The Mystery of Windfall Island (Zelda Theory)

Do you think Windfall Island was once Kakariko Village? Thanks to GamingBrad for the comment inspiring this video!

So Tingle's jail cell is actually the Shadow Temple

I can't believe I never noticed Windfall's music being sped up Kakariko. Wow mind blown lol.

I think Windfall was founded by the descendants of Kakariko Village. The definition of the word windfall is where something ends up. Usually in reference to fruit blown from trees. I think in the aftermath of the flood, the people of Kakariko scrambled for high land seeking land. And Windfall Island is where they ended up. Designing their new home after their old one.

Video about Hyrule's geographic through the timeline. That's my dream.

wow.... The scenery shots your collected for this video.. Very dedicated to your work sir!

You forgot to look for one obvious clue. Does Windfall have an ancient, forgotten torture chamber beneath an old well containing dead body water?

I don’t think that Windfall is Kakriko but I do believe that the people of Kakariko village built Windfall to resemble their old home

I think I can see Dragon's Roost being Zora's Domain. The area where Jabujabu resides looks like a massive crator. This could elude to Zora's domain being an inactive volcano.

We've seen Kakariko straight up move locations entirely before in Twilight Princess, I personally feel that with the strange placement of it, this could have been a new Kakariko Village built after some disaster in the original and designed to match the original as closely as they could, possibly mere years after the events of Ocarina of Time, that could explain the difference in location while giving a valid reason for it to be so similar in layout.

oh yes YES. windwaker theories!! my favorite

Such a good vid Edit: That windmill comparison blew my mind.

And hear I foolishly believed they just simply rebuilt after evacuating to the mountain tops.

Probably not much, but in OOT the only potion shops are in Castle Town and Kakariko, and in WW the only potion shops are in Windfall and Forest Haven. So, discounting forest Haven, as that's weird korok stuff, I guess it'd make sense that the only potion shop is in Windfall, being that the residents from Castle Town and Kakariko ended up on windfall.

Love your idea about the bomb shop!

I feel like if Hyrule were flooded, and people were in a rush to get to the mountaintops, it would be those same people who built the towns. It would make a lot of sense that they might build their new homes in a similar style as the old to feel more at home. This would explain many of the similarities that are present while not being an exact match. IMO, I believe the Kakariko from OoT was completely flooded simply due to the fact that Hyrule Castle is waaaayyyy deep, and Kakariko wasn't all that higher in elevation. As for the other similarities, I'd say they pretty much all check out. The graveyard may be more symbolic than literal. The bomb shop may have still been a windmill at some point, though not necessarily the same one as Kakariko's.

It's undoubtedly not the original Kakariko. If it is, that would mean Hyrule is barely even flooded. My view is that it's a new Kakariko, one created higher up.

The connections are definitely there, and yes I would imagine that they rebuilt Kakariko on higher plane level after the great flood, but after 1,000 years the land would of shifted drastically and changed form to what it is in Wind Waker. Either that or they settled upon Death Mountain after it falling dormant during the great flood, which would make more sense since it's elevation height puts it up higher than the rest of where Hyrule once was.

I love this theory. Wind Waker is my favorite Zelda game, and it's awesome that there can be new things to discover and talk about after all this time that it's been out. As a kid, I never completed the sea chart, so there were still new islands I discovered after picking up the game 15 years later. I'd love to see more videos about the origin of the islands of the great sea. Keep up the good work!

I’d love to see you cover the theory that the Forsaken Fortress is actually Gerudo fortress, and that the “small time pirates” Tetra mentions were the descendants of the Gerudo. It might not be a big theory, but it’s something I’ve thought of a lot