explaining the creepy details you didn't notice about the Depths
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Published 2023-05-23
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All Comments (21)
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My theory about the soldier spirits is that they're from Link's garrison of the Hyrulean army, and they won't rest until they know that they did their part to help their last living comrade free Hyrule by giving him the weapon they were using when they fell in battle. Just my theory, though.
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Once you realize that surface shrines are 1:1 with lightroots, it means that you can use obvious lightroots to find well-hidden shrines, and vice-versa. It's fantastic game design.
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The Godess Statues themselves are just empty vessels that Hylia graces with her presence and light when she visits to talk to link. That's why the bargainer statue only temporarily takes it over and not forever. Even the smaller bargainer statue underwater goes silent because it was only temporarily housing the main entity.
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for the bargainer statue controlling the hylian statue, during that same questline, how they describe it is less sinister and more using a friends cell to call you.
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There are always a lot of poes directly below chasms, which, in addition to being a cool design detail to prevent you from diving headfirst into the ground, also implies that a LOT of people have fallen into these chasms.
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Fun fact about the ghosts that hold weapons: if you point a camera at them, they vanish
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I dont see the Bargainer statues as sinister. Just a different aspect to the same entity, in this case, the Hylia statues. Just a hunch, but I feel like the Depths are the actual Purgatory where souls go before moving on (but poes are stragglers) So the Gloom reaching down there is truly sinister as this would mean Ganondorf's ascent would not only corrupt the kingdom, but the afterlife and all souls there
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For the viewers: don't kill your bow durability by shooting brightblooms. Just throw them.
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I have lit up the entire Depths and thought I had found everything but that lovers pond reflections completely went past me. I know some people complain about the Depths being barren but they are far from it.
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Not many have noticed as I cant find theories on it yet but the baraginer statues where you can see their whole bodies reveal a Ganon-like face on the back. I noticed when I went directly below the forgotten temple statue and thought I found Demise' true form's dead body and that giant statue has a Ganon face on its back as well.
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Another detail I discovered in the depths are these ginormous draconic fossils, which are located below the leviathan fossils.
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I wish the depths had more quests to them, except for like 3 and not just mostly the same abandoned mines everywhere copy/pasted and maybe a city with a new population.
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The depths as I recall are based on one of he possible fates in buddhism. They are the underground where the evils are condemned to, doomed to wander endlessly until they can reach a form of enlightenment. The poe's souls are these lost spirits. So, too, are the Yiga and Monsters down there.
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It's just occured to me how much the depths reminds me of the 'Upside Down' in Stranger Things. The otherworldly feel to it, the particles floating through the air constantly like ash, and now you've made me realise how the Depths mirror the surface world! To me it offers the perfect juxtaposition to the light, sunny sky islands.
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My read on it is it's an allegorical / lower "realm" from Buddhism / Shinto. That fits in neatly with the Sky Islands being viewed as heavenly. It's hell - just, not a Judeo-Christian kinda hell. Nintendo used something similar in The Ancient Cistern with Link traveling between the underworld, the "normal" world, and ascending with a key in the shape of Buddha. Which makes the Bargainer Statues a lot more neutral because they are, indeed, lost souls who do not move on to the next cycle of life.
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Personally, my theory is that the Depths are specifically the Old Hyrule from The Wind Waker, where after the sea began to dry up the Goddesses completely covered it with a new layer of land, effectively encasing the whole world in a hollow shell to quite literally bury the past.
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The Depths are by far the most exciting yet terrifying feature this game offers!
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The two souls at the heart shaped island are actually a reference to a quest from BOTW, where you get two people together there and make them fall in love.
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Such a missed opportunity, could you imagine walking in the depths. Pitch dark, all the sudden you're forcefully frozen and hear a horrifying scream. Only to see nothing but red glowy eyes coming towards you. Drop a bloom, and all you see is a re dead, jump on you then proceeds humping you till you die......couldve been some scary shit.
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the Gerudo, Gorons and Koroks all have settlements within the depths, and there are statues of all the species down there.. even a few unrecognizable ones (possibly zonai?) so I think it’s safe to assume the depths are just old hyrule. Not necessarily OOT hyrule though. I think in the current canon, older games are treated moreso as legends and stories more than actual historic fact.
