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
yes, essentially! skyward sword puts this particular zelda in the role of a traditional miko rather than a princess so a lot of her narrative deals with being a vessel for divinity and all that entails, considering hylia's divine morals are not very kindly to mortals lmao
that is .. extremely interesting 🤔 nahida, do you have zelda inspo going on here... less jokingly, the cycle of samsara is a big inspiration when it came to skyward sword's dungeons, so there's a lot of interesting connections to be made here. maybe it's time for nahida to go praying in front of the goddess statues WHO KNOWS......
jokes aside i would love to explore this at some point if you're interested in our cr working to that!! i think it'd be a lot of fun and help with one of my major goals with zelly ;w;
pls don't apologize i love the excitement people exude when they talk about their canons. it's sincerely enjoyable, and i do really agree with you!
tbh actually yes, Genshin takes huge inspiration from LoZ, especially for the country Nahida leads. We even have our own Koroks!!
I was originally thinking it might be difficult because Nahida forgot the true version of her past but then I realized... This isn't her world, so it's entirely possible to somehow have the true version of her past appear as some kind of dream or something. And boy if Nahida remembers, that's gonna be a whole can of worms being opened and I'd love to explore it with Zelda
omg. I'm actually really excited for this now
WOO yes I love listening to people talk about their canons too!!
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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
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that is .. extremely interesting 🤔 nahida, do you have zelda inspo going on here... less jokingly, the cycle of samsara is a big inspiration when it came to skyward sword's dungeons, so there's a lot of interesting connections to be made here. maybe it's time for nahida to go praying in front of the goddess statues WHO KNOWS......
jokes aside i would love to explore this at some point if you're interested in our cr working to that!! i think it'd be a lot of fun and help with one of my major goals with zelly ;w;
pls don't apologize i love the excitement people exude when they talk about their canons. it's sincerely enjoyable, and i do really agree with you!
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I was originally thinking it might be difficult because Nahida forgot the true version of her past but then I realized... This isn't her world, so it's entirely possible to somehow have the true version of her past appear as some kind of dream or something. And boy if Nahida remembers, that's gonna be a whole can of worms being opened and I'd love to explore it with Zelda
omg. I'm actually really excited for this now
WOO yes I love listening to people talk about their canons too!!