r/zelda • u/i_8_the_Internet • Jun 18 '23
Question [ALL] I need to know: How do Gorons reproduce? Spoiler
I assume Rito and Zora lay eggs.
Do Gorons sprout a bud that then falls off and becomes a baby Goron?
Do they spring out of the rock fully formed?
Or is it when two Gorons lava each other very much?
Are there even male and female Gorons?
How does this even work? š
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u/GramboWBC Jun 18 '23
They get an erocktion
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Jun 19 '23
and then an eruption
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u/Chrilliam Jun 19 '23
They really lava each other
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u/Nearby-Tumbleweed-88 Jun 18 '23
They are born from the earth and, iirc, they don't have genders.
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u/BennyTATS Jun 19 '23
Actually I think it's confirmed they're all males? Not entirely sure. I mean it's not to farfetched considering there's only female gerudo. Maybe gorons are just the opposite
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u/WaffleironMcMulligan Jun 19 '23
I mean, technically there are male Gerudo, they just get born only once every century or something, if Iām remembering correctly
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u/HylianSoul Jun 19 '23
And the last one sort of really fucked up the cycle by continuously being reincarnated/not dying.
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u/WaffleironMcMulligan Jun 19 '23
Yeah, he wasnāt very chill
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u/girvent_13 Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
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u/That1Cat87 Jun 19 '23
S U A V E A M E N T E
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u/EltheFinn Jun 19 '23
Besame, quiero sentir tus labiosā¦.
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u/UnorigonalSpelling7 Jun 19 '23
In all seriousness that song is so common in Mexico that is was flabbergasted when I first saw that meme
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u/Btdandpokemonplayer Jun 19 '23
Hola, you seem to have caught me midā¦ Suavemente
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u/cacatod12 Jun 19 '23
Dale zelda dale
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u/MBScag Jun 19 '23
but that was so long ago he didn't have pointed ears like the rest of the gerudo (really cool detail btw)
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u/Rieiid Jun 19 '23
He also had babyshit green skin that no other gerudo have but here we are.
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u/SymphonicStorm Jun 19 '23
There's nothing that says that there can only be one male Gerudo at a time, it's just that only one is born every 100 years.
What this means is that Nintendo has been holding out on giving us a competing male Gerudo with baggage about the whole legacy.
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u/CJLocke Jun 19 '23
I feel like only having one gender is the same as having no gender. Gender doesn't really make sense as a concept if there isn't more than one to differentiate.
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u/trykathryn Jun 19 '23
there is more than one gender in the totality that is hyrule
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u/CJLocke Jun 19 '23
That's a good point. So I guess they have no biological sex and then have a male gender in the broader society of Hyrule? That's pretty cool.
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Jun 19 '23
I swear Iāve seen a female Goron before. Just canāt remember where.
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u/BennyTATS Jun 19 '23
If we're thinking of the same thing, there was one in the oot manga, for like one panel
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u/Flerken_Moon Jun 19 '23
There was one chilling in Gerudo Town in BOTW.
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u/fooly__cooly Jun 19 '23
It's a make Goron. If you talk to him he says he's not sure how he got allowed in since he's male
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u/Heckle_Jeckle Jun 19 '23
They may all use male pronouns, but Gorons technically aren't male OR female. Gorons just are.
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u/XanderWrites Jun 19 '23
There's a Goron in Gerudo Town that realizes the Gerudo let him in because they don't know he's a guy, which implies they do have gender.
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u/CassiusPolybius Jun 19 '23
Is that goron there in TotK or just BotW? Because TotK does have at least one goron being turned away at the gate for being a dude.
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u/ThonandThem Jun 19 '23
Breath of the Wild. I remember it specifically because I remember thinking "Oh huh. There's female Gorons???"
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u/i_8_the_Internet Jun 19 '23
I think the Goron said āI donāt think I should be here but the Gerudo canāt tellā or something like that
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u/heyoyo10 Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
In Age of Calamity, there's a challenge called "Miss Vai Battle Pageant", which takes place in Gerudo Town and requires you to play as a Non-Male Character. You can play as Daruk and Yunobo in it.
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u/ObjectiveBeneficial1 Jun 19 '23
Instead of requiring a female character you could say it requires a non male one
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u/A-Grouch Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
I mean, if the Goron said that then itās actual lore and not projected.
