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I as you know probably given a hint by my name am a big fan of Zelda and have followed it ever since the SNES because of my age I wasn't able to own a NES and the Zelda games for that but it doesn't take a moron to find that out!
I started a topic in the FOG prime called 'Splutter, splutter, cough, cough' and here it is Splutter, splutter, cough, cough V2, my new and improved topic, now not just a tribute to the greatest RPG series ever but my favourite games company Nintendo and there consoles and some of its greatest moments!!! Just before they enter into the next generation of consoles…129bit leaving some of the classics and greats far behind them. This has taken me since about an hour after I posted V 1.0 until now!!
So here is to continue and add to my topic to the greatest RPG saga Nintendo has ever seen or even the world for that matter…Zelda on the Nintendo!!
The way in which the story goes or should I say, the chronological order of the games in The Legend of Zelda saga is this...
Zelda, Chapter One. - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Two. - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Three. - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992 on the SNES)
Zelda, Chapter Four. - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993 & 1998 on the GB and on the GBC)
Zelda, Chapter Five. - The Legend of Zelda (1987 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Six. - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1989 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Seven. - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages (2000 on the GBC)
"Link I," "Link II," "Link III," "Zelda I," "Zelda II," "Zelda III," and "Zelda IV."
There have been 3 links altogether and 4 Zelda's altogether. Link I and Zelda II are the Link and Zelda in The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
Whilst Link II and Zelda III are the Link and Zelda in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening/DX.
Link III and Zelda IV are the Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Fruit of the Mysterious Tree, the Zelda comics, and the Zelda cartoons.
Plus Zelda I is the sleeping princess from the past in The Adventure of Link. If you are still confused, this is further explained.
If I refer to just "Link" or just "Zelda" it most likely I will mean all of the Links and Zelda's in general.
Also, these abbreviations are used in the games and in this topic and are the names of the games so far released and the development:
LoZ - The Legend of Zelda
AoL - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
LttP - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LA - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
LADX - The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
OoT - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
MM - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
FMT - The Legend of Zelda: Fruit of the Mysterious Tree Trilogy/
OoS/OoA - for the Oracle of Seasons/Ages which is now correct since that is what the trilogy is made up of!!
Why doesn't Link know Zelda in LttP? In LttP there was some confusion as there is now of why Link didn't know Zelda in LttP but it was because it isn't the same old Link! There are in fact three Links. The Link and Zelda in LoZ and AoL are descendants of the Link and Zelda in LttP and LA. But the Link and Zelda in OoT are even earlier! Between the three Links and four Zelda's, this is how you break it down:
Link I and Zelda II (OoT & MM)
Link II and Zelda III (LttP & LA)
Link III and Zelda IV (LoZ, FMT, the cartoons, the comics, the Adventure Books, and the CD-i games)
Link III and Zelda I (AoL) (she's the sleeping princess)
Have you seen my Links?
LINK THE FIRST
HERO OF TIME
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
LINK THE SECOND
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP, LA )
LINK THE THIRD
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
Zelda and where she was seen!
PRINCESS ZELDA THE FIRST
SEEN : 1139 H.R.
( AoL )
PRINCESS ZELDA II,
PRINCESS OF DESTINY
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
PRINCESS ZELDA III
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP )
PRINCESS ZELDA IV
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
But although they are all Link in the same game in a way they are not all different and have differences you can tell them by!
Link I (OoT & MM) : Has blonde hair and blue eyes, and his costume changes as the game progresses:
1) As a child - green tunic.
2) As a teenager - green tunic, white "underall," brown riding gloves, and earrings in both ears.
But he can get a red, blue one as well!
Link II (LttP & LA) : Has blonde hair, blue eyes, and also doesn't wear a "underall" as it is but he does have a brown, long sleeved shirt under his tunic.
Link III (LoZ, AoL, & FMT) : Has brown hair, an unknown eye color (in the comic series, they are sometimes red or brown, and in the cartoon and LoZ book they are brown). He does wear a brown "underall," however.
If you are confused though about what he is wearing read some of these otherwise skip it!
A "tunic" is the green thing Link wears. These were popular in Ancient Rome. An "underall" is the brown/white piece of clothing that Link wears under his tunic that covers his whole body.
Again like the Links the Zelda's are different but with even more distinct features.
Princess Zelda I (AoL): Has bushy red hair and is seen in a pink dress while under her sleeping spell.
Princess Zelda II (OoT & MM): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and usually wears a purple and white regal dress with a veil, when she is both young and old.
Princess Zelda III (LttP): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and wears a blue and white regal dress.
Princess Zelda IV (LoZ, AoL, & FMT, though not seen in AoL): Has reddish hair and green eyes, and usually wears thigh-high travelling boots, pink pants, and a purple shirt. On special occasions she slips into a regal dress, like on her birthday celebrations.
The Links are all left-handed, according to the games and instruction booklets, though it would reason to say that he could be ambidextrous. However, some of the Valiant comics and the first Zelda 64 demo showed Link right-handed. I may also add that in LttP, AoL, and LA, if you face East, Link switches his shield and sword to the opposite hands.
This was done so they did not have to change the sprites of facing east and could just flip Link looking west. But, the LttP Player's Guide says that Link II does this to block the evil magic from Death Mountain.
What is Link is he an elf or something? The first Link was a Hylian of the Kokiri Tribe, but he is not a member of the Kokiri race, who is eternal children who have fairies as guardian spirits. The second Link and third Link must be Hylians, as well. Where the elf part and the ears fits in, it's not certain, though the Kokiri descent is the only link.
Since there have been 3 Links and 4 Zelda's how many Ganons have there been? There is only one Ganon. Ganon has never, ever, been destroyed. He has been knocked down and wounded, but he hasn't been completely destroyed. It seems when Ganondorf Dragmire touched the Triforce; he became invincible whenever he possesses a Triforce.
According to the third Valiant comic, if someone possesses the Triforce of Power without the Triforce of Wisdom, you will become corrupted because you do not have the wisdom or the intelligence to control that power. In that comic, Ganon tricks Link into getting the Triforce of Power without also having the Triforce of Wisdom.
Because of the vast power without the wisdom to control it, Link starts to turn into a pig-man, like Ganon. However, upon giving it up, the Triforce of Courage saves him. So, since Ganon never had the Triforce of Wisdom except in LttP when they were all connected, the corruption turned him into a pig-man. Also, anyone who lives in the Dark World takes the animal shape of what is in his or her's heart.
Since he lived in the Dark World with the Triforce of Power after OoT, he turned into a pig-man anyway because of his greed.
However, OoT threw in a snag. Ganon has the Triforce of Power, but he does not turn into a pig man for seven whole years, until he is mortally wounded as Ganondorf. So, there are a few possibilities:
- Since Ganon was the first known person to hold the Triforce of Power (or any Triforce for that manner) his evilness may have "rubbed" off onto the Triforce.
- Ganon only lives in his Ganon form when he is in battle with Link.
- Ganon only permanently turned to Ganon after he tried to leave the Dark World, because he had no Triforce of Courage to protect him, like Link.
How old is Link(s)? Three ages have been given for two different Links. When we first see Link I in OoT, he is ten years old. We later see him as a seventeen year-old. Link III was sixteen in AoL, putting him around fourteen in the original LoZ.
