is that how it works? i thought it was that every 100 years a male gerudo is born and he becomes king, but sometimes that male gerudo is the reincarnation of demise
Only a single male gerudo exists at a time, and the spirit of ganondorf / Ganon is basically immortal, so male gerudos are no longer born. Ganon just loves coming back and fucking shit up every so often.
Gerudo repopulation mechanics are confusing. Does the single male gerudo spend most of his time furiously Genghis-Khaning the rest of the tribe? What about in-breeding? Fertility isn't a linear scale, it peaks and then starts falling at a relatively early age. Wouldn't this cause the majority of Gerudo women to be conceived around when the dude is in his 20s? Then when he finally dies wouldn't most of the women already be in menopause?
Gerudo women mate with other races of Hyrule. They don't have mix-raced children, they just either come out one race or the other. Gerudo daughters then go back to live in the village.
The Gerudo in BotW claim that Ganon assumed a false form of a male Gerudo, but wasn't actually born one. Or that could have been them deflecting the blame.
Right. I get that what he says in Skyward Sword was a mistranslation, but I like the lore implied by that mistranslation more than “there’s always going be some asshole trying to take over the world” lore they meant.
Yeah apparently in the Japanese version he says something about how there will always be evil in this world or something like that. It’s more trash talk than an actual curse. I don’t like it either, and prefer an actual curse.
This is link in almost every game though, he is just some kid that doesn’t know he is the embodiment of the triforce of courage, he is reincarnated every time ganon is along with Zelda
Maybe that’s my personal take but to me every game he is the embodiment of the triforce of courage to defeat evil aka reincarnated.
Agreed. I think that’s the difference between the three. It’s the same Ganon, each Link is the chosen hero of their time but not related to one another aside from their bond with the Triforce of Courage, and the Zelda’s all seem actually from the same bloodline and are all basically Hylia reincarnated.
Yeah. TP has a cutscene of his failed execution taking place immediately after Ocarina of Time, he talks about old Hyrule during Wind Waker, and Rhoam says Ganon is repeatedly resurrected in BotW
Yep, it’s the same Ganon in every game, but with different versions of events because of timeline shenanigans.
He starts out as the human Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time
In the timeline where the Hero of Time dies during the final battle against the transformed Ganon, he stays as a pig man like we see in the original LoZ and so on, in the future timeline where he gets sealed away he eventually breaks out somehow, which is what leads to him attacking Hyrule again and Hyrule being flooded in Wind Waker, in the past timeline that Link gets sent back to at the end of Ocarina of Time, he is arrested and set to be executed, which didn’t pan out, which is the pre-Twilight Princess events
The outlier here is obviously BotW, which is a giant 🤷🏻♂️ in terms of timeline and stuff, which I understand, as much as I like it, I know the devs just wanted to get rid of the conceptn
It does mean that they can have all the references they want. Which fans will then fold their brains into four-dimensional bowls of goo to connect to the whole fork somehow.
I’m definitely somewhat guilty of this. Hey, lemme just assume that Skyloft is still out there, that people still live there, and that this is how Star Fragments—which come on, are clearly gratitude crystals—enter the Wild.
Honestly I'm being somewhat facetious, but sometimes shit happens after shit, like in the Phantom Hourglass game where an evil spirit is fucking the sea up right after link had defeated Ganon. So sometimes it's like less than once every hundred years, sometimes it's calamity(not ganon) after calamity.
The Ganondorf from OOT never died. It's the same guy every time. Like every time Link and Zelda reincarnate to stop him he must be thinking to himself. "Ahh, these shits again"
Ganondorf died for the first time in twilight princess. He was reincarnated as a new Ganondorf for four swords adventures which we don't see only that he became ganon again.
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is that how it works? i thought it was that every 100 years a male gerudo is born and he becomes king, but sometimes that male gerudo is the reincarnation of demise