5 MISTAKES in Creating a Champion - Breath of the Wild Lore

[@MonsterMaze]

If you know of any mistakes in the book, let me know, and I might make a part 2 sometime. I hope you all have a great week! This weekend will be Collab time! So I hope you look forward to it. - Don

[@murtymcfly]

Don't touch me, i have a headache

[@zeldafanboy725]

Edgier Name Pending -sanity not included- Poke 😉

[@milansubotic7674]

Of course i do look forward to it

[@murtymcfly]

@@zeldafanboy725 o o f

[@aqua9926]

I look foward to it MonsterMaze.

[@antimatter128]

When he said "in no particular order" he meant it. The order went 4, 1, 5, 2, 4(again), then finally 41. Details like this is why I love this channel so much.

[@MonsterMaze]

Im glad you cought that haha. Some people were utterly confused

[@dalehadley3283]

I was really confused and then I saw this comment,very cheeky Monster Maze

[@jenniferchough]

@@MonsterMaze kinda wish it was 42 as a nod to the answer to everything in the universe :-)

[@HavocHounds1988]

Yeah this is pretty funny. I like little things like that which make you pay attention. I've seen on one of MNB's videos at the bottom during a transition there was text saying something like "what are you doing looking down here anyway?" Always fun to see the extra effort put in to these videos to keep things interesting.

[@lordganon87]

@@MonsterMaze I thought, no way, a video about mistakes, and MM made a mistake about the numbers: a number 4 at the fortune teller (2:40) and againt at For Hateno Border (9:40). :D

[@toschiworlds7212]

They really couldn't have put at least some underwear on Link in that last one, could they?

[@ezekielmcclure5673]

Or they could've just given him his sword

[@alivent7902]

Ezekiel McClure No Please no

[@ReformUKFarageTrump2024]

Haha

[@fordgt5383]

I wouln't mind seeing link with his shlong out, it's just that his body overall looks so... weird

[@nintendo_pirate]

just skip to page 179 and there you go

[@normal6483]

For that last one regarding hylian ruins, it may simply be that they were destroyed by something other than guardians. The guardians would have caused enough damage to society's infrastructure that monsters like Lynels, Hinox, and Moblins would have a much easier time attacking settlements. We even see in Hateno that people are very paranoid of outsiders, indicating that there might be something to be afraid of.

[@xdsmile5359]

They were probably scared by the fact that link being naked is just to hot.

[@warailawildrunner5300]

To add to this, the hylians could have destroyed the villages themselves to get more worked stone to shore up the fortress walls when parts of it were destroyed, or used the stone to build hatano up later on and remaining further away from the guardians they did not know were completely dead...

[@CypressConroy]

Robin The jedi yes

[@dan5936]

It's also possible that these structures were used as building materials, or simply left to rot after the calamity as they were no longer useful with the drop in population Hyrule suffered. Especially if they were structures related to the military in some fashion, there may have just not been anyone left that cared about them enough that could maintain them in any capacity.

[@ΆγγελοςΑλεξάνδρου-κ9ρ]

flying guardians came destroyed and left so

[@sorrynousername7736]

Nobody can erase that picture of link. It is in our heads forever

[@chrispork1443]

Yeah, why did they need to add a drawing of Link as an undressed Ken doll?

[@heroofangst]

Ikr

[@nathandioza7821]

Hey...😅 It could be worse...😅😰 *They could all be nude...😰*

[@nathandioza7821]

@@chrispork1443 Maybe.... uh..... Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh...😳😰

[@chrispork1443]

@@nathandioza7821 Dude! What is wrong with you?

[@tepigie]

That bonus at the end was DEFINITELY a mistake. Not because it doesn't line up with the lore, it's just.. a mistake.

[@coledewey3564]

Yeah, why is Link naked? What happened to his dangly parts? Where are those Din damned battle scars Link allegedly has from the Calamity that should exist!? And where in the Dark World have his nipples been for the past three years?! Why does Mario have a pair in his shirtless outfit in Odyssey and Link doesn’t!? How did his earrings and hair band survive 100 years surrounded by a liquid without rusting or otherwise aging? Why is the picture more muscular than his in game model? And most importantly, where did the shorts come from, how did they survive the 100 years submerged under a fluid, and does he have more than one pair of them?

[@UltimateTobi]

There was something missing.

[@maggier4806]

Why does he only have two toes

[@AarturoSc]

But it doesn't line up with lore, because, you see, Link actually can reproduce.

[@skele8961]

@@coledewey3564 "What happened to his dangly parts?" yeah, he's missing his master sword

[@alexale665]

Video: “Here are five mistakes/inconsistencies” Mere seconds later: “Number 4”

[@MonsterMaze]

Well, I did say right before: "In no particular order" ;)

[@chandlerpchumsworth]

@@MonsterMaze lol

[@murtymcfly]

@@MonsterMaze "lets just roll with it"

[@Broockle]

Weren't there 2 number 4?

