 Hi, I am Nathaniel Rumpel Jansen. I am your boss man from Zelda Informer.com So first off you'll notice I'm back in my kitchen, which we haven't revisited since episode one or two Today's episode is kind of a quick and dirty Just get it out there get it done with I didn't have time to set up my usual Usual studio situation. However, the lighting is a lot better in my kitchen than it is When I'm trying to do it in other areas So that's a bonus, right? Also because this episode is being thrown together so quickly because I'm on a bit of a time constraint this week It might not feature as much Quality editing as you're used to But hey, I have something I want to talk about and I want to get it out there and give you guys a solid episode this week And that would be why link is a hunter and gatherer in Zelda you or the Legend of Zelda for Wii U This week's episode is a personal theory of mine I don't really have any factual evidence to suggest that it's true Only the evidence that we've seen so far in the given video footage So link was a hood in Zelda you at least so far in the footage We've seen he has a little hoodie and a lot of people have associated this with being a ranger Add on top of the fact that he uses a bow and arrow and that's featured really heavily It's just naturally assumed that archery is in his background in some way and that the background of link the character in This game might be more closely linked to a ranger of sorts that might have something to do with the Gerudo tribe I don't necessarily agree with that. Although. I think it's a really interesting concept Really, I think that he is a hunter and gatherer for whatever village be it for the Gerudos or the Hylian Hylians or Whatever local village I create from they tend to create a new village for link rather frequently in the game whether it's the Kokiri is not creative time or Man, what was the name that that village in in Twilight Princess? I for some reason can't recall right now There's also outset Island and the Wind Waker So they tend to create a new village for him to come from in every game And I think that he's a hunter and gatherer for that village Now why do I think he's a hunter and gatherer and what would be his role or his point to be a hunter and gatherer? If you look at the history of the world hunter and gatherers Before hunting became a sport like it is today back when we actually needed hunting and gathering to survive as a people Hunter and gatherers were the food suppliers for your colony or for your Town or your little village or just your own personal family Someone would go out and they would hunt wildlife be it by spearfishing You know shooting on the bone arrow or a spear deer Picking berries picking apples whatever the case may be there were hunters and gatherers And they would go out and collect the food that their family or their village would then consume This is before domestic Cation became a thing before we had farms be the farms growing wheat or Cows or pigs You know we just it was what long before domestication of animals existed That that's that's something I want to mention specifically because in Zelda you I don't think that domestication of animals is necessarily a big thing In fact, Zelda you is one of the first games or animals and wildlife are featured rather vividly in the world In fact, we've seen a lot more wildlife than we've actually seen enemies and that's surprising In the past all we've seen is like insects and little little bugs and stuff like that But here we have full full grown animals from goats That we saw in the reveal trailer To deer to horses Point is we've seen quite a bit of wildlife in addition Miyamoto himself brought up that apples grow on trees and that link can pick them and eat them And that kind of brought up an idea in my mind that I wasn't sure how to phrase until now And that was that link to hunter and gatherer You have all this wildlife out there and you have Apples that grow in trees that could be berries that grow in bushes We haven't seen that yet, but it could be a thing It could be pears that grow in trees bananas a whole bunch of whatever they want to put in the game really And link could either could be gathering those to either consume them or save them for consumption Or be hunting wildlife to also save them for consumption or maybe even collect crafting items Like pelts and stuff to actually further advances gear Now we've seen some of this in the past in this all series, especially in scoured sword Where you would collect larvae and various insect and enemy pieces you would use that to craft Upgrades to your gear and I think hunting and gathering is actually a more natural way to pursue that And it could actually make sense logically that link is a hunter and gatherer Because domestication of animals doesn't appear to be a big thing Now in the reveal we got to see that there was kind of looks like a villager and you know A house kind of all by some of the ram so you could say that maybe there's some herders out there But herding isn't exactly the same as domesticating animals Herding and it still happens in certain parts of the world today. The animals are kind of free They can leave anytime they want they are they're wild But they kind of tend to stay together because these they pick out animals like sheep and stuch That like to live in packs and like to live in herds and then we direct those herds, you know, whether it's by Human commands or a dog or whatever in the case we kind of direct them to different areas to eat and feast and then you know Eventually we shear them to create clothing