hehehe, this be my FF4 Golbez rant! Doing much the same thing with Extree-man, gonna try and list some stuff chronologically if possible. More character analysis than timeline though. Golbez doesn't do all that much actually, its more about Cecil and his inner struggles. But here we go!
1. Lunarians, drifting through space, possibly looking for more intelligent life as we are, or looking for a home planet to terraform...happen upon "Earth". They are mostly peaceful, and find that the Earth is inhabited, but humans aren't as technologically evolved as they are, so they are going to stasis until they can coexist together. But....Zemus doesn't like this idea, and wants to exterminate the humans so they could terraform it for Lunarians. KluYa wants to go to earth and speed up the process by teaching the humans magic. KluYa is allowed to go to Earth, while Zemus is locked away in stasis...no one liked his idea.
2. On earth, while he is teaching magic, KluYa hooks up with a human female, and they have Theodore, a first born half lunarian/human. While raising him, KluYa receives some resistance from the humans because they opposed this magic. Meanwhile, possibly sometime when Theodore is around 5-7 years old, (old enough to speak and think clearly about things), his mother is pregnant again with Cecil.
3. Cecil is born, although the delivery takes their mother's life. KluYa shortly after is killed by the magic hating faction of humans, leaving the brothers orphaned. At this traumatic time, Zemus in his stasis still can telepathically see what is going on, and uses his psychic powers to send hypnotic suggestions to Theodore. He breaks his spirit, telling the child he is worthless, he is nothing more than a fly nipping at a great dragon's corpse. A golubaeza.
4. During this time of manipulation, Zemus tells Theodore, who has changed his name to Golubeza (golbez), that his brother is the reason his mother died, and that he has no family now. Feeling betrayed and vengeful, Golbez doesn't kill Cecil, but rather abandons him in front of a kingdom, leaving him for whatever fate decided.
5. It is unknown what happens after this to Golbez, but presumably he was further instructed by Zeromus to delve into the dark arts until his magic was formidable enough to wipe the planet clean of humans. He already by birth had an affinity for black magic, but could not cast white magic, try as he might. He tried upon his mother's death to cast cure, but failed.
6. So, around 20 years later Cecil is employed by the king in his conquest of other nations to wipe out other kindgoms. He becomes a dark knight, kills people without question and his heart is evil. Not totally evil, because he loves Rosa and has a rivalry with Kain over her, but is more following orders. Ok, so sometime, Golbez makes his first move at destroying humans by taking control over the most powerful nation.
7. Golbez, having 20 years of instruction to perfect his magic and inherent Lunarian abilities can use mind control on humans and does so on the king. He controls the Red Wings, an elite airship military branch, of which Cecil is captain to kill particular nations so that he could go steal their crystals unharmed.
----Kinda apart from this-------
1. Feymarch is a hidden land of esperkin, the summoners, and the land of Espers themselves. Time moves differently there, faster than in earth time. Unbeknownst to everybody, magic has been on earth for awhile before the Lunarians got there. Rydia is a summoner, her mother is the Mist dragon, she has an affinity for magic, even more than just being an esperkin. Mist in the ff universe was defined here, more as the evolution of etherwind, and ether being the liquid form of mana.
------Back to timeline story-----
1. When golbez goes to steal the water crystal from the esperkin and eidolons (espers), he is confronted by team and summons the shadow dragon, in which the mist dragon counters and kills the shadow dragon. The team then thinks theyve defeated golbez, and stupidly walk away, only for him to escape.
2. Ultimately after he gains all the crystals, he uses them to activate Alexander---i mean the Lunarian planet terraformer that looks just like Alexander, which will essentially crush all humans and transform the land. The team foils him here too, and break the mind control thats on him. Golbez already had recognized Cecil as his brother long ago, even after having never seen him throughout his childhood.
Note: Golbez was simply given hypnotic suggestions, not full mind control. He was greatly influenced to behave evily and kill the humans, but he also was aware of what he was doing, much like how anakin turned into darth vader because of the dark side influence in Star Wars. When the influence stopped, he was able to think more clearly, he was aware that he must take responsibility for his actions as they were his in the end.
