I just quickly canon reviewed SS and boy. It's actually really interesting how Zelda and Nahida's backgrounds parallel and diverge haha. Zelda spent the course of the game remembering her past incarnation as Hylia, right?
Spoilers for Sumeru Archon Quest Nahida also has a predecessor named Rukkhadevata, who created Nahida right before her death. Rukkhadevata considers Nahida to be her in the next samsara, aka her next incarnation. They are not actually the same people though.
BUT what makes this interesting is that over the course of the game we find out that to rid the land of corruption, Rukkhadevata's existence has to be deleted from the world tree, because she became corrupted. So Nahida does delete her, and history is rewritten such that now the entire world believes Nahida never had a predecessor, she was the original all along. Nahida believes this too, and thinks she forgot everything and lost all the power she had before the calamity (which was what killed Rukkhadevata).
SORRY FOR CANON LORE DUMP I just think??? the potential for their interactions would be really interesting based on all this
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Spoilers for Sumeru Archon Quest
Nahida also has a predecessor named Rukkhadevata, who created Nahida right before her death. Rukkhadevata considers Nahida to be her in the next samsara, aka her next incarnation. They are not actually the same people though.
BUT what makes this interesting is that over the course of the game we find out that to rid the land of corruption, Rukkhadevata's existence has to be deleted from the world tree, because she became corrupted. So Nahida does delete her, and history is rewritten such that now the entire world believes Nahida never had a predecessor, she was the original all along. Nahida believes this too, and thinks she forgot everything and lost all the power she had before the calamity (which was what killed Rukkhadevata).
SORRY FOR CANON LORE DUMP I just think??? the potential for their interactions would be really interesting based on all this