Hyrule Historia medallion mixup

February 19th, 2013 by Parmesanllama

Hyrule Historia, the in-depth encyclopedia to the Zelda universe, has just recently found its way to western shores. Unfortunately there seems to be a somewhat significant mix-up. As any Zelda fan knows in Ocarina of Time there are six medallions representing the six sages (not including princess Zelda), but with the release of the western version of Hyrule Historia there has been a small graphical error as to which medallions go to which sage. An imgur user has noticed this and uploaded a picture pointing out the mistake.

Hit the jump to see!

This is obviously a minor error as the medallions aren’t scattered across the wrong sages, it’s basically just a swap of the spirit and fire medallions between Darunia and Nabooru, nonetheless it is still a noticeable mistake. While we’ve heard that this mix-up is possibly present in the Japanese version of Hyrule Historia as well, it’s unknown to me whether or not this is entirely true. I would find it hard to believe that a small but still significant error like this would be overlooked twice, or even once for that matter. I still think overall the product itself is great and good value that’s for the most part well constructed in terms of the physical layout and content inside.

But what do you think? Have you bought Hyrule Historia? Is this simply a minor gripe in the big scheme of things, or should they have taken more time to ensure the accuracy of their product? Sound off below!

Source: imgur

Categorized under: Hyrule Historia, Ocarina of Time
Tagged: Hyrule Historia, Ocarina of Time

JamesBond007

Wait, this mistake is not present in the Japanese version of HH? Could someone upload a picture for comparison?
- Eien
  
  I have the Japanese version of HH, it is also in there. http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac162/dragonsNfoxes/P1050103_zps806c3bea.jpg
  - http://www.facebook.com/cianocianuz.launius Ciano Cianuz Launius
    
    indeed. just noticed. crap
Yum

!!!TSRIF
http://www.cargocollective.com/whosthemann whosthemann

I think someone who wasn’t an avid Zelda fan like the rest of us did this part of the design. You can tell this because they placed the medallions based on color. The spirit medallion is the same color as Darunia and the fire medallion is the same color as Nabooru. An easy mistake as the rest of the medallions match the color of the sage they belong too.
- http://twitter.com/mikejcsauer Mike Sauer
  
  I was going to say, if anything the colors match. When I first noticed it I thought hey, the colors make more sense, but this is still wrong.
joostyboy

Ugh.
Hyrule Historia is at least €50,- here.
Most of them are 60 or more.
- jorden1506
  
  that’s the expensive version there were ones for 30 euro
  - joostyboy
    
    What’s the difference between the two?
Eien

I have the Japanese version of Hyrule Historia (picked up while actually in Japan, god I love this thing XD ) and this same graphical error is in it as well. I personally hadn’t noticed this yet, and its only a small error. Now, misnaming things or just plain really off information I would be annoyed with. In the end, they have all the medallions there with the right sages, just not quite as close as you’d like XD
http://twitter.com/GrazielleMelo98 GrazielleMelo98

Tenho 11 anos e fui criada jogando o jogo zelda
- James Dragonmancer
  
  Não é uma boa idéia para compartilhar livremente sua idade (Translated by google translate)
Nikki

It’s a minor mistake, but not one that I’ll gripe about too much. That would be a lot of republishing if they fixed that one little mistake.
CChaplin

It’s not big mistake, but it’s like a tiny stain on a beautiful white garment. It’s just that one little thing that holds it back from being perfect
http://twitter.com/mikejcsauer Mike Sauer

AHHH you beat me to it! I noticed this when I first saw this page a few days ago!
SouperDuperDood

It looks like someone was matching the meadllions to the color scheme of the characters.
itsameluigi1290

Me: Don’t worry, it’ll be fixed in the next update!

Some guy: It’s a book, not a game.

Me:… I spend too much time around electronics ;-;
http://twitter.com/mikejcsauer Mike Sauer

The best part is, at the side of this page it describes which medallion goes to which sage. It even says Darunia is the fire sage and Nabooru is the spirit sage. The only thing mixed up here are the images of the medallions themselves.
joesteve1914

Also on page 121 the picture of vaati in the top left is upside down and on page 136 the logo for FS anniversary edition is the FSA one instead.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Allen-Ryals/624098565 Allen Ryals
  
  i saw that too.
  - Navi the Fairy
    
    agreed.
SMOSHOHLIC!

The colour is different and it is an easy mistake to make!
http://www.facebook.com/cianocianuz.launius Ciano Cianuz Launius

aw come onnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just looked at the japanese version and there’ the mistake as well!!!
http://twitter.com/JinLazyDays Jindrich Schelfhout

It was bound to happen. Almost every book in existance has at least one typo or mistake, it’s like a rule. I’m sure they they double checked everything if not more, but sometimes something still slips true. No big deal =)
Feanen

I remember fans mentioning this when the Japanese version came out, but I guess the word never got to Dark Horse. It’s too bad, because it’s a case where the localization could’ve fixed an error in the original.
rambler77

everybody makes mistakes on books like this i have a pokemon pokedex book that pretty messed up
MiniJen

To be fair, its an honest mistake. The Spirit Medallion is orange, which is similar in coloration to Darunia’s artwork and the Fire Medallion is red, like Nabooru’s hair. But still, I can’t believe I didn’t notice this!!!
Cmaster

