u/silloki

Shadow Beasts are made out of people. And it seems they need to be in Twilight to do it. Before the Twili could invade Ordon village, they first wanted to plunge it into Twilight by taking the Spirit Light. This would turn the people into Spirits. The contrasting note here being that Shadow Beasts aren't spirits. So people need to be Spirits before they can become Shadow Beasts. We never see the desert under the curtain of Twilight. But it's safe to assume that the Light Spirit down at Lake Hylia would also have the desert within it's range. Hence why Zant returns there first, to keep the desert and the Mirror of Twilight under Twili control after Link returns the light. Furthermore, there are no Garudo in the desert. And in any timeline where the Garudo reject Ganondorf, he holds a grudge. So he'd want to make them submit. Hyrule Castle is not in Twilight during Zant's invasion. So based on this theory, Zant's army couldn't have been anybody from Castle Town or the Castle. But there's no other settlement between the Mirror of Twilight and Hyrule Castle... unless there was a Garudo settlement, and Zant turned them all into Shadow Beasts.

The thing in front of the sun. It's not a moon, moons don't do what this does. It's not a satellite, it was there before the ancients. Is it biological? A great old one blocking out the sun, and letting it's rays shine through it to mutate the lifeforms below. Using light to transmit DNA? Or is it a black hole that gets closest when it gets between the planet and the nearest star, warping time and physics as it does so?

From the very start of the game, we have access to a small tent that appears very familiar to something we would expect from Humanity. And it sets our expectations on what Human technology may appear like in this universe. However, each time we Return to the Passage, significant time has passed where the E4 crew could unpack more equipment and fortify the Passage. This means that with every cycle we see more and more of what Human technology looks like, further than the simple tent we're presented with at the start. And the more fortified the Passage becomes, the more apparent it gets that the technology of the ancients that we pass on our journeys and the technology of Humanity are far more closely related than you may have suspected. This was on of the first hints I noticed as to the fate of E1. The other hint that helped me guess it, was the details in the many statues and architecture we may find.

Hey Exile! I know what we're going to do!

Blow the bloody doors off!

I used Wild Fire with Free Radical and Molten Core, but the enemies hit by Wild Fire appeared to also be triggering Firebomb and Incendiary, which I have on Napalm Burst.

In Twilight Princess, I would put the Great Deku Tree in a new zone that you access from Lake Hylia, but after you've entered Sacred Grove. I would put some roots of the Great Deku Tree over the final exit of Sacred Grove before the Temple of Time. And we must find where the roots are coming from. The investigation leads us a shrouded area connected to Lake Hylia, where the Great Deku Tree resides. The Great Deku Tree would be corrupted by Shadows and we must remove the parasites that are growing on the tree. Afterwards, the Great Deku Tree would thank us and open a shortcut back to the Sacred Grove where the roots have been removed.

In the new area containing the Deku Tree would be some architecture resembling the Forest Temple and also the Temple of Time, that suggests the three areas were once connected. As well as a very damaged mural that vaguely shows the adventures of the Hero of Time. There would also be a spring, but without a Light Spirit, a chest up in the tree's branches, two bugs and a fast travel encounter.

We get; Proto Garuda, Proto Ash, and DoTs on Health bars...

I'm looking forward to all the Slashing.