3. Cecil and group join up with FuSoYa (?) who happens to be Cecil's elder uncle, and defeat zemus, who transforms into zeromus, a blob of folded skin and eyes moon monster. Everyone happy again.
4. In the end, Golbez decides to return to the red moon with the Lunarians in their slumber, as they drift in the universe looking for another suitable planet. I believe he feels that he could never possibly stay on earth with Cecil knowing what he did to harm the humans, or the possibility of him being controlled again or just flipping out and like accidentally summoning shadow dragon to come eat stuff.
**So, its kinda a sad ending, but Golbez is quite wise in secluding himself from humanity in order to protect it and his brother. In dissidia, his personality is explored more, as he seems to be in repentance for his actions. He is the only villain on chaos' side to speak with Cosmos, and intervienes to help the heroes. He is possibly among the oldest of the villains too, at least aging about 50 if the After Years is taken into account.
*Aside: Jecht is probably in his mid forties, Kefka is 35, Cloud of Darkness is possibly thousands of years old, the emperor it is unknown, but has probably ceased to age, Garland is probably older too, in the 35-60 range but has ceased to age because of his time loop, Sephiroth is around 30 or so i believe, Ultimecia is like around 35 but has control over time, Kuja is like around 20 I would guess.
There are some remarks he makes to add to this claim about doing things in your youth; he is more reserved and wise fully understanding what he did in his youth was inexusable, now serving as a shadow to Cecil, and protecting him from the darkness. He claims that he refuses to be ruthlessly evil as the forces of darkness and chaos command, yet he cannot belong to the light because of his affinity for darkness. Cecil disagrees, hoping that one day his brother will join him in the light.
---After Years---
In the after years, Golbez comes back with FuSoYa and the other Lunarians because of a mysterious disturbance they think might be Zemus again. The moon has grown incredibly, and for the first time, Golbez is seen without his dark armor. He is shown as a relatively youthful, muscled man, with longer white hair than Cecil's and wielding a large oversized sword. He almost resembles a mountain man if you ask me....no shirt no shoes, only a decorative kilt or loincloth really. Maybe he's going for a more natural, peaceful existence? Odd design, but enlightening.
I think the most interesting thing about the design of after years is that the characters dont really look aged. It could be very possible that Lunarians age at a different rate than humans, much like esperkin in Feymarch, but Rosa and Kain are human, and look perhaps slightly older than they were 17 years ago, but not much. They still bear their youthful, rinkle-free skin and no facial hair or signs of aging. Kain even gets some young, stylish, white dragoon armor when he accepts his dark side.
A last curiousity of Golbez though, he is shown in the DS remake that he had short cut, brown hair and eyes when he was little, yet when he is older is shown to have long white hair. Could his hair color have changed over time as natural for Lunarians, or is it simply a feature of his age? Its hard to say because Cecil also has white hair, and has had white hair from youth to middle age. His son Ceodore also has short, styled white hair. Perhaps this was simply a feature not thought about in the DS remake. Its not a big deal, just curious. I would think that its not a feature of his age, it seems all Lunarians, or even those with but a little Lunarian blood have white hair, but rather that in youth they may have different colors, but in age it changes to white. Kind of the opposite of cat eye color....they are all blue at first, but change when they are older.
***So, a troubled man in repentence for his evil, ever loathing and loving his shadow. It makes us reflect upon the predicaments life brings upon us; such is the existence of Golbez. A much more difficult and interesting villain than most, almost as in depth as a hero. Not very menacing I suppose, save the armor, but then again he never was all evil; only a distraught and angry puppet. Zemus gave him a reason to fight by breaking his spirit when he was at his lowest, and twisting his mind to reject humanity, to blame them for his pain and suffering, and to train him for the purpose of revenge. Only upon age can he look back and realize how misguided he was...but it is unclear if he still dislikes humanity. It can be speculated from his dialogue in Dissidia that he believes human friends will only live to betray, so he does still hold a grudge against them, but not enough to kill them.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
The void, the void, the void!!!!!
Grawr! The void! Submit to it!
This is my ekutsudesu rant! Oh where to begin....I guess at the beginning! Okay!
