According to who? If it were that simple, the princess would not have to go through the rituals, at the springs, in Breath of the Wild. These rituals, by the way, are what I would point at to explain the long lasting goddess connection. Anyone who looks into royal families, through our own history, knows they are a tangled mess, and having a "direct line" is like drawing a target around shotgun rounds, and calling it a bullseye.
You think Zelda is getting Hylia's blood from both her maternal and paternal line, that King Rhoam and his queen were brother and sister? Again, this is exactly what I mean by some people not understanding how genetics work. Only severe inbreeding over countless millennia would have both the queen and king of Hyrule carrying Hylia's royal family-restricted blood, which we know isn't true because Zelda and King Rhoam aren't a disfigured mess. That's what happens when inbreeding goes on for countless generations.
It's literally said in the game and in
Creating A Champion that
only women have Hylia's sacred power. That
only women pass on the power and learn from each other. That's the whole reason Zelda couldn't awaken her power, because her mother died before she could teach her--
not her father or any other male relative. It's a woman-only gene passed on in a woman-only line--the maternal line. Cementing the forced baby-making on every single Zelda's part since SS Zelda.
Maz Koshia further confirms this when he says Zelda is the "heir to the bloodline of the goddess" and that he wants to challenge the "bloodline of the goddess" in AoC. He mentions
nothing about Hylia when speaking to King Rhoam. Zelda's Hylia bloodline
is a direct matrilineal line. This could only happen if every single Zelda since
Skyward Sword Zelda had a daughter.
Wow you seem pretty enthusiastic about this singular topic
Damn straight, Zelda's my favorite character.
Of course I'm going to passionately debunk the BS that's she's being forced to give birth to herself, which is what it means for her eternal reincarnation to be tied to her bloodline of descent. Not my fault if ignorant snowflakes on the internet get triggered because I'm pointing out the truth. I guess I'm not allowed to post passionately about topics that overly-fragile people want to ignore?
If you can't successfully defend a theory it's false.
And isn't discussing things like this what the Zelda theory thread is for? Why don't you and the fragile people who liked your reply comment about my passion in other threads? Oh, because dissecting this one particular topic pertaining to Zelda's reproductive freedom makes you uncomfortable.
Uh-oh.
Hylia, a goddess, reincarnated herself as SS Zelda. Just the one person. That is the only person who has the blood of the goddess Hylia. She is the ancestor. That Zelda has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. That kid has a kid. We're ~320 years into the future from SS Zelda, and yet we still have Hylia's blood in the bloodline.
Uh-oh.
Hylia went on to have a kid even though she knew Demise cursed her bloodline for eternity.
Uh-oh.
Isn't she supposed to be the all-wise, all-knowing goddess of Hyrule who could've foreseen this, just as she foresaw Demise's revival and shed her divinity to stop him? Maybe she didn't have a kid, or the kid changed nothing about the cycle, because Demise
wasn't cursing Hylia's unborn descendants all the way to the end of time (assuming SS Zelda even had children
and that her bloodline of descent would last forever) but was actually cursing
Hylia herself, just as he was cursing Link--that anyone who had the blood of the goddess, ie,
was the goddess, would be stuck to his curse forever! What a novel idea to explain the origins of Link, Zelda, and Ganon reincarnating, especially in the game all about origins, story-telling, and reincarnation!
Uh-oh!
Zelda can only reincarnate in one of her blood granddaughters! And some people actually support this insane and misogynistic idea, essentially forcing Zelda to be the sole producer of her own bloodline, in charge of both her own ancestry and eternal bloodline of descent. Really, do people like you even know what a descendant is? It's not a sister, brother, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, or cousin; it's a
grandchild! God.
And what a happy coincidence that every single Zelda just happens to look like her great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandmother! And that all future Zeldas will also look and act most exactly like Hylia, even having the same unbreakable relationship with their Hero! Let's not forget that they will each also have their own Impa, who somehow looks and acts almost exactly like
her ancestors! But
no, reincarnation is
NOT what's going on.
You're also apparently unaware that Hylia's bloodline only exists in the royal family, even though it's literally the topic of the thread. Hylia's bloodline can't be passed down among the common people, since only the royal family is supposed to have it. Really, did you even read my entire post debunking that? If Hyrule's entire population has Hylia's blood then the royal family is
not getting their powers from it.
Hylia, a goddess, reincarnated herself as SS Zelda. Just the one person. That is the only person who has the blood of the goddess Hylia.
Skyward Sword Zelda isn't the only one who has the blood of the goddess. All other Princess Zeldas do because they are one and the same, Hylia being eternally reborn, as said in
Hyrule Encyclopedia. The wording can be taken out of context but it's essentially like the "blood of Christ", a poetic, more religious way of saying a divine being became flesh and blood. The original meaning of "blood of the goddess" wasn't familial; it was pertaining to Hylia herself.
They
do say "soul of the goddess" too in
Skyward Sword and more briefly in
Breath of the Wild, such as in Kass's song:
"
The kingdom of Hyrule is a vast and storied land,
Oft grasped in the palm of a villainous hand.
A dark force of destruction, many times undone,
Rises once again–Ganon, the calamitous one.
But hope survives in Hyrule, for all is not lost,
Two brave souls protect it, no matter the cost.
A goddess-blood princess and a fearless knight,
They appear in each age to fight the good fight.
Their battle with Ganon I've committed to song,
To keep it through time, no matter how long."
Again, it's
"a goddess-blood princess" and
"a fearless knight", not "goddess-blood princesses" and "fearless knights". Kass is talking about two individuals reincarnating throughout time.
To your second point:
"Eternally reborn." Not reincarnated. Reborn. Born again. Renaissance. I'm taking it literally, sue me. If you have the specific quote in the Encyclopedia, please let me know because I cannot find it.
