The Dark Purpose of Snowpeak Ruins - Zelda Theory

The province of Hyrule, at the northwestern peak, stands in stark contrast to the green fields and cool forests that lie in its shadow, elevated above the rest of the kingdom. Let's say that for the colossal mountain of death, the snow peak region is a frozen tundra, with its biting winds and icy cold. It is almost inaccessible to most travelers because of this, the region of the snowy peaks is almost uninhabited, except for those adapted to the land, such as the enormous yeti wrapped in thick fur and warm coats. It is in the confines of this frozen desert where one of the most iconic series is found.

The dungeons contain the eerie

ruins

of decaying snow peaks found in one of the most dangerous regions of Hyrule. The

ruins

of the snowy peaks are the remains of an opulent mansion built of stone bricks decorated with red carpets, chandeliers and paintings, but despite the great cost and effort it must have required. to build this place on top of the frozen snow mountain, it is abandoned except for a pair of Yetis that have taken up residence in its icy corridors. Link is invited to the mansion by these Yetis imaginatively named Yeto and Yeta after learning that Yeto has found a fragment of the Twilight Mirror now kept in the bedroom of his house, but since finding the mirror, he has become ill and monsters have infested the mansion, causing the couple to lock the bedroom in which the mirror fragment is located out of fear once Link finds it.

The Yeta Bedroom Key will show you the fragment, but her evil powers take over, transforming her into the gigantic snowstorm, imprisoning the Yeti inside an ice sarcophagus after her defeat bond is finally free to take the fragment. and Yeto coming to Yetta's aid in a touching finale, but while the story of the Yetis and the Miroshad makes sense, this couple took up residence in the mansion, found a fragment of the Mirror of Twilight, and suffered from its corrupting influence, the General history of the Snowy Peak Ruins does not. I don't answer who built this house, when or why it is clearly designed for humans and not the yeti as the furniture shows, but interestingly the ruins are filled with armor too large to fit on a Hylian that is at least 10 feet tall and half width with gaps. at the rear to accommodate a queue Not only this, but the paintings found within the mansion include places and characters that would be unknown to all but the most knowledgeable individuals, such as the sacred forest Rauru, the sage of the light and even the city in the sky.

Who Built Snow Peak Mansion and Why It Lies The abandoned Snow Peak Mansion sits on a small rock outcropping that can only be accessed via a single bridge. Its walls are thick and high and made of solid stone that surrounds an interior courtyard and at the back stands a huge tower. About the rest of the house, it is clearly designed with defense in mind, at least partially, as a single bridge would block any invaders and what appear to be watchtowers are located atop the walls, which in addition to the tower In its surroundings, the mansion also has a complete armory, shields, armor, swords, axes, spears, even cannons that do not appear anywhere else in Hyrule, except the cannons of the darling.

The amount of weapons and armor found inside the mansion immediately rules out the idea that this place. It was just someone's house, unless you have your own private army, but to say that the mansion is decidedly comfortable in places - the hall, for example, has a thin red carpet on the floor and stairs, beams and wooden walls. Carvings, chandeliers and, of course, mysterious paintings and Moving one more room into the mansion, we find a living room, a fireplace, cushioned chairs, a clock on the wall, chandeliers, shelves, even a bottle of alcohol and which is probably a dinner bell, meaning whoever this room was designed for probably had servants to attend to them. when called a bedroom it is also ornate a four poster bed a grandfather clock a dressing table the mansion cannot have simply been for military use nor is it some kind of mix of the two perhaps a kind of castle for a powerful family in which lived not only by wealthy nobles, but also by servants and soldiers, there are two clear

purpose

s for the mansion: the first is a home for the wealthy individuals who lived here, providing a comfortable respite from the cold;

The second is the military function of the site, since it has enough weapons to arm a small battalion. and the space to house these soldiers, but who were the inhabitants, a common

theory

for the original

purpose

of the Snow Peak mansion is that of a training academy for the nights, as evidenced by the large number of various weapons, open space in the patio to train and comfortable living spaces for those. was in charge, but the academy was abandoned some time before the game due to the Snow Peak region becoming increasingly cold and hostile, causing it to begin to decline.

