The Mystery of Breath of the Wild’s Last Leviathan (Zelda Theory)

[@ura4321]

I like how Nintendo even had it's own NPC characters discussing game theories within the game.

[@CorundumDevil]

That is a sign of a living world: one that questions the ways in which the world, itself, functions.

[@nguyen5762]

I think it kind of makes up for the lack of story, the ability to make up your own story.

[@Mabra51]

*its

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

@Just a normal nazgul that's what a theory is... essentially you creating your own story for how something might have happened.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

@Just a normal nazgul I see what you're saying now. But even a headcanon can be your theory on how something came to be, (but in that case, pretending that it's true even if it is just a theory). Or maybe I'm just dumb? One of the two.

[@joelbarr1163]

These giant skeletons could also have been uncovered while excavating the Divine Beasts, so they could have been underground for all the other games.

[@josuecenturiondomaniczky9297]

Also botw occurs 10000 years after any other zelda, that's the biggest gap of time we've seen between zelda games, it's also possible that they died some time in those 10000 years and were alive above the clouds in previous zelda games.

[@plasmaduck3563]

why are the likes and dislikes different noe

[@aohyn]

divine beats glow too they aren’t skeletons really they are just pure sheikah technology not skeletons at all

[@past_the_event_horizon]

thats a great theroy

[@Alli_B96]

Josue Centurion Domaniczky no. Botw occurs countless millenia after any other Zelda game. Not 10,000 years.

[@Choatemister]

It’s kind of weird, and unnerving, how there’s skeletons of beings literally called “spirits and deities” are just killed off in some unseen event.

[@Xune2000]

Nothing lasts forever

[@chrisschoenthaler5184]

To be fair, a lot of crazy stuff happened in previous Zelda games. Things that warped reality and threatened to annihilate entire WORLDS. Some of those events were centuries in the making, but others cropped up over the course of mere decades. And it has been an *incomprehensibly LONG* time. The guardians and Divine Beasts were made over ten thousand years before Breath of the Wild. A point which is already untold centuries, if not millennia, after the end of the latest point in the timeline. We can’t even begin to imagine how much has happened in the world since those entities were last seen. What’s crazy to me is the fact that the Master Sword has existed in the world of the Legend of Zelda for longer than humans have existed in our own world.

[@sanstheanimator1964]

@@chrisschoenthaler5184 i mean, the master sword was made by the gods so i doubt it'll disappear soon Unless ganon disappears himself

[@ghostlyfae8721]

@@sanstheanimator1964 Not just Ganon, but Demise himself who has to be perished. Afterall, Demise is the one who continues the new timeline cycles out of hate towards Hylia.

[@bboy4of82]

@@sanstheanimator1964 bud I have some bad news for you

[@Inkyink]

Just gonna drop this here, but the Hebra Leviathan is coming out of the water in a very similar manner to how Jabu Jabu does. I think it's specifically an important detail because while the other two leviathans are skeletons of creatures that could fly, I think the Hebra one was placed in a pool of water to show that it isn't one of those.

[@gabewar8569]

kinda sus

[@literalfandomtrashnoseriou1992]

……. How… How did… You…. YOUR A GENIUS

[@whoeusbsknsi]

Yeah and the guy in the video also said it was the most normal looking of the three, like The most natural and real world looking skeleton of The three, and I don’t know just a thought but usually real world whales are found in water and not flying…

[@alkahest--1135]

It’s also under ice, in the same way that Zora’s Domain gets frozen over in OoT

[@brianmcrae2296]

I know it's been a year since the video and everyone has probably thought of this, I assumed it was the Ocean King for Phantom Hourglass, in his true form

[@kamenvapor3658]

Imagine if, in the sequel, Ganondorf used his power/ malice to "revive" these skeletons so you can fight them as bosses

[@plumpdog1024]

Or he could turn them into a stal monster

[@kamenvapor3658]

@@plumpdog1024 that works too!

[@plumpdog1024]

@@kamenvapor3658 yes

[@marhawkman303]

@@kamenvapor3658 Then for the boss fight you're not really trying to destroy them but to free them?

[@kamenvapor3658]

@@marhawkman303 Ohh yeah, that would also be a good reference to how you free Levias in Skyward sword

[@Bertiboy]

It would make a lot of sense if the cloud barrier was still active in Botw. Only a torrent born of the Gods’ magic could explain the game’s god forsaken rain

[@filipisotter5114]

Lmaoo

[@jonahstein3034]

Especially when it rains while it's sunny. :/

[@matthewmcmullan4832]

yee

[@JesterPrince]

@@jonahstein3034 Sadly that's possible in real life but damn do they gotta put it in game :l

[@Elias.ghl0304]

Lmao

[@erimgard3128]

"Oh cool, a Leviathan video" "SO ABOUT THE ZONAI"

[@sixwingedasura3059]

No one: Literally no one: Absolutely, not a single, solitary soul: Commonwealth Realm: *So, about the Zonai-*

[@timbitbo9922]

Ben Lamoreux yes

[@derzeldagamer7931]

Tbh, it just pisses me off and makes me eyeroll whenever i hear the word Zonai.. like, seriously

[@erimgard3128]

@@derzeldagamer7931 I don't mind. I just thought it was hilarious

[@soudelnoop]

@@derzeldagamer7931 me too idk y

[@meleefox3218]

Two words: Stal Leviathan. Seriously, imagine having to fight a Stal Levias or a Stal Wind Fish and they have all of their powers from when they were alive; kinda like a whale version of the Dracolich from the first Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and you have to climb them Shadows of the Colossus style to hit their only weakpoint.

[@Timberwolf69]

Scary prospects...

[@makallenray2750]

...stalord?

[@meleefox3218]

Stallord isn't a giant flying whale, and all he can do is crush things and breathe fireballs.

[@Dlf212]

I'm somewhat surprised they (NIntendo) didn't create a stal Lynel.

[@yoshilord724]

Dbzlotrfan M Now that would be terrifying to see.

[@onyxgaming5639]

I like to imagine that the Hebra Skeleton is quite literally just a whale.

[@nerosoul2506]

Big boi

[@Exclamsquared]

Can't he think it's just a normal whale. The answer is no.

[@gapetheapegod7976]

"Ya know what would be funny Greg if we just put a normal whale skeleton." "That was the second thing I did."

[@Madame_V_Locklear]

Or imagine if it was Lord Jabu Jabu though..

[@zatramander]

Agreed that it could be just a whale, and it would serve as another reminder of the Great Flood (like the presence of rock salt and Koroks everywhere).