Yeah, I’m in charge of my school newspaper and for our last issue we printed about 60 copies and we realized afterwords that we doubled the opening paragraph and didn’t put in the second one and it was really awkward. So I understand that its not easy to get everything right.
anon

Yeah, it’s in the Japanese version as well. I think what happened is they had individuals working on the book who clearly didn’t know the game well enough and the person matching the medallions up to the characters was going by color. Darunia kinda looks orange and Nabooru has red hair. An obvious mistake that an Ocarina of Time fan would have figured out, but clearly one that could’ve been easily made had the individual working on the page didn’t have the correct info and was just told to go by color.
Locke64

There are plenty of mistakes in the HH. I’m only about a third of the way through and I’ve found about a dozen already. For example, it claims that Link broke a seal on Ganon at the beginning of FSA, instead of Vaati.
Dillon

Omg I notived that…
linkasourous

Yeah I remember seeing that. And another thing… they put the concept artwork for each game in order of their release dates.. (Like Ocarina of Time before Majora’s Mask) But they put the Wind Waker before the Oracle Games and the Oracle Games actually came out a year before Wind Waker.
- Nikki
  
  I wouldn’t have known that. (Very late Zelda fan here).
linkasourous

Another Mistake potentially…Did they mean to leave Impa (Shadow Sage) out of the picture? It would seem likely that they would put all the sages that you have to awaken in one big group…Unless Impa was mentioned earlier. I can’t remember
ZeldaHyrule

I noticed that the moment I got my copy.
Brogan

I noticed the medallion mistake too. There’s also another error on page 127 (Wind Waker section) where it says “restored the power to repel magic to the Master Sword”. It should be “evil” if I’m not mistaken.
- James Dragonmancer
  
  noticed that too. didn’t think on it too much, but did think the wording was weird.
- Navi the Fairy
  
  good call.
Talicor

Ha! That was like the first thing that caught my eye! There’s also a picture (I forget which page) that says “text on the gate of time” (or something to that effect) while the picture is actually from the Lanayru Mining Facility!
http://www.facebook.com/frank.penalverfonseca Frank Peñalver-Fonseca

Actually, there is another small mistake.

On the page detailing Vaati’s final defeat in Four Sword Adventures there’s a picture that is upside down.Specifically it’s a picture on the upper right of the page where Link is using down thrust on Vaati with blue and purple link sitting out.

The error was probably done becuse the designer thought that Link was thrusting up rather than down and didn’t recognize Vaati’s actual shape.
- http://www.controlpaddesign.com/ TheMaverickk
  
  Oddly enough this is correct in the Japanese Version of Hyrule Historia. I found it and checked it out.
  
  In the Japanese book it’s Link down thrusting to finish off Vaati
  
  So Dark Horse didn’t fix a previous error and then committed new errors…. lol
  
  XD
  
  One aspect that bothers me about the English version is why they felt the need to put a drop shadow on ALL of the text in the opening prologue of the book. It’s kind of weird. It isn’t used anywhere else in the book.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bs88145 bs8814

Well, mistakes happen, nobody is perfect
Chewbacca

I have to say, I’m extremely surprised at how terrible the picture accompanying this article is. This information has been out for a few weeks now, and I’ve never seen a picture as bad as this. I think it’s funny, assuming that the writer owns a copy, that a better picture could not have been taken or even found online since there are pictures of this page everywhere.

I’m not trying to be mean, I just find it a little odd.
- WhovianGrrlGamer
  
  It is harder than you would expect to take a good quality picture of a page in a book. I’ve tried it with many books and three or four different cameras, but for some reason it always comes out all grainy like this one.
  
  It is a little odd though.
hi

I noticed that when I read Hyrule Historia.
ghirahimhunter

Also, did anyone notice how the Skyward Sword art of Link with the Master Sword has blue earrings? By the time he gets the Master Sword, he has the red Fireshield Earrings. (I know, that’s obsessing a little).
- Navi the Fairy
  
  why?
http://www.controlpaddesign.com/ TheMaverickk

This error is in the Japanese Hyrule Historia as well.

The sad thing is that it’s an error that should’ve been caught before and Dark Horse should’ve noticed it (or at least one of the fans involved with the translation) as those people were pouring over the Japanese version while remaking it essentially for North America.

It could’ve been prevented is basically what I’m saying. Still it’s not a deal breaker, the book is still worth owning.
Navi the Fairy

…yeah…I bought Hyrule Historia, and when I saw it, I was like,”FAIL!!! Nintendo, NO WANT
Spirit goes with Spirit, Fire goes with Fire. There.”
naga

my friend pointed that out to me. i was pretty annoyed and still am now. its ok to me if theres one typo in a big novel or something minute like that, but people really should be more careful. even if it is such a tiny mistake, “spirit medallion” and “fire medallion” arent right next to each other on a keyboard or anything, obvously, so the mistake was probably made in haste. hyrule historia was supposed to have huge signifigance in the franchise, and for such a simple mistake to be looked over even while translating the book is just sad. if there is anything good that can come out of this, it’s that there will possibly be a reprint, which will eventually outnumber the mistake one and years from now the mistake version will be worth big bucks. think about it-the book has only been printing for… what, 2.5 years at the most, counting the Japanese. if they start a reprint now, eventually the mistake one will be outnumbered a hundred to one and counting. keep in mind it’s and not a video game. Books stay in print much longer after first release(just about forever) than video games are made new after their first release. i really doubt they will reprint the limited edition, though. Besides, its worth enough already.