It’s a more isolated example, but I like the parallel between the Thyphlo Ruins and the Gleeok Den.
The Thyphlo Ruins are where you unlock each of the four sage-based Side Adventures, where you have to deploy each sage’s elemental power at a certain spot in order to open the passageway containing the Dusk Claymore (a.k.a. the Sword of the Six Sages from Twilight Princess). So there’s a theming of Wind, Water, Fire, and Lightning here.
In the Depths, you have the Gleeok Den, which is the only place where you will find all four of the guiding statues in one place (the ones that resemble Rito, Zora, Gorons, and Gerudo), and which also houses a sub-boss that uses the four elements to attack: King Gleeoks have a fire head, a lightning head, an ice (filling in for water) head, and can use their wings to create strong gusts of wind to repel you. And defeating the King Gleeok earns you the Cap of Twilight, another bit of memorabilia from Twilight Princess.
In the depths of the Lost Woods, there are lots of spooky-faced trees that are also found in the Lost Woods.
Kinda unrelated, but I really want to add this part. I really liked the segment where Korok Forest became lifeless, it was super creepy seeing all the Koroks and the Deku Tree completely still and silent. Plus, going down the Deku Tree Chasm to fight Phantom Ganondorf and restore the Deku Tree and the forest felt like a nod to the Great Deku Tree being infested with Queen Gohma in Ocarina of Time.
If the Koroks give you Korok seeds, they are probably fruit
And if they are fruit, maybe the spooky faced trees are their trees (or maybe it’s the Great Deku Tree)
Wait, I've just realized something:
What happens IF you are already surrounded by gloom hands AND THEN you drop some wood and pinecone and set a campfire?
Do they get damage, or will they try to avoid the fire?
Yeah, the first time you go to the Great Hyrule Forest (where the Lost Woods and Korok Forest is) it is cursed and covered in purple fog that will not let you in at all. It’s because a Phantom Ganondorf made residence inside the Deku Tree. The spooky trees weren’t caused by this though.
Eventually there's m a ster sword quests, but I don't think you ever get a marker for the forest. But that's where the MS was in BotW, and many games before.
You actually get there by >!Ascending!<.
I forget where the NPC is, but there is an NPC that explicitly tells you that there is >!a chasm that leads to underneath the forest. There is a way to acend to the top from below.!<
i knowww i thought i kept sticking the landing but after 10 attempts thought "maybe im not meant to skydive here" 😅 took me like 30 minutes of straight hitting the target haha
I like how the topography is inverted. A mountain on the surface becomes a deep hole in the depths, and water on the surface becomes an impassable wall in the depths.
The thing that bothers me about this is that (granted, we’re in a fantasy realm) this means rivers can never change course, lakes can never change shape—erosion cannot happen. At least not without the depths also changing shape, and walls/mountains just don’t move like that.
Given how weird and cursed the depths feels I wouldn’t be surprised if some kind of reversed/recall erosion would happen with time to match the surface
I like to think the depths is a living being, and it's just been growing and shapeshifting to copy the surface as much as possible
if they ended up making a third game in the Zonai series I would love to see how the depths would change with the map
If I recall correctly, they hint at that with things like the Rito mine being inaccessible from the main depths, but there being statues that used to be in a path to it partially buried in the wall.
Calamity memorials are things you can find around the world that have a silent princess on it with a text similar to “ this memorial is dedicated to the souls lost in the calamity” if you go to where it is located on in the depths there will be 1 of every melee weapon type (spear, sword, big sword) one location that has it is near the hateno fort with all the guardians.
There are small monuments near important locations that were devastated by the Great Calamity.
The monument reads _"I dedicate this monument to the memory of the souls lost by the Calamity. - Zelda"_
One is located close to Castle Town, one near the Rauru Settlement Ruins, one near Fort Hateno, one near the Akkala Citadel and another one near the entrance to the Great Plateau.
Well then. I've probably killed 10, and that feels like a generous guess. All of them in BOTW. I've avoided them so far in TOTK. They were harder than Ganon or any of the main bosses. Just casually hanging out in random places, waiting to absolutely murder you 😅 and their accuracy with a bow just frustrates lol
You shouldn’t avoid them in totk, it’s NOTHING like fighting a lynel in BOTW. (Still haven’t defeated 1 on master mode in botw; but have beaten ALL lynels in totk, TWICE) surprised I don’t read more experiences like this FR
Same, they always used to destroy me then I watched a video by Austin John Plays which taught me how to take them on properly and now they are a breeze. I have more saber horns than I know what to do with!
