History Headscratchers / TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker

** What’s more, it was Twilight Princess that established that the Master Sword was forged by the ancient sages. Zelda had a connection to the sages as early as A Link to the Past, and was said to be their leader in Ocarina of Time. The combination of these facts does form a basis for her connection to the sword without considering the events of Skyward Sword.

** Besides simply not caring, by the time he saw Link, the boy has broken into his fortress made his way close to his keep. That alone is enough to have him marked for death from the Demon King. The only reason Ganondorf didn't have him killed in a more definitive way was that he (correctly at the time) judged him as a common their and a non-threat. Since Link was just a kid not worthy of his attention, he had the Helmaroc King toss him out to sea, hopefully to drown.

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* In all seriousness, where did all of Link's gear go between the ending of this game and ''Phantom Hourglass''? Here, we see him depart from Outset in the King of Red Lions, sword and shield on his back, while the beginning of the next game has him with no boat, no sword, shield or other weapons or tools, no Wind Waker, and apparently having to resort to sleeping on the pirate ship. And it seemed to me that Tetra was the only one who had her own quarters on the ship, meaning the safest place for Link to have kept his gear would be on his own person, and that there shouldn't have been any reason why he wouldn't at least have his sword and shield with him when he tried boarding the Ghost Ship.
** I think it comes down to [[WatsonianVersusDoylist the fact there's no Watsonian answer]]. There's no in-game justification. I doubt most people had the thought of a direct sequel in mind at the time of making TWW's ending. So when PH came up, they couldn't just start the player with all the goodies so... yeah, just forgot.
** It wouldn't have been two hard to add them in - I can understand Link not having the King of Red Lions, since he tried boarding the Ghost Ship immediately after he'd heard Tetra scream, but most of the items he finds in ''Phantom Hourglass'' are similar to, if not virtually identical to ones he had in ''The Wind Waker''. If they'd tried seeking a way to implement them in the sequel, they could've just put in some subplot where Link's items became lost in the sea and washed ashore on different islands, with his sword ending up on Mercay, the boomerang on the Isle of Ember, grappling hook on the Isle of Frost, etc., and then just have Link reclaim them instead of finding all-new ones as he plays through the game.
** Maybe Link had most of his gear stored away onto the pirate's ship when needed and he didn't simply had time to grab his stuff when he went after Tetra on the Ghost Ship? I mean it is not like he needs to carry all of his stuff with him all the time.
** I considered that, but only Tetra was shown to have private quarters on the ship, so where is he storing it? And even then, why not just his sword and shield? If you're on a voyage with pirates who are seeking out an allegedly cursed ghost ship, shouldn't you be at least a little more prepared than that?
** I think that, as Link was being forcibly ejected from Hyrule at the end of the game, most of his stuff fell from his bag and got left behind, leaving only the telescope, which he would have given back to Aryll, and possibly the picto box and other non-essential items that one wouldn't grab when going to save their best friend.
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** While westerners are used to the four classical Greek elements, eastern people often use the five Chinese elements, of which Wood is a part of, but Air/Wind is not. And this Wood elements often includes attributes from Wind (think back to VideoGame/OcarinaOfTime, and how Ganon's Fortress Forest area was entirely focused on wind puzzles). So, that's why Makar is the Sage of Wind. As for Medli being the Sage of Earth, while the Rito are in fact birds, they also have a deep connection to a mountain spirit, Valoo, to the point they can't even fly if not for his intervention. They may be descended from the Zora, but they're kinda slotted in the niche normally reserved for the Goron tribe as the earth/fire people. Now, why the previous Earth Sage was a Zora rather than a Goron (other than the writers wanting to have the Rito be descended from the Zora specifically), that's a real headscratcher.

** As you say, Link having the Wind Waker is what gives him an advantage - it's difficult to get very far in the competition even with a near-ideal wind blowing, and the odds of that happening as it is are pretty low. Link is just lucky that the proprietors of the game allow him to use "whatever means he can muster" in order to help him reach the goal - otherwise, his use of the Wind Waker would be considered cheating, most likely.
** Also, I've considered the updrafts...After all, Link is only ''gliding'' through the air rather than flying like the Rito do - to them, the updrafts may actually serve as obstacles rather than beneficiaries like they do Link in that they might mess up their flight path if they happen to run into each other. Willi and Obli probably never expected someone to try entering the competition with a ''leaf''.

** The notion about the updrafts serving as obstacles is lent some credence by ''Breath of the Wild''. When Revali is practicing his Gale maneuver in one of the memories, we see that he has to stay in the center of the updraft or else he'll be tossed about by the fierce winds surrounding it. The same could apply here, except these updrafts are much larger and more turbulent, and can move around on their own.

** While westerners are used to the four classical Greek elements, eastern people often use the five Chinese elements, of which Wood is a part of, but Air/Wind is not. And this Wood elements often includes attributes from Wind (think back to OcarinaOfTime, and how Ganon's Fortress Forest area was entirely focused on wind puzzles). So, that's why Makar is the Sage of Wind. As for Medli being the Sage of Earth, while the Rito are in fact birds, they also have a deep connection to a mountain spirit, Valoo, to the point they can't even fly if not for his intervention. They may be descended from the Zora, but they're kinda slotted in the niche normally reserved for the Goron tribe as the earth/fire people. Now, why the previous Earth Sage was a Zora rather than a Goron (other than the writers wanting to have the Rito be descended from the Zora specifically), that's a real headscratcher.

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