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tears of the Kingdom's most recent
trailer is just as cryptic as the first
there's less than a hundred days now
until release and Nintendo are keeping
their cards so close to their chest it
begins with mysterious ancient stone
carvings showing a woman in a dress and
a strange creature with a long flowing
hair and pointed ears the carvings
reappear at the end of the trailer too
where we can see the full version of
this carving showing the woman and the
creature with their hands cupped
together into a circle a shape mirrored
in the game's logo Zelda games logos are
pretty important they almost always
feature the classic Zelda logo in the
same style used since a link to the past
but everything else the fonts colors and
Graphics are used to represent the
game's identity Majora's mask's logo is
a deep purple standing out as weird and
different among other titles breath of
the Wild's logo is chipped and worn
mirroring the broken state of Hyrule
after the great Calamity how a Zelda
logo is designed says a lot the graphics
chosen are often hugely important parts
of the games Majora's Mask features well
Majora's Mask The Wind Waker has the
king of Red Lions Link's companion and
transport across the seas and Twilight
Princess shows wolf link and the fused
Shadow the magical artifacts link pieces
together for the first half of the game
breath of the Wilds not only features
the broken Master Sword which symbolizes
the defeat of link and Hyrule but a
silent princess too the flower closely
linked to princess Zelda's role in the
story so it's fair to assume that the
decisions made about tears of the
Kingdom's logo are important too we can
see the broken Master swords notably
repaired with Link's new magic but far
more interesting is what they've chosen
to show behind the logo an image of two
Serpentine dragons consuming each
other's tails and forming a ring again
this decision won't have been taken
lightly this symbol probably represents
something absolutely integral to tears
of the Kingdom just like Majora's Mask
the king of Red Lions or the fused
Shadow the dragon's design is the same
as those found on the sky islands not
just here but the big doors too where
the dragons also form a ring though
they're face to face instead they
feature the exact same feathers
eyelashes and horn-like protrusions on
their heads the dragons also obviously
glow the same green blue color as the
new magic which we've seen not only
connected to ganondorf's body and Link's
right arm but also his abilities like
this jump his Weaponry like this dragon
head flamethrower and the technology
found on the sky islands like this Stone
Golem just behind the logo the two
mysterious characters form a circle with
their hands together with Bandits I
posted an analysis video after the last
trailer covering these two characters
suggesting that the figure in a dress
with long hair could be Zelda and the
Mysterious alien creature the goddess
hylia the woman looks like a classic
depiction of Zelda with long hair a
dress and pointed ears the pair cup
their hands together in a way that
suggests that they are two parts of a
whole as does the pair of magatama
symbols found above the characters
Skyward Sword Zelda is of course the
Mortal Reincarnation of the goddess
hylia who sacrificed her godhood as part
of her plan to defeat demise and her
Divine bloodline has been passed down
through the hyrulean royal family ever
since there are strong similarities
between the pair some parts of their
bodies are almost identical and they
both have the same flowing hair if this
is Zelda then it would make perfect
sense for her other half to be hylia her
Divine ancestor more so than any other
character in the Zelda series or more so
than a new character entirely hylia is
most commonly depicted as a winged woman
but we've never actually seen her
physical form in any game she speaks
through fee or through goddess statues
from her place at the Edge of Time for
all we know hylia could look like this
alien yet graceful it's also worth
noting that hylia has a closed third eye
on her forehead a third eye obviously
has connotations of prescience or
Enlightenment but in Universe has
connections to the sheikah a clan known
as The goddess's Chosen Guardians who
paint their chica eye symbol on their
foreheads the character who could be
hylia appears to be on a sky island in
this carving we can see clouds surround
founding it mountains below and the
figure stands on a floating platform so
this connection between Zelda and hylia
then could be what is symbolized by the
two dragons in the logo two separate yet
identical beings coming together to form
a whole in breath of the wild Zelda
struggles to connect with hylia she
despairs that she cannot awaken the
powers within her bloodline from a
character perspective reconnecting with
hylia would be a perfect continuation of
this Zelda's story
but it doesn't end there the dragon
symbol is an example of an aura boros a
symbol used since ancient times
depicting a serpent or dragon eating its
own tail it symbolizes infinity and
Eternity an endless cycle of life and
death which is obviously fitting for the
Zelda series a story that tells of the
Endless rise and fall of Hyrule the
inevitable return of evil balanced
against a hero to defeat it but this
isn't a traditional oroboros here it's
formed from two serpents each eating the