This idea is often combined with a

theory

surrounding Ashay and her father Ashay is an important character in the Game, a member of the resistance and apparently the daughter of a knight, she mentions that she grew up in the mountains with her father, who taught her the art of war as if it were his son, so if Snow Peak Ruins was once a night academy in the mountains, perhaps this is where Ashay's father lived and where she was raised and trained, although it fits thematically, This is not the case, as Ashy describes the snowy peak as unlike any mountain she has ever known, meaning she cannot have been raised there and is unlikely. that the reason it was abandoned was because of that cold, while the snowy peak may not always have been a frozen wasteland, meaning that the mansion was built in a more habitable area, there are signs that the mansion It was always surrounded by this permanent winter like a snowflake.

The symbol is one of the mansion's most common motifs found on the cannons, the ceiling of the master bedroom and even decorating the flags surrounding the coat of arms. The Snow Peak Mansion was probably always shrouded in bitter cold. This location was deliberately chosen in one of the most hostile areas. environments in the country that would be an incredibly strange place to build a simple training camp the first clue to the mansion's history and one central to most of the theories surrounding the Snow Peak mansion is the mysterious ridge found throughout the dungeon with crossed rapiers in front of a red and blue shield with a pair of wings on the back.

This symbol appears everywhere on the stone columns outside the mansion, on the flags on the wooden doors, and prominently in the entrance hall. It is clear that this symbol represents the Snow Peak mansion or its original owners, as it is nowhere to be found. In the game, with a couple of exceptions First and most importantly, this symbol can be found inside Hyrule Castle in Princess Zelda's tower, providing a strong link between the ruins of Snow Peak and the royal family. This is only true for the HD version with the original game. it only features a wing crest instead, but the second location this coat of arms can be found outside the mansion is also connected to the royal family, the Ice Block Cavern, this small cave is located in the Hyrule's northern countryside and appears to be a weapons depot with multiple small rooms, it is in disrepair, crumbling and almost completely frozen, but this cavern heavily features both the Snow Peak Coat of Arms and the wing crest that connects back to it. the two symbols if the mansion was built by the royal family of Hyrule. would explain its opulence, literally fit for a king, the painting of the city in the sky is particularly enigmatic since the ocar and its former residents are little more than a legend in Hyrule, however, an accurate painting exists in this mansion, without However, we do know that at some points the royal family of Hyrule regularly communicated with the oka, a designated individual known as the messenger of the heavens would carry the rod of dominion and contact the oka on behalf of the royal family, so of all groups in Hyrule it makes more sense for these paintings to belong. to this royal family, as they have connections with each and every place and individual, the assumption is shown that the mansion was designed by the royal family, explains the luxurious living rooms with servants to bring food, comfortable living rooms living and sleeping quarters and a chapel for religious ceremonies and based Due to its strong defensive position and enormous arsenal of weapons, a popular idea is that the mansion was built as a safe house for the royal family for use in wars or other times of conflict, allowing the royals to retreat to a well-defended but still comfortable remote location. location, this theory links many of the mysteries of the dungeon, but does not clarify everything, why the Snow Peak mansion has a coat of arms separate from the traditional wing used by the royal family and, most importantly, why if the house is military.

The features are designed to protect those individuals. Is it full of these gigantic suits of armor? too large and too heavy for even the tallest Hylians to use. Let's look at the most exciting mystery first. The puzzle of the colossal armors. It's hard to overstate the size of this armor. scale If link is around five and a half feet tall, then these suits are at least 11 feet tall and over six feet wide, these armors could be dismissed as merely decorative, except for the fact that they are not just the sets Complete with display cases throughout the mansion are entire warehouses filled with these helmets, boots, chest plates, and gauntlets.

It's as if the mansion is equipped to arm an entire legion of giant warriors that absolutely dwarf their Hylian counterparts, and there is one such soldier in the mansion. remains when Link enters one of the many rooms of the mansion, this is a warehouse with two caged hideouts on either side, he finds two of these suits of armor standing like sentinels in the middle, aside from the eerie atmosphere of the mansion, nothing seems wrong until Link approaches. on the other side and a metal grate slides down to block his exits as bars cover the door, a strange sound cuts through the room, a hum like the bellows of a forge, suddenly, the armor closest to him explodes, falling. into pieces when hit. a massive force as it collapses, the aggressor is revealed, the other suit has seemingly come to life swinging around a colossal steel ball, this enemy is the

