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You're still wrong, some back when you've played a few Zelda games. 🙁

Back when they were pushing the Christian belief, silver to kill the beast. Now we use light. Name change.

The only significance silver has in Christianity is that it's the metal used to pay Judas for his betrayal. Silver Arrows and Light Arrows do different things, they're no more the same item than the Kokiri Sword and Link's Uncle's blade.

Retcon.

Also, silver's been associated with monster killing for centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

The rules changed. It's a retcon.

European folklore =/= Christianity. No retcon, go play a Zelda game.

Wiki searching?
Silver was known kill fend of evil. (From medicine then went to vampires then werewolves. eg Silver bullet) Today is more fancy to day light kills dark creatures.

Originally posted by fascistcrusader
European folklore =/= Christianity. No retcon, go play a Zelda game.

Even though...y'know...quite a bit of Christian tales and doctrine came from...y'know...Europe?

Not really, Christianity all came out of the Middle East, European mythologies had been around long before Christianity got there. Norse and Germanic myths aren't Christianity.

They were adopted.

This is turning into a seperate debate altogether.

Regardless: The original Zelda games were set in a European style medieval setting, with silver arrows, and crosses on shields. That's been gone a long time.

Now we are arguing religion in these threads. Amazing.

What will we argue next? The origins of the universe? The philosophy of existance?

Existentialism is deep shit. I really don't wanna get into a debate about it. It'll make me feel lonely and insignificant.

Hah.

Nah, really. If you get deep enough into existentialism you can feel guilty just for turning your console off. 😐

I'm certain. We cover it a bit in my Critical Thinking class. I never actually found out what it was, though.

Originally posted by ScreamPaste
They actually weren't weak in OoT, what they did wasn't just stunning Ganon, they took him out of the air entirely. Something his own power couldn't do.
WW has a cutscene showing them being awesome, TP they actually aren't as important in, oddly.

But yeah. I think we all agree. 🙂

Light Arrows in OoT lacked the killing power of the Silver Arrows in the earlier games and the Light Arrows in the later games. They're supposed to be the ultimate weapon of the Zelda series (besides the Fairy enhanced Master Sword in LttP).

Silver has always been a material of great magic properties in the Zeldaverse (all 2? games that it was in), and definitely can't be compared to the silver ore we have in reality.

Both times that I recall silver being used as an item, it was displaying pretty amazing attributes. The Silver Arrows had the power to bring Ganondorf down in combination with the Master Sword in LttP, and the Silver Gauntlets granted Link superhuman strength in OoT.

So, Zelda silver is pretty good, and is clearly not normal silver that you might see in other games or real life.

Perhaps the Light arrows became the Silver arrows somehow.

Probably the reverse 😛 Silver arrows became light arrows by retcon.

Retcon or chronologically >_> hmm...

The chronological way isn't canon.