With info on the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as uncommon as Coccu’s tooth, each snippet or trailer is pored over, torn aside, and minutely inspected by avid followers, like conspiracists decoding the most recent Q-drop. Here are a few of our favourite fan-theories from yesterday’s new trailer, together with the title reveal, Tears of the Kingdom.

Often, folks’s theories of discoveries hidden inside the meager particulars Nintendo launch are primarily based on wishful pondering, vivid imagining, or outright silliness. But it’s at all times fascinating to look over them, hoping to identify the nugget of fact, and the odd few concocted with eagle eyes. Here’s the trailer, completely filled with little particulars, glyphs and different fan-baiting detritus, so that you can forensically dissect.

My favorites are at all times the jpegs coated in crimson circles and features, which appear like they’re going to conclude with proof of a shooter on the grassy knoll. (Imagine your personal Charlie in Always Sunny gif right here.) Here’s a mighty tremendous one from Reddit consumer WhatWasThatHowl, which purports to show a number of crossovers with Twilight Princess, particularly the existence of Twilis and their Twilight Realm.

Lots of people are assuming the title says “Tears” as in crying, however what if it’s “Tears” as in rips in actuality? It’s price figuring out that the primary Breath of the Wild closely featured ruins from a prehistoric tribe referred to as the Zonai, although the sport by no means actually defined any of it. And in an earlier Tears of the Kingdom trailer, Zelda suggests the timelines are being mixed. So, the poster above speculates that since this new trailer is now displaying off the identical historical ruins and connecting them to the Twili from Twilight Princess, then it follows that the Zonai are descended from them. Where’s my crimson string?

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Of course, when you begin digging into Zelda timelines, a migraine isn’t far-off. We know there are three separate ones extant at this level, every having cut up from Ocarina of Time; the so-called “Adult Timeline,” “Child Timeline,” and contradiction-restoring “Fallen Hero Timeline.” Or, as I prefer to put it, “They just started random stories with the same characters, and then tried to retrospectively force it into some kind of sense.” Anyway, none of this issues an excessive amount of, on condition that the official The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Creating a Champion e book states that, in line with the Zelda Fandom website, “everything before the Breath of the Wild backstory has faded into myth.”

Reddit consumer Lentoron managed to seek out the situation of a scene from TofK’s trailer within the unique BotW, confirming the sport is ready at the least partially on the identical map.

But in fact we additionally know that the sequel will function lots of sky-based antics, with floating islands and Link with the ability to glide about between them, Green Goblin-style.

Isac Morandin on Twitter scoured the background particulars of the trailer particularly rigorously, and noticed this unusual inexperienced swirly-whirly patterns poking up from the bottom in varied locations.

My concept: these shall be launch pads, that when stepped into will fling Link up into the air, for him to them paraglide to the brand new areas above. We actually noticed one thing related in 2021’s trailer, the place Link turns right into a droplet and floats upward (seemingly in reverse?).

You’ve additionally obtained lots of people recognizing the brand new system on Link’s hip:

The hottest concept on-line is that that is to comprise these tears, the dominion ones. Which would in fact slightly put the kibosh on that “rip/tears” concept. (Which by no means labored anyway, because the Japanese title makes use of 淚, which means crying tears.) During the trailer you see the identical object, however solely half-full.

And speaking of tears, kudos to IntentStudios on Reddit for this “Oh yeah!” second:

In extra wishful pondering territory are varied theories that try and match obscure shapes or twisty patterns with absolutely anything from the historical past of the franchise. At this level it’s principally a Rorschach check that claims extra concerning the poster than the vanity. Here, as an example, is the determined hope {that a} barely seen blur (that’s more than likely one of many platforms Link surfs elsewhere within the trailer) could be one of many scrapped ideas for a Divine Beast from BotW.

Others recommend a dragon, however, y’know, it’s most likely only a platform.

Now, this one I’m down for. The final crossover. I’m sure that is proper:

And to complete, this isn’t a concept, however it’s too lovely to not sneak in. Twitter consumer and pixel artist Kaimatten one way or the other generated this murals, primarily based on the sport’s cowl artwork, only a few hours later:

Make certain to press play, as a result of as beautiful as it’s nonetheless, it’s one thing else when animated.

We are nonetheless additionally attempting to determine out if maybe we’ll get to play as dry daddy Ganon or if we’ll lastly run round as Zelda, however I’m certain it’s essential to have your personal cockamamy theories to share. Stick ‘em within the feedback beneath.