[@adrienbroditore]

Ganondorf in twilight princess has a creature pattern on the collar of his jacket/armor that looks immensely similar to the third leviathan

[@aishasiddiqua6484]

Omg how did you even notice that

[@adrienbroditore]

@@aishasiddiqua6484 twilight princess is my favorite Zelda game, I spent a lot of time playing it and looking at it ahaha

[@aishasiddiqua6484]

@@adrienbroditore same it's my favourite game as well, but I neverrrrrr payed close attention to ganondorf's collar like that!

[@goopi_eh]

There's also the two dragons depicted on Ganondorf's clothes in Wind Waker. Mysterious.

[@richardhambel648]

The creature on his collar has a horn on its nose though, and a jutting chin. Has no fins too.

[@thegreatmajora5089]

Breath of the Wild feels so purposefully mysterious and deep, and I'm glad these kind of videos help my dumb self figure out a little bit more about this game.

[@meleefox3218]

Agreed. These videos add closure to things I wasn't able to figure out while playing it myself.

[@lonlonmilk9694]

Funny how we have two Majoras here. Also You guys have slightly different renders of the mask with different backgrounds. Bruh

[@theredguardowen8083]

It’s so interesting how people still research this game and find things out about it

[@Void_Echoes]

The Redguardowen That’s because this game has more unsolved mysteries and things to theorise on then any other game in the franchise. And considering the amount of mysteries the Zelda games contain, that’s a big hurdle to leap.

[@SuperDarthLink]

any game for that matter! imagine all the secrets hidden by developers!

[@heavybutternug5709]

Yeah like just a bit ago I found out that if a lynel goes out of it's area it just teleports back in a red ball of light.

[@Radien]

Although this isn't exactly high academia, it is in fact research, since it's gathering information. 👍🏻

[@Calista.Creates]

If you think that's interesting, think about skyrim. It came out like 9 years ago If I'm correct? And people are still finding new things in it, and making theorys.

[@KingsBard]

"Oh cool something from BOTW that isn't Zonai" *click* Zeltik within the first 20 seconds: ZONAI

[@davisbowe8668]

He just mentioned for a few second because it's clearly one of the biggest mysteries from the game, that's all. Calm down lol.

[@nookhil]

Why do people who hate the zonai? Is it just mentioned too much

[@pixoljef7830]

geek 2.0 yeah. I think they are cool though

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

@@nookhil Ah, so that's what happened to the zonai... they were a tribe of hipsters but got so popular that they weren't cool anymore, and everyone left to join another culture, it's really obscure, you've probably never heard of it.

[@AlvinaYunoa]

rektm90 probably cuz it’s not pronounced that way in a Japanese accent

[@another-person-on-youtube]

Worth considering: the skeletons don't necessarily have to be the specific characters of Levias, Wind Fish, etc. They could just be part of the same species.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

Yeah, while I agree they were designed to resemble those characters, I don't think it necessarily means that the skeletons actually do belong to specifically.

[@moo8866]

My thoughts exactly.

[@kilambrown4302]

I would be really sad to think that the semi immortal beings that I liked were dead, and I could literally go and look at them.

[@whoeusbsknsi]

@@kilambrown4302 well you do know what semi immortal means, having the prefix semi means that they are not/never were truly immortal, and as stated in the video this entry takes place so so so far in the future that all the previous entries are basically the equivalent of how we think of reallly old roman and greek LEGENDS 🥱.. i’d be more shocked to find out levias wind fish etc are still alive than i would if it was like officially confirmed this really was THEIR remains

[@Llortnerof]

@@whoeusbsknsi Hell, the last game before BotW is likely further in the past than the entirety of human written history. Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that Ganon had been sealed for 10,000 years prior to the failed re-sealing because they forgot to account for Ganon having had 10,000 years to come up with a counter strategy to the titans and the King not knowing how Zelda's powers work? And even that could potentially have been thousands of years after we first met the one in SS. If anything, the surprising part is that there's anything left of them. Or that the dragons didn't get themselves killed in the inbetween after one actually did die prior to SS until Link undid that.

[@BlazingShadowSword]

I believe it's just a reference to how the Zelda series has a habit of having 3 interesting things but only having 2 resolutions for them. Like the 2 "seeds" for the Gameboy which has 2 important characters named after the 3 goddesses but then the third goddess character isn't as relevant due to her "seed" not panning out. Or the exact same reference characters in the minish cap having a sidequest where you leave one of them essentially homeless and alone because you can only build 2 houses. Or the 3 pearls in wind waker! 2 of them have interesting dungeons, but one has an island wiped out with a storm. That third dungeon is completely brushed aside. Now we have 3 gigantic whale skeletons and only 2 have a resolution, leaving 1 with no clear parallels. It's just a running theme at this point.

[@Oodoos]

So, two truths and one lie?

[@LucarioDoT]

@@Oodoos Two truths, one idfk

[@todd3143]

this is a very poggers take

[@KingOfElectricNinjas]

I think a lot of those were just a result of cut content- I think there were intended to be 3 Oracle games but one got cancelled and its content incorporated into the others, and Wind Waker had a lot of content cut to make the release date and repurposed later in other games. That said, they might have decided to make a cheeky running gag about it anyway.

[@kaibathephantomthief.9042]

Levias is a sky deity and lived high in the clouds, perhaps he just stayed up there in the later games due to him not being able to go down to the surface, and maybe a trip down to the surface is what got him killed, and the wind fish needs water, so a drought would clearly kill it.

[@milanbeerepoot4260]

But oseaus is just not it How would something that (according to some theories) lives in a destroyed termina be able to go to hyrule? We only see link fall down a hole and i dont think that that hole would fit a giant whale. And i guess the whale could swim to hyrule? But why would it do that if it still needs to protect his own world?

[@minatorisato861]

Jabun lives in the great sea and a sudden drought could've happened to unflood Hyrule Edit: Jabun also is in a cave found inside a mountain top, something could've unflooded Hyrule and caused an ice age, leaving Jabun inside the outset's cave to die Also just because the skeleton doesn't resemble Jabun, doesn't mean it can't be. In Hyrule castle in WW a statue of the Hero of Time doesn't look like link how he appears in OoT, but rather a lankier toon link, it's just the style of the artwork

[@kaibathephantomthief.9042]

Milan Beerepoot why are you replying to me for that

[@kaibathephantomthief.9042]

Minato Risato why are you replying to my comment, that is something you reply to Zeltik for or as a stand alone comment

[@minatorisato861]

This dood really don't know what a discussion is

[@Ragnarok182]

Aww man, that makes me sad actually if that actually is remains of Levias and the Wind Fish, I feel like I need to go pay my respects to them now.