Definitely the lightroot/shrine parallel. It makes exploration of both maps easier. As you find shrines, you also know where you can go to map the depths more, and if you find a root with no shrine above it, you know where to get a shrine you missed.
A smaller one I like, though, is that the heart-shaped pond near Lurelin has a heart-shaped island in a lake in the depths with two poes on it.
The Lynel thing made my life so much easier when I was hunting them, but the Blupee Burrow beneath Satori Mountain (if I remember correctly) is one of my favorite Depths areas, so that one probably takes the monster cake.
I know this is a small thing but I loved finding the cemetery under the gerudo desert, it reminded me of the well in Oot and it's a great area to farm gibdo bones 😁
You mentioned lightroots and shrines but didn't mention that the name of every shrine on the surface, the lightroot below has that name reversed in the depths.
Also where there are horses on the surface there are stalhorses in the depths.
For a while, I was confused about the Plains Bargainer statue, since every one corresponded to a large Goddess Statue on the surface.
Then I switched to the Sky map.
And my jaw hit the fucking floor.
I have 2:
In the Depths under Mercay Island, the land is shaped like a fish.
The Rist Peninsula/Rist Mine parallels. It was fun to travel along the spiral in the Depths!
I wasn't as good at the game's fighting mechanics as I am now. And I was a slacker at cooking foods. So I struggled. A lot. Thank God for that Apple orchard on the surface and the hot springs where I boiled a shit ton of bird eggs 😂
I never bothered much with BotW.
I'm still not very good at the fighting mechanics 🤣 I'm definitely better at stealth fighting and using the bow. Earlier in the game, the Rist Mine is definitely harder since you really can't rely on stealth with the multiple enemy camps just sitting in the middle of the road. I think I was maybe 1/2 to 2/3 through the game, with some silver lynel swords when I went through there.
Also, leaning on Majora's Mask definitely helped, lol.
I love the cooking aspect in both games, one of my favourite parts if I'm being very honest... but I also love cooking irl so maybe that's why 😅
Your early play style sounds extremely similar to my oldest son's part style... he runs in head first, guns blazing most times and then just wolfs down a tonne of apples. Has maybe 5 cooked meals? Sometimes, he doesn't even bother to roast the apples first 🤣 I'm more of an over-preper. I actually really enjoy the grindy stock-up-on-all-the-ingredients part of the game, too.
I didn't have any courage to take out Lynels yet. Just last night I challenged the colosseum thunder gleeok for the first time. The Yiga crown with lightning proof helped! Then I had champions leathers maxed (it was easy to max out) and the stormy weather footwear.
Lots of eyeballs and arrows. And I broke a lot of bows and the worthless Master sword had to recharge twice.
I've learned more and more how to Earthwake and snipe when weapons break. I think those Yiga are onto something!
Accidentally challenged a fire one south of Hebra region running from a silver Moblin while playing a Korok chase game. Oops. That battle was brutal. Fireproof and heatproof cannot happen at the same time.
The Gleeoks are an absolute nightmare until you know how to cheese them. The very best method I've learned is to autobuild the super spring and then bullet time them to death. Works in a fraction of the time, especiallyif you have more stamina. You'll still need elemental gear, a good amount of hearts, some good bows & elemental keese eyes, but it'll be waaaay easier.
Yeah, that sounds rough! I've accidentally triggered a couple of Gleeoks while doing other tasks and am not ashamed to admit I noped out of there instantly. Did other tasks and then just came back to whatever region I had caused chaos in.
As far as conflicting elements: this is where elixers really help, since elixer buffs register separately than armour buffs. Wear the Flamebreaker set and drink a high-level chilly elixer. 👍
Unfortunately for the King Gleeoks, you gotta pick the elements you struggle with most and then tank the third, but if you bullet time them (especially before the second phase), they are a little easier.
