Zelda: Breath of the Wild's most ridiculous lore theory is back for Tears of the Kingdom

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Ganondorf's return in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is bringing back one of the wildest lore theories from Breath of the Wild, and it all comes down to a tiny piece of tapestry.

In Breath of the Wild, there's a tapestry that depicts events 10,000 years prior to the start of the game, where an ancient princess and hero battle alongside the Divine Beasts numerous others to seal away Calamity Ganon. The tapestry appears in Impa's house in Kakariko Village, and it figures into Kass's song about Ganon's ancient defeat.

Since the series usually revolves around different incarnations of Zelda and Link, the blonde princess and Master Sword-wielding hero in the tapestry seemingly makes it obvious ancient versions of the two heroes were working together to defeat Ganon. There's just one problem: why is the hair of this ancient "Link" red? Why does he have an extended nose? Why is his skin green and blue? Actually… Why does he look so much like Ganon?

The idea that Ganon would be fighting another form of Ganon is pretty goofy on its face, and it's broadly been accepted that the tapestry just takes some creative liberty with Link's appearance. But now that we've gotten a very Ganon-centric Tears of the Kingdom trailer, the floodgates of debate (opens in new tab) are opening themselves back up (opens in new tab).

Admittedly, the theory does pretty much come down to "that guy looks like Ganon," so there's not much to pick apart here - and in fact, the game's discussion forums have been so clogged by these hot takes (opens in new tab) that pretty much everyone (opens in new tab) is getting sick (opens in new tab) of it.

There are two things worth bringing up, though. First, the Zelda in the tapestry has somewhat darker skin