The Hand Gives Link Power
It’s pretty obvious — there’s something going on with hands in Breath of the Wild’s sequel. Between the original teaser trailer in 2019 and the E3 2021 trailer, we see many different hands with seemingly incredible power within them.
In the 2019 teaser trailer, we first saw a glowing turquoise hand with gold bracers keeping what looked to be an ancient Ganondorf sealed. We also saw Link grab Zelda’s hand, the glowing turquoise hand grab Link’s hand, and Link’s hand turn the same glowing color.
That’s a lot of hands.
In the E3 2021 trailer, we saw what looks to be Link’s hand glowing the same turquoise color, but this time with the bracers, just like the one that had Ganondorf sealed. Finally, we saw our hero using the same hand to cast stasis, similar to how Link used the Sheikah Slate in Breath of the Wild.
Clearly, there’s some sort of power that is transferred from the hand sealing Ganondorf to our hero in Breath of the Wild’s sequel that allows him to use the Shiekah abilities that were used in the first game.
As for the hand that seals Ganondorf… Is it Link from a past era? Is that who saves present-day Link? If that’s the case, we could have some Back to the Future-like timeline mixing going on here.
If that’s too complex, perhaps it’s some sort of ancient Sheikah keeping Ganondorf sealed who then transfers the power to Link. If that happens, though, that would mean the glowing hand would have had to let go of Ganondorf, meaning he’s free from the seal once again…
