#sorry to ramble and complain but after a year of totk being out this is how I feel oops

[bugcatcherwill]

Something I realized while playing age of calamity it kinda confirms this but many don’t talk about it

Sidon is the descendant/sibling to mipha

Teba is a warrior/champion of the future rito

But yunobo and riju are descendants too

Meaning yunobo is daruk’s son and riju is maybe urbosa’s granddaugher

But now this is where I don’t understand and a lot of people wonder too: the TOTK sages

- all the sages are around by the creation of botw/totk’s hyrule beginnings when the zonai are around and when ganondorf of botw/totk was sealed

- meaning there are many years and possible calamities that happened before the one that took place 100 year before Beath of the wild and link’s ‘death’

- why I’m bringing this up as in the events of botw the champions family that survived the calamity lived on like yunobo and sidon were probably born or kids by the time of the calamity and now 100 years later are teens/adults (yunobo is called goron youth so I’m assuming he is a teenager)

- now here is were we have to question the sages they all tell Sidon, yunobo, riju and tulin they are related to them

- but why them you would think the sages offspring and their descendants like the zora royal family, goron chiefs, gerudo chiefs and rito chiefs all would be sages or access to save abilities

-but dorphan, mipha, daruk and urbosa and riju’s mother don’t seem to show sage abilities same for teba tulin’s father

- so why did the sages awaken in Sidon, yunobo, riju and Tulin when they could have for the champions 100 years ago?

Totk takes place 2-3-4 years after botw, heck they could have awaken during the events of botw

So why only now and why skip so many generations that could have used the sage’s powers like the great calamity which need I may add WAS CAUSED BY GANONDORFS SEALING you would think oh if Zelda says the seal will start coming undone resulting in her family to use sealing magic to hold it back before fully unsealing by totk we should give our descendants our magic to aid the hyrule in Zelda’s time royal family keep ganondorf sealed and keep the calamities from happening

But no they just waited many many years and 102-3-4 and show up when ganondorf of botw/totk finally broke free of the seal

See now why this is confusing what are your thoughts

Wait hold up you bring up a good point.

I'm honestly gonna point to the fact that ToTK story-wise felt..........kinda rushed and half-baked. Like it sucks to say because there were some parts of it that I really enjoyed! Zelda's whole arc fucking HURT and a lot of the more subtle shit of seeing how Hyrule's changed in the past 5 years is really good! But then they just.........fumble when it comes to the sages...

It's one of the pitfalls that come with not necessarily "retconning" the past, but adding more to it to try and connect it to the present.

I'm gonna say it's an unfortunate plot hole that resulted from the devs wanting ToTK to feel like a completely separate adventure so people who didn't play BoTW wouldn't miss out while..............still making it a sequel to BoTW. It's times like these that make me scream at Nintendo from the rooftops OTL

Also GOD this is making me think about how much I'm changing ToTK to both make it like...fit better as a story and ALSO fit it with how my current canon is progressing.

It's honestly such a mess that I really plan to have the aftermath of The Upheaval stay the same and then change......SO MUCH MORE.

But that's the fun part of writing :)