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*** The above is all Jossed. Big Blins are explicitly Moblin kings in Japan and called such in the ‘’Hyrule Encyclopedia.’’ Great Moblin is also explicitly a LoneWolfBoss and not connected to Ganon’s forces. Many Zelda games feature talking animals and indeed the same, anthropomorphic animals, identical to the ones in animal village show up in the Oracle of games. The Lake scientist is always seen to keep Pet Octoroks in '’Ocarina of time 3D.’’ Its clear talking animals exist in Hyrule, as do independent monsters not related to the current [[MaouTheDemonKing Demon King.]]
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** It’s also possible that Fi’s consciousness as it appears in Skyward Sword has degraded so much in the years since then that she isn’t able to manifest in that form anymore. She said she could feel her consciousness fading from the moment her first master drove the sword into its pedestal. Maybe communicating telepathically is the only method the sword has left.
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** Without taking the time to read through that entire wall of text, part of the reason is always going to be “Because Fi the character didn’t exist before Skyward Sword,” and that can’t be stated enough. There’s only so much that can be justified when she was introduced so late in the game. However, there are some justifications in-universe: in Ocarina of Time, Zelda said that the Master Sword itself chose to put Link to sleep when he opened the gate to the Sacred Realm. And in The Wind Waker, it was implied that the Master Sword had tried to communicate something to Tetra at the Forsaken Fortress, presumably to try and prevent Link from confronting Ganondorf with the depowered blade. You could even make the argument that the sword in Twilight Princess recognized Link in his wolf form, since it broke the curse on him but not the one that Zant placed on Midna. Based on these factors, it could be extrapolated that Fi is still able to show signs of sapience during her “slumber”, but that she doesn’t go so far as to communicate or take direct action except under dire circumstances — such as Link drawing the sword too early or not realizing that its power is gone. And in those cases, it doesn’t appear that she can communicate with just anyone, but probably only an heir of the royal family who’s sufficiently attuned to their sacred power. That’s why OoT and BotW Zelda could communicate with her while Tetra (and most incarnations of Link) don’t seem to be able to.
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* Why did Fi wait until this to wake up and speak to Link and Zelda again? In Skyward Sword, it’s clearly stated that her mission was to help the hero defeat the demon king, and then she went to sleep when that mission was complete. But if that was really Fi speaking to us in the new games, [[VoodooShark this raises more questions than answers and there are some things that don’t make sense]]. For one thing, how come Fi never woke up during all the times the new demon king Ganon/Ganondorf came about? Whenever Link and Ganon returned, Fi’s mission was basically, for lack of a better term, "un-completed", so she had no reason to stay asleep anymore. And since Skyward Sword is a prequel to the entire franchise, Fi’s been around since it all began, so she of all people should know how important Link’s mission to defeat Ganon is in all the games that came after Skyward Sword, especially since she was present when Demise cursed Link’s spirit and Zelda’s bloodline, so she should know ''exactly'' what Ganon is. She’s the only one who really knows what is going on and why this is all happening to begin with, and she should know that her mission is ''not'' complete. And yet, despite that, she never woke up or tried to speak to any of the Links and Zeldas between Skyward Sword and Breath of The Wild? Pretty out of character for her to not try to give advice to any of them, especially since she was always [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper so eager to advise us]] back in Skyward Sword. And if Fi did only wake up sometime around the Hero of The Wild’s era, then why doesn’t she speak to the Hero Of The Wild more? It’s really out-of-character for Fi to not talk to us more, especially since she was never shy about it back in Skyward Sword. And again, The Demon King is not quite gone, and his essence lives on, so the whole reason for her to go to sleep at the end of Skyward Sword is completely moot, and she has no reason to not manifest herself and directly appear to Link anymore. There is literally no in-universe reason for her to stay asleep and not show herself or talk to Link in any of the games where the Master Sword shows up, because helping Link fight the demon king is literally what Hylia made her for. Especially since the she has been both broken and repaired in Tears of The Kingdom.
