Origins of Majora and the Fierce Deity (Zelda Theory)

A common practice used by Nintendo in the Zelda games is to hide the more mature and darker themes within the backstories and have the player read between the lines, this is appropriate for a children's franchise, however, in the spirit of halloween and the fact that I'm a mega

zelda

nerd who spends all my free time complicating

zelda

's story. I'm going to delve into the backstory of one of the creepiest Zelda games to date, Majora's Mask, and more specifically, the origin of Majora and the

fierce

deity

that exists. There are already plenty of theories about the backstories of these two characters, but screw it, I'm going to propose a new

theory

darker than any I've seen on the internet.

I'm your host, Andy, and welcome to Zeldum's Halloween special. In fact, it is known about the

origins

of Majora and the

fierce

deity

, which makes its mystery even more interesting. In order to uncover the detailed stories of these two skins, I'll have to do a little reverse engineering and start with what we know after Link's first three. The day's cycle ends with him retrieving the Ocarina of Time and reuniting with the happy mask seller after finding out that Link didn't get the mask and freaks out and tells Link the following: The mask that was stolen from me is called Majora's Mask. . a cursed object of legend said to have been used by an ancient tribe in their hexing rituals.

It is said that evil and evil power is granted to the wearer of that mask. According to legend, the problems caused by Majora's mask were so great. The ancients feared such a catastrophe, they sealed the mask in shadow forever preventing its misuse, but now that the tribe of legend has disappeared, so no one really knows the true nature of the mask's power, there are two important details in the What to focus on here: The first and most obvious is that the mask innately has mysterious and immensely dark powers, you can tell that what the happy mask salesman said about massive power is true because we see that the mask possesses the innocent child sequol and gave him enough dark power to destroy the great fairies throughout the transform cafe terminal. from adult to child and even causing the apocalypse, the second thing that seems important to pay attention to is this ancient unknown tribe that supposedly used this dark power within Majora's mask for malicious rituals.

Now we turn to the question of who this ancient was. Tribe I've seen many other fans theorize that this ancient tribe is actually the group of dark interlopers mentioned during Twilight Princess who were banished to the Twilight realm to a point where this makes sense. The dark inner intruders were a group that had become corrupted. by their desire for power and learned to use powerful black magic to establish dominance over the sacred realm, eventually though they were banished to the Twilight realm, which could explain why the ancient tribe that the happy mass sellers talked about disappeared. mysteriously in the twilight princess, it is also established that one of her relics that embodies her dark magic is the fuse shadow.

If we inspect the design of the fuse shadow, we notice that the eye is identical to the design of the eyes on Majora's mask. Coincidence, I think it might actually be a coincidence. because the eye designs are the same and there are holes around the mouth area, everything else is completely different, everything done by dark intruders and twilight are soft with more complex designs and the only colors used are black , red and science fiction. Green, in contrast, Majora's mask is covered in spikes and has a wide variety of bright colors. Furthermore, there may be many other explanations for the disappearance of the ancient tribe, so the banishment of the interlopers is not necessarily proof, since I just published a video justifying it.

The events of Majora's Mask were actually a link dream. I'm looking for a solution that can be valid regardless of whether the events of the game are real or not, so if the ancient tribe that wore Majora's masks was not Twilight who it could have been before continuing, I would like to point out that I do a lot of theorizing. similar to this one here on zelda, so if you are interested so far, go ahead and leave a like on this video, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications. You'll know when we upload more theories like this.

In the land of Termina there is an ancient group whose history seems to align with the little we know about the ancient Garrow tribe, a clan of shadow ninjas who were sworn enemies of the ancient kingdom of Aikana when in the presence of the gossiping gero he tells link that i can't see it but i feel there is a bloodlust around us so far it seems possible that the gyro used

majora

's mask with malicious intentions but we will have to explore the story further depth of the gyroscope before we can draw conclusions. The spirit of aigo stu akana, the late king of aikana, hints that this stone tower was built by the garrow as a fortress of operations or a house of rituals. also supported through master gera who all the gyero spies report that he lurks in the stone tower How is garrow's establishment above the stone tower relevant to Majora's mask?

You may be wondering that inside the stone tower temple there is a rather important statue that resembles some kind of monster. horned face, however, once gravity is reversed and we see the temple upside down, we can see what this statue really represents. Majora's Mask is now upside down, we can see the heart shaped body with the spikes protruding from the bottom, although a piece of the bottom of the statue shape has crumbled off the shape of the top. of the road perfectly completes the missing piece of the statue if you think that interpreting this statue as Majora's mask is crazy, do I have news for you?

