#brightbloom seeds

[daeyumi]

Penumbra 🌑🧿⚫️

[linksartt]

i found brightbloom seeds !!!!

[kiltons-monster-manual]

In talking about fun, unconventional things to do in Tears of the Kingdom, I discovered this video not long ago: Light Up The Temple of Time I did it myself... just spent a long time throwing my masses of brightbloom seeds around the interiors of the windows of the Temple of Time, even climbing up inside the towers to make a lit cathedral. IT ACTUALLY WORKED! It's amazing! And the coolest thing about it is that the brightbloom seeds, as far as I know, are a permanent fixture. The only place where they'll disappear are in places in the depths were the Little Frox (or as I like to call them, Little Fuckers) hang out because those assholes eat them. I need to gather more brightblooms because I just plain sold a lot of them lately, but I want to try doing this to a patch of forest to see what happens.

[linksbestcompendium]

Well, he was angry. Sorry for the pause fans but I had to escape and lay down. Nervous was not the correct description for that Gleeok. Thankfully while recovering I've still been able to take an awesome picture of some Brightbloom seeds.

[someones-disaffected-niece]

I unironically really thought I was gonna be able to knock tf outta that frog like that 😂😂 All I got in return was a very judgy glare from Yunobo 😭😭

[thenewsupertony]

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA COMPLÈTEMENT TOKÉ - GRAINES LUMOS / BRIGHTBLOOM SEEDS

À l'image de ma première série The Legend Of Zelda BREF. Of The Wild...

Après de très nombreuses heures passées à arpenter Hyrule en long, en large et en travers dans le jeu vidéo The Legend Of Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom, je peux aujourd’hui résumer en quelques souvenirs des moments qui ont marqués mon aventure.

Je ne sais pour les autres joueuses et joueurs de ce jeu, mais durant mon aventure, j'ai eu l'occasion de récolter, pardon, d'amasser un nombre quasiment infini de Graines Lumos, ou de Graines Lumos Géantes.

J'en avais tellement, qu'à force je ne savais plus quoi en faire...

De fait, je pouvais utiliser les Graines Lumos à tout bout de champ. Ce qui me permettait de donner aux Profondeurs de la Terre des airs de discothèque !

L’illustration des Profondeurs de la Terre a été réalisée à la main, à l’aide de mon fidèle Stylo Bic® Noir.

Le logo The Legend Of Zelda COMPLÈTEMENT TOKÉ est une parodie du nom original du jeu. Ici TOKÉ signifie : Les moments un peu fous de mon aventure, tout en reprenant l'abréviation TOTK.

What Else ? Collection® est l’emblème duquel j’affuble mes dessins de type caricatures.

[rotisseries]

do you like. the depths. of totk. (i do!!!!!)

i LOVE the depths they're very cool. freaked me tf out at first but then I just spent an entire weekend going around and getting all the lightroots which DOES take away some of the cool factor from it because now it's not creepy but it's still so interesting to look around

[kof-xiii]

i keep forgetting the sky islands exist actually bc im sofuckig mesmerized by the gotdam lightroots underground like LETS LIGHT UP THIS BITCHHHH im literally trapped underground bc im having a fullbody experience in this dark ass jungle in the basement of hyrule

[iiryebreadii]

totk is a horror game not just because of You Know What (which also came at me out of nowhere AGAIN today) but also because. good heavens I nearly had a heart attack from something that attacked me down in the Depths

[baileyboo2016]

ROBBIE WHY DID YOU GO ALL THE WAY INTO THE DEPTHS I ALREADY JUMPED INTO A CHASM LOOKING FOR YOUR ASS AND THEN THIS MONSTER THING SHOWED UP BUT IT WAS LIKE FIRE AND I LOST MY SHIT AND WARPED THE HELL OUT OF THERE

[pitchblackespresso]

Well-studied

For Zelink Week 2024 Day 3: Blooming

@zelinkcommunity

Comics master post

[vkr-kayne]

im lowkey confused by ppl struggling to have enough arrows in totk, like they r in nearly every crate and barrel!!!! which u can simply drop with ultrahand to break!!!!!! and the mechanic to throw materials is right there :^(

[movingtothemoon]

so i see no one else jumped down an evil hole right after the tutorial and just stayed down there to just hang out with this cool statue

[alithographica]

As promised, welcome to

Fun biology in TOTK’s designs

I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.

Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.

(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)

Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.

PLANTS

Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)

In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often

Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.

Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK

Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(

I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.

Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers

All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.

Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia

Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.

These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.

Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.

These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.

Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia

Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.

Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.

There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.

Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay

Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)

Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy

I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY

Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.

Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia

Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.

MISCELLANEA

Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.

Real photo via Bernard Spragg

Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.

ANIMALS

Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.

Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.

Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!

Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."

I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.

Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia

Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.

Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.

That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Trying to distract myself without making it worse but that's really hard because things in TV can really quickly become things I get paranoid about or start thinking are real

Suddenly very scared I'm gonna have a psychotic episode

[lidoshka]

In the dark

Wild is trying to figure out where they are. The slate says it's their Hyrule, yet this is a totally new and unexplored place.

Meanwhile Legend has a bad feeling about this.

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There you have it (I changed it a little bit to fit the #switch prompt for #LUtober), here are the last three members of our valiant group of heroes!

Four, Warriors and Time - Rulie, Wind and Wolfie

Thank Hylia these three have items that can give them a bit of light because Wild has yet to encounter brightbloom seeds. ;)