#dinolfos

Been needing to give this guy a ref so here he is!! You'll meet him eventually.

So, bokos were in Skyward Sword, right? Timeline-wise, they don't appear again until after OOT, and not in any Defeated Hero games (assuming BOTW isn't in the Defeated Hero timeline).

Where on earth did they go for all of those centuries?

My theory is that bokoblins are resurrected whenever moblins and other larger monsters just aren't enough.

Okay, look- the bigger the monster, the more room it needs to live, right? It needs a larger territory to hunt for food. Moblins are quite large, and purely carnivores. Lizals/dinolfos are also carnivorous, as well as amphibious, and they don't sleep. So even though lizals are smaller than moblins, they still eat a lot. Octoroks are small and can live anywhere and probably eat anything, but they need a lot of room to move around. Keese are small, but too easily defeated. Lynels are quite big and powerful- I imagine they eat anything that moves, and they don't appear to sleep. And while Hinoxes sleep all the time unless disturbed, I would imagine they have to eat a literal ton to stay alive.

Ganon's an evil pig, and I don't imagine he gives a flip for the well-being of any of his minions. But he's not stupid. If you put too many carnivores, especially big ones or ones that never sleep, into an area, they'll wipe out all the wildlife, and then eventually the predators will starve to death.

Bokos are the obvious solution, especially for something long-term, like the century that Calamity Ganon spent with Zelda holding him at bay. They're small, they sleep at night, and they're omnivorous, so they can survive on fruits as well as meat.

(Hyrule Castle, Breath of the Wild)

Linktober Shadow Day 9: Lizalfos

(Dinolfos, Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask)

Hmph!!

Wanted to work on some monster designs and the first one is gonna be Dinolfos since it’s always been one of my favs.

Some things are subject to change ofc, especially since this is the first sketch I’ve done. Design isn’t gonna be 1:1 to canon either when it’s done and is gonna have my own twist to it?? Ig?? There will also be some diverging(?) designs depending on their era, with the one I drew being more like the HW design. (Emphasis on “some” because I’m not covering every single time a monster design changes between games.)