#Link's height totk

[crunchyfield]

How tall is Link in Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom ?

This topic is always what most players wonder when playing a (new) Zelda game especially when Link looks shorter than almost every NPCs and entities.

But what surprises me the most is that many people in the community assume he is the same height as in ZBOTW or claim to have figured out his height based off of ZBOTW without elaborating much somehow which isn't satisfying at all.

We want to know Link's height in ZTOTK based off of ZTOTK information and tools.

What we want to be looking into at first is Link's canon height.Unfortunately, speaking to NPCs/reading diaries/looking for something's or someone's canon height didn't provide any type of canon reference to figure out Link's canon height (unlike in Breath of the Wild where a gerudo named Deltan stated she was 8 feet tall).

As a result we are going to work out Link's height using in-game measurements, to do so we'll manipulate the in-game coordinates :

These are important to calculate distances as well as measuring Link in those distance units.

It has been established for a while now that one distance unit displayed in the coordinates is equivalent to one meter.It is quite difficult to back up this statement but when talking to NPCs, those who quantify distances generally come up with the metric unit (I don't have a screenshot for proving it but if you talk to a brown skin traveler with an afro haircut and a rabbit shield in the French version of the game, he comes up with the metric unit at some point).

With that assumption in mind let's start off by looking for a reference (i.e: an object or something which will be used to determine Link's height), a wooden crate seems to be good one as we can approach its model with a cube on top of being experimentable on flat surfaces.

Now the idea is to approximate a wooden crate's height and to do it we have to measure many crates on top of each other with the altitude coordinate :

We could've measured 100 crates merged all together but the game reFUSEs to fuse more than 21 items together (I learnt it the hard way after spending around 600-ish zonaites to make sure the tests go right in any case) :

Ultimately 20 blocks were measured successfully on a flat surface in a maze so here are the altitude coordinate values at the surface level and at the 20th wooden crate level respectively :

Subtracting both coordinate values (111-71) we find out 20 crates are about 40 meters tall meaning that a crate is about 2 meters tall.

Then we can figure out Link's height by measuring him next to a crate.However in order to avoid any parallax issue we are going to locate a specific part of the wooden crate the top of Link's head reaches with a sample of screenshots from different angles :

(I took many more angles but to not overload this post we'll keep these 6 photos as a simple sample)

Thereafter, we can figure out the specific crate's portion the top of Link's head reaches (blue line) :

Finally we can calculate Link's height using some proportionality and pixel measurements :

Therefore Link is roughly 1.73 (5'8")meters tall, he is actually taller than 5'2" (1.58 m), still not surprising.

I smell sussy bakas coming up with Bread pirate's video from miles away so let me explain why the 5'2" is sort of wrong when it comes to Link's height in BOTW :

If we take a close look at where link is placed next to the metal box, we can see there is a parallax issue (i.e: the change in the apparent position of the metal box relative to Link being more distant, caused by the change in the picture's line of sight towards both Link and the metal box) which means Link is taller than what he was measured previously in BOTW :

Hereafter seem to be the specific part of the metal box the top of Link's head reaches in BOTW :

Thus recalculating Link's height in BOTW following Bread Pirate's method without the parallax issue suggests that Link is around 1.78 meters (5'10") :

Basically BOTW Link & TOTK Link are practically about the same height (5 centimeters are a little negligible in the game) empirically which in some way confirm "the not changed height" and why we could feel like Link is as tall in TOTK as in BOTW.

Now for more interpretations regarding other entities/NPCs in comparison to Link, I advice you to see this post :

Sidenote: Furthermore, taking errors and uncertainties into account we can find a range in which Link's true height in Tears of the Kingdom is included.

About the altitude coordinates we measured, those values are rounded up without shown decimal places which means that the first 71 altitude coordinate value actually ranges from 70.5 to 71.4 and that the second 111 altitude coordinate value ranges from 110.5 to 111.4 :

Besides, to find the uncertainty related to a wooden crate's height we determine the difference between the minimum gap/maximum gap and the rounded value found.Knowing that rounded value was 40 m then we get a 0.9 m variation from that value for the height of 20 crates implying the uncertainty of a single wooden crate's height would be 2 m ± 0.045 m.

As for the pixel measurements, it is generally one pixel variation for a numerical measurement tool such as in image editors.

So calculating the overall uncertainty for TOTK Link's height gives a height value ranging from 1.67 m (5'6") to 1.78 m (5'10"):

Link's height = 1.73 m ± 0.06 m

[minteetho]

is this anything

[dandyleyen]

save me dragon girlfriend save me . dragon girlfriend save me 🐉

[hyrulesunflower]

in case anyone wanted a height comparison of ganondorf to link without spoilers.... 🥰

i did the firsthand research for you

spoiler references under the cut

keep in mind ganondorf bends his knees slightly at all times during battle, but in some cutscenes you can see him stand up even straighter. i took this into account

[shiorimia]

More adult Tulin 🦅

[dumbasssdoodles]

Short kings🫡🫡

[eowyn-igneelcheshire]

So I did some pixel measurements comparing Link to the 8ft tall gerudo to figure out his height and found that in botw/totk he's about 5'1-5'2.

using this information I found the heights of three things (people) I was most curious about then put said heights in a comparison chart and uhhhhhhhhhhh

this is terrifying

[maukiki1]

do NOT the tithi🙅

Ah hel naw they done yoğurmak my boy

-drew this a while ago forgor to post it :P

[caitthecakeee]

Ethereal love

I will choose you, now and everyday

lyrics translated to English, “Araw-Araw” (”Everyday”) by Ben&Ben.

[kazumi404]

THANK YOU HYLIA! LINK REPRESENTS ME!

4'9" 🤝 4‘11“

[jarino]

I wanted to make a height chart for Link and Sidon so I could have an accurate representation of just how big their height difference is. (Plus I wanted to feature my Link headcanons >w>)

This took sooo much longer than I anticipated because A) Sidon was a lot more difficult to draw than I thought (this is only my second time drawing him) and B) his outfit is much more complicated than I thought. Halfway through drawing him, I realized I probably should have just drawn him naked, like how Link was in his undies, but I'd already put so much work in at that point, I figured I may as well finish his garments... ;w; Also...I realized that at this angle, you can't even see Sidon's scar lmao. But it's fine! It's fine, ha...ha... OTL

Anywho! Enjoy! :D

Height chart is from here.

[mylonelydreaming]

*long post*

Why do npcs keep bringing up the topic of love to Link so much 😭

[fawkoff]

Links canon height and then how tall he’s next to Ganondorf :3

[scented-books]

Tauros hot so obviously he’s got to kiss Link on the forehead and give him his clothes

Tauro was a man that embarrassingly caught Links attention the moment that they met in Kakariko Village. He was tall. Most people in Hyrule were taller than Link, he’s always been a small guy but this man. He is a wall of muscle, smart and clearly so in love with what he does. It makes Link want to go back to the village time and time again.

[bloomingbluebell]

no i don't have a favourite link ahahaha what makes you think that *pointedly not looking at the copious amounts of evidence that says it's botw/totk link*

[littlefreakelio]

they're at the barbie premiere!