Hyrule Town Square

[Sabrblade]

The Masterworks artbook announcement was also accompanied by some preview images.

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788812857263747215

 

[Blot]

So how much of the book is going to be reused pages from the BotW one?

 

[Confuzor]

Oddly enough, Im really digging the first Zelda in the bottom row.

 

[Sabrblade]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1789741565839106555

 

[Spin-Out]

I kind of assumed that at some point Skyloft fell apart and was replaced by the City in the Sky from Twilight Princess. Every now and then Hyrule just gets bombarded by pieces of floating cities.

 

[Sabrblade]

I kind of assumed that at some point Skyloft fell apart and was replaced by the City in the Sky from Twilight Princess. Every now and then Hyrule just gets bombarded by pieces of floating cities.

The City in the Sky always struck me as some sort of artificial construct actually built by someone, what with all its propeller-based technology seemingly keeping it aloft in the sky, rather than a natural chunk of earth magically raised into the air like Skyloft was.

 

[Sjogre]

I think that it was bit too close of a tie. Tears was pretty unambiguous about being it's own thing, and the Zonai flying islands seemingly replaced it in the story.

Even aside from being a bit big of a reference, it doesn't fit the architecture used by the Zonai.

 

[Spin-Out]

also skyloft presumably crumbled centuries, possibly even millennia ago. TOTK and BOTW are so far ahead in the timeline that previous Zeldas are in deep time territory.

 

[Glitch]

Skyloft and City in the Sky seemed to be higher up then the zonai ruins.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Could've also just drifted away across the sky. Maybe it's somewhere else on the planet by now and it'll drift back for a future game.

 

[Sabrblade]

At the very least, the devs originally planning to include Skyloft with the other sky islands in TOTK does seem to confirm two things.

First, it means that the Great Plateau is its own separate landmass after all and not a fallen Skyloft as some theorists have previously speculated.

Second, it means that the cloud barrier that the Light Dragon punctures at the beginning of TOTK is likely the very same cloud barrier that kept Skyloft hidden in the sky in SS.