Hyrule's Ruins Hide Secrets You Completely Missed in BotW & TotK
1.4K views · Sep 30, 2026 · Gaming
Comments · 28
@Majoranator · 5 hours ago
I am glad there is a Zelda YouTuber like yourself that studies these locations in detail! Lots of fascinating lore involved!
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@tieflung · 1 hour ago
it's so refreshing to see someone analyze the environment as deeply as i do. everything <b>is</b> intentional; even the random dilapidated structures are there for a reason.
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@solothurns · 2 hours ago
Been watching your channel a lot recently. It really makes me want to get all the games I havent played yet and replay BOTW and TOTK
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@DChen123-b5l · 2 hours ago
Always great to see another Zelda Enthusiast vid, its so relaxing to watch. Cheers!
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@thehylianmuslim · 4 hours ago
absolutely loved this! ive always been interested in the various ruins scattered around this game. i think it'd be cool to make a new video on the ruins, specifically the ruins of the temple of time, south of lake tower, and the unnamed ruins across the map. i believe creating a champion has a map showing hylian settlements before the calamity, so maybe you could use some of the locations shown in it for the next one
@aag24 · 23 hours ago (edited)
Wow - yet again - I come across this wonderful video! Thank you for your hard work, sir. (More more more!)
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@akakay131 · 44 minutes ago (edited)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvA937acBpc&t=435">7:15</a> I think that Goron-Sheikah thing applies only to the iron gates of Hyrule Castle specifically, which were purposefully built for the Calamity 100 years ago. Which explains why it’s a separate structure from the castle itself.
@Miss_Rydia · 3 hours ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvA937acBpc&t=998">16:38</a> Some kind of River Man, you say? I wonder if he knew Bagu.
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@BurtoftheVale · 22 hours ago
Well done.
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@NotJimberly · 5 hours ago
Nice hair cut!
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@Skumppa · 3 hours ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvA937acBpc&t=490">8:10</a> Isn't that the Castle Town gate? I think this image is looking south at Castle Town, from the direction of Hyrule Castle. The mountains in the background look more like the Gerudo Highlands than Death Mountain too, which also suggests we're looking south towards the main gate, not north towards the castle.
@StormsparkPegasus · 33 minutes ago (edited)
Rauru's time was NOT 10,000 years ago. I have no idea how anyone could think that. 10,000 years ago was the Great Calamity, which was a LONG time after Rauru. So long after Rauru that he had faded into legend by then. We don't know exactly how long ago it was, but it was a LOT more than 10,000 years, enough for there to have been a lot of Calamity Ganon cycles, which didn't even start until Rauru's seal started to slowly leak. Gotta pay attention to the lore.<br><br>We don't know how many Calamity Ganon cycles there were, and we don''t know the amount of time between them. All we know is that there was a 10,000 year gap between the last cycle when the Divine Beasts were created, and the past of BOTW (the main game taking place 100 years later). But keep in mind that Calamity Ganon would not even start to spawn until Rauru's seal started to leak. Which is an unknown amount of time. But by the time of 10,000 years ago, Calamity Ganon had been a fact of life for so long that the time it first spawned was lost in legend. So yeah.
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