How do any of us know that the Link in LA is the Link in LttP? The manual, for starters, as we see in this quote:
Link's Awakening tells the tale of the hero of A Link to the Past and how after his first great victory he set out on a mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
We all know where most of the Links came from but where is Link 3 from? According to the Valiant comics Link III came from the kingdom of Calatia, which is west of Hyrule just beyond Death Mountain. His parents' names were Arn and Medila, who were known for a drink they made. Calatia is a mountainous country, which is ruled by Queen Seline, a friend of King Harkinian.
Which Link and which Zelda are in OoS/OoA? At present, the best answer is clearly Link III and Zelda IV. This is due to Link III's ultimate destiny being the most open-ended at the conclusion of his last appearance, AoL (and even following the comics, cartoons, and CD-i titles).
Plus, while Ganon was "at last look" sealed in the Dark World in OoT by Link I (and he couldn't have made any appearances between then and LttP as the Sages' seal was still intact) and slain by a silver arrow by Link II in LttP, in Link III's time Ganon is still alive since his comic/cartoon resurrection... and from the storyline given on Fruit of the Mysterious Tree/Oa/S, Ganon is not only mysteriously back, but he recaptures the Triforce of Power and Zelda (we can reason to say this is Zelda IV as well).
Since Ganon is already alive at the start of this game, it would reason to say it is Link III until further story bits filter in shedding any light otherwise.
Did Link marry Zelda? The first Zelda is believed to have been put under a sleeping spell and was not awaken until AoL. Thus, Link I couldn't possibly have married her, or he did but Zelda was put to sleep after. The third Link was born in Calatia, not Hyrule. Why this is, it is unknown (Maybe Link II sailed there after his dream?).
It is also unknown why the second Link did not marry Zelda, but it is known that Link II might have been in love with Marin and not Zelda, but Marin disappeared with Koholint (or possibly she flew off like a seagull). The third Link and Zelda never totally defeated Ganon without being separated. Maybe they got married. However, maybe the Prince of Darkness chanted a spell on the family of Heroes, saying that "the one who strikes me down will never marry the one he loves" (A very cool storyline concept!).
A lot of people have wondered what Links uncle meant when he said Zelda is you… when he actually meant "Zelda is your sister," as many were led to believe by this unfinished sentence. The Japanese version of the game says "Zelda is your destiny...." The translation wouldn't fit in the text box, so it was just cut off to add suspense.
Zelda the game in general has appeared in many different types of media like the Valiant Comics produced five monthly comic books of Zelda Comics in Spring/Summer/Fall 1990. Each book had two long stories, composing of ten pages each, and three pages of two or one page short stories. Another Valiant comic book, The Nintendo Comic System, had a ten-page Zelda story in each. An unknown number (i think it was 3) were made. Unlike the regular Zelda comic, however, The Nintendo Comic System was a bimonthly comic. They are not available anywhere as far as I know.
DiC Enterprises produced thirteen episodes of a Zelda cartoon show, which aired Fridays in the 1989 - 1990 season. I know a few were produced on tape, but as far as I know the entire series has not. So far, twelve have been reviewed.
Around 1991-1992, Nintendo published 12 so-called "Adventure Books" similar to the old "Choose your own Adventure Books." Two of these were Zelda books: #9 ("The Crystal Trap") and #10 ("The Shadow Prince").
Link also appeared in four episodes of the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon.
Nintendo Power ran a Zelda comic serial loosely based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in Volumes 32-44. An entertaining read, they provide additional story to the game, as well as depth to its characters, while taking a slightly different path to the story's conclusion. It is now sold in graphic novel format in the magazine's Back Issue/Player's Guide order form.
Games were made for Phillips Cd-I but whatever became of those games well the Philips' CD-i ("CD Interactive"), was a CD-ROM-based system that failed early on in its career, it had three Zelda games for its system in 1993. They were "Link: The Faces of Evil," "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon," and "Zelda's Adventure."
It is great to kill the final boss in a game and Ganon but in every game he is back apart from in MM but how does he do it. Well In the AoL instruction booklet, it says that the blood of the hero who killed Ganon can only revive him. However, in the Zelda cartoon series, Ganon can revive himself and other monsters from the Evil Jar if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after AoL, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Wizards put the sleeping spell on Zelda but know one seems to know exactly who it was. No one knows for sure. It could be Ganon, but the picture in the AoL instruction booklet shows him as the shadow of the Prince. Another possibility is Carock, the wizard in the Maze Palace in AoL.
It seems only the creator of Zelda knows. However, the wizard died after he chanted the spell, so it couldn't be Carock. It seems it was just a crony of Ganon or Ganon himself, otherwise the earliest sighting of an early manifestation of Ganon's Aghanihm incarnation (though this is unlikely, as the people of Hyrule wouldn't trust him when he would later come to rid the land of all disease and ailment).
On Link's Hyrulian shield there is a picture of a bird holding a piece of the Triforce flying towards the three other pieces of the Triforce.
There is a belief that there's a fourth piece of the Triforce, most commonly called the Quadraforce or the Tetraforce. These theories are caused by The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, in which there appears to be a fourth Triforce piece carried by a bird pictured on Link's Hylian Shield.
The "Tetraforce" probably doesn't exist but the most convincing part to the theory is not new news. If you've taken time to notice in the OoT previews, both the old and new versions of the shield show something that looks mysteriously like a fourth piece of the Triforce.
Though the shield is toned down, but on the older one looks like someone at Nintendo, was trying to start people thinking about it. If it didn't exist, why did they try so hard to get people to think this?
Why would they put a fourth piece on both shields, if not to imply that the Tetraforce exists? The first shield, it could be just a temporary image in the design of the alpha game but in the beta version, they decided to keep it? It can't be coincidence, but it was perhaps to merely stir the controversy (they were successful to that end).
Though none in any of the wall carvings in the castle, or on the Temple of Time, and even the series of cinemas about the creation of the Triforce seems against it. The Bazaar said shield was a copy of the shields used by (old) Hylian Knights. And, it is on Princess Zelda's clothes. Her dress could have been old. The Tetraforce could be and OLD Royal Crest. The new Royal Crest is a three-Triforce mark.
Then if the complete Triforce is so omnipotent then the question is to whether or not anyone ever had the whole Triforce? The complete Triforce should grant any wish its owner's desires, yet it was not able to grant Ganon's wish in LttP. He wished for the entire world, and only managed to change The Golden Land into the Dark World. Even with that change, disloyal and good were there, like the fat fairy within Ganon's Pyramid of Power.
Did Ganon merely word his wish wrong? I doubt it, as it was a wish in his heart of Ganon, not spoken. So that only leaves the possibility of the Triforce not being powerful enough. Maybe it's not complete...
Here's one thought: Farore, the Goddess of Courage, made life to uphold the law. Yet the Gerudo's (or particularly Ganondorf) are highly unusual. Ganondorf Dragmire was born and has been the scourge of Hyrule for years. There are distortions on the flow of power in the Triforce. Like "Day of the Triforce," one day of the year when all the Triforce's' powers cease to work.
