History Fridge / TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild

* One of Link's regained memories has Zelda trying to figure out how to get into a shrine despite not being the chosen one, and when Link arrives, angrily tells him she doesn't need an escort. However, note the particular shrine she was trying to open: ''A Major Test of Strength.'' One can only imagine what might have happened to Zelda if she ''had'' managed to get in and had to face ''that'' trial without Link present...

** Outright stated in Urbosa's diary that Zelda used the rules of the village to slip away from Link. Turns out it wasn't the first time Link had to disguise themself to gain entry but by that time she had already left for the Divine Beast.

* Here's something regarding Master Koga. In "''Age of Calamity''", we see he hasn't changed much in the past 100 years. Impa was a young girl around Zelda's age at that time, and now she's aged to the point where she looks like a completely different person. Keeping in mind the fact that Kohga doesn't seem to recognize Link until he sees the Sheikah Slate, it's quite possible that [[TheFogOfAge Kohga's age was catching up with him]]. He may have very well been on his lasts legs by the time Link confronts him in BOTW.

* After having purchased a house in Hateno, Link receives the option to have a sign with his name on it built to mark his land. This seems charming on the surface, but it's also pretty ominous for anyone who has already cleared the Yiga Hideout. After that point, there will be an endless hoard of ninjas pursuing you. They could theoretically choose to appear silently wherever they wanted. And every one of them knows your name. And now? You probably just let them know where you ''sleep'', too.
** Alternatively, Link is so badass he’s taunting an endless hoard of ninjas and telling them he doesn’t care, because he doesn’t need to be awake to kill them when they come for him. Fridge horror for the ninjas: if your target puts up a sign, you don’t want to even try.

* Thunderblight Ganon being ThatOneBoss for many players makes a lot of sense from a few perspectives, depending on how to interpret it. Most obviously, while none of the champions were pushovers, Urbosa was the only one to come from a race that was born, bred, and prided in battle and conflict, meaning that she was likely second to Link in raw skill in combat, so Ganon would have sent the strongest of his incarnations to take over Nabooris. Another possible interpretation is that since Urbosa fought with sword and board, just like Link is very likely to be when you tackle him, he's already fought an opponent like Link and knows how to go after his weaknesses. However, unlike Urbosa, Link is packing a few new tools like his bow and arrows and Sheikah slate runes, and indeed, those make the boss fight much easier than a straight up sword duel.

* Stables and towns acting as a NeutralZone makes sense from a lore standpoint as well as a design standpoint. From a design standpoint, it wouldn't be fair if you were on your last bit of health and you were attacked by monsters just as you were inches away from an inn to restore your health. From a lore standpoint, each of them likely has divine protection on their side. The towns are obviously protected by Hylia through their respective Goddess Statues, but the stables also have effigies of Malanya on their roofs, most likely to curry his favor. In doing so, Malanya grants them protection from dark forces for praising him and his work. It might also explain why no monsters can be found near Robbie's lab, since he has the Sheikah frog deity statue outside his lab.

** The Spring of Wisdom hints towards opening the way to the other shrines after you free Naydra from the Malice by having you place one of Naydra's scale in the Spring. In other words, you gained Wisdom towards opening the way to the other shrines at the other Springs.

* Thunderblight Ganon being ThatOneBoss for many players makes a lot of sense from a few perspectives, depending on how to interpret it. Most obviously, while none of the champions were pushovers, Urbosa was the only one to come from a race that was born, bred, and prided in battle and conflict, meaning that she was likely second to Link in raw skill in combat, so Ganon would have sent the strongest of his incarnations to take over Nabooris. Another possible interpretation is that since Urbosa fought with sword and board, just like Link is very likely to be when you tackle him, he's already fought an opponent like Link and knows how to go after his weaknesses. However, unlike Urbosa, Link is packing a few new tools like his bow and arrows and Shiekah slate runes, and indeed, those make the boss fight much easier than a straight up sword duel.

* Stables and towns acting as a NeutralZone makes sense from a lore standpoint as well as a design standpoint. From a design standpoint, it wouldn't be fair if you were on your last bit of health and you were attacked by monsters just as you were inches away from an inn to restore your health. From a lore standpoint, each of them likely has divine protection on their side. The towns are obviously protected by Hylia through their respective Goddess Statues, but the stables also have effigies of Malanya on their roofs, most likely to curry his favor. In doing so, Malanya grants them protection from dark forces for praising him and his work. It might also explain why no monsters can be found near Robbie's lab, since he has the Shiekah frog deity statue outside his lab.