or you know, we kill them for food And over the years, you know, we started the fence in some of the domesticating and try to make it A bit more well as I said a bit more domesticated But back way back when that wasn't the case it would just there were sheep herders and that's what they would do They would they would be herding animals and the animals were free and could literally leave They generally stayed together because they like to be a pack And plus when they stayed together there was also and they stayed next to your master There was a lot less chance of like wildlife like wolves and such consuming them because the humans would chase them off You bring that into the world is all to you we have yet to see any sort of Domestication of animals beyond the potential of herders So herding herding still existed when hunter and gathering was still a big thing It was just kind of the initial beginning of trying to gather up all of one type of creature or one type of animal So you wouldn't have such a hard time hunting them down Or letting them get killed off by other wildlife So herding can exist while there's hunter and gatherers And with all the wildlife that's out there Link could easily just be someone who provides food for his family or for his local village And that's his backstory now. He always seems to have a really simple backstory Uh, you know, there are some complex ones like an ocarina of time how he was left To the great duke tree by his mother Uh, that left open, you know a whole world of possibilities for what happened How how his mom ended up dropping off link with the great duke tree for protection, but our deku tree. Sorry But that that gets kind of besides the point I think link's a hunter and gatherer because the game itself suggests that he does hunting and gathering and one person brought up to me when I mentioned this topic that A fan actually when I got in a debate with them over something entirely unrelated I mentioned about hunting and gathering. They said it might be too violent for the Zelda series. I just wanted to toss that aside Link has stabbed ganondorf in the head stabbed him through the chest kills multiple enemies all the time Captures insects and collects their larva Link does this kind of stuff Pretty frequently in the Zelda series So I don't think hunting is necessarily out of the realm of possibility even though you're killing wildlife Because killing wildlife as a hunter is kind of an accepted An accepted normal in the world we're in today Hunting is a sport and has been kind of a sport for a while And it's widely accepted across the globe. Obviously, there's some Some animal activists That think it's wrong in some ways. I think nature should take its course And I think they often forget that we as a people are part of nature and we're animals ourselves So as the pecking order goes we eat the animals. So we hunt the animals But yeah, hunting is kind of the wildly Widely accepted across the globe and it isn't really viewed as this ultra violent thing So the fact that link could shoot a deer with an arrow and then maybe go and skin it quick Um, isn't even something that would give the the game an M for mature kind of rating because it's natural. This is something that happens out in the real world It's frequent frequent and it's accepted It's not viewed as evil as it were Like gun violence, you know walking into a school and shooting up kids That's evil that if that was in Zelda where link would go into a village and kill a bunch of people That would give it like an M rating but hunting wildlife To survive and to to eat Wouldn't be a big deal now So I'm saying well, what about the heart system where you cut grass and get hearts? Uh, that could still be a thing and obviously the hearts aren't going anywhere. It's a staple in the series But you know link drinks potions and and that kind of stuff to restore hearts So what's what's a big deal if you eat some apples or you know cuts down or you know kills wildlife And it doesn't even have to be to restore health But that's just the most natural effect is that oh geez I need some hearts, you know Let me let me kill kill this deer over here and restore myself Um with some nourishment So that that's kind of my theory this week the links of hunter and gatherings all to you I firmly believe that this is going to be proven to be true. Um, by you know around you three times So, uh, yeah, what do you think do you think links of hunter and gatherer? Do you think he's just like a ranger that's protecting his village or that he's a messenger type? Or do you think he's kind of a free spirit that he just camps out and Isn't he just does what he has to do to survive more so than being a hunter and gatherer specifically for For his family or for the town he's from so let me know Uh below in the comments otherwise you could check me out on Twitter at Nate jance. You can also follow Zeldin former on Twitter at zeldin former follow us on facebook slash facebook You can subscribe by clicking up here somewhere on the corner There's a little subscribe icon for youtube automatically puts on that you can click and subscribe to our videos Uh, you can also Check me out and zeldin former out on meverse We started a new weekly feature in the past week called meverse highlights And you have to comment on a post that we make there once a week And you know to respond to our question and draw a picture and all that stuff And uh that my my user account on that is zelda informer. I will include a link in the description Um, I'm called z.i. 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