[OoT] Translation in Ocarina of Time "Reborn" Teaser

I wanted to discuss how people feel about the translations in the Zelda series. For several games now we have been getting lines that have different meaning or different context. A key example of that is *Skyward Sword* with Demise's famous death monologue.

Now with *Ocarina of Time* Reborn coming out this year I figured a discussion on basically the only thing we know is warranted and I haven't really seen any on it.

I'm assuming we've all heard the English teaser opening by now. I'm just going to focus on that first line:

>"*Long ago, there was a land called Hyrule, created by beings of supreme divinity.*"

This gives the listener immediately the idea that this is being told outside of Hyrule or after it is no more (example: King *Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule* in *Wind Waker*).

Now the original Japanese text from the Japanese Trailer is this:

>\[No Kanji\]: はるかなたいこかみによリつくられたとつたわるくに ハイラル · · · \[With Kanji\]: 遥かな太古神に拠リ創られたと伝わる国 ハイラル · · ·

I threw this into just google translate and ended up with this (you can put it through a program yourself or if you know Japanese tell me a better translation):

>"*Hyrule, a land said to have been created by ancient gods...*"

**edit: see user** u/Akamiso29 **comment for a great breakdown of the line.**

This is incredibly different. More akin to how the Deku Tree tells Link about the creation of Hyrule in the original OOT after you beat Gohma.

Anyway just wanted to get some discussion going on this or different readings.