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Link- lawful good. Fierce deity- Chaotic good. Ganon- lawful evil. Majora- Chaotic evil.

"Termina is an actual physical location near Hyrule" Boy if that's the case I'd love to return there some day in a future game!

12:13 This moment with Ganondorf made me realize why the Twinrova sisters had fire and ice powers, it is because the desert is scorching hot during the day, and freezing cold in the night.

Most scariest part of Majora's mask: Tingle

If the Fierce Diety is indeed linked to the concept of 'Time' within Termina, isn't it then interesting how the 'Double Helix Sword' he wields physically symbolizes the 'Infinity' symbol, to further substantiate this connection?

In the Zelda: Collectors Edition for the GameCube that has Zelda 1 and 2, OOT and MM, the manual states, and I quote directly from the manual, “Having waged his battles across time to defeat the evil Ganon and restore peace to Hyrule, Link departed from the land that made him a legend. On a personal journey in search of a beloved and invaluable friend, Link was waylaid while traveling through the Lost Woods, and his horse and precious Ocarina were stolen from him. His pursuit of the villain led him into the strange, parallel world of Termina, where he found his fate tied to its impending doom...” When I read this the first time it sealed the deal to me that Termina was a real place, not a dream or 5 stages of death or whatever. Parallel or not, it’s a physical place.

Imagine link being the reincarnation of the firce deity how cool would that be!

I really like the idea of it almost being a cultural thing. Like Hyrule has all these seals and realms while Termina has always dealt in Mask based magic.

Nobody's figured it out yet? The only way you can get the fierce Deitys mask is if u compete all side quests. And the mask contains all the memories of the people of Termina. Memories that wouldn't exist without you helping all the people of termina/side quests. It's one of those "Back to the future" time loop kinda things. The "fierce Deity" is Link. But like all fables and legends they're always larger then life, kinda like the F.D is so much larger then link.. But termina will always remember the boy who solved all their problems and saved them from certain doom, and finally broke the cycle.

While you were talking about the creation of the transition masks you mentioned they seemed to have to be made from the dead or dying. That made me think, maybe Termina's hero was mortally wounded during his fight against Majora and as such was unable to finish the job only weakening it so it could be sealed. This would explain him becoming a transformation mask when Majora didn't.

Fierce Deity, to me, is the ancient terminian counterpart of Link. Sealed within a mask to be wielded against great evil. I.e. Majora

I side with the "sealed hero to be awake during Majora's resurgence" idea. The same tactic was used in Breath of the wild (sorta). Link was put to sleep for 100 years to be awakened again when Ganon was to come back and rule Hyrule again, and the people of Hyrule had to live without their hero during that time.

5:27 - 5:33 Triforce of... wisdom? you mean courage right?

Did you call link kind-hearted? He walks into houses without permission, steals money, breaks pots, and sometimes (or maybe just me) throws the pots at the owner of the house!

The Fierce Deity is a Fierce Deity. Aonuma's quote about memories is a play of words.

I've always seen the Feirce Deity as the first Link in time to be worthy of holding the full triforce sealed away within a mask. Mainly because of the solid triangle on the chest of his armor

What if the fierce deity's spirit was sealed in a mask because he knew that a calamity would happen again and to insure that the next person can use the mask to gain his power to protect termina

It seems to me that despite termina having a paralleled trinity, the Goddess of Time doesn't have a stake in the fight of chaos and order. Fierce Deity and Majora battled more as equals, and the deity was set to obliterate all evil as sworn duty. Its very possible that he was already respected by the people of termina, but did not sit well with the idea of sealing evil away. His perspective is to murder majora, not let it live, and deep down he understands that sealing it would break the cycle and render him without an equal. I think its likely he chose to be sealed, for both the good of termina and fear that if he perished with no rivals, he would no be reincarnated. The decision to seal both combating forces is in a sense, freezing time for the figures, as if the goddess of time heeded the necessity of peace by halting the battle while swords still clashed.

