"the World Isn't Kind" Ok??? Much More Importantly Are You?????

Not sure if this was intentional or not, but given these are my two hyperfixations, hello overlap between genshin impact and legend of zelda lore

Difference between a god and a mortal

A thing I noticed about the Zelda timeline is following

Phanes is a being who embodies everything (not Zelda lore but Greek mythology lol the fates exist in Zelda and they are Greek mythology characters so l guess )

Also the heavenly principles in my opinion are pretty great to differentiate between what is above mortals and what isn’t

Every being that can evade at least one of its laws and see beyond the bounds it set is technically a god like being

Because what is above mortality other then godhood

The heavenly laws are life, death , space and time if you can give the middle finger to it you should be above a mortal being

Like already said you need one law broken to be able to break all others even if by technicality or theory

Hylia is a very good example like she is above the concept of space as she keeps spawning as Zelda but not her true self which still exists along with Zelda (because if not what the heck is answering when we visit a hylia statue lol)

Being able to infinity respawn as Zelda puts her above life and death by technicality and being able to respawn through time as often as needed puts her theoretically above time

Wind fish another example as it from what we saw is timeless (being able to appear whenever timeline if we count phantom hourglass and Hyrule warriors whale god as the same entity) being above time means being above life and death and space gets ignored via sheer technicality

Who cares about the concept of space if you can freely travel through it and appear at any point

Also lana and cia who as time guardians obviously have to be above time as well and if they can open portals whenever they ignore space as well and obviously they couldn’t have possibly been around since the beginning if they aren’t capable of breaking life and death

Demise same as hylia is beyond space and death and the rest is a necessity to even be above the first two concepts

Then there is Null as well who is beyond space as well and therefore timeless and above life and death by nature of the first two

And while those beings are still all mostly capable of being destroyed or hindered

Hylia and demise literally are just playing chess and the pawns are the heroes or villains and the playing field is the timeline they don’t really can be truly killed perhaps a bit hindered by eachother but not killed

Null was destroyed by the triforce because it literally couldn’t be defeated any other way

The gods of the Zelda universe are interesting

Found this sketch from earlier this year and I really like it, maybe I should color it properly, but it's pretty as it is already

A Witch (1896) by Edgar Bundy

about a month ago I started replaying all Zelda games in chronological order and ever since then I've been toying with the idea of drawing all/most of the incarnations in some cohesive manner.

I've now finally settled on these Mucha-inspired diptychs, starting of course with the game that started it all!

Not sure if we can jump up, kick back, whip around, and spin our way out of this one, boys.

It's the tiny details that utterly devastate, huh?

I noticed today that when Link goes into the Fire Sanctuary, you can visibly see how tired he is.

Usually when he enters a dungeon he makes this face, getting a bit more intense with each new dungeon he encounters:

But by the time he gets to the sixth one, the Fire Sanctuary, he does this.

Oh, my poor bean.

He is just so, so tired and you can see it in his face, how he closes his eyes and takes a deep breath and physically has to prepare himself. He's exhausted. He doesn't want to go through another dungeon, another boss fight, another thing that will keep him from Zelda. But he knows he has to.

So he takes a moment, allows himself a single deep sigh, and then gets to work. especially after having just received heaping verbal abuse from Scrapper; Link's mental state must be devastating right then

can I please just hug him

Felt like drawing a bunch of Dracula memes just to be silly :p

Read thru a lot of the tags and would like to propose: the bloodline of hylia is the godhood bloodline, and if you're the political power of a land, you want that bloodline tied to yours to control it. Could explain why zelda retains the title of Princess even when she shouldn't. Like hyrules monarchy is just trying to keep literal god within the family. It could be less of a divine mandate and more of a divine leash.

also sorry i'm thinking about the hylian monarchy and the whole 'descended from a goddess' thing. do y'all remember the divine right of kings? can you imagine living in a world where not only is that the ONLY form of government for tens of thousands of years, but any ruler's reign is provably correct and irrevocable? what do u do if the present queen is a bit shit. u are stuck with that lady. she's god

Wow, LEGO really needs to get into the lighting game! Source

Shelton Walsmith (American,b.1963)

Dioxazine Chamber, 2021

Oil on paper