1. There was Enuo. He was a powerful mage. He created the Void and used it to cause havoc in the world. He was defeated by 12 legendary weapons, 12 heroes. He dies, his soul doesn't though.
2. Void is sealed within the rift, space between the two worlds. Made by breaking crystals into two halves....the world splits into 2 different dimensions.
Note: It can possibly be presumed that there was no such things as black holes before this event then.
------somewhere in between Enuo's death and possibly 100-300 years before the main game----
1. Enuo is reincarnated as a tree in the forest of Moore.
2. Somehow or another, demons got sealed into it. Possibly through demon absorbtion, or people of the time sealing the most powerful/troublesome demons into tree.
--------1000 years after Enuo's death------------
1. Main game. Exdeath emerges from the tree form, having compiled enough demons to transform and gain powers and stuff. Obviously, he then causes havoc being an incarnation of Enuo, and possibly on a revenge run.
2. 4 warriors of dawn defeat him and seal him into the rift with the Void. One stays in the second world to make sure he doesn't escape there.
----------30 years later-----------------
1. Dorgann makes a family, hes like 40-50 now, in the second world. His son is Bartz, the game's hero.
2. Exdeath has been draining power of the crystals, primarily of the second world to break his seal from the rift.
3. He succeeds in doing this and goes to the 1st world to wreak havoc and again revenge. He builds a floating castle out of human flesh, and declares himself lord ruler of it as he continues to learn the secrets of controlling the void.
Note: He is a reincarnation of Enuo, not Enuo himself, so he has to learn how to control the Void all over again, albeit easier, but it takes some time still. 30 years and he still hadn't fully mastered it.
2nd Note: While in the 1st world, he is mainly draining the power of the crystals there to break the seal on the Void so he can use it. In the meantime, torturing humans and taking over their kingdoms was something to do.
4. New dawn warriors go to 1st world and attempt to break into his castle. Exdeath just finishes his barrier on the entire place, and the heroes are tossed somewhere, miles away.
5. Heroes gather the old dawn warriors, and together they go try and unseal the guardian tree that houses the 1st world's crystals, the key to the seal on the Void. But fail, as exdeath drains the last of their power and they break.
6. Void is unleashed upon hapless cities as the worlds fuse back together into one. The rift still remains though, oddly enough, just not between those worlds anymore. It is still connected to the world, but is more like a satellite dimension like heaven and hell would be. I guess a creation of a hell would be the appropriate event. Within the rift, exdeath promised demons that they could live there and cause whatever havoc they pleased.
7. Exdeath moves into the rift after he is defeated at his castle, and sets up camp there. He knows how to control the Void now, and lets his roots grow as his true form still is a tree. The heroes go into rift too, and defeat him there.
8. Exdeath is consumed by the Void, and transforms into Neo-Exdeath, which is a compilation of all the demons inside of him. He really loses it this time, and wants to destroy everything at all costs, then himself. Needless to say, Exdeath has a condition I like to call, focused insanity.
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He has a one track mind, though his planning is quite well done. I read once a question, why does he want to destroy everything with the Void? And the response: -Who the hell knows!- This is the easy way out, but I think I can come up with a more fulfilling answer. I think he wants to create a sort of perfectness with the Void, as everything is combined and time ceases to flow, it is an "inevitable eternity". This may be true; in the far distant future we may all be consumed by black holes, but the problem arises when he tries to force this eternity on people much too early, sort of like an imbalanced reaper; hence the name "Ex-death".
Note: Another reaper in ff9, Kuja is similar...a balancer with a mind and motive of his own strays off his path, and is only corrected by Zidane, yet another reaper who has completely disregarded his purpose. Although the main difference here is that these reapers are artificially made, while Exdeath was naturally grown.