A Day of the Triforce occurs once a decade. Which Occurred in the LoZ comic #5. This day occurs on every exact decade (like 1980, 1990, 2000... etc.) and in The LoZ comic #2, "Once a lifetime," all of the evil magic in Hyrule can be harnessed by one wizard. A Wizzrobe and Ganon tried to blast Link with a spell containing all of the evil magic, but it backfired. In the third comic, Link gets a hold of the Triforce of Power and became corrupted.
In the cartoon, if Ganon got a hold of the Triforce of Wisdom, he'd rule forever yet in comic #3, Zelda comments that the Wisdom and Courage can defeat the Triforce of Power any day. After Link defeated Ganon, he lends his hand to its restoration.
But circumstances did not look very good. Hyrule was on the road to ruin. With the Triforce of Power, Ganon had left behind ruin that continued causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule.
Evil life, build-ups of evil magic, T.o.P.'s ability to corrupt people with its power, disturbances of the Triforce's power, T.o.P. possibly weaker than the other two Triforce's. How could these things been done? The three Goddesses seemed to have created order from chaos, just to leave it to turn back into chaos again.
One possibility could be that, while the three Triforce's we know of marked the ascent of the three Goddesses as they left the world of Hyrule each point up, the fourth Triforce points down on every picture seen in OoT. This "pointing down" could further the theory that it symbolizes and embodies a fourth, evil Goddess, perhaps pointing the way to the Hyrulian equivalent of Hell.
That, or it merely symbolizes the three Goddesses' original descent from the heavens before they created all life on Hyrule.
In desert, the Spirit Temple was sculpted as a snake lady; Sheik called it a goddess of the sand. One theory could be that there must have been an evil goddess -
Maybe called "Colossus" - that came later to destroy what the others had done. Or maybe even take over what the other three done. She hid the Triforce of [Creative] Power and replaced it with a Triforce of [Destructive] Power. But the evil goddess couldn't forge the powers of the Triforce's Wisdom and Courage, as absolute power corrupts absolutely. She then created life to oppose the law as well as evil magic's and sciences. If that happened, it would explain the above and other mysteries.
Why hasn't a fourth piece of the Triforce ever been mentioned? Maybe it will be. Why would it be called a Triforce if there were four pieces? Well, in LoZ, when there were two, Triforce meant that the pieces are shaped as triangles, so it could be called the Triforce even if there were 50 pieces.
If there are four Triforce pieces in the game, then why isn't there any more info in the games, since OoT is the prequel of them all? Maybe, Hylians had forgotten this their years under Ganon's tyranny, as he had left Hyrule in ruins before which could have destroyed bits of the legend from scrolls in libraries that were burned or tablets crumbled and buried under city ruins, leaving Hyrule's elders to die with the memories.
For none of the stories handed down through the generations ever mention a fourth Triforce piece, but yet in LoZ, they never said anything about the Triforce of Courage. None of the wise men or Impa ever said anything about a fourth piece! Then again only when Impa saw the mark on Link in AoL, that then she told him of a scroll that no one could read that told of the Triforce of Courage. How could anyone have possessed the three pieces of the Triforce, gained absolute power and control of the world when Ganon couldn't even escape Dark World or even beat Link, a mortal boy?
The annoying owl that pops up at the most awkward times to "help" you to most people has a name but it might not be the same in every game, but there's a lot of controversy over the owl. Mainly: "He's Rauru, since the gossip stone said so," "He's the same one as the owl in Zelda 4." Now the gossip stone actually says that Kapoera Gaebora is a reincarnation of a sage. Now many people misinterpreted that to think since he never appeared as the grown up you it must mean he became Rauru.
Now let's look at "reincarnation." Someone that used to be someone else in another life, not someone who is someone else in the present. Meaning Kapoera Gaebora was once a sage.
Two possibilities are that he was either the sage of the forest or the desert. The two things giving me this idea is the fact the owl is often met in the lost woods and the gossip stones giving this information are in the sacred forest meadow. But also at the end of the game the owl is seen flying off towards the desert?
One thing, the owl may be male as an owl but he may have been female as a sage. Could Kapoera Gaebora be the reincarnation of the lady of the Spirit Temple, the lady whose image can be seen throughout?
It could be theorized that Kapoera Gaebora is evil and pushed Link along in the earlier quest so he would open up the Chamber of Sages. Is Kapoera Gaebora now an owl as a punishment of a wrong he committed during his time as a sage?
Also remember the owl of OoT bears resemblance to the owl of Koholint Island in LA. Now really everything at this point is guesswork as there is no apparent connection between the two, aside from both being owls and both guiding a Link on their quests.
It could be said that every Link is a reincarnation of the previous; a way to bring a warrior when he is needed - in other words, fate (or perhaps the watching goddesses) is using Link as a toy. As such, he could have been assigned to be the guardian and guide of Link for all of Hyrule's eternity.
Where are all the races/characters from OoT by the original LoZ and LttP? Ever since Aghanihm gained the King's trust he spent long nights in the high tower of Hyrule Castle. Those at the castle, the townspeople could see strange lights, even faint sounds coming from the tower.
The maidens started to disappear, so, the disturbances must have been Aghanihm casting the maidens into the Dark World. But, the ceremony was once a full moon according to the LttP comic book and after he finally captured a maiden. So the other nights, Aghanihm must have been working on something else, like how to control the guards. While being instructed by Ganon, Aghanihm must have been experimenting the effects for a first Evil Jar on each of guards. It was yet to be perfected, but it still worked.
Here is how this Evil Jar could have worked: First they need to become subject to it. It isn't certain how it's done, but in the "Missing Link" cartoon, they held Link's body in the Evil Jar. Maybe long term exposure to the inside turns you into an energy-based creature whose life energy is dependent on the Triforce of Power.
When you become subject as an energy-based creature, you're practically immortal. You have a limited amount of energy. If you run out of energy you have to return to the Evil Jar to recharge and the Triforce of Power will replenish your energy. To destroy someone like that, you'll have to blast him or her with something so powerful that they reach the point of no return.
It starts in OoT, where we met the races. In LttP, nearly 200 years passed. Sheikahs are extinct, merged with Hylians; Zora's are becoming hostile and have no compassion for Hylians; the Kokiri are now aging and are in the forest, living as thieves; the Gerudo's are dead; Gorons... are dead, too.
Then, in LoZ, Ganon and his minions ransacked Hyrule and its surrounding populaces; he finished off the young and able. He enslaved them to the Evil Jar. So, who's who, what did the Evil Jar do? Well, no Sheikahs. Hyrulian Guards and Knights were turned to Armos and then turned to stone because Ganon couldn't trust their full loyalty, Stalfos and Ghini are Hylians, Zolas are Zora's, and Moblins and Goriyah are Kokiri.
Gerudo's are resurrected as Gibdo, and one would tend to believe the Gorons are throwing those rocks at you in LoZ, living as the very mountains themselves.
Zelda Story line
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According to the Hylian scrolls, three mythical goddesses descended from a distant nebula to the world that was and created order and life. There was Din, the Goddess of Power dyed the mountains red with fire and created land; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom created science and wizardry and brought order to nature;
Farore, the Goddess of Courage, who, through justice and vigour, created life - the animals that crawl the land and the birds that soar in the sky.