There are even unmistakable images of Majora's mask everywhere. the stone tower temple i think this is solid proof that gyara's spies not only used

majora

's mask but made it a central component of their bloody omens now that we have traced the history of majora's mask to the ancient existence of the gero, but there is still a mystery overall, the happy mask seller said that the ancient tribes sealed the mask and the shadow to avoid a catastrophe. We have concluded that the gyro was this ancient tribe and that they used the mask of majora and even idolized her powers, so why suddenly? fear it and seal it they must have figured out what link and title they made at the end of the game the mask has a mind of its own somehow the gyro must have started to notice that majora's mask casts spells of its own will rather than the intent of her rituals and They realize that they cannot control their power.

Many masks in the game are said to contain the spirits of someone dead, and since Majora's Mask possesses its own black, sentient magic, it is more than likely that the mass contains the spirit of a powerful being. It's time to solve our general question: who is the spirit that inhabits Majora's mask? To answer this, we will have to refer once again to legends, but in this case I will refer to the legend of the four giants told by Andrew's grandmother, who looks so old. She could have lived during the period of legend just like the queen anyway here are these stories from a long time ago when all the people were not separated into four worlds like they are now in those times all the people lived together and the four the giants lived among themselves on the day of the festival that celebrates the harvest the giants spoke to the people we have chosen to protect the people while we sleep 100 steps north 100 steps south 100 steps east 100 steps west if you need it Call us in a loud voice, declaring something like that the mountain blizzard has trapped us or that the ocean is about to swallow us, your screams will lead us to us.

Now there was one who was surprised and saddened by all this. A little imp. The imp was a friend of. the giants before they had created the four worlds why you must leave why don't you stay the childhood friend felt abandoned so he spread his anger throughout the four worlds repeatedly he hurt all the people overwhelmed by misfortune the people sang the prayer song to the giants who lived in each of the four directions of the compass the giants heard their cries and responded with a roar oh imp or imp we are the protectors of the people you have caused pain to the people oh emp leave these four worlds, otherwise we will destroy you emp he was scared and saddened he had lost his old friends the imp returned to the heavens and harmony was restored in the four worlds and the people rejoiced and worshiped the giants of the four worlds as gods and they lived happily ever after or didn't they?

The image shown in the game implies that this imp of legend was Skull Kid. However, let's not take this at the surface level. Skull Kid's story in the game's plot seems to line up perfectly with the legend that he was friends with the four giants. but when they left, he felt alone and abandoned. The skull boy is even reported to have played countless pranks on the citizens of Clocktown, which also led them to refer to him as an imp, the same term used in the legend despite these parallels, I don't believe. that this imp of legend could be the skull boy, it is said that the legend occurred a long time ago, so the skull boy would have to be eternal or some kind of deity that can live forever to have survived eons without even aging.

Come on, do we really think this little guy is powerful enough to survive for that long? Additionally, we know that the skull children are native to the lost forest in Hyrule, as we see many of them there in Ocarina of Time, so the skull child being the imp of legend just doesn't seem to add up, fortunately, the Calavera boy is not the only character who has a clear parallel with this legend. Majora, also known as the spirit within Majora's mask, also demonstrates a similar narrative after Majora's mask is revealed. to the title of Lincoln having a mind of his own and that Skull Kid was simply his puppet, he flies to the moon and Link is transported with him, it becomes apparent almost immediately after reaching the moon that Link is in some kind of reality alternative. formed under the influence of the mask we can assume that the interior of the moon is an alternative reality not only because of the strangeness of everything that happens inside but also because of the fact that some citizens in general claimed that the moon had no face Before this we can assume that the evil moon phase in the world inside the moon reformed the power of Majora's mask once inside the moon Link is located in a beautiful field with a bright blue sky and in the middle of the field there are a hill with a On a lone tree, he finds four children running around the tree, each wearing the remains of the mask of each of the monsters encountered in the game, finally finding a fifth child curled up in the fetal position against the tree. with Majora's mask when he talks to this child he asks him that everyone has left. far away, right?, and he continues to ask slowly: will you play with me here?

The link isn't just talking to a creepy kid inside an illusory realm, he's talking directly to Majora, who is subtly conveying his true emotions, we can deduce that from everyone's quote. It's gone, isn't it? Majora feels alone and abandoned, but she waits, is it possible that the imp described in the legend of the four giants was actually Majora instead of the skull boy? We know that Majora is a powerful being, so she makes sense. that could have existed in ancient times, the impressions of abandonment that Majora transmitted on the moon could have been caused by the four giants.

We also know that when the skull boy destroyed the great fairies and transformed caffeine into a child, he was under the influence of the Majora's mask, therefore it was actually Majora who was harming these people just as the legend says and on top of all this there is an official artwork of Majora's Mask 3D showing the four giants around the boy on the moon wearing Majora's mask right now. I think we have discovered enough information to conclude that Majora was the imp from the legend of the four giants. Once again, we are left with another question: how did a mask become a legend in which people cry out to giants to save them?

