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phoenixcatch7 · 2 years

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Gosh, okay, so it's been a couple days since I finished age of calamity and I've had the chance to peruse a fic or two, which is time enough for my initial questions to start getting answered.

So. What actually happened.

Like what happened behind the scenes? What in universe reasoning is there for such drastic changes in circumstances? We've got new characters, new stories, new designs.

The first thing I can say with certainty is that the time line did not, in fact, branch from when Eggy arrived in the past. Somehow, the little creacher managed to land itself in a timeline that had already been long separated.

Why?

Well the first) main thing is obvious - link doesn't have the master sword. How odd. Given how young he found it, and all the chances he would have had since, why not? What was stopping him?

Would it not be in his enemies favour that he hasn't had the chance to train and prepare for the role since he was a child? Who would even know to ensure it didn't happen?

Gee, if only there was a seer 100y ago in hyrule. A prophet of calamity, say.

Imagine if Ganon got his hands on him?

A seer driven half mad, someone with access to rare sheikah tech and the ability to use it.

It was Astor.

And Ganon played him like a fiddle. With the hindsight of the game, it makes a lot of strange things clear. Like what he was Seeing.

Interestingly enough, the divine beasts have all been found. The same champions have been selected, no matter how sabotaged each were. Astors close allies, we learn later. The monsters for daruk, the one lynel finding the missing Prince when dorephan already worried for his children's safety, kogah impersonating urbosa, the harbinger getting terrako mistaken for it.

Instead of a handful of yiga getting intimidated by a fully realised hero when they attack the princess (in a memory), sooga leads a full army to the heart of the kingdom.

He's there in person to try and take control of korok forest, and is shocked by a new master sword power we've never seen before destroying the shadows.

He attacks akkala earlier than in botw. He gathers monsters and uses them in his schemes rather than flooding hyrule with them all at once with Ganon. He tries akkala again, knowing how important its fall is to his plans. He manages to upgrade the blights from what they were in botw. He manages to infuse monsters and guardians with elements. He can recall and deactivate them at a moments notice. It's Fort hateno, an otherwise unremarkable battlefield, that he goes all out, with dozens of guardians, hundreds of monsters, all the blights at once he throws at link without even a moment of thought to Zelda. He was convinced Link would fall.

Astor saw the Breath of the Wild timeline.

He saw things in links memories, he saw us, the player, defeat Ganon. He saw Link die, saw Zelda hold Ganon at bay, saw link's return and the defeat of Ganon. Unlike botw, the Great plateau has already been blocked off (else Rhoam would have rejoined the fight) - no one knows about the shrine of resurrection. Link would have died there, and no matter what Zelda did, that would have meant ganons success.

Because Zelda had strength enough to battle Ganon for a century, but it was Link, not her, who managed to deal the final blow.

Even with the plateau blocked off, there were soldiers investigating the shrine. They were swarmed with monsters, and it was only purahs upgraded teleportation - courtesy of investigating terrako - that saved the day.

Say what you will about Astor, but that man was extremely clever and and cunning, and used his ability to work with sheikah tech and his visions to their FULLEST extent. He was manipulating events to his own advantage, he was ten steps ahead of hyrule at all times, he had backup plans on top of backup plans and he was ruthless enough to use them (killing the yiga for power when they failed). His fanaticism made him come off as significantly less of a threat than he was.

And he was one.

So how did the heroes survive?

Terrako.

That little egg was just enough of a butterfly effect (remember the butterflies everywhere when it first appeared? Not subtle) to give them the chance we needed.

The ability to give all the champions and allies the powers of the slate was just the beginning. That meant they were better able to fight, better able to defend themselves from heavy damage attacks. They could communicate across the battlefield with ease.

The egg could control deactivated guardians. Zelda used it to attack enemy guardians, blow up blockades. Most notably in the first akkala battle.

The egg contained information on the future. This enabled the sheikah to make their own plans in counter to Astor. I believe this is why they went to Fort hateno, with the same foreknowledge Astor had that it was IMPORTANT.

The egg had some hand in calling the future champions, saving every original champion from certain death and crucially enabling reinforcements to reach them in time.

Most importantly, the egg contained invaluable technology, which purah and Robbie uses repeatedly throughout the game to improve their other tech to unprecedented levels, single handedly saving akkala citadel the final time AND saving the plateau (with the shrine of resurrection) and the King himself, not to mention upgrading the fighters abilities even further. Simply put, without Eggy, Astor would have won, devastatingly and even more completely than in Breath of the Wild, the timeline they both seek to change.

But the final thing we learn about Eggy is who created him.

And that was Zelda, against her father's wishes.

In age of calamity, Astor, vessel of ganons hatred, tried to destroy the kingdom.

And it was Zelda's love of her mother and her hobby of tinkering with technology that saved them all.

Take that, rhoam.

#LONG post #Reason 158 mortals shouldn't interfere with the cycle #If rhoam had let his daughter do her own thing Ganon would have been dead by sundown #She probably would have unlocked her powers in a lab accident or something too knowing her lol #This started as a way for me to make sense of the background stuff happening #Astor turned out to be WAY more dangerous than I'd realised #Even half feral he was whip smart #Like how do you even infuse monsters with elements??? How do you even start #Shout out to link for unknowingly being the Queen on the chessboard between the tug of War between Zelda and the enemy #Like always but hey #You gotta respect the princess bloodlines instincts #Always choosing the exact path they would need to survive #Probably that sweet sweet triforce of wisdom #I'd make my point but that would be listing literally every Zelda #Shout out to oot Zelda and ww Zelda especially though #Seriously everything I learn about loz just tells me more about why you shouldn't try and micromanage the hero and the princess #It just makes things ten times worse!#legend of zelda #loz #breath of the wild #age of calamity #Botw #loz aoc #hyrule warriors aoc #link loz #Zelda #Loz #Reiterating:#Long post #Couple things I forgot to mention:

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