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retrogamingblog2 · 2 years

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Legend of Zelda Lamps made by theBKPKshop

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somnimagus · 5 months

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My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble:#i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually?#fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!!#especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

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mimimonart · 1 year

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oof

#wip #adult timeline oot zelda has the sheikah symbol on her armor and child timeline zelda has the triforce #bc she was never became sheik

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nolongerapileofashprobably · 8 months

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So… are we gunna talk about this or…?

#has this been spoken about yet?#essentially it’s interesting to see that the Zonai head shapes are pretty similar to the Sheikah main terminal sets #I just remembered when I watched a Mineru cutscene that I took that photo in Botw #in all of the dungeons #and we already know there is SOME connection based on the masks the old sages wear and the fact there’s symbols resembling divine beasts #bc after doing a playthrough I went ??? huh that looks familiar #I am almost positive this is the same for each divine beast too hehe #the amount of lore we will get in this new era of Zelda games #I am HERE for it #loz totk sages #loz totk spoilers #loz totk #loz tears of the kingdom spoilers #loz tears of the kingdom #totk rauru #totk Mineru #loz totk rauru #loz totk Mineru

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blueskittlesart · 5 months

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I get the impression from your posts that you don’t think there’s a future where Zelda would end up queen of hyrule (I can see where her becoming queen would undermine her entire arc of getting freedom from the painful expectations of princess/chosen etc), but how do you think that hyrules government will work beyond that? Is the population recovered enough for that to even be something established within their lifetime?

honestly, based on what we see in other games, hyrule was never REALLY a proper monarchy. I think it's pretty likely that the hylian monarchy was functionally a symbolic one, especially by the time that botw rolls around. in most games in the franchise, hyrule is largely made up of sort of mini single-race societies that function by defaulting to whatever small tribal government they happen to have. With a kingdom technically made up of multiple different species, each with their own differing cultures, customs, and even lifespans, it makes much more sense to have small governments united in name alone. i think any genuine attempt at true united government of such widely varied and relatively isolated races would not end well for hyrule (can you imagine being a hundred-year-old zora and being told that you have to listen to laws made by hylians who have been alive for a fraction of the time you have?? no way.) But by having a technical alliance under the symbolic hyrulian royal family, all of these races reap the benefits of alliance amongst each other while maintaining their relative independance. This is why most of the villages in hyrule are race-isolated and have their own governing bodies--the zora have a king, the rito, gorons, and gerudo have chiefs, and several of the hylian/sheikah villages have mayors or other governing bodies. these are the actual, functional governments of hyrule. the royal family serves both symbolic and practical purposes as a symbol of the kingdom's allyship and as an entity that can build, maintain, and direct a widespread military force (and i think there's also definitely a religious element to their rule over hyrule, as literal descendants of god in-universe,) but other than that it isn't doing a whole lot of actual governing. (the exception to this rule is MAYBE post-wind-waker on the new continent, and maybe immediately post-sksw, specifically because in both those cases the hyrulian royals would have needed to take a more active governing role in order to rebuild the country.) so with that in mind, I think botw and totk make it pretty clear that this method of small government works pretty well for hyrule. I think the most zelda would EVER be is a sort of ambassador between villages and races, especially as hyrule becomes more intermingled in the aftermath of the calamity. small democratic government largely appears to be working for hyrule and for zelda in totk, so i think that's the road she would choose to continue down rather than attempting to reinstate a monarchy that never actually did that much in the first place.

#hyrule's government is fascinating to me bc like obviously the hylian monarchy isnt REAL bc not a single other race in the country actually #defaults to their governance. even the sheikah have their own village governments in most games #the zora literally have their own secondary monarchy despite also supposedly being under hyrulian governance #so like it's fairly obvious that the hyrulian royals are symbolic/religious leadership and nothing more #EXCEPT for when they're building an army. that's the only true power they seem to have #and i think that's probably to do with the religious aspect. i think the reason a symbolic monarchy was able to build an army like what the #did in botw is because they were functionally fighting a religious war against. the devil. lmao #anyway. yeah #asks #zelda analysis

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kagoutiss · 1 year

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doodles for double agent sheik AU,,, ive decided there is a strong impa vs ganondorf dichotomy, also memes