My head canon was that the fierce deity willingly gave himself up to become a mask so that he could be used to stop majora if Majora's mask got used

You could look at the whole thing in reverse though: You could rather say that Majora represents fearlessness without responsibility (acts like a child) which actually means that Majora is Links spiritual counterpart. Link representing courage, facing fear and danger and taking responsibility for saving the world. Hence Majoras recklessness endangers the world, while links fearlessness saves it. Which then makes more sense of 'the fierce deity'. Deity is so clearly synonymous with the idea of power, as is Gannondorf. Here two the opposite is true. Gannondorf believes his power gives him the right to own the world and ends up being sealed by others , the fierce deity seals himself so that he may return when his power is needed. Hence why he can be called a deity- he makes a sacrifice, he has ultimate power, and takes responsibility for saving the world, and waits until he is needed and wanted rather than acting on his own desires. That inversion also makes sense of Hylia/Zelda then. One is actively, thinking and trying to work out the danger - Zelda, a physical character who is recurring in the world, whose personality in the games involve her watching out and considering the best course of action. Wheras in Termina whoever it is, is vague, distant, invisible and only acts when required or asked. One is actively using your wisdom in the world and being part of it, the other is holding your wisdom separately from it.

What if the Fierce Deity the protector and guardian of Termia. He could've been sealed as a respect. Because he was dying.

Here's my two bits (and apologies for not being super versed on Zelda Lore). It could be that the entire set up in Majora's Mask is actually a conflict of deities & spirits that are sorta outside of the Triforce. Why I think this is the case is due to the style and function of the game itself, it 'feels' more low scale though the threat itself isn't, like a side story, as well as the involvement of the Giants. But before I go into this long winded theory, at the end of the day, this story was probably made to be ambiguous, which is why the creators have such a tough time explaining exactly who Fierce Deity is and just the finer details of Majora's Mask. Majora could just be an ancient spirit/deity/soul of spiteful trickery that would be reincarnated every-time he died. The Fierce Deity, which is probably an actual deity and most likely worshiped by the people Majora would torment, could be the guy that kept killing Majora over and over again, putting an end to the mischief for a time. Cycle after cycle of this probably lead to Majora getting sealed into a mask to keep the SOB from reincarnating (Before he got sealed, he was probably doing something as bad as trying to drop the moon). I can theorize that when Majora was sealed, it was like a fracturing of its soul, most of the badness going into the Mask or the moon, and a little bit turned into the small imp (Skull Kid) that would eventually befriend the Giants (like the nice parts of tricky people). Fierce Deity probably voluntarily turned himself into a mask to serve as guard over Majora inside the moon, which might have caused a fracturing as well, the remains turning into the Giants, and perhaps a little bit becoming a piece of Link. Now Majora probably goes even crazier being stuck in a mask and moon, but can't do anything about it. The reason why i think Skullkid was a fractured part of Majora's soul, is that Majora didn't possess anyone in the tribe that was using the mask as a hex, and didn't possess the happy mask merchant either. It was specifically Skullkid, whom he used to call the moon down, and threw away when the moon was close enough. Finally, when Majora keeps trying to doing the moon drop is two fold. Finishing the joke of worst thing ever on the happiest day, but also the moon is probably the only thing strong enough to break the mask. When the mask is broken, Majora can reincarnate again, free. But this time, instead of spiteful trickery, Majora would probably be completely destructive due to the imprisonment. Probably wrong in more than a few places, but congrats on anyone taking the time to even read this post.

I enjoyed listening to your theories. Just thought I'd say something I thought of which was similar to one of your ideas, what if they sealed Majora so long ago believing that he would be gone forever. But knowing that it was possible he would return in some way they sealed the hero away knowing he wouldn't live forever. Then as time passed the existence of both Majora and the Deity vanished, and the reason that Majora has it is because during the "3" days he seeked the mask knowing that the Deity was the only one who could stop him, unaware of Link's power.

My theory is that the Fierce Deity and Majora were fighting each other for years until one day Fierce Deity made a sacrifice that would trap both him and Majora inside of a mask, sealing him from the mortal world until Majora would once again be reawakened by the Skull Kid. Since it’s been so long since the Fierce Deity sealed himself along with Majora, he too succumbed to a fate that forced his power to be sealed into a mask, which is why Majora has it.

5:31 Link and Zelda both got the triforce of wisdom?!

First: we have the triforce of power Second; the triforce of wisdom And, the triforce of wisdom Me: wow 2 wisdoms? Cool

My theory is that the fierce deity was found by the happy mask salesman or his ancestor to play the song of healing for someone to take the fierce deity's place. But then the previous wearer of Majora's mask stoled it from Happy Mask Salesman or ancestor, to prevent anyone from wearing it except for trading with 20 masks.

to me, Termina is a shattered glass mirror universe. a world of opposites. in Hyrule all that can go right will, but in Termina, murphys law applies. instead of 1 hero there was 3. instead of 3 goddess there are 4 giants. the heroes dont succeed they fail. Hyrules royal family prospers the Termina royal family falls. likewise, Hyrules royal family seemingly serves the light, while Termina's the darkness. there are so many ways to look at the map and see more opposites between the 2.

