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Okay I have a theory (or a hope, rather) for the Breath of the Wild sequel.
I really hope this game does away with Ganon being the main villain and just being another big monster to fight.
I want this to be a Zelda game where the villain is an eldritch abomination. (thread)
I really hope this game does away with Ganon being the main villain and just being another big monster to fight.
I want this to be a Zelda game where the villain is an eldritch abomination. (thread)
That dried up corpse Link and Zelda see in the trailer. It looks like it's at the bottom of a tomb.
What if there is no monster.
What if it's just that. A corpse.
But it has psychological and supernatural effects it makes on everyone.
What if there is no monster.
What if it's just that. A corpse.
But it has psychological and supernatural effects it makes on everyone.
This is just fanfiction at this point but while I was walking the dog, I thought of a possible thing to this story we haven't yet seen.
What if this is the old "king" of Hyrule? But we've never heard about him. Surely he'd be mentioned. What is his corpse doing
What if this is the old "king" of Hyrule? But we've never heard about him. Surely he'd be mentioned. What is his corpse doing
all dried up at the bottom of a crypt under the castle?
What if this thing posed as king? What if this is just some incomprehensible monstrosity beyond our comprehension, who tricked the people of Hyrule into adoring it, but someone saw through it and defeated it?
What if this thing posed as king? What if this is just some incomprehensible monstrosity beyond our comprehension, who tricked the people of Hyrule into adoring it, but someone saw through it and defeated it?
What if Link and Zelda are making some horrible mistake? What if getting near this thing means they're just letting it know there's people around, after possible centuries of neglect?
What if that weird energy stuff is this thing's doing? What even *is* it?
What if that weird energy stuff is this thing's doing? What even *is* it?
Demise was a demon who sought the Triforce but was struck down by Link and Zelda (Hylia). He then made sure his hatred would never end, and Ganon is the reincarnation of that hatred that persists through the generations.
Breath of the Wild Ganon seems to be more
Breath of the Wild Ganon seems to be more
of some sort of abstract darkness monster, with seemingly little resemblance to the old Ganons besides its pig form and the name.
I have a feeling this corpse thing isn't just Ganon. It's not something nearly as feeble as just a reincarnation caused by a demon's curse.
I have a feeling this corpse thing isn't just Ganon. It's not something nearly as feeble as just a reincarnation caused by a demon's curse.
I have a nagging feeling this thing is gonna be some kind of primordial being, very similar to the Old Ones of Lovecraftian lore. This thing isn't concerned with something as petty as hatred and evil against the ones who struck him down.
This thing simply *is*.
This thing simply *is*.
It's unlikely this is what will be in the game, but I like to pretend for now. I want a Zelda villain that isn't a villain. I want an unspeakable horror whose name no one dares mention. The mere sight of it instantly drives you mad, for these are things man was not meant to know.
It's so simple. Just an old dried corpse at the bottom of the crypt. But try approaching it and see what happens. It's probably not even this thing's true form. It's a manifestation of something so inherently wrong that has made its way to the world of Hyrule. And it is hungry.
Words describing it fail. Pages relating it shrivel. Tales recounting it end.
Ganon is to this thing what an amoeba is to a human being. Trying to grasp its true nature would most likely kill in the blink of an eye.
It can't be reasoned with. It can't be held back.
Ganon is to this thing what an amoeba is to a human being. Trying to grasp its true nature would most likely kill in the blink of an eye.
It can't be reasoned with. It can't be held back.
Perhaps the eldest of the ancients of Hyrule somehow found a way to keep this thing under wraps, erasing all memory of it and making sure no one discovers it again.
But nothing lasts forever. Except the entity's need to devour.
And nothing under heaven can keep the King at bay.
But nothing lasts forever. Except the entity's need to devour.
And nothing under heaven can keep the King at bay.
Look at this thing. This is not Ganon.
The whole trailer feels like a horror movie. The reversed music. The eerie setting. The unmistakeable crack of the corpse's neck as this face just falls down and stares.
Make no mistake. This is no ordinary evil.
The whole trailer feels like a horror movie. The reversed music. The eerie setting. The unmistakeable crack of the corpse's neck as this face just falls down and stares.
Make no mistake. This is no ordinary evil.
But there may be a reason this thing hasn't consumed reality yet. Remember, old gods have rules. Arcane ones, but they still exist.
Belief is powerful. What if the whole point of this thing being so hidden is to make sure its existence is never known again?
Belief is powerful. What if the whole point of this thing being so hidden is to make sure its existence is never known again?
I have a creeping feeling that Link and Zelda are fucking with forces beyond their most horrific nightmares.
Aonuma has said that this game will be darker than Majora's Mask.
Majora's Mask, in case you failed, ended with the moon crashing into the Earth, ending the world.
Aonuma has said that this game will be darker than Majora's Mask.
Majora's Mask, in case you failed, ended with the moon crashing into the Earth, ending the world.
In Breath of the Wild's sequel, perhaps failure could lead to something worse. Not mere planetary destruction. But complete obliteration of everything that is, was, and will ever be.
The end of reality itself. Forever. Caused by something so unspeakable and foul,
The end of reality itself. Forever. Caused by something so unspeakable and foul,
that slithered out of the void at the edge of the universe.
Link and Zelda seem to have found this thing, or deliberately searched for it.
That was a mistake.
Link and Zelda seem to have found this thing, or deliberately searched for it.
That was a mistake.
Note: I wrote all of this with major inspiration from @slimyswampghost, whose incredible artwork and taste in horror introduced me to a (sub?)genre of horror I never knew I loved: the horror of the unknown. The eldritch. The incomprehensible.
Anyway, that was fun to write.
Anyway, that was fun to write.