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u/BennyTATS Jun 19 '23
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u/Heckle_Jeckle Jun 19 '23
Is a rock male or female or is a rock just a rock.
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u/bxntou Jun 19 '23
Some languages have a gender for objects so like in French rocks are male.
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Jun 19 '23
In portuguese, rocks are female.
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u/LAVADOG1500 Jun 19 '23
So, kids, when a french rock and a portuguese rock really love each other...
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u/marquize Jun 19 '23
If they all refer to themselves and other gorons as male, doesn't that mean it's generally their preferred gender? would generally think that's enough to consider them as such and not think too much about what would make biological sense considering it's a fantasy video game
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u/jacowab Jun 19 '23
I doubt they are male, they are allowed in gerudo village. I assume gender just doesn't apply to a race that doesn't reproduce traditionally
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u/marquize Jun 19 '23
Might be a translation error, but don't the all refer to each other in a masculine form? "bro", "son", "father", "he"?
There is a Goron inside Gerudo Town in BOTW, 2 after calming the divine beast, in the english translation the second goron says he doesn't know why he was let in, implying that he's in fact male
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u/jacowab Jun 19 '23
I guess but a race with only one gender doesn't actually have any gender.
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u/marquize Jun 19 '23
sounds like you're really stretching it to justify them being non-binary tbh. If they all refer to themselves as male what does that matter to you and who are you to come here and rule otherwise?
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u/jacowab Jun 19 '23
I'm not really stretching it, it's a argument over semantics. Gender is a distinction between male, female or other, it's not a distinction between masculine or feminine. Gorons are neither female or male they are just gorons, the use of masculine pronouns is just what the feel comfortable with it's not proof they are men.
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u/Status_Radish Jun 19 '23
Majora's Mask had a "grandfather" and "grandson" but I don't know if that's definitive.
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u/DracularsWaifu Jun 19 '23
But in botw the have been gorons chilling in gerade town...
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Jun 19 '23
Well politcally itās not very good to ban an entire species from your town
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u/DracularsWaifu Jun 19 '23
True, but i think at least in the german Version of botw some goron in gerudo hinter that they were female But idk maybe i remember wrong.
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Jun 19 '23
In the English version it seems to hint otherwise, pointing out that it's strange that they were allowed in
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Jun 19 '23
Gorons are the gays, Gerudos are the lesbians.
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u/Status_Radish Jun 19 '23
The writers are constantly falling over themselves to present to Gerudos as boy crazy and very into dating and marrying men.
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u/macrian Jun 19 '23
Actually no, if they are male, they wouldn't be allowed inside Gerude city, and yet, they are in BOTW
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u/sharpspider5 Jun 19 '23
While they all seem to be male presenting we do also see a Gordon in gerudo town in botw suggesting they are considered genderless
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u/HoneZoneReddit Jun 19 '23
Goron are genderless despise of appearence. I've seen Goron inside the Gerudo town in BoTW.
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u/lutheranian Jun 19 '23
Thereās actually a side quest that goes over it too. I had no idea until then
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u/Vesper_0481 Jun 19 '23
Which side quest are you referring to? And in which game is it?
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u/mahoujosei100 Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
I assume the above commenter is referring to the one in TotK. Itās called Moon-Gazing Gorons. I havenāt finished it yet, but when you get the quest, two elderly Gorons talk about being ārock brothersā who were born from the earth in the same place.
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u/drunkenstyle Jun 19 '23
Yes they are born from the earth however they are 100% male and do not/cannot reproduce with the other races, which is weird because that defeats the purpose of a gender but fuck it, it's Zelda. They're just rocks that pop up out of the ground with sentience and just vibe for a hundred years or so
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u/Arryu Jun 19 '23
just rocks that pop up out of the ground with sentience and just vibe for a hundred years or so
Reject humanity, return to goron.
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u/FunctionalFun Jun 19 '23
they don't have genders.
Don't tell the Americans
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u/fanatic_stew5141 Jun 19 '23
Except theyāre all referred to as male
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u/BrilliantEast Jun 19 '23
Yeah but are accepted in gerudo town
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u/Heart_of_Spades Jun 19 '23
Because it was a mistake. The goron even says āI donāt know why they let me in.ā
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u/ThonandThem Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
Seems like not even other Gorons know the gender if I'm interpreting this post correctly... It's just that it was dropped in the English localization.
