#Japanese is top-down right-to-left so maybe it's inverse?? I don't know!

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Hey, hey! RnR not requested! (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #DAX #ZEX #Does anyone still use RnR lol #I think I was a little too late for that but in my brief stint on FF.net I did get a couple reviews so *shruggles* #ANYway lol #The topic of VUX poetry came up and it would not leave me alone #But at the same time it is so hard to English-phoneticize VUK ZIX into my preferred poetry method! #So I gave up and went with a playground chant lol #I also wasn't sure which direction it would be read in apart from bottom-up :0 #Japanese is top-down right-to-left so maybe it's inverse?? I don't know! #That's what I went with this time anyhow lol #Also making up rules on the spot lol - ''a'' is always contextually inferred by its surroundings #Have I thought about the implications of inferred subject/singular vs. plural phrasing? No! Give me some time tho ♪ #Lol #I have also pretty firmly come to the conclusion that -ing sounds just aren't a thing lol #At least not written and not comfortably spoken #You could force the sound but it's exactly what it says on the tin - forced #So the rhyme-scheme is a bit funny haha - that rhyme doesn't translate at all! But it is still fun to write a little ship-poem hehe #ZEX does not approve but it's not his poem is it! Tentacles to yourself! Don't stick your trunk where it's not wanted! #I do love when DAX is silly and lovestruck haha

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ToTK art book analysis and theories

Part 1 of ???. Please check the reblogs for the full version of this post with parts 1-3, and either #ToTK talk on my blog or my pinned for the other parts in this series.

There's 205 pages, and even though I'll be skipping over a lot of pages there still a lot to cover, so this will be multiple parts! Part 1 here covered pages 01-21

The only spoilers for part 1 is that we get an up close reference for what is on Link's hip in this part. Everything else is vague and speculation on my part

Going in, the very first page has this symbol we've seen only on the prerelease bonus from gamestop (not sponsored or encouraged to buy, I just have to conserve pictures so I can get the most in each post. Bonus is down near the bottom.) and on the Japanese website for a moment while loading.

Page 2 gives us a look at some temple ruins with Link emerging from them. It doesn't look like the same temple from official trailer #1, there's no doors remaining, and the roof is broke to let light in.

From here I won't be covering most pages, most of them are simple design art as is expected. I'll be covering the ones that seem particularly interesting or helpful, and all of the ones with full page art like the above.

A number of them made me simply go "huh, what is that?" and I'll not be including those for the sake of speeding this up (limited to 10 pictures a post) and not having anything good to say on them.

On page 5 there's a good look at the talus Bokoblin camps, seeing how they're quiet small compared to Bokoblin camps from the previous games, with only 3 Bokoblins, but the talus are more than enough of a replacement for the rest of the Bokoblins.

Page 8 has a beautiful view of an autumnal island with a strange rock with a spiral around it. This is clearly a sky island- we've seen glimpses of this same island in the trailers, but there's also a decent amount of water there are the bottom of the page. Are these islands big enough to have their own ponds?

Pages 12 and 13 display some new armor for Link, specifically spread out while Link is falling. Maybe an optional replacement for the paraglider? Since this game is about traversing the skies I imagine there's many options of both getting up to the sky, falling down, and transversing between islands. So maybe with this you can glide with me even more control than the paraglider?

Immediately after those, on page 14, is a view of some of the ruins Link and Zelda have been exploring together post-BoTW and presumably during beginning of ToTK. It's interesting how decayed these ruins are, when in the book we see other Zonai architecture that's far better preserved (to say the least.)

Next, page 15, has two things I'd like to point out. Firstly, whatever that blue thing is on top. I have no idea what that is! It's labeled as scales, so this could be a new collectible from a creature that we either haven't seen, or is hidden away somewhere in this book and I simply glossed over it.

Secondly, the man in the bottom left with the mushroom themed outfit. This will not be the last time in this book that we see people with mushroom outfits, but it is the first! Personally, I'm assuming we get some sort of mushroom village or family, though aside from the characters dressed as mushrooms we don't have much to indicate that- no houses or village layouts.

However. There is so much that's sure to be in this game that isn't included here. Even with 205 pages there's more we haven't seen. Who knows what else is out there!

Page 20 gets us a good proper reference to the application we've seen on Link's hips during the trailers. Whatever it is, there's no name for it, but we do get a fairly decent look at how it works. Each blue line is a coil, wrapped around the center piece, and each section can carry 5 coils, for a total of 40 coils on this entire thing.

On the right we can see it slowly extending with each coil, or inversely, going down with each used up coil. Since we can see very clearly that each coil is in fact one piece and used on its own (rather than an entire section being used at once) my guess is this is the blue green "glue" we've seen holding vehicles together. We start with 2 sections, a total of 10 coils, and as time goes on we get to expand it, letting us use more 'glue' for more complex machines, or more machines at once.

Buts that's my best guess with minimal words on this page. (The only written things here say 'body' next to the eye handle and 'this part moves' on the bottom left, referring to the parts the prongs pass through to let it move up and down as it's drained.)

Last page for this part, a full pave art of some underground ruins with murals of camels on the walls, and a strange device on a pedestal in the center. I can't even begin to guess what's going on here. Maybe this is some end of shrine equivalent that gives you an upgrade? Maybe this is something we see early on that explains lore and whatever the mural says.

The mural should be translatable too, I know people that are working on decrypting Zonai text like the ones seen here on the walls, but if it's ever broken pre-ToTK release I'll make an entirely separate post rather than editing this.

Parts 2 & 3 are in the notes of this post, and parts 4 and onward can be found in both my pinned and the tag #ToTK talk on my blog.

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