Since our most recent video we’ve had over 30,000+ new people come on board, when issues
come up in our sphere we cover them because we’re a gaming channel.
But today we get to simply do what it is we do again.
We’re happy to have you, so, Hello and welcome to treesicle, I’m Grant.
Today, I’d like to take you back to one of our favorite series, back to the land of
hyrule.
The legend of zelda was the first game to bring us into a world that was simply open
for us to explore, to learn about and traverse at our own speed.
It was a fantasy within a square plastic box that stood as the beginning of something more
for not only video games, but it’s own franchise, creator, and company.
For me and many others, the series was our first real test in gaming.
For over 30 years it’s been explored, poked at, analyzed, and yes, we still have the balls
to think we can bring something new to the table.
Because we CAN!
So sit back, relax and prepare yourself for metaphysical truths distilled into a single
symbol.
For a balance of virtues maintained by the gods themselves.
This is the story of the Triforce: the story, you never knew.
I’ve gotta kill this dragon!
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In 2014 we did a video called link the story you never knew, it was one of our first, and
it did well, but that was a long time ago.
As a group we’ve aged and matured as writers, editors and.
Oh, oh that sound ughh yeah, i’m so satisfied right now!
What was i saying?
Ah yes we’ve matured.
Back then we talked about how link is a link to our nostalgia.
That's true, hence my splooge of endorphins from hearing that sound about 15 seconds ago.
However, the zelda franchise is too big for a simple analysis.
So lets start with the timeline!
Not!
That would be too easy, the timeline is obvious, so obvious a little baby could understand
it.
Are you little babies?
No, or at least hopefully not cause whenever a baby watches our videos their moms get us
age gated because they aren't capable of parenting!
This is the baby warning, get out of here babies!
So how about that triforce.
It’s a funny thing this triforce, so simple, yet so profound.
Also it’s inaccessible to newfags.
It is inarguably the most important part of the legend of zelda series, but is often overshadowed
by the franchises characters.
Most people think the games are about link zelda and usually ganondorf but sometimes
other not ganondorfs.
But its NOT. it's about the triforce.
Let me elaborate smoothly into your ears.
This triangle of triangles is in fact the oldest piece of hyrule we have to look at,
being formed at the start of the realm’s existence.
As din the goddess of power formed the land, nayru the goddess of wisdom blessed it with
law and farore the goddess of courage filled it with life.
As they departed hyrule they left behind the triforce, a golden triangle made out of three
triangles with an empty upside down triangle in the center.
Geometric god art, pretty good job on that.
Each triangle represents its respective goddess and her attribute IE power, courage and wisdom.
Also, they didn't exactly “leave it behind” like that lady who pooped on the floor in
the airport.
They placed the triforce in the sacred realm.
Which is, you know, “somewhere?” it’s also a very sensitive place, very moody.
If you go in and are all pure the place becomes a paradise, if you’re an evil asshole like
idk, the youtube copyright system, the sacred realm will be corrupted by your pathetic,
petty mind.
The pieces of the full triforce are separated from being touched by one with an imbalanced
heart.
The toucher will keep the piece closely associated with their personality and the rest of the
triforce will seek out befitting hosts embedding in the wielder the virtues of the goddess
associated with their piece.
When all three triangles are united the triforce will grant a wish, but it’s all divine and
not self aware.
It cant see good from evil so it’ll grant any wish.
It’s kinda like dragon balls.
But a better example would be nuclear energy, good when it works, Lots of weird looking
fetuses when it doesn’t.
Apparently a fourth more shoehorned in goddess was left behind as well named hylia, it was
her job to protect the triforce.
Which is pretty cool of her.
Anyway, when something as cool as wish granting triangling triangles exist, it makes sense
to go after ‘em, get your wish and all.
I would wish for free chipotle for life.
Thought you might be interested in that.
Wisdom for correct food choice, courage for eating that much mexican food, and power for
expelling it.
However, just like what would happen in real life, a giant douche shoot demon king named
demise (who you may recall looks like an avocado with legs) goes after it to destroy everything
cause he was crazy and an avocado, the most vile of the fruits.
