10 Minor Unsolved Mysteries In The Legend of Zelda With Major Implications

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consistently wraps up the main storyline in each game by the end, with Link saving Hyrule — or another land like Termina — from the evil that's threatening it. However, that doesn't mean that every question that comes up in each game receives an answer before the finale. Some of those unanswered questions result in mysteries that could have major implications for the lore of the universe.

Although many mysteries that are left unsolved in games seem relatively minor, the implications they could have are much larger than they appear most times. Meanwhile, other mysteries simply leave an unending sense of curiosity that burns to know the answer. Either way, 's mysteries can make replaying games feel like a scavenger hunt for answers that usually won't be found, leaving speculation as the only way to sate the resulting curiosity.

Link learns the Song of Storms from a man in the windmill as an adult, who tells Link that a kid played the song in front of him, and he hasn't been able to get it out of his head since. So, Link then has to go back in time to when he was a kid and go play the Song of Storms in front of the man, so he can then be taught the song as an adult. This creates an endless time loop, which could imply that Link is stuck in an eternal loop of having to save Hyrule and Zelda from Ganondorf.

Link sets out at the beginning of with the intention of finding Navi since she left at the end of, having fulfilled the Great Deku Tree's request for her to guide Link. In the end, Link doesn't find any clues, even during the entirety of about Navi's location. However, leaving Hyrule means that Link would've searched for Navi there first, but not found any trace of her. And that leaves her location as a true mystery.

Theories suggest the Poe Collector is either a child in the Kakariko Graveyard, or one of Castle Town's guards prior to the timeskip, as both mention being interested in ghosts, though there's no hard evidence for either case. However, once Link is an