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fordy on 02 November 2012
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ClaudeLv250 said:
fordy said:
ClaudeLv250 said:

What you're asking for is the destruction of Demise in part/present/future, which would create a paradox as Demise would be wiped from the timeline. Skyloft would never be created and Link would never go on the journey to acquire the Triforce to make the wish in the first place.

As for the "old gods," Skyward Sword and some of the other newer Zeldas like Wind Waker have introduced more "gods" into the picture, and with Hylia being such a focus, it makes sense that they would classify Din/Farore/Nayru was the "old gods" from Hyrule's inception versus all the newer ones like Hylia that came somewhere down the line.

 


Wouldn't there be a paradox already in that if Ghirahim succeeds in reviving Demise in the past, he would not have the motive to do it in the present and therefore not go into the past? The game is already riddled with paradoxes. What I mentioned would only replace an already existing paradox with another.

 

I already explained the "old gods" in my above post. Why are those "new gods" no longer relevant in the games further down the series?

I agree on the paradoxes though. Can't explain why the storyline ends the way it does considering Demise is destoyed in the past too.

As for the old gods vs. the new ones...maybe the irrelevance is the explanation after all? I mean, I thought Hylia was just a lake until SS...just imagine how the people in, say, the time of LttP would feel about Hylia. Din/Farore/Nayru are synonymous with the creation of Hyrule. You can't forget them. But SS could be millenia before games like TP or LttP. And then there are lesser deities like Zephos and Cyclos that Link meets on a whim. Hyrule has so much history, all the gods can't stay relevant forever. By the point in time where the others are forgotten, using new and old as a distinction seems redundant.

And looking at the Zelda Wiki, there are way more deities in this series than I remembered.

That's a lot of deities!

I often wondered if the Wind fish and Levias are one in the same. There were similar thoughts on if the sealed grounds ultimately become OoT's Temple of Time and the resting place for the Master Sword and the Triforce (I noticed when Zelda mentioned she needed to go into a deep sleep, a similar alter found to the North Palace in Zelda 2. Had she not been encased in Amber and actually did fall asleep, perhaps it could have been another branch towards Zelda 2 in which Zelda/Hylia was never awakened, and so forgotten throughout the ages.