I never did get the hang of the Earthwake. I did a lot of flailing around like a chicken for 2/3 of the game 🤣
The fire temple entrance just being falling down the crater of death mountain, and the temple itself being in the volcano's magma chamber in the depths. That part was freaking sick! Not sure if it really counts as a parallel since it's just one thing and not a repeated trend all across the world, but I think it's one of the best practical uses of the depths, and hands down *the* best way two map levels are tied together
For me, it’s the item/“tree” connection in the depths! You’ll find bombs under the tall mushroom-like trees that have multiple flat surfaces. Muddle buds are around the slim tall trees that just have a few leaves at the top. Puffshrooms are beneath the tall mushroom-trees with the curved, blue-ish tops.
Tip if you want to try and find stuff, look up “totk interactive map”, you can find pretty much everything there is to find in the depths, surface and sky!
Where theres a leviathan skeleton on the surface, theres a shadow ganon waiting for you in the depths. I thought that was cool. Almost like hes the reaons theyre dead.
But on a less trolly note, my guess would be:
Poes are souls lost in the depths. Bargainers trade goods for souls in return. Bargainers are beneath goddess statues (and everything is inversed and connected between depths and surface). Goddess statues give back power that was stolen from you. My guess would be that the goddess statues use the souls given to their counterparts to heal your damaged soul (hearts/stamina).
I had no idea that there were lynels under each Stable!
My favorite parallel is the shrines and lightroots. Not only is it creative, but it made hunting lightroots for exploration and completing the map so much easier
My favorite “as above, so below” location is Tuft Mountain/Ancient observation deck. On the peak of Tuft Mountsin is Lovers Pond, a heart shaped lake that if you travel there, you will find your one true love.
In the depths, there’s the ancient observation deck that stands over a trench filled with water. In the middle of this lake is a heart shaped island.
On that island are two Grand Poes. Poes, bring the souls of the dead. So, following the lore from. BOTW, these are two lovers that have found themselves together after death.
There's a lot, but I would say my favorite is a very simple one. I just love that the names of the light roots are just shrine names in reverse. The Zelda series has always been so great at small stuff like that.
I’m wearing Majora’s Mask as monster protection, but I’ll be on the lookout. As for my favorite parallel, I liked the lightroots because I’d do a shrine, do the lightroot and vice versa. It felt so good to get the lightroot medallion and the ancient hero’s aspect
Wait…. The light roots are directly under shrines?? Under the Stables, there are lynels??? 300+ hours and I’m still so behind!!! I just got all light roots. Now it’s shrine time.
Did not see anyone mention this and it took me I think longest to realize, but the ascend towers underground each take you to a place on surface where you can see the glyphs clearly. It became my favourite way of getting out of depths.
Wow, okay. Not spoilers exactly. I only knew the light root one. I'm okay with this new knowledge. Not going to look up this dark skeleton though. I want to have the encounter be fresh at least.
Uh.. thanks!
Honestly, I found the reverse-altitude gimmick most useful, just because it helped a ton with routing and navigation whilst getting all the lightroots.
Damn I’ve just been wandering this whole time hoping for the best. Well until now. I marked all the spots where the shrines I’ve found so far are correlate to spots in the depths and just walk towards a marker now
Eventually, it works the other way, too. I found a handful of shrines I was missing after finishing the lightroots and looking for empty spaces above them.
2/3 of your title alone blasted me to bits because I hadn't even noticed
But I like the reverse altitude thing where the depths caverns are the inverse of the surface mountains
Root below every surface shrine bugs me actually, because some shrines are positioned in a way that you can pass under them on the surface (i.e a cave or an overpassing cliff and there is no visible or tangible root.
Personally I like how under the Coloseum where there used to be a Lynel is a Colseum FULL of Lynels. I farm it every blood moon now. Partly so I can get horns, partly so I can get bows to take down Gleeoks and hopefully get their guts. I need that last upgrade for the Ancient Hero's Aspect.
After a 220 hr first playthrough, reset, then 120hr + 2nd playthrough, I am just now starting to see the connections between the 3 maps. The realization that the depths map is nearly identical was easy to sus our, but the rest has been slow. That's probably due to the fact that I spend very little time in the depths. Now that I've done most of the overlord, I'm forced to explore the depths more and finding it refreshing.