other's tail two becoming one in a loop
Without End forever chasing one another
this is notably different to the design
on the doors which features the same
dragons only faced in opposite
directions so that their heads meet
together at the top this
symbol formed by who we're assuming is
Zelda and hylia too their hands are
pressed together in a circle but are the
same way up so perhaps the fact that
these dragons are facing the other way
eating each other in a loop symbolizes
an imbalance of forces as opposed to the
dragons on the doors which face each
other and stand still it could be that
link will have to reset this to fix an
imbalance responsible for cycles of
prosperity and destruction if we assume
that this symbol is connected to the
pairing of Zelda and hylia like the hand
symbol suggests then what this auroboros
represents could have fascinating story
implications
before Skyward Sword the goddess hylia
became Zelda but this symbol and the
cupping together of their hands might
suggest that in turn Zelda will become
hylia who reincarnates his Zelda who
becomes hylia and so on in an endless
cycle this would necessarily involve
some time-bending magic which of course
the Zelda series is no stranger to it's
clear from the trailers that tears of
the Kingdom will feature ancient ruins
and forgotten secrets in particular the
stone carvings featuring the character
who resembles Zelda look incredibly old
the symbols seen here match those found
on the mysterious presumably ancient Sky
Islands so for the princess to appear
here it means that this is either a
depiction of a different incarnation of
Zelda or that Zelda will travel to the
past we know that she discovers
ganondorf's body alongside link but also
that she falls into a deep Cavern
literally consumed by the darkness and
nothing else as you'd expect link
appears to be adventuring through the
clouds by himself which begs the
question what happened to Zelda and
where is she now
perhaps Zelda will be imprisoned or even
die underground but I can't imagine that
she'll be sidelined for the entire story
her part to play in tears of the Kingdom
has been kept almost entirely secret
perhaps because it's incredibly
important to the Game's plot and because
her journey will involve interacting
with herself in the distant past
but let's go even further
if Zelda's story leads to her becoming
the goddess hylia this doesn't just have
implications for tears of the kingdom
and for this Zelda what if the oroboros
symbol not only represents the cycle of
The Princess and the goddess but the
Zelda Timeline itself this idea sounds
ridiculous we know how the Zelda
Timeline begins with Skyward Sword and
hylia breath of the wild already
drastically changed the Zelda Timeline
As We Knew It by taking place at the end
of every timeline this shouldn't be
possible the three timelines following
on from Ocarina of Time are completely
separate threads of history with
entirely different versions of Hyrule
yet still breath of the wild takes place
at the end of everyone so far in the
future that anything before is lost and
forgotten in the era of myth breath of
the Wild's director hidamaru fujibayashi
also led the development of Skyward
Sword the two 3D games with him at the
helm bookend the timeline the very
beginning and the very end
could tears of the Kingdom connect these
ends like the oroboros suggests the
Zelda Timeline leads up to breath of the
wild Zelda becoming highlier with tears
of the Kingdom leading into Skyward
Sword and the entire timeline which ends
once again with breath of the wild and
tears of the Kingdom this could be
supported by the sudden appearance of
floating islands above Hyrule which
obviously calls back to skyloft and the
islands above the clouds in Skyward
Sword these were raised by the goddess
hylia in order for hylians to escape
from demise and his armies on the
surface could these Sky Islands be the
very same this figure stands on a
platform floating above Hyrule perhaps
it's her magic that holds the sky
islands up just like hylia's power
raising skyloft If Tears of the Kingdom
bends the timeline into a circle and
hylia's story leads through into Skyward
Sword then the same floating islands
could appear at both ends of the Zelda
Timeline with breath of the wild Zelda
ending up being the one that raises them
Skyward this wouldn't mean that tears of
the kingdom is the last Zelda game ever
made though the timeline still spans
countless countless thousands of years
Even If Tears of the kingdom is designed
to take place at the very end of the
timeline just like Skyward Sword was at
the very beginning this still leaves
room for future games between the two
this would of course leave one glaring
issue if hylia becomes Zelda who becomes
highlier then where did she come from
like the Song of Storms she would have
no origin born somewhere impossible in
an endless time Loop she would be a
being outside of time the single most
important thing in the Zelda world its
beginning and its end which would make
the entire timeline The Legend of Zelda
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of course we don't know anything for
certain we can only speculate and make
wild guesses until we see more of the
game which hopefully should be soon what
do you think about the auroboros symbol
what could it mean for tears of the
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