Analysis of Agitha's Dream

Agitha is by far one of the most bizarre and eccentric characters Link meets during his adventures in Twilight Princess, and me and Flat have been convinced for a long time that she is more important than she appears to be. However, Agitha's dialogue is somewhat disappointing in this aspect, giving us very little to go on. But being the ever-vigilant researchers we are, we thought up a far more interesting and unconventional way of gleaning information from her: Dream Analysis.

Agitha sends you a letter describing a dream she had, which is transcribed in it's entirety below.

Agitha had a dream last night.
Butterflies surrounded Agitha and lifted her up to the sky.
As she waved to the people below in Castle Town, she could see so many people, some waving back, others staring wide-eyed.
Agitha flew in a big circle above Hyrule Field and the butterflies formed into a bed beneath her and said "Let's play again..." Soon they faded away and she woke up in her own bed.
Ohh... Agitha wants so badly to fly in the sky...

Method 1: The Giant Book of Dreams - No noted author, published by Magpie Books
Butterflies
To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses indicates prosperity and fair attainments.
To see them flying about denotes news from absent friends by letter, or from someone who has seen them.
To a young woman, a happy love, culminating in a life union.

Flying
To fly in a dream often signifies an attempt to rise above your conflicts and difficulties. You need to rise higher but, alas, flights in dreams often end unhappily. Dreamers fly because they are anxious about finding themselves on the ground - flying often represents a flight from yourself.

Method 2: Sharp's Analysis, loosely based in the Freudian Method
This analysis is rooted in the idea that butterflies represent Agitha's money, and perhaps her aristocratic family as well. Agitha first mentions that she is surrounded by butterflies, a reference to the size and value of her fortune, literally being surrounded by money and wealth. She then mentions being lifted above above Castle Town, and circling around in Hyrule Field, both of which signify her feelings of exclusion and alienation from her fellow townspeople. Some of them wave at her, but many just stand there and stare wide-eyed, seeing her as more of an anomaly or a freak than a friend. The butterflies then form into a bed, and tell her they want to play again, both of which are signs that Agitha feels comforted by her fortune, and that perhaps she is happiest when "playing" with it by spending frivilously, but the butterflies then vanish, reminding her that her fortune is not going to last for ever. Finally, Agitha mentions her desire to fly in the sky, which is a thinly disguised way of saying she would like to leave all her troubles behind some day.

Method 3: Flat's Idea
Well I think that Agitha has a little cruuuushhhh! I would say the the butterflies in her dream of yonder night represent Link, and the butterflies he puts in her chest! Link surrounds her and lifts her up, where she can see the people of Castle Town waving and staring, and then he forms the bed beneath her for her to safely return to her Castle. See? It's flawless. She wants to fly again because she wants to be with Link again, which is why she's sending him around collecting bugs for her in the first place. Remember: she wants everyone at her ball to have a partner! She however, is all alone for her ball, how sad! Recapitulating, Princess Agitha's dream represents her longing for Link to be her Prince.

Other Ideas
The entire concept of flying above Hyrule could be a reference to the Oocca. In this interpretation, the people waving are the few Hylians who still remember the Sky People, and the ones staring wide-eyed, obviously less familiar, are the ones who don't.
Marin was another young girl who wanted to fly away from home.
Of course, this could just be more of Agitha's usual bug obsession as well.

Well, there you have it, a ridiculously in-depth look at a seemingly unimportant part of Twilight Princess. Stay tuned for more!

OOT-TP: The Great Migration

At the end of Ocarina of Time, Link and Zelda realise what a grand mistake they had made in opening the Sacred Realm as children, and Zelda sends Link back in time with explicit instructions not to make the same mistake again, beginning what me and Flat affectionately refer to as the Child-Timeline. More than a century later, the events of Twilight Princess take place in a new and different Hyrule, one so changed that we are barely able to recognise it. What happened in these years to transform this land so completely? Read on and find out!

What changed in Child-Timeline Ocarina of Time
When Link gets sent back, the important thing to remember is that he does NOT open the Sacred Realm. Ganondorf continues in his plan to acquire the spiritual stones, and as a result, Barinade kills Jabu-Jabu, explaining why he isn't present in Twilight Princess. Additionally, the Dodongo's Cavern remains unusable to the Gorons, leading them to search for rock sirloin in the depths of the mountain, via the Goron Mines. However, when Ganondorf discovers that even with the stones he is unable to open the Sacred Realm, he adopts the brute-force approach, leading an army of Gerudo and monsters on Castle Town. After sacking the town and destroying the castle without obtaining the Ocarina of Time (Which was most likely taken north with the escaping royalty and populous) , Ganondorf finally just destroys the Temple of Time, but finds he is unable to lift the Master Sword. Thus, Castle Town and the Temple of Time are left in the decrepit state we find them in in Twilight Princess. Eventually, Ganondorf's army is beaten back (Most likely by an army of Sheikah from the Hidden Village), and most of his Gerudo are killed in the process, explaining their lack of presence in Twilight Princess.

(Disclaimer: Ganondorf is not necessarily the one who attacks Castle Town and there is plenty of evidence against his doing so. However, an attack was obviously made, and Ganondorf is still the best theory we have so far. Other ideas are welcomed and appreciated.)

Sages in Child-Timeline
The sages in Child-Timeline are all spiritual beings similar to Rauru. Inhabiting the five temples, these spirits were killed off by the boss monsters Ganondorf sent to the temples in Adult-Timeline, with one unique and relevant exception: the Sage of Spirit. Even as a child in Ocarina of Time, Nabooru has already been called to the Spirit Temple, and Twinrova is already living there, leading us to believe that the original Sage of Spirit dies before or during Link's childhood in OOT, and therefore the Sage of Spirit in TP is most likely Nabooru.

The Lost Woods, Kokiri and the Great Deku Tree
The southern landscape of Hyrule is drastically changed during the years between Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, and a large portion of this stems from the expansion of the Lost Woods over much of what is eventually referred to as the Ordon and Faron provinces. The other noticeable change is that the Kokiri are no longer present, having either died out or, as I would prefer to believe, transformed into the monkeys seen in Twilight Princess (Thus, the Kokiri lack doubles in Majora's Mask because the monkeys are in fact their doubles). Gohma remains inside the Great Deku Tree long after his death and is able to locate and kill the Deku Tree Sprout, preventing a new tree from growing. Without his magic, the Kokiri are transformed back into forest creatures (Monkeys) and escape into the Lost Woods (Or die, if you really prefer). No longer kept in check by the Great Deku Tree, and with a nearly uninhabited expanse of land at their disposal, the Deku Scrubs (Or perhaps even the trees themselves) convert the majority of Hyrule Field and Castle Town into dense forest, eventually being referred to as the Faron Woods.

Ordon Village and Lon Lon Ranch
After completing the Cucco game at Lon Lon Ranch as a kid, Talon jokingly asks Link if he would like to marry his daughter, Malon. While it may have seemed like nothing at the time, we believe that Link does indeed marry Malon, and that their descendants, along with the descendants of Ingo and whoever else decided to stay behind, become the inhabitants of Ordon Village. While we have yet to agree on true lineages, a couple can be assumed with acceptable certainty. The pairing of Link and Malon most likely becomes the descendants of either Link or Ilia in TP (But hopefully not both!). Also, the goat ranch that Fado runs in TP may in fact be the very pasture that forms the center of Lon Lon Ranch in OOT, implying that he may be descended from Ingo, who takes care of the cows in OOT.

Well, that pretty much leaves us at the Divine Prank and, therefore, the end of the period known as The Great Migration. Stay tuned for more!