Sheikah History (maybe spoilers)

Harashi · January 14, 2007, 08:06:21 PM

Now this isn't fact but mere guess-work and a bit of story, this would make for a nice fan fiction but that seems a bit too geeky for me, and if you steal it w/o my permission I'll pickle your kidneys.

At the beginning of hyrule when humans and humanoids were created a human king was appointed by the goddess Farore, with this chosen royalty defenders of the crown were chosen. The sheikah whom had great abilities in stealth and secrecy were created.

At this time the Triforce was still in plain veiw in the world of light, the group of sheikah whom guarded it soon became corrupted with the power and turned on the king, several loyal sheikah attempted to stop them but were slain. The goddesses seeing this sealed it away and banished the rouge sheikah to the twilight realm where they were transfigured and practiced their shadow magicks.

After this affair the king ordered the remaining sheikah to live only in shadow in case any hyruleans that were biased to the sheikah, or were loyal to the rouge sheikah (these hyruleans became the gerudo) might harm them or turn against the crown.

The sheikah there after hid themselves leaving only scant evidence of their existence. In case the sheikah and the Hyrulean royalty were sepperated the gossip stones were created to allow communication in cryptic and seemingly meaningless messages.

Throughout the ages the sheikah bore their insignia, the crying eye on clothing, flags, tattoos, etc.. Many of the descendants of the sheikah knew nothing of their role, but knew only that their insignia and practices were part of culture. The Sheikah all carry some form of jewellry that contain a peice of gossip stone (the stone given to Link in TWW) from which the sheikah could be called upon by the royal family in times of need.

Despite what many hyruleans beleived the sheikah never died out but merely "dissappeared" from the society of hyrule.

And there you have it.

Eralk Fang · January 15, 2007, 05:20:53 AM

Very interesting theory! It's not exactly my cup of tea, but still interesting.

I have a few things to add. Zant bears the Gerudo (albeit with swirls on it) symbol even before he meets Ganondorf. I've always thought this points to at least one Gerudo among the original Twili. In your theory, though, you postulate that rogue Sheikah become Gerudo. If you want to work that into your theory, you could say that was a symbol of the rogue Sheikah, rebelling against the traditional eye (crying or not crying yet) of their elders.

One more thing- while the king could be human, when we see the King of Hyrule, he is always Hylian. The name Hyrule can be derived from Hylian rule (fanon or not, I don't know- but I still think it's neat.). And when we don't see him, Zelda is always Hylian, meaning that her father (deceased or not) is probably Hylian as well.

Harashi · January 15, 2007, 08:38:23 AM

I was simply referring to them as humans because in many games hyruleans are known as humans although they are a different race.

Eralk Fang · January 15, 2007, 08:43:57 AM

Ah, okay. Hyruleans, to me, refers to everyone that lives in Hyrule- Gerudo, Zora, Hylian, everybody- it's more of a nationality, not a race. Humans are the people with the rounded ears (Ilia in Twilight Princess, Malon and Talon in the Oracle Series). Just clearing that up, sorry.

Paul · January 29, 2007, 06:19:55 AM

You mentioned the gerudo as the hylians that were with the rogue sheikah, but gerudo are a different race, proven (for me) by the fact that only 1 male is born every 100 years.
I agree with your story with the slight difference that I think that the hylian kept using the mirror of twilight to punish people and that way the gerudo (the gerudo male being their leader, and them being known as thieves) came to the twilight realm. (thus explaining the gerudo symbol on Zant). I hope that made some sense $:-\$

IronKnuckle · February 14, 2007, 04:21:03 AM

Good theory. The only part I have trouble accepting is that some of the Hylians became Gerudo. The Gerudo look alot diffrent the the Hylians and the Hylians don't have only women like the Gerudo. In my oppinion the Zora, Goron, Dekus, and Gerudo were all compleatly diffrent spiecies, while the Hylians and the Shiekah were once the same spiecies but one or the other was changed by magic or some other force into another spiecies.

Mysterious F. · February 14, 2007, 08:15:57 AM

I don't really think that the Sheikah and Twili have any connection. The Twili immediately went after the power of the Triforce when the world was created. Plus, ALL the Twili were sealed in the Twili realm. At least Impa is known to be a live Sheikah, so that disproves the Twili part.

And the Gerudo are a seperate race, simple as that.