After the Goddesses had finished their work, they left the world, though not before creating a symbol of their strength left in the wake of their passing: a golden triangle known as the Triforce. A small but marvel portion of the essence of the Goddesses was held in this mighty artefact, which was to guide the intelligent life on the world of Hyrule.
Although it may have been an inanimate object, the Triforce held within it the power to bestow three titles which gave the person who received them great powers: The Forger of Strength, The Keeper of Knowledge, and The Juror of Courage.
From its place of hiding in the Sacred Realm (otherwise known as "The Golden Land" or "Land of the Golden Power") where the Goddesses had placed it, the Triforce beckoned people from the outside world to seek it in the hope that someone worthy of these titles would find it.
The Goddesses had created six distinct races to live in their new world - the fish-like Zora lived in the vast waterways of the land; the rock-eating Gorons dwelt inside the massive Death Mountain, and created bombs. In the Lost Woods, far to the east, the Elvin Kokiri lived.
The black-hearted Gerudo people made the desert their home, while the mysterious Sheikahs lived at the foot of Death Mountain, vowing to protect the royal Hylian family. The noble Hylians lived in the center of the world, in the large Hyrule Field.
With their magic infused blood, the Hylian people were endowed with psychic powers and skilled in wizardry. It was also said that their long, pointed ears enabled them to hear special messages from the goddesses, so the many people in Hyrule held them in high esteem. Their descendants settled in various parts of the world and passed on their knowledge and magical lore to all people.
In it's passing, however, the lore was often distorted or lost altogether
In Hyrule, there were many Hylian buildings, which were mentioned repeatedly in the Legends. These buildings, which later may lie in ruin, pale shadows of their former splendour, were closely tied to the Triforce. Some were said to contain the Triforce itself...
If it were only a symbol of the Goddesses, many would covet the Triforce. But a particular verse from the Book of Mudora made the Triforce even more desirable:
"In a realm beyond sight, the sky shines gold, not blue.
There, the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true."
Many aggressively searched for the wish-granting Triforce, but no one, not even the Hylian sages, was sure of its location; the knowledge had simply been lost over time. Some said the Triforce lay under the desert, others claimed that it was in the cemetery in the shadow of Death Mountain, but no one ever found it. That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.
To protect the Triforce from such a person, a great sage named Rauru took it upon himself to build the Temple of Light to safeguard the entrance to the Sacred Realm. Using a few magical items, he made a large and complex seal that could only be opened by one who was worthy enough to receive the relic.
Rauru's efforts may have been noble, but centuries later they would prove to be not quite as infallible as originally thought.
As the kingdom of Hyrule - at this time united as a single country - entered into a bright age, the sovereign King of Hyrule led his subjects fairly and just, the Triforce in his possession to ensure peace was maintained.
As all ultimately do, however, this king one day died. His youthful son, the prince, who should have become king and inherited everything his sovereignty should offer as Hyrule's monarch, could only inherit part of the Triforce. The prince search far and wide for the missing parts, but could not find them. It was then that a magician formerly close to the King brought him some unexpected news.
Before he died, it seemed the late King had spoken something about the Triforce to only the younger sister of the prince, a young Princess Zelda I.
The prince immediately questioned the defiant princess, but she would tell him nothing. After the prince, the magician threatened to put the princess into an eternal sleep if she did not talk. Even still, she stood her ground before her brother, saying nothing.
In his anger, the magician tried to cast a magic spell on the princess. The surprised prince tried to stop him, but the magician fought off the prince and continued casting the spell. Then, when the spell was finally cast, Princess Zelda fell on that spot and entered a sleep from which she might never awake. At the same time, the magician also fell down and breathed his last.
In his grief, the prince placed the princess in a room in the castle. He hoped that someday she would come back to consciousness. So that this tragedy would never be forgotten, he thus decreed that every female child born into the royal household should be given the name "Zelda."
Tears after the Legend of Zelda faded into the stuff of Hyrulian legend, in the blowing sand and the harsh climate of the desert, the cunning King of the Gerudo Thieves, Ganondorf Dragmire, found the way to break the mystic seal of Rauru.
He discovered he would need three sacred stones - one held by the Kokiri, one by the Goron, and one by the Zora.
He then would require the magical Ocarina of Time to open the seal, which was held by a member of the royal family. Climbing upon his black Gerudo steed, Ganondorf went to each of the tribes and attempted to get their stones by destroying them - he poisoned the Kokiri's guardian tree, he infested the cave which held the Goron's food source with monsters, and he made the protective deity of the Zora, Lord Jabu-Jabu, go mad and swallow the daughter of King Zora XVI, Princess Ruto.
He then went to hold an audience with the King of Hyrule, in an attempt to find which royal family member had the Ocarina. Ganondorf knew that it was only a matter of time before he had all the pieces to his plan complete.
Time, however, definitely did not seem on Ganondorf's side...
Meanwhile, in the middle of an ensuing war in Hyrule, an exhausted Hylian woman entrusted her infant to the Deku Tree in Kokiri Forest before dying. Named Link - Link the First - the boy was raised as one of the enigmatic Elvin Kokiri without any knowledge of his parents (as it is known, Kokiri have no parents).
Even by age 10 he was still unlike all the other Kokiri - they all had farie guardians. All except Link. One night, he had a nightmare that would haunt his dreams for many months - during a rainy night, in front of a magnificent castle; a young girl would be riding away on horse in the arms of a woman. She would give Link a stare of helplessness, and looked like she needed to say something. Behind them rode an evil-looking man with green skin in black armour. He would frighten Link, who would stir and awake uneasily.
One night, after his dreams, a farie came to Link. Her name was Navi, and she told him that the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the Kokiri, needed his help. Link went to the Tree, who explained to Link he was cursed. Upon entering the Tree, Link vanquished the source of the curse. But the Deku Tree was nearly gone.
Giving Link a green gem, he told Link with his dying breath to visit the Princess of Destiny in Hyrule Castle. Negating the myth that a Kokiri would die if they were to leave the village, Link departed with Deku Shield and Kokiri Sword in-hand, to the reluctance of his childhood companion Saria.
After a short journey, Link and Navi found the Princess - Princess Zelda II, the first known descendant of the Zelda put into an enchanted sleep - and the girl from Link's dream. She told Link of the evil man from his dream, which wanted the Triforce. She told Link the only way to stop him was to find the other two Spiritual Stones and with her Ocarina of Time, open the door to the Golden Land in the Temple of Time.
After travelling and curing the curses of the Goron and the Zora, Link brought the stones to the castle. But, just like in Link's dream the man in black armour was chasing Princess Zelda in the arms of her nursemaid Impa on a horse. Zelda threw the Ocarina of Time to Link, who caught it and fled to the Temple of Time.
There, he played the Song of Time, which opened the gate to a bleak Hyrule seven years into the future. As fate would have it, the evil man tricked the young hero, and he stole the Triforce from the Golden Land before the lad could enter.
The name of this king of thieves is Ganondorf Dragmire, but he is known by his alias, Mandrag Ganon, which means "Ganon of the Enchanted Thieves."
Then, the whole world as Link knew it, ended.
