Humans

Many of you who have played The Minish Cap have noticed that the Minish call Hylians Humans. You probably think it was just a translation error, but I don't think so. I think that the producers meant to have the Minish call you humans, because I think that Hylians, Gerudo, Sheikiah,and Kokiri are all Humans. Besides, doesn't Zelda call Ganondorf a man in OoT. I've even seen people on the forums call them humans. So now, I rest my case


But if someone called Link or anothe Hylian an elf, then I'd be mad

No; I think that they just call themselves humans because their culture was lost (assuming this takes place after WW). Humans=Hyrulians.

Originally Posted by hisak

No; I think that they just call themselves humans because their culture was lost (assuming this takes place after WW). Humans=Hyrulians.

FOR GOD'S SAKE DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW THAT IT'S "HYLIAN" NOT "HYRULIAN"?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!...Well,I guess it's natural.Anyway, guess it's just some translation error.

^ Link is Hylian. Most of the other people are just boring old Hyrulians.

Anyway. I didn't even notice that they were calling them humans until people were complaining about it. Who cares? They're close to human. In fact, if I'm correct, Hyrulians are a lot like humans, Hylians just have those pointy ears.

What about these quotes from Oracle of Ages?

None can stop Veran now! You can only wait for the Flame of Sorrow to
light! What a view! All humanity can feel the sorrow! Ah hah hah hah!

You humans are looking stranger every day. What happened?

Just who is this Nayru..? I can only see her as a monster in human
guise. I wonder if the Queen is all right...

It's like the Queen is now the beast in human guise...

My role... was to disrupt the currents of time... To flood humanity in sorrow...

Get along with humans, too! That's my motto!

And Oracle of Seasons...

Goron or human, health is all that matters!

When the mouth opens, attack from within. Then super- human strength will prevail.

Here's a human I understand! Let me fill your satchel for you!

Thanks to Veran and Onox, the Flames of Sorrow and Destruction already flicker! And when we captured Zelda, the foolish humans gave us despair! Oh, Flames of Despair, Destruction and Sorrow, burn with the power of our evil deeds!

It'd be great if someone could look at what words were used in the Japanese scripts of the games.

The word "human" has never been used in any Zelda game... except the ones that Capcom developed. Namely the Oracles and tMC. I view it as an aberration.

^ Did anyone not notice that the word "man" is used in OoT by Zelda and Darunia.

Originally Posted by K9doggie

^ Did anyone not notice that the word "man" is used in OoT by Zelda and Darunia.

Yes, because "man" is a gender. What, you expect them to come up with different names for genders now?

I'm going with the oversight that l-o-s suggested. The Wind Waker didn't actually use the word "human" from what I remember, but since Hyrule is all but lost then, I think it's safe to assume they refer to themselves as humans. Great Seaians doesn't really work.

In the Oracles I'd assumed the Labrynnians and Holodrumians were called humans because they had round ears and weren't from the kingdom of Hyrule, so they weren't of the Hylian race.

Originally Posted by Saint Seiya

FOR GOD'S SAKE DOESN'T ANYONE KNOW THAT IT'S "HYLIAN" NOT "HYRULIAN"?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!...Well,I guess it's natural.Anyway, guess it's just some translation error.

Hylian is a race that lives in Hyrule. Any human (Hylian or not) living in Hyrule is a "Hyrulian." As far as spelling it with an e (Hyrulean Adventure), I think that's because it's not referring to the person's adventure, but where it's taking place.

It usually only appears in Capcom made games, and those games can't be treated as games that maintain everything in the Zelda Universe.

In TWW, I don't think they refer to themselves as Humans, just as people. Notice that Quill doesn't address them by a specific race, he just says Girls with pointy ears. Hylians would be correct term I think. It is one of Capcom's fiddly mistakes I think.

Originally Posted by hisak

Any human (Hylian or not) living in Hyrule is a "Hyrulian."

According to what?

The word 'human' is also used in MM.

Originally Posted by Jim, the leader of the Bombers

You're pretty good for
a Deku Scrub!

If only you were human...

Then I could give you an original
Bombers' Notebook and make you a
member...

Originally Posted by Tatl

This mummy looks different...
Sorta like it's here waiting for its
human heart to be healed.

Originally Posted by Kotake

Ah...hmm...Now that's a problem...
See, we sell potions to humans
only.

I don't think they'll work on
anything but humans...Sorry, but
you'll have to leave.

There's more, but you get the point already.

(Just what am I doing here? I don't even play GBA games... I must be really bored.)

This goes in relation with one of my current threads. If they are humans, than Hyrule is only a country, not the world. I Hylians ae mostly in games that feature Hyrule anyway... sept this one

They're probably reffered to as humans because they are normal people. By normal, I mean they grow old, don't live underwater, don't eat rocks, and are more than a few millimetres in height. They're boring.

Originally Posted by Crazy Penguin

According to what?

Hmm... let's think about this. Someone from in Europe is a European. Someone living in America is an American. Just because it isn't 'official' doesn't mean you can't use common sense .

They are all humans. Even Zora and Gorons. They are just different races of humans. I think.

Hylain is a race of human that lives in hyrule, same with kokiri, and zora.