#guardians botw

[hyruleairbnb]

I thought about the creepy botw guardians concepts and needed to draw ‘em

I have two in the rain because big monsters+ rain it's kinda epic. I'm not even scared of spiders or crabs but this crab is making me uncomfortable.. it's giving me the heebie jeebies. I love the fluffy one he doesn't even need white fur to live in the snow because he's the biggest boy.

[jinchaeji]

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THERE ARE FLYING GUARDIANS?!

WHO THOUGHT THEY SHOULD EXIST WHEN GUARDIANS ARE ALREADY TERIFFYING AF

[gspaepro]

“What are you so afraid of, blond boy?”

I thought I’d draw Loone and her “collection”

[traditionallymodern]

so is it just me or do Daley’s from Doctor Who and the Guardians in Breath of the Wild just have similar vibes

[botwstoriesandsuch]

So, I love your headcanons. Something I'd like a headcanon for, and hear me out on this, is how the Guardians work. I'm really sorry if this is odd. I love your blog so much!

Odd? Oh dear anon, you underestimate me. You have no idea how much world building stuff is trapped inside of my head, just waiting to spill over and drown every unfortunate mortal that made the mistake of following me. Prepare yourself for

HOW SHEIKAH TECHNOLOGY WORKS (Headcanon....thing?)

Long post warning, also spoilers for the end of the DLC

You cannot create something from nothing, energy cannot be created or destroyed, that’s the law of the conservation of energy. [insert that quote from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood or something idk I’ve never watched it] 

So how, you ask, are you able to do all that cool stuff in botw? From summoning bombs out of your pocket, to Guardians who somehow never need a power bank or charging station?

I shall tell you how, it's the Ancient Sheikah’s perfection of teleportation and the ability to convert energy

Observe, Exhibit A: Teleportation

Teleporting with Sheikah technology converts Link and his belongings into a pure, blue energy which disassembles and reassembles across Hyrule. 

But the main thing to focus on here is the energy part of this. 

[We know that it’s energy because it emits light, which you can’t do without some sort of energy, so it’s not just disassembling and reassembling atoms]

See, I’ve tested the timing on this and Link’s teleportation is instantaneous. Despite the loading screen, nearly no time passes whether he teleports from the Eldin mountains to the Gerudo Desert. 

So, the Sheikah have the ability to convert things into energy and transport it instantaneously, no lag, no time wasted, you want it? You got it

I mean the pads literally say “calling” on them. So yeah, they can call upon this energy anywhere. Even note how when dealing with an actual Sheikah monk in the DLC, they don’t even need the Sheikah slate or pad things.

“Why does this matter?” you ask? Well, if the Sheikah are able to transfer and convert energy like this, who’s to say they couldn’t also apply this for offensive purposes?

Exhibit B: Bombs and Arrows

This same technology used to instantly transport and emit energy is used in the Sheikah’s offensive technology 

The bombs and arrows have no battery, and no electricity, no way to store that kind of power used when actually fighting. How is this possible? 

See that? The energy used to form the bombs is the same particles for when you teleport. The energy is coming from somewhere else, not from the Sheikah Slate itself

I mean when you even set off the bomb

You can even see the lines for a few frames of energy being summoned towards the bomb, and then expelled outwards in the blast.

Same story goes for the Ancient Arrow

So why do these Sheikah technologies not need an apparent “source of power?” Simply put, that energy is being stored somewhere else, and being transferred instantaneously to these devices.

Now, “where is this energy being stored?” So glad you asked, because insert segue into

Exhibit C: Blue Flames and other azure features

One might assume that the blue flame is what powers all this technology

And one would be wrong

See, I believe Sheikah technology is powered by some other kind of generator stored deep within the earth. We already see from the Divine Beasts that they can generate power from within the ground, so I’m thinking the actually source of all this blue energy is something deep in the heart of Hyrule

Ok ok, first as to why the blue flames don’t actually power everything

First off, the source of the blue flames? Babam, here they are rising out of the ground. You can even see how the pipes on them connect to the ground

The only pedestals that can house the blue flames are made with specific Sheikah technology. When you use a blue flame on wood or grass or anything, the flames don’t turn blue, they just become regular fire. 

