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**** Quil stated that it was kidnapping girls with long Ears only, why Sue Belle wasn't kiddnapped, I have no Idea....
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*Why did the smoke ring around dragon roost have to go away? After all, its supposed to be death mountain right?
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**Its not very dark in relation to the other games in the series. Wind Waker has a cataclysmic back story but the remains optimistic and the people moved along just fine. The world that actually had living things still in it was much more effected by in game events in Ocarina of Time, The skull kid's/Majora's Mask rampage had a much heavier effect on the setting than Wind Waker, and the spreading Twilight is much more apparent in Twilight Princess. Most of the complaints about were about the art style and sailing than the story anyway. True less people would have called this kiddie if the art style was a little less cartoony, thus Twilight Princess was a little less cartoony.
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** You could probably justify Makar's being the sage of the Wind Temple because his race is known to float on the wind with their leaves, and the Forest Haven is where Link receives the Deku Leaf, allowing him to fly on the wind as well. As for Medli, that one's a bit more of a stretch. It might be related to the fact that Dragoon Roost Island, the dungeon/area she's most featured in is home to a volcano, possibly the former Death Mountain, which could be sort of earth related.
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*** And even if the chickens ''did'' evolve into pigs by the time of Wind Waker, SpiritTracks is in the New Hyrule that Link and Tetra set off to find, so it's possible that the chickens there just didn't change from their old incarnations.
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** Perhaps they were the only temples that were rebuilt by the powers that be? I mean, if Hyrule is under water then it stands to reason that all of the other temples (except maybe the forest and fire) are gone too. If this is the case, then adding to an above poster, Ganondorf would not know these 'new' temples. Then after WW then other temples were rebuilt as well. (just to clarify, Forest Temple=Earth Temple. The switch in words could come as a translation mistake as we see that whatever language they speak has evolved enough to make the old language uncompromisable as seen with how the Great Deku tree first greets you)
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**** Maybe Tetra was just ''really'' dirty and the Triforce cleaned her up? Her hair also looked a bit shinier and cleaner.
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*** Definitely, ''Zelda'' games are commonly regarded as very easy (with the exception of the two NES games, dating from the NintendoHard era,) and I'd have to agree with that notion personally. Note, however, that even the easiest AdventureGame[=s=] will have often have a SeeTheSailboat puzzle.

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*** Definitely, ''Zelda'' games are commonly regarded as very easy (with the exception of the two NES games, dating from the NintendoHard era,) and I'd have to agree with that notion personally. Note, however, that even the easiest AdventureGame[=s=] will have often have a SeeTheSailboat puzzle.MoonLogicPuzzle.
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**They are not blood related. I would assume that once a sage dies, the power of the sage moves on to someone else who is connected with their element. The sage power lays dormant until the person dies or it is awakened. It would explain why in each game the sages are completely different in race.
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* Seriously, how old is Tetra meant to be? I have ''no'' idea.
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**Actually you find out that the original hero of time disappeared because this game takes place 100 years after when zelda sent link back to his childhood in Oot. The original hero of time no longer exists in this timeline so when they ask if Wind waker link is the one they are refering to if he is link's desendant which is not one since link wasn't around any more that is why you spend most of the game prooving yourself worthy to be considered the hero.
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** First of all, they may view the Hero of Time as sort of god-like, being a legend and all. Secondly, they may not mean the same Hero of Time, but they are waiting for another one to appear, which happens multiple times.
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** It's her ROLE. It's explicitly stated by Ganondorf that Toon-Link and Tetra are the [[OcarinaOfTime OoT]]-character's {{reincarnation}}s.
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*It bugs me that everyone calls Tetra Princess Zelda. Shouldn't she be Princess Tetra. Zelda is simply a name, and not a title.
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** FridgeBrilliance: Since he's the Hero of Time, maybe they think that the reason he vanished is because he traveled into his future, which is their present. That would be a great way to create a KingArthur-like legend, actually... with people always hoping that the hero would show up in their darkest hour, having traveled there to help.
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*** Because Shiek is somebody who is in ''disguise''; we saw what OOT's Zelda looked like as a child, and Shiek is pretty different in many ways, which makes sense because changing things like eye color, skin color, physical build, and so on if possible are a big help when hiding. But Tetra is just assumed to be what she normally looks like, just a girl who is raised as a pirate instead of a princess, and thus having tanned skin and tomboyish clothes rather than pale, powdered skin and a dress. So they give her a dress, okay, we can live with that... but where does the skin come in?
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**** Uhm... He kidnapped her when it was pretty dark?

