Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Sky Islands Could Be Good News for the Leviathans

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While players have been looking to the skies as The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, it seems that a new opportunity to better explore the Leviathans was hiding right beneath Link's feet and is now freshly unearthed thanks to the sequel's floating islands. Despite potential links to previous Zelda games such as Skyward Sword'sLevias' uncanny resemblance to the Eldin Great Skeleton or the similarly whale-like Wind Fish in Link's Awakening, the Leviathans' only confirmed canonical appearance was their introduction in Breath of the Wild. But just like the mystery of the Zonai, there was little for players to discover.

As a result, a sequel to Breath of the Wild presents the ideal opportunity to revisit just a few of these mysterious loose threads across the game's lore. Given their enormous scale in Zelda both figurative and literal, one of these threads ought to be allowing players to explore the Leviathans' history in greater detail, even if their backstory is not integral to the main plot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. To go beyond Breath of the Wild's three skeletons, Tears of the Kingdom and its sky islands could expose hidden caves below Hyrule and some Leviathan archeology.

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Though Breath of the Wild gave more than enough to explore across its open world, there were still some limitations such as the lack of underwater or subterranean exploration. Since the likes of caves and lakes hiding secrets have been commonplace throughout Zelda and their absence felt for Breath of the Wild, it was hoped that Tears of the Kingdom could explore more than just the sky. What was therefore promising was the recurring sight of underground areas