The Secrets of the Yiga & Sheikah’s Combat

Throughout the Zelda series before Breath of the Wild, the Sheikah have been a mysterious and elusive shadow people who secretly work to protect and defend the royal family, even performing some of the darkest and most sinister tasks, such as construction and operation of the shadow. temple where the enemies of the kingdom were interrogated, tortured and executed. Most Zelda games generally do not feature more than one or two members of this mysterious tribe, even in games where they appear with some importance in the story, such as Ocarina of Time, which includes Impa's bodyguard Zelda and the sheik of the princess.

The wild breath alter ego and costume, on the other hand, blew this convention to pieces. One hundred and twenty more mini-dungeons in the DLC, each a personal trial constructed and supervised by an individual former sheikh among an iteration of Kakariko village filled with Sheikah civilians. Old and young colossal machines with power rivaling that of the gods built millennia ago by the

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and even a sinister branch of the tribe, the enigmatic and malevolent Yeegar clan, the Jaeger clan, reside in the desert within an archaeological site Gerudo who have since claimed as their own cover statues and carvings of Gerudo with their own symbol a blasphemy version of the traditional

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I the Jaegers are divided into several ranks that we see in the game there are small agile infantrymen armed with ferocious sickles or the demon Carver or a duplex bow the largest and most powerful sword masters armed with a large wind blade and their leader, Master Koga, armed with nothing more than his apparent mastery of the arts, who is exceptionally skilled but quite strange, The Jaeger clan is one of the only times we've seen a girl fight in the series and they make use of a set of mysterious and powerful techniques capable of levitating, appearing and disappearing in magical explosions, manipulating the earth to create gusts of wind and stone pillars, conjuring steel balls out of thin air, placing blue force fields, and even using what appears to be the sheikah slate Magne sis room Breath of the Wild also features the monk Moscow Xie, another example of a seeker in

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However, instead of the traitorous and dark Jaeger, Moscow Xie is a pure divine monk fully devoted to the goddess Hylia and capable of using even more. abilities the powerful yeegar Moscow Xie is capable of teleporting, levitating sentient steel balls and lightning bolts, moving the colossal stone platform you fight on, creating eight copies of himself, growing to monstrous size, and even firing a guardian laser beam. and, interestingly, there is a lot of overlap. between the abilities of Moscow Xie, a divine monk, and members of the Jaeger clan, treacherous capes in the service of Ganon, not only as Moscow Xie, capable of using moves that we had previously only seen used by sheikah technology, as well as kogas Magnus in multiple instances, both Moscow Xie and all the enthusiastic Klansmen will produce small paper talismans featuring the sheikah or the Jaeger.

It depends on the orientation and, furthermore, before the monk performs some of his more advanced techniques, the sheikah will meditate while a ring of nine symbols appears around him with exact accuracy. The same technique used by Yeegar infantrymen before teleporting and executing their downward thrust attack, what are these symbols and more broadly? Both Moscow Xie and Jaeger use them in

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. What are the paper talismans that appear and how can they be the runes or guardians of Koga and Moscow Xie Yu? Skills, subscribe if you haven't for more Zelda content and let's look at the

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So which sheikah have we seen fight in the Zelda series, excluding the Hyrule warriors? Breath of the Wild, of course, presented the Moscow monk Xie as final proof. as well as the various warriors of the Jaeger clan, a faction that split from the Sheikah tribe 10,000 years ago, we see the loyal Sheikah warrior during a flashback and the creation of a champion lets us know that these sheikhs have served the royal family, but we don't see them fight, we have also seen Impa fight during Skyward Sword during the confrontation in the temple of time against Ghirahim, we saw Sheik fight during the ocarina of time when bongo bongo attacks Kakariko village, but all we see is their Fall into a traditional fighting stance.

Before you get blown away, one thing that connects both the Anxious and the Sheikah in Breath of the Wild is the fact that they are based on many aspects of the real world of Japan, particularly the ninja, the covert warriors who were Known for their murders and espionage. I'm simply not an expert on Japanese history and there are countless videos and articles that will explain the history and characteristics of the ninja better than I can, but the important thing for Zelda is that Jaeger and Sheikah were closely based on these Japanese. The agents, which is appropriate for the people known as the shadow people and their evil counterparts, are based on warriors who worked in the shadows.

