Tracking Terrako between the two timelines — Where did it start?
Lore Dump / Idea Post - Fic Spoilers Ahead!
Terrako-One is Built 10,000 Years Ago
After learning about Sonia and Rauru's young child, who is raised in the secret Shadow Temple (home of the monks and reminiscent of the later Sheikah shrines), she takes her opportunity to experience older technologies to construct a protector for the other Zelda.
Terrako is unintentionally given some of Zelda and Sonia's Time Power, but it is imperfect.
She constructs Terrako based on a toy she made with her mother as a kid and eventually lost with the Calamity. Terrako and the younger Zelda become inseparable, and it is very protective of her. It plays her a lullaby every night!
Terrako is destroyed in the Imprisoning War by Ganondorf when he discovers the Shadow Temple and begins a massacre of the Sheikah Tribe. It is broken protecting the toddler Zelda I and promptly discarded as Rauru and her remaining caretakers swept her away to safety.
Reconstructed
Terrako is re-constructed by a young Zelda and her mother using scattered parts that are excavated where the Shadow Temple once was. It is not exactly the same as its original model because of missing/replaced pieces. [ It, in turn, becomes inspiration for itself... ]
Of course, Terrako is eventually taken from Zelda in both the AoC and TotK timeline so she may focus on her sealing power.
Warping Time
Terrako splits time during the Calamity and warps into/creates the AoC timeline, which isn't entirely accurate to the one it originated from because of its imperfect reconstruction of time power. (Leading to inconsistencies like when Link drew the sword). We know time power goes off of memory, and Terrako has a very fragmented sort...
The Harbinger, Terrako-Two
Though AoC's original timeline's Terrako was corrupted into the harbinger, and destroyed afterward, I like to imagine it is reconstructed post-game free of corruption.
Terratwo. There are now two Terrakos. In the one timeline. [ In my Zeldas meet AU, I want the Terrakos to reunite with their respective original Zeldas... It'd be cute to have a tag-team! ]
Concepts not elaborated on will be getting their own posts soon! Please ask questions if you have any!!
Poor Ariadne. Imagine helping a foreign prince, saving his life, leaving your whole kingdom and family behind for his love, him promising you he'll marry you and then just abandoning you on a random island, leaving you to die basically and not coming back to save you. Even after you saved him.
@linktober legacy: breath of the wild/tears of the kingdom/age of imprisonment/age of calamity
surprise! may linktober part 3! the ancient hero & his princess are a link and zelda too, right? (well, probably??) really i just wanted to draw more wild era designs, they're so good. and blue. 6 designs this month and they're all blue
In the era just after the Imprisoning War, the Silent Princess began to bloom beneath the Great Sky Islands (which were sealed out of human view with a cloud barrier). They quickly spread over Hyrule in the age of the First Great Calamity, and it was the princess of the time - the only one capable of seeing the Light Dragon - that discovered that the flowers first blossomed from stray teardrops that fell like sprinkling rain. At the time, the royal family still knew the story of the Sage of Time (it had yet to become forbidden knowledge and the Forgotten Foundation was built for the purpose of remembrance). For this reason, the ancient princess named the flower the "silent princess," after the quiet sobs that still came from the Sage in her draconic form. It, too, became a symbol of eternal love as she cried for a hero yet to exist across time.
A Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom fanfiction for @zelinktines event Zelinktines 2025 day 18 tease featuring the ancient hero and the ancient Zelda.
As Princess Zelda and Zonai hybrid Link relaxed on a nice sunny day, Zelda pet Link on the head and she said, "How is my fluffy hero liking this weather?" and Link look a bit confused while Zelda laugh at her teasing.
This is a stele of Nefertiabet, a princess of the 4th dynasty, but I think it’s extremely vital to note that she is sitting on a stool with some of the rad platform-boot bull’s foot legs I featured a while back.
[Description: A large carved and painted stone featuring numerous hieroglyphics on the right, but on the left a large depiction of a woman with enormous dark hair and a panther-skin dress that the Louvre says is a mourning dress, sitting on a stool with bull’s hoof legs.]
Atet wandered the halls of her tomb, sandals whispering on the stones. The dust on the stones told her how long she'd been sleeping--centuries if she had to guess. A thousand years, maybe. She touched the wall on her right, fingers tracing the symmetrical cuts.
Day by day by day, until they became years. Today would be her birthday, by her count. She scratched another into the stone and broke into the stores left for her afterlife. A cake of barley and dates was in her hand, and she placed a wax candle on top. She lit it, blowing it out after making a wish. Khonsu, how many more years must I wait to see your beautiful face again?
