{"id":125395,"date":"2022-06-03T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-132468"},"modified":"2022-06-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T21:30:00","slug":"random-do-you-know-the-secret-behind-zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-shrine-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/03\/random-do-you-know-the-secret-behind-zelda-breath-of-the-wilds-shrine-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Do You Know The Secret Behind Zelda: Breath Of The Wild’s Shrine Names?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Nintendo \/ Zelda Wiki \/ Croxodile<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Listen, maybe I’m late to the party and everyone else knows this, but did you know there’s a very likely explanation for all of Breath of the Wild’s weird shrine names?<\/p>\n

This whole time, I’ve been thinking that there must be some<\/em> explanation for the really weird shrine names, like Bareeda Naag and Daka Tuss Shrine, which both sound like a Sim ordering a curry. Eventually, though, I gave up on trying to figure it out \u2014 only to have the answer dropped on me like a bombshell, five years after finishing the game.<\/p>\n

They’re anagrams of the developers’ names!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are some examples, courtesy of the Zelda Wiki<\/a> (bolded<\/strong> = anagrammed part):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Shrine Name<\/th>\nDeveloper Name<\/th>\nDeveloper Role<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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Goma Asaagh<\/td>\nMasa<\/strong>toshi Oga<\/strong>wa<\/td>\nSystem Tool Developer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zuna Kai<\/td>\nEiji<\/strong> Naka<\/strong>mura<\/td>\nSound Designer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zalta Wa<\/td>\nSatoru Takizawa<\/strong><\/td>\nArt Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oman Au<\/td>\nEiji Aonuma<\/strong><\/td>\nProducer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kaam Ya’tak<\/td>\nTaka<\/strong>shi Yama<\/strong>moto<\/td>\nGameplay Animator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ja Baij<\/td>\nHidemaro Fujibayashi<\/strong><\/td>\nDirector<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Of course, it’s more obvious in Japanese, which is a more syllabic language than English, but still \u2014 it’s very cool to untangle a puzzle, finally.<\/p>\n

Did you know this? Did everyone<\/em> know this? I need to go lie down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image: Nintendo \/ Zelda Wiki \/ Croxodile Listen, maybe I’m late to the party and everyone else knows this, but did you know there’s a very likely explanation for all of Breath of the Wild’s weird shrine names? This whole time, I’ve been thinking that there must be some explanation for the really weird shrine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}