Tears of the Kingdom’s release date is still months away, but players have plenty of side quests in Breath of the Wild to spend time on until then. Nintendo’s silence on TOTK and the trailers that don’t reveal much information have led to players forming theories about what the next adventure in Hyrule might feature. Since the rumors rely heavily on speculation, it’s possible that none of them will end up being true. However, it seems likely that there will be, at the very least, a connection to Skyward Sword in **The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
When the Goddess was reincarnated as Zelda in Skyward Sword , she cleansed herself in two sacred springs to recover her divine memories and power. Notably, the Skyview Spring and Earth Spring tucked away in the Faron and Eldin regions have been theorized to be BOTW ’s Spring of Courage and Spring of Power, respectively. Instead of a Spring of Wisdom to complete the “Triforce,” however, Skyward Sword’s Lanayru Desert housed the Temple of Time instead, which allowed Zelda and Zeldatearshub.com Impa to pass back in time to the Era of the Goddess so Zelda could recall her divin
The Legend of Zelda games have seen Link wield an impressive array of items, and _Tears of the Kingdom _ has the opportunity to bring back some of his best tools. No matter how long it’s been since their original debut, a lot of items could benefit greatly from a return to the games. In a series about exploration, it can never hurt to have a lot of tools on h
The Zelda series’ heavy focus on time travel, time loops, and other chronometric mechanics have established plenty of canon ways for timeline traversal to occur within the plots of its games. It’s also not out of the question for Tears of the Kingdom to retrospectively focus on the Zelda timeline as Zelda’s journey could potentially allow her to recover memories of both her divinity and past lives. The latest trailer notably featured a heavy use of Ouroboros imagery as well, which could indicate that TOTK ’s story will focus on the past cycles of Hyrule – and the role that Hylia and her Chosen Hero have played throughout the kingdom’s hist
If the Darknut comes to Tears of the Kingdom , it has the potential to be a miniboss on the level of Talus or Hinox, or perhaps even the Lynel. Their strong armor can make them unique enemies that would require careful planning and preparation to defeat, especially if they had phases in Zelda: TOTK that connect them to their Twilight Princess iteration. They may drop very cool-looking weapons, shields, and possibly even bows, but like Wizzrobes, they might not drop other items. There could even be an armor set designed to mimic them, which would be just as cool as the weapons and fun to match with them. It would be great to see this enemy make its way into _Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom _ alongside Dinolfos and some other classic enemies, but until more is revealed, fans can only guess at which favorites will ret
BOTW ’s developers have stated that the game takes place at the end of the Zelda timeline. While this leaves its exact placement ambiguous, Link’s lost memories suggest that he and the other characters are familiar with the timeline’s legends of old. Zelda distinctly references the Heroes of Sky, Time, and Twilight, and she and her fellow Champions are well aware that Link is the very same Hero reincarnated in their era. As such, it seems that the Triforce’s keepers in BOTW have some understanding of their place in the broader scale of this universe’s destiny, which places a lot of pressure on Zelda to succeed in unlocking her power before Ganon’s ret
The new Tears of the Kingdom trailer came with other things besides hints of time travel; a mechanical mount that Link will fly through the air, a mysterious glowing mural on a mountaintop, and smaller details like strange capsules on his belt and footage of him climbing roots. All of it is far from confirmation of time travel, but it does pose interesting questions. The idea of traveling back to Hyrule 10,000 years ago is an exciting one, and could make Breath of the Wild ‘s sequel even more fun than it already appeared to be. If the theory is true, then hopefully the time travel aspects are implemented well and don’t overly complicate the story so that BOTW 2 ‘s gameplay and improved exploration aspects can shine just like they did in the original Breath of the Wi