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Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈

An animation my sis and I made for fun

"Upheaval"

i'm putting this here cause i'm in my feelings lmao. hopefully tumblr doesn't freak out over it. I'm certain it's never been here fully before. I think this is from sometime last year?...I think? Who knows

Obvious totk spoilers here, but the cutscene that plays before you're made to fight Ganondorf's phantom at the Hyrule castle's inner sanctum is interesting.

In that it implies that Ganondorf knows what Hyrule, or the castle itself, is supposed to look like before it was ruined by calamity. I can only assume, that despite being trapped, he knows, because he has some means of reconnaissance. [And being a powerful wizard, but you know...]

He shows You/Link, with a Faux Princess Zelda, the sanctum as it was a hundred or so years ago. If I'm remembering the timeline correctly.

How would he know if he's trapped so deep below ground? The castle was made much, much later after the imprisoning war as a means to 'weight down his cage'. Surely, he's never stepped foot in here. The way he gives Link the run around before the final phantom battle sort of implies that he knows the layout well enough. It makes me wonder if he was much more conscious for all these years, and was doing more active than passive puppeteering of his blight creations.

What I'm mainly getting at, are these things: The gloom spawn, and malice. They must be the big man's trail cameras.

Can Ganondorf see and collect information through these eyes? Are gloom spawn the stronger, animated cousin to the malice clumps? They're no longer stationary. No need to spit out bones at you. Ganondorf's power is unleashed, meaning they can now attack you autonomously.