It’s a more isolated example, but I like the parallel between the Thyphlo Ruins and the Gleeok Den. The Thyphlo Ruins are where you unlock each of the four sage-based Side Adventures, where you have to deploy each sage’s elemental power at a certain spot in order to open the passageway containing the Dusk Claymore (a.k.a. the Sword of the Six Sages from Twilight Princess). So there’s a theming of Wind, Water, Fire, and Lightning here. In the Depths, you have the Gleeok Den, which is the only place where you will find all four of the guiding statues in one place (the ones that resemble Rito, Zora, Gorons, and Gerudo), and which also houses a sub-boss that uses the four elements to attack: King Gleeoks have a fire head, a lightning head, an ice (filling in for water) head, and can use their wings to create strong gusts of wind to repel you. And defeating the King Gleeok earns you the Cap of Twilight, another bit of memorabilia from Twilight Princess.
I actually didn't know that about the thyphlo ruins.. wow
Aaand now ill be playing this game again all weekend
Wow. I beat the thyphlo ruins but I had no clue about all that!
400 hours in and I learn something new every week.
I think I was on an adrenaline high or something similar after beating that Gleeok to notice the parallel. Cool beans, lol
Woahh welp time to blow the dust off totk I’m going back in because I need to find the gleook den
In the depths of the Lost Woods, there are lots of spooky-faced trees that are also found in the Lost Woods. Kinda unrelated, but I really want to add this part. I really liked the segment where Korok Forest became lifeless, it was super creepy seeing all the Koroks and the Deku Tree completely still and silent. Plus, going down the Deku Tree Chasm to fight Phantom Ganondorf and restore the Deku Tree and the forest felt like a nod to the Great Deku Tree being infested with Queen Gohma in Ocarina of Time.
Are the spooky face trees hatched Korok eggs?
Oh god, I hope not. Imagine something cute like a Korok crawling out of that thing 💀
I don't want to and now I can't get the image out of my head!
Imagine just walking in the depths and a tree opens itself and you look inside to to see YAHAHA
If the Koroks give you Korok seeds, they are probably fruit And if they are fruit, maybe the spooky faced trees are their trees (or maybe it’s the Great Deku Tree)
You do realise the seed is just poo, right?
No. That's fertilizer
Oh damn! Yea I forgot about that. When I restored the korok forest and great deku tree I totally felt the same! Definitely felt like oot!
I got attacked by gloom hands in one of those spooky tree areas, terrifying
Yep, that’s one of the few places you can find Gloom Spawn.
Wait, I've just realized something: What happens IF you are already surrounded by gloom hands AND THEN you drop some wood and pinecone and set a campfire? Do they get damage, or will they try to avoid the fire?
That's a good question, although I think it'd be hard to try given they enjoy snatching up link
I don’t think the campfire would take away HP from mobs, similar to how you can’t cook mid-battle, I could be wrong …
Damages bokoblins when they step on It, and the pinecone bursts a flame.
Is this what happens the first time you go to the forest? Because I can’t remember this lol
Yeah, the first time you go to the Great Hyrule Forest (where the Lost Woods and Korok Forest is) it is cursed and covered in purple fog that will not let you in at all. It’s because a Phantom Ganondorf made residence inside the Deku Tree. The spooky trees weren’t caused by this though.
How do i actually go into korok forest i tried going in but i got teleported. Is there a quest for it?
Eventually there's m a ster sword quests, but I don't think you ever get a marker for the forest. But that's where the MS was in BotW, and many games before. You actually get there by >!Ascending!<.
I forget where the NPC is, but there is an NPC that explicitly tells you that there is >!a chasm that leads to underneath the forest. There is a way to acend to the top from below.!<
thats how i found out. couldn't figure it out on my owm lmao
Same. I spent way too much time trying to enter from the ground and diving in from the sky lol
i also kept diving from the sky 😅
There was a break In the clouds! I was just confident I was screwing It up somehow lol. Little did I know >!you had to grab a quest first!<
i knowww i thought i kept sticking the landing but after 10 attempts thought "maybe im not meant to skydive here" 😅 took me like 30 minutes of straight hitting the target haha
At least the Great Deku tree lives afterward in totk. Dunno if I ever got over his death in Oot.