[@abuttnugget6753]

F

[@TheoLofi]

I keep silent princesses on me so that i can leave them by the skeletons

[@patrickbaker7014]

F

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

F

[@lucyandecember2843]

@@TheoLofi lol, may I borrow this idea T.T

[@commonwealthrealm]

Video turned out great. The Leviathans definitely need some more attention in the sequel. In particular the Third one!

[@D3LUGE]

*prequel

[@D3LUGE]

@@LucasDicken oh sorry

[@homenewbridge]

@@D3LUGE yes yes it is

[@succmyquest4006]

@@LucasDicken what

[@ShayCat]

I thought it was pronounced "levyy-athans" lol

[@jacobposey8665]

Okay, I just found something out. I tried to identify the third leviathan and made a discovery that was shocking. The skeleton may actually be Oshus. I tried to find a whale that looks like Oshus and decided a sperm whale was as close as I could get. I found out that a sperm whale's rounded head is not caused by it's skull. The skull is very close to the shape of the last leviathan and the sperm whale head structure would line up with the pictures of Oshus from the game. The only problem is the lower jaw being seperate.

[@Silvergrove41]

Agreed. Plus taking the fact that we only see oshus in toon form and not realistic form like the other games that whales are in. Plus how you can’t see humans tailbone with all the flesh and muscle, it makes sense that the crest wouldn’t be visible if it was alive

[@jacobposey8665]

@@Silvergrove41 I actually did more research into this and I actually got irritated. The third leviathan is without a doubt Oshus. Just like the other two, the answer was in the bones, specifically the lower jaw. The lower jaw belongs to a brushtooth whale and the only brushtooth whale in the entire series is Oshus. It was staring us in the face this entire time.

[@Silvergrove41]

@@jacobposey8665 yep we solved it. YO ZELTIK READ THIS

[@xuanluu4873]

@@jacobposey8665By brushtooth do you mean Baleen? If so aren’t all 3 Whales of ZeldZ Baleen Whales?

[@StonedtotheBones13]

​@@xuanluu4873no, at least one has teeth.

[@TarkinBaroth]

This kind of thing makes me want the next Zelda game to be like Chrono Trigger, where Link goes through time to different eras to fight Demise and his incarnations.

[@ouroboros5793]

I mean technically... that's what the Zelda series is already, except it's a different Link and he fights Ganon(dorf) in every main entry

[@ThePopushi]

God. All I can say is *this was so cool* Like, I'm still newish to the Zelda series as a whole, but have gotten very into it with theories because of people such as yourself. Botw is one of my favorite games and it opened a door to ideas and thoughts, opinions that give me exiting chills when I'm like "oh my god I never noticed that before" LOL. I never knew about the cloud barrier since I never played the game so putting the logic of how the dragons seemingly disappear into the sky in botw, especially showing the tunnels they go through MADE ME GASP. Ahhh so cool. So neat.

[@EnderalRocks]

I'm new as well and trying to piece together the entire series from theory videos and my knowledge of BOTW haha

[@robo_roman]

I’m exactly the same

[@MASTERLinkYT96]

Try Genshin Impact is like Zelda and is free for ps4,pc and hight quality phones.

[@DeadEarthTheory]

The video author leaves out info and downright lies to make his case. The “cloud barrier” as he calls it is only seen after you hit a dragon with an arrow. It is simply a mechanic the devs used to de spawn the dragon entities out of view. There is no visible ‘cloud barrier’ when the dragons spawn and de spawn naturally. Farosh spawns in Lake Hylia, Naydra and Dinraal can be seen flying horizontally for quite a while through the sky before they descend (with no cloud barrier.) Not to mention the flaws with how the author analyzed the skull of the Hebra skeleton. This theory is based on misinformation and cherry picked evidence.

[@LG22475]

What flaws related with the hebra skeleton are you referring to?

[@atlasroyale5294]

I have an idea that I can’t prove, but I can at least present as food for thought. What if the third Leviathan is the last remnant of an evolved Dodongo species? The only other hint to their existence is a Massive footprint on Death Mountain. It’s an odd concept, but I think it’s at least worth discussing. I know it’s weird to say a Dodongo, a beast that inhabits the volcanic death mountain, could be found in the Hebra region of all places. But if we take Majora’s Mask into consideration, they can indeed survive the icy cold tundra. I can’t say for sure why they would leave Death Mountain, but I guess it COULD have something to do with the fact that Gorons now have CANONS, so they might have been driven out by force until they wound up in Hebra by passing through North Hyrule. The head shape as well as the tusks match up with common characteristics of the Dodongo. Things like the fins and the general whale like appearance can also be explained by looking at a few biological factors. It’s clear that Dodongos are very dinosaur like, with the original just straight up being a Triceratops. But taking a closer look at baby dodongos, you can see they very much resemble miniature versions of these Leviathans with their small whale like bodies, fins, and that same colossal armored skull (which, side note, even Levias has a thick armored body and head similar to a Dodongo). I highly doubt they gained the power of flight, but I theorize that, in order to survive past youth, they evolved to more resemble their infantile forms to continue to slither around and crawl underneath the snow very similarly to the sand seal. They already do this in Ocarina of Time. These beasts are no strangers to changing appearance across games. Hell, in Twilight Princess, they look almost amphibian like with those big frog like toes, but most resembling a cross between a crocodile and a salamander. The massive leviathan one (which is a freaky looking thing in its own right) could simply be the new King Dodongo, which grew to enormous sizes considering it has no real predators to threaten its life span, but eventually died of natural causes forever trapped in the depths of the North Summit. Maybe their preferred habitat isn’t a specific temperature, but instead it’s below the surface. As stated before, baby dodongos mainly stay beneath the ground and the race as a whole loves the caves these big mountain ranges provide, which shield them from the outside world. Which is why they’re such a disturbance to the Gorons who feed off and mine the rock and minerals of these caves. They could still be hiding there, slithering about the endless dark tunnels beneath Hyrule and setting aflame all who oppose them. Maybe, if Breath of the Wild 2 really does take us into the depths of Hyrules underground caves, we could yet again challenge these beasts and slay their new king. As we’ve seen from the trailer, we’re in for some new creatures that we haven’t seen before. So this would be a good opportunity to bring these Dino’s back. I sense another video idea!

[@memedumpster3684]

The third Leviathan is also unique in that it is found in a cave, while the other two were found in very open areas. So it makes sense to look down instead of up for the third one's identity. Cool ideas!

[@nookhil]

Interesting...

[@alivent7902]

Cool theory! Can you tell me where the dodongo footprint is please?

