They are never actually mentioned by name, but I highly suspect they are supposed to be "Spectacle Rock".Īs you may already know, Spectacle Rock first appeared in the original Legend of Zelda for the NES, in the Death Mountain area of the overworld (see left screenshot).
Smoke is billowing out of their tops and a Heart Container Piece rests on one of them. When you enter the Death Mountain Crater, you can see two very tall, dome-shaped rock formations sitting right across from one another. Theory #2: The Fire Temple is Specatcle Rock Dungeon. The strangest thing is that since the Shadow Temple isn't accessed until quite late in the game, it suggests that either the "Medallions as Items" idea wasn't scrapped until late in the game's development, or the Shadow Temple was finished early. But the symbol remained even though Din's Fire has no such symbol associated with it (not that you need to have this puzzle's solution spelled out for you anyway). This idea was apparently abandoned when the powers of the medallions were taken from them and given to other items. Because the Fire Medallion logo is there, it's abundantly clear that the original plan was for Link to use the Fire Medallion while standing on the pedestal. You are supposed to stand on the pedestal and use Din's Fire so that all the torches are lighted at once, which opens the gate into the temple.
When you first get to this area, the torches are unlit and the entrance to the Shadow Temple is closed. It is quite clearly the same three-pronged flame tilted at a 45-degree angle, just as the symbol on the textbox sprite of the Fire Medallion. It's on the pedestal that's in front of the Shadow Temple's entrance. There is one other place in the game where that symbol appears. It's a three-pronged flame (tilted 45 degrees clockwise in the textbox version). Take a good careful look at the symbol on the Fire Medallion. However, you do not have to ever hack the game, play a beta version, or talk to a programmer to see extremely strong evidence that this theory is absolutely correct, as one remnant of it still exists in the final game. According to that site, the Fire Medallion would have had the power of Din's Fire and the Spirit Medallion would have had the power of the Lens of Truth. Several websites have reported on this and include pictures as proof, such as Zelda. Many people have theorized that the Sage Medallions that you get for completing the temples in Adult Link's world were originally going to be used as items because of early screenshots that showed the Forest Medallion equipped on Link's C-Buttons.
Theory #1: The Sage Medallions were originally going to be used as C-button items to cast spells. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Conspiracy Theoriesįirst things first: There won't be any Triforce theories here because enough's been said about that already.