What is Calamity Ganon? (Tears of the Kingdom)

Calamity ganon is when ganondorf farted and his gas waged war with hyrule

Nice vid

I subbed the moment I recognised his voice.

This explains why ganon keeps coming back in the previous zelda games (oot, twilight...etc) and why he always have hatred, because the real him was sealed under the castle (Also i always thought Zelda built Hyrule).

This is what i think of the story line, Demise (skyward sword) was sealed by Hylia(Zelda) for a long time, finally got out then was immediatly killed by link, then rebirth as Ganon then got sealed again by king Rauru, thats why he got alot of hatred, while he was sealed he hatred takes form of calamity ganon trying to destory hyrule to free himself but failed every time (oot, twilight...etc), and finally succeed in botw, then we faced the real him in totk.

Another way to look at it is a comparison to Darkseid he Has an avatar which he uses to manifest on apocalypse and other places. While his true form is more powerful and difficult to beat.

I just kind of thought, Ganondorf is under the castle, no one knows he's there, he's in a kind of stasis, but every now and then he lets off this steam. It's like a kettle whistling.

The Calamity is an extension of Ganondorf, but not Ganondorf himself . He's not sentient or aware through it, it just acts like a mindless force of destruction that subconciously does Ganondorf's will - such as taking over the guardians, destroying Hyrule castle, and trying to make a new body for himself.

Ganondorf projecting as Calamity Ganon could've just destroyed the castle to set himself free.

And all of this without the Triforce. 😳

Ganondorf: Destroy Hyrule
Calamity Ganon: yes

I say Calamity Ganon was Ganondorf’s backup plan.

Raura could have let go of Ganondorf to pass arm to link and secret stone to Zelda knowing this is how Zelda got to him. Why wait for seal to break completely so Ganondorf had 2 stones... Would not have been good.

Welp the age of calamity timeline is gonna have their hands full with Revali Daruk and Urbosa dying of old age before Ganondorf comes back. That is unless Purah makes the reverse aging rune work on everyone which in that case they’ve probably got a better shot that the TOTK cast of characters

Calamity Ganon is basically a fragment of Ganondorf’s soul that is filled with malice

King Rhoam said “The Demon King was born into this kingdom, but his transformation into malice created the horror you see now.” I think that’s right that Calamity Ganon was born out of the rage of Ganondorf and that they’re related but not the same person.

Thank you, just finished TOTK about to start Master Mode BOTW

Calamity Ganon is what you get when you don't dispose of your Ganon properly.

Thank you for the great explanation!

Also, note that Zelda and Link did not show up “at the worst possible time.” As the strength of the seal weakened, Rauru had been holding out until Zelda and Link showed up. As they arrived, Rauru “let go.” In this act, he passed his stone to Zelda, so she could begin her journey to the past, where she would be safe.

Like. Hyrule was fighting for thousands of years against a mere SHADOW a glance, of the Demon King.

God savves

Basically Phantom Ganon at his peak.

I looked at the Calmity Ganon we were seeing was the Demise curse manifesting in the only way it could since it was not allowed to reincarnate into a new body since Ganondorf was sealed below the castle and was thus still "that version of Demise's hatred." Basically that the Calmity Ganon was Demises hatred "leaking" from Ganondorf's body because it was being prevented from doing evil since Ganondorf was sealed. If that makes sense. Almost like the curse Demise cast was like a natural event that was being prevented from happening fully since Ganondorf, its current host, was neither dead or alive, and remined in that state for centuries, thus the curse was trapped in Ganondorf and not being allowed to do what it was supposed to do so the curse itself was manifesting in a semi-corporeal way as Calmity Ganon in a desperate attempt to escape and continue Demise's will, with or without Ganondorf himself.

I was so confused

Thank you so much

Calamity Ganon is an extension of ganondorf

Ngl the scariest part of totk is when you realized the entire calamity was caused by a PUPPET of the guy youre up against

TOTK Ganondorf seemed powerful already, but the fact that he freed himself from Rauru's prison, on top of shattering the Master Sword means this iteration of Ganondorf might rival or even surpass Demise, the original Demon King. That's a scary thought.

King Rhoam in BotW actually refers to Calamity Ganon as the Demon King, and also hints that he was born into the Kingdom of Hyrule, like how Ganondorf was born into the Gerudo people. That’s what finally made me make the connection, after I started replaying BotW I came across that cutscene.

the fact that a literal phantom ganon almost gained its own physical form

thank you for explanation that what i think since i start game xD

This is the first video I've seen that acknowledges 10,000 years is the absolute bare minimum time between BotW and any other game. There was the calamity that takes place 100 years ago, one that took place 10,000 years ago, and presumably there was at least 1 more that prompted the creation of the Divine Beasts. There were likely more instances prior to that, and then probably a long initial period where calamity ganon was formed. It could easily be 100,000 years for sure.

Calamity Ganon is actually Puppet Ganon, made up of the cooled, coagulated Gloom (aka Malice) that had been slowly leaking out of Ganondorf for 10,000 years. If you've ever played Wind Waker, then you should be familiar with the 3 Forms of Puppet Ganon (i.e. the Boar, the Spider, and the Snake...with the cranium of the Boar).