[@atlasroyale5294]

@@alivent7902 I don't remember exactly, but it's somewhere near the Eldin Tower up the path to the mines.

[@alivent7902]

Royal Joke Studios thanks!

[@kiaradietze9836]

Breath of the Wild is the only Zelda game I have ever played, it's interesting to see all the lore that appears in the game. To me everything is a mystery and I almost feel like an NPC or truly that Link has lost his memory because I don't have a basis of memory for these games.

[@ouroboros5793]

The Link in BotW wouldn't have memories of any of the ancient stuff. Almost all mainline entries introduce a new Link and this one is stated to appear 10k years after Ocarina of Time. Though there are a few exceptions in direct sequels where the same Link is played. I.e. Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Four Swords/ Minish Cap and OoT/Majora's Mask all feature the same Link between the original entry and its direct sequel but it's a different Link entirely between entries

[@Llortnerof]

@@ouroboros5793 Zelda 2 is also a direct sequel to the original, and wasn't Link's Awakening's Link (er...) said to be the LttP one?

[@ouroboros5793]

@@Llortnerof Zelda 2 was a direct sequel, yeah. For expedition, I wasn't going to name all of the direct sequel Links, just give an example of how it works. ALttP Link has 4 adventures total, but 3 are offshoots (Link's Awakening and the Oracle games) That being said, Zelda 2 is the only exception where a mainline entry uses the same Link; the game itself is such a departure from the rest of TLoZ, the title was even given a number, which no other game in the series was given

[@Llortnerof]

@@ouroboros5793 Well, _was_ the only exception, what with BotW2 coming.

[@ouroboros5793]

@@Llortnerof That is true 👍 I honestly can't wait for botw2, I'm so excited

[@thebloodyaussie1458]

A few things: With the new BOTW 2 trailer practically confirming the Skyworld, the Sky barrier does hold a lot of evidence now, especially with SS being rereleased ahead of BOTW 2. And if theories are correct that there's time travel/playing as a Link in the distant past, we may even get to see this new leviathan potentially. The two we can identify had the ability to fly and were killed in ways that would be understandable for flying creatures. The one near Eldin could've suffocated due to all the ash spewed into the air from a Volcanic eruption and depending how far away from the ocean it travelled and how fast the drought happened, the wind fish could've died from dehydration. I'd imagine it would be hard for a flying leviathan to be killed by an ice age however, unless a blizzard brought enough snow to bury it and trap it, which wouldn't have been possible based on the location. So it's likely to have been either an underwater or land leviathan.

[@Silvergrove41]

What about the 3rd swam in that cavern and got stuck? It’s why it fits so well in the cavern. Perhaps it died of starvation

[@Erineous]

actually the cloud barrier potentially holds even more evidence now, there is quite a large possibility that some of the sky world will descend down from above the could barrier, or could even lead to above the cloud barrier. we don't know yet and until we get the game in our hands i don't know if we'll be able to know until then

[@theman599]

this didnt age well

[@Marchochias]

i find it hilarious how zelda fans put a thousand times more time and effort into stuff like continuity and the zelda timeline/lore than Nintendo themselves does Breath of the Wild was a pretty hard reboot for the series. it was intentionally set tens of thousands of years in the future so that lore nerds wouldn't obsess over every second insignificant detail, trying to connect it to every other Zelda game...but they did that anyway lol. and btw, skyward sword may be loved by lore nerds but it was by far the worst selling 3D Zelda game and the worst critically received one as well. Nintendo wisely shelved it. Some concepts, like the floating islands, were brought back and done much better in Tears of the Kingdom than they ever were in SS.

[@lavenderpants8695]

Wow, just realized how almost EXACTLY the beam that opens the cloud barrier looks like the glowing on top of Satori mountain.

[@orangeapples]

Maybe it’s a whale from a game that hasn’t been made yet. A sort of inverted Easter Egg.

[@insertgenericusernamehere2517]

An gge retsae if you will

[@commonviewer2488]

A Pixar easter egg, where no one understands the easter egg until the next entry

[@Dark_Mishra]

That would be called foreshadowing, not an “easter egg”, but it’s a great idea if it’s letting us know they still have huge(pun intended) plans for future games.

[@stormwolf5848]

@@Dark_Mishra They could not only tell the story of this liviathan but made the villain revive and control him or make him an evil counterpart of the other leviathans that was killed by the other two but they died shortly after.

[@carlwebber4094]

Like what disney and Pixar do

[@doctorhandsome]

It makes sense for the third one to be one we've never seen. It's like when a character in sci-fi set in the future mentions, like, "the great geniuses of history - Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Zorgulax..."

[@sefatsilverlake3816]

Gotta love good ol Zorgulax

[@whoeusbsknsi]

I can’t really, I’m not really like a sci-fi nerd.. cool theory though, and nice profile picture, definitely goes well with this sci-fi nerd comment

[@HyruleGamer]

Very interesting topic, I've always wonder about the Leviathans in Breath of The Wild and their story. Nice one mate! :D

[@hopscotch1049]

Right? The Leviathans are really cool, and the bones are reeeeeeaaallly big.

[@multibitmarco6464]

I always thought there all big Lizards that where killed a long time a go

[@entruh4520]

@@multibitmarco6464 thats kinda vague lol

[@ciarangale4738]

always a surprise to see you in the comments my friend

[@luthiamoonlightfrqc2905]

I grew up playing every zelda games but it is really breath of the wild that made me interested into the lore and theory! Before it was the elder scroll that was filling that role but since we didn't got any new elder scroll since 2011 Zelda as filled the void aha and this video really made me think of that because they ware also giant flying wale in elder scroll lore www.imperial-library.info/content/fight-three-snow-whale-and-dirtbird

[@KrakatonMain]

I just had a thought about the Hebra skeleton. What if we're thinking of this the wrong way? What if the third skeleton isn't that of a benevolent being, but rather a malicious one? In SS, we see that not all bosses are unique. We have repeated instances of the giant scorpion in the sands. Perhaps the Hebra skeleton is that of a boss monster. I'll have to look up footage to jog my memory, but my first guess is the water temple boss in TP. I just remember it being a massive serpent or some such. Maybe we need to broaden our scope to the wider bestiary of the series.

[@Mickers1919]

this can't work with the TP boss of lakebed temple because in the game we defeat it and no body remains

[@kurokorichanTP2006]

@Micah Schulz however what if Morpheel was just one of potential creatures in TP? We only see Morpheel in the water temple. And wouldn't it be awfully suspicious we don't see any deep dark underwater creatures other than those clam things and jellyfish in TP? Maybe there's something else out there

[@Beefaroni_Bert]

​@@kurokorichanTP2006 wasnt morpheel made by Zant tho? its called the Twilit Aquatic, that implies that Zant had something to do with either its creation or granted it something to fight Link. Stalord clearly wasnt created by Zant yet has the title Twilit Fossil after being revived by him so not really sure how Morpheel was affected by him.

