Creepy / Strange Zelda Mysteries

Why does the Link statue look like that? What are Blight Ganons? Let's look at more Zelda mysteries!

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[coltdeedede]

Potential insight on the Elegy of Emptiness / Young Link's distorted replica: apparently the developers realized the implications of the ending of Ocarina of Time (Link as a man being sent back in time into the body of a child) and wanted Young Link to look like a child but have expressions of an adult. I wouldn't be surprised if the replica of Young Link looks so twisted because it represents the discomfort of Adult Link being trapped in the body of a child and the horrors he has been through thus far between the two games. (Also fully aware it could just be a funny expression they liked)

[PixelXI]

I think that the re-dead’s are actually grieving, as when they lean down, their heads are still a good distance from the corpses, and they slightly shudder as if crying.

[andrewk]

Man, is there ever a bottom to the well of Zelda mysteries? Just when you think you've heard it all, there's just a ton more

[georgevincent]

I love how much depth there is within each Zelda game. There was no need for Nintendo to include them, but they still did, just to make the games that much more amazing!

[chrispork]

Perhaps the creepy statue represents Link’s hidden troubles and regrets that he has buried deep in his soul after what happened in Ocarina of Time.

[MusingsMuses]

I've seen a vid floating around that the Blights were formed around the champion's dead bodies and actually hearing the "their attacks mirror the champion they killed" I can see why people might think that BUT an idea hit me: What if the Blights targeted/corrupted the auto-pilot?

The Shiekah knew they needed to make the Divine Beasts, they knew they needed to make the Shines for Age of the Wild Link, why wouldn't they know future Hyrule would need help figuring out their tech? So they made auto-pilots; Robots much like the ones in Skyward Sword that may have acted as like a bridge for the champions to their respective beasts. If we take the theory that the Divine Beasts require life force to control, having something much like yourself to 'bond' to and ease into your role with might help. The pilot pushes their will onto the Auto-Pilots and the auto-pilots actually give the Beast its commands.
So when Ganon sent Malice to each Beast the Auto-Pilots got corrupted but couldn't take full control without the true pilots life force. So they waited for the champions to come, killed them, and trapped their spirits in the control terminal so the autopilots were the only things giving orders. And when Link defeats the Blights, the auto-pilot robot is destroyed but the champion's spirits are so ingrained into the beasts system, they no longer need the extra bridge between soul and machine.

[gregoriocruz]

Maybe the way the Link statue looks is because it's a reflection of Miyamoto. He did use his adventures as a kid for inspiration for the original Zelda. That's the only reason I could think of it looking like him.

[TRquiet]

The Elegy of Emptiness creates a soldier for a skeleton king. The dead spirits fit in, but very-alive Link does not. He does his best to fit in, looking with dead eyes and showing a bit of skeleton with his teeth.

[randomtheorist]

Idea: The Blights are security mechanisms for the Divine Beasts, programmed to activate if the Beasts were boarded. This would explain why no extra security mechanisms activated, such as turrets. After all, why would they recognise one of their own as a threat?

[jamesbruch]

I love the way you describe the mysteries. You present the evidence slowly, and with each fact equally presenting a new theory, which keeps me fixed on the video till the end. The mystery is answered with mystery till the real solution is found, and I love when that’s the case.

[toonlinkunknown]

Another thing from BotW, by the Hebra stable, there's an old man who gives Link directions. When you ask him about the North, he tells of the labyrinth and how a friend of his decided to venture through when they were kids. The old man states that he never saw his friend again. In the labyrinth, you can find a lone luminous stone on the ground in one of the dead ends. This supports the theory that dead souls are in, or are part of the luminous stones in Hyrule.

[marche]

Link's Elegy of Emptiness form is supposedly based on Shigeru Miyamoto, which considering the original legend of zelda was based on Miyamoto's childhood adventures, it actually makes sense that the shell Link would produce would look like the person who's spirit his character is based on, Shigeru Miyamoto.

[Moon-Vixen]

the redeads are the creepiest to me, and I vaguely remember hearing that they were the remains of the people who lived in the areas they're found in who had been unable to escape. I don't know if it's official or just something the kids made up in that age, but the idea that they were once humans, who still retain that shred of humanity and community as they endlessly suffer as insane, animated corpses is deeply emotional to me.

[MrBizznessMan]

Something to note about the Blights.
The 4 champions were also meant to be pilots for the Divine Beasts. But despite them having have perished, the Divine Beasts still Operate without them.
Maybe each of the Blights were originally a Specialized Guardian or Shieka Automaton that would have acted as the main pilot before and after the 4 champions took over.
We see that in Memories of Link Darunia is seemingly Controlling Rudania without any form of Helm or control panel. So to "control" the divine beast must take the Spiritual Power the same kind used for Shieka Tech. So i can be either the Blights that are connecting through Shieka tech or the Champions still controlling the beasts in their spiritual form.

[frolux]

The elegy face of link looks like he works in costumer service

[thebatmary]

Sometimes I wonder if the teams that work on other series at Nintendo occasionally look at the Zelda team and are just like, “…Are y’all… ok?” But then I remember how scary Car Kirby is.

[seantheimp]

I personally think that Elegy of Emptiness Link is actually the Terminian version of Link. We see a lot of "copies" that have strange relationships with their Hylian counterparts, but we never see a Link counterpart. What if he's somehow in a sort of limbo, dead, or otherwise cursed because of Link's arrival in this land, and the Elegy is copying that tortured soul, and not Link himself?

[CZsWorld]

I'm here for creepy shit in Zelda videos any week!

[TinsYouTrimble]

I love Zelda mysteries. I've watched so much Zelda Lore online it's hard to find anything new. But I still love hearing about the stuff I have already learned about. The way you narrate always brings me in.
Also,
I want you to know I would gladly watch Elden Ring content from you! I'd love to see your take on FromSoft lore.

[AngryAtlantean]

The Elegy of Emptiness was said to have the ability to create "soldiers with no heart", which has less to with the soul and more to do with literally having no heart; Being an empty vessel who feels nothing at all.

The reason is creates statues of Mikau, Darmani, and the Butler's Son is because the song itself captures the appearance of the user. Link's forms look like Link to us, but, everyone else in the world sees Mikau and Darmani as they existed.
Of course, the song creates statues of them even while dead, which gives them the rather horrific look of emptiness with the white eyes to signify that they are copies of beings no longer alive. You're making a statue of a ghost, effectively.

With that logic, we could take that to mean the Elegy statue of Link really is just a generic looking, heartless version of Link who has no emotion at all. He has eyes on the statue because Link is still alive, he's not dead.