#zelda maps

[historyofhyrule]

New Scans: The Light and Dark World Maps from A Link to the Past

The Legend of Zelda Triforce of the Gods World Guidebook, 1992 | ゼルダの伝説, 神々のトライフォース, ワールドガイドブック| ISBN4-8033-3874-4, Published by Taishubo Co.

I 2400dpi scanned and repaired this really awesome set of maps from an old Japanese strategy guide. While someone had posted low quality scans of the whole guide on archive.org at one point; I can no longer find them so I bumped scanning it up on my to-do list. The maps themselves have never been repaired or placed in an online gallery before either so this is probably the first time most people are seeing them.

#zelda #legend of zelda #link to the past #strategy guide #tloz #loz #lttp #alttp #the legend of zelda #snes #raw #raws #scan #scans #high res #map #videogame #zelda art #zelda maps #maps #map art #light world #dark world #overwold #sacred realm #game guide

[deathlyfruit]

happy totk release 💚💙 i’ve already embarrassed myself in front of the hot goat man and blown up a few times so i’d say it’s going well lol

#i would do anything for rauru #i would also do anything for sonia #the new map is so beautiful i hope y’all are ready for more scenery art #totk #totk rauru #rauru #legend of zelda #tloz fanart #tloz totk #tears of the kingdom #king rauru #y’all are committing war crimes on these koroks lmao

[tortilla-of-courage]

i'm SO sorry to every korok i've abandoned while playing totk

#legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk #korok #the poor things.... never to reunite ever again #and i forget to mark them on the map too so i EXTRA forget. if possible #tortilla arts

[glutko]

Zelda WIki has finally gone independent from Wikia/Fandom! Let’s fucking goooo

#not corruption #legend of zelda #loz #i plan to help once i'm done with this doom map

[islandlobster]

i connect three joycons to ssbu and have them all play together instead of fighting

#lalalaaaa lalalaaaa my insanely pink gradient map . lalalalalaaaa #my art #toon link #young link #botw link #i had a whole second bit with ganon&zelda having a tea party in the bg but they lookd so wack #ssb

[kifaprokumiv]

Remember when we could gather a kitty army in twilight princess 🥲

#totk #legend of zelda #loz link #botw link #3 giant maps and not a single cat #And you can’t pet the dog either

[powdermelonkeg]

I think the least canon thing in all of LoZ is the map. Every single game it changes so irreparably—"Zora's Domain is out east- oh, sorry, I mean all the way up north. It's east again now! Oh, the volcano? That's in the northeas-WEST. NORTHWEST. No that's snowy area now it's east again. Hyrule Castle is in the middl- nort- west of the country. Can't miss it. The Temple of Time is there- no it isn't, it's about as far from the castle as you can get. The Lost Woods? It's called 'Lost' for a reason, we can't find it. Ever."

#loz #zelda #totk adds another layer of complication bc it insists that its map is the SUPER canon one no matter the time period #see: forgotten temple map

[n64retro]

#the legend of zelda: ocarina of time #nintendo #nintendo 64 #legend of zelda #ocarina of time #loz oot #world map #hyrule #N64

[lotus-pear]

i am not immune to totk link

#his starter fit is so fucking pretty omg it goes so well with his open hair #just started playing this game a week back and fifth grade me has reawakened #the map and everything is so nostalgic i genuinely feel like i'm arriving home in a game for the first time in years #tears of the kingdom #totk #link #legend of zelda #loz #link totk #lotus #lotus draws

[retrogamingblog2]

Maps of Hyrule made by Hutui

#zelda #nintendo #art #gaming #artists #video games #maps #cartography #illustration #hyrule #hylian #ocarina of time #oot #n64 #3ds #legend of zelda #wind waker #gamecube #twilight princess #wii #skyward sword #breath of the wild #botw #switch #nintendo switch #tears of the kingdom #totk #posters #prints #loz

[lizzybizzyart]

no i cant save zelda right now i need to get more pony points

#tears of the kingdom #totk #legend of zelda #loz #link #barbie horse adventures #mine #ive spent too many hours chasing horses around this fucking map

[good-advice-ganondorf]

#i cant stop playing zelda nes guys #i literally don't like open world games but i play zelda 1 and i bring out my gay little overworld map and have a great time #the happy smiler #loz #the legend of zelda #tloz

[linked-maze]

The Map Of LinkedMaze! will update over time! was made in inkarnate but with some small editing afterwards in my art program

#linked maze #linkedmaze #tloz #zelda au #doodle #map #will update over time

[ganondoodle]

so, its pretty rough and by far not complete but this is a rough layout for the map of destiny (my zelda fancomic), i mainly took it after skyward sword but added parts of botw into it (like lanayru street, the twin mountains that were one mountain until ch3, the gerudo highlands, akkala ref; among more general map overlap)

this ones with some super rough chapter markers and some descriptions, the circle doesnt mean the chapter doesnt go to multiple places but the main happening of it is there, its again, pretty rough and lacks the correct order yet too, ill prob add that with time as i write out the scripts for the next chapters, so far i got the order until chapter 6 (chapter 4 is mostly at hylias temple and since there are alot of chapters happening there its not marked seperately)

chapter 1: demon (complete)

chapter 2: a dance of ice and fire (script done)

chapter 3: moving mountains (name not final)

chapter 4: starry night

chapter 5: a wound for a wound (placeholder name)