[@alexale665]

Monster Maze lo o o o o o ol trueee.

[@Thundertron55]

I totally agree with the last one. Naked Link was a mistake.

[@Mat-hr1dg]

Naked Link? No, that's a non issue. A Cuccoless Link? Yes! That was a big mistake!

[@rangopistacho6928]

If nintendo were to show his actual "cuckoo" they would be sewed

[@zeonmoo192]

@@rangopistacho6928 they showed Mario's, why not Link's?

[@speinz9430]

The anatomy just looks wrong and even if it was right it would still be the most cursed thing. You guys know exactly what I mean.

[@wallace9045]

"Get it... away from me"

[@angelo8606]

For the last mistake, about the destroyed buildings east of fort Hateno, it's possible that they were destroyed several years after the Great Calamity. In Robbie's diary he mentions that there were still some guardians near fort Hateno 50 years (I think) after the Calamity. The guardian on top of the tech lab could be one of the guardians who came too close to Hateno. - - - EDIT - - - A year later I come back here by accident, but now I can correct myself. The buildings I mentioned have a unique architectural style. Different from the usual Hylian stone buildings found in Central Hyrule. This style is rather uncommon among all the ruins in the kingdom. In addition to the ones east of Fort Hateno we find this style of ruin in Ash Swamp, on the Great Plateau in the Forest of Spirits, at the entrance of the Lost Woods, in Samasa Plain, on Eventide Island and in the Ranch Ruins (remember this one). These ruins are all in extremely bad shape and, unlike other styles of Hylian ruins, there are never any remnants of furniture in them. I don't think these buildings were destroyed after the Calamity or even during it. I think these ruins are older than all the other Hylian ruins. They were destroyed before the Calamity. So these ruins are old, but how old? Well there's actually one instance of furniture remaining in this style of ruins: the Ranch Ruins. This place was the only building in this style to be inhabited 100 years ago and it seems to date back to Ocarina of Time. I'm not saying all of these buildings are this old but they all predate the more modern Hylian style of buildings found in Central Hyrule. Aside from the Ranch Ruins the oldest might be the ones on the Great Plateau, there's almost nothing left of them and they are now hidden in the forest. Also the thing I said about Guardians around Fort Hateno 50 years after the Calamity is probably false because I think it was only said in Creating a Champion (if it's only in the book and isn't from developper's note it has a good chance of being false)

[@MonsterMaze]

Hmm that could be the case. Still strange that no dead guardians are lying around in East Neculda. Unless they cleaned them up. But yeah, it could be explained.

[@angelo8606]

@@MonsterMaze Or the other possible explanation is that they were already destroyed and the maps on the book are wrong. The buildings style is not the same in this area than in other modern Hylian ruins. And in the memory of the battle of fort Hateno the ruins with the same style in Blatchery plain are already very destroyed when it's just the first day of the Calamity. But I don't believe this explanation. And the locations in the memories weren't remade as they were 100 years ago to save time, probably.

[@InfernalNiek]

It could also be that the guardians did get stopped at fort Hateno, but that some of the Bokoblins and Moblins did still manage to get through and destroy the 2 (what are now) ruins, since at both places (and in the forest near Hateno village it self) you can find them hanging around. This could've happened right as the calamity was going on or a few years after, when the people of Hateno thought they were save(er) and slightly let their guard down just in time for a Boko/Moblin attack to happen.

[@angelo8606]

@@InfernalNiek That's a good point, but I don't think bokoblins and moblins could cause so much destruction

[@InfernalNiek]

@@angelo8606 When you defeat certain camps the treasure chests can hold bomb/fire/lighting/ice arrows and especially the bomb arrows could cause quite a lot of destruction.

[@ryancunningham2404]

Waiting for your “The Day of the calamity” video

[@arowyn.m]

Same

[@allcbrosx5930]

Same here but I wouldn’t rush it Bc than it won’t be as amazing quality as all of his videos

[@CarlosAlon]

I support the motion with all violence, just kidding, but yes I'm excited

[@miaswapp]

Everyone is

[@bobboberts4888]

At least he stays on track with his promises *looks at Zeltik and the temple theory videos*

[@xxluggixx2559]

The lake Illumeni village could have been inhabited by non-hylians. I could imagine a little Rito settlement really well. The ruins look hylian but we also see the other races live in hylian made houses in tarry town. This theory may seem unlikely to you. It's only my explanation.

[@rhettmitchell]

Yeah I was thinking the same

[@MonsterMaze]

Hey, any speculation is always welcome ^^. And of course that could always be the case. There are some other ruins that are also not listed, like the little cabin up in the mountains near South Lomei labyrynth. Although that one I could actually see being destroyed pre-calamity given the weather conditions up there.

