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Originally Posted by Zelfreakv1
The Twili are the Gerudo in the Twilight Realm?
The reason I think this is because in the normal world there is only one male Gerudo born every one hundred years or so, and there happens to be (to my knowledge) only one female. Also, all the Gerudos are gone in TP, and people can't just disappear, they had to go somwhere.
What do you think?
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Logically speaking, if there's only one male when sealed in (if Ganondorf didn't mess up that system), the race will die of inbreeding in a few generations. Thus, impossible. It's certainly possible that Gerudo were among the Interlopers, but members of another human race would have to have been with them as well, in order to produce the genetic variety we see in the Twili (facial shape, eyes, size, and such) and a viable race.
We are specifically told the Gerudo only have a male every so often (and the ways they make up for it); we are not specifically told that the Twili only have one female. It just so happens that we are only shown one. It's like the Zora in
Ocarina of Time. We were only shown one female (Ruto), but we were left to infer that there were other females of her race, as proven in
Twilight Princess. We are also never shown a true male Sheikah, but we infer that there must be, since Zelda can disguise herself as one.
Personally, I view the Interlopers as a multiracial group that was linked together via magic and a desire to dominate the Sacred Realm rather than race. In my view, some Gerudo were still around after the Interlopers were locked away. Telma, a Hylian with heavy Gerudo heritage, appears to celebrate her heritage- she wears her hair in cornrows (a style also worn by the only other Gerudo in the game, Ganondorf) and her tavern contains many Persian-esque tapestries. Persia is a real-world influence on the Gerudo. If her Gerudo-esque looks were just a genetic fluke from a mixed gene pool, I doubt she'd have the tapestries or wear her hair like that.
All in all, I doubt the Interlopers are strictly Gerudo in origin, and the Twili most likely have more than one female.