Fujibayashi EXPLAINS the Missing Sheikah Tech!!

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Published 2023-10-18
The Sheikah Tech just vanishing out of thin air in Tears of the Kingdom has been a huge mystery since it's release. About a week ago, Fujibayashi talked about the Sheikah Technology and its disappearance. Here is what he said, and we will discuss his answer in this video.
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All Comments (21)
  • @Mobtrapper-hq8is
    All the towers and more than half the shrines originally rose kid of the ground, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they just sunk back down, never to be seen again.
  • A problem I found is that he said the tech disappeared instantly, yet in the BoTW ending zelda says vah ruta has a problem and went to investigate, so either vah ruta having a problem was it preparing to despair or they disappeared later. Also here's an another problem, in age of calamity we can still see every piece of sheikah tech is present after the ending so it's another weird thing. Also this feels like a lame explonation, sure I can see the shrines going down but the towers, beast, and guardians don't make sense, unless they teleport into a mountain or something
  • @Lordcamilli
    Let's not forget that Sheikah tech is not only ancient divine beasts or shrines, but also what robbie and Purah who are sheikah, develop. So you could say that the ancient tech dissappeared since it had fulfilled its purpose (Including for example, the Sheikah Slate) but still new Sheiklah tech could both be (and have been) developed and preserved until it fulfills IT'S role and it's no longer needed.
  • @RetroJack
    I prefer the explanation that the Sheikha simply stripped them for parts when creating things like the sky view towers, etc.
  • @andreaa.4446
    I bet broken guardians remain. the remaining ones were harvested for parts used for purah pad and towers. All active guardians disappeared so it was safer to scrap the broken ones for research and development
  • @wingwall7892
    How do the divine beasts just go kapoof when they serve their purpose this time but not 10,000 years ago in the last calamity? I think Fujibayashi made it up on the spot and they dont even really know why
  • @LunaP1
    The real answer should’ve been that the Shiekah tech was dismantled and repurposed, minus the shrines. The shrines disappeared like the monks since they fulfilled their purpose.
  • Actually, I think you solved one question with another. It seems most likely that the decayed Guardians actually didn't disappear, and the ones near Fort Hateno were probably salvaged by Purah and Robbie in order to create the tech that remains.
  • @Radien
    Although I'll acknowledge its a kind of cop-out, I don't see why people have such an air of disbelief at the idea that Sheikah tech could vanish into thin air. Not only have we been shown that Sheikah technology is perfectly capable of making things disappear into thin air IN Breath of the Wild, but Tears of the Kingdom even utilizes an actual gameplay mechanism where the Zonai devices dematerialize after they have been "used up." I believe the Sheikah learned to tap into a similar resource as the Zonai, and were capable of making machines that disappeared after they had "served their purpose." Apparently that function was so deeply rooted in them that even most of the totally destroyed ones just vanished, given enough time after the Calamity was gone (though, as we've seen, it may have taken years). The Sheikah tech that remains is mostly stuff plundered, dismantled, and reassembled by Purah and Robbie's team. It's possible they deactivated the mechanisms which would have caused the devices to dematerialize after their purpose was served. This could have been done inadvertently, but I'm sure Purah and Robbie would do so on purpose if they figured out what such a mechanism was for. The majority of the people of Hyrule may not know or care to know what happened to the vanished Sheikah tech, but I suspect Purah and/or Robbie know. They just haven't bothered to educate everybody about it, for whatever reason.
  • @Kayclau
    My headcanon is that after the Calamity was stopped, time started to catch up to them. Like, they were magically sealed in time, but now the seal has been broken. Surely some of it got better preserved than the rest and that got repurposed and some of what we see might even be recreations of the ancent Sheikah tech.
  • @adamfischer4841
    The guardians probably didn't disappear, maybe even the divine beasts didn't. I think it's a good explanation for the shrines and towers because we saw them rising from the ground, which means they can probably go back. I think that the explanation for the sheikah tech that is in totk is that after the calamity the people of hyrule wanted to make sure that the sheikah machines (guardians and divine beasts) will not become evil again so they disassembled them. Purah and Roby used the parts of the disassembled sheikah tech to build the new towers and Purah pad.
  • Maybe the Sheikah tech had some kind of mechanism build in that was able to remove it after Ganon cannot be detected anymore. The reason why the decayed guardian did not disappear could be because Robbie removed or deactivated it while taking it apart for his studies. The Purahpad did not disappear cause it did not had this mechanism build in.
  • @lunamoth105
    But this still doesn't make sense for shrine of resuraction becouse it is used to revive one person at a time and it doesn't matter if there is ganon or not
  • This explains the shrines and towers, but not the guardians I have a good theory though - during the first calamity, ganon possessed the guardians, leading to Hyrule's defeat To avoid a repeat, the people of Hyrule likely disassembled all the guardians and used them for parts (eg. skyview towers)
  • @browncow5210
    I think the Purah Pad and Sheikah tech at Lookout Landing were simply created based on the old tech. It had no reason to disappear. The decayed guardian is a tougher one, but it could be that Nintendo just left it there as a nod to BotW.
  • @Skoc90
    Why didnt the jiga found anything about it
  • @garylefebvre2456
    Zelda’s the culprit! After sealing Ganondorf’s spirit and its influence (malice), anything that Ganondorf’s malice had effected, vanished with him, so she did and/or causes a butterfly ‘like’ effect, 'cause Zelda can manipulate both time & space. And anything that aided the Hylians against Ganondorf’s spirit, which was some of the Sheikah tech, stayed.
  • @krismm1659
    All the sheika tech that was connected to / touching the ground disappeared which is why the one on top of the tech lab isn’t gone. The sheika slate stayed behind because it had another purpose other than to protect the people or to aid the hero; it was also meant to function as a way to accumulate knowledge for the hero and the royal family for the future. Or because it housed minaru’s spirit which prevented it from disappearing. Just my thought ✌🏻