This suggests that the “blue flame” is just a way that energy could be transferred in a fire-like form, but isn’t actually fire itself

The furnaces Purah and Robbie use to power their Sheikah stones? That ain’t no coal furnace, no coal, turbines, steam, or wood to be found. Instead, it’s rigged directly to the ground, sooo again, the blue flame is just a means of transporting energy but isn’t a source in of itself.

Further supporting my belief that the actual source of energy comes somewhere deep below the earth are the towers

That blue rod that lights up when Link activates them? Safe to assume it’s the source of their power, OH and look it connects deep below the ground look at that

The Sheikah are so obsessed with underground stuff. Shrines and towers ruse out of the ground, you take those elevators deep underground, the DLC is deep underground, the Divine Beasts and guardians were underground, the blue flame’s source was from underground, the—

Therefore...the source of the energy, the energy that is being transported to all other Sheikah technology and powering stuff is from underground

And now, I actually address the original request of how Guardians work. Well class, if you have been paying attention and taking notes, this will all make sense

So, please observe Exhibit D: Guardians in the form of this gif

Now, if this laser worked like an actual energy beam and was being formed directly from some power source within this Guardian, would it really be stopped with one measly wooden arrow? The answer is no

See those blue rings forming around it just before it attempts to release a blast? That’s that Sheikah energy, the same stuff that teleports you, the bombs, and the energy on your bombs and ancient swords.

Why are guardians so light that a few swings with a sword can knock them over? Because they have no need for extra energy storage or large batteries, all the energy they need to function is just teleported at a constant rate

When opening them up, you can even see this energy moving through the air

And these things? These cores that are the source of their power?

The blue ring surrounding the larger one is similar to that of the blue rings on the teleportation pads. The smaller one has a small blue node which has the trademark Sheikah blue energy connection. These puppies are simply gateways for energy to be teleported within the guardians, and released to power them and their lasers.

TL;DR Guardians are powered from an external energy source probably stored deep below Hyrule, which is instantaneously teleported to their cores in which they can expel said energy without the need for charging or batteries. 

Quick side note: Also all Guardians are connected through a central information system that is most likely based on the information gathered by the Sheikah Towers [as seen in the photo where guardian locations can be tracked when engaged with one] so the reason why they’re weak to electricity and can’t be submerged in water is probably because they still have individual computer like systems in order to analyze their surroundings and aim and such and is why they are able to sense Link’s presence even when shut off for several years.

And ALSO the guidance stones that drip the water-like substances is just another form in which the Sheikah’s blue energy is transferred and teleported as seen when Purah uses them, canonically moving it from Hyrule Castle to her lab in Hateno. So, location isn’t a problem when you can just teleport energy whenever you want and the only reason she needs the blue flame is because these guidance stones weren’t connected to the typical shrines or towers which as previously stated already have built in power systems underground

Ok I’m done 

[the-jason-todd-effect]

Small thought but

Do you guys think that the guardians and divine beasts could have potentially been sabotaged? I mean looking at the legends and the fact that the guardians have been used against Calamity ganon before without being corrupted, what if some disgruntled Sheikah (Aka the early Yiga Clan) had messed with the ancient technology that protected them from such corruption so the next time Calamity Ganon Resurfaced he could take them over after seeing said vulnerabilities Now for those who say “but a small group of people couldn’t have done so much in so little time’ but the guardians have to work off some common network, hivemind etc so its stands to reason that there’s some central network allowing them to function. Now one could argue but its technology so thats why it got corrupted but I’m not sure the ancient Sheikah would be dumb enough to put out weapons that could be corrupted by their enemy Now I could be totally wrong and this is prolly just a crackpot theory but it actually made me stop for a second and think

[howidiedinbotw]

I jumped into a gorge, and didn't have enough stamina to keep the glider out. Also, as I fell I realized that the place was full of active laser spider bastards. So even when I did figure out how to get to the ground safely, I immediately got shot and died. Before I knew about that though, I saved in midair hoping that would help me figure out how to get to the ground. I looped through my mistakes for a while before I restarted.

[lemonyellowlogic]

im at that point in botw, where im hunting guardians for ancient shafts to make more ancient arrows to hunt more guardians