I think that the fierce deity made a sacrifice like Vegeta but he was sealed anyway like what if a leader of the tribe told the fierce deity that if he died he wouldn’t see the goddess of time but knowing it would save someone he loves (maybe the princess at the end of Majoras credits) so he fought and was able to help stop Majora enough to make him be sealed like the Majora boss room and they were both sealed to the mask form as a fierce deity sacrifice thus sealing him and making him a mask

What if the soul in Fierce Deity is the original Link? The one from Skyward Sword

In the manga, at the end shows a small comic showing a dragon whereing armor that can grant your wishes

The next game seriously needs to be a majora's mask prequel, like how Skyward Sword was.

DUDE! YOU"RE MAKING ZELDA THEORIES AGAIN! YESSSS!!!!!!!

GameOver Jesse, I am not sure how many people brought it up but you called the Triforce of Courage the Triforce of Wisdom at 5:28.

Intriguing, and it makes sense. The theory I liked best was the one that had the Fierce Deity as the proto-Link, the one that originally fought off the demon hordes of Demise and sent Skyloft to the skies, staying behind to allow their escape. Notably, he uses sword-beams, a technique famously (and to my knowledge, exclusively) used by Skyward Sword's Link, and by implication, Skyward Sword's predecessor, the proto-Link.

Id like to think that when the old tribe and the fierce diety went to seal majora, during the fight the tribe turned on the fierce diety, trapping both majora and the FD in masks.

Another possibility for the Fierce Deity mask is the necessity for the Hero of Termina needing to be a part of whatever ritual the Tribe used to bind Majora, sort of as a sacrifice. That, or the ritual itself took time, and the Deity held him off in battle, an unintended side effect of which was being caught in the 'blast,' sealing him in a mask along with Majora. Not as a protector, but as collateral damage.

Nothing better than a good theory at night. Thank you GameOverJesse

I hope there's going to be next Majora's Mask (dark and unsetting Zelda game) in the future. Somewhere between that game and Twilight Princess, or a prequel.

I feel that there needs to be a definite canon origin to Majora's Mask, the Fierce Deity and Termina. Also, Majora's Mask could be Link going though the five stages of grief but in dealing with the possibility of never finding Navi (that's what his quest was anyway). He is alive, the adventure did happen and Termina does exist. Termina I think is another dimension accessible only by the magic of the Lost Woods. Could Termina be an alternate version of Hyrule (much like Lorule) where one event in the past changed it all?

I think fierce deity is a kind of God of the people, like an idea, with the memories of the people of terminator embodied within it, and when someone wears it, it takes on the wearers appearance thus why link looks so much like fierce deity

I like to think they sealed Fierce Deity into a mask so that if they needed a hero(assuming they didn't know about the reincarnation curse), their strongest soldier could wear it and be the Fierce Deity they needed. And this was done willingly by Fierce Deity, but his mask was taken by the moon children, only to be picked up by the hero of time.

According to the Majora's Mask manga, Majora's Mask was made from the hide of a horrible beast full of evil. He was so powerful, any traveller who tried to fought him perished. One day, a traveller found him, and Majora (the beast) confided in him that he wanted to die, being unable to find purpose in life anymore. The traveller pulled out a pair of drums and began playing. Majora had never heard anything so beautiful, and began to dance. The man played and Majora danced for three days straight. Eventually, Majora collapsed from exhaustion. The man shaped his hide into the mask we know and despise today, sealing the beast's evil spirit within it forever. At least, that's what I remember of it.

I dont think Fierce Deity was that corrupted by power, I think he just was just more destructive. Maybe becoming as dangerous as Majora. It would explain why he was called a 'Villain'. Majora might have gone insane, but that doesnt show its original personality.

Thank you so much for addressing that dream world garbage. lt's the single shittiest idea in hyrule historia and clearly not Aunuma's vision for this 17 year old game. We can't just every take non-in-game idea or change seriously.

Time passes and new games arrive but we still come back to old gems like this. I love this analysis.