[@alivent7902]

Yeah, mabye even it was a group of yiga/gerudo who decided to move north of the highlands and expand

[@novastar3990]

Oh yeah!

[@pinto5012]

Maybe Lake Illumeni was a fishing pond business location and not a small settlement?

[@sheepaleepz]

Your reaction to the picture of link got a laugh from me omg. That picture is,,,, haunting lmao. Although I've always wondered. Robbie says that you have a ton of scars from the calamity but we never,,, actually see any of them??? I've always found that odd haha

[@MonsterMaze]

Yeah, Link should have been pretty banged up. Even after his restoration sleep. He looks in pretty pristine condition to me haha.

[@DogsRNice]

Maybe his goggles show it somehow

[@milansubotic7674]

Its so wierd to see someone other than me not know a thing about American sports

[@lemondando6444]

I still don't know why they call what ever they are playing 'football'. ITS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING

[@exzyyd392]

@@lemondando6444 Because otherwise it would be called *HAND EGG*

[@toschiworlds7212]

@@exzyyd392 Don't pretend that that wouldn't be a million times funnier.

[@ahypixelnon266]

I’m American and I don’t even understand sports lol!

[@r_i_e_n_a1471]

Majority of the people in world are not from USA 😂 I don't understand any of their customs or sports either😅

[@darthshrek6659]

I agree with the extra mistake in the end, they could have at least added a manhood!

[@MonsterMaze]

Exactly!

[@jdurk]

First they take his friends, then they take his memory, now they take his manhood!

[@simonorourke4465]

After all if they can have accurate depictions of male genitalia in animal crossing, then they can surely have it in a legend of zelda art book lol.

[@jdurk]

@@simonorourke4465 wait what 😳

[@simonorourke4465]

@@jdurk it's not on the characters but on the artwork you get for the museum, specifically the statue of David which has everything on full display, the vitruvian man drawing and the discobolus of Myron statue. It always makes me laugh that animal crossing of all things contains Nintendo's first foray in to depicting full frontal male nudity lol.

[@treypabody5697]

41: this picture is a mistake. GET IT AWAY FROM ME I agree completely

[@AaronTsuii]

On a serious note I think people just straight moved to Hateno after the Calamity because those two settlements were too close to the Fort Hateno border, maybe they felt unsafe or something

[@MonsterMaze]

I would definitely feel unsafe, especially knowing there are still live one walking around out there :O

[@robertmuggeridge4736]

The final mistake before the 'bonus' mistake could be explained by a general drop in population. These always felt like watch houses or barracks ruins. If the majority of the soldiers in necluda were summoned to defend fort Hateno these would have been abandoned. Then when most of the soldiers and men died in the defence before the miracle there would.be no one to return to man these structures, overtime the abandoned buildings fell into disrepair and collapsed or were damaged by moblins and bokoblins who took to using the structures as shelter.

[@Ninjaananas]

Maybe there was one loose guardian that got there, wreaked havoc and then went somewhere else or sinked into a body of water.

[@MonsterMaze]

That could be possible. Im sure there are plenty of theories that can be constructed to explain it. It's just that the game nor the book makes it clear.

[@murtymcfly]

Let's rejoice! Another upload from the content machine!

[@momsaccount4033]

Lol, all of the numbers are labeled mistakenly. Props for staying dedicated to your video's theme!~

[@alexale665]

Literally lmao at the Red Sox “Football” team joke. Absolutely beautiful

[@chrispork1443]

Yeah, I don’t believe the Queen was the fortune teller. I believe the fortune teller was a Sheikah. (Or possibly a Yiga setting up Hyrule for disaster if they knew Ganon would take control of the ancient technology.) The other mistakes listed are likely typos in the book or in the case of the ruins of East Necluda, just copy and pasted lazy world design. Also, wasn’t the Lanayru Promenade already in some state of ruin before Calamity struck?

[@MonsterMaze]

Well, on page 397 the promenade is listed under "Places of worship destroyed by the calamity". It's in the box at the bottom of the page.

[@HyruleGamer]

I have the edition with the glass Spirit Orb and LOVE it so much, it's very high quality! Speaking of which, so is this video my friend, great work as always and very surprised at a couple of these. Super interesting 😄

[@TigersCheerios]

Are you actually Hyrule Gamer. Can't be too careful nowadays lol.

[@lordecramox7394]

@@TigersCheerios He is. You can just click on his name and it will take you to his channel.

[@MonsterMaze]

Thanks man! And I envy you for having the limited edition! I don't even own the physical one yet. Planning on ordering one soon though. Cheers!

