Blood Moon: Difference between revisions

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| caption = "Ganon's power grows...it rises to its peak under the hour of the blood moon."

| purpose = Revives slain enemies<br/>Resets certain world states<br/>Causes critical successes while cooking<br/>Allows completion of ''[[Under a Red Moon]]'' [[Shrine Quest]]<br/>Clears system memory

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Any night after [[Link (Breath of the Wild)|Link]] has completed [[The Isolated Plateau]] and left the [[Great Plateau]] for the first time, the moon may turn red around 22:00 (10:00 PM) on the in-game clock. At around 23:30 (11:30 PM), [[Malice]] speckles the air. When the time then hits midnight, the sky will turn red, and a cutscene will play with monsters appearing in a puff of smoke - the first time, Zelda's voice will explain:

{{Quote|Link... Link... Be on your guard. Ganon's power grows...it rises to its peak under the hour of the blood moon. By its glow, the aimless spirits of monsters that were slain in the name of the light return to flesh. Link...please be careful.|[[Zelda (Breath of the Wild)|Zelda]]}}

Blood moons regularly occur every 2 hours and 48 minutes of gameplay (every unskipped 7 days in-game). A blood moon can be delayed by entering a shrine or [[Hyrule Castle (Breath of the Wild)|Hyrule Castle]] before the cutscene triggers, but the game will continue to trigger a blood moon every night thereafter until one can finally occur. If delayed too long, a so-called '''Panic Blood Moon''' may happen, where the system's free memory will fall below 10%, triggering a blood moon regardless of the in-game time to reset the game world and thus free system memory. If there's enough overload, there are instances where the Blood Moon may occur even in the middle of the day.<ref group="BM" name="Regular/Panic">https://redd.it/awiedd</ref>

*The blood moon may appear during the [[EX The Champions' Ballad#One-Hit Obliterator Trial|One-Hit Obliterator Trial]] in the Great Plateau, but it won't trigger a cut scene and will turn into a regular moon inconsequentially, meaning no malice wisps, no reddening of the sky and no storm clouds.

*While aboard the [[Divine Beast]]s, the blood moon does not appear, and as such, does not reset anything inside those.

*The Blood Moon doesn't happen during some mini-games like the ''[[Bird-Man Research Study]]'' and it fades even before the clock reaches midnight.

===Footnotes===

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During the [[All Hyrule, United]] Scenario, the Blood Moon appears shortly after the Divine Beasts fire their lasers at Calamity Ganon to increase the latter's power and revive the slain monsters and stays until the end and it carries over to [[The Future of Hyrule]] Scenario until Calamity Ganon is defeated.

After the main story is completed, the Blood Moon will appear periodically, turning Story Scenarios into Blood Moon Battlefields. It only affects one scenario, and it increases the power on various foes. The location of the Blood Moon changes often, and it occasionally appears on the same Scenario twice in a row and it eventually disappears. Blood Moon Battlefields have benefits of increasing weapon quality and doubles the original amount of Rupees upon completion.

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