the only game that has anything to do with the Picori is Minish Cap. Both Four Swords games involve the picori sword (although they call it the Four Sword in both games), but neither game mentions the picori race, so where did the picori go?
the best theory i could come up with is that the picori become the kokori due to the power of the deku tree. a long time after the happenings of Minish Cap, the Deku Tree appeared. many of the picori died out. there were very few picori left and the ones that were left were the picori that protected the forest. the Deku Tree used his magic to turn the picori into kokori so that they may better protect the forest (he makes them forever young so that they never die so they can protect the forest forever.
at the end of OoT, when the timeline splits and the Hyrule that has no Link is created, due to the Deku Tree dying, the magic protecting the kokori from growing old was destroyed. the new Deku Tree that was sprouted noticed this and turned them into the Koroks (the little wooden creatures in Wind Waker).
it is basically confirmed that the Koroks used to be Kokori. they are worshipers of the deku tree and travel the world planting seeds to grow a new land (and a new forest for them to live in). one of the sages you unlock in wind waker is a kokori who says that his descendant is a korok (how could a korok be related to a kokori unless the koroks used to be kokori).
due to the fact that the kokori are turned into koroks, i do not think it is a huge stretch to assume that the picori were changed into the kokori. if we know that the deku tree can change the kokori who is to say that they werent something before they were kokori and this would explain the picori disappearance.
my last reason is that the names connect in order of the changes i explained.
picori and kokori have the same ending (picORI and kokORI) and then the kokori and koroks is an obvious similarity (its just a couple letters changed around and the i replaced with an s).
what does everyone think of this theory?
the best theory i could come up with is that the picori become the kokori due to the power of the deku tree. a long time after the happenings of Minish Cap, the Deku Tree appeared. many of the picori died out. there were very few picori left and the ones that were left were the picori that protected the forest. the Deku Tree used his magic to turn the picori into kokori so that they may better protect the forest (he makes them forever young so that they never die so they can protect the forest forever.
at the end of OoT, when the timeline splits and the Hyrule that has no Link is created, due to the Deku Tree dying, the magic protecting the kokori from growing old was destroyed. the new Deku Tree that was sprouted noticed this and turned them into the Koroks (the little wooden creatures in Wind Waker).
it is basically confirmed that the Koroks used to be Kokori. they are worshipers of the deku tree and travel the world planting seeds to grow a new land (and a new forest for them to live in). one of the sages you unlock in wind waker is a kokori who says that his descendant is a korok (how could a korok be related to a kokori unless the koroks used to be kokori).
due to the fact that the kokori are turned into koroks, i do not think it is a huge stretch to assume that the picori were changed into the kokori. if we know that the deku tree can change the kokori who is to say that they werent something before they were kokori and this would explain the picori disappearance.
my last reason is that the names connect in order of the changes i explained.
picori and kokori have the same ending (picORI and kokORI) and then the kokori and koroks is an obvious similarity (its just a couple letters changed around and the i replaced with an s).
what does everyone think of this theory?