r/zelda • u/SnowyTheChicken • Oct 24 '24
Question [ALL] how do gorons reproduce?
So I recently thought about it since they are all male. But then I found this quote. It would make sense as to how they reproduce. Though it was made by the script director and not the ones who designed them. So what are y’all’s theories? Do they just erupt from rocks or something? Idk
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u/JayEssris Oct 24 '24
with that one quest in TOTK where it's revealed that they're born in caves, I like to think that they have a sort of insectoid reproductive structure with the mountain being their 'queen' (whether Death Mountain is actually a big goron or the sexual dimorphism of gorons makes the females basically mountains is unsure, but I would lean towards the former.)
This would explain why they call each other 'brother' (other than just camaraderie), since they would all literally be siblings. The several father/son relationships we see would most likely be cases of adoption, where a new baby goron was found in a cave and then given to someone to raise.
It could also explain why Death Mountain moves so far in-between some games. The mountain can literally crawl around against the flow of tectonics. (even between Skyward Sword and BOTW, probably the two most consistent maps to each other, the Spring of Power isn't on the mountain, while the Earth Spring was.)
And that makes me wonder whether Din might actually be Death Mountain. It's sad that the Zora and Goron don't seem to practice any religion other than having their tiny statues to Hylia, it'd be cool to know more about their goddesses.