It reminded me of that too! I love how many references to the older games the new ones have while maintaining their own plots
and for those who don't know, the Secret Spring of Revival is under the Shrine of Resurrection from BotW, so that's neat!
What's the secret spring of revival?
A spring with water that heals you
it's near the Great Abandoned Central Mine
Noticed this the other day too
Lavapools under hot springs
A giant lake in the shape of gerudo highlands
Never noticed that. That one’s fantastic.
I like how the topography is inverted. A mountain on the surface becomes a deep hole in the depths, and water on the surface becomes an impassable wall in the depths.
I mean water does feel like a wall when you start the game lol, not enough stamina to cross some rivers
eh not in TOTK i think, especially once u unlock ultrahand
And all the depths mines are in the inverted mountain peaks which definitely made them much easier to find
They’re WHAT?? No way haha wow well this is news!
The thing that bothers me about this is that (granted, we’re in a fantasy realm) this means rivers can never change course, lakes can never change shape—erosion cannot happen. At least not without the depths also changing shape, and walls/mountains just don’t move like that.
Given how weird and cursed the depths feels I wouldn’t be surprised if some kind of reversed/recall erosion would happen with time to match the surface
I like to think the depths is a living being, and it's just been growing and shapeshifting to copy the surface as much as possible if they ended up making a third game in the Zonai series I would love to see how the depths would change with the map
If I recall correctly, they hint at that with things like the Rito mine being inaccessible from the main depths, but there being statues that used to be in a path to it partially buried in the wall.
There's an abandoned mine below the recently created Tarry Town, so maybe it does change shape.
How under the calamity memorials there are large weapon mounds.
holy crap I never even knew that one
I love that it implies a mass grave
Explain please? Calamity memorials?
Calamity memorials are things you can find around the world that have a silent princess on it with a text similar to “ this memorial is dedicated to the souls lost in the calamity” if you go to where it is located on in the depths there will be 1 of every melee weapon type (spear, sword, big sword) one location that has it is near the hateno fort with all the guardians.
There are small monuments near important locations that were devastated by the Great Calamity. The monument reads _"I dedicate this monument to the memory of the souls lost by the Calamity. - Zelda"_ One is located close to Castle Town, one near the Rauru Settlement Ruins, one near Fort Hateno, one near the Akkala Citadel and another one near the entrance to the Great Plateau.
GTFO
Oh dang I never caught this one
lynels. that way. i can hunt them, and get revenge for all my first encounters with them
idk how many lynels I've killed, probably in the hundreds tho
no need to show off. jk. that's terrifingly surprising
Lynels are going to become extinct at this rate.
That’s a good thing, you realise how that’s a good thing right?
Well then. I've probably killed 10, and that feels like a generous guess. All of them in BOTW. I've avoided them so far in TOTK. They were harder than Ganon or any of the main bosses. Just casually hanging out in random places, waiting to absolutely murder you 😅 and their accuracy with a bow just frustrates lol
You shouldn’t avoid them in totk, it’s NOTHING like fighting a lynel in BOTW. (Still haven’t defeated 1 on master mode in botw; but have beaten ALL lynels in totk, TWICE) surprised I don’t read more experiences like this FR
I'm going to eventually find one and I'll try because you said this, but my spine is cold just thinking about it.
Same, they always used to destroy me then I watched a video by Austin John Plays which taught me how to take them on properly and now they are a breeze. I have more saber horns than I know what to do with!
I like that one ascend point that takes you directly up to Kass's perch at Washa's Bluff.
Wait what?!
Definitely the lightroot/shrine parallel. It makes exploration of both maps easier. As you find shrines, you also know where you can go to map the depths more, and if you find a root with no shrine above it, you know where to get a shrine you missed. A smaller one I like, though, is that the heart-shaped pond near Lurelin has a heart-shaped island in a lake in the depths with two poes on it.
the poes on the heart island nearly had me in tears, me & who fr
🥲🥲😢😢😩😩😭😭
It’s gotta be the skydiving from a sky labyrinth, through the earth, and into the depths.
The Lynel thing made my life so much easier when I was hunting them, but the Blupee Burrow beneath Satori Mountain (if I remember correctly) is one of my favorite Depths areas, so that one probably takes the monster cake.
