History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds

* ''What'' is the [[NotOfThisEarth Hylian Shield doing in Lorule]]? It's the equivalent of finding a Lolian Shield complete with inverted Triforce in Hyrule. [[{{CaptainObvious}} It does not belong.]]

---> Impa = [[CaptainObvious Impa]]

*** Its a nice thought... but blatantly false. Even before LBW, it was stated that the Maidens were intended to be direct descendants of the OOT Sages, it was just a retcon, nothing more. And LBW clearly drives home the point that these sages are direct descendants of the originals. It doesn't even make sense to suggest otherwise. If they were merely successors, then you could just pick anybody with the right qualities and they'd have to "awaken" as a sage, you wouldn't be able to know who they were before awakening. These Sages are by birth alone, its simply not possible any other way. The Maidens are a retcon and Rosso is somehow descent from both Hylians and Gorons. Oren isn't really all that complicated, the River Zoras are distantly related to the Sea Zoras.

** When the Sages send Link away from the Sacred Realm, look at the poses they strike. They do almost the exact same poses as the Sages in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' do when they seal away Ganon. From this and their appearances/dungeons they're in, it can be deduced which ALBW Sage descends from which OoT Sage.

** Caution and Focus work very very well, but Ambition is a bit iffy. [[spoiler:Notice that on the other side of things, it can be said that Link lacks "Caution" (he recklessly confronts Yuga twice in the beginning), and Zelda lacks "Focus" (despite her wisdom, she is very passive and ends up kidnapped). Ganon, however, clearly does NOT lack Ambition. Lorule's third Triforce should logically be something Yuga embodies and Ganon lacks (again, assuming he is Ganon's counterpart). Maybe Cunning? Yuga is certainly more GenreSavvy than Ganon and his master plan with Hilda was pretty clever.]] So... Caution, Focus, and Cunning maybe?

** Regarding the Sages, they weren't actually placed in the locations on the edges of Lorule they wound up in. If you see the cutscene where Yuga fuses with Ganon, the effect of the fusion and the power burst it wrought sent all of the Sages' paintings flying. All seven sages portraits were sent flying and happened to merely wind up in all of the dangerous locations in Lorule after Yuga fused with Ganon, due to the burst of power that came with the fusion, and the power burst must have been so great that the portraits were sent flying great distances. The portraits were then likely discovered by some of the minions of the dungeons that the paintings all wound up flying into. The Thieves' Hideout for example involves escorting an imprisoned Thief Girl, who was imprisoned because she knew where Stalblind hid Osfala's portrait, which meant that Stalblind had found Osfala's portrait in the town there and hid it in that house. Similar circumstances may have applied to the other sages, who wound up flying into those locations where you find them, and may have been discovered either by the bosses themselves or the minions guarding the dungeons,

** I think everyone already agrees with that. What they're asking is why the sages had the piece in the first place/

** There was also apparently some sequence of events that had taken place between this game and its predessecor that hasn't been covered in another title yet, since Ganon was killed off in ''A Link to the Past''. Then Twinrova revived him in the ''Oracle'' games as a mindless beast, but Link went and killed him again. Yet here in this game, Yuga is able to either revive or unseal him using only the power of the seven sages, meaning there had to be something the sages did to seal him away in the first place.