[@TigersCheerios]

@@lordecramox7394 Yeah I didn't know if there was a way to fake it.

[@HyruleGamer]

@@TigersCheerios Yes, at least I think I am real haha

[@jasono120]

4 really isn’t a huge stretch. When we see the memories of King and Princess his words and actions towards her are of a royal nature, disregarding her personal nature being his daughter. Even in his journal he states that if her next visit to the springs fail, he will speak to her more kindly. It would be no different than identifying Link as “Mr Hero”, “Hero of Legend”, etc. When the Queen is acting in the role of fortune teller, she isn’t acting as Queen, Mother, Wife... I suspect there may be something in the original Japanese that is common but that’s just a suspicion!

[@CZsWorld]

The last one is a BIG mistake

[@balalugaaa]

I agree with this comment.

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

The lake illumeni ruins also have a potential explanation: the book lists HYLIAN settlements. Lake illumeni might've been a Gerudo settlement, for brave vai to rest in on their way to search for a voe, or perhaps for the stoneworkers who made the heroine statues (although that seems less likely, given the ancient nature of the 8 statues.)

[@botwbestgame1364]

road to 22k

[@MonsterMaze]

Yeah!

[@gray.wesley]

I think the most disturbing part of that picture of naked Link, is that he has two toes. Eugh.

[@TSFCaesar]

That Link image is CURSED!!!

[@darkblade722]

I don't know why, but whenever one of the numbers appeared, I kept having flashbacks to the Law and Order intro.

[@titanninja1014]

American Pog

[@CephlaSR]

Sitting on my bed with the book in front of me while watching this video: what fun!

[@MonsterMaze]

Nice!

[@nikdenik02]

If the promenade was indeed destroyed after the Calamity, I don't think the guardians did it. The place is very old, and without the proper care that hylians must have had for it, it's very likely that time itself destroyed the promenade. Also, there are no guardians to be seen in it. Just regular monsters

[@chiffmonkey]

"Canonicity" is a myth when talking about Japanese creative media. There is only the narrative.

[@jenniferchough]

Let it be known that I have that image of Link covered up with a big Post-it Note so I don't have to inadvertently see it when I look through the book every so often. That post-it note has saved me numerous times.

[@Random1567]

Eh, it’s possible Zelda and the King just didn’t want to write down who the fortune teller was, even in personal writing. Just in case anyone were to read it someday. Maybe to protect her. Or it’s a retcon..but then again, even the wording states it as just a possible theory or rumor. Which would match with the king and Zelda not naming the queen as the fortune teller. Maybe the kingdom would think the King biased or the queen crazy and they wasted to avoid that and never refer to her as the fortune teller...anywhere. All speculation still. But either way, I wouldn’t say it’s a mistake and hard to say if it’s a retcon either, as it’s possible but has some things going against it..but not necessarily concrete contradictions, and either way it was always presented as just a possibility and not a fact within the book itself

[@kintaro1851]

I could imagine another explanation for the destroyed hylian ruins behind the walls of Fort Hateno. The ground was shaking during Ganons appearance, as we can see during a memory. Maybe the buildings were destroyed because of that earthquake.

[@MonsterMaze]

I've seen a couple of good theories out there. And this is also a nice one. I hope nobody was inside when it collapsed though :O

[@kintaro1851]

@@MonsterMaze That's probably hard to determine now. Any remains of the inhabitants could have been removed in the last 100 years. But I could imagine something different. Notice how near one of the destroyed buildings, there is a "training ground" for horseback archery, while also being located at a point any enemy must pass to reach Hateno Village. And the other one is, if I saw that correctly on the map here, on a cliff, which gives a great look over the valley below. Maybe they were garrisons and the soldiers left to defend the fort. But when the soldiers returned, the buildings, or what was left of them, were overrun by Bokoblins and Moblins, making a return impossible. So they maybe fled to Hateno, to save at least the people there. Just a theory though. But at least their position has potentially great strategic value.

[@Jan12700]

0:10 The German version is called Master Works too

[@MonsterMaze]

Don't you mean: Meisterwerke? ;)

[@Jan12700]

@@MonsterMaze *Meisterwerk "Meisterwerke" would be plural

[@MonsterMaze]

@@Jan12700 Ah, got it. Dutch it would be Meesterwerken

[@mildlycornfield]

Naked Ken doll Link is forever burnt into our brains... **shudder**

[@cocogateau1990]