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* Why did Fi wait until this long to wake up and speak to Link and Zelda again? In Skyward Sword, it’s clearly stated that her mission was to help the hero defeat the demon king, and then she went to sleep when that mission was complete. But if that was really Fi speaking to us in the new games, [[VoodooShark this raises more questions than answers and there are some things that don’t make sense]]. For one thing, how come Fi never woke up during all the times the new demon king Ganon/Ganondorf came about? Whenever Link and Ganon returned, Fi’s mission was basically, for lack of a better term, "un-completed", so she had no reason to stay asleep anymore. And since Skyward Sword is a prequel to the entire franchise, Fi’s been around since it all began, so she of all people should know how important Link’s mission to defeat Ganon is in all the games that came after Skyward Sword, especially since she was present when Demise cursed Link’s spirit and Zelda’s bloodline, so she should know ''exactly'' what Ganon is. She’s the only one who really knows what is going on and why this is all happening to begin with, and she should know that her mission is ''not'' complete. And yet, despite that, she never woke up or tried to speak to any of the Links and Zeldas between Skyward Sword and Breath of The Wild? Pretty out of character for her to not try to give advice to any of them, especially since she was always [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper so eager to advise us]] back in Skyward Sword. And if Fi did only wake up sometime around the Hero of The Wild’s era, then why doesn’t she speak to the Hero Of The Wild more? It’s really out-of-character for Fi to not talk to us more, especially since she was never shy about it back in Skyward Sword. And again, The Demon King is not quite gone, and his essence lives on, so the whole reason for her to go to sleep at the end of Skyward Sword is completely moot, and she has no reason to not manifest herself and directly appear to Link anymore. There is literally no in-universe reason for her to stay asleep and not show herself or talk to Link in any of the games where the Master Sword shows up, because helping Link fight the demon king is literally what Hylia made her for. Especially since the she has been both broken and repaired in Tears of The Kingdom.
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* Why did Fi wait until this to wake up and speak to Link and Zelda again? In Skyward Sword, it’s clearly stated that her mission was to help the hero defeat the demon king, and then she went to sleep when that mission was complete. But if that was really Fi speaking to us in the new games, [[VoodooShark this raises more questions than answers and there are some things that don’t make sense]]. For one thing, how come Fi never woke up during all the times the new demon king Ganon/Ganondorf came about? Whenever Link and Ganon returned, Fi’s mission was basically, for lack of a better term, "un-completed", so she had no reason to stay asleep anymore. And since Skyward Sword is a prequel to the entire franchise, Fi’s been around since it all began, so she of all people should know how important Link’s mission to defeat Ganon is in all the games that came after Skyward Sword, especially since she was present when Demise cursed Link’s spirit and Zelda’s bloodline, so she should know ''exactly'' what Ganon is. She’s the only one who really knows what is going on and why this is all happening to begin with, and she should know that her mission is ''not'' complete. And yet, despite that, she never woke up or tried to speak to any of the Links and Zeldas between Skyward Sword and Breath of The Wild? Pretty out of character for her to not try to give advice to any of them, especially since she was always [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper so eager to advise us]] back in Skyward Sword. And if Fi did only wake up sometime around the Hero of The Wild’s era, then why doesn’t she speak to the Hero Of The Wild more? It’s really out-of-character for Fi to not talk to us more, especially since she was never shy about it back in Skyward Sword. And again, The Demon King is not quite gone, and his essence lives on, so the whole reason for her to go to sleep at the end of Skyward Sword is completely moot, and she has no reason to not manifest herself and directly appear to Link anymore. There is literally no in-universe reason for her to stay asleep and not show herself or talk to Link in any of the games where the Master Sword shows up, because helping Link fight the demon king is literally what Hylia made her for. Especially since the she has been both broken and repaired in Tears of The Kingdom.
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* Why did Fi wait until this to wake up and speak to Link and Zelda again? In Skyward Sword, it’s clearly stated that her mission was to help the hero defeat the demon king, and then she went to sleep when that mission was complete. But if that was really Fi speaking to us in the new games, [[VoodooShark this raises more questions than answers and there are some things that don’t make sense]]. For one thing, how come Fi never woke up during all the times the new demon king Ganon/Ganondorf came about? Whenever Link and Ganon returned, Fi’s mission was basically, for lack of a better term, "un-completed", so she had no reason to stay asleep anymore. And since Skyward Sword is a prequel to the entire franchise, Fi’s been around since it all began, so she of all people should know how important Link’s mission to defeat Ganon is in all the games that came after Skyward Sword, especially since she was present when Demise cursed Link’s spirit and Zelda’s bloodline, so she should know ''exactly'' what Ganon is. She’s the only one who really knows what is going on and why this is all happening to begin with, and she should know that her mission is ''not'' complete. And yet, despite that, she never woke up or tried to speak to any of the Links and Zeldas between Skyward Sword and Breath of The Wild? Pretty out of character for her to not try to give advice to any of them, especially since she was always [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper so eager to advise us]] back in Skyward Sword. And if Fi did only wake up sometime around the Hero of The Wild’s era, then why doesn’t she speak to the Hero Of The Wild more? It’s really out-of-character for Fi to not talk to us more, especially since she was never shy about it back in Skyward Sword. And again, The Demon King is not quite gone, and his essence lives on, so the whole reason for her to go to sleep at the end of Skyward Sword is completely moot, and she has no reason to not manifest herself and directly appear to Link anymore. There is literally no in-universe reason for her to stay asleep and not show herself or talk to Link in any of the games where the Master Sword shows up, because helping Link fight the demon king is literally what Hylia made her for. Especially since the she has been both broken and repaired in Tears of The Kingdom.
