a hypothesis on all of this, I would just say that the game is at the end of this timeline, but it serves as a junction of the three split lines. Here’s why :

In Breath of the Wild, you find the Temple of Time as soon as you leave the ruined Prelude Plateau. This is a clear indication that it is all happening much later in the future. So here we are dealing with the fracture of the timelines called ” The Legend of the Gods & The Hero of Time “.

Again, the game takes place long after Wind waker since you will find the famous Korok there, these creatures which made their entry in this title for the first time. We are touching here on the adult timeline, the one called ” The Hero of the Wind & The New World “.

Now let’s add the well-known Eventide Island or, if you prefer, the island Link wakes up on in Link’s Awakening. This is on the timeline where the hero fails, ie ” The Decline of Hyrule & The Last Hero “.

Of course, several areas of the game refer to locations seen in previous franchise titles. By the way, we can find the Temple of Time from Skyward Sword. Another example is the Grand Pont d’Hylia which overlooks Lake Hylia and has the same waterfalls in the same places as in the previous title. It demonstrates a connection here with the young hero’s timeline called ” The Dark World & Descendants of the Hero “.

WARNING! SPOILER!

Of course, all does not end here since there is also The Legend of Zelda: Age of Calamity, the game in the genre musou by Nintendo and Koei Tecmo which takes place 100 years before Breath of the Wild! At this time, you will also meet Purah, Impa’s older sister, as an adult. When you complete the game with its secret ending, you can see Purah successfully repairing Terrako, the miniature little guardian who made the time jump in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Hyrule.

So here we have a whole new split in the timeline that is created: the one where our heroes manage to contain the Ganon Scourge and the one where they fail. Will the next title which is baptized for the moment “the continuation of Breath of the Wild” be inspired by the jumps in time for its history? That remains to be seen.

But where will Breath of the Wild 2 be at the end? And what is its title?

For my part, I carried out some meticulous and scrupulous research in order to know more about the potential scenario of Breath of the Wild 2. Here is a house analysis which could prove to be of the most interesting.

First thing: Nintendo gives us Skyward Sword HD

As we all know, Nintendo doesn’t have to be just a “money-making box” – they have a great knack for cross-marketing.

In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, you learn that the infamous Ganondorf Dragmire, King of the Gerudo, is in fact the famous Ganon, that evil spirit.

In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Ganondorf is executed by the wise men after Link has been able to warn Princess Zelda of the assault he intends to bring against Hyrule Castle during that famous night in Ocarina of Time. Captured and thrown into the dungeon, he was finally executed a few years later (after Majora’s Mask), but the execution failed and the Prince of Thieves was sent to the Twilight World where, later, he will finally be killed by Link who will stab him with his Master Sword.

Could it therefore be that our cronies found a certain catacomb in which Ganondorf lay after being executed by Link during Twilight Princess? Perhaps this could also explain why the hand that seems to stop the plague bleeding looks like Twili magic as well as Midna’s hand.

So we can start to speculate that there might be a relationship between the Twilight World or even its powers in this case.

Now let’s add the fact that Zelda appears to have fallen into a gaping black hole. Then we see these different scenes of Link falling from the sky, those floating islands, and Hyrule Castle slicing through the earth to rise up into the air with an overflow of the plague that seems to be coming from the ground.

For those who will likely remember Skyward Sword, the story is about the being called “The Outcast”, buried underground to wake up and corrupt the entire earth by fracturing the ground and sending his hordes of demons to destroy everything. in their path. Defeated for the first time by Link, the right arm of the demon, Ghirahim, crossed time to return to the past and thus awaken his Master again thanks to the soul of Princess Zelda.

So it was at this moment that the goddess Hylia saved the inhabitants by creating Skyloft, the floating island above the clouds. Will it therefore be a question of divine intervention again? Or, who knows, maybe our hero will have to go all the way back to the Age of Goddess Hylia in order to prevent the awakening of the demon behind the Ganon Scourge? What if the Princess had crossed time to inadvertently offer the first source to even awaken the Banished?

All these questions that remain unanswered …

For my part, I would tend to say that the title of the next The Legend of Zeldat will be The Legend of Zelda: The Rise of Skyloft.