So like myself I noticed this giant statue monument on the peak of Mount Hylia. The game’s NPCs does not mention anything about it and yet one particular NPC could be found next to it at the beginning of the game…..OLD MAN HYRULE (his actual name is super long and stuff so let’s call him this).

You can find him at the monument doing…..well something, but then he gives you the Warm Doublet. But the thing is why IS HE there out of all the places on the Great Plateau? Why not finish making dinner or continuing to try and cut down a tree that for some apparent reason he cannot cut down? Well, you see I believe that he is reminiscing the decisions of his life for what he was……next to his very grave. You see at the end of the Great Plateau thing, this seemingly old man reveals to the not so shocked Link he is/was the last king of Hyrule. Now through the game you will find notebooks and Diaries from people who explain what they did during and after the calamity including Old man Hyrule, but the thing with his is that his last entry happened on Zeldas 17th birthday…..a day or so before the calamity (it would have taken at least two days or more for Zelda & company to walk to the East gate at the base of Mount Lanayru). You see he realized that this was Zeldas last chance to awaken her power and he has realized how much of a dick he was towards his only daughter, so he was going to wait for Zelda to return so that he can apologize and start being a father. But then the calamity happened before Zelda ever returned to the castle. During the time before the calamity and after the time Zelda & Company made their way to the spring of power the King had to do kingly things and was most likely away from the castle somewhere between the “Sacred Grounds” (was not called a ruin before the calamity because that area was still intact) and “Gatepost Town”.

So when the calamity hit, everyone was busy getting murdered by the guardians and since the king was away from the castle he needed to establish an HQ……and I believe that HQ was the Temple of time. Since it was already an established sight for the gods and goddesses, and it is also located on the high ground (because of the cliff that the plateau naturally provided). Now fast forward before Zelda going super sayin and after ALL of the champions arrived at their Divine beasts only to be busy getting killed by Gannon, there is a battle with Guardians on the great plateau. During the skirmish, the king is shot by a Guardian equivalent of a Kamehameha wave and is either instantly vaporized or mortally wounded. And the rest of the royal guards make a last stand in the bell tower of the Temple of Time. I am saying this because if you look at the Guardian husks, it looks like they are in the middle of climbing the building. Then Zelda goes super sayin and demobilized MOST of the Guardians……before making her way BACK to Hyrule Castle. In that moment it saved what was left of the royal guard. By the time the Sheikah team arrives with Link at the Shrine of Resurrection, they find out what happened to the late king and commences a Mid Evil like funeral with placing what was left of the body in a boat and let the river take the body….thus why the river is named the “River of the Dead”. After that, they make the monument on top of Mount Hylia so that his spirit can have the perfect view of his entire kingdom.

Now that is all well and done BUT what evidence is there to support this? Well like most ghosts in ANY Zelda game, they reside near or close to the area that they have passed away because of emotional ties, an evil entity preventing that Spirit to pass on, OR unfinished business. And with Old man Hyrule most likely died of a mortal wound, he was able to live long enough to evaluate the entire situation with Link being entered into the “Shrine of Resurrection”. He chose to die and become a bad ass spirit to guide Link 100 years into the future instead of using the “Shrine of Resurrection” for himself.