#I always assumed the ones that the botw champions wield were the originals and the new ones that can be forged were just copies of those

[zelda-references]

the old sages (tears of the kingdom)

(some pictures have been edited for clarity, mostly increasing the exposure and brightness on the ones from the repetitive Ganondorf battle cutscenes. also some of these are pretty pixelated and low quality (because the sages were such a small part of the original frame) but I'd rather have as many pictures as possible of them when they each have so few appearances, especially from different angles. okay, yapping over)