Talk:Zelda's Hidden Genocide/@comment-26480939-20200211041643

Okay, as a big Zelda fan, I feel like I need to critique this theorypasta:

I think the fanbase has overall accepted the whole 'civil war' thing in OoT. I also noticed some similarities to the backstory revealed near the end of WW. Ganondorf actually admits to wanting to live in/conquer Hyrule (it's somewhat ambiguous as to which one, as this version of him is Older and Wiser) because he was envious of Hyrule's life-bringing winds, as opposed to the Gerudo Desert's wind which only brought death and suffering.

By 'Japanese booklet' do you mean Hyrule Historia? That did get an English translation around early 2012. (And trust me, I special ordered the book from a large bookstore in a nearby city about an hour away from where I live, so I would know.)

Also, the 'execution' scene you mentioned came across (at least to me) as the actual execution attempt failing, and the Sages banishing Ganondorf to the Twilight Realm as sort of an 'Oh, Crap!' backup plan. I don't think the Sages knew that he couldn't be killed and were kind of panicky at that time. When you're in that state of mind, you don't really think rationally. Plus, we see him kill the Water Sage, so that probably also contributed to their panic.

This also kind of clashes with later releases such as BotW, as the Gerudo still live on in that particular instance of the timeline. (Granted, I've heard that it's heavily-implied to be the as-of-now final game in all three timeline branches, because of all the many references to past titles in topography/geography.)

I don't really agree with the theory myself, because I usually tend to agree with the 'official' position on the series lore. But you at least tried a different approach to explaining this, and that's more than I can claim.

But in honesty, I have to rate this as a 5/10 Average, but still a good read.