I can't get over how solid your videos on Zelda theory are. they have been a HUGE help to me as I continue to write my Termina Bible. Without spoiling too much, I built on that short story at the end of the manga. I theorized that after the mask was carved, the warrior donned it, gaining the power of forsight. He forsaw various races traveling to Termina in search of a better life and used the mask to split into four beings that shared one conciousness. After using the power of the mask to create Termina as we know it, they cast the mask aside, fearing it's mis use. Majora, however felt betrayed, used, and rejected, thus its hate grew and festered for many centuries. That is why it gave the skull kid full reign of it's powers. It saw a kendrid spirit in the skull kid, him also having been abandoned by the Giants. the story of the four Giants is actually about Majora, not the skull kid and the events of Majora's mask are pretty much history repeating itself.

I like the idea of possibly the fierce deity being a anti-hero in nature but he tributes himself to keep the hold on major stronger. Of course though I do have my own theories. Heck for all we know the fierce deity could have actually MADE the helix blade himself.

5:28 uhhh link is the triforce of courage. you said "wisdom" twice

So the mysterious fierce deity. Feared his ego would get out of control. So he told the goddess of time to seal him away as well. That makes sense.

love hearing your theories!! keep them coming :)

Somewhere in Midna's text in twilight princess Minda hints at here tribe creating Majora's mask.

This has a lot in line with what I think about the pair but there are a few key differences. First I think you're overstressing the counterpart thing, as you said they were reusing assets and in lore Termina is simply a neighboring country to Hyrule. However there are counterparts that are, imo, more plausible. We know the Golden Goddesses charged Hylia with the protection of Hyrule and the Triforce, what if the Fierce Deity is the same for Termina, and Majora is a demon from the same place Demise came from? Both sealed in masks in their final battle, maybe the FD was losing or it was a draw and the tribe was forced to seal both.

Well spoken and well made, thank you guys for a professional job on this.

I like that first theory, it makes the Fierce Deity sound more human and creates the, "absolute power corrupts absolutely," Moral undertone for the Fierce Deity. I'm not a fan of cookie cutter heroes that do no wrong, or very little wrong, so a hero who falls down a path of corruption and either agrees to seal his power away out of a realization that he's gone down an irreversible path or the ancient tribe manages to seal him in a trap before he could come to this realization is something I like. That was a single sentence, wow.

Love the theories man, let me add a little to it. Have you considered that in the termina world, reincarnation of evil and the hero doesn't happen because no curse was laid on by demise in that world. Majora was a great evil that obviously termanian giants (terminal Gods) couldn't defeat him so he was sealed away into the mask by their version of the hero (fierce diety). the fear of not having a hero in the future if majora was to ever be released again forced the hero to make the decision to be sealed into a mask as well incase majora returns. Good for thought, keep doing what your doing!

I guess I will add me own theory behind the mask. Just a loose one, really. Anyways I don't know the mask's exact origins. But the fact that Majora hands Link the mask always had me thinking that the FD mask was what defeated Majora the first time around. Majora's wrath was indeed contained in its own mask due to the FD, however I always felt the price of that was the FD itself had to be contained with it. The flipside, however was should Majora's wrath be released it would also have to release the FD that contained it in the first place. But only if the conditions were met, such as collecting all the other masks in Termina.

Good job! Hope u guys keep making videos

I legit got an ad for an Ocarina before this video and I watched all 2 minutes of it 😂

What if majora killed the fierce deity link by dropping itself on termina once before and sometime later had the song of healing played for him to drop a mask and split into the 4 giants to protect termina from majora dropping itself again. Then majora stole the mask some time after that for spite or maybe a power boost but then the tribes of early 2nd termina were told by the giants to do the hexing ritual to seal away majora's power and that which he gained from the fierce deity mask either until the end of time or until someone misused majora's mask. P.s. It was difficult for me to write correct grammar due to my phone not displaying all my text as I wrote it.

I loved this so much!