Then the giants wake up and threaten his old friend for causing people so much pain, telling him to leave the world, otherwise they will destroy it. The amp is then struck by fear and even more pain and is said to have returned to the heavens, but this really happened because if this is true, then where did Majora's Mask come from? As far as we know, there is only one way to turn people's spirits into masks. The songof healing when the people of Termina cried out to the giants for help. He must have faced a dilemma, it was his duty to protect the people, but at the same time this imp causing chaos was his friend instead of destroying the imp, also known as majora, as the legends say.

I think they are trying to save both the people and his friend. by bellowing what we know as the healing song according to the happy mask seller the healing song is a melody that cures evil magic and troubled spirits by turning them into masks there is no better example of a troubled spirit than majora felt like this Alone and desperate , he couldn't help but let that unbearable pain turn into rage when the giants sang the song for all of Termina to hear. I believe this healed Majora's sorrows and sealed his spirit and memories of him in a mask.

Jorah's mask, whatever it was. By no means was Majora the only troubled spirit when the giants came to help the people, but Jor is said to have caused a lot of suffering among the people, so it is more than likely that many people died as a result of his anger creating many spirits. troubled and this. This is where I think the fierce deity comes into play. In fact, very little is said about the fierce deity's mask in the game; In fact, the belief that the fierce deity was a real character is just an assumption since the other three transforming masks in the game contain the spirit of other characters.

The only real information provided comes from the game's one-sentence description of the mask on a single gossip stone. This gossip stone claims that the Mask of Fierce Duty is a Mask that contains the merits of Fall Masks. This is quite ambiguous and can be interpreted in many ways, but luckily the game's lead director, Aishiya Nilma, gave a more specific meaning to this in an interview with the game's tipster when she asked who the soul is inside the fierce dd mask. Aonuma. I said the best I can give you is just a suggestion, the best way to think about it is that all of Termina's people's memories are inside the fierce dd mask so people's memories are inside a mask and their spirits are too. .

They must be sealed inside the mask and as I mentioned earlier, it was the giant's duty to help the people of Termina and shouting the healing song for everyone in Termina was the solution to save both the people and Majora and with all the Devastation. caused by Majora there must have been many people who lost their lives and many others suffered when the giants sang this powerful melody, not only did it heal Majora and seal him in a mask, but it also did the same to the deceased people of Termina who had been wronged by Majora instead of having their spirits and memories all become a hailstorm of individual masks across ends, it is possible that all of these troubled and even angry spirits merged to form the fierce deity mask with the combined spirits of All of these people, the resulting amalgamation of a spirit must have been powerful and they all had one thing in common: they had all been destroyed by Majora's wrath.

Every time this mask was worn, the user could be bombarded with the memories of all the people. people that Majora had inflicted and could develop a strong will to protect the remaining people from such a catastrophe or become corrupted by the spirit's vengeance. This explains why the game suggests that the fierce deity masks dark powers that could be just as bad as Majora. We have finally gathered enough information and interpretations to arrive at an origin. To summarize the story of Majora and the fierce deity, I will tell it in the style of the Terminian legends. Eons ago, the inhabitants of Termina lived in harmony and lived among the people.

They were the four giant guardians who had a small but powerful friend, an imp named Majora. However, when the giants decided to leave Termina and rest deep within each of the four regions, they did not consult their friend Majora after the giants left. Majora didn't understand why his friends had left him, which made him cry. His suffering eventually turned into rage, which was then unleashed on the people of Termina, if he couldn't be happy, no one else could either, although Majora created chaos and caused massive suffering to the people, he saw himself as The victim lost what was important to himself and didn't know how.

To deal with their anguish, the people of Termina cried out to the giants for salvation. The giants who needed to save the people, but saddened by what had happened to their friend, sang a song of healing for everyone in Termina, to the imp. He listened to the song and found peace. Transforming into Mitchell's Mask, the troubled spirits that fell victim to Majora's wrath merged to form what became known as the Mask of the Fierce Deity, an amalgamation of spirits with a desire to help the innocent people of Termina. , but also a dark spite against Majora with Peace was restored to the land, people celebrated and worshiped the giants as gods.

However, as the ages passed, the legendary mask of majora was discovered and fell into the possession of the corrupt gero, a cult of shadow-dwelling ninjas, this tribe learned of the power within. inside the mask and used it for her sinister hexing rituals, meanwhile, Majora's consciousness began to awaken and become corrupted as she was used by the cult, her memories of abandonment once again turning into endless rage as the cult plotting to overthrow their enemy, the kingdom of Aikana, with their new divine power they were soon alarmed when the mask began to act of its own will, the Garrow now fearing the power they had idolized sealed it away in an attempt to prevent the mass caused a catastrophe once again the mask was lost until one day the A mysterious and happy mass seller found it and we know what happens from here.

What do you think of this origin story? I definitely had some fun and took a risk, but I still think it's viable and very different than all the other theories out there. I enjoyed this video, please leave a like, subscribe to the channel and enable notifications. I make theories like this all the time, so go ahead and check out some of my other theories like the ones here. Thank you very much for watching and happy Halloween everyone.