Do you know how many millenials don't have houses because of avocados?
Hylia protects the triforce and takes her people into the sky sealing away demise and
creating the goddess sword for the eventual chosen hero to fight him incase he comes back.
why cant anyone ever make an unbreakable seal?
Why didn’t hylia wish on the triforce to get rid of demise?
Why cant gods just get stuff over with right away?
Who knows?
Either way she then discarded her divinity to be reborn among the hylians of skyloft…
for reasons.
Mainly more games i assume.
Just like the goddess predicted demise returns, she get’s reborn as the first princess zelda
and a young hot androgynous AF boy in a silly green hat becomes the chosen hero.
A twink hero..A twero.
Apparently his name is link, i always thought his name was grantdong, WHY GIVE ME CHOICE
IF THE NAME IS CANON?
The three do the fighting and the triforce is safe, demise says, i’ll be back to get
you, and then link and zelda are reincarnated forever and ever to fight demise's rage.
Or idk, to have fun adventures revolving around hats or a sword that makes four naruto shadow
clones.
Btw this lore comes from arin hanson's favorite game of all time, the skyward sword.
I agree, the motion controls really make the game.
What really gets me though is still the triforce.
For a series that chronology was slapped together with flextape about 14 games and 25 years
after its initial release the triforce stands out as one of the most well thought out symbols,
maybe ever?
At least one of the best in any game, especially considered what it’s linked to.
Pun retroactively intended.
Despite not being an active part of all zelda titles (see fun adventures with hats, spoopy
mask time in weirdo land, fun with trains, and even breath of the wild) the triforce
is inarguably responsible for everything that takes place in the series.
But what makes it great is it’s design, and i’m not talking about some fun geometry.
The legend of zelda is a game made by a japanese man based in a western setting with a mix
of japanese and western fantasy archetypes.
It’s an amalgamation of cultures, as is the triforce: the franchises symbol and lynchpin.
Take it away and you have no story.
Its stands to represent the goddesses that created the realms but also as a driving force
for the conflict within the story, as WELL as much much more.
Let’s break it down.
You have the triforce, spilt that up and you have tri-three and force- a power.
Said differently, “the power of three” literally this is referencing the goddesses
which created hyrule and sent this story spinning into action, but have you ever looked into
“the power of three?”
no im not referencing schoolhouse rock cause 90% of our audience wouldn’t get that, i’m
literally talking about the power of the number 3. is this your face rn?
Yeah, numbers have always been tied to properties larger than themselves and three is not only
without exception, but one of the most important and powerful numbers in history.
Let’s start simple.
3 is the lowest number of lines to create a polygon, aka the triangle, which is also
the most stable shape structurally.
3 is the lowest amount of people you can have to take a vote and make a party, and three
is the only number which is the sum of all of the whole numbers before it.
That’s some basic three stuff, don’t worry, it gets weirder.
According to many religions there are three planes of existence, heaven, earth, and hell.
It takes 3 non-collinear points to determine a circle, there are three daily meals and
any number whose digits add up to a number divisible by 3 is divisible by three.
Humans are trichromatic, meaning we have three cones in our eyes which allow us to see color,
there are also three primary colors red yellow and blue, which when mixed create all other
colors.
Three is known as the number of time, past present future, birth life death, beginning
middle and end, also shown in the symbol of the triple goddess which represents the maiden
mother and krone.
I even have a triple goddess symbol in my room.
This symbol is often affiliated with wicca (I’m not Wiccan tho), speaking of paganism,
let’s not forget the karmic “rule of three,” that whatever actions you do will be given
back threefold.
It’s said that the third try is lucky, and it takes three attempts to succeed.
want to get into some weird religious stuff?
3 represents the holy trinity, et pater et filli et spiritus sancti, jesus came back
from the dead after three days, satan tempted jesus three times.
How about the triple gem of buddhism?
The buddha the darma and the sanga aka the enlightened one the teachings and the practitioners.