PART ONE: My theory is that termina's version of link/ fierce deity sealed majora would in the mask, but that alone wasn't enough. He turned himself into a mask to enter the mask realm (the realm all people or things turned into masks go to, I may have created this realm) and keep majora at bay, having an eternal battle with majora in the mask realm. (Say that would make an awesome prequell game. Playing as deity link for the whole game as you chase down Majora and his dark minions who would be significantly more powerful than in majora's mask that way the game isn't way to easy.) But if someone were to put on the fierce deity mask it would pull deity link out of the mask realm making it so majora could escape. So that would answer the question of why majora gave link the deity mask, he was hoping that restored to his full power he might be able to get his revenge on deity link for sealing him in the mask realm. As for how the happy mask salesman came to get it. Impa, the apprentice of deity link was told to hide the mask, she went to Hyrule (as in this video it says termina is an actual place, I agree) and hid it in the shadow temple. She established the Sheikah tribe to protect the secret of the mask... and eventually many many more secrets. With all this knowledge of secret stuff they became the highly advanced shiekah tribe. Now back to Mr. happy mask, kind of, part of the Sheikah tribe betrayed the rest, becoming the mysterious garo/yiga clan. This would make sense as the when entering the land the garo are in with the death mask, (or whatever it's called) they talk about a people who spied on hyrule. I think this was the garo/ evil sheikah. They could do this easily with gossip stones and other Sheikah instruments. Anyway, the garo (later to be called the yiga clan in breath of the wild) told the happy mask salesman about the mask, and it's whereabouts. He set up an innocent shop and after a couple months leaves after he had stolen the mask. This explains why he left Hyrule market so soon after he set it up. His mask was stolen by skull kid and he decided to follow link knowing he was a hero. He witnessed skull kid stealing links ocarina. He sees this as an opportunity to get link to get the mask back for him. The events of majora's mask pass. I also say Majora's lied when he said the fierce deity mask was of dark origin. He doesn't want you to have this power forever, he hopes you'll get rid of it if he is defeated again by it. Further, happy face lied when telling link all of majora's dark power is gone from the mask. MAJORA WILL RETURN!!! HA, HA, HA, HAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Now for PART TWO a.k.a. MAJORA'S MASK 2: Another reason Majora's gave link the deity mask is because it was a trap. In the mask was a special stone capable of splitting the timeline/ creating an alternate demension. Majora's could not activate this stone in his mask form. So he tricked link into activating it. Any way, when link wore the mask (thus giving Majora his full power as explained in part one) and destroyed majora, it created enough energy to activate the timeline stone. In that timeline created by the stone, Majora flees the scene instead of fighting because he has the memories of the alternate timeline because he was the reason it was activated, (the energy of his full power disintegrating into the air activated the stone) thus knowing he would be defeated. This is majora's intelligent and cunning backup plan. You find out he fled to Hyrule joining the armies if ganondorf who was in war with Hyrule while link was in termina which is proved in twilight princess. Link has to defeat both Majora and ganondorf.

My guess is the Fierce Deity is a manifestation of all the collective suffering and misery in Termina, which is why it's more powerful than the other transformation masks containing the suffering of individual characters. Majora caused all of it, so it makes sense why he had the mask to give to Link.

Ok so I agree with everything but this makes a bit more sense to me What if the fierce deity was exactly like link, but after Majora had been sealed in the mask, he had lived until he got really old, knowing he was near death he decides to have himself sealed into a mask so that if Majora should ever rise to power again someone worthy could don the mask and become him so they could beat Majora

The one place I thought no anime would be talked about...

I forgot how much I love your Zelda theories. Awesome video.

With the first word in his name being Fierce I feel like that kind of suggests he was to a degree ruthless. Also, similarly to how Link is a forest elf and Dark Link is a dark elf, I feel like given Fierce Deity's design he is probably supposed to be a high elf. And high elves are notorious for their pride. So, I feel like your comparison to Fierce Deity with Vegeta and Link to Goku was pretty spot on. Another theory I have is that they sealed Fierce Deity away in the same way they sealed Majora, because they thought that if Majora managed to escape, then Fierce Deity would be a necessity to stop him, because if he were to die there would be no one to stop Majora.

0:06 That timing was perfect.

personal theory is, majora and fierce diety are terminian Hylia and Demise respectively. why is this Hylia cucco for cocopuffs? other then dimensional differences I mean. well, because the people of Termina forsook the golden goddesses, as evidenced by the stone tower. that probably tore into her psyche. it's also possible that the ikana ancestors captured her in an ancient war before sealing her into majora's mask. as for Oni, he's a powerful warrior whom can shoot energy slashes from his sword. and yes, this could also point to link but the description says that it could be more evil than Majora's mask. which being a broken Hylia, makes a certain amount of sense. it could be that Hylia's capture lead to people forsaking the goddesses now that I think about it.

