BOTW Lore: Who Really Created Guardians & Why
One of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's biggest mysteries centers around the origin and true nature of the enigmatic and dangerous Guardians. The game's most infamous enemy by a wide margin, the Guardians were first introduced in BOTW's original teaser trailer back in 2014. The creature is sometimes stationary, other times moving on its own, but is always waiting for Link to pass too close so it can incinerate him with its laser eye attack.
The Guardian is a large creature in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous. They're incredibly fast, and even if the player manages to get a good distance on them, their laser attack will quickly close that distance for them. They're often guarding Sheikah towers, Zelda: Breath of the Wild's many hidden secrets, or are just placed randomly so that the player can't get too comfortable when traveling.
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One of the secrets to why the Guardians are so intimidating in Breath of the Wild is the fact that the player is told precious little about them in terms of who built them and why — at least at first. The secret origin of the Guardians and the other Sheikah artifacts are things the player has to go looking for, just like everything else in this game. But the answers are there, if the right conditions are met.
Throughout Breath of the Wild, the player will find spots that give Link a bit of his lost memories back, giving greater insight to the context of what's going on in the story. This sidequest is how the player learns about Link's old comrades, his relationship with Princess Zelda, and of course, the nature of Zelda: BOTW's Guardians themselves. Not only is this how the player is
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