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**** Uhm... He probably kidnapped her when it was pretty dark?really dark outside.
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* Whenever the Hero of Time is mentioned, it is always followed by a reminder that he disappeared, vanished, never returned, or some other way of implicitly blaming his absence for the spread of evil and resultant flooding. And witht he NewGamePlus, where you can read the Old Hylian spoken by ancient demigods such as Jabun, they all seem to ask the King if the boy with him is the guy they've been apparently searching for. Okay, ''seriously''? Does nobody care that that particular hero would have been ''dead of old age '''hundreds of years before''''' Ganon's return?!

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* Whenever the Hero of Time is mentioned, it is always followed by a reminder that he disappeared, vanished, never returned, or some other way of implicitly blaming his absence for the spread of evil and resultant flooding. And witht he with the NewGamePlus, where you can read the Old Hylian spoken by ancient demigods such as Jabun, they all seem to ask the King if the boy with him is the guy they've been apparently searching for. Okay, ''seriously''? Does nobody care that that particular hero would have been ''dead of old age '''hundreds of years before''''' Ganon's return?!
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** I was ''just'' thinking about that this morning while replaying the Earth Temple, which, aside from the obvious thematic discrepancy, clearly displays the telltale markings shown in every single Forest Temple to date. You can't miss them; parts of the dungeon require shining light on them to reveal things. Forest Temple = Kokiri Forest = Forest Haven = Kokiri = Koroks = Makar. Medli = Rito = Zora = ...well, not Forest or Earth ''anything''.
* Whenever the Hero of Time is mentioned, it is always followed by a reminder that he disappeared, vanished, never returned, or some other way of implicitly blaming his absence for the spread of evil and resultant flooding. And witht he NewGamePlus, where you can read the Old Hylian spoken by ancient demigods such as Jabun, they all seem to ask the King if the boy with him is the guy they've been apparently searching for. Okay, ''seriously''? Does nobody care that that particular hero would have been ''dead of old age '''hundreds of years before''''' Ganon's return?!
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* Can someone please explain to me why the BIRD-girl is the sage of the EARTH temple and the little root PLANT thing is the sage of the AIR temple? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
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*** Medli hasn't used her wings much. Komali flies around all day. So it's safe to assume she doesn't have much developed wing strength.
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*** But he is royalty, so [[WildMassGuessing maybe royal Rito have accelerated...]] [[BuffySpeak wing... growth... capabiltiies]].
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** It must be that mask. The mask causes the growth and all that; the extra Poes are just there for backup.

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** Since Fish evolved into Birds and "Elves" evolved into wooden Imps, it's save to assume that the chicken became the pigs. How the evolved back into chicken by the time of SpiritTracks, however, is a mystery.

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** Since Fish evolved into Birds and "Elves" evolved into wooden Imps, it's save to assume that the chicken became the pigs. How the evolved back into chicken by the time of SpiritTracks, however, is a mystery. mystery.
*** Neither of them evolved. The Zora were put on the fast track to becoming the Rito by the Goddesses so that they wouldn't discover Hyrule. And the Kokiri were turned into the Korok by the Deku Tree.


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** Why do people obsess over Tetra's tan disappearing when she becomes Zelda, but say nothing about when the same thing happens in Ocarina of Time. Sheik's skin becomes significantly lighter when she reverts to Zelda. It's not just "being revealed" it's an ''actual transformation''.
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*** His orders were probably "Kidnap all girls with pointed ears, but ''especially'' all blonde girls with pointed ears." It's a good idea to cover all your bases when you're searching for one of the two people capable of destroying you.
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*** Prince Komali. He can fly rather decent distances and helps save the protagonists at one point of the game, carrying a person from Ganondorf's lair to the Tower of Gods. So I think the original poster still has a point, he got his wings well after Medli.
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*** Isn't it possible that the triforce of wisdom makes its bearer more, I dunno, wise? Recklessly risk your life ala previous Tetra or stay put where you're supposed to be protected? It's possible the only thing that changed was that tetra became less stupid.
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** Presumably they're still growing in, and she simply needs training and time to grow before she can fly properly. Nobody ever said it was an entirely instant deal, just that the scale triggered the process
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* So did Medli just get a raw deal with her scale or something? She has wings, so she's completed that ritual. But they're hidden most of the time and only work for gliding short distances or with strong winds, unlike other Rito who can just straight up fly, even long distances.
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* This might be nitpicky, but how is it that when you're fighting Jalhalla a single Poe can reform into the main body?

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