Wait what? :xd: Looks like a plain old shop to me...
Sorry, I thought you were talking about the Goron. Yeah, you're right. He's probably in Skyloft since we see a similar-looking man by the small statue, and I agree with your speculation about his purpose too.
I'm just gonna post this here, since it would probably be the kind of thread I'd merge with this one anyway. There isn't too much new to talk about, so I can hardly justify anything more than a normal post with my analysis.
Since this is mainly just an update of the E3 trailer, I'm not going to bother writing an article for the front page, so you'll have to do with this thread. At least this way we can discuss the details better. I'll structure this as a sort of textual Rewind Theater, using images to point out what you should look at in the trailer as you go. Many of these images are going to be quite large so we can see the tiny details, so I put them in spoiler tags to prevent them from stretching the screen. First one:
This is a new angle on the goddess statue on Skyloft. When this statue was first shown at E3, the shot was from far enough away that the details were hard to pick out. Some question arose as to whether she had a triangle(/Triforce) on her forehead. This shot confirms that the triangle shape is merely part of her hair, and not a deliberately inset triangle. This overhead view also shows that there is a platform high up on the statue. On this platform stand who I assume to be Link and Zelda, since the colors match and their birds are flying around. The most interesting thing this shot shows though is what's on the statue's neck. It's the same bird pattern seen on Zelda's and the oooooooooold man's clothes as well as in the Sky Temple, and which eventually becomes part of the Royal Crest.
You can also see one of the many access points to the land below, just behind the statue's wings. This is a hole in the clouds into which Link dives off his bird and somehow lands safely in the land below. He's shown performing this action later in the trailer (also in the E3 trailer).
In the very first frame of the next scene, you can catch a glimpse of a bell. Of course, this probably means nothing, and trying to connect it to the Tower of the Gods in WW would be futile....
Just off to the right of the screen (you can see it when it pans) are some flags bearing the bird symbol, just like those in MC (which also has a bell) display the Triforce. And even further to the right... I think that big building with the red roof that looks like a circus tent is probably the school.
The next goddess statue scene with the bird swooping down... tell me, is that Link riding it or not?
Guy admiring statue. Why? It may have something to do with the Dominon Rod. Such satues played an important part in Oocca life, though it's pretty safe to say by now that these people are not the Oocca. But this is just another bit of evidence tying the Skyloftians to the Tower of the Gods and Temple of Time. About this statue in particular, I can't say anything. Those symbols don't ring any bells, though I do notice that at the base (the horizontal part of the stone outcropping), there's those darn square spirals again. This pattern appears so much in Zelda that it's pretty much impossible to make any meaning out of it. It's just a common design, not necessarily attributable to any one race.
Of course Link's earrings are different, as I posted in the other thread. Finally, we have the Goron!
There's already another thread discussing him, so I won't do that here. I'll only say that I'm fairly certain that this is around the area of the land below that the Sky Temple is in.
yay!
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