Well, considering the "mistake" about the two ruins east of Fort Hateno, I have a theory. I think it's obvious they were destroyed by Guardians, considering the visual consistency of damage with that of other ruins, so it wasn't already in ruins, or destroyed by other monsters, as one might expect, considering some of these ruins house Moblins and Bokoblins. But, at the same time, we know the map of destruction by the Guardians is probably incomplete, since it didn't include Lanayru Promenade, which seems to have been severely damaged by Guardians. Considering the fact that this location is rather close to the north of the two unexplained ruins, one might think that maybe one or more Guardians made it through to the South at this point, attacked those two ruins and then moved on, since they're no longer there in the present, neither broken nor active. Chasing some fleeing survivors, maybe? One might of course say the terrain is too steep for Guardians to move through there, especially back and forth (unless they then attacked Fort Hateno from the rear, either before or after the Miracle, but then we would probably see it or them on the eastern side of the Fort's wall, where there are no Guardians, unless they were pushed back beyond the wall, or their remains moved after they were destroyed but before Zelda sealed Calamity Ganon), but then, let's not forget that it might have been an aerial assault by Guardian Skywatchers, who might for example have tracked down some survivors coming from somewhere else, destroyed the buildings, and the moved on, maybe to attack Fort Hateno, maybe somewhere else (considering their airborne nature, they might have moved as far as Akkala Citadel or the eastern Akkala islands such as Tingle island). It becomes much more logical to explain their absence and the seemingly random damage behind the defensive line of the Fort if it was done by skyborne enemies, whose movements can't be tracked accurately, even less so 100 years after. Another theory might also be that after the Miracle at Fort Hateno, once Link and Zelda were no longer there to hold the line, the surviving soldiers and civilians might have retreated from the damaged Fort, either to consolidate their positions at Hateno village, or because they couldn't hold the Fort anymore, or because Zelda's intervention made them believe the Guardians were all destroyed (since almost all the ones close to the Fort were actually destroyed), and thus making them decide to fall back to rest and care for the dead and wounded. A stray Guardian might have used the opportunity to get past the undefended (or lightly defended) Fort Hateno, and attacked the buildings, before leaving or being driven back. If you think about it, there is one single decayed Guardian just outside the walls of Fort Hateno. Why did this one survive, this close to the place where Zelda's power manifested and destroyed all the others? Maybe it wasn't there at that time. It could have arrived later, attacked the buildings east of the Fort, and then been driven back and partially destroyed by the defenders of Hateno, which would explain the destruction and the presence of that particular Guardian.

[@Legend_Zone]

That last one (before 41, lol) is the only one that I think miiiight be plausible, since that style of architecture seems to predate the other ruins that were destroyed, but if that's the case then I suppose the map would be wrong. Other than that little nitpick, these all seem to be very valid mistakes/misconceptions! Good work!

[@AaronTsuii]

That Link picture is cursed

[@AS-vi5xh]

I haven’t watched the video yet but I know it will be amazing!

[@YunamaOfficial]

I'm thinking that the mistakes with the numbering were on purpose, and meant as a joke related to the subject of the video. ^w^

[@MonsterMaze]

It's because I said in the beginning : In no particular order. So I purposely changed the numbers around :P

[@YunamaOfficial]

@@MonsterMaze Oh okay! Also I'm a really big fan of your videos, I always smile whenever I see a notification from your channel. c:

[@DarthSanguine]

@@MonsterMaze Yeah, but you had two number 4s...

[@MonsterMaze]

@@DarthSanguine Yeah at the end I made it more rediculous. The last bonus mistake was actually also meant to be 4. But I changed it to 41 at the last moment. It was a video about mistakes, so hey... I guess it fits ^^

[@ZeranZeran]

The fortune teller is IMPA / IMPAZ. It always has been, always will be. I think the people at Nintendo don’t even follow the story of their own games.

[@gasket1752]

Was Spider's Nest really affected by the Guardians? I don't remember any Guardians there. And I think the reason it's not on the map besides it possibly not being affected by them is because it's a valley that gets entered from Kakariko and Kakariko wasn't affected by the Guardians in any severe quantity

[@mindsight9732]

I'd hold on judgement on the Fortune/teller queen until we have a translation from Japanese in-game text, your right, but you may not have the whole picture either, I mean Link actually writes his own quest entries. Spiders Nest could have easily been damaged in the previous calamity and lacks destroyed Guardians as well as it is damaged in cutscenes. It's a bit of fallicy to assume there must have been no damage in the previous calamity.

[@sebastianuglyrat]

Number 4, number 1, number 5... is this a joke about the mistakes?

[@azadalamiq]

for the ruins, who is to say they where destroyed? disuse can cause decay, you would be shocked how quickly decay can set it to a building no longer in use. there was an old shopping store on a corner of main street it was closed for about 50 years and was so badly decayed that they had to tear the building down.

[@MonsterMaze]

If we are talking thousands of years... maybe. Or if we are talking about our own modern arhitecture, yes they would collapse in 100 years. Bricks are brittle. And appartment buildings collapse because the reinforced concrete expands from within and cracks due to exposure to moisture. But medieval architecture like the one we see in botw, with thick walls and no use of concrete, was built to last. There are castles standing to this day, built thousands of years ago which were unkept for enourmous amounts of time. 100 years is nothing to those kinds of structures, since it's all made from huge and solid rock.

