The King of Ikana Already Told Us How It Fell

Ikana is the dead kingdom of Majora's Mask: a skeleton king, soldiers still guarding graves, spies still creeping through the canyon, a tower spewing darkness. Fans blame the Garo, a curse, even Majora. This video asks the characters themselves: Captain Keeta, the Garo, the composer brothers, and the king, whose own answer is "petty, little battles". In the original Japanese, he also says his army already failed to take the Stone Tower; the English turned that into a guess. Then my reading, marked as one: Ikana destroyed itself. Gameplay recorded by World of Longplays (longplays.org), played by Spazbo4:    • Nintendo 64 Longplay [078] The Legend of Z...   The mask behind all of Termina's trouble: what is Majora?    • Majora's Mask Never Tells You What Majora Is   CHAPTERS 0:00 A dead kingdom 0:29 Still on duty 1:48 The enemy nation, and the Sheikah question 3:21 The king's answer 5:05 The tower Ikana lost to 6:34 Who opened the door 8:12 Why Ikana fell MAIN SOURCES The king's speech, Sharp, Flat, the Garo and the canyon's epitaph in Japanese, literal English and Nintendo of America's English, with the translator's note on the siege (Zelda Legends forum, 2008): http://forums.legendsalliance.com/top... Duke Serkol's theory that the tower was built by Ikana's enemies (same thread): http://forums.legendsalliance.com/top... Eiji Aonuma on his favourite scene, Nintendo Dream 2015, as translated by Nintendo Everything: https://nintendoeverything.com/aonuma... Aonuma on Pamela and her father, same interview: https://nintendoeverything.com/aonuma... Ikana Kingdom (Zelda Wiki): https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Ikana_Kin... The Garo and the Garo Master (Zelda Wiki): https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Garo Sharp (Zelda Wiki): https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Sharp Pamela's father (Zelda Wiki): https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Pamela's_... The Sheikah (Zelda Wiki): https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Sheikah The tribe-as-Ikana theory on Zelda Wiki's talk page: https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Talk:Majo...) Monster Maze, Ikana: A War Between Dimensions:    • Ikana: A War Between Dimensions - Majora's...   Dr.Wily, Who CURSED Ikana Canyon?:    • Zelda Theory - Who CURSED Ikana Canyon? (T...   WHAT THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CLAIM Who opened the Stone Tower's door: the game never says, and neither do I. The last chapter is my reading, marked as one. The Japanese line about the siege was read on a recording of the Japanese Nintendo 64 game (not shown) and matches the 2008 fan transcript; the translation is mine. Nothing in the game dates the siege against the opening of the door. Our playthrough has no ordinary Garo encounter, so the Garo you see is their leader, the Garo Master; some lines (Tatl's, the Poe collector's epitaph, Pamela's father's picture talk) are quoted from the transcript and Zelda Wiki, not shown. "Forgive your friend" closes the giants' message in the playthrough shown, where Stone Tower came last. Aonuma's words reach us through Nintendo Everything's translation. FOOTAGE Napkin Lore researched, translated, wrote and edited this video; the narrator is a synthetic voice reading our script. Gameplay of the 2000 game is from World of Longplays' Nintendo 64 longplay, played by Spazbo4, used with the credit its site asks for (https://longplays.org):    • Nintendo 64 Longplay [078] The Legend of Z...   (the copy used is the one World of Longplays keeps at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/N64_Longp.... The clips are silent. World of Longplays' permission: https://longplays.org/infusions/faq/f... Music and narration are generated. Napkin Lore is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Nintendo or World of Longplays.