ganondorfs return in the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom is bringing back one of the wildest lore theories from breath of the wild and it all comes down to a tiny piece of tapestryin breath of the wild theres a tapestry that depicts events 10000 years prior to the start of the game where an ancient princess and hero battle alongside the divine beasts numerous others to seal away calamity ganon the tapestry appears in impas house in kakariko village and it figures into kasss song about ganons ancient defeatsince the series usually revolves around different incarnations of zelda and link the blonde princess and master swordwielding hero in the tapestry seemingly makes it obvious ancient versions of the two heroes were working together to defeat ganon theres just one problem why is the hair of this ancient link red why does he have an extended nose why is his skin green and blue actually why does he look so much like ganonthe idea that ganon would be fighting another form of ganon is pretty goofy on its face and its broadly been accepted that the tapestry just takes some creative liberty with links appearance but now that weve gotten a very ganoncentric tears of the kingdom trailer the floodgates of debate are opening themselves back upadmittedly the theory does pretty much come down to that guy looks like ganon so theres not much to pick apart here and in fact the games discussion forums have been so clogged by these hot takes that pretty much everyone is getting sick of itthere are two things worth bringing up though first the zelda in the tapestry has somewhat darker skin than how we typically see the princess depicted and we see a new character with similar skin tone in the totk trailer wearing the same clothes as zelda second the zelda were familiar with has an apparent ally in totk one who has some visual similarities to previous depictions of ganondorfpersonally im extremely doubtful about the ancient hero ganon idea but all the zonai references weve seen in the official tears of the kingdom previews weve seen so far do suggest that the new game will be diving back into a lot of the deep lore about the ancient world established in breath of the wild i wouldnt be surprised if we do learn a good bit more about the ancient princess and hero in the end but at this point weve barely even got enough to start speculating onof course the real question remains can we play as zelda