[@AerosfilisOfficial]

I feel like this is a lost case for the first point Book not written by the team directly, based of the English translation of the book, but also based on the game translation. Although we can assume the game is more accurate as it's direct translation over a book made by a third party to begin with, it's also not new that game translation from Japanese can sometime lack some important details, especially when it comes to how characters address each others. I could be totally wrong as I have no idea what the original Japanese says. I'm sure the devs kept it vague in the original text as well so we probably still can't tell who the fortune teller is, but maybe the original Japanese is vague in the fact it could be the queen as well, or not.

[@titanninja1014]

NOT FIRST!!!!1!!!!1!!

[@Rhobeni]

Titan Ninja NOT SECOND)3&:)384!4@:’d

[@murtymcfly]

Correct

[@michjavanvliet7349]

I love the small bits of humour in the video, it isn't all serious content like other theory/lore kind of creators.

[@MonsterMaze]

It's a fantasy game at the end of the day so... might as well keep it light-hearted at times, right? ^^

[@criptolatino]

America is the Name of the whole CONTINENT! It's NOT Exclusive to the United States! don't DIVIDE US all AMERICANS like them! They don't Even have an Official Language.

[@davidmartin5483]

Maby the Guardians themselfs didn't make it trogh but their beams maby did?

[@angelmendez-rivera351]

The fact that the King and Zelda do not identify the fortune-teller to the Queen does not debunk the possibility that she was indeed the fortune-teller. This is the argument from silence fallacy, a variant of the argument from ignorance fallacy: the fact they did not confirm it does not in itself constitute a debunking. I do think that it makes it less likely, somewhat, but there actually are plenty of reconciliatory explanations. For instance, the King and Zelda may have agreed to avoid making this identification in their diaries out of fear that some spy could steal the diaries and found out the fortune-teller's identity. A small piece of evidence for this is the fact that we know from the memories that the King was a bit of a paranoid individual, and the King actually would have known of the existence of the Yiga Clan. There is a chance he suspected the existence of a spy, and took personal measures to deal with that. It may also explain partially why he was so harsh and impatient with Zelda. More evidence in favor of this is the fact that the Queen died soon after the prophecy. This could just be coincidence, but we know the King trusted the fortune-teller highly, which would make sense if that person was his own wife: that also legitimizes him wanting to protect her identity. As for her death, this is a separate topic, but the evidence seems to point in the direction of the Yiga Clan having assassinated her. This would make sense if they suspected her of having played a role, or of her being a potential threat to Ganon. There are other alternatives that are also possible. The point is, the diary issue is definitely not sufficient evidence to refute the possibility that the Queen was the fortune-teller.

[@puline397]

This is a very good video:) but this game has so many more mistakes. And i think you aren't wrong, that the game designers were wrong, because they just randomly put ruins wherever they saw fit and later they forgot to check if they made sense to be there. (i mean, just because they are designers or this is an official game, doesn't mean it doesn't have errors) In any case, i don't have Creating a Champion and i somehow haven't seen those pages with these escape routes, and was wondering if they could be somewhere, but... they don't really change anything. In the game there are many mistakes with the whole evacuation and 'Zelda's Journey', and in this book they are there as well. i can't believe people can read those pages without noticing them. ah, no matter, thanks for the video! :)

[@tylerherr4288]

4: unless she told them while in disguise (why? idk but its possible) 1: the promenade wasnt an area where people lived. it was ancient ruins before the calamity hit. why make an area as ruined if it was already ruins before 5: i wonder how many people in this day and age live off the grid and isnt counted in any sort of census 2: nah i cant defend this one lol 4: just cause ruins are ruins doesnt mean they were destroyed by guardians 41: lmao i agree wholeheartedly ps: what is up with your numbering system lol

[@justaqueergamer]

OH WOW!!! Another AMAZING video by maze monster!! Istg I love your content sm!!!! Keep up the amazing work, my friend!!!!! Also Mistake number 41 was.... yes indeed it was a mistake and very disturbing. But I must say, Link is given off more non-binary vibes than ever before, lol. Anyways, thanks for all the great content!!!! 💚💚💚

[@otterbells]

Considering that the Adventure Log in the original Japanese version of the game was written in Link's 1st Person POV, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of stuff changed or even lost from localization of the Master Works book that we don't know about.

[@HerMi.T]

Actually it is possible that those ruins are because of monsters like mobiln or wizzrobes because we see many times that wizzrobes destroy many settlement like that. For example the settlement near illumeni lake is actually destroy by wizzrobes. And a settlement near death mountain is also destroyed like that. So I think those monsters which inhabited that ruins are actually destroyed by them.