It is not known what Ganondorf Dragmire wished for from the Triforce. However, in time evil power began to emanate from the Golden Land and greedy men were drawn there to become members of Ganon's army. Black clouds permanently darkened the sky, and many disasters beset Hyrule. The lord of Hyrule sent for the Knights of Hyrule, summoning them for an audience before ordering the warriors to seal the entrance to the Golden Land.
The power of Ganondorf Dragmire's power was just too great, and he swiftly took over the land of Hyrule. The Triforce, being an inanimate object, cannot judge between good and evil. Therefore, it could not know that Ganondorf's wishes were evil; it merely granted them.
Evil things beset the land of Hyrule in short order, and the leaders of the six races tried to prevent the ongoing war. Their efforts, however, were unfortunately also in vain.
Seven years after Ganondorf first touched the Triforce Link awakened in the Temple of Light. Rauru, who had built the Temple, explained to Link of the evil that occurred. Rauru was only one of seven sages who would, if brought together, seal Ganon in the Golden Land. Link found five more - Saria the Kokiri, Daurina the Goron, Ruto the Zora, Impa the Sheikahs, and Nabooru the Gerudo - all of whom became sages.
Princess Zelda II, who remained in the disguise of a boy under the name "Sheik" for the past seven years, was to be the seventh.
When Link finally found Zelda - along the way befriending the horse Epona, with whom he rode and traversed the land no longer by foot alone and pulled the legendary Master Sword (also known as the "Sword of Evil's Bane" and the "Magical Sword") from its stone sheath in the Lost Woods - it was revealed the Triforce had split due to Ganondorf's corruption. He held the Triforce of Power, Zelda II held the Triforce of Wisdom, and Link himself held the Triforce of Courage.
Upon hearing of this, Ganondorf was quick to kidnap Zelda and challenge Link to face him.
Link took the full brunt of the fierce attack, and although he fought courageously, at some points he nearly lost. However, his efforts were not in vein, for Ganondorf was slain by Link's sword.
Upon escaping his crumbling tower, Ganondorf arose, and, using the power of his Triforce he turned himself into the Prince of Darkness, Ganon. Battling Ganon seemed futile, but he bought precious time for the Seven Sages to magically seal Ganon in the Sacred Realm (more commonly known as The Golden Land, or Land of the Golden Power). All of Hyrule rejoiced at the victory that upheld peace and order over Ganon's evil and chaos.
Link was returned to his land, in his time seven years before, a young boy once more riding Epona back toward Kokiri Forest.
This epic war, which had claimed many lives, became known as the "Imprisoning War" in stories told in later centuries.
Link I, without even having time to savour his victory over Ganon in the Imprisoning War, found he must tend to the plight of Termina.
The kingdom of Hyrule had been peaceful and in a state of rebuilding after Ganondorf's dark reign. Returning just a few months after his time travel adventures, young Link I, Hero of Time, rode home on the back of his trusty (and equally young) horse, Epona. As he cautiously made his way through the foggy, dark woods of the home he had returned to in Kokiri Forest, two faeries appeared out of nowhere.
Startled by the quick-moving, glowing creatures, Epona reared up and sent Link flying to the ground. As Link lay unconscious, a third stranger appeared out of the mist: a mask-wearing impish Skull Kid by the name of skullkid. Looking for valuables, Skullkid soon found Link's Ocarina of Time, took it, and made his escape on Epona.
Link, of course, quickly followed and soon came upon a doorway in a large tree. He slowly stepped inside - and fell into a bottomless pit that transported him into a weird, yet oddly familiar world full of familiar faces.
But while the landscape may have looked familiar, one thing was clearly different: In the sky above loomed a gigantic moon, slowly descending onto this world...
"In a few more days, this world will end," so spoke those living there. Even as they waited, time passed mercilessly. "If you can find the masked one, you may find a clue to saving this realm."
And so Link embarked on a new adventure to halt the setting of the moon on this strange world and to find his way back to his own land.
Link must stop the catastrophe in the new world, or at least return to his own world. The world he found himself trapped in (called Termina), as Link learned, existed in a parallel dimension. The passage of time seemed a factor from the start - Link was aware that if he spent too much time in the other world, the moon would impact the planet to apocalyptic result.
Without the help of the faerie Navi, Link joined up with the brother and sister faeries Trail and Chat that had startled Epona at the beginning of his quest (who consistently would warn Link of Stalchild's recurring presence), then set out on his new journey.
The new key element of Link I's second adventure was the newfound ability to transform into new characters by wearing the different masks. By donning a variety of masks, Link assumed the form of a Goron, a Zora, and even a Deku Scrub.
Each of these fantastic forms had its own abilities, as one would expect. In Goron form, for example, Link could roll up into a ball for some wild Goron rolling.
When it cane time to make music (a key piece to the puzzle), the Goron Link whipped out a set of bongos and started to beat them repeatedly. As a Zora, Link gained fantastic swimming abilities, and in the musical department, he could play an aquatic guitar as if second nature. Although becoming a Deku Scrub sounded rather undesirable to Link, in this form Link could hover like a helicopter and play a quintet's share of horns.
It is in each of these forms that Link explored different worlds full of danger and wonder anew. He made a great many new friends and battled an all-new army of enemies along the way until his confrontation with Stalkid.
When it was revealed that Stalkid was actually good-hearted and that it was the Mask of Majora he wore (stolen from the Mask Maker in Hyrule) that was evil, the Mask of Majora itself had to be confronted. In the aftermath, Link I returned to his homeland of Hyrule, his second victory then behind him as he returned Majora's Mask to the Mask Maker, its rightful owner.
Many centuries have passed since the Imprisoning War and the exploits of the Hero of Time across the lands of both Hyrule and the realm of Termina alike. The kingdom of Hyrule healed its wounds and the people lived in peace for a long time, a new era of peace dawning.
Memories of the vicious Imprisoning War faded over the generations.
So it is no surprise that no one was prepared for the new disasters that had recently struck Hyrule. Pestilence and drought, uncontrollable even by magic, ravaged the land. The King of Hyrule, after council with his sages, ordered an investigation of the imprisoned Golden Land, which was now appropriately called the "Dark World" under the twisted dominion of Ganon, but the Seven Sages' seal was apparently intact. He offered rewards for anyone who could find the source of these troubles.
In answer to these summons a stranger named Aghanihm came and quelled the disasters with a previously unseen form of magic. As a reward, the King gave him a new position as chief advisor and heir to the seven masses proclaimed him their hero.
Peace had returned to Hyrule?
To the ignorance of all, Aghanihm was a puppet figure, Ganon pulling the strings from the Dark World. Aghanihm moved quickly - he murdered the King, took over and isolated himself in Hyrule Castle, took control by way of his magic the Knights of Hyrule, and ruled the entirety of the kingdom as a shadow sovereign and monarch, but no one outside the castle knew of it.
Aghanihm didn't stop there - he then carried out his plot to magically banish all the descendants of the Seven Sages to the Dark World, so that the lifeblood of the Sages would no longer be in Hyrule, and the seal placed on the Dark World would be rendered broken. After Aghanihm was finished sending six of the seven descendants, Zelda III, the late King's daughter and princess of Hyrule as well as the final descendant, sent out a telepathic message to Link, a descendant of the Hero of Time.
