(Obviously, after Skyward Sword came out, this theory was debunked and died out completely.) (4) The Shadow Temple was a Sheikah torture chamber built by the Sheikah for torturing before they swore fealty to the King of Hyrule, which occurred after the Hyrulean Civil War, A.K.A. (3) The Royal Family owned this temple and used it during the Hyrulean Civil War as a place to hold and torture prisoners of war, and/or criminals in general. (2) The Shadow Temple was merely a building built to absorb all of the evil in Hyrule, making it an idealistic world, while the Shadow Temple was, as a result, warped into a nightmarish place from absorbing all of the negativities of the world. All evil is attributed to Ganondorf after he entered the Sacred Realm and obtained the Triforce of Power.

(1) The Shadow Temple was built for the awakening of the Sage of Shadow - nothing more, nothing less. Sure, everyone adds their own little spin on the mainstream theories, but ultimately they're almost always still one of four basic theories:

Why is this? Well, for all of the many hundreds of times these theories have been posted, rarely do they ever differ that much in their conclusions. Who built the Shadow Temple? Why was it built? What is the true story behind its past? These are all questions that have been asked and theorized over a thousand times, and yet we still are no closer to the truth than we ever were. I can't even begin to tell you how many theories I've read about this very building. The Truth Behind the Shadow Temple: The Hidden History Behind its Ancient PastДЄh, the Shadow Temple - one of the darkest and most mysterious places in Zelda history.

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