 Before we get into today's video, I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and if we can get there by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we'll give away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom, the pin set, the art book, oh boy this actually matters because the art book is part of today's video. Now what I want to warn you guys about going into this is this video does contain potential spoilers. Now it's a theory which is why we can have the title and the thumbnail the way it is but it is based around you know things that we've seen in the trailers but also things from the art book and you will see a few imagery things from the art book here so I'm just warning about spoilers for those wishing to avoid them. Now first off I want to note that this deep dive analysis was actually performed by a guy named placebo yes that's his username with two eyes over on the Tears of the Kingdom reddit and I am going to put a link to his full thread because he added some additional comments that you guys can sort through in the comment section down there and maybe ask him some questions specific to this stuff. So basically the running theory right now when it comes to Tears of the Kingdom is that there is some form of time travel and Link himself travels between two time periods, a current time period and an ancient time period and people believe that there's a lot of evidence to support this. Now one thing to note is obviously the differences in the way that link looks right we see him in just more traditional stuff then we see him in what looks like some sort of ancient Greek godlike attire right we've seen this in the trailers already this isn't new information but that doesn't really mean time travel because there's so many different costumes but what we do have in the art book is a look at a map that doesn't match perfectly with Hyrule today and actually looks a bit older a bit more ancient as it were. So first time we have this map comparison of Breath of the Wild Hyrule versus Ancient Hyrule and you'll see all the various circles lining things up except with water borders instead of a canyon border but still you're seeing this what looks like an older map of what Hyrule used to be like now he does note in his analysis here the ancient map is in the map room and it shows generally shallower topography in every region it's also somewhat stylized rather than a perfect representation like the Breath of the Wild map even so there are many differences 10 000 years may it not have been enough time passage to explain these changes so that's just obviously a running theory and you're seeing that right here but when we move on to the next analysis he does this is where we get into some some stuff here again I warned you there's spoilers it talks about ancient people in their tech and these people potentially being a time period we visit a long time ago so there's like the zonai armor set possible confirmation that the gauntlet is zonai tech again we don't know for sure obviously this is all theories and analysis this isn't necessarily anything mystery of the Ra Roo race aka the zonai so this character that you're seeing in the middle has a name in the art book as Ra Roo and you guys will be able to make the connections all you want for that but for this analysis it goes into the mystery of Ra Roo says Ra Roo was a sage in Akrino time the old man with the mustache or the owl statues and carvings depict other members of this race besides Ra Roo and clearly part of the ancient time tells in the clothing and shared presence on the stone mural with the other ancient woman basket now that's not the name of the actual woman it's describing the basket she holds but we'll get into that a little bit later now says right hand only has a bracelet with the jewel stuff and we notice that if you look at the image in the middle that's exactly sort of like what Link's arm looks like so there is a connection there of some sort now the ancient era clothing and style includes cultural markings and triangle decorations belt straps and necklaces shared design languages big thing to notice though is the ear length all of the ancient people seem to have much longer ear lengths so that that's what's going on here now the mystery of the hand on Ganon's chest only link in Ra Roo seem to be wearing the gauntlet the hand on Ganon's chest has metal parts jutting out Link's gauntlet does this too Ra Roo's doesn't however the hand is much larger than a human hand conclusion the hand is a character we have not seen yet or else this Ra Roo art concept and it's missing some gauntlet details so it's either Ra Roo's hand or it's a character we just haven't seen yet all right so moving on to the next batch of images here we see architecture from the ancient past so again we're looking at this art stuff and everything just kind of looks like things from a long time ago so we seem to have ancient Hylian stuff going on with lots of square shapes and writing patterns and then ancient Zonai as well and you can see a lot of Aztec and animal themes in these designs mini diagonal shapes etc again this looks like from a bygone era all right next up we have the time powers of the golden gauntlet again these are analysis not necessarily facts but freeze Ganondorf for a thousand years uh you can see possibly reversing time in one of the trailers with the teardrop and link going up uh stopping reversing time on the spike wall reversing time on a fallen piece of land there's other time manipulation references as the images notes such as the appearance of sky islands with ancient tech all over them trailer music played in reverse local spins counterclockwise longhorn bokeh blends from stone carvings appearing in post breath of the wild high rule and uh you know a plateau or whatever shown intact in trailers all right next up we have this sort of timeline now this is a theory of course this is a a really popular theory happening amongst all the fans right now on a possible timeline trying to connect everything together that's happened between breath of the wild tears of the kingdom and in the past so none of this is factual i don't want to dive too deep into this timeline because there's a lot there again go check out the reddit thread if you want more speculation on this stuff but it just basically goes into the ancient zonai and ganondorf and then part of tears of the kingdom happens and then before it happens before the first calamity uh and then breath of the wild happens in between and then there's the part of tears of the kingdom that happens after that the breath of the wild event so that's the basic explanation there's a lot of other fine details in there if you want to dive further again go check out the reddit thread it's it's really interesting so last part i wanted to feature though was the logo analysis so this again is by this reddit user and it says there's two dragons not one is traditional in the auroboros because a lot of people have been doing the whole auroboros thing the dragons eating each other except that's only one dragon usually not two there's other symbolism for two dragons in a circle in other cultures as well but this obviously is a non-traditional representation and they don't appear when the logos uh you know appearing and and doing this little thing during the trailers uh that they are actually eating each other uh maybe they're working together and they are circling counterclockwise and not clockwise like in most depictions uh the sword is in two forms as well a corrupted metal and complete in art form the art matches the ancient style showing that the sword will be repaired with ancient tech possible in the ancient time maybe we'll see or just shows that in ancient times the the sword was actually complete and now it's no longer complete there lots of speculation there is there one link or two the reason for two links uh post breath of the wild an ancient is there two zelda's two dragons in the logo dragon symbolize courage is personified by link gameplay takes place over two full maps separated by a long time it serves as a narrative reason for ancient link to start with no gear or extra hearts or is there a time traveler link they look the same other than the clothes and hair so the two different depictions of link do look very very similar other than hair and clothes you know what i mean like that's uh hey if you look exactly the same except for the style you're wearing probably the same link just one ganondorf healthy and thousand-year-old mummy logo could mean same link acting at two different times zelda's heritage or cream of time in a oracle of ages both have the same link time traveling wind waker had a brief time travel segment as well and obviously you know time travel has been a theme in zelda many times ancient link quote unquote has short ears whereas all of the ancient haidians have long ears which is something to point out because link today has short ears haidians today have shorter ears but ancient characters have long ears so it may be just more proof that link time traveled so that's sort of where the time travel theories are right now based on the art book and stuff there's some other time travel theories out there as well they go much deeper but maybe don't have as much supporting evidence so they just sound really cool i just wanted to throw this out there and see what you guys thought about this we don't do a lot of theories on this channel i'm not even pretending that this is mine full credit full credit going out to placebo over on the tears of the kingdom red thread get go check it out go talk to him go ask your questions and do your deeper analysis i just want to hear your thoughts if you think time travel is actually a mechanic in this game again it is something that nintendo has used in zelda's past now i want to thank you guys for tuning in this has been a great video i got a news video coming later today we got an update on f0 coming to nintendo switch that's really excited uh so we got we got that coming and a few other pieces of news out there for you so you guys are awesome and amazing remember to smile hug a loved one today let them know that you love them because we don't always do that enough and i'll catch you in that next video