Sixteen year-old Link II, his parents having been gone years and presumed deceased since being banished into the Dark World by Ganon because they were descendants of the Knights of Hyrule, heard the plea in his sleep. He awakened to see his Uncle with the family's sword and shield, preparing to set out into the night. He told Link not to leave the house until morning, for he had heard the plea as well as Link.
Link, knowing the plea was for him and not his Uncle waited a while and left towards the gates of Hyrule Castle, where Princess Zelda III was imprisoned.
In the castle, taking a "back door," Link found his Uncle seriously wounded. He didn't want Link involved, but knew the telepathic message was meant for his nephew. He briefly explained how to use the sword and shield before giving them to Link, passing away shortly thereafter. Arming himself with them, he found Zelda locked in the dungeons of the castle. He took her to the nearby Sanctuary, a temple where she would be safe in the care of a sage.
At the Sanctuary, Zelda expressed her belief that Link II was "the legendary hero who appears in Hyrule once every hundred years," while the sage explained that the only weapon that could slay Aghanihm was the Master Sword, the weapon that the original Link used against Ganon during the Imprisoning War.
Successfully tracking the recluse down, the wise man Link soon met in the desert named Sahasrahla further explained that to claim and wield the Master Sword, hidden for centuries now in the depths of the maddening Lost Woods, he would require three enchanted pendants before anything.
As it became clear to Link, one pendant was hidden in each of Hyrule's three dungeons - the Eastern Palace, the Desert Palace, and the Tower of Hera.
Setting out, Link was quick to obtain these pendants, champion their respective labyrinths/dungeons, and systematically slay their guardians.
After Link recovered the pendants he made haste to the Lost Woods and retrieved the Master Sword ("The Sword of Evil's Bane"), and with the power of the pendants, wrenched the blade from its stone.
It was after he withdrew the sword that he got the grim telepathic message from Zelda. She had been found by Agahnim's minions and had been recaptured. Link raced to the castle only in time to see Aghanihm send her to the Dark World, fully breaking the Sages' seal.
Link then battled Aghanihm by using the Master Sword to reflect Agahnim's black magic. But before Link could defeat him, Aghanihm banished Link to the Dark World.
Once in the Dark World, Link got a telepathic message from Sahasrahla. Sahasrahla told Link that the seven descendants were in crystal cocoons in seven dungeons. To stop Ganon from returning from the Dark World to conquer Hyrule, Link set out to find all of the descendants.
Link travelled to all the dungeons and, after many a hard battle, he finally found Zelda in the final Dark World dungeon. After rescuing all the descendants, Link went to Ganon's Tower atop Death Mountain. In the Tower he battled Aghanihm again, only this time he struck Aghanihm down, who was revealed at last as Ganon. Ganon changed himself into a bat and flew off to the Pyramid of Power, where Ganon kept the Triforce. Link did not give up, and followed the Prince of Darkness.
It was within the walls of the ominous Pyramid that Link did his final duel with Ganon. With the combined effort of the Master Sword and his Silver Arrows, Ganon was defeated.
Touching the Triforce with a wish of goodness in his heart, all evil was vanquished from the Dark and Light Worlds alike and the Dark World was returned to its former state of being as the Sacred Realm/Golden Land. Upon returning the Triforce to Hyrule, he found the King of Hyrule and his Uncle had returned to life, and peace had wholly returned to the kingdom.
Not long after his return, however, the King of Hyrule stepped down from the throne, turning it over to his daughter, the newly crowned Queen Zelda III. As one of her first tasks after ascending the throne, Zelda knighted Link, appointing him Master of the Knights of Hyrule.
Soon, as a final task, Link returned the Master Sword to its former place of resting in the Lost Woods.
While Hyrule was at peace, however, other lands would soon need Link's help...
After his first great victory, defeating Ganon and returning things to order in all of his beloved Hyrule, Link II set out on a lone mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
Presumably leaving his leadership of the Knights of Hyrule in the hands of another while he was to be away, Link sailed to foreign lands where he disciplined his mind and body alike. When he at last he felt ready to return to Hyrule, he bought a small sailboat and headed across the Great Hyrulian Sea. The journey ended abruptly in a storm that crushed and sank Link's ship.
Clinging to a piece of flotsam, the hero of Hyrule floated toward a mysterious tropical shore, unconscious and barely alive.
When Link washed up on the beach of a mysterious island, he had no energy to stand or cry for help. Through half-closed eyes, he gazed out on a tropical forest with a tall volcano's stunted peak visible in the distance, and he thought it was odd that a giant, spotted egg topped the volcano.
At one point, it seemed to him that Queen Zelda III herself was speaking to him and that he was in a soft bed. At times, he thought he was caught in a bizarre dream.
Indeed, Link awoke in a soft bed, but the young woman who tended him was not Zelda, but a young girl by the name of Marin. She had found him and brought him home to heal.
From Tarin, Marin's father, he learned that evil creatures had appeared shortly after his arrival. Then, when Link returned to the beach to retrieve his sword, an old, wizened owl flapped down beside him and told him the strangest story he'd ever heard. According to the wise old bird, Link was the hero who had come to wake the Wind Fish, and he couldn't leave until that task had been done.
In the adventures that would inevitably follow, the lot of them taking Link to every corner of the island, Link learned that Koholint Island existed only in the dreams of the Wind Fish... and he was a part of that dream.
According to a wise old owl that would frequently provide him with helpful information, Link had to collect 8 Instrument of the Sirens from the Nightmares.
Link collected the Cello from the Tail Cave, The Conch Horn from the Bottle Grotto, the Sea Lily Bell from the Key Cavern, the Surf Harp from Angler's Cave, the Marimba from Catfish's Maw, the Coral Triangle from the Face Shrine, the Organ of Evening Calm from the Eagle's Tower, and the Thunder Drum from Turtle Rock.
After collecting all the Instruments, Link sought out the Egg on top of the volcano on Mount Tamarack. Once there he played the Ocarina, using a song Marin taught him, and a hole opened in the egg. Link went in side and found a maze. After correctly going through the maze Link dropped into a room where he found the Evil Shadows. Link fought each of the shadows with out having any respite between battles.
After Link defeated the Evil Shadows he climbed the stairway up to a platform, where he met the Wind Fish and he played the Song of Awakening again. After playing the song the island disappeared and Link woke up on a piece of driftwood. Link then looked up after hearing a sound and he saw the Wind Fish flying away.
Knowing his friends he had met on his journey were gone, alive now only in memory, Link's victory was a sad one...
"To the Finder. . .
The Isle of Koholint is but an illusion. . .
Human, Monster, Sea, Sky. . .
A scene on the lid of the sleeper's eye. . .
Awake the dreamer, and Koholint will vanish much like a bubble on a needle. . .
Cast-away, you should know the truth!"-
From a Plaque on the Wall of the Southern Shrine
Some say it never existed. Others say that it was but an illusion. The island of Koholint... was it a dream or reality? In this essay you can discover the secrets of Koholint and the mystery of its disappearance.
Link II, descendant of the Hero of Time and Master of the Knights of Hyrule following his battle with Ganon, went a voyage around the world to increase his wisdom, courage, and power. However, a storm tossed his ship and lighting destroyed it deep within the Great Hyrulian Sea. He grabbed a piece of his ship and hoped for the best.