--Warning: Deep thoughts ahead------
Still it doesn't quite make sense. People still exist within the Void, matter cannot be destroyed. As seen in ff5, exdeath was consumed by the Void. In ff3, Cloud of darkness emerges from the Void. Spirits, humans, and demons alike are sucked in by the Void. It really is just an alternate form of existence, everything is combined, mashed together, in an infinitely small space, that inside could be infinitely large as space is. I suppose the thing I get confused about is why not just leave the world the way it is if he doesn't intend to rule over this singularity? It is not very easy to understand the reasoning of the insane and deranged, but I think on one hand, he does want to rule over it...and does with much skill; on the other hand he wants to be a part of it, it is an inevitable fate, or possibly because one can't rule over stuff if there's nothing to rule over...I don't know. An interesting predicament is...one cannot effectively rule over something and yet be a part of it too...not in that sense.
-We are human, we rule over other humans, though are still part of the human race. But, you cannot rule over yourself, as in one individual over another, unless you have split personalities. You can only rule over yourself by yourself in saying that no laws apply to you, no one rules you but you.-
I guess the only way for it to make sense is to consider what Exdeath is...he's made up of many smaller demons being ruled by one main guy with horns and a jewel. So he would fit the whole multiple personailty deal, a main self ruling over your other selves, as a whole being both the subjugator and the subjugatees. Go personality disorders! Anyway, backing out of the deep thought, exdeath pretty much sums it up in his phrase, "the laws of the universe mean nothing!" He has control over one of the oddest and most powerful essences of the universe, so why should he have to make sense to anyone. He breaks and makes laws as he goes along...really.
***So, that's all I have to say about Ekutsudesu today. He's mean, kinda green, and a Void controlling machine. Alright, so he's aqua in the game and more light blue in dissidia. Is he an ass? Yes. Most definitely. Is he a badass? Up there with Sephiroth in my opinion. A little cliche, but that adds to his charm...or hatred I suppose. A good villain is one you love to hate, and he certainly fits the bill.
This is my ekutsudesu rant! Oh where to begin....I guess at the beginning! Okay!
1. There was Enuo. He was a powerful mage. He created the Void and used it to cause havoc in the world. He was defeated by 12 legendary weapons, 12 heroes. He dies, his soul doesn't though.
2. Void is sealed within the rift, space between the two worlds. Made by breaking crystals into two halves....the world splits into 2 different dimensions.
Note: It can possibly be presumed that there was no such things as black holes before this event then.
------somewhere in between Enuo's death and possibly 100-300 years before the main game----
1. Enuo is reincarnated as a tree in the forest of Moore.
2. Somehow or another, demons got sealed into it. Possibly through demon absorbtion, or people of the time sealing the most powerful/troublesome demons into tree.
--------1000 years after Enuo's death------------
1. Main game. Exdeath emerges from the tree form, having compiled enough demons to transform and gain powers and stuff. Obviously, he then causes havoc being an incarnation of Enuo, and possibly on a revenge run.
2. 4 warriors of dawn defeat him and seal him into the rift with the Void. One stays in the second world to make sure he doesn't escape there.
----------30 years later-----------------
1. Dorgann makes a family, hes like 40-50 now, in the second world. His son is Bartz, the game's hero.
2. Exdeath has been draining power of the crystals, primarily of the second world to break his seal from the rift.
3. He succeeds in doing this and goes to the 1st world to wreak havoc and again revenge. He builds a floating castle out of human flesh, and declares himself lord ruler of it as he continues to learn the secrets of controlling the void.
Note: He is a reincarnation of Enuo, not Enuo himself, so he has to learn how to control the Void all over again, albeit easier, but it takes some time still. 30 years and he still hadn't fully mastered it.
2nd Note: While in the 1st world, he is mainly draining the power of the crystals there to break the seal on the Void so he can use it. In the meantime, torturing humans and taking over their kingdoms was something to do.
4. New dawn warriors go to 1st world and attempt to break into his castle. Exdeath just finishes his barrier on the entire place, and the heroes are tossed somewhere, miles away.
5. Heroes gather the old dawn warriors, and together they go try and unseal the guardian tree that houses the 1st world's crystals, the key to the seal on the Void. But fail, as exdeath drains the last of their power and they break.
6. Void is unleashed upon hapless cities as the worlds fuse back together into one. The rift still remains though, oddly enough, just not between those worlds anymore. It is still connected to the world, but is more like a satellite dimension like heaven and hell would be. I guess a creation of a hell would be the appropriate event. Within the rift, exdeath promised demons that they could live there and cause whatever havoc they pleased.