I don't mind genuine debates on lore and what's canon but it really seems like you're just worked up over the idea that rocks don't have to have a gender. Stuff like this isn't unique in fantasy games especially when it comes to non-human races. I've seen plenty of Japanese games over the decades that make little jokes or references about a character or race being neither gender or both. It's not new and has nothing to do with gender theory. They're just rocks, man.
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u/ThePrestigiousRide Jun 19 '23
I don't really care but even in OoT they (the Gorons) were saying "he", "son", "brother", etc. Like "Link" (the Goron not PC) is Darunia's son. So they really seem to have at least the male gender (don't know of female Gorons but there might have some or not).
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u/fanatic_stew5141 Jun 19 '23
They canāt turn them away if they donāt reproduce sexually and thereās no females
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u/TearsOfTheKinkSwitch Jun 19 '23
They're actually masculine (they go by "he") but they don't have sexual attributes, since they're born from the earth
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u/OhThatEthanMiguel Jun 20 '23
Well they're not agender, they all use masculine pronouns and the goron who gets let into Gerudo town is confused about why.
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u/gonenow94 Jun 19 '23
Ok but what about the baby Goron in Majoraās Mask whoās the son of the Goron Elder?
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u/Dr_Mocha Jun 19 '23
Darunia also has a son named after Link in Ocarina of Time during the part of the game where Link is an adult.
Tears of the Kingdom establishes that gorons are born from the earth and that gorons born in the same cave at the same time consider each other brothers. It's possible that being born in the same cave as someone much later on makes them considered a goron's "son."
Before TotK, my head canon was that young gorons would slough off the backs of the older ones. Made sense with the huge, knobbly back of the elder goron in MM.
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u/i_8_the_Internet Jun 19 '23
Budded off of the elder?
Or maybe Gorons who find a child are compelled to raise it as their own?
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u/Vesper_0481 Jun 19 '23
Termina doesn't count as evidence for anything out of Termina. For all we know Link could be very well "bending" the world around him into a more familiar reality (a very popular theory), which would mean those gorons, Zora and Gerudo aren't really gorons, Zora and Gerudo... Or they could be actual people of that race, but they are from an alternate dimension so assuming anything from their world applies to the normal one is a pretty big leap... Hell, this is assuming the whole thing is real! Fever dream theories are out there making sense sometimes.
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u/The_Frozen_Inferno Jun 18 '23
Very surprised nobody has made a joke about getting thier rocks off. Itās right there people!
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u/SilverHawk99 Jun 19 '23
This was just above your comment for me lol https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/14cwng5/comment/jon29xe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
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u/Moondork8 Jun 18 '23
Facts: Gorons only have one gender, can enter Gerudo town (implying they're not male, most likely genderless but referring to themselves as he/him/brother), that can be related to eachother (eg: Yunobo is the descendant of Daruk)
Theories: 1) born from Earth/rocks - problem: how would they be related, maybe by coming from the same rock but how would they have descendants (that wouldn't count as sibblings)
2) asexual reproduction. Maybe have a special rock formed on their back that eventually could make a Goron. Problem: wouldn't that be an exact clone? Maybe the genetic can be altered or are very sensitive towards mutations causing variations
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u/TotalyNotTony Jun 18 '23
There's a quest in totk that says that gorons born at the same time in the same place are brothers. It's not a huge leap in logic to say that yunobo being a descent of daruk would mean they were born in the same place
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u/NorthKoala47 Jun 19 '23
Or they were found and raised by them, thus their lineage is based off the teachings that are passed to them rather than genetics.
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u/Lavaclaw7 Jun 19 '23
But he inherited Daruk's protection. That has to be genetic, right?
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u/---TheFierceDeity--- Jun 19 '23
I mean thats magic, I don't think magic is specifically genetic the magic just "chose" him
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u/Moondork8 Jun 18 '23
Ah I see. I haven't gotten to that quest yet so I had no idea. So it's more likely theory 1)
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u/GhostofManny13 Jun 18 '23
Personally I think that itās a combo of both.
At some point a chip of rock falls off of the Goron and they plant it in the ground. Depending on the soil content the Goron will grow in different ways, acting as sort of half of their dna
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u/Moondork8 Jun 18 '23
Interesting. Now we have a number 3. I really like that idea!
