How did the gorons survive?

Today I was playing Tww the second quest, when I noticed something. If you start the sidequest of Zunari, then you'll have to buy those flowers and sell them to traveling merchants. Well if you've noticed, these traveling merchants are gorons(just like the traveling merchant in minish cap).Well, the last few days I saw that some members have made a thread about how the zoras evolved into the ritos and how the kokiri's evolved into the koroks. Now why didn't the gorons evolve into something? and how on earth did goron(s)(traveling merchants from Tww) survived the big flood? I mean, the gorons live in caves and the eat rocks, so I supose they are weak against water. Proof: if you are Darmani in MM and you fall into a river or etc then you lose health. Today I read a thread about , if the zoras evolved into the rito's how would they be in TP. I mean if TP is between Oot en Tww, then the zoras are a little bit evolved into something between the rito and a zora. Now if you saw the second trailer of TP, you'll see a goron fighting link, so the goron isn't evolved. You only see some drawing on the face of that Goron, that's all. So, what do you guys think of this?

Gorons are MOUNTAIN folk. They live on MOUNTAINS. MOUNTAINS dammit! They're above the flood line already.

And can YOU perhaps tell me where they are in Tww????????

They travel from place to place. They don't have to be in one spot.

In The Windwaker they stood on rafts. Maybe the sailed the ocean on their rafts, and lived on them too.

But there are only a few gorons maybe 3(traveling merchants) of them that survived the flood in Tww. what about the other gorons? Did they die in the big flood or did they survive and went to another place? But I was thinking if dragoon roost island is maybe the dead mountian in Oot, why didn't they stay there if they live in mountains? And how come they didn't evolve into something like the kokiri evolved into koroks and the zoras into the (rito)?

the zora did not evolve in to the rito!!! THEY EVOLVED IN TO THE FISHMEN!!! Is everyone losing their mind!?!?

The gorons were either taken out by the flood, or they moved away before the flood happened. Perhaps TP will shed some light - especially on this insanity with rito and zora.

Sorry about the yelling, I'm just crazy.

I also now that zoras didn't evolve exactly into the rito's(I mean we are going to now in TP) that why I put rito between "()".

In Tp, I assume it was a goron. BUt if the gorons are there and there is land. THen this is either before TWW or the distant future.

Boats?? Im not sure I bet they float.

Originally Posted by Darmani`s Ghost

But there are only a few gorons maybe 3(traveling merchants) of them that survived the flood in Tww. what about the other gorons? Did they die in the big flood or did they survive and went to another place? But I was thinking if dragoon roost island is maybe the dead mountian in Oot, why didn't they stay there if they live in mountains? And how come they didn't evolve into something like the kokiri evolved into koroks and the zoras into the (rito)?

Dragon roost Island is death mountain from oot. Am I the only one who knows this? I remember reading it on some nintendo website A couple years ago. Whatever, I dident know this a first ethier. But, your right. how come they dident stay? Did the gods kick them out or something?

The gorons probably stayed on Dragon Roost as long as they could before they ran out of food. Maybe Volgiaa returned or the dongongos, or something that ruined their food supply. So most of them died and I guess three of them decided to get on rafts and become merchants.

Originally Posted by Sabooru

the zora did not evolve in to the rito!!! THEY EVOLVED IN TO THE FISHMEN!!! Is everyone losing their mind!?!?

The gorons were either taken out by the flood, or they moved away before the flood happened. Perhaps TP will shed some light - especially on this insanity with rito and zora.

Sorry about the yelling, I'm just crazy.

um yeah....did you take your medicine? Because the zoras did evolve into the rito, go play TWW again, and nowhere in TWW did it say that the zoras became fishmen. it was just a theory.

Then again, in ww they don't say that the Rito evolved from the zora, all we know is that Medli had some zora blood. maybe she's some kind of freakish cross beed? 0.o

As for the gorons I think that they just ran out of food and left to find more, and became travelling merchants.

actually... there isn't even evidence to indicate that Medli had Zora blood.
There's more between-the-lines evidence to indicate that the Zora evolved in to fishmen.
For one thing there's Jabun. The WW version of Jabu Jabu. Somewhere in the game they explain that the ruined island of Greatfish Isle is where all the Fishmen used to live around their deity Jabun. The Zora all lived around their deity Jabu Jabu.
Fishmen are in the water. Zora in the water.
If you evolve you evolve to cope with environmental changes. With an increase in water it is more likely that the humanoid fish, the Zoras, would have become more fish-like than grow wings to fly amongs the lessened amount of air-space. It's just logic.
The only evidence for your argument is that the previous earth sage was a zora.
Now don't forget this one thing:
A forest sage is a sage and a representative of the forests (which means someone of the forest that basically is what a forest is all about kokiri). The same with fire, water, light, shadow and spirit.
A sage of the earth or stone would have to be someone who represents all things earthy. It doesn't mean, necessarily that they have to be made of earth like the gorons.

But if the zora evolved into fishmen, then wouldn't the sage of water be a fishman?

Now here's a crazy theory, what if valoo was in fact a reincarnation of volvagia and cursed all the gorons to be Rito exept for the merchants who escaped. This would explain why the Rito don't grow wings by themselves, and need valoo to giv them their wings.