The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s best fan theories... so far

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Nintendo finally delivered fans the long awaited name for the next mainline Zelda game on Tuesday: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It will launch May 12, 2023 on Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo first teased the game all the way back in 2019, where a trailer showed what might be a very dehydrated Ganondorf. In summer of 2021, we got a deeper look at the game which showed us Link’s new powers and his luscious locks. The most recent trailer from Tuesday’s was largely cinematic and showed a lot of ancient carvings. Now, fans are putting together the pieces of both to develop theories about the new game.

It’s just fun to speculate and pick the trailer apart for possible connections to previous Legend of Zelda games. So, we decided to round up some of the biggest and most thought-provoking fan theories we’ve found so far. Again, none of this is confirmed news, but it’s a great way to see what fans are getting excited about. As we get closer to release, we’ll continue to update this list with all the cool stuff we see as more information comes out and fans formulate new ideas.

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, we encounter scattered ruins from an extinct group of people that once occupied the lands of Hyrule. They are referred to as the Zonai, but we don’t know much about them other than that they made some of the landmarks seen in the game, like the dragon carvings and some of the ancient architecture.

Z… Z… Zonai? pic.twitter.com/IVUCSIexz5

Any theories relating to the Zonai got a lot more plausible following a gameplay showcase Nintendo showed on March 28. That’s because one of the main theories, that the new game would have some connection to the Zonai, was confirmed. In the footage of the game, we see