Ninja were incredibly skilled individuals and in modern media they often appear as supernatural magical warriors, we can see both eager foot soldiers. and the monk Moscow Xie when fighting with one-handed weapons runs quickly and retreats immediately similar to how an assassin would fight Jaeger foot soldiers used Carver or ferocious demon sickles and Moscow Xie uses a guardian sword in addition to all weapons that are very powerful compared to other weapons in their tier, but with a comparatively low jaw capacity, which again suits an assassin. The same goes for the bow used by enthusiastic infantry soldiers. The duplex bow, which while it can fire two arrows for greater attack, has the second lowest durability in the game and beyond.

The theme of sheikah and Jaeger weaponry, the wind blade, although not directly related to the ninja, is based on a samurai sword and its characteristic ability to fire gusts of wind that follow the movements of the blade could be based on Kusanagi, a legendary Japanese sword, one of the Three Imperial Insignia of Japan. There is a whole legend surrounding this sword which I won't go into, but it is incredibly famous in Japan and was supposedly able to control the wind by moving it in the direction of the sword's movement, but the strongest connection between the sheikah Jaeger. and ninjas are the strange magical abilities used by warriors when they pause to conjure a wheel of nine letters Hylian in the case of the anxious and ancient seeker in the case of the monk Moscow Xie in both cases these letters are translated to read in the sense clockwise RP t s K j r z z which correlates with the nine-syllable seals known as Cugine or nine symbols in Japanese, a form of meditation, the nine-syllable seals are and I apologized for my pronunciation Rin P o tol sha kai jin retsu zai and zen and would be pronounced along with the accompanying hand symbols.

The practice was commonly used in ninjutsu and other martial arts. Cugines were and still are used as a form of meditation in the real world, but in movies, games, and anime they have evolved into a type of spell that unlocks the user's arcane abilities and connects the physical form. With their spiritual self and in the breath of the wild, the nine seals are represented as this mysterious magical ability, the user meditates briefly to calm themselves as the nine symbols are projected around them in a bright red ring. Jagr's foot soldiers use it before teleporting in an attempt to Push Down Moscow Xie uses it not only in the same way, but also when he summons lightning from the sky or splits into nine copies, which is an ability that also It is based heavily on the shadow cloning technique of a ninja who moves incredibly fast in such a way that it seems like there is much more than one of them, this technique is not used by Master Koga or the Jaeger sword masters, although when using the sword masters earth technique, their hands strike with the same terrifying energy, implying some kind of connection as a side note. a fantastic series by gaijin Goomba covering ninjas in games check out the Zelda episode after this one with the link in the description another connection between moscow xie the Jaeger and the real world of Japan are the paper talismans that appear when they perform certain moves that These little red tokens feature the sheikah eye along with three other eyes and are of course inverted for the ones used by Jaeger.

These paper talismans are incredibly similar to some der talismans used to protect against damage that are normally hung in the home, however, Sheikah and Jaeger seemed to spawn these paper talismans. by teleporting or generating items, they are perhaps most similar to oma mori, similar amulets designed for personal use that are said to bring protection or luck to people. Different forms of these amulets are believed to help in different tasks, from education and exams to protection from evil. or good luck, these talismans also appear within the eager caches stuck to the walls, much like traditional fooder would be expected to be like protective Wards, so perhaps we can see both a fooder and Ouma mori used by the sheikah and Jaegers to protect the Jaegers. hiding places and bringing individual good fortune to fighters The enormous overlap between the abilities of the Ange Sheekha seen through Moscow Xie and the Jaegers reflects the fact that the Jaegers split from the Sheikah tribe millennia ago creating a champion notes that ten years ago thousand years the tribe divided into peaceful and militant factions, which is around the same time that the sheikah monks including the shiites of Moscow were sealed in their shrines.

The Shiites of Moscow are an example of an individual who has been frozen in time and still uses the forgotten language of the ancient seeker for his nine syllable seals, while the Jaegers who have passed down these techniques for thousands of years have adapted to use the more conventional modern Hylian language, but if sheikah and enthusiasm is based on skilled covert ninja warriors, how do you explain Master Koga, the clumsy overweight master? The Jaeger, one of the few villains in the series' tie-in, doesn't kill directly, he takes care of that himself by accidentally throwing himself into a bottomless pit with a giant steel ball, according to the game's lead structural artist, Manabu Takahara, which the Jaeger master is based on.

