Zelda and Elisabet Sobeck Set Up Future Heroes for Success
With impending doom looking them in the eye, pretty much everyone lost their minds and couldn’t deal with the end. Thankfully both Horizon Zero Dawn’s world and Hyrule Kingdom each had a strong, resourceful woman around to make sure that their people would eventually overcome the threats they faced. While their methods were different, they accomplished the same goal by making sure those who were around in the future would be able to do what was needed to truly achieve victory.
In Horizon Zero Dawn we had Elisabet Sobeck. She helped to develop and set up the Project Zero Dawn and was part of the development of GAIA. She also had a fail-safe put in place where if needed, she could be reinitialized in the future in order to help humanity survive — that’s how we got Aloy. Elisabet left clues and information so the hero could find their way through all the turmoil overtaking the world.
Zelda also had the foresight to see that more time was needed, and that the future hero would need a guiding hand. It was her that gave the order to have Link placed into the Shrine of Resurrection. She also took photos to give Link a sort of map to help him regain his memories, and placed everything he needed in places he would naturally go to and with people she could trust. And, just to make sure that everyone had time to accomplish their goals, she pit herself against Calamity Ganon in a battle where she stays locked, keeping the evil in place while the world around moves to restore itself.
