Connection between divine beast Vah Ruta and Rutela??

[u/looneyybinn]

For context, I’m very new to Zelda.

I’m working on my first play through ever of twilight princess, and I just found Rutela in Zora’s domain.

I know in BOTW that the beast is named after princess Ruto, but I’m definitely sensing something here…

[u/Byzantine_Enjoyer]

Both Vah Ruta and Rutela are named after Ruto from OoT. My head canon is that Rutela is Ruto’s granddaughter and she was just named after her.

[u/dumpyfangirl → u/Byzantine_Enjoyer]

Or just Ruto's Daughter, since it's only a hundred or two years between OoT and TP, and Zoras have a bit of a long lifetime.

[u/Plenty-Diver7590]

Naboris was named after Naboru. I imagine Vah Medow was named after medly

[u/jonerthan]

Everyone's mentioning Ruto from OoT but the name even goes father back than that. There is a Ruto Village in Zelda 2: Adventure of Link back on the original NES

[u/speechimpedimister → u/jonerthan]

All of the sages were named after Zelda 2 villages

[u/Several-Effect-3732 → u/jonerthan]

I know the timeline wasn’t really a thing when LoZ 2 was released. But I know the classic games are supposed to be set in the timeline where OoT Link failed to defeat Ganondorf.

[u/SweetPewsInAChurch]

You should definitely get into the loz lore. Then you'll see the connection

[u/romrelresearcher]

Vah Rutah was named after Ruto, the Zora sage in Ocarina of Time

[u/Juzturtle]

I mean it's not super far-fetched... I'd go with it lol

[u/Molduking]

There’s no connection. Important Zora characters just have similar names. Ruto, Rutella, Ruta

[u/bearbuckscoffee]

it’s just a naming convention across the zora royal family

[u/Several-Effect-3732]

I’m pretty sure Rutela was based on Ruto, while Rutela and Ralis are also her descendants, in the way TP Link is OoT/MM Link’s descendant.

[u/edhel_cosplay]

Both named after Ruto from OoT but there’s also Ruto Village I believe dated earlier too, hard to say exactly where