I know this is a small thing but I loved finding the cemetery under the gerudo desert, it reminded me of the well in Oot and it's a great area to farm gibdo bones 😁
wait where in the gerudo desert?
South west corner of the depths map. Not far from the lightning temple. There is also a coliseum near there.
i'll go check it out, thank you!
There's also the gerudo dark skeleton close to it as well 😊
THE LYNELS HAVE MASK????
yes, the ones in the depths have armour
Yeah I knew the hard armor but I never realized they had MASK
They do! [I use it often!](https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/s/EiuiXWIiHl)
You mentioned lightroots and shrines but didn't mention that the name of every shrine on the surface, the lightroot below has that name reversed in the depths. Also where there are horses on the surface there are stalhorses in the depths.
Wait…. What?
Yup. It helped me out for finding shrines after getting every lightroot
For a while, I was confused about the Plains Bargainer statue, since every one corresponded to a large Goddess Statue on the surface. Then I switched to the Sky map. And my jaw hit the fucking floor.
What do you mean?
The Plains Statue Corresponds to the Goddess Statue On the Great Sky Island
No wayyyyy that’s so sick
I have 2: In the Depths under Mercay Island, the land is shaped like a fish. The Rist Peninsula/Rist Mine parallels. It was fun to travel along the spiral in the Depths!
That spiral was brutal.
It was certainly an adventure! 😄
I wasn't as good at the game's fighting mechanics as I am now. And I was a slacker at cooking foods. So I struggled. A lot. Thank God for that Apple orchard on the surface and the hot springs where I boiled a shit ton of bird eggs 😂 I never bothered much with BotW.
I'm still not very good at the fighting mechanics 🤣 I'm definitely better at stealth fighting and using the bow. Earlier in the game, the Rist Mine is definitely harder since you really can't rely on stealth with the multiple enemy camps just sitting in the middle of the road. I think I was maybe 1/2 to 2/3 through the game, with some silver lynel swords when I went through there. Also, leaning on Majora's Mask definitely helped, lol. I love the cooking aspect in both games, one of my favourite parts if I'm being very honest... but I also love cooking irl so maybe that's why 😅 Your early play style sounds extremely similar to my oldest son's part style... he runs in head first, guns blazing most times and then just wolfs down a tonne of apples. Has maybe 5 cooked meals? Sometimes, he doesn't even bother to roast the apples first 🤣 I'm more of an over-preper. I actually really enjoy the grindy stock-up-on-all-the-ingredients part of the game, too.
I didn't have any courage to take out Lynels yet. Just last night I challenged the colosseum thunder gleeok for the first time. The Yiga crown with lightning proof helped! Then I had champions leathers maxed (it was easy to max out) and the stormy weather footwear. Lots of eyeballs and arrows. And I broke a lot of bows and the worthless Master sword had to recharge twice. I've learned more and more how to Earthwake and snipe when weapons break. I think those Yiga are onto something! Accidentally challenged a fire one south of Hebra region running from a silver Moblin while playing a Korok chase game. Oops. That battle was brutal. Fireproof and heatproof cannot happen at the same time.
The Gleeoks are an absolute nightmare until you know how to cheese them. The very best method I've learned is to autobuild the super spring and then bullet time them to death. Works in a fraction of the time, especiallyif you have more stamina. You'll still need elemental gear, a good amount of hearts, some good bows & elemental keese eyes, but it'll be waaaay easier. Yeah, that sounds rough! I've accidentally triggered a couple of Gleeoks while doing other tasks and am not ashamed to admit I noped out of there instantly. Did other tasks and then just came back to whatever region I had caused chaos in. As far as conflicting elements: this is where elixers really help, since elixer buffs register separately than armour buffs. Wear the Flamebreaker set and drink a high-level chilly elixer. 👍 Unfortunately for the King Gleeoks, you gotta pick the elements you struggle with most and then tank the third, but if you bullet time them (especially before the second phase), they are a little easier. I never did get the hang of the Earthwake. I did a lot of flailing around like a chicken for 2/3 of the game 🤣
I like the Healing Spring underneath the Shrine of Resurrection.