dark

hammer, the mini boss of the dungeon and a brilliant fight against a powerful opponent in a tight space, the link must avoid the ball. and chain and use the sharp hook to reach Darkhammer's vulnerable back after his defeating link is left with the ball and chain, an unwieldy but monstrously strong weapon that can tear through otherwise nearly unbreakable obstacles and deal massive damage to enemies, but the dungeon element is pushed aside with

dark

ness. hammer itself, we get a glimpse into one of the mansion's mysteries, whatever the enemy is, it looks like the armor he wears was designed to fit him in addition to his tail and the obviously inhuman proportions of the dark hammer concept art show that it is something of a reptilian creature not unlike the dinolfos in the game, but if the armor fits Dark Hammer so well, then it is quite possible that his armor, along with the armor that decorates the halls of the mansion and The armor found in warehouses have been designed to adapt to these gigantic reptiles. creatures, so currently our image of Snow Peak Mansion is that of a comfortable fortress deliberately built for the royal family in the cold mountains;

However, the mansion was also filled with armor designed to fit an unidentified race of enormous reptiles, one of which remains in the ruins known as Dark Hammer, but let's take it a step further, stay with me on this one. Could the Snow Peak mansion have been built to create them, a distant fortress in the mountains designed not only to house the royal family but also to forge a new species of Bodyguard, the house not only has a large number of weapons and armor designed to fit the monstrous dark hammer, but also rooms that could have been cells and, in particular, huge steel cages.

During the game, a friezard occupies one of these cages, but when the mansion was in operation. Could they have housed the reptilian creatures that became the armored dark hammer keeping them safe while they were not training? Darkhammer uses the ball and chain swinging the enormous weight of the ball to deal massive damage, butThis is far from the first time we've seen this weapon. used by enemies, in fact, it usually appears as the signature weapon of the ball and chain soldier who debuts in a link to the past where his Hyrulean soldiers were brainwashed. The ball and chain is a standard weapon used by the royal family's own soldiers and now again by the dark ones. hammer perhaps dark hammer is the result of a dark experiment conducted by the royal family deliberately isolated in the icy mountains far from civilization kept in cages and dressed in thick plate armor dark hammer may have been a primitive soldier designed by the royal family bred from a type of lizalfos but it still seems like we're missing something why doesn't Darkhammer appear anywhere else?

If he was designed as a guardian by the royal family, the answer may not lie in the mansion itself, but miles away on the icy peaks within Hyrule Castle itself. where we can find the next step in the mystery: more giant suits of armor that blend with the overall colossal scale of the royal family's seats and are dwarfed by the gigantic and opulent halls of the citadel, the suits of armor found within are Inarguably linked to those found in Snowpeak, they are not only similar in size but slightly less wide. The actual pieces of standoff armor are actually almost identical in shape, including odd quirks like small legs and an oversized torso, the The main difference, aside from the castle suits being thinner, are the helmets which appear to be completely different than those found in Snow Peak, however the HD remake actually changes Dark Hammer's helmet to match almost perfectly with the design of the helmets in Hyrule Castle.

Two eye slits with three vertical slits at the bottom for ventilation, in addition. In the HD remake, Dark Hammer features this symbol on its chest plate, almost identical to a symbol found everywhere. Hyrule Castle It is no coincidence that a fortress mansion linked to the royal family and their seats in the Castle of Hyrule have this gigantic armor that seems to be designed for Dark Hammer, not Hylians, but it seems like we're missing a piece of the puzzle here something to make this strange connection make sense the answer to the mystery of the snow peak the dark nuts these powerful Knights debuted in the first game of the series and have appeared sporadically since in Twilight Princess they are arguably at their strongest and most imposing over the bond. and dressed in thick plate armor, he first encounters Darknet as the mini-boss of the Temple of Time who apparently protects the Rod of Dominion and will challenge Link when he enters the room.

The dark madman fights with an immense sword and shield and is nearly invulnerable to damage. except for his weak points which Link must focus on to remove the plate armor, when the dart nut's outer armor is destroyed, he will attack Link with a smaller sword that moves much faster as he now only uses chain mail. mesh. The temple of time. Darknet wears a suit of black armor with a crested helm, but those found later in the game, such as those in Hyrule Castle, are mostly equipped with silver armor with large winged helms. The Darkness is interesting because they don't look like any of Ganondorf's other henchmen.