7. Exdeath moves into the rift after he is defeated at his castle, and sets up camp there. He knows how to control the Void now, and lets his roots grow as his true form still is a tree. The heroes go into rift too, and defeat him there.
8. Exdeath is consumed by the Void, and transforms into Neo-Exdeath, which is a compilation of all the demons inside of him. He really loses it this time, and wants to destroy everything at all costs, then himself. Needless to say, Exdeath has a condition I like to call, focused insanity.
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He has a one track mind, though his planning is quite well done. I read once a question, why does he want to destroy everything with the Void? And the response: -Who the hell knows!- This is the easy way out, but I think I can come up with a more fulfilling answer. I think he wants to create a sort of perfectness with the Void, as everything is combined and time ceases to flow, it is an "inevitable eternity". This may be true; in the far distant future we may all be consumed by black holes, but the problem arises when he tries to force this eternity on people much too early, sort of like an imbalanced reaper; hence the name "Ex-death".
Still it doesn't quite make sense. People still exist within the Void, matter cannot be destroyed. As seen in ff5, exdeath was consumed by the Void. In ff3, Cloud of darkness emerges from the Void. Spirits, humans, and demons alike are sucked in by the Void. It really is just an alternate form of existence, everything is combined, mashed together, in an infinitely small space, that inside could be infinitely large as space is. I suppose the thing I get confused about is why not just leave the world the way it is if he doesn't intend to rule over this singularity? It is not very easy to understand the reasoning of the insane and deranged, but I think on one hand, he does want to rule over it...and does with much skill; on the other hand he wants to be a part of it, it is an inevitable fate, or possibly because one can't rule over stuff if there's nothing to rule over...I don't know. An interesting predicament is...one cannot effectively rule over something and yet be a part of it too...not in that sense.
-We are human, we rule over other humans, though are still part of the human race. But, you cannot rule over yourself, as in one individual over another, unless you have split personalities. You can only rule over yourself by yourself in saying that no laws apply to you, no one rules you but you.-
I guess the only way for it to make sense is to consider what Exdeath is...he's made up of many smaller demons being ruled by one main guy with horns and a jewel. So he would fit the whole multiple personailty deal, a main self ruling over your other selves, as a whole being both the subjugator and the subjugatees. Go personality disorders! Anyway, backing out of the deep thought, exdeath pretty much sums it up in his phrase, "the laws of the universe mean nothing!" He has control over one of the oddest and most powerful essences of the universe, so why should he have to make sense to anyone. He breaks and makes laws as he goes along...really.
***So, that's all I have to say about Ekutsudesu today. He's mean, kinda green, and a Void controlling machine. Alright, so he's aqua in the game and more light blue in dissidia. Is he an ass? Yes. Most definitely. Is he a badass? Up there with Sephiroth in my opinion. A little cliche, but that adds to his charm...or hatred I suppose. A good villain is one you love to hate, and he certainly fits the bill.