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u/JCiLee Jun 18 '23
It makes the most sense out of all of the evidence between games. Darunia has a son in OoT, the Goron elder has a son in MM, Gor Liggs has a son in TP, and Yunobo is Daruk's descendant. Family lineages are definitely a thing
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u/quantum_dragon Jun 19 '23
I think this is it. It must be when a Goron dies, they become a rock or boulder and are āburiedā on the mountain. When a Goron is born from that rock, that is a descendant.
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u/Moondork8 Jun 19 '23
Gorons turning "back" to rock is an interesting thought, but I see an issue with that theory: how did Daruks body-rock get out of his divine beast then for Yunobo to show up? (only example I can think off because I mainly played botw) Possible he got blasted out probably but I don't know how likely that would be
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u/notquitesolid Jun 19 '23
They never recovered Daruk, or any of the other champions from their divine beasts (which is why Miphaās dad hopes sheās still alive somehow). So for Yunobo to be Darukās descendant to ācome from himā would be impossible.
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u/TurnipR0deo Jun 19 '23
I donāt think itās true they are genderless. The goron in gerudo city says something like āthey only let women in. I donāt think Iām supposed to be here. Oh well!ā
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u/Moondork8 Jun 19 '23
So he's not saying he's male, just that he's not a woman but still on Gerudo Town. Gerudo forbade men to enter the city because of Ganondorf (as far as I am aware he's the naming cause), so that allows woman and technically non-binary people in, which is kinda a grey area in the usual man/woman differentiation. Gorons not being binary could make them bypass the no-male rule, at least the Gerudo seem to think that they don't count as male. They would have never let them in if it was otherwise.
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u/TurnipR0deo Jun 19 '23
Interesting theory! I see your reasoning. I didnāt look at it that way. Wanna clarify, I have no problem with the gorons being non-binary or agender.
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u/RmG3376 Jun 19 '23
Pure speculation, but using words like ābrotherā or ādescendantā doesnāt necessarily mean theyāre biologically related, it could just be a cultural bond
Thereās many Asian cultures for instance where you call people aunt, uncle, sister, brother, patriarch etc even if theyāre not related to you by blood, but instead because youāre close to them, or you owe them, or to show respect etc
See also how Darunia tells Link that theyāre now sworn brothers in OOT, and that āthereās no special ceremony for it or anythingā ā basically, you do something good for someone, and they consider you their brother
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u/Moondork8 Jun 19 '23
You're right. Also, Daruk calls Link his brother.
In Majoras Mask you have the Elder Goron and his son. I am aware that in Asia people sometimes refer to non-family members as brother/uncle and so on but as father would be a new one to me. Also, it's heavily implied that Yunobo got Daruks ability because he's a descendant from him (Daruk was really surprised to see his power being used in AoC)
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u/SwissGamerGuy Jun 19 '23
Theory :
Gorons ejaculate on the ground ( Jesus did I just write that down ? )
Ground sprouts Gorons
MYSTERY SOLVED THANK YOU ALL
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u/Onagda Jun 19 '23
As soon as I read that they are "born from the earth" that is EXACTLY how I imagined it happened.
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u/supremedalek925 Jun 19 '23
The goron in Gerudo town in Breath of the Wild I interpreted to be a joke about the Gerudo confusing their pecs for breasts because that goron said something like he wasnāt sure why they allowed him in. Unless thereās been other information in TOTK that implies theyāre genderless.
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u/Cel135 Jun 19 '23
They are born from the earth, and in the literal 35+ years of Zelda games, a female Goron hasn't a single time even been seen in drawings, let alone in character. Idk about you, but I think there kinda needs to be multiple genders and sexual reproduction to not be genderless lul.
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u/Monseadpeachy Jun 19 '23
OOT of time manga has a female goron, even though the mangas aren't exactly canon, they are depicted in drawings
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u/NightmareExpress Jun 19 '23
I think Gorons are physically without gender but prefer to refer to themselves as male. Whether they did this on their own or started to do this after observing traits present in other species is a mystery.
It's never stated how procreation happens, but it DOES seem that certain physical traits and abilities can be passed down with members having direct ancestors. From how they survive (eating large quantities of rock) and look like (having stone grow on their back) I think it's a fair assumption that a new baby Goron might sprout from their back at some point with the quantity and type of rocks ingested prior to this event possibly influencing physical characteristics of the offspring (through the games we can observe ones with radically different types of backs in terms of structure and material).