He awoke in the bed of a beautiful girl. She discovered him on the shore of the island, the island of Koholint. This was no normal island, for a giant egg lay atop the tallest mountain. The Hero enjoyed the company of the girl, Marin, but knew he had to return home and fulfil his duties as the Legendary Hero of Hyrule. But he could not leave the island by normal means. He had to collect the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, hidden in eight dungeons all around Koholint, and play them in front of the egg. Inside, the Wind Fish would awake and allow him to go home.
As Link II travelled around the island, collecting the instruments, he soon discovered Koholint was not the island he believed. Clues, such as the plaque in the Southern Shrine, proved his theory - which Koholint would disappear forever if he awoke the Wind Fish. But he had no choice.
Link awoke the fish, and the island disappeared. But what if he didn't? What if he just let the Wind Fish sleep and he lived with Marin forever?
He could not, due to events in Koholint past. While the Wind Fish slept, an evil creature called The Shadow entered the dream. At first, it took over the inside of the giant egg. Then The Shadow sent its eight strongest minions, the Nightmares, to guard the instruments in the dungeons so no one could wake up the Wind Fish. The Shadow placed weaker minions inside the dungeons to help the Nightmares. Then it started to place its minions on the Overworld.
That is when Link II arrived.
The Shadow began to place more of its creatures to destroy the Hero, because The Shadow knew that Link had the potential to destroy itself. Nevertheless, Link destroyed the Nightmares, collected the instruments, and destroyed The Shadow. He then awoke the Wind Fish, which destroyed the island.
Some say it was a tragedy that Link awoke the Wind Fish. But what would happen if he didn't? It was obvious that The Shadow had been building up its power. Sooner or later, The Shadow would have amassed enough power to send his minions to take over the island's two villages. Even a Legendary Hero cannot hold back endless amounts of monsters. Koholint would have been overrun, and ruled by The Shadow with an iron fist.
Link destroyed The Shadow and the island, but he saved it from a fate far worse than death. So in the end, he was still a hero.
One last note before the end of this essay. At the end of Link's Awakening, if beaten with no lives lost, you can see Marin flying off the island with wings. Her dream was to fly like a seagull, and she wished this wish to the Wind Fish before he awoke. Perhaps, this can be taken as a sign that the piece of the island Link held most dear was preserved.
Some time after Link II had set sail once more after the bitter resolution of the nightmare that had been his Koholint debacle, the hero of both Hyrule and Koholint found he presented with a new dilemma. Perhaps afraid to chance again the Great Hyrulian Sea - the same sea that had nearly claimed him - it was not Hyrule he returned to. By chance or by fate, Link ventured to the land of Calatia, a kingdom to the west of central Hyrule not too unlike his homeland.
After Link II settled and eventually passed away in Calatia, the years began to pass with increasing pace. A woman by the name of Medila, wife of Arn, one of Link II's blood-descendants, gave birth to their first child. By simple coincidence or fate, this child was named "Link," the third known to bear the name in Hyrulian history.
As he grew to adolescence, Link III quickly became known in Calatia as a courageous young man who was more than skilled enough in the ways of swordplay. It seemed inevitable when the young man one day began to yearn for fame, fortune, and romance, and left Calatia to search for adventure elsewhere.
He wouldn't have to go far to find it.
After a short journey, Link arrived in the neighbouring land of Hyrule, and while searching for signs of adventure he took notice of an old woman surrounded by evil minions. Links felt compelled to assist the woman, and ran towards the villainous monsters, hoping he could defeat them and help the woman.
To the gratitude of the elderly woman, Link did well to ward the monsters off. She introduced herself as Impa, a descendant of the ancient Sheikahs and the original Impa. Then she told Link the woeful tale of Hyrule and Princess Zelda IV.
Link had almost thought his short adventure was over. He had no way have knowing this was to be only just the beginning.
Hyrule had declined, becoming a rustic land with few remaining signs of its earlier glory and splendour. The land was overrun, and Ganon was to blame. At the heart of the conflict lay a missing piece of the Triforce and Zelda. Of how Ganon came by the Triforce of Power no tale is told.
When she discovered that Ganon had acquired a piece of the Triforce, though, Zelda broke the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and hid them. She knew a hero was needed to challenge Ganon, so she sent her nurse, Impa, to search throughout the land, even as Zelda IV herself was captured.
During her quest, Impa long evaded Ganon's reach, but in a forest glade she too fell into his clutches and would have been carried off if it not for the heroic actions of a passing youth named Link, the third to bear the name.
Once the villains had been driven away, Impa told the young man about Zelda's secret. Then, unable to hold back her tears, she told him how Zelda had been taken captive. No sooner had Link heard the tale of Zelda's sorrow than he pledged to defeat Ganon and rescue the Princess.
He set off at once, knowing only that he had to collect the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom. At every turn in the path he met monsters and other evil soldiers of Ganon who challenged him in battle.
Link's first task was to find the hidden dungeons where Zelda had secretly hidden the divided Triforce. Many of the entrances were disguised, and only by using all of his wits and the scraps of hints that he picked up along the way was he able to succeed. Inside the dungeons, he met countless enemies, for Ganon's minions had taken hold of even the most remote chambers.
After countless adventures along the way, cutting through endless Octorok, Moblins, leevers, and Stalfos, Link gathered all eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom from their eight respective dungeons and pulled the legendary Master Sword, "The Sword of Evil's Bane," (more commonly called "The Magical Sword" in this era) once used by Link I and II from its place of resting in the Lost Woods. He then scaled Death Mountain and gained entrance to Spectacle Rock, where the final leg of his journey lay. Ganon's great labyrinth - the ninth he had traversed thus - dwarfed any that Link had yet encountered. In a hidden chamber, he discovered a magical Silver Arrow and, taking the prize, he traced his way through the maze until he came face-to-face with Ganon himself.
The battle between youthful hero and villainous foe raged across the chamber, but Ganon remained invisible, seemingly unaffected by the cuts of Link's sword.
As Link began to tire, he tried a last, desperate strategy, putting the Silver Arrow to the test. The bowstring sang and the arrow flew straight. Ganon was destroyed.
With the defeat of Ganon, Link's mind turned to the purpose that had driven him here - the rescue of Princess Zelda IV.
One chamber remained to be explored and Link went ahead. Here Zelda greeted him and the pieces of the Triforce's of Power and Wisdom were reunited.
With the destruction of Ganon and the power of the Triforce restored, peace reigned once more in Hyrule. Princess Zelda ruled over the land beside her father, and the country prospered. It seemed as if the shadow of Ganon had been destroyed forever. But the youthful hero of the age remained ever vigilant. Wherever Link roamed, he looked for signs of Ganon's return, for he could not believe that he had truly banished evil from the land.
Two years after Link III's first adventure through Hyrule, Princess Zelda IV still ruled the kingdom of Hyrule beside her father, King Harkinian, and things seemed to be at ease from within...
yet evil still loomed over the land from without. Hyrule seemed fast on the road to ruin. The power that the vile heart of Ganon had left behind was causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule. What's more, even after the fall of Ganon; many of his underlings remained, awaiting their master's return.