His plate armor clearly requires a The advanced civilization to shoe features strange insignia and his lower armor is covered in red and gold cloth that looks decidedly majestic, perhaps even more so than Ganondorf's own armor. The dark nuts found in Hyrule Castle even feature a scarab emblem perhaps representing their similarity to the armored insect. It is debatable what the dark nuts actually are in Twilight Princess, as we never see them without armor, even when in their second form their head is still covered by a crowned mask, however, they are obviously humanoid in shape and appear to have human facial features, except for the fact. that are incredibly tall, as tall as armor, while the armor of any type of dark web does not resemble the armor found in the ruins of Snowpeak or in Hyrule Castle, a connection must be established between all of them, a set of giant plates. armor connected in some way to Hyrule Castle and the royal family and if Dark Hammer was the result of the royal family being raised in the Snow Peak mansion, could the incredibly tall dark-walnut humanoids have been forged in the same way if Do we assume Darkham was the first iteration?

Judging by their overly monstrous, hunched appearance, there's a clear progression here, starting with the bulky, inhuman forms of Dark Hammer and the Snow Peak armor, moving on to the slightly more humanoid armor of Hyrule Castle, and ending with the Dark Walnuts, The perfect form of the Dark warrior that appears in Hyrule Castle could easily be the result of Ganondorf's influence as the castle is infested with his minions, but the one inside the temple of time appears to be deliberately placed protecting the staff. of dominion, it is possible that, like the lesser enemies that plagued the temple of time, this Ganondorf placed the dark web to protect the rod of dominion, but it is equally possible that it was placed here by whoever built the temple or by the own royal family in charge of defending the artifact from whoever enters its domain.

The rod of dominion was a sacred treasure of royalty. family used by the messenger of heaven to communicate with the oka, so perhaps once it was no longer needed, it was stored safely within this temple and guarded by a dark nut. These huge knights might not actually be evil, but simply guardians placed to defend important locations. Like the Temple of Time or Hyrule Castle, the names of Dark Hammer and Dark Nuts are obviously very similar in English, but in Japanese also the Dark Hammer is called hamanaku or Hammer Knuckle, while the Dark Nut is called tatunaku or Dark Knuckle.

There is a bit of ambiguity. here about whether knuckle meant knight, but either way there is a clear connection to their names, but they could still simply be Ganondorf's henchmen, except for the most prominent symbol adorning the armor in these dark nuts found here on their knee pads, shields and even swords. is the symbol of a bird with wings divided into three and two three-digit talons below, which is a stylized version of the raised wing symbol used to represent Hylia and the royal family, of course, this is very similar to the symbol of the knights crest used by darkness in wind awakening, but that's a theory for another day with this possibility in mind, let's return to the final mystery of the Snow Peak mansion.

The coat of arms, as we have mentioned, is clearly connected to the royal family, but if so, why not? it simply features the wing crest design, the exact reason is impossible to determine, but perhaps this crest, two swords crossed on a shield in front of a pair of wings, represents some military faction closely related to the royal family for which the snowy peak was built, if this is true. It is possible that the ice block cavern, a strange abandoned cave filled with weapons, was not a weapons warehouse but a training room with each small section representing a combat field.

This faction, similar to the Sheikah, could have operated in relative secrecy defending Hyrule and the Royal Family, at any cost, undertaking even tasks considered too dark or heinous for the royals themselves to carry out. , such as the creation of armed guardians in the isolated mansion of Snow Peak, created from the primitive dark hammer kept in cages and forged into some of the deadliest. Expert fighters Hyrule has ever seen, it's entirely possible that Snow Peak had a different purpose or that the dark nuts have no relation to the dark hammers or that all the monsters seen in the game are simply Ganondorf's creations or corruptions of the mirror. twilight and, independently.

Of the theories, the Snow Peak mansion will probably always remain officially unexplained, but the appearance of massive amounts of gigantic plate armor, steel cages, connections to the royal family, and the appearance of the dark hammer itself hint at a more sinister purpose for the mansion. mansion than it initially seems. Let me know in the comments below what you think of these ideas and what your personal theory is about Snow Peak Mansion. A huge thank you to Nintendo Black Crisis for joining me on this. Make sure to check out his video covering the temple of time and Ok, on his channel, greetings guys and see you next time.