One of my theories is that since the world is not mapped, there is no true north, or that maybe if there is a true north, that maybe not all maps north is directly up. A lot of maps in history rotated their orientation, in fact that is where the word orientation comes from, it means to turn the map so east (or another direction, usually east) is up on the map. This is why the Orient is called such, because on these rotated maps, the East was at the top of the map, so it was what they oriented the rest of the map with, the East. So the East is the orient.
That is a long way of saying map making is a complex art and there is no way to guarantee that up on all of these maps is north, meaning death mountain may not haved moved that much if the map had just been tilted like 20 degrees from game to game. Tectonics could have been a factor for sure, its clear that the hyrulean civilization has been around far longer than all of human civilization has. Human civilization has only been around for about 10,000 years, BotW's single time skip was that long, so it is possible tectonics had a factor. However I think that map tilting is also a good factor because most objects are relatively in relation to each other if you take that into account. It also is possible that lake hylia is actually a different lake in some games and its just what the locals call it because of their religion. Who knows

"Today, on National Geographic, we explore the great land of Hyrule!"

this man has more zelda knowledge than miyamoto himself i swear

Hylia when Demise appears: "Ascend! Ascend ascend ascend ascend with Gorb!"

Zelda when Link kills Demise: "Descend! Descend descend descend descend with Gorb!"

Hyrule’s tectonic plates are just like me when I’m asleep. I wake up and I’m upside down and on the other side of the bed.

"We named the planets after greek gods"
Ancient greeks: triggered
Uranus, being the only planet named after a greek god: cries

I enjoyed this Geography of Hyrule class at the University of YouTube. Can’t wait for our next class! 😁

I think the Hyrulean people get the Lost Woods exact location wrong in most games except Breath of the wild (due to Sheikah science) as there are roads through the woods that lead to other locations far away from the Lost woods itself
In some games its because of the Kokiri/Koroks or the Deku tree in others its the work of spirits like Poes
If one Hyrulean took a trip through a forest in Southern hyrule they could suddenly end up in Akkala

A person with an unbalanced heart shatters the complete Triforce into three parts, not necessarily evil.

If there’s one thing we Zelda fans can never get enough of, it’s lore.

Just inject all of it into my bloodstream please

The Faron region is sometimes referred to as a sea of trees in Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity, though its possibly just a small nod to Four Swords.

Happy Holidays everyone! ^^
One more video to go, and then it's a wrap for 2020!

I believe it’s called “the legend” of Zelda for a reason. When stories get passed down through time, details get messy. Every lake Hylia is the same, every death mountain and castle. Racists called zora monsters, and others didn’t know that Tito were intelligent. The legends of a childlike race of tree people living in the forest. These are all details that are very similar. It’s all the same story. The same legend

My theory regarding the Skyward Sword map not matching up with others for example Ocarina's is because there are only 4 big chunks of locations and we don't know how far they are away from each other since between in unexplored area. The reason why Eldin volcano is to the North, the dessert is to the west and the lake to the east could be because of simple estimating. After all all we could see from Hyrule was from above, maybe Eldin volcano was a bit more north-east of the Sealed Temple and we'd never really know for sure. So simply put the map of Skyward Sword is just an estimation of where the locations are.

Now that “they find a forest that’s easy to get lost in and call it the lost woods” part is reminiscent of Asgore.
Specifically the fact that he’s bad at naming.

I just realized that BOTW is the only Zelda game where we see the sheikah tribe because in every other game we only see impa we never saw any other members.

I feel like the map changes every game because the games take place thousands years apart. so the castle moves and they rename places.

I feel like the Kikwi became the Kokiri and finally the Koroks since the name structure follows fairly close

This gets me wondering. With all this talk going around about the incarnation cycle. I wonder if Impa is in on it too?? She keeps reappearing throughout the series too in different iterations. What about her origins and that of the sheika?