Undoubtedly the best part of Zelda's 25th Anniversary.

[Khuutra]

Helios said:

Khuutra said:

The more I look at the composition of this image, the more I fall in lovewith it.

The way the Oracles hint at the presence of the divine without actually showing the goddesses, and how it mirrors the Zelda series in that regard? That's pretty cool.

The way the Happy Mask Salesman (Miyamoto) acts as a border between the worlds of good an evil, standing atop an eye that echoes the hill that the Oracles stand on? That shit is bananas.

The ultimate foundation of the picture (only sort of - the picture is actually meant to be cyclical, so you could scroll from top to bottom forever amd it would just keep looping perfectly) being the only character we've never seen in canon?

There's just so freaking much to like

And look at Valoo!

I'm glad we agree.

I hadn't considered the Mask Salesman to be a proxy for Miyamoto, but I can see that is an extremely powerful interpretation. The hill parallelism takes on an entirely new layer of meaning in light of that. The eye upon which the Mask Salesman stands is actually Bellum, and the way the artist chose to incorporate that particular villain is, I think, simply brilliant.

I also loved how the darkness transitions into the mystic at the end.

Overall, it's a powerful illustration of several principal tenets of the Zelda mythos. I'm delighted that the artist put as much thought into it as (s)he did.

Realizing that it was Bellum was one of my very favorite little revelations.

Now I'm wondering if there's an appropriate way to segment the picture and turn it into a rotating series of desktop backgrounds....