* If you look at the Triforce carved in the stone at the Sacred Ground Ruins, you'll notice that the bottom-right triangle - the Courage one - is severely cracked. This likely refers to Link's fall during the Great Calamity one hundred years prior.

** ''Age of Calamity'' gives us further insights on this subject, since we get to see the Champions battling the Blights in cutscenes; Urbosa seems to be overwhelmed by Thunderblight's speed, Revali is overwhelmed by Windblight's laser blasts and manipulation of the winds he's using to fly, and both Mipha and Daruk are simply unable to keep up with the amounts of attacks and projectiles Waterblight and Fireblight are using, respectively.

** Oh, geez. The reason that all the Guardians were placed under the castle was to guard Hyrule from ''Ganon''. If he hadn't pulled the ability to possess robots out of nowhere, he'd have started his rampage by getting shot in the everywhere by an endless laser barrage of lasers. Ultimately, the ancient people were just a bit ''too'' clever for their own good.

* Why is Calamity Ganon's VillainousBreakdown so drastic? Regardless of whichever timeline this game follows, he's been sealed multiple times over, with this 10,000 years being potentially the longest. He finally breaks free after all this time, after presumably undergoing multiple recurrences of GoMadFromTheIsolation and BoredWithInsanity, only to have Zelda immediately stall him for yet another 100. When he actually breaks loose from ''that'', lo and behold, Link's right there with the one weapon that can truly defeat him, and despite the villain's integration of Sheikah technology to give himself an edge, he gets thrashed again, not only by Link, but by the Champions and their sacred beasts, which, judging by his brief [[OhCrap reaction, caught him completely off-guard. And to top it all off, he's still internally fighting Zelda this entire time! Basically, any]] [[HopeSpot Hope Spot that Ganon sees for victory]] [[EvilWillFail keeps getting countered, and in shorter and shorter intervals,]] [[HumiliationConga until the Humiliation Conga caused him to snap completely and go for his]] [[{{Kaiju}} Dark Beast form,]] [[UnskilledButStrong which was pure power and no strategy whatsoever]].

** Fireblight Ganon can fire energy balls as Ganondorf did as a TennisBoss.
** Windblight Ganon, just like most forms of Ganon, [[EvilIsBigger towers over its enemies.]]

* For playthroughs where Link just bum-rushes Ganon, there are some seriously horrifying {{Inferred Holocaust}}s that render it a PyrrhicVictory. Most notably, who says TheCorruption within the Divine Beasts is completely destroyed? Vah Ruta will cause a flood if not stopped, Vah Rudani is raining fireballs that will eventually destroy civilization around Death Mountain, Vah Naboris is consuming the entire desert in sand and lightning storms, and Vah Medoh is denying the Rito their airspace. Good news: At least when you do bum-rush Ganon you need to fight your way through all four of his blights first, which ''should'' free the beasts from their unnatural corruption. However the bad news is what that leaves for the four champions you abandoned to their fates. Not only do you show them that Link [[ForgottenFallenFriend didn't care about trying to remember any of them]] or even try to recognize any of their people's plights in favor of trying something that nearly killed him once before, and how ''devastating'' knowledge like this would be to Mipha, but it also basically says that their lives as the pilots of the divine beasts were worthless as you didn't need them to help stop Ganon anyway. Who's to say that these potentially [[ItsPersonal angry, frustrated and hurt souls]] will be okay with just having their beasts go idle, when they could instead go try to give a piece of their minds to their former companion for insulting them like this?]] And on a specific note how exactly will Mipha's family be made to realize she really ''is'' dead inside Ruta in this scenario and what will the Zora's anger towards Link mean for this Hyrule's future even with the flooding crisis ''hopefully'' avoided?

* How come that Link seems to know both the monks name and what kind of trial awaits him at each shrine? Well, he opened the shrine by using his Sheikah Slate which would most likely have downloaded the info.

* Link has been regenerating for a hundred years. The land of Hyrule is still awash in guardians (including about a dozen or so guardian stalkers). Presumably, they have been free to kill the people of Hyrule at will for a hundred years, with almost nothing to stop them because even Link has difficulty destroying them until fairly late in the game.