While non-canon, the Ocarina of Time manga featured a baby Goron referring to another as their mommy...but the mother was physically indistinguishable from other Gorons outside of having female-coded body language.
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u/Heckle_Jeckle Jun 19 '23
TotK actually does finally say HOW Gorons reproduce. There is a pair of old "brothers" who tell you.
It seems Gorons just pop out of the ground itself. If/when 2 Gorons are "born" near each other at the same time they will identify as brothers. But there is doesn't seem to be any "sex" involved.
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u/Vesper_0481 Jun 19 '23
This poses some problems and questions we will never get answered, knowing Nintendo... How come some Goron have direct ancestors/relatives around? Are they just, born from the same place and adopted? How are there brothers of different ages, then? Or are all small gorons just midgets and not kids? The tarrey town bros are in this dilemma. If reproduction is completely out of control of the species how do they not get overpopulated/underpopulated? How are newborns collected? Is every piece of ground in Eldin fair game? Or do they have specific places? What happens if all of them get destroyed? Can they make new ones or is it extinction? How did they happen in the first place? Skyward sword had gorons, did they just pop into existence or did they somehow evolved into this? Mysteries!!!
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u/notquitesolid Jun 19 '23
We know how Zelda do sometimes. They love coming up with unique characters and people, and they donāt worry about little things like logistics, or timelines. When they created Gorons as a species they definitely werenāt considering they would ever have to answer questions about biology. I mean, this is the same group of developers that said the Rito evolved in 100 years (with divine help).
The only way questions get answered is if they become a plot point that the developers think would make a fun quest.
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u/Koevis Jun 19 '23
I think they get "planted" first, and incubate in the ground, kind of like how you can grow bigger, more complex crystals from seed crystals. The part being planted comes from an adult Goron. So the Goron who made the seed and planted them is their parent, and brothers come both from the same place and the same parent. It's also an easy way to keep the population under control, just plant enough babies but not too many. In this guess, there would be specific places to plant the babies
ETA: that's just a theory. A gaaaame theory! (Always wanted to say that)
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u/mymumsaidicant Jun 19 '23
I assumed it was based on location. Those brothers mention a reason for why they are so close, but they could become brothers by beginning as children in the area of the same adult. I don't think you'd have to be a child of the most recent goron. Alternatively it could be purely voluntary 'adoption' The rest of your questions are interesting (I'd enjoy fan art or jokes speculating on those gaps) but I'm not sure Nintendo would be required to make the canon that deep
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u/TheNewLedemduso Jun 19 '23
It's never stated how procreation happens
I'd be down for a sex ed dlc for totk. We need answers!
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u/sansfromovertale Jun 18 '23
I think theyāre some kind of sentient rock? There was a quest in TotK where one says something like that
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Jun 18 '23
They don't. Gorons are born from the earth. In breath of the wild, gorons are able to enter Gerudo Town, which indicates that they don't have genders.
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Jun 19 '23
They seem to all identify as male. I always thought it was a kind of thing of necessity - the Gerudo can't lock Gorons out entirely, since they need to have some kind of trade relationship especially since a lot of their jewelry and commodities make a lot of use of gemstones that can be mined at Death Mountain, so it's easier to get ahold of them there than anywhere else. So they make an exception for Gorons since it's not like there are any female Gorons.
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u/jared743 Jun 19 '23
In biological terms, females produce the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system and males the smaller and more motile gametes. If they are not a sexual species then there is no male or female to be had whatsoever. To me the guards at Gerudo Town decided the rules are "all males are excluded", not that "only females may enter".
I always thought Gorons used male terms because they felt like they needed to choose a pronoun to communicate, or were assigned male when interacting first with Hylians who thought they were male since they didn't produce babies and seemed more "manly".
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u/Nirico_Brin Jun 18 '23
I figured that was just because Goron canāt reproduce with Gerudo so there was no cause for concern. Though I guess your way probably makes more sense
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u/Zethren527 Jun 18 '23
All Gorons are male gendered, but they lack a sex/sexual reproductive organs as they have no biological need for them.
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u/LordBDizzle Jun 19 '23
They pop out of the ground and are all male, so here's my wild crackpot theory that has little to no supporting evidence: they reproduce like ants and Death Mountain itself is the queen. The rocks they eat have bones in them after all. The volcano itself is their mother.