For some reason when I was listening to this my mind wandered onto the thought of the dark tribe using the masks of Majora and the Fierce Deity like how the ancient Egyptians used the duel monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh. I myself just like to think of them as just being bitter enemies in the distant past. Two dark gods, one brought to the physical world through the dark tribe and their rituals, and the other summoned to defeat him. Just my own theory though, so I wouldn't take it too seriously.

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villian" -harvey dent The ferice diety is one of the most powerful masks in majoras mask next to majora itself Is the ferice diety really a good guy though? And why is it just with the bosses? every other mask you have you can explore with apart from the giants mask

A LINK in the description... I saw it.

I think it would make more sense if the fierce deity was all good-- but after defeating majora and getting him sealed up he was badly injured from the battle. So -- the sages sealed him in a mask and set his soul free -- THAT WAY if majora ever broke free, someone could plop that fierce deity mask on and beat majora.

Yes this right here you just became one of my fav if not my favorite zelda youtuber lol keep up good work

The Fierce Diety was an Interloper who excelled in magic. He mastered the power of the Fused Shadow, and tried to overthrow the goddesses. However, with the help of the light spirits, the goddesses manage to split the Fused Shadow into 4 pieces and scattered them throughout Hyrule. As for the Fierce Diety, he was bannished to a different realm, while his soul was sealed in a mask. Ofc this is just a theory.

i dont know i like to think the fierce diety mask as being a sort of spirit bomb situation (speaking of dbz) as in the mask itself is the pure manifestation of all the hopes, dreams, and determination of the termina civilians and that together they create a godly and angry manifestation of will power that represents their will to live and so defeats majora

Woah this is so cool!

I like that you are aware that many parts of the Zelda lore and speculation comes because of decisions made in development, not necessarily because they thought of it when making the game

Now that I think about it, what if "Majora" is like a god of dark magic.And this ancient tribe used to worship him, as a gift for their piety, Majora gave them a mask for their ancient hexing rituals, but this was all really part his plan to take pleasure in destroying Termina.

0:16 The most mysterious of all

What if fierce deity is links dad

I have one theory about the game that nobody seems to talk about in their theories. All of the mask coincide with the major arcana or the Taro cards, considering everything you need to do in order to get the fierce deity mask you could consider what link had to go through as the “fool’s journey” basically experiencing events and people coinciding with the cards leading to them inheriting the “World” There are certain elements in the game that actually connect with this, the moon, the lovers, and while there isn’t a “tower” mask, there is the giants mask found in the tower temple.

I read a non canon fan story about something that likely didn’t happen, but is still really cool. In the story, the main protagonist was a goddess hidden as a human girl who’s name was Termina, along with a mysterious god named Sinegond. The two of them traveling across the world established the four different areas of the land and then clock town. An ominous evil started attacking the humans, so Sinegond went to figure out what it was, cue the flashback of dragon Majora and the hidden god. After sealing Majora’s power in the mask, Sinegond gave it to the Garo to keep it from danger. The Garo built Stone Tower Temple as a symbol of what was to come and as a place to hide the mask, which they did by using its power to build a place it couldn’t be taken from. The rainbow room that transports you into the desert dimension of Twinmold resembles the room you fight Majora in later, so that was their explanation. Majora eventually takes control of a Garo and then secretly goes to attack Sinegond, who by then was known to be the god of the moon. The land inside the moon was Sinegond’s domain and is also where Majora killed him and used all its power to trap his soul there, under the singular tree of the moon god’s death place. The two of them fought for three days and three knights before Sinegond was defeated and killed. In this fantasy, the Happy Mask Salesman is the spirit of the man who was used as a child by Majora to kill the moon god, and ever since then has been wandering between dimensions trying to free the spirits held within masks. When Link came to the land of Termina he found Skullkid, who was then possessed by Majora, and proceeded to do everything he does in the game. At the end just before Link entered the moon, the goddess of time herself sang to him the Song of Healing and said “Please, child of the light, save his soul. Remind him who he was”. The time goddess’s song caused Link to be impervious to harm while in the burial place of the moon god. As Link gave masks away to Majora, the thoughts and hopes of the people of Termina acted as the Song of Healing would on a dying character and turned Sinegond’s spirit into the Fierce Deity’s Mask. Majora saw Sinegond as evil, so in the mind of Majora this Fierce Deity Link would be an evil power stringer than himself. Tatl had never seen the mask before but sensed Majora’s thoughts. Link being in the Fierce Deity form had three blue gemstones on his chest, each a single moon tear for the three days of the battle. There is actually an insignia of the moon on his chest and the red and blue face paint matches Viking face paint used by vengeful warriors. It’s a really cool take on the story

you forgot that zelda mentions the godess of time in the cutscene of link's flashback.