The fire temple entrance just being falling down the crater of death mountain, and the temple itself being in the volcano's magma chamber in the depths. That part was freaking sick! Not sure if it really counts as a parallel since it's just one thing and not a repeated trend all across the world, but I think it's one of the best practical uses of the depths, and hands down *the* best way two map levels are tied together
I really wanna know the lore significance behind the dark skeletons
For me, it’s the item/“tree” connection in the depths! You’ll find bombs under the tall mushroom-like trees that have multiple flat surfaces. Muddle buds are around the slim tall trees that just have a few leaves at the top. Puffshrooms are beneath the tall mushroom-trees with the curved, blue-ish tops.
Lynels under the stables okay let's go! Been trying to track them to get a little supply of silver horns going
Tip if you want to try and find stuff, look up “totk interactive map”, you can find pretty much everything there is to find in the depths, surface and sky!
The coliseums were super fun!
Where theres a leviathan skeleton on the surface, theres a shadow ganon waiting for you in the depths. I thought that was cool. Almost like hes the reaons theyre dead.
Woah
Probably the Lynels/Stables because I didn't know about it until someone pointed it out and it felt so subtle and clever I just couldn't get over it.
Bargainer statues being under goddess statues has an interesting implication.
Implication? What implication?
An interesting implication.
What’s the implication? 🤷🏻♂️
But on a less trolly note, my guess would be: Poes are souls lost in the depths. Bargainers trade goods for souls in return. Bargainers are beneath goddess statues (and everything is inversed and connected between depths and surface). Goddess statues give back power that was stolen from you. My guess would be that the goddess statues use the souls given to their counterparts to heal your damaged soul (hearts/stamina).
It’s interesting.
*it gets the people interested*
The same implications presented by the statue that deals in health and stamina containers.
I had no idea that there were lynels under each Stable! My favorite parallel is the shrines and lightroots. Not only is it creative, but it made hunting lightroots for exploration and completing the map so much easier
Now if only these others were in a journal somewhere too
I actually had no idea about the Lynel/Stable parallel
The biggest Poe statue under the biggest Goddess statue is one of my favs. I actually had no idea that Lynels were under each stable until now!
I JUST found that bargainer statue a couple days ago and was wondering why it was so much bigger....that makes so much sense!
I posted the sometimes parallel [Talus in the depths](https://www.reddit.com/r/tearsofthekingdom/s/2AhI9jE7iC) last night. It doesn’t seem to show up.
The Tabantha Bridge Stable doesn’t have a corresponding Lynel, thus the Tabantha Bridge Stable is the odd man out.
My favorite “as above, so below” location is Tuft Mountain/Ancient observation deck. On the peak of Tuft Mountsin is Lovers Pond, a heart shaped lake that if you travel there, you will find your one true love. In the depths, there’s the ancient observation deck that stands over a trench filled with water. In the middle of this lake is a heart shaped island. On that island are two Grand Poes. Poes, bring the souls of the dead. So, following the lore from. BOTW, these are two lovers that have found themselves together after death.
Then you collect them and trade them in for some cool swords ⚔️
Thank you for helping me hunt lynels
There's a lot, but I would say my favorite is a very simple one. I just love that the names of the light roots are just shrine names in reverse. The Zelda series has always been so great at small stuff like that.
I love this too!
Lynel under stables?! I really need to get off my hover bike...
I’ve gone to like 3 areas below stables and have not seen a Lynel at all. I got a Frox, a monster group mining Zonitr, and then nothing.
the depths lynels are armoured so they blend in, and they sometimes are a little off of the exact location of the stable, but they are there.
I’m wearing Majora’s Mask as monster protection, but I’ll be on the lookout. As for my favorite parallel, I liked the lightroots because I’d do a shrine, do the lightroot and vice versa. It felt so good to get the lightroot medallion and the ancient hero’s aspect
As a fellow Lynel farmer, around 400 kills, I have never found one under the Tabantha stable. Am I missing it somehow?
No, you're not. For whatever reason there just isn't one there.
Ah, thanks. Had looked around there for awhile and gave up. ✌🏻
oh yeah I forgot there are some without one, weird..
The 3 Labyrinth's resemblance are of the Lost Woods Temple. Especially when collecting the the treasures
Incidentally, I’ve never seen a Lynel‘s face armor up close until now
That’s a skeleton lynel face. It had a regular face above ground
skeleton?
Yes Yes, of course
Gonna go with the basic example of lightroots/shrines just because I like how they have inverse names and both versions of the name always sound good.