[@eyiri7504]

So... i am from less than 2,6 % Hmmm... interesting ( 2:00 )

[@MonsterMaze]

Tell your friends! ;)

[@eyiri7504]

@@MonsterMaze Already did it, but only one have watch your videos >.

[@ErenYeager-oi6hu]

Do you see a lot of huge spiders there?

[@eyiri7504]

@@ErenYeager-oi6hu Where ?

[@ErenYeager-oi6hu]

@@eyiri7504 Bridge of Hylia. There’s a certain crack on one of the gates that the developers forgot to cel shade, but you could just google it and you’ll know where to go

[@nathandioza7821]

My fav mistake is Number 5,956,274 A.k.a *R E V A L I* LoL 🤪

[@geki5345]

My lord that picture of link is cursed... Great video tho!

[@Spartsou]

Monster Maze: There's no way King Rohm would reference his wife in such a way Me: Plot Twist: His Wife concealed her identity while giving the prophecy. ;)

[@ThePurpleSquirrelsGamer]

I really enjoyed this keep it up ;) (Also your right that link picture was a HUGE mistake)

[@TheThreeFatFish]

About the ruins beyond fort hateno, it is possible that they were abandoned in fear after the calamity, as it is mentioned that there were still guardians in the area afterwards, dealt with by Robbie when he was testing the ancient arrows, and without a constant presence keeping watch at the fort (it looks pretty untouched since the battle), people would think of the area unsafe. Since the ruins are now home to camps of violent monsters, it is also possible that their level of ruin was caused by them. Ok, this has plenty of holes in it, now that I look back, but I'm too far in to give up, like I'm sure most theory videos work. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[@elisaleite7894]

locations enhabited by hylians right before the calamity that wasn´t directly afected by the guardins could have been just evacuated out of fear of a potential attack and/or destroyed by monsters after the evenst of the calamity... just saying

[@Four-24Jake]

2:37 9:38 Wait a sec

[@jonasgisel3707]

I got the "no particular order" joke. But somehow I missed that one :)

[@mrsylar91]

I've often thought that Lake Illumeni Village should have been named. There are a few unnamed villages scattered about Hyrule including one east of Trilby Plain and another west of Outskirt Stable on a hill. Surely one or two Guardians got through to Hateno. The village survived the Age of Burning Fields. Plus where did the Tech Lab source its Guardian Stalker pieces? They may have been brought from the Royal Ancient Lab (Ruins) or perhaps from a stray Guardian or two that managed to get past or around Hateno Fort.

[@arcticdino1650]

Even with these mistakes, Creating a Champion is better than Historia/Encyclopedia. Except for that last image. What were they thinking?

[@MonsterMaze]

Yeah Creating a Champion is AMAZING. By far the most consistant and solid publication of any book based on Zelda Lore

[@BURNi3BURNs]

Love the vid... I want to suggest why some ruins may exist near Hateno village. Minions! Guardians may not have breached the fort... but what about Bokoblins and such? Another possibility, Hylians destroyed the small settlements for its materials to reinforce their defenses. Idk, just a thought.

[@Mateo-fo5xd]

naked link is a mistake

[@jenniferchough]

An explanation I can offer for the ruins that aren’t listed or seem out of place could be that, after, the initial attack as the Calamity came to being, we know that monsters not only proliferated but also became more emboldened to attack. So perhaps some of those ruins were a result from a bokoblin/moblin/lizalfos etc raiding party. We’ve seen in-game that they have access to bombs arrows and could very well cause that level of destruction if there were a number of them. Some monsters could have taken over, pillaged, then stayed (such as the area in front of Fort Hateno or the archery camp right outside Hateno village) or they could have moved on to burn/destroy other settlements over the century. Just throwing it out there. 😬

[@lazinesspersonified5691]

You should stop your KZbin channel and become anarchaeologist

[@supergoo_]

Very creative way of counting though

[@TheNyleve16]

11:24 There is a possibility that Hateno Village was actually part of the Yiga clan and that they were the ones who attcked those villages

[@Jasonwolf1495]

i mean with the hateno forts it wouldn't be too crazy that they were abandoned and its just the march of time that made them collapse. I mean the guardians stopped at the fort, and after they seem to just patrol the same areas, so back up from those points so you dont accidentally attract a guardian.

[@TomWDW1]

The picture of Link was not a mistake. It is glorious and I'm not complaining ;-)

[@MonsterMaze]

To each there own man! ;)

[@ZiggyMandarr]

My I offer you the Zonai in this theory video?

[@justdenks]

The ruins past fort Hateno could have been a warning from the Yiga Clan because maybe they thought Hateno Village was Kakariko, I wouldn't put it past Kohga to make that mistake.

