The Scenario
Greater Sci-Fi combatant
Originally posted by BloodRain
The light on the close up looks brighter and brighter, the instant its a close up on the spirit (where the light comes from) there's no extra light or being emitted.
I don't see why this means it didn't go back to normal after the attack. Regardless of whether or not Zant forced the attack, he was TKing 2 different targets. He also proved he could TK while casting another spell when he caught Link and used the magic curse ball.
It wasnt trying again and it didnt try again, it instead saved the two.
I notice Lanayru wasn't moving very much during all of this. Not even that little up and down motion the spirits tend to do while floating.
You mean waking up after Midna was hurt then somehow negating Zants powers?
You don't necessarily have to be able to move to initiate a teleport or use powers.
She did stay hidden all those times until that one scene where it shows her being hurt by the spirit.
Midna is always in her shadow form in the light world. The fact that this one time she wasn't indicates foul play.
Anyway, I think I finally got a bead on how long it takes Ganondorf to create a storm.
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All the way from the beginning of this video until about 0:54, the sky is clear except for the occasional cloud. That's when it starts to get darker. At 2:23, after Zelda's teleport interlude, there are a lot more clouds, and darker skies. Between 2:23 and 2:32, the number of clouds has increased exponentially and you can actually see them forming from nowhere. There is lightning striking even this early. At this point, gameplay starts and nothing changes for a while. At 4:22, the moment Ganondorf is defeated, we can see it worsening, despite not changing at all during gameplay.
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Here, from the beginning, it's still getting worse. There are very small shafts of light, and not many of them. More lightning at 0:28. At 0:36 it's totally complete, no light except for the lightning.
I estimate roughly 2-3 minutes for the storm to form. But that isn't cast time. Between 1:10 and 1:16 (the moment Zelda teleported), we can see the storm beginning and clouds forming, so it must have been before this point. However, the only time that would have would be either while the castle exploded, or else when he created those phantom horsemen. It looks pretty fast. I don't have a great estimate, but I put it around a couple seconds.
Not by intent to kill her as shown it went to save them. Not all of them but the powers, if he can control the spirits powers the spirit cant uses its powers to teleport them away.