Theory :
Infinite years ago : goddess creates Tri-force
550k years ago : Fi meets the first Link (skyward sword)
500k years ago : The timeline spilits due to Ganon's destruction of Tri-force (Ocarina of time)
Timeline 1 : OG Link is consoles Majora and hence hides the Mask ( Timeline 1)
Timeline 2 : OG Link won but successor Link saw ganon is hiding in another dimension ( Twilight)
Timeline 3 : Goddess upon anger flooded the hyrule (Wind waker)
10k years ago : All Timeline Joins
Zonai descended from Twilight(Timeline 2 ), the depths are dried oceans (Timeline 3) and the Mask is hidden (Timeline 1)
9.9k years ago : Rauru seals Ganon which lost his power in the destruction of Tri-force (in Ocarina)
125 years ago : Divinebeasts were created to protect hyrule but Ganon's Malice took it
25 years ago : Final Link defeats Ganon's Malice
24 years ago : Link and Zelda finds the Ganon
0 years ago : Ganon got killed by Link
I dont think there will be any Zelda game like botw or totk

I was amazed that ganondorf is the only enemy which can use link's attacks like parry and furry rush

There's a note in the secret passage between the bunker and the castle that mentions how Hyrule Castle is like a magical cork holding Ganon back. It makes sense why the damage from the Calamity might have weakened the protection and why lifting the castle is the first thing he does upon reawakening.

the only guardian I found in the whole game was in hatelia lab, no one in the villages aknowledges the fucking divine beasts... it's like botw did not happen (except they mention link saved hyrule and main cast of sages recognising him)

It's hard to grasp how long the events of the botw trilogy take place in.

Botw was about 6 years before totk, that's.. consequential? The same amount as irl. Zelda was (1)17, now she's (1)23.

The calamity of botw was 100 years ago, about the same as world war 1 for us, well enough time to adapt to it and rebuild accordingly indeed

Now, the calamity on the mural was 10'000 years ago. For us, it's the end of the last ice Age, or twice the time it took us from the moment we invented writing to nowdays (sounds weird said lke that). That calamity wasn't the first or anything, It was THE SECOND LAST ONE. And there were many before it. Well enough to let the sheikah build cool animal mechs, robots and shrines scattered underground with dormant living monks in it.

So yeah, as stated in the video Rauru sealing Ganondorf could indeed have been hundreds of thousands of years before the present, which is HUGE for a civilisation to stay that way

Imagine you finally put an end to a cataclysmic event your country is dealing since the 1920s, it was made harder because it corrupted giant mechs and robots that were made your ancestors when they dealt with the previous calamity during thebend of the last ice age. But don't worry, there are monks from that time who are still alive, waiting just to help you. Then you discover the cataclysm is actually sort of an aftershock of something that happend with the first king of your country, at the beginning of the last ice age. And there is a man waiting to get out of your basement since then. He gets out and remembers your nsme, despite never seeing you ever. Still remember your gf too. She was there tho.

And all of the previous zelda games took place waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before that. That's inpressive

Now I am curious on how much they had envisioned about a sequel when developing BOTW. Like not having an actual Ganondorf as a villain but a manifestation of him to then beat the real one on a later game sounds premeditated. And now how much they have already envisioned to future games.

NGL it's impressive that ford sheer hatred was basically as dangerous as him, like how is it possible to be THIS spiteful

Wait so if the calmity is the direct cause of ToTK's events, and Ganondorf is basically preset to break free just over 100 years afterwards

Does that meam AoC's timelime is just fucked? Link and Zelda would both be like 117 years old or just dead cause their youth never gets preserved into the future after winning 💀

Kids: eh the Calamity’s a myth
Link: ptsd

Um, are the words "Calamity Ganon" ever mentioned together? That discription just said the "calamity". How do you know that the events of the last game actually happened, and the "calamity" was caused by Ganon? I think TotK is a soft reboot, and the calamity for this game is different. No century coma, no Shika, no divine beasts. It didn't happen. It was just some disaster that allowed Ganon to wake up.

I used to think Ganon was the origin of Ganondorfs evilness.... now i think its the other way around

I’m still fascinated that the original calamity we see it BOTW isn’t what we see in totk , no Sheikah tech was seen in the memories bar maybe 1 but not even Sheikah were present, no divine beasts and no red haired hero either. So the founding of hyrule was at an undisclosed time , after some time the first leaking of Ganons malice happens where they needed all the tech and the read haired Zonai hero to defeat him and then 10,000 years pass only for him to leak again in BOTW.

This still doesn’t really makes sense to why there is no other male Gerudo in BOTW or TOTK. Unless we’re treating it like some sort of Avatar situation, that there could only be one male Gerudo at a time, which is never stated. And based on just timeline stuff, and I could be way off, it seems as TOTK Ganondorf is the earliest Ganondorf in the series, and would have existed at the bottom of Hyrule castle during OOT/TP Ganondorf events. So the one male Gerudo at a time doesn’t really make sense to me. But idk.

So litteraly its just ganondorf's gloom that slowly becomes sentient and eventually becoming calamity ganon in a form of malice that's only hellbent on causing destruction to hyrule. Kinda makes sence in a way but I feel like this threoy kinda forms into a knot here. Does this mean that calamity ganon was never even related to the ganondorf/ganon in the zelda lore that we are all familir with? Because hearing the term the first king of hyrule in totk makes me realize that ganondorf in totk is not the same dorf we know. Probally this is a whole different dorf and ganon that we dealt with in the botw/totk series. Even in totk there's no mentioning of the triforce and the 3 goddeses and all of that jazz, just thinking about it is making my mind spin from this lol

Ooh, now I get it. Thanks!

I’m still a little confused as to how Ganondorf had this power to begin with. The secret stones of the zonai are supposed to amplify abilities the person already has. When he gets the stone he becomes the demon king. So he already had this demonic power. Why him? Hes a male gerudo like others before him so why does he have that power? BOTW and TOTK are the only Zelda games I’ve played so I’m not too familiar with the lore of this series.

I have a theory that the events zelda changed in the past changed the course of the future, hence the calamity was a legend, as it never existed.