Thanks givings all around
Thanks for everything, everyone. The nation says thanks today, but unfortunately only once a year.... Hmm, we are quite selfish arent we. Oh well, now to the meat and potatoes and juice of my rant today: thanks squarenix for final fantasy games. lol. More more in depth, I want to look at Final fantasy 5 again. It piques my interest not only once, but twice! There must be something more to it then. Often overlooked, ffv was just as great as any other "classic" ff game---also Exdeath's theme is one of my favorite villain themes in Final Fantasy series, among Kuja and Seymour's themes. Classic ff's have that snes feel to them, the stories are also very much alike; yet explore some very odd realms. I think the classics explore more and push literary capabilities more than recent and new games do, with the exception of 10 perhaps. Looking back, FF1 was phenomenal for its time story wise, I still can't even understand it! XD Going back in time, to corrupt the future and all that yummy paradoxical stuff. FF2 a little less amazing, but still good...Mateus' soul splits into good and evil while still being primarily evil...one is ruler or hell, other of heaven it seems. Kinda generic, but ok. It is another game that is easily overlooked. FF3 introduces the whole Void idea and adding more elements to the ff universe-- so far there was: fire, water, wind, earth, light, darkness, and void. Void is not really an element of the crystals though....its more of a space-time trash can. lol. a black hole dimension really, where everything is dumped....ff5 elaborates on this idea, as the Void is a black hole, it is alive as much as it is active, it cannot think for itself, but yet it is much like the processes of the earth, they occur, but there is no reason why they occur, they just do. The earth doesnt think for itself, I'm going to do convection today :3 So that being the case...Exdeath controls the power of the essence of black holes. Since no one really knows what happens in a singularity, it makes for a good game realm/topic. In the FF universe, appartenly inside the singularity that is the Void, there is space...basically all that it has consumed, so stars, worlds, ppl, spirits, etc. The places that get abducted by Exdeath still exist as stated in a previous rant, they just are in different dimensions. It works out nicely that upon the defeat of neo exdeath, the places get put back, but there shouldnt be any reason for this to happen except at the will of exdeath or of a person in control of the Void at the time of his downfall. It should be noted that exdeath never "dies", but is merely never heard from again. I think that his soul is trapped within the singularity, which provides a nice way for him to not return for a third performance. An anime was made as a sequel to this game, one i have not yet watched but would like to. But yes, my next rant will be about exdeath. Anyways moving on...ff4 was so interesting; very sci-fi like, yet still fantasyish. The appearance of a 2nd moon, (deathstar) basically, but with a whole race of ppl on there, the Lunarians. I'm not certain, but I believe the Lunarians are capable of telepathy and limited mind control, but as an example of Zemus and Golbez, it is limited by proximity and blood. Zemus could only control other Lunarians it seemed, and Golbez was the only half-lunarian of age to understand and be influenced. It is one of the few ff where the main villain is connected to the hero by blood, and afterwards repents for his actions. again crystal elements are essential to this game, and light and darkness are present as well. Cecil makes a decision to become the embodiment of light, a paladin, while Golbez is the embodiment of darkness, further than a dark knight...a warlock, who through lunarian magic training has developed his powers and unlocked his magic potential as much as a half lunarian can. I would assume that his physical appearance is the human traits kicking in, most Lunarians depicted are somewhat frail beings physically, while Golbez has a built physique. Without ranting too much about him, lets continue...each interesting villain will probably get a rant cause there stories are not revealed as much as heroes. Lastly, ff6 was pretty standard, the introduction of the backstory of espers was revealed and added in the ff universe; they arent just summons, they come from the esper world. Being half esper, terra can do "trance" a special ability allowing one to gain the powers of their esper heritage. This was the only ff where the villain actually won in a more definite sense....Kefka suceeded in taking over the world...and it was up to the heroes to rebel from what was left and bring him down. Alot of people like Kefka because he reminds them of Batman's Joker, although Kefka is more of a flamboyant nihilist who attained god-like powers. It is questionable how much of a nihilist he is, as it was 1-2 years after the take over when the heroes finally arose to stop him. He seemed complacent in destroying what was known as the natural world, but twisting it into a harsh dark world instead of simply destroying it..as in vaporize. There is no villain capable of that as of yet in the ff universe. The closest to a classical sense of destroying the entire world, and not just cleansing it of humans is probably exdeath's sceme or ultimecia's time compression. That's all I have to say on the classic ffs. Tune in next time when I rant about exdeath, story of ff5 explained in a semi-logical fashion, as I go down the list of ff villians. :3
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Zora---heads or tails?
So....hello again! Back with another rant today. This time its all about Legend of Zelda, and Zoras. I was considering dressing up as a zora, specifially queen rutela, from twillight princess. She's so pretty! I've researched Zoras before...and ranted about it before, but have gained a little more insight on their specifics. It seems that as for the Sea Zora, the menfolk outnumber the females by alot. This could explain that why all of the female Zora are in high status positions and are honored/valued. Females are usually distinguished by their large bulbous heads, with minature eyes on them. I have concluded though that this might be a trait of only young female zora--that it might take longer for their full head tails to grow, and as children and young adults they simply have sort of nubs. Males as seen from Prince Ralis have tails from the begining, that simply grow into fuller tails as they age. The reasoning then why Rutela's head-tail is long and sinewy instead of blunt is that she is older. Much older as to outlive her husband.