#tloz oot #ocarina of time #impa #ganondorf #zelda #sheik #undercover sheik au #double agent sheik AU #idk what else to call it right now so thats what i will tag it with #impa and ganondorf are like. the 2 opposing influences in sheik’s life #impa is a symbol of predetermined fate and inevitability; ganondorf represents self-determination and rebellion #so like #sheikah sworn to protect hylia’s bloodline (zelda) by any and all means necessary VS man who literally tried to steal divine fate itself #sheik is at odds with a lot of different interpretations of fate while trying to figure out her own #impa and ganondorf are philosophically very different but also kind of irritating in similar ways #and. may have some history from during the war that adds to the animosity they already have #i cannot keep writing essays in the tags afhshddrjhfs bye

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parksrway · 11 months

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take this little sheikah symbol in exchange for a sheik fact 👀

sunset fireflies are the one bug on the planet that he is semi okay with bc he's used to them and they're actually kind of a source of comfort for him (when they aren't flying directly at him or touching him) bc it reminds him of home

#sheikah symbol currency..........#asks #sheik gets homesick sometimes #bc of a lot of different things not just tje fireflies

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appleimps · 7 months

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Nevermind false alarm. I saw old moe wizard Agahnim over on twitter so I am once again Zelda brained

#his costume design is soooooo fucking GOOD #i look at it and im like. yes. god please this is how Gerudo should be dressed #also the sheikah eye symbol ??? CHEFS KISS MWAH

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ihavedonenothingright · 6 months

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Rewatched Sarah Z's video, "That Time The Sherlock Fandom Invented A Character," and now I'm thinking about that phenomenon in the context of Sheik. I've seen newer Zelda fans (post BOTW ones) call Sheik an OC, and that never felt quite right because Sheik (as a separate character, that is) is a fanon creation, and even though he has a lot more variation fic to fic than others, it still feels wrong to call him any one person's OC. There are a lot of random-ish details about him that are pretty consistent, and peeking back into the early days of fandom especially, it was common for him to have a teardrop tattoo under one or both eyes, things like that. He was also usually related to some version of Impa. I feel like the most common interpretation I saw was that she either adopted him or was his aunt or something. I don't know, it's just making me think about it and I kind of want to see if I can find out where this particular piece of fanon came from and catalogue its growth. Especially now that people also commonly write Sheik as a trans man as opposed to a separate character, which I like. I can't remember many people trashing Zelda back in the day (at least in these fics) which is nice, but it is also sort of funny that in retrospect, we wrote her out of the first Zelda game where she had a good amount of involvement with the plot.

(Pardon the structure, I'm quite tired and I just wanted to put this out there)

#zelda #sheik #should also add the fandom was also very entwined with like. sheikah fandom at large #pre-botw they really didn't appear in many games #so i mainly saw them talked about and theorized on in sheik fandom #who was it who decided the sheikah symbol didn't originally have the tear and it was added after they were almost entirely wiped out?#bc that was a major bit of lore in some of the stuff i read #and nintendo clearly disagrees bc the symbol is on impa's forehead in skyward sword #and it has the tear #also weird to me that new players don't associate the sheikah with war crimes and shadows and such #or even red eyes!#they don't have red eyes anymore!#they're even technically hylian #it's wild

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yiga-hideout · 2 years

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thunderblight / windblight

#botw #breath of the wild #art #2022 #botw au #breath of the wild au #thunderblight #thunderblight ganon #windblight #windblight ganon #2021 #yea i did thunderblight today but windblight back in nov 2021 #theyre um. less mechanical and wayyyy way more absolutely horrific amalgamations of malice + a corruption of the hero #so they use like. sheikah symbols representing the champions (taken from age of calamity). and corrupt them #they mostly use the fears/insecurities of the champions against them ^_^

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annyllel · 2 years

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I wasn’t sure how I did it, but the faint Sheikah symbol and those surrounding constellations just stayed there, almost like a watermark to a picture. I’m guessing it had something to do with the way I was reloading my save to get the perfect picture of this decayed guardian as it was waking up.

#breath of the wild #the legend of zelda #botw #decayed guardian #camera rune #for the hyrule compendium #reloading my save to get the perfect picture #that sheikah symbol just stayed there though #like a too obvious watermark #tloz #tloz botw #just a fun little thing #screenshot #botw screenshot #I am op

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barrymccaulkinem · 10 months

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i want a big ornate hylian crest tramp stamp

#or wait. the sheikah symbol but the drop falls into the crack

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ezlo-x · 11 months

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hi I have thoughts to implement to my au maybe sorta I just thought the idea was cool. The Zonai were a Minish Tribe that were established in the Faron region when descending down from the skies

The Zonai were architecturally advanced as their structures and monuments were massive compared to their small size. It was at a point lead to believe that Hylians from a long ago past created those structures that are in the Faron region. Zonai don’t have a third eye in this, only highly respected Zonai would create these headpieces in form of a third eye. It is only a wild coincidence that the Sheikah and Zonai use eye symbols. However the Zonai in my au use more hand symbolism as they connect it more to into their architectural history and skills.