Link III, who had remained in Hyrule to lend his hand to its restoration in this time of healing, found that circumstances did not look good. Link III was destined to become a hero still, but in the peaceful days that ensued, he would ultimately grow restless.
He wandered the forests, crossed the deserts and delved into the caverns of Hyrule, looking for any clues that might explain his feelings of unease. In time he became aware of a whisper that passed between the birds, beasts, and even through the blades of grass: there was a new magic in the land, nameless and terrifying.
One day, a strange mark, exactly akin to the crest of the kingdom, appeared on the back of Link's hand as he approached his 16th birthday. The worried Link went to Impa, who was shocked and frightened when she took notice of the birthmark.
Taking him to the North Palace, Link was led to a door within called "the door that does not open," a door that would open upon contact with the birthmark on Link's hand.
As Link III unlocked and opened this mysterious door, Impa immediately told Link at last the Legend of Zelda; how the sister of an ancient prince - Zelda - withheld the Triforce from him, was placed into an enchanted, timeless slumber by the prince's magician, and how this woeful princeful decreed every female child born into the royal household was decreed to be given the name "Zelda."
Lying as still as marble, the original mythical Princess Zelda I from ages before slept her dreamless sleep of enchantment within the room before them, just as the Legend said she would be.
When Link found her thus arrayed in the North Palace, he saw at once that she was spellbound indeed. Link III's mission seemed clear enough from the beginning. By refusing to reveal the secret power of the Triforce to a magician, this Princess Zelda had brought on her own downfall. But all was not lost.
If Link III somehow unlocked the mystery of the Great Palace, he could save this ancient Zelda and the newly realized Triforce of Courage Impa spoke of. He set off.
Again Link found himself taking to the fields and forests, but these places had become wild and dangerous, inhabited by enemies of old. Link found himself relying on his wits and swordplay at every step.
Creatures he had never before seen also waylaid him: spiders called Deelers that dropped from trees, tall Geldarms that rose from the sands of the Tantari Desert, and Daira armed with axes and hatred.
Link's mission was to enter each of six palaces and restore a missing crystal to its proper statue. Together, the statues created a magical lock on the Great Palace and only by replacing the six crystals could Link open the final door. In each palace, however, he had to battle a Statue Guardian of great strength: Barba the Dragon, Iron knuckle the Knight, Carock the Wizard, and others.
As he closed the palaces one by one, Link crossed nearly the entire expanse of Hyrule, from Ruto in the northwest to Death Mountain in the south, from the Island Palace in the Stormy Straights to Maze Island in the Far Eastern Sea. He helped villagers when he could, but he never lost sight of his ultimate goal. Finally, after uncovering the secrets of Old Kasuto, Link pushed on to the Great Palace where he encountered what he thought to be the final obstacle in his quest - the Thunderbird.
Once the Thunderbird was vanquished, Link thought that Zelda I and Hyrule would be saved, but it was not to be... not yet.
Exhausted from his journeying, Link had one more enemy to defeat - an enemy so unexpected that he did not know what to do, for the enemy was his own self... his own shadow.
Link III defeated his own Shadow and awoke the original Princess Zelda I from her seemingly eternal sleep. But it would seem that evil was not entirely banished from Hyrule for suddenly, without warning, Ganon, the Prince of Darkness, returned to Hyrule.
Previously it was thought that only the blood of the hero who killed Ganon could revive him. It became known, however, that Ganon can revive himself and any other of his monster minions from the "Evil Jar" (the otherworldly place where all the dead monsters go) if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after Link III's quest to awaken the original Princess Zelda from her enchanted slumber and recover the Triforce of Courage, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Although he was not restored to all of his original power, Ganon got his hands on the Triforce of Power again, which had been bestowed to the people of Hyrule as a sign of goodwill. Link III and Zelda IV, the same Zelda he rescued from the clutches of Ganon on his original quest, knew that Hyrule would not be at peace with Ganon still alive, for Ganon still yearned for the dominion of the land of Hyrule.
Soon Ganon would throw clever plan after clever plan at Link and Zelda,
I started a topic in the FOG prime called 'Splutter, splutter, cough, cough' and here it is Splutter, splutter, cough, cough V2, my new and improved topic, now not just a tribute to the greatest RPG series ever but my favourite games company Nintendo and there consoles and some of its greatest moments!!! Just before they enter into the next generation of consoles…129bit leaving some of the classics and greats far behind them. This has taken me since about an hour after I posted V 1.0 until now!!
So here is to continue and add to my topic to the greatest RPG saga Nintendo has ever seen or even the world for that matter…Zelda on the Nintendo!!
The way in which the story goes or should I say, the chronological order of the games in The Legend of Zelda saga is this...
Zelda, Chapter One. - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Two. - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Three. - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992 on the SNES)
Zelda, Chapter Four. - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993 & 1998 on the GB and on the GBC)
Zelda, Chapter Five. - The Legend of Zelda (1987 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Six. - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1989 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Seven. - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages (2000 on the GBC)
"Link I," "Link II," "Link III," "Zelda I," "Zelda II," "Zelda III," and "Zelda IV."
There have been 3 links altogether and 4 Zelda's altogether. Link I and Zelda II are the Link and Zelda in The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
Whilst Link II and Zelda III are the Link and Zelda in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening/DX.
Link III and Zelda IV are the Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Fruit of the Mysterious Tree, the Zelda comics, and the Zelda cartoons.
Plus Zelda I is the sleeping princess from the past in The Adventure of Link. If you are still confused, this is further explained.
If I refer to just "Link" or just "Zelda" it most likely I will mean all of the Links and Zelda's in general.
Also, these abbreviations are used in the games and in this topic and are the names of the games so far released and the development:
LoZ - The Legend of Zelda
AoL - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
LttP - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LA - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
LADX - The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
OoT - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
MM - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
FMT - The Legend of Zelda: Fruit of the Mysterious Tree Trilogy/
OoS/OoA - for the Oracle of Seasons/Ages which is now correct since that is what the trilogy is made up of!!
Why doesn't Link know Zelda in LttP? In LttP there was some confusion as there is now of why Link didn't know Zelda in LttP but it was because it isn't the same old Link! There are in fact three Links. The Link and Zelda in LoZ and AoL are descendants of the Link and Zelda in LttP and LA. But the Link and Zelda in OoT are even earlier! Between the three Links and four Zelda's, this is how you break it down:
Link I and Zelda II (OoT & MM)
Link II and Zelda III (LttP & LA)
Link III and Zelda IV (LoZ, FMT, the cartoons, the comics, the Adventure Books, and the CD-i games)
Link III and Zelda I (AoL) (she's the sleeping princess)
Have you seen my Links?
LINK THE FIRST
HERO OF TIME
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
LINK THE SECOND
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP, LA )
LINK THE THIRD
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
Zelda and where she was seen!
PRINCESS ZELDA THE FIRST
SEEN : 1139 H.R.
( AoL )
PRINCESS ZELDA II,
PRINCESS OF DESTINY
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
PRINCESS ZELDA III
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP )
PRINCESS ZELDA IV
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
But although they are all Link in the same game in a way they are not all different and have differences you can tell them by!
Link I