#and still there are Zonai (never shown) capable of having half-Zonai kids

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I think the choice to make the ancient hero a Zonai was clumsily handled, but not without some potential. It makes no sense that everyone suddenly knows he looked like that (especially since it's not recorded on the tapestry), and it makes less sense because the only people capable of producing half-Zonai half-Hylian kids were, as far as we saw, Sonia and Rauru. But I'm willing to toy with it in a different sense: namely, the aspect already works like the transformation masks, so what if it's the spirit of an older Zonai hero the ancient hero we know of assumed? It could even still contain the soul of a hero who saved Hyrule in the era the Zonai apparently populated the surface.

I'm frustrated by all the Zonai retconning of things that didn't need to be retconned, but more interesting headcanons are working okay as a solution.

#Anyway if you have any more thoughts feel free to add #I should clarify that I don't think the ancient era in Tears of the Kingdom takes place at the actual founding of Hyrule #And if you do I don't understand how you would simultaneously believe the ancient hero is part Zonai #Since that would mean all games between Skyward Sword and BOTW come before the ancient hero who's already 10000 years from BOTW #and still there are Zonai (never shown) capable of having half-Zonai kids #Yeah yeah Zelda generally lacks continuity as a series #But Hylia being a thing and Zelda being a reincarnation of her is way easier to fit into the canon at large than goat dragon people #So I'll stick with this being a second founding of Hyrule #And I have my own theories on that but they're on another post (I think) #totk #totk spoilers #zelda #loz #totk headcanons