In shintoism there are the three sacred treasures the sword Kusanagi, the mirror Yata no Kagami,
and the jewel Yasakani no Magatama these represent valor wisdom and benevolence.
Not weird enough?
Okay!
3 represents the lost land of MU also considered to be atlantis, it is a lost civilization
written about in ancient texts, irish mythology, greco-roman philosophy, etc.
In taoist cosmology, there are eight trigrams that explain the fundamental principles of
reality, all represented by three broken or unbroken lines.
Physically we exist and experience reality in the 3rd dimension.
According to occultists we do things in three to bring them into our reality, three is the
number of unbreakable unity, also known as trinity shown in the linking of three circles,
trinity also represents many of the old gods, the celtic brigit (not the overwatch brigit),
the african ashanti, the three phases of the moon, and three is a powerful part of one
of the oldest occult texts in human history, the emerald tablets of thoth.
Thoth is a god with the head of a bird and body of a human.
If you like new-age hippie bullshit, let me tell you about the emerald tablets of thoth.
As old as they are, a lot of the new age is based off them.
Just ask Spirit Science.
Supposedly thoth was an immortal atlantean who arrived in egypt and was responsible for
the birth of the first human civilization.
Whether these are real or not is a topic of debate, they appear throughout occultist history
and are said to have been translated thousands of years ago, currently only those translations
exist, the tablets themselves are rumored to be in one of many places, including inside
the arc of the covenant.
but here’s some excerpts from the translation.
From the “Key of wisdom” THREE holds the key of all hidden magic,
creator he of the halls of the Dead; sending forth power, shrouding with darkness,
binding the souls of the children of men;
And from the last chapter: “Secret of secrets” Hear ye now of the mystery of nature,
the relations of life to the Earth where it dwells.
Know ye, ye are threefold in nature, physical, astral and mental in one.
Three are the qualities of each of the natures; nine in all, as above, so below.
In the physical are these channels, the blood which moves in vortical motion,
reacting on the heart to continue its beating.
Magnetism which moves through the nerve paths, carrier of energies to all cells and tissues.
Akasa which flows through channels, subtle yet physical, completing the channels.
Each of the three attuned with each other, each affecting the life of the body.
Form they the skeletal framework through which the subtle ether flows.
In their mastery lies the Secret of Life in the body.
Relinquished only by will of the adept, when his purpose in living is done.
Three are the natures of the Astral, mediator is between above and below;
not of the physical, not of the Spiritual, but able to move above and below.
Three are the natures of Mind, carrier it of the Will of the Great One.
Arbitrator of Cause and Effect in thy life.
Thus is formed the threefold being, directed from above by the power of four.
Above and beyond man's threefold nature lies the realm of the Spiritual Self.
The power of three...of the triforce.
This holy grail of the legend of zelda plays on a human phenomenon from the dawn of our
consciousness.
An obsession with the power of three.
Why are there so many connections to this number from the most prevalent religions to
mathematics to nutty occultists, to video games?
Three exists in zelda titles elsewhere as well, the goddesses, link, zelda and ganon,
the timeline being split in three, is it a coincidence, or was shigeru on to something?
Reading forbidden texts and pretending to be into paganism so he can bang hot Wiccan
chicks while dressed in green tights?
It’s food for thought.
As of the newest zelda release we haven’t seen the triforce, it may not have surfaced
for 10,000 years for all we know.
But what we do know, is that the Triforce will never be forgotten.
It is the centerpiece of The Legend of Zelda and it harkens back to the earliest times
when humans first began to logically piece together the truths of the universe.
Three is an unavoidable theme no matter where you look.
It’s the apex of not just this story, but all stories throughout time.
To be lost in a story is a religious experience and that’s why the best ones play off of
mythological themes.
The triforce is a symbol of so much more than just power, wisdom, and courage.
It’s the symbol of universal truths that are a part of us all.
That is what this divine golden icon means.
THATS the story of the power of three, the story of the triforce!
Of the legend of zelda, THE STORY.
You, never knew.
And...that’s my take on the triforce.
It’s connected to the oldest aspects of civilization and I’m pretty stoked about
that.
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