Zelda: TOTK Mysteries May Finally Be Solved Over A Year After The Game's Release

The upcoming may shed new light on lingering mysteries from, considering newly revealed information about the game. As further details about emerge and its release date approaches, intriguing hints of how the game may connect to the larger franchise have also come to light. While the mysterious rifts consuming Hyrule naturally attract attention, they should not distract from other parts of the newest trailer.

From what has been revealed so far, it is already clear that will be an importantaddition to the franchise. It places Princess Zelda in the lead role as the hero of her own story, finally delivering a “Legend of Zelda” game in the truest sense of the phrase. In addition to this, will naturally introduce plenty of new lore to the franchise, pieces of which have already been introduced and teased through trailers. Intriguing, some of these details also appear to connect back to.

Although Echoes of Wisdom makes some dramatic changes to the Legend of Zelda formula, this is actually the logical conclusion of a series trend.

A new ability revealed for , Bind, allows Zelda to move various objects around, even those too large for her to effect with the Echo mechanic. It is immediately clear that Bind is extremely similar to ’s own Ultrahand ability; not only do both abilities essentially perform the same basic function, but are even visibly similar; both send out a stream of vivid green energy which then surrounds the target object. These similarities could imply that Tri and the Tri Rod's abilities have a connection to the Zonai, or at least share a common origin.

Despite them being at the center of ’s plot, relatively little is known about the Zonai people and their history. However, their technology and abilities are more readily apparent, including the fact that they are the source of Link’s Ultrahand ability via Rauru’s arm. Now, the fact that Tri grants access Zelda to an extremely similar ability may provide evidence to a strange piece of Zonai lore, namely