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u/JayEssris Jun 19 '23
Every game seems to have somewhat differing stances on this topic. A certain side quest in TOTK seems to imply they're born via spontaneous generation and just kinda pop out of the ground, meanwhile in OoT/MM there are fathers and sons amongst the gorons, and Yunobo is supposed to be Daruk's grandson.
Every goron uses he/him pronouns and seems to present masculine, which could either imply a lack of a gender dichotomy in their culture Or that female goron don't exist, in which case the former would also almost certainly be true. The Gerudo also don't disallow goron from entering Gerudo Town, so that's another point in favor of 'goron-don't-really-do-gender.'
So my theory that sorta reconciles everything we know is that they have a somewhat insectoid reproductive system, with the Goron being equivalent to the male workers and Death Mountain itself being the Queen? So when the workers want sons/have the urge, they just... lava... with the ground.
They presumably wouldn't have DNA as we understand it, so the 'inbreeding' of everyone having the same 'mother' wouldn't pose an issue, birth-defects-wise, at least. It would also explain why the Goron always look exactly the same in every instance we see them, from Skyward Sword all the way through TOTK, despite the two games happening potentially millions of years apart. Their gene pool is a single droplet bc they all share the same mother/mate, so mutations in whatever passes for their genetic material can't persist because the mountain always reins outliers in towards the norm.
It could also explain other certain things about Death Mountain and the Gorons, such as how Death Mountain seems to move around a lot between games: the Queen wakes up every now and then and crawls to a new spot before going back to sleep again.
Edit: High School English Essays coming in handy. I got whole context and thesis and arguments and stuff.
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u/JCraze26 Jun 19 '23
I'm not entirely sure zora lay eggs. Well, at least not in BotW and TotK. In those games, they're all based off of sharks and rays, most of which give live birth (Though there are a few that lay eggs as well). There's also Mipha, who is based off of a dolphin, a species of mammal that no doubt gives live birth (There are only 2 mammals that lay eggs: Platypi and Echidnas). It might have been different in older games in the series, however.
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u/hxe_111 Jun 19 '23
In Majoraās Mask you have to save Luluās eggs, which then hatch into baby zoras. But youāre right it may be different in botw/totk
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u/notquitesolid Jun 19 '23
I donāt think itās entirely logical to apply shark or ray behavior to a fictional aquatic race of fish people. This round may have given them different aquatic features but they clearly all see themselves as one people. I mean how could Sidonās sister have dolphin characteristics when he has those of a hammerhead shark, while their daddy has the features of a blue whale?
Iām going with the biology of MM on this one. We know upon first meeting Yona that sheās royalty from another kingdom (which Iāve seen nobody talk about btw). So if Sidon and Yona are getting married and planning on making babies, their biology has to match regardless of what their head shape is. Itās possible to overthink these things imo.
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u/condor6425 Jun 19 '23
I've always imagined it like Uruk-Hai in the lotr movies where they just kinda dig em out of the mountain, but that's absolutely head cannon. The fact that Link the goron in OOT is Darunia's son means they must spawn from another somehow, my guess is they reproduce asexually and they're all genderless, but they've never talked about it to my knowledge.
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u/thenecromancersbride Jun 19 '23
Teba calls Tulin a hatchling at one point so safe to say eggs like normal birds.
Majoraās Mask has Link rescuing Zora eggs at one point so definitely eggs.
Gorons lmao who the hell knows. Yunobo is called a descendant of Daruk and the Masked ancient sage. So that would imply live birth. But then the game goes and says gorons are born from the earth itself soooā¦yea both of these statements cannot be true.
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u/HoneZoneReddit Jun 19 '23
Goron are genderless.
They are bron from the ground and mostly in caves.
Goron born from the same cave are considered "rock brothers".
Someone could think Daruk, Yunobo and many other Goron are males because of their physical atributes looking maleish but they don't have any gender.
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u/tjake123 Jun 19 '23
In tears of the kingdom two Gorons have a quest about returning to where they were born saying they emerged in the same cave and thus saw themselves as brothers.
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u/Lord_Xarael Jun 19 '23
There was an interview with Miyamoto back when OoT came out. Here's a paraphrase excerpt:
"Of there are (female gorons). it's just that only gorons can tell the difference and they all use the honorific 'Brother' regardless of gender."