[@GarryDumblowski]

Morpheel wouldn't work anyway because the anatomy is completely off. Rather than a whale, it resembles a giant moray eel with a mouth that opens horizontally rather than vertically, almost as if Morpheel is some kind of god from a cosmic horror novel. As far as I know it was made by the darkness of the Fused Shadow, which had already demonstrated their ability to turn ordinary creatures into horrific nightmare fuel by that point in the game with Fyrus. Somewhat humorously, the Hebra leviathan DOES resemble a monster from TP, the Skullfish which can also be found in the Lakebed Temple. Problem is, the Skullfish is just _sliiiiightly_ too small. If Morpheel is a heavily mutated Skullfish, that does make this theory technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

[@thesauceman2529]

I feel like the sky barrier theory might be correct considering what we see in the (new) BotW 2 trailer

[@coltermathis9626]

Zeltik, just wanted to say that despite these uncertain times, we appreciate you still posting.

[@jumprockz3134]

I second that

[@cathalmckibben7176]

I third that

[@beckelspek4850]

I fifth that

[@omgwtfbbq66613]

I sixth that

[@wigligigly3375]

I seventh that

[@Rune_Scholar]

The "beaked" look of the Gerudo skeleton also supports the structure we would expect in a baleen whale, which the windfish is.

[@kidwuulf5692]

I never thought or realized this about the Sky Barrier... That is a very nice sight you've spotted there! That fact about the sky realm still existing, blew my mind!

[@Slate_Box]

I never played any zelda games other than Link's Awakening (2019 v.) and botw. So hearing that the Wind Fish is dead, that hit hard. It made me feel like the Island of Koholint is even more gone. Although, I did like it that there was "Toronbo Beach" and "Koholit Rock" on Eventide Island, refernces to "Toronbo Shores" and the Island of Koholant itself. I never even heard of The Cloud Barrier or Levias (had to look up how to spell that) before this video. My theory was that the Hebra Region was once set much lower in the ground, and In the cauldren was an ocean, where this leviathan lived. Then, a huge freeze came over the already chilly region, freezing the leviathan in place. After years and years of earthquakes, it turned the frozen ocean into mountains, closer to a point where the cold was so intense, it couldn't be thawed. then, while looking for Divine Beast Vah Medoh, the dug a chamber around the fossil, then sealed it up, for fear that then bones might be of one of Calamity Ganon's minions, and it could return to flesh at any moment. Either that, or it's a skeleton of a creature that will be introduced in a later game that takes place before botw.

[@magau3698]

I find their locations a little bit interesting as well. They are located at the edges of Hyrule. Also, the way they are facing….almost in the same direction. As if headed towards the direction to escape

[@kittygirl0872]

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[@AnglicanFish]

Anything in Zelda: **exists** Zeltik: UNLIMITED POWER

[@albedo4008]

Yes but he deservs it

[@AnglicanFish]

@@albedo4008 indeed

[@EzzyFlix]

Hello there

[@denniscleary7580]

I used to work with a kid who knew everything there was to know about Hyrule, he really educated me about a lot of it and where he left out you guys have filled in. 👍

[@Kavvtham]

coolio... nailed it 😌👌

[@thebanana9505]

thats awsome i wish i knew people who listened

[@pantlessninja4696]

The idea of the sky barrier still existing and needing the blessing of gods to pass through it really makes getting to the city in the sky hilarious.

[@xinggxing]

After botw2 trailer this could be a possibility

[@jamesramsey427]

Also yes it is rember twilight princess

[@silverseth7]

I feel like this is a good topic to bring a meme into focus, titled roughly "How aliens would reconstruct *insert animal skull*" Such as the hippo, platypus, and especially an orca. It's really important to remember that there's who-knows how much meat and cartilage all over them. It could very well have been any one of the whales the skeleton fits into and doesn't need to have a prominent headpiece if it just has a bulbous, meaty head. Fish seem to be especially strange based on skeleton due to them being in the water and able to grow bigger easier due to not needing to fight gravity as hard as the rest of us.

[@Attaxalotl]

An orca skull looks like a bloody crocodile

[@drealbean4468]

I know this video is fairly old, but it's one of my favourites, mostly because of how everything is explained. I have spent hours upon hours in this game, and every time I go in, I discover something new. When I first started, I kept forgetting that the game was set thousands of years after every other game, but now, everything I see that's a reference to other games hits me with nostalgia. We as the player are the only being in Hyrule to remember what those places are, what they were for, and the significance behind them. To the NPCs, they are simply relics, historical sites with no purpose beyond a landmark from the past. When I first discovered the Arbiter's Grounds, I realized it was from Twilight Princess. Seeing the dungeon that I spent well over two hours combing through and finally ending being buried up to the Sages' pillars in sand, I realized that it truly had been thousands upon thousands of years. It hit me that *I* was the only one who remembered it. It made me realize that nobody else knew the significance, and that when I found it, nobody else (in-game) cared. It was that moment when I started looking at things through the eyes of the NPCs; I started looking at structures long destroyed as ancient relics and trying to figure out their importance. Even if it wasn't important to the game, I wanted to know. Why are there massive bones everywhere? Where did the leviathans come from? Videos like this one really help me to realize that I'm not the only one who is so interested in all of this lore. I don't think we'll ever find out who or what the third leviathan was, and that's okay. I love being able to speculate. In the end, that's why I absolutely adore these videos and theory channels about the Legend of Zelda. Things are open-ended to inspire this, and I have no small amount of theories of my own relating to every detail that's unexplained. To be able to go into this world and find something new and talk to others about it is truly one of the things that I have a passion for. If you read this far, you're a champ lol. Thank you for reading my rant, and have a lovely day. :)

[@dachking6657]

The leviathans are honestly some of the coolest things in the game, right up there with the dragons.

[@Zx7o.]

