

The graveyard area lines up, with the lost woods to the south west, and there is a smaller pool surrounded by forest to the east. The latest Tweets from remora on the rocks (ennephellemnen): botw. The distinctively shaped lake with a river running south is found in both maps, with a coastline to the east. Death Mountain is in the north, containing Spectacle Rock (about a third of the way along). Note the features that line up between the two areas. Looking at the scale of the map in Zelda 2, there is a possibility they are found further south of the entire Zelda 1 map either that, or they were destroyed at some time in the past.Įdit: I have put together the Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 maps to show the overlap: In A Link to the Past, these are found in somewhat central Hyrule, south of Death Mountain. The question asks about Hyrule Castle and Kakariko Village. It's unclear whether North Castle or any of the towns are still even a part of the smaller little kingdom at this time they might all be outside its borders. The backstory tells us that at one time the entire land of Hyrule was a single country, ruled over by a single monarch, presumably from North Castle, which is where the second game begins and where the sleeping princess Zelda is located. Death Mountain, with the distinctive Spectacle Rock, is found in both games, to give some idea of location - the second game is set mostly to the north of the first game, with Death Mountain being the overlap between them, and the entirety of Zelda 1's map being tucked down in the south west corner at a much smaller scale. The overworld map shares areas showing the little kingdom from the first game, but also shows a much wider area including many towns (Saria, Ruto, Rauru, Mido, Darunia, Nabooru, Old Kasuto, New Kasuto). With the second game in the series, we get more of a look at the larger land of Hyrule. It is unclear exactly how much time passes between Ganon conquering the little unnamed kingdom, and Zelda putting her plan to hide the Triforce and send Impa for help into action it's possible she has been living under Ganon's rule long enough for some time, enough for nature to start reclaiming any potential remains. Either there never were towns in this area of Hyrule, or they were destroyed by Ganon's army. The game seems to be set in a wilderness area of the kingdom there are several mentions to forests and caves in the manual. It's unclear exactly how much of Zelda's kingdom is depicted in the first game, but note that Hyrule itself is a larger land that the kingdom is set within furthermore the kingdom has just been conquered by Ganon, and it's possible that any towns or strongholds it had were razed at the time. The princess of the kingdom, Zelda, scattered the Triforce of Wisdom throughout the realm and commanded her nursemaid Impa to search for a hero to overthrow Ganon, an action with angered Ganon enough to imprison Zelda, and send a force out after Impa, who fled through mountains and forests to escape them. Ganon attacked this kingdom with his army, conquering it and stealing the Triforce of Power. The first game is set in "a little kingdom in the land of Hyrule". Well not sure if you read a few pages up, but i made a theory that talks about this, that all of hyrule is in a supervolcano, and that the eruptions we see ingame is just a smaller vent releasing pressure all the time, each time one vent clogs it erupts at a other spot on hyrule, it will keep doing this till it gets realy clog up to the point it does a other SuperEruption, theory is talk about Here, just note there are a lot of proof on this theory.Sticking only to canon facts from the game/manual: Sadly I don't have much evidence to back this up at the moment. I think the Original Death Mountain by the Desert eventually became dormant and the name was given to a new Volcano that arose and became active. I'm more inclined to believe Death Mountain was the name and location change personally though. Prior to BOTW, Spectacle Rock was always located at Death Mountain.Īnd I really wish this change was something they would address.ĭid the Hylians change the name of Spectacle Rock at Death mountain to something else and give the Spectacle Rock name to a rock formation more fitting near the desert?
