JuicieJ
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Unless you were living in a cave until Skyward Sword came out, you probably know that I was 100% sure that the Dark Tribe/"dark interlopers" would be the main enemy of the game and that the plot would be the depiction of the Interloper War. Well...things didn't quite go down like I thought they would. No war was directly held in the game, the Mirror of Twilight wasn't seen, the original King of Darkness didn't weild the Trident of Power, and the full Dark Tribe was never revealed. You might think this would lead me to believe that Demise isn't the King of Darkness. Well, that's wrong. I still believe without a doubt that the demon king, Demise, was indeed the leader of the Dark Tribe. Reason being the overall plot of SS still spells it out quite nicely.
If you payed attention to the ink blot opening of the game that takes place before the home menu screen (when no files have been saved), you may have noticed that Ghirahim was among the figures shown when a group of demons invaded the surface in order to obtain the Triforce, which fits the backstory of the "dark interlopers" perfectly. Ghirahim's magic has virtually identical looks to that of the Twili's magic. The Twili got their name after the Dark Tribe was sealed in the Mirror of Twilight, and, in Twilight Princess, Midna thought Zant was using their ancestor's "old magic", as Zant called it. With the stories of the Demon Tribe and the "dark interlopers" matching up and with Ghirahim's magic looking identical to the Twili's magic, I think it's safe to assume that Ghirahim is one of the "dark interlopers", which the King of Darkness is the leader of. (Do take notice that Ghirahim wouldn't be one of the Twili, though. He wasn't sealed in the Mirror of Twilight. If he's indeed part of the Dark Tribe, that is.)
Now, onto Demise himself. Speficially, Demise and Hylia. In the ink blot opening and when Zelda revealed that she was Hylia reborn and that The Imprisoned was Demise in an incomplete form, we learned that the goddess waged war with Demon Tribe. However, Zelda implies that she only directly fought with Demise. She never said she fought the rest of the Demon Lords. This makes sense. We know it was the Light Spirits -- Faron, Eldin, and Lanayru -- that sealed away the "dark interlopers". Skyward Sword did not retcon this with Zelda's statements. This quite obviously coorelates with three dragons in SS, who have the exact same names as the Light Spirits and were appointed by Hylia herself. I find it very hard to believe that these factors are mere coincidence.
These factors have led me to believe that Hylia fought Demise (and Ghirahim in sword form), but sent the three dragons to deal with the other Demon Lords, who were then sealed in the Mirror of Twilight, while Demise, being too strong to seal away forever, was sealed at what later became known as the Sealed Grounds by Hylia, but during Demise's seal, Ghirahim escaped and was never found. This is all just speculation at the moment, and is therefore a theory by exact definition, but it's heavily backed up and tremendously implied. I see no reason to not believe that the backstory of Skyward Sword is indeed the tale of the Interloper War. It's up to you to decide whether you believe this or not, but I, for one, am a firm believer (as I'm sure you can tell).
But it wouldn't be very fair to not ask you guys' thoughts on the subject, so tell me what you think about all this. Do you agree with what I said, or do you think it's a bunch of BS? Please tell!
If you payed attention to the ink blot opening of the game that takes place before the home menu screen (when no files have been saved), you may have noticed that Ghirahim was among the figures shown when a group of demons invaded the surface in order to obtain the Triforce, which fits the backstory of the "dark interlopers" perfectly. Ghirahim's magic has virtually identical looks to that of the Twili's magic. The Twili got their name after the Dark Tribe was sealed in the Mirror of Twilight, and, in Twilight Princess, Midna thought Zant was using their ancestor's "old magic", as Zant called it. With the stories of the Demon Tribe and the "dark interlopers" matching up and with Ghirahim's magic looking identical to the Twili's magic, I think it's safe to assume that Ghirahim is one of the "dark interlopers", which the King of Darkness is the leader of. (Do take notice that Ghirahim wouldn't be one of the Twili, though. He wasn't sealed in the Mirror of Twilight. If he's indeed part of the Dark Tribe, that is.)
Now, onto Demise himself. Speficially, Demise and Hylia. In the ink blot opening and when Zelda revealed that she was Hylia reborn and that The Imprisoned was Demise in an incomplete form, we learned that the goddess waged war with Demon Tribe. However, Zelda implies that she only directly fought with Demise. She never said she fought the rest of the Demon Lords. This makes sense. We know it was the Light Spirits -- Faron, Eldin, and Lanayru -- that sealed away the "dark interlopers". Skyward Sword did not retcon this with Zelda's statements. This quite obviously coorelates with three dragons in SS, who have the exact same names as the Light Spirits and were appointed by Hylia herself. I find it very hard to believe that these factors are mere coincidence.
These factors have led me to believe that Hylia fought Demise (and Ghirahim in sword form), but sent the three dragons to deal with the other Demon Lords, who were then sealed in the Mirror of Twilight, while Demise, being too strong to seal away forever, was sealed at what later became known as the Sealed Grounds by Hylia, but during Demise's seal, Ghirahim escaped and was never found. This is all just speculation at the moment, and is therefore a theory by exact definition, but it's heavily backed up and tremendously implied. I see no reason to not believe that the backstory of Skyward Sword is indeed the tale of the Interloper War. It's up to you to decide whether you believe this or not, but I, for one, am a firm believer (as I'm sure you can tell).
But it wouldn't be very fair to not ask you guys' thoughts on the subject, so tell me what you think about all this. Do you agree with what I said, or do you think it's a bunch of BS? Please tell!