[@saladoc]

Oh, it's cool that now you are going to talk more about the lore, by the way, besides this video, I have an observation of where in the timeline breath of the wild is in, for me it's in the downfall timeline, and I have 2 main points why. 1 Ganondorf appears in the trailer, and it looks like an ancient ganondorf, wich to me it means that it's the original ocarina ganondorf that defeated link, and acording to what we seen so far, when ganondorf gets impaled by the master sword (wind waker, twilight princess) the human form disapears and only ganon remains, it really is the only one remaining. 2 This is more important, this is the ONLY zelda game that has a RESURECTION SHRINE for the hero, so what does that mean, they built it because they know now that the hero can be defeated and get killed, so yeah, to me this gives strong points in my opinion to say that it's most likely in the downfall timeline.

[@MonsterMaze]

Thats a pretty nice theory. People are really going back and forth on the timeline placement, since there's so many references to all 3 branches. It's hard to seperate easter eggs and homages from actual hints

[@saladoc]

@@MonsterMaze And if you notice, it's the only zelda where is not only link and zelda that are going to defeat ganon, they have lots of back ups plans, the champions, the divine beasts, the guardians, it's liike they don't trust in the hero winning by itself like in the other games, by the way, if you find it interesting for a video or something like that, you can take the topic, I'm not a youtuber or something like that, in fact it would be great if the theory enters the zelda community.

[@Wolffman109]

2:08 Don't worry: I don't follow sports, either.

[@heroofangst]

Was it a mistake when it said that link retrieved the master sword at 12-13? Or is that true?

[@nicosiano1174]

wait? why did the count down go 41524? and then 41?????? oh.... i get it :)

[@shawtylilbaddie7458]

There were some other mistakes on the map of hylian settlements before the calamity I noticed, one house near suma sahma shrine, some houses is rabella wetlands and hanu pond, there are some ruined buildings inside of lake akkalla and the ruins in toto lake

[@mohamedkiyumi3429]

now whenever I hear the words cursed images naked link immediately pops up in my head.

[@skele8961]

imagine being American America bad this message was made by an American

[@literallywhy6162]

“Get it. away from me.” Killed me 🤣

[@daviid27.]

What’s wrong with naked link?

[@pinklightninggacha]

Link's a Ken doll confirmed

[@bjblitz5448]

Red sox won the stanley cup last year

[@thecrow_4]

41523? Is there any signification or teasing, or it is totally random?

[@MonsterMaze]

Totally random. No particular order, remember ;)

[@thecrow_4]

@@MonsterMaze okay ^^ (I was searching for a hint to the release date of your big video)

[@farah2428]

I am from Kuwait!

[@neveerland]

To be honest I don't really understand people saying that botw is "underexplained". Like, there are so many games where you go up to any npc and the game just straight up pours historical knowledge into the players lap... But that's just not realistic? Most people wouldn't summarize the last 100 years of their country or explain how technology changed since the 50s. I loved how in botw the game trusted in us to draw our own conclusions from little details all over the map and left some mysteries unsolved :) the world itself was a big puzzle and in my opinion it just made the game feel lifelike and never boring!

[@raxsavvage]

if no guardians got past that wall, how did guardians make it to lurelins beach?

[@MonsterMaze]

Through the other side. South of the bridge of hylia, and then east across the coastline. They basically tried to circle around the whole Faron jungle

[@TetraForceAC]

I want to be one of the first comments here

[@murtymcfly]

Atleast don't comment something stupid like "FiRsT"

[@aslambertthe3rd830]

I didn't count, but I'm gonna trust you did 5. The numbering totally threw me off. Great video btw, I've wanted to get this book for a while but have never gotten around to it.

[@MonsterMaze]

Same here. Im planning on ordering a physical copy very soon. Im tired of using the digital version. It doesn't feel "official". Im a zelda theorist damnit. I need to step up my game

[@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143]

Maybe the ruins outside of Hateno were abandoned after the Calamity, and were unattended to. I don't know what reason this would be the case, but it's one theory off the top of my head that has potential to be plausible, if only a small bit.

[@thebocce5741]

"Spider's Nest" _Deepnest flashbacks_

[@Elinthian]

Hahaha too true😂

[@maggie59999]

This video is a year old and I don't think Monster Maze will see my comment, but I'm certain Number4 is translation error. 『あるいは封印の力を持つハイラル王妃も何らかの予兆を感じ取っていたのかもしれないが、そうでなければ、一介の占い師の言葉を王が信じ、国を上げて実行することは想像しがたい』 I won't translate this to avoid further error, but it's not about the fortune teller being the queen. It says that the king wouldn't take seriously the fortune teller's word unless someone he trusted backed up the prophecy.