Then there is the matter of diversity within the zora species. It seems that they are just as diverse as hylians, having different colorations and physical appearances. Some zora's fins behave much like hair would, while others simply hangs down as would long ears or a head covering. Still others do not have extra head fins at all. Queen Rutela is the only Sea zora to have a stingray or manta -like head tail instead of regular fish fins seen. This must also be a variant. The ancient zora spirit in Wind Waker was one of few females to have a full head tail with fins. This reinforces my theory on tail length related to age.
-My next ecamination is of the male zora. There seems to be alot more variance with them, even in form. Some zora resemble young hylian men, save for their tails and fins, yet others appear as bloated pufferfish or even toadlike--like Toto or King Zora. The reason for this is unknown. I suppose it simply could be the large variance in Zora, or it could be that Zora males on the heavier side, not only change weight, but grow into or change forms. It also seems that Zoras in leadership posistions are very bloated fishlike beings, maybe this is a shared trait that distiguishes them...like queen and princess bees, or it could just be that they are very fat. It could be the lineages of Zora as well; perhaps some having mixed lineages with River Zora, which are more amphibian and monster like in appearance.
-River Zora also apparently have a king, but he simply resembles a large river zora. River Zora also seem to have a large diversity in appearance, but all of their seen forms are similarly monsterous and/or bestial in appearance. They span from a rouge group of Sea Zora that rejected the old ways, and for some reason hate most Hylians as well as other intruders upon their territory. At least I think thats what I remember. In their rejection of "humanity" they evolved to take on a more bestial and fierce appearance, looking and acting more like wild fish than a civilized society. All river Zora have been seen to have fins on the sides of their heads, although some can walk on all fours, and others are strictly bipedal. Still more have true fish tails instead of legs at all. I can perceive very little about the society of River Zora because very little has been revealed. The seem to have a heirarchical system just as Sea Zora do, with a king and queen, and royal family. Their way of life seems to be very territorial, aggressive, and violent.
I think that's all for now, maybe I'll get started on a costume or two :3
Then there is the matter of diversity within the zora species. It seems that they are just as diverse as hylians, having different colorations and physical appearances. Some zora's fins behave much like hair would, while others simply hangs down as would long ears or a head covering. Still others do not have extra head fins at all. Queen Rutela is the only Sea zora to have a stingray or manta -like head tail instead of regular fish fins seen. This must also be a variant. The ancient zora spirit in Wind Waker was one of few females to have a full head tail with fins. This reinforces my theory on tail length related to age.
-My next ecamination is of the male zora. There seems to be alot more variance with them, even in form. Some zora resemble young hylian men, save for their tails and fins, yet others appear as bloated pufferfish or even toadlike--like Toto or King Zora. The reason for this is unknown. I suppose it simply could be the large variance in Zora, or it could be that Zora males on the heavier side, not only change weight, but grow into or change forms. It also seems that Zoras in leadership posistions are very bloated fishlike beings, maybe this is a shared trait that distiguishes them...like queen and princess bees, or it could just be that they are very fat. It could be the lineages of Zora as well; perhaps some having mixed lineages with River Zora, which are more amphibian and monster like in appearance.
-River Zora also apparently have a king, but he simply resembles a large river zora. River Zora also seem to have a large diversity in appearance, but all of their seen forms are similarly monsterous and/or bestial in appearance. They span from a rouge group of Sea Zora that rejected the old ways, and for some reason hate most Hylians as well as other intruders upon their territory. At least I think thats what I remember. In their rejection of "humanity" they evolved to take on a more bestial and fierce appearance, looking and acting more like wild fish than a civilized society. All river Zora have been seen to have fins on the sides of their heads, although some can walk on all fours, and others are strictly bipedal. Still more have true fish tails instead of legs at all. I can perceive very little about the society of River Zora because very little has been revealed. The seem to have a heirarchical system just as Sea Zora do, with a king and queen, and royal family. Their way of life seems to be very territorial, aggressive, and violent.
I think that's all for now, maybe I'll get started on a costume or two :3
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