The Zonai established their own society in Faron, being the first to create a monarchy way before Hyrule was established to have a kingdom. That is the Zonai tribe of the south region, as a handful of the Zonai started to embark to the upper north side of Hyrule. There were two siblings in hopes to create their own society just like their cousins, Rauru and Mineru. They first settled in the upper north of the Woodland Region now known as the Thyphlo Ruins, until the discovery of the Great Lord Deku Tree in the Deku Woods (this is before the Koroks appeared). Rauru and Mineru decided to focus on the magic of the forest with the help of the Lord Deku Tree. Making Rauru hone the power of light and Mineru the power of spirit.

With these powers they have and their wisdom through experimentation and with Lord Deku Tree's blessing, was the creation of the Moth Fairy. Healing Fairies that transformed into Moth Fairies in their pupa stage. Who absorb the wisdom and story of the Zonai. As the Zonai wanted to keep their traditions alive the moth fairies were there as to archive their stories.

This magic came in handy when a threat of evil emerged in Hyrule as the Master Sword only being a few centuries old. And the incarnate of Light in a need of help to stop this force of evil from consuming Hyrule into darkness. The Zonai with their powers of magic that were obtained through the forest, gifted the Master Sword an enchantment to strengthen the sword and vanish the evil from Hyrule.

As centuries and many millennia passed by and the threat of evil being handled by child of light and courageous hero. Zonai tradition slowly diminished as also the Minish started to expand across Hyrule. The Zonai culture and tradition slowly faded as new cultures and traditions formed reestablishing as the Woodland tribe. People from Hyrule slowly forgetting about the Minish tribe. Leaving only the Moth Fairies to be the only remnants to know the origin of the Minish. The Zonai from the Faron region never really vanished however just like their Woodland cousins they became the Faron tribe as many things changed. However they had it slightly unlucky as not a lot of Moth Fairies know much for their history aside from the origin. Leaving many things behind and to be left a mystery.

The Master Sword's enchantment slowly diminished mostly as the threat of evil came back in long periods of time. In the current stage the Master Sword is weak due to the absence of maintenance and the enchantment is completely gone. The Master Sword has slowly become a rusted sword from a legend that is 10 thousand years old

#tloz au #totk spoilers #tloz au txt #i have many thoughts....a lot #this is still in brainstorm stage btw #rauru #zonai #mineru #minish #picori #my art

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zelinkdragons · 8 months

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Here are two pics I commissioned recently, since I wanted to see how Link might look as an immortal dragon 💖 Thank you so much @eethok and @smugcomputer!

This is an AU where Link got his arm back, but Zelda stayed as a dragon at the end. So she wouldn't be alone, Link became a dragon too using Mineru's Secret Stone.

As the Light/Demon Dragons are called the White/Black Dragons in other languages like Japanese, I decided Link should be the Silver Dragon. Maybe his English name could be something like Knight Dragon, because he’s silver like a sword blade, or the Hyrule knight armour he sometimes wore in the past, and due to him mostly flying at the Light Dragon’s side.

I was more involved in brainstorming aspects of the left pic because I only printed one set of refs. Design info under the cut.

Dragon Link AU | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

Dragon Link retains his hair and eye colour like the Light and Demon Dragons do.

Like Farosh he only has one horn, with ‘damage’ resembling the decayed Master Sword.

He has eight eyelashes like the Demon Dragon (the elemental dragons only have six and the Light Dragon has seven), but with some lashes longer to resemble the Sheikah slate symbol. @eethok suggested the eyelashes be blue like Link’s hair tie, and that’s where the Sheikah slate symbol came in. This symbol is also used on the Purah Pad's screen.

He has a canine-like snout to reference Link’s wolf form from Twilight Princess, and the pink patches are vaguely referencing his pink rabbit form from Link to the Past.

His spikes and other accents are green to represent the Triforce of Courage, since the Light Dragon has blue spikes and the Demon Dragon has red ones. Even though this Link wears blue more, he still gotta be green! I tried to choose a shade like the Tunic of the Wild.

His inner eye colour and sclera might change because I haven't fully decided what they should be yet. The Light Dragon's inner eye colour is green and she has purple sclera

I'm not sure if his spine scales would be blue or silver, since the Light Dragon's are gold like her eyelashes, but the Demon Dragon's are black like his scales.

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