Why is the luigis mansion theme playing in the background of a ZELDA VIDEO????

Immediatly subscribed after watching this. This is such a good theory, really makes you wonder! I just love it man!

I thought of a different reason the Fierce Deity would be sealed away; The Fierce Deity volunteered to be sealed in a mask because as long as Majora's Mask existed in a physical way, the Fierce Deity couldn't be reincarnated. So the only way that someone who could face Majora, should it possess someone one day, was to perserve the Fierce Deity in the same way as Majora. Of course, all the Anti-Hero stuff could be true too, but we've got no evidence of that either way.

19 min video amd five god damn ads

I'm a guest in this video! Yay!

Great video man! I’m so excited for when we find (if we find) the true meaning and history of both masks

Few thing: Personally, I think what would have happened is that Majora won and killed The Fierce Deity, but the tribe sealed her and The Fierce Deity into masks, as Majora's power needed to be contained and The Fierce Deity's power was so great that no other hero would access it through the normal cycle, but if the power was in a mask it could be preserved for the heroes to come.

Link is dead just is a theory just like this video... A game theory

This is all good and dandy, but it just seems like a lot of personal opinion rather than a theory to me, you do take data from the games but fail to provide actual proof as to the actual origin of the mask or the being called Fierce Deity.

I always assumed that the Deity and Majora were two very powerful entities that, obviously Majora is more of an evil one, that weren't on the side of good. That the Fierce Deity might have been just that, a deity that fought against monsters: he himself wasn't a good person.

Thanks for the effort put into this video! I know its 3 years old. But did anyone notice that he said triforce of wisdom twice? He accidentally called the triforce of courage the triforce of wisdom.

He just said triforce of wisdom is hylia then said triforce of wisdom is link

Majora is Ghirahim. Both are childish, a wee bit crazy etc etc... The ancient tribe that created Majora's Mask were the Sheikah. After the defeat of Demise, Ghirahim fled, only to be found by SS Impa, who sealed his being into a mask and passed it by generation by generation, until OOT. Those are at least 500 years, and simply imagine 500 years of loneliness. Well it damaged Ghirahim's/Majora's already troubled mind even more. Here comes something interesting: The Happy Mask salesman has been in Castle Town for maximum a couple months, and he strangely disappears when Link wakes up 7 years in the future. Where did he go? Well, he went to get Majora's Mask. Where did he find it? In the Shadow Temple, which is known to be the headquarters of the Sheikah clan! A mask as dangerous and powerful as Majora obviously had to be hidden in an unreachable and dangerous place, plus the Shadow temple being the gathering point of the Sheikah, it's only logical to hide Majora's Mask in there. So now, the events of OOT and MM cross together. After getting the mask, the Happy Mask salesman goes into the Lost Woods, where no one can find him, until the Skull Kid does and steals the mask. You know the rest of the deal. The Fierce Deity is Ghirahim's interpretation of SS Link. Ghirahim was devastated when Demise... well found his demise (sorry for that pun) and obviously started hating Link and glorifying him into something more powerful than he actually was, a monstrous being that would shoot deadly beams from its sword by holding it in the air, what a fierce god, a fierce Deity! Lemme know what you think, stumbled accross the theory I just shared not too long ago :)

Maybe the fierce deity was afraid of no other being his equal, being unable to fight majora when it appeared. Maybe Majora was sealed successfully, completely lately overwhelmed by the power of the fierce deity. There was no curse of reincarnation, and as the goddess is still alive, perhaps that meant it was not willing to help enough to give up its life. The hero has doubts about the future, in the people of the land and the goddess presiding over it. So on his deathbed, he or the tribe had the spirit of the fierce deity trapped in the mask, so the day majora's power reappeared the fierce deity would without a doubt be there to fight.

I think the fierce diety could have been an anti hero because, when you receive the mask the text says "could this masks dark powers be as bad as Majora's? Tremendous power is emanting from within the mask"