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[Zythe]

Playing FSGBA with my nephew I noticed a few things, with the completion of TMC.

For one, at the beginning in the opening movie, there's the four elements of the Four Sword, petrified atop their pillars and a part of the sanctuary. Looking around, you can pretty much relate everything you see to the sanctuary in the Minish Realm in TMC.

But an interesting thing, which relates to the "Ganon's Demonic Trident" theory, is to do with Vaati's pretty random transformation into a giant eye. Throughout Minish Cap, Vaati speaks of his wish to be a god, starting with his ascension to sorcerer status with the relatively weak Wishing Hat (Minish Cap) and quest for the Triforce of Wisdom (light force). Why be a giant eye? This was always random. Untill I spotted the statue that eye-shaped Vaati enters at the end of FS GBA in order to become armoured.

It's a statue. Probably not of Vaati. If Vaati emulates the statue, and seeks to be a god, what if he's seeking to be the god the idol is of? The original evil within the trident? The thing referred to in places throughout various Zelda games?

I know this is going to intersect with the "Vaati=Aghanim" and "Origins of the trident" threads, but I think it deserves credit as its own thread, because it raises a caucophony of topics.

When looking over Vaati, there are several sources we can look to:

FS GBA
LTTP-PotFS
FSA: HA
TMC

Please give me any theories you may have. I hope to get a reply from Davo and Mario Jr., I'm keen to hear their opinions.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

I'll need to see a screenshot to understand what you're talking about, because I have no idea what Four Swords GBA is. Surely that's not the same FS game that's on the ALttP cartridge is it?

[Lord Jabu-Jabu]

Yes, he's talking about the Four Swords game that came with ALttP on Game Boy Advance.

[Zythe]

Damn. I wonder if there's a site that does screen caps of movie sequences in games.

I'm sure HoW has seen it. Damn. If only someone here had beaten that game too, they'd get it. Damn.

[martinDTanderson]

It does seem like the eye symbol is related to some sort of evil/shadow/dark purpose.

Could the eye be an Evil God?

[Wolf O'Donnell]

I've completed it. Vaati (evil eyeball spirit) possesses a statue and becomes a big blue-with-gold-trim armoured ball with the icon of the eye on its front.

However, seeing as the statue is in Vaati's Palace of Winds I imagine that it was erected for him.

Ah, but you see... there's a problem with this because the Palace of the Winds also appears in TMC and if you've played the game you will know one thing...

WARNING! MINISH CAP SPOILER BELOW!
Spoiler (Highlight section to read text).
The Palace of Winds was moved to the sky from the Wind Ruins by the Tribe that used to live there. This tribe is a different tribe to the Minish and seeing Vaati is a Minish, that Palace is not his by right.
End Spoiler
WARNING! MINISH CAP SPOILER ABOVE!

Another thing you must remember is that the one-eye symbol is also that of the Sheikah, the Shadow People, who are also Guardians.

Maybe this eye symbol is like the eye on the One Dollar Bill, the All-Seeing Eye of God. It represents, possibly, some Guardian God that could see all.

[Zythe]

There are also many idols from pre-judaism religions that use the eye as a symbol for their gods. Usually gods that permit theft and adultery.