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* Headscratchers/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom
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** Simply put, when it comes to Ganon, being killed or sealed are treated almost interchangeably. His apparent immortality makes it so killing him is just another form of sealing. A Link to the Past originally had a direct sequel a few years after the original game called Ancient Stone Tablets, and even that game treats Ganon as having been just sealed instead of killed by Link.
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** Skyward Sword and later Breath of the Wild actually make a point about how Link gets so strong in most games, but someone like Zelda (and much less an average Joe soldier) couldn't achieve the same thing: most of the stuff that Link does and the items he acquires are put in his path as part of divine providence as he's the chosen hero. Breath of the Wild's Zelda even ''tries'' to get inside the shrines that are used to power-up Link, and has the key to the things, but can't get in just because she isn't the person they were meant to work for. Even in the games where Link starts off as a commoner with no combat training, he's still often portrayed as having special innate qualities that mark him as a hero and allow him to do what no one else could.
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** Older games were a lot more limited in how many different models they could have. Goron and Zora get a single character model for non-named characters in the N64 games (and even some named characters, like Medigoron, Biggoron and Link the Goron only use resized versions of the standard model). The Gerudo, being a bit more human-like, get some variation, but even then it's very small (we get two basic Gerudo models, the soldiers and the non-combatants). So, since there wasn't a named Gerudo character who happened to be a child in either of those games, they don't get portrayed at all. After that, the tribe didn't appear in full until Four Swords Adventures, which is a 2D game that works with similar constraints, as well as having a smaller-scale world (the Gerudo village in that game are just 5 identical tents). It wasn't until Breath of the Wild that we had a game with both the scale and the resources to get a generic child Gerudo model, at which point, as mentioned above, we do get one.
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** Basically, Hylians are an ethnicity of humans. They presumably have more propensity to develop magical powers, but are definitely not the only type of human capable of doing so.
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** The Sages from A Link to the Past are not the same ones as the group from Ocarina of Time, but both groups existed in the Downfall Timeline. That timeline splits off when Link dies fighting Ganon, so the Seven Sages from Ocarina were already awakened and presumably failed their mission alongside the hero. Then a war begins, the events told in the backstory for A Link to the Past, which ends with a set of presumably all-Hylian Sages unrelated to the first ones sealing away the Dark World with Ganon inside. Both sets of Sages probably had their names go down in history, though we never hear the names of the second set.
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** We never get any time frame on when Impa sealed the creature inside the well. It could very well have happened in the seven years when Link was asleep. Would make a lot of sense considering what happens elsewhere in Hyrule as well. Ganondorf touches the Triforce, evil starts seeping from the Temples and taking over the areas around it. The evil from the Shadow Temple becomes Bongo Bongo, but Impa manages to seal it away until the cutscene where it breaks loose. That's why Kakariko Village is in a comparatively peaceful state, rather than taken over by evil like the other parts of Hyrule, Impa managed to hold back the darkness for a good chunk of time.
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** The Triforce works on a bit of OrangeAndBlueMorality. The split is not really a defence mechanism, but only how it judges individuals. They're worthy if they have a balanced heart to begin with, or if, after the Triforce splits, they manage to reunite it. The King in Wind Waker presumably had a balanced heart, or the Triforce would split again, since he wasn't the one who caused the original split, nor one of the chosen bearers of the other pieces.
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** Twilight Princess actually makes a very good point on why the sword is needed. The Sages most decidedly did '''not''' manage to kill Ganondorf with a regular sword, it's the whole point for them having to resort to sealing him in the Twilight Realm instead. The sword damaged him, even left a permanent scar, but did not put him down as they expected it to. Meanwhile, the Master Sword inflicting the same wound was powerful enough to counter the power of the Triforce of Power and kill him for good. Sure, in the older games we see the Silver Arrows having a similar effect, but we never get an explanation on what kind of magic they possess. Furthermore, in A Link to the Past we actually need to use both the arrows and the sword in conjunction. The original game could either be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness or the silver arrows could have similar properties to the Master Sword in general, serving as a good alternative for a Link that did not have access to the sword.
