Hopefully the Earth Temple yields the hookshot. I forget what's on the ghost ship, but I know that the hookshot is necessary to actually get on it. Not to mention it's needed to get the ghost ship sea chart, which, if memory serves, keeps the thing from disappearing when you approach.
There's good reason to believe that the Earth Temple will have the hookshot, too. The original sage who played in the temple to keep the power of evil's bane strong in the master sword is a Zora, and the hookshot's been the treasure found in several water dungeons. Plus, the mirror shield, the other possible item to be found while wandering with Medli, is usually the last thing to be found in a dungeon. It has been, with only some exceptions, since A Link to the Past.
Actually, going back to the sage of the Earth Temple being a Zora, there's something strangely prescient here. Medli, a member of the bird-like Rito tribe, is a direct descendant of Laruto, and therefore the Rito evolved from the Zora.
Pull out the focus a little and take that transformation more generally. A species which flourishes in the becomes one that flourishes in the air. The Wind Waker is a game based on the water, and then, in terms of real world chronology, Skyward Sword comes later and is based in the sky.
Could this transformation of the Zora into the Rito be some sort of sign from Nintendo that there would be a Zelda game based in the sky just as there'd been one based in the sea?
Not to mention the possible connection between the distinct Native American atmosphere of the Rito tribe and Renado and his daughter Luda in Twilight Princess. Perhaps, they're just two timelines' different expressions of the some inevitability?
But what, then, would be the expression of that inevitability in the "Defeated Hero" timeline?
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