Thank you for posting this screenshot!
It literally says Hylia is being eternally reborn, and is living among her kingdom as a Hylian. Hmm, I wonder who that goddess-blooded Hylian is?
I don't get what's so hard to understand about the text. If it's saying Hylia's being reborn as a Hylian, she's being reborn as a Hylian. "Reborn" is a synonym of "reincarnated".
"She's just a string of descendants from Hylia.".
..We all are....fill in the blank from Hylia. Adam and Eve? LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor? The primordial atoms that smashed the Earth together? Whatever it is, you are an unbroken chain of continual creation, and the expectation that Zelda, a princess, would not have children is absurd. Maybe it's Hylia's soul's will that Zelda continues to live and have kids and Ganondorf doesn't kill her.
No, the idea of Zelda being the sole producer of her own bloodline of ancestry and eternal bloodline of descent is absurd. Because that's what it means if only the royal family has Hylia's blood, only its women can inherit it, and only a Zelda is ever the sole living female of the family.
You and I don't have the same ancestors, and neither does every single Zelda. We're talking about
Hylia's bloodline of descent, not the bloodline of ancestry of the entire human race. Every single Zelda needs to give birth to continue Hylia's unbroken bloodline of descent.
That's what I'm criticizing, because it's wrong. Zelda should have children because she
wants to, not because she needs to eternally continue her bloodline. You seriously think every single woman in existence wants to have a kid? Or get with someone they don't love just for the sake of continuing a bloodline? Because according to Hylia's unbroken bloodline, not a single Zelda ever got with a Link and had kids, or else their offspring would be brother and sister.
Another reason I despise the unbroken bloodline theory.
Expecting every single reincarnation of Zelda to have children for the rest of eternity is gross and absurd.
Your last point proves mine. What if Ganondorf kills Zelda, or Zelda dies before having children? END OF HYLIA'S BLOODLINE! That's all it will take to end Hylia's bloodline if Zelda is only ever the sole living bearer of Hylia's blood, as is the case in every single game. Many people are theorizing if Zelda will die in BOTW 2, completely unaware what that would mean because most people know the bloodline theory is bull****.
Also, the idea of the Royal Family ending itself just to stop Demise is ridiculous.
Believing the Royal Family will end by sacrificing its main curse is what's ridiculous. Another family can just take over, someone without Hylia's blood. Or do people really believe every single member of the Royal Family is a descendant of Hylia? Ignoring the horror of what that really means and pure fallacy of it?
Any Hyrulean can take over the line; just look at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of the British royal family. There are
many successors to a throne, and people who will marry into them.
The only explanation why the Royal Family won't end Hylia's bloodline is that they know Demise's curse
isn't tied to it, that's it's tied to Hylia herself who's eternally reborn among them.
Um, y--yes it is. Childbirth. We've been doing it for literally ever. Men eternally sperm and women eternally egg. It's...it's our thing. Like, the only practical point of life. Is to keep doing that. So we don't all die. Men do shoot their seed around in more people, that's a sex difference. But considering this is a matriarchal bloodline, it shouldn't be a problem.
You
still can't wrap it around your head that we're talking about
Hylia's bloodline and not the bloodline of all living creation. Your mother, grandmother, her grandmother, her grandmother, ad nauseum since the beginning of time weren't forced to continue a goddess's bloodline in order to have you, so of course someone like you doesn't understand nor care about the misogyny, sexism, and pure absurdity in Hylia's unbroken bloodline of descent. And you yourself won't be forced or expected to continue a bloodline, nor expect your children to continue your bloodline ad nauseum until the end of time. Your ignorance and complete lack of empathy on these topics pertaining to a woman's sexual reproduction and freedom is truly disgusting.
Anyway, what do I expect from ignorant trolls on the internet?
Especially ones who think they know about genetics but can't tell the difference between their own bloodline and the rest of all living creation's.
A woman doesn't "want" to have children if she's only doing it to continue a bloodline that must go on for all eternity.
She isn't cloning herself, she's having kids. Like, she doesn't look the same in different incarnations, other than being white and a girl.
Legend of Zelda is about the spirit of a long-deceased hero eternally bound to a family line of Goddess-descended women who are cursed by the ancient evil they are eternally destined to fight against. It's...basically the same, except it's a matriarchy, not a soul reincarnate.
No, she's cloning herself, if she wasn't she wouldn't need to inherit her own blood just to be Zelda. Link is the same Hero being reincarnated since
Skyward Sword, while all Zeldas are just descendants of Hylia who all just happen to share her mortal name, looks, and personality. If that's not cloning I don't know what is. AoL literally has
two Zeldas who have the exact same design and affection for Link. Nintendo thinks being a blood descendant of the goddess makes you the goddess, which is gross beyond belief.
Legend of Zelda is about reincarnation, whether you like it or not. It's the origin story in
Skyward Sword, and the basis of Demise's cycle. Link, the legendary hero was chosen by his goddess Hylia to defeat an ancient evil. The series is about the Hero, that goddess, and that ancient evil continually reincarnating in a never-ending cycle, aka the eternal clash between Link, Zelda, and Ganon. Do you even play the games in the series?
Phew, I know this was long. But it needed to be pointed out. Anyway, I don't actually believe the bloodline theory or that Zelda is locked in an eternal birthing of herself, because duh.
It's insane and proven wrong by logic and Nintendo themselves believing Zelda is the same person in every game, as in interviews, advertising, merchandise, and media, etc. and the way the character is treated. Like I said, it's only a matter of time before Nintendo drops the "bloodline" theory BS once more people become educated about science and women's rights. Either way, it's
BS.
Okay, thanks everyone for bearing with me! /End post./