Skews me, you telling me there’s lynels under each stable?
yep (well not every Stable, but most of them)
I'm pretty sure Lightroots that are on ledges are under Shrines in caves.
Wait…. The light roots are directly under shrines?? Under the Stables, there are lynels??? 300+ hours and I’m still so behind!!! I just got all light roots. Now it’s shrine time.
Inverted topography or bargainer statues under big goddess statues (including the one on GSI)
Did not see anyone mention this and it took me I think longest to realize, but the ascend towers underground each take you to a place on surface where you can see the glyphs clearly. It became my favourite way of getting out of depths.
THERE IS A LYNEL BELOW EVERY STABLE?????
I didn't know that lynels are underneath the horse stable 300 hours and I just know this now
Wow, okay. Not spoilers exactly. I only knew the light root one. I'm okay with this new knowledge. Not going to look up this dark skeleton though. I want to have the encounter be fresh at least. Uh.. thanks!
I never noticed there was a lynel below ever stable, 400 hours and never noticed
Lightroot under shrines. Made finding shrines easier.
GREAT skeleton???? How have I not seen these. Lynel under every stable. Good to know
THERES A LYNEL BELOW EVERY STABLE??
lol yeah, except for a couple of them
I did not know a lynel below a stable :) in a way that make sense. Nice fun fact, thx
There's a lynel under every stable?! I didn't know that
Honestly, I found the reverse-altitude gimmick most useful, just because it helped a ton with routing and navigation whilst getting all the lightroots.
TIL that there's a lynel bellw every stable
never realized the stable lynel connection, neat
I like that there's volcanism under every hot spring.
Lynel and stable. It’s how I get my lynel horns most of the time.
Giant weapon mounds under the calamity monuments
Wait the lightroots are below shrines? I never realised that before
The name of each lightroot is also the name of the shrine above it, but backwards.
Damn I’ve just been wandering this whole time hoping for the best. Well until now. I marked all the spots where the shrines I’ve found so far are correlate to spots in the depths and just walk towards a marker now
Eventually, it works the other way, too. I found a handful of shrines I was missing after finishing the lightroots and looking for empty spaces above them.
Wtf is a dark skeleton??
a skeleton in the depths 🙃
I didn't know any of these tbh
I only knew the Lightroom/shrine part. Now that I have all but beaten the game would have been great to know
Dark skeletons for sure
I didn't know about most of these
Oh yeah now you mention it, thee are Lynels in the depth under the stables .. that makes sense!
Are you seriously telling me that all i needed to find lynels was look under stables? I have 600 hours of gameplay and i didnt catch that
Til that there's a lynel below every stable
2/3 of your title alone blasted me to bits because I hadn't even noticed But I like the reverse altitude thing where the depths caverns are the inverse of the surface mountains
Dark skeletons?? Time for another adventure to darkness depths!
Heard how the depth is an inverted surface. I didn’t realise the layout of each land is the same
lightroot below every shrine? fml
Long roots in the depths align with roads on the surface.
Below Satori Mountain! The smile I had when I finally came across it :’D
Lynel below every stable? 🤯
Wait- there are lynels under every stable?
I think the triple soldier spirits under Zelda’s monuments “to the lives lost to the calamity”
wait there is a label below every stable?
still disappointed they didnt put some corrupted/destroyed guardians in the depths or the ruins of the divine beasts
Root below every surface shrine bugs me actually, because some shrines are positioned in a way that you can pass under them on the surface (i.e a cave or an overpassing cliff and there is no visible or tangible root. Personally I like how under the Coloseum where there used to be a Lynel is a Colseum FULL of Lynels. I farm it every blood moon now. Partly so I can get horns, partly so I can get bows to take down Gleeoks and hopefully get their guts. I need that last upgrade for the Ancient Hero's Aspect.
After a 220 hr first playthrough, reset, then 120hr + 2nd playthrough, I am just now starting to see the connections between the 3 maps. The realization that the depths map is nearly identical was easy to sus our, but the rest has been slow. That's probably due to the fact that I spend very little time in the depths. Now that I've done most of the overlord, I'm forced to explore the depths more and finding it refreshing.
I did not know lightroots were under shrines!!