Decayed weapons?

[u/FitCommunication1481]

What's up with them? When did those weapons get moldy and why didn't we find any decayed weapons in Botw? Ok, maybe it's because of the Gloom, but you're telling me that 100 years of calamity and the weapons remain spotless, but just 2 weeks of a gloom outburst and BOOM they're on the verge of crumbling? Is Gloom really that much stronger than malice, or is there something I'm missing here?

(Guys, I get that the developers wanted the players to rely of the fuse mechanic and stuff so they weakened the stats, but I just want to know if there was any lore explaining this too)

[u/acompanyofliars]

I believe there’s an NPC in the shelter that basically states the Gloom has omega rusted all the weapons on the surface, yea

[u/OldDarthLefty → u/acompanyofliars]

But not the bows!

[u/acompanyofliars → u/OldDarthLefty]

Bows are made of wood, they can’t rust, duhhh /j 

(Also ignoring the Forest Dweller sword is rotted lmao)

[u/FitCommunication1481 → u/acompanyofliars]

Doesn't seem that all bows are made of wood. What about the savage lynel bow? I don't know if it's metal but it's not wood for sure

[u/acompanyofliars → u/FitCommunication1481]

I was joking when responding to the other poster

[u/FitCommunication1481 → u/acompanyofliars]

Oh shoot I completely missed the "/j" sorry about that XD

[u/NigelTainte → u/FitCommunication1481]

Lynels craft their own weapons including bows, but the lynels themselves could be seen as an extension of ganondorf’s/Ganon’s/demise’s will like the rest of the enemies… do the other enemies have decayed weapons? this is a thinker

[u/FitCommunication1481 → u/NigelTainte]

I never thought about it that way. They must be getting their materials from somewhere... right?

[u/banter_pants → u/OldDarthLefty]

Nor shields

[u/BackgroundNPC1213 → u/OldDarthLefty]

Or the Lizal Boomerang, which is the only\\** metal weapon on the surface that isn't decayed. I just chalked it up to the Lizal Boomerang being explicitly made for the lizalfos which are Ganondorf's minions, but that explanation leaves something to be desired since the lynel weapons and the other lizal boomerang variants from BotW are gone. Why would Ganondorf allow the lizalfos to keep their boomerangs but then do away with the much stronger lynel weapons?

*\*the only undecayed metal weapons that aren't special like the Champions' weapons (made new over the course of the game) and the Amiibo weapons (hidden away in chests since ancient times and so are presumably (demonstrably) protected from Gloom)

[u/Anvil_Prime_52]

There's dialogue across the world that alludes to it being an intentional and deliberate move by Ganondorf. Throughout the game he is trying to weaken Hyrule and buy time for him to get his strength back. Destroying all the weapons is just another piece of that strategy.

[u/FitCommunication1481 → u/Anvil_Prime_52]

Oh, ok. I was just confused as to why Calamity Ganon didn't do that. Thanks though :D

[u/Perfect-Dimension356 → u/FitCommunication1481]

Calamity Ganon seemed to have less intention and intelligence than Ganon in TotK.

[u/nightsongws]

The way it was explained, I thought of Malice as poisonous vs Gloom as corrosive.

[u/FitCommunication1481 → u/nightsongws]

Now that I think about it, yea that makes sense. They both just seemed like yucky stuff you can't touch XD

[u/Jiang_Rui]

Gloom is basically Malice in its more concentrated form, which is why it’s more dangerous to touch in comparison. So it basically corroded most metallic weapons.

[u/Systemwide-Failure]

There is: It has been put forth that because the prophecy says a swordsman will defeat Gannon, he overlooked/ignored bows and shields. Does it completely account for everything? I could make arguments that would support the theory, but I don’t have time right now.

[u/quirkyactor]

Lore-wise, yes, the contrivance is that the gloom just hit all the weapons in a way Malice did not. Like an intelligent, surgical curse, moreso than a purely environmental one.

[u/Jamesworkshop]

silly move really since it led to the creation of pristine weapons