Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
okay so,,, sonia is an incarnation of hylia, right?
spoilers and theory below cut
we know that the hylians of rauru’s time are descendants of skyloft, or at least it is heavily implied.
it’s said that the zonai come from the sky, but what if skyloft wasn’t the only sky civilization?
i think the zonai civilization peaked, and eventually fell, centuries after the events of skyward sword. the lanayru sand facilities are abandoned, suggesting that zonai once roamed the earth but lifted up into the heavens along with skyloft.
I believe the zonai people stayed in the sky after the sealing of demise, and that rauru and mineru only came to earth after the death of their people.
in the zonai survey team scroll quest line, which describes events in the past, sonia is not a princess but a priestess.
we know that rauru came to earth and established the kingdom, and he married sonia because she intrigued him, but what if it was also because she was the goddess incarnate?
we know that the incarnate cycles work very differently from each other: zelda is born every generation, usually within the ruling family, and will always live. link is born randomly and only when he is needed. ganon is evil, and so his existence is an everlasting festering curse, but a gerudo male is born every hundred years and every one has a small chance of being ganondorf.
that being said we know rauru’s time didn’t have a wielder of the sword, but definitely had an incarnate of the goddess.
it would explain sonia’s powers, and why she recognized zelda. it would explain why rauru risked his safety to marry sonia. and it would explain why ganondorf ultimately targeted and killed her, harnessing not only her secret stone but her godly light.