The Unseen Life of Ancient Hyrule (Tears of The Kingdom Lore)

The Ancient Zonai life of Hyrule is extremely intriguing. I want to see it in it's prime, I want to learn more, see more and just be within Zonai Life.

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Intro - 00:00
Throne Room - 02:02
Duelling Peaks - 04:42
Construct Factory - 06:04
Gerudo Desert - 07:16
Mineru's Study - 08:49
Random Islands - 10:37
Zonai Town - 12:02
Conclusion & Outro - 14:59

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[HyruleGamer]

Where would you explore in Ancient Hyrule? ✨️

[MasterCrawford]

One thing i couldn't help but notice was the chasm that Mineru's spirit takes link down is the ONLY chasm that isnt permeated by gloom. It is a clean, goopless chasm.

[rhysmcluckie]

My heart says that light dragon split the dueling peaks when she ascended so the people of Hyrule fleeing the Great Calamity in the distant future would have a way to get to safety

[ScanBar]

It really goes to show how dedicated and caring the developers are when they make full models for buildings like the castle and put them in the open world that we play in, only for them to appear in a memory or two. They basically rebuild (at least parts of) the overworld, even though we will only ever see a few shots of these locations in game. They made models like the throne room, Mineru's study, and intact versions of the bridge next to the Temple of Time and the walls around the Great Plateau, just for the cutscenes. Really makes me want to see what the rest of the Zonai ruins looked like in their prime.

[raffaelm]

For some reason, my immediate theory was that Mineru's library and possibly workshop are the buildings on Dragonhead Island. Their shape fits and I wondered if the door we see in the back is actually an elevator and what's left of it is that strange structure in the ruins on Dragonhead Island. It makes much more sense for her to live in the castle, too, but Dragonhead and the operations there feel like something Mineru would be overseeing.

[kymmie_girl]

The constructs waiting all over, especially the first ones you meet in the sky, make me so sad. I felt bad having too fight them because they’re all just doing their jobs that they were programmed to do thousands of years ago. And they don’t know that they can stop now.

[Gyashonav]

In the memory were the sages become, well, sages, Naborus says that the last free Gerudo town has fallen. This suggested that the desert was at one point more populated and not all ruled by one person.

Also, though this can be done in btow too, if you line up the gate to the desert from oot (and account for the fact that compared to btow and totk it would be flipped and/or rotated) then you can get a rough idea of were Gerudo fortress and the desert colossus would be

[Pomshka]

TOTK amd BOTW fills me with such a sad loneliness. I wish we could have gotten more 😔

[Ashley_Graves_]

So, I'm trying to locate the old Hyrule Castle. Using memory 17, it seems to me that the Castle is literally right on top of the Shrine of Resurrection. Looking below in the depths, there's of course the secret spring of revival with this weird zonai structure. Maybe this structure could be part of the castle? And maybe parts of the sky islands above the Shrine of Resurrection are more parts of the castle? Obviously, this is a stretch, especially since we don't really get to see the inside of the old castle much; but structures have moved, especially the temple of time having moved over the bottomless swamp/pond in the sky.

[TheOnlySerpentine]

My thoughts on the gleeok island in the desert is that the island was a sort of watchtower for the zonai. So they could keep an eye on the gerudo. The island is so high up it is hard to spot from down below.

[Axecon]

There's evidence that the wildlife of Ancient Hyrule has not changed much up through modern day BOTW/TOTK. We still see the same dominant races (Hylian, Gerudo, Rito, Zora, Goron, etc) as well as flora & fauna. The biggest evidence is that we see Moldugas during one of the cutscenes with Ganondorf and they still exist to the modern BOTW/TOTK era. Moldugas are not present in any other Zelda game meaning they must have evolved exclusively during this Era of the Wilds.

[a.jthomas]

I wish we could’ve see more of Ancient Hryule as Zelda set out her own adventure as a playable after being transported to the distant past. One of my criticism of TOTK is the story itself is divided into two in the perspective of two main characters. Nintendo did promise us to give us a better narrative story. But all I see bit of a mess here which is similar to Skyward Sword’s unfinished Second Quest story.

[TheTruthNEGFTW]

I absolutely loved the sky Zonai forge, even though it doesn't work. Its one of the biggest islands but the fan/laser puzzle was fun and the giant tree reminded me of Laputa

[maxwellgulyas]

Something I noticed about Mineru’s study is that there is a zonai wing in the background. You can see it at 10:00. That, combined with the fan, makes me think that she had… her own private jet?

[Dillville]

One thing I like is that in flashbacks u can see that temple of time was on the Great Plateau from some of the landmarks and point of view of cutscenes

[SugarFreeGaming]

It'd be cool if they did a dlc where you play as zelda in the past and see what they were up too since she was there for awhile and it still ends with a big Gannon fight before she turned into the dragon

[lindajonesartist]

I'd love to learn why there are sky islands that have lower gravity.

[kakarikokage]

If you look at the ancient map of Hyrule, you can also see a small lake where Lookout Landing is today.

[Frogboyaidan]

Would love to see an age of calamity prequel set in the ancient past

[rgentum_]

What really bothers me is The Depths. Josha makes the claim that people lived down there, but there's zero evidence of it. Yeah there's the mines, construct factory, Zonai device areas, and colosseums but those aren't signs of people actually living there. There's no evidence of homes or towns or anything.