chapter 6: curiosity (possibly placeholder name, forgot to mark it on the map even tho i know where it goes)

most other chapters i know where and whats happening but i cant remember the exact order, i gotta make a structured chapter chart soon so i dont have to think over everything every single time i need the order

this is probably not very interesting but, even tho it is just a rough layout more for myself than anything else, i thought id share anyway, i know my handwriting when i write fast and tired is hard to read but uh .. feel free to send me an ask about it if theres anything youd like to know (do mention if you are ok with spoilers for the story)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #tloz #skyward sword #wip #making maps is hard #in general i pulled the map of skysw apart since its not evne really connected on its own map #and put some botw refs into places that arent too far from where they are in botw but also so they make more sense for skysw #also lanayru is not a desert yet tho that process has started due to hylia building what she is supposed to #... in my hc the mining of time stones takes the life out of the land since those stones are made from concentrated spirits- #-that slowly give out their energy and its all a delicate balance #which is destroyed by hylia+ mining them en masse to create the portals #that hc is also based on my hc that luminous stones eventually turn into timeshift stones bc spirits of the dead and all #anyway #yes there are actual cities and towns in skysw #its before the game anyway but like #the handful of people in the sky are not enough for me lol #and gerudo already existed too #maybe bado(groose) is like a half gerudo and thats why hes got red hair

[archivebottles]

a bunch of oc stuff that ive been working on this past week

#a lot of images so im trying id in alt #i have more i just want to keep relevant ocs in their own posts #but im redesigning an old one and got stuck which is why i havent posted anything i nforever LOL #myocs #myart #also using a lot of gradient maps and new brushes #my copy of zelda isnt here yet. sad! so im posting these. im gonna try and do that other concept this weekend too

[blueskittlesart]

Do you have any theories/thoughts on why the last dragon tear is on the Rist Peninsula? Like..lore reason wise? Or did they just pick that spot cause it has a fancy spiral? This thought hasn't left my brain for weeks.

this question got me thinking, because there are quite a few spots on the totk map that are significant lore-wise in that they mention locations in other games and/or were significant in botw, but rist penninsula isn't one of them. of the locations that the geoglyphs and tears fall on, a few of their names appear to reference characters and locations in other games, which is a common theme among minor location names on the botw/totk map. aside from the naming conventions, though, none of these places share distinguishing features with any map locations in other games. there ARE certain locations on the botw/totk map that are very clearly meant to correspond to the maps of other games/cycles, but those locations will almost always have both a specific name referencing the other map's location AND distinguishing features which mirror the features of the other map very closely if not identically. the geoglyph locations pretty clearly aren't that, so the names are likely just easter eggs. these locations also don't have any significance on the BOTW map from what I can tell, aside from the occasional shrine location, which is less important to the point i'm trying to make here but this is already full of useless information bc i did the research so i might as well give you all of it. the important point here is that none of the dragon tear locations are present in any other map of hyrule aside from the botw/totk iteration.

why is this significant? because it means that botw/totk era-hyrule is the ONLY hyrule in which these locations exist. this fact, combined with the fact that certain locations seem almost designed with their respective geoglyphs in mind (the most prominent example is cape cresia's shape being perfectly fitted to the scimitar glyph, but to a lesser extent the tabantha snowfield ganondorf glyph and the NW eldin mountains master sword glyph both finding large, flat spaces suited to their respective shapes, and, of course, the final tear dropping perfectly in the center of rist penninsula's spiral, suggests that these geoglyphs and these memories were tied specifically to the version of hyrule that we see in botw/totk. Whether this has greater implications as to how the timeline of totk plays out or if it's just an indication that zelda was holding on to her memories of the version of hyrule she grew up in is up to you.

that's all i've got in terms of concrete lore, but on a more artistic level i think there is definitely a reason the last tear falls in the center of that spiral. totk continuously uses an ouroboros motif--a snakelike dragon eating itself in a continuous circle. the four dragons circle the map in continuous loops, repeating the same route endlessly, likely for thousands upon thousands of years. the spiral of rist is somewhat reminiscent of that repetition to me, but with one key difference--it ends. there is a concrete end point at the center of the spiral. once you go around it a certain number of times, the circular motion stops. you're free of the cycle. the final tear, in which zelda begs link to come to her, to find her, to SAVE her, falls at the center of that spiral, at the end of a repeating pattern of circular motions. zelda, like the other dragons, has been trapped in an ouroboros cycle for thousands of years. unable to speak, unable to remember, unable to do anything but follow her same circular path through the sky. but zelda's fate is not actually so bleak and unchangable--she's not in an ouroboros, she's in a SPIRAL. all she has to do is make it to the "center"--to wait it out until link can find her and save her, and she will be human again, and that circular motion will finally stop, and she'll be free to live her life again, to truly move forward. the act of journeying to the center of the spiral to get the last tear is forcing the player to adopt that same circular motion that zelda has been experiencing all these years, and to find the relief at the end--a microdose of the bigger battle zelda has been fighting, and which they will soon have to fight, to get her back once and for all.

#asks #i did so much actual research into the names and map features of other games to make sure this was correct. anyways did you guys know that #talus plateau in botw is NOT named after the enemy in that game called the stone talus but is in fact named after a location from oracle of #fucking ages. because somehow in translation the word 'toroiwa' for the oracle location and the word 'iwarokku' for the monster #BOTH ENDED UP BEING TALUS. incredible translation guys no notes #anyway. hope this helps #zelda analysis