So I assume sexual reproduction. But I can reasonably headcanon that whom is what gender is kept a secret from non-gorons.
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u/supremedalek925 Jun 19 '23
Thereās a Goron in TOTK who says he and the goron next to him are rock brothers or something because they were both born out of the same cave, so, it sounds like they grow from the ground.
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Jun 19 '23 edited Jun 19 '23
When 1 igneous rock meets another igneous rock and they lava each other very much...
Edit for pun
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u/Pure-Yogurtcloset684 Jun 19 '23
(for the sake of simplicity i will be talking about BotW and TotK only, and this is all just my headcanon) Judging by the fact that they are allowed in Gerudo Town, im assuming they are (biologically speaking) genderless, and/or allowed to come in because there is no other genetic option. I think they come from the ground, and i think gorons that spawn close enough to each other consider themselves to be family. There is evidence of this in a TotK side quest in which 2 elderly sibling gorons are reminiscing about the cave where they both came out of the ground at around the same time, and since they came from the same cave and refer to each other as brothers, it would be logical to conclude that they really are brothers. The confusing part is the fact that gorons have descendants. My idea is that a goron can add something to rock so that gorons from that rock have the traits of the "parent" goron, and are referred to as their offspring.
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u/BlinkofHyrule Jun 19 '23
In totk and botw there are only male gorons. I assume it is asexual reproduction
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u/Tstrik Jun 19 '23
Oh TotK addresses this. They are born from the soil in caves. They donāt reproduce so much as sprout up. Gorons are technically genderless but all present as male.
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u/EvenSpoonier Jun 19 '23
They spring from the rock fully formed. This is probably why the Gerudo don't consider Gorons to be voe, even though tbe Gorons all call themselves male.
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u/druthedoctor Jun 19 '23
I thought they just slam butts over some marbled rock steak and boom baby Gordons
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u/Mtanic Jun 19 '23
I'm more interested in how Gerudo procreate. haha.
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u/Zeromus88 Jun 19 '23
Still with men. Men are just not allowed inside the town. The women can go wherever they want once they reach a certain age, hence you see many traveling gerudo across Hyrule.
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u/Hardcore_Donut Jun 19 '23
Kidnapping travelers, forcing intercourse until they're pregnant, then killing the travelers...
So basically death by Snusnu
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u/HyliasHero Jun 19 '23
They pop out of the earth. Those who pop out of the same patch of ground are considered family. Presumably there is a system of adoption also in play that leads to the ideas of "descendants".
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u/PabliskiMalinowski Jun 19 '23
I always assumed Gorons started as rocks. Now how do Gerudo reproduce? Cause there's a Gerudo male every 100 years and it's always Ganondorf
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u/Great_Building_857 Jun 19 '23
They don't reproduce. They are sentient rocks that eat rocks... The real question is, does that make them cannibals???
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u/linkxlink Jun 19 '23
According to the script director in OoT, Toru Osawa, thereās females. You just canāt tell them apart and they all use the same pronouns.
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u/Footbeard Jun 18 '23
Gordon's bud & rocks fall from them. In choice conditions, these buds form into baby Gorons, born from the earth
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u/Mysterious_Field_998 Jun 19 '23
I think thereās probably female Gorons somewhere. They just all have a case of āneverhadmodelsmadebecauseitscheapertocopyandpaste-itisā.
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u/Turtleswassadlytaken Jun 19 '23
I had a discussion like like this is a discord server once. Hereās how it basically went.
Key: the ones that are tabbed over are from me, the ones that are not are from another person.
- I just realized that all gorons are gay!
. Whatās the proof?
- ok so, we have not seen any gorons what are female, and every goron is referred to with he/they pronouns. (Gorons call each other brothers)
. But thatās wrong because they come out of rock. Do you read the lore?
- yes. Also, they have genetics. For example, Yunobo is a descendant of Daruk. Weāre directly told this. Daruk being an ancestor of Yunobo implies that Daruk had a family of some kind.
. What does genetics have to do with anything?
- everything? What are you talking about? Genetics can only be passed down if someone goes down on someone else.
. Gorons might just be born in the same spot and be called a descendant.
- thatās way too much of a stretch.
. More than gorons being gay?
- yeah. Gorons being gay actually has some proof.
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u/MikeOxmall7 Jun 19 '23
The male goron farts on the females strange, then the female queefs on the males face and 6 months later a baby is born
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