In Japan's temple festivals and Bon Odori dances, Bon Odori is a dance that varies by region of Japan, although it generally involves gathering in a circle around a wooden scaffold called a yagura. The festival itself is meant to honor the spirits of their ancestors and the Japanese have been celebrating it for over half a millennium and Takahara tells us that the Jaeger themselves do this apparently routinely, gathering around Koga himself celebrating night events with powerful bananas as prizes and if we look at one of the rooms in the Yuga hideouts, the one featuring the secret door that leads to Koga's boss fight arena, we can see a central wooden platform incredibly similar to the agora Japanese woman surrounded by what appears to be some sort of food stall that is incredibly common at these dances, so Master Koga fights differently than other Yeegar.

This is because it is very inspired by a dance festival, but in addition to ninja-based attacks and skills, Koga and Kochiya also use skills related to their technology, how can these two use skills that should only be possible by using machinery without a sheikah slate? Koga can use Magnus and without a cannon like Wind Plague or Calamity, Ganon Moscow Xie can fire a guardian laser beam. This isn't the only time we've seen Ashika use something resembling a rune since the beginning of the Zelda Skyward Sword timeline. Impa is capable of using an ability strikingly similar to Bomb Room where she conjures and drops a small orb. bright blue to destroy the door of time and prevent Gira from chasing them, not only is the blue shield that he throws to block.

Ghirahim x assaults are incredibly similar to the shields used by ancient technology, such as guardians with ancient equipment and the barriers surrounding ancient monks in shrines. Impa had no sheikah slate and the ancient sheikah and their technology as we know them in the breadth of nature still were. appear for thousands and thousands of years, so it is likely that these types of abilities are not tied to Sheikah technology, but rather technology such as the Sheikah slate allows the use of Sheikah magic by those who would not normally be capable or not even from the stasis of Magnus Cronus.

The powerful guardian laser could be various magics learned by a powerful sheikah, just as Impo was able to use something like the pump room and sheikah slates, although the Guardians themselves can channel this magic for use by non-sheikah or not magical. It is not veryCrazy, most of the Sheikah relics we've seen in the series accomplish the same thing: they grant the user a magical ability. The lens of truth, for example, offers a form of clairvoyance capable of seeing things as they really are. The pirate charm in Wind Waker was a form of sheekha gossip stone modified by the king's deafness that grants the user telepathy and tells Thessia the ability to see and speak with those far away.

The sheikah-eyed hero charm allows the wearer to read. the life energy of nearby enemies, so the Sheikah Slate could function in a similar way by harnessing Sheikah magic allowing Link to use powerful spells. I have previously theorized that the blue technology of the sheikah is not technology at all, but the pure sacred energy of the gods. blue energy is found in the chamber of sages in a sacred realm descent chamber in a tower of the gods and even when the three golden goddesses create the world before time itself, it would not be a stretch to assume that she that technology harnesses this sacred power considering the Seeker's connection to the goddess Hylia rather than functioning as a conventional computer or machine.

If this is the case and sheikah technology is powered by divine energy, then it would explain how the monk Moscow Xie and Master Koga can use abilities. which should only be possible using sheikah technology, they are performing the magic in which the sheikah slate or the Guardians imitate the magic using the sacred power of the goddesses, so not only the sheikah adept in ninjutsu uses both.The techniques Fantasy and real-world ninja, such as the legendary nine-syllable seals, the most powerful among them can directly channel the power of the gods. It's quite disturbing in a way that Master Koga, the leader of the evil Jaeger clan, uses magic that may have its origins in the divine, it makes me wonder if in the wild sequel we might see a real evil sheik, a villain, not the comic relief of Koga, a powerful and calculating Yeager who rivals Moscow Xie in strength, bringing mastery of the ninja arts combined with Sheik Magic to confront the hero thanks for watching this video if you liked it leave a like or subscribe if not yet have you done it for more Zelda content Did you know about the fancier Japanese connections?

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