I could literally watch a full blown hours long documentary of breath of the wilds timeline and mysteries. The way you present it is (chef's kiss) amazing 😁😁

[@ValiantSpear]

My small brain thought this was about Subnautica

[@eggbuh]

Compared to the skeletons your brain is very small

[@Void_Echoes]

Lavadoo I remember when everyone was talking about that game

[@Simply_resharkable]

ShadowDragonGamer 476 ‘s on Switch now

[@cosmiclikesminecraft]

Kono Joe da not yet

[@Simply_resharkable]

Korhu Draak eeh whatever ‘s been revealed to be coming

[@DevinOde1]

I genuinely think the alternate timelines are dreams of the leviathans. Hence the similarities with names and locations, with many alterations to hyrule, its enemies, and great evils. They were inspired by the Hyrule of Botw. And the Link that saves the windfish could be an ancestor of botw link, which would also make Alttp fall within this timeline

[@MarMaxGaming]

Gosh, everything that packed into the world of botw is just amazing. The references to its own games and timeline is just sick

[@linearmetroidvania888]

I didn’t even know the skeletons looked different

[@pluspiping]

Tell me about it. It took me months of playing to notice. Even with the whole "take pictures of them" quest that gives you TANGIBLE EVIDENCE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE didn't tip me off to their differences... until I climbed on the Desert Leviathan's back and said "wait why does it have wing bones"

[@joelwatkins]

Makes sense that the "Windfish" skeleton in the desert is also the closest to Eventide Island, which is something of an homage to Koholint Island.

[@JamesonMcLeod]

Joel Watkins I’m pretty sure the eldin skeleton is closest to eventide

[@RobinDJoker]

@@JamesonMcLeod uh, no? the Eldin skeleton is north of the map, right next to Death Mountain. Eventide is at the southeast, while Gerudo desert is to the southwest

[@memedumpster3684]

All three Leviathan skeletons are preeeetty far away from Eventide, aren't they...?

[@RobinDJoker]

@@memedumpster3684 yeah, but the Gerudo skeleton is closest

[@solarprogeny6736]

@@RobinDJoker It's a stretch to assume that considering they're still on DIFFERENT EDGES of the map. That's a coincidence, not a reference. If it were a reference, that skeleton would be sitting on top of the island, in the water or on the shore near it.

[@zechiki]

Tbh, I've always found theories about the leviathans interesting. Also really nice video!

[@tiamatnotrealname3084]

the 3rd levithan is a giant dodogo fossile. spike on the back of it's head, lives underground, eats molten rock. iceage removed it's food source. also fits with the concept art's bone spike's surprised how with all the different theory creators out there not 1 has questioned the lack of dodogo's and no in game lore mentioning them in BotW

[@meyerlxmon]

I've been replaying Skyward Sword again and it's just really cool to remember all these things from the game and then being like "WAIT, THEY MADE A DESTROYED VERSION IN BOTW" I was so amazed, seeing the dragons flying into the whirlpool in the sky that I didn't even think to consider that Skyloft could still exist above the clouds! And now- Seeing the BOTW 2 trailers, I'm super stoked to see what story it has to offer. Maybe, this third Leviathan is something even we haven't seen yet that will pop up later on!

[@Mickers1919]

you mean earlier?

[@Galaxies3000]

the true reason the "wind fish" died (assuming it was the wind fish who died in the Gerudo wastelands in the first place) : the wind fish simply didn't like sand. it's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere....

[@dengo402]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@Sparkle8205]

Interesting.

[@meleefox3218]

Ah yes, I too recognize this quote of edgy teenage Vader.

[@anonymousperson1706]

Not just the wind fish... But the women windfish And the children windfish too

[@Kavvtham]

UGH i hate sand!!!!!!!!!! but yet it's kinda squishy and fun to build sand castles with..but i Hate when it get in your buttcrack and 1 or 2 hrs is not enough to get all the sand out

[@neophyte_tpk]

I'd like to imagine the three dragons pass through the cloud barrier to have tea or talk about life, maybe even have a podcast. Tales of Sparky, Red and Sapphire [1 Hour Uncut]

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

Presumably the #1 topic on said podcast is how this random blond kid has shown up and started shooting them with arrows to harvest their body parts. 😜

[@tanandalynch9441]

Naydra would point out how this blonde kid did rescue it and allowed one scale for her spring

[@Sparkle8205]

I’d like to listen to that podcast ngl.

[@kity1081]

"alrighty welcome to Tales of SRS! today we have a special guest! everyone welcome Link!" "HAAAH"

[@WamyDuper]

@@tanandalynch9441 And then Farosh and Dinrall talk about how that same blonde kid randomly showed up to shoot off a piece of their horns to upgrade his clothes

[@potatoqueen5248]

The third Leviathan is actually the Bonehemoth from Fossil Fighters Champions, and we’ve all been too blind to see it.

[@reinahernandez3]

Wouldn't be surprised if that is case. Nintendo does like to keep us in unnecessary suspense. BREATH OF THE WILD 2!! HINT, HINT, NINTENDO!!

[@oliverjohnson1471]

Don’t give me hope

[@TrueKoalaKnight]

Another observation, I think the Hebra leviathan was modified to match Oshus instead of using the concept version. While it is a wierd skeleton that doesn't quite match, so is Oshus. He isn't quite a Sperm Whale and has features that are from a filter feeling whale and the Hebra skeleton does mostly match those wierd features when you consider that muscle and blubber are a thing.

[@malentoasty]

The mysteries of botw are some of my favorite parts in the game and I believe Nintendo has done all of it on purpose. Whether it be for easter egg purposes or maybe something they want to reveal later on. The fact that there is a lot of quests directly referring to these mysteries means they didn’t just think “hey lets add this random thing that a player can just happen to come across.” They wanted it to be found and they wanted it to be speculated. I think Nintendo has a plan and botw is just the beginning.

[@Shinntoku]

What if the third skeleton is supposed to be an interpretation of Jabun? The crest on top could be where his lantern sat.

[@KairuHakubi]

doesn't look right at all, and he's a fish.. no, seeing those horizontal spikes... it actually makes me think of Jabu-Jabu. they would fill out the space of its boxy snout a bit. and the back of the head isn't really visible under thick blubber, but it sort of evokes the look of a more terrestrial mammal, which jabu-jabu is meant to look like.. kind of a hippo-whale.. even has the teeth. buuuut the eye placement is all wrong for that. so can't be. reckon we'll see it in a future zelda game.

[@Shinntoku]

@@KairuHakubi I'll very much admit this is a very out there guess, but as for jabun being a fish, he is also implied to be a decendant of jabu-jabu, so he could still be a whale, and WW was a heavily stylized game, so they could change a lot when reinterpreting him

[@KairuHakubi]

@@Shinntoku That's true, I have to keep in mind that nothing visual in wind waker is 100% canon. It's not as if an entire generation of people had giant basketball heads and tiny stump legs. the "real" Jabuu might look a lot more like that skeleton.

[@michaclark9602]

I can see this being likely, as the growth that supported his lantern was likely cartilage, and would have decayed and vanished with the rest of the body. The position of eyes and such isn't the same, but for that I'd suggest that it's simply the interpretation of WW style, as suggested in an earlier reply

[@pluspiping]

@@KairuHakubi The thing is that the Hebra Skeleton had baleen (like a blue whale) when it was alive, but Jabu-Jabu in OOT has conical teeth (like a sperm whale). I don't think they're the same whale. Jabun, though? All bets are off. Jabun has a lantern-fish-dangly light for crying out loud, haha

[@iamhim2961]

Since Ganon is out in BOTW 2 it would be so sick if his malice reanimates the leviathans and they end up being 3 optional bosses you can do, can’t wait for more info on the sequel

[@user-nz7zv1il2b]

This game is so amazing, there's so much depth and detail put into it. You can really tell the developers put their whole heart and soul and I appreciate it so much

[@spillinda]

i love how exciting not being able to identify one of the leviathans is, it just gives us connection to a future game they might make to be in the timeline before botw!

[@valerievankerckhove9325]

After watching a few timeline videos, my current theory is that the three goddesses purged and merged the three timelines and that the Leviathans, in their roles as Guardians, assisted the process and died when their roles were completed. Maybe they protected the survivors in each timeline for example (I could see the Windfish protecting the people through a dream for example). - Farore descended in the Gerudo desert in the Hero Defeated timeline, removing all life in the process. - Din descended in the volcanic region in the child timeline, causing a giant volcanic eruption in the process. - Nayru descended in icy plains in the Ganondorf defeated timeline, freezing everything in the process. Once everything was done, the survivors awoke as from a long dream, the environment around them reshaped.

[@earthkingdomgaming8759]

Love these Zelda videos! Thank you for such amazing content.

[@erievanillacoffee6048]

oooh this was awesome! I thought the one from the Eldin province was some kind of ancient dodongo. I thought deities could not die... but it doesn't make sense. For example, the Thunder Dragon in SS dying of a disease, or the Deku Tree from OoT dying of a curse. Maybe something similar happened with these leviathans, and their remains were discovered after many maaany years later, except for the one in Hebra...it's the only one kept inside a place only Link can access

[@osramain]

Such perfect timing !! Thank you for your hard work, Zeltik. I appreciate everything you do, and your videos bring me much joy :))

[@JustASpoon23]

After I discovered the "third leviathan" I've been looking for a theory video on it, thank you!

[@denavertrees6857]

I think I figured it out, so(clears throat) the final leviathan is a very large Dodongo that had been banished(I'm not 100% on this part) or left for an unknown from the Dodongo cave in the Eldin region, and dug from there all the way to the Hebra region in hopes for a livable habitat, which it didn't find. So it used if fire breath(which would explain why the cave is so snug and shaped like so with a large pool of melted and remelted ice at the bottom) and to prove this point even more, the horn on its head clearly resembles the on on a Dodongo's head, and the large legs visible pushing against the wall(the other two legs most likely under the iceor this is the type of Dodongo that is a bipedal) and finally because the jaw is in the open position as if it was breathing fire. And that's really all I figured out so i hope its right.

[@heather9930]

Omg that would explain the giant dodongo footprints on death mountain!? 👀

[@tetravega567]

Dodongo makes even more sense when you consider the opposite theme of ice to fire, and that in Japanese LttP, Light World's Death Mountain is called Mount Hebra, while the volcanically active Death Mountain is in the Dark World.

[@DallasCrane]

So, Ganondorf gets resurrected in breath of the wild 2. I can imagine these whales being resurrected as part of the quest to defeat him

[@Solibrae]

It would take some serious magic to resurrect long-dead skeletons.

[@TrueBladeSoul]

@@Solibrae like the kind of magic to continuesly revive an individual for at least tens of thousands of years , to use one of the most powerful mages in Vaati as a mere distraction, to curse a hero’s soul and an entire divine bloodline for millennia, to take complete control of countless machines on the level of divine constructs, the type of magic that can curse and kill lesser dieties like the great deku tree? He does have that power and has done things like that before

[@Solibrae]

@@TrueBladeSoul Hey, if Ganondorf wants to revive the Leviathans, I'm not gonna try to stop him!

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

I don´t really think that makes sense, actually, perhaps Levias because he was supposed to protect the Sky from monsters, and that is what Ganondorf is, but outside that...

[@succubasu]

Phantom Hourglass without the DS grain filter looks absolutely *crispy*

[@Yeti_SploofZ]

Thanks for posting these awsome zelda theorys during this pandemic it really helps me get through it 😁

[@rocknflip66]

this is like the ‘unsolved mysteries show’ for botw.. y’all gotta make a series or a playlist of other mysteries for kilton, origins of lynels etc..

[@Gigawolf1]

And then the sequel introduces the Dark Skeletons, with even less explanation for what's going on with them

[@Bardomp]

I saw somewhere that they are dragons, you can see that they have their shape and the dragons also go underground

[@Ventis_right_ball]

What dark skeletons?

[@d00p58]

@@Ventis_right_ballmassive skeletons similar to the ones in this video. there’s 3 of them located in the depths

[@linkalot7415]

Imagine fighting a giant lethiathan underwater in botw 2

[@brandonwiley5372]

Like another water temple from twilight princess fight?

[@meleefox3218]

Well... We DO actually get to fight a demonic leviathan in Phantom Hourglass in the seas. But the damned thing decides to fly around in the skies for some reason.

[@vangdit0668]

Imagine the unidentifed skeleton came back to life in BotW2 being a bad guy and you have to fight it

[@vangdit0668]

And then having to summon the spirits of the other two sky whales to defeat it

[@ScLuigi]

NO

[@Soup-lp1rv]

Zeltik on the hebra skeleton's concept art you can also see something resembling wings

[@featherblaze8819]

I'm sure someone has already said this, but what if the third leviathan is a part of the leviathan race that once existed in Hyrule. I say that because, there are multiple leviathan bones scattered about Hyrule, so many in fact that it's unlikely that there weren't more leviathans. So what if the third leviathan is the actual leviathan ancient race, and the others are meant to try and throw you off because they're references to other games in the series.

[@TJ-qo2xu]

Menacing thought about the Hebra skeleton... it was sealed away behind a giant iron door. What kind of deity or monster could it have been to deserve being sealed away for who knows how many years?

[@hbomb1067]

I have to admit it's strange that hyrule is like on huge graveyard for sky whales

[@punktpunkk]

Ahhhh, this stuff is so interesting!!!!!!! Seriously, tysm for posting these :0

[@stephencrawley2862]

No pun intended, but when I discovered the Hebra leviathan skeleton in my blind playthrough, it gave me chills. Like seriously. I was creeped out by seeing it, thinking about when it was alive. Maybe it was the claustrophobic environment it was in (as opposed to the Eldin and Gerudo skeletons), but I imagined just how helpless I would be if I encountered it were it alive, and how fortunate I (Link) was to encounter it when it was already dead.

[@tannerekstrom2966]

There's something about the idea that the silly adventures I went on as Link in Wind Waker are now just a part of the Era of Myth for Link now that I just love.

[@JacOfArts]

I figured the logic for the Wind Fish's placement was that he's associated with dreams; Visions that aren't real or lasting, like a mirage. Following the same logic, between Jabu-Jabu, Jabun, & Oshus, I would've figured that Hebra's fossil is more connected to Jabu-Jabu because Zora's Fountain freezes over in the Adult Timeline.

[@CourtyardCaddy]

Zeltik, I cant get enough of your videos, I love exploring the theories of these beautiful games!!

[@memedumpster3684]

O.M.F.G. The Cloud Barrier is like one-way mirror glass...it always has been...IT'S ALWAYS BEEN UP THERE!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Exoneos]

Yep Always has been *point a gun at you*

[@xenodrone3367]

@@Exoneos *points gun at you* not this time

[@moo8866]

@@xenodrone3367 *points nuke at you* Haha, astronaut go boom boom.

[@CigaretteCrayon]

@@moo8866 Sleepy Joe: I thought that button was for someone to bring me a pudding.

[@LeewardWind]

@@CigaretteCrayon no, that was the other button. this one is for the elevator.

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

Hey Zelda fans. And I know it’s off topic. This is my favorite channel about Zelda so I figured I get the love. But my leukemia came back. I’ve decided to fight. This is going to be brutal but thankfully I have these theories to watch while I’m going through chemotherapy. Love you all.

[@dmerkaGU10]

Good luck man, We believe in you

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

dmerkaGU10 thanks brother

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

Kirliasaur thank you brother

[@allydeer5494]

I am sorry but good luck with all! I have a strong feeling that you will get through it! Think of the lekumia as the malice in botw! Something dangerous yes but something you can over come! 💖

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

Ally Deer second round is worse. But thank you so much

[@fsfredrikson]

You know, with everything from the previous Zelda games being included in Breath of the Wild, I got to wondering how so many things from so many timelines could end up in this game. I’m starting to think that Ganondorf may have attempted to harness the power of time to conquer Hyrule once and for all, but the results were shaky at best.

[@TimedRevolver]

Maybe trying to do that is what caused him to become Calamity Ganon in the first place. Literally blew himself apart.

[@iang257]

What if the 3rd Skeleton was like, a Massivr predator that dwelled in the ice cavern areas before they became the ice caverns? Like, it was a massive monster that simply lived in that area as part of the ecosystem.

[@bread4727]

If we're considering what the 3rd leviathan might be based on existing creatures, I think the game might be hinting at it being Jabu Jabu. In Ocarina of Time he disappears and never returns when his environment freezes and in BotW you find the skeleton surrounded by glaciers.

[@electromagnetic]

And also, we know that a large period of time has passed between the timeline. Regardless of if they are merged, or if the game falls into one timeline it could be that the final set of bones are from an entity that was present between these periods.

[@katetoolate234]

I just noticed that the pond in BOTW with the broken heart looks to be manmade. It's shallow and the shape, especially the zigzag in the middle seems to indicate this as well. Makes me wonder if someone who was upset went out of their way to make this pond. 🤔

[@adrienbrasseur8809]

How many secrets in breath of the wild we didn’t discover and talked to yet ?

[@GENERAALBRYAN]

0, as long as there isn't any BOTW 2 info revealed people will go over the exact same "theories" and subjects another hundred times

[@bryanosvaldomorasixtos5375]

Had your videos playing on automatic, Fell into the most mesmerizing nap I've had in a while (4 hours long) Love your work, letting you know you even have suscribers over here in MÉXICO.

[@LeewardWind]

ooh, naps are awesome

[@sxotti4116]

One thing I wanted to point out tho, the third leviathan. When you run through the doors and get under it's face area if you look left and look right it has pretty distinguished arms with large hands coming off either side. Possibly not a whale leviathan but some other giant monster? Wasn't sure if you had ideas or theories on this but was curious for sure

[@aff77141]

As for the sky barrier still being around, you can see that it's even still farily strong whenever twilight princess takes place with the oocca, though it's more well known for some reason and easier to access

[@Mickers1919]

maybe the oocca couldn't get past the barrier and we're below it?

[@slightlyistorical1776]

This honestly makes me feel a little sad. These were great, marvelous, gentle giants that we, our outer-universe being as the player, knew and enjoyed being in its company. But now, all that remains of these harmless creatures are their dried and forgotten skeletons

[@nardopol0]

The Hebra skeleton was sealed behind a door, so maybe it was trapped there by someone. It could've been a monster that was sealed away

[@seakaizers2211]

That door is looks like sheikah made, maybe it just there from the beginning and then sheikah made a door specially to hide it later on

[@lasercraft32]

I seriously can't wait to see what crazy lore stuff Tears of the Kingdom has in store for us. :)

[@olivesofdestiny5389]

I personally theorize that the third skeleton is from Windwaker, simply having been under the water minding it's own business whilst the hero of winds did his thing

[@Terranigma23]

At this point, Breath of the Wild is just a big easter egg lol.

[@gaia9020]

If btw2 has time travel it makes sense to have two known faces and one new to expand on the lore, when we visit them in the past

[@moo8866]

HAS time travel? Do you mean IF? I also don’t think time travel will just pop up out of nowhere in botw2.

[@gaia9020]

@@moo8866 thank you. sorry

[@nachovennedictus6492]

LEVIA than LEVIA s 10 IQ award goes for me

[@royalbabble305]

I think the Hebra Skeleton could still fit as Oshus. Skeletons are weird in that there can be a lot of seemingly out of place bone structures that are otherwise hidden thanks to layers of fat, muscle, and skin covering them. We humans obviously have a tailbone that extends out from the base of our spine, but you'd never know that because it's covered up by fat and muscle. The same could go for Oshus. His skeleton may indeed have a bone crest protruding from the back of the skull that was hidden by fat, especially since Oshus had a pretty massive head with a lot of soft tissue that would conceal an oddity like that.

[@Dcode117]

I really love your channel, I'm new to the legend of zelda franchise. I just got my first nintedo gaming system couple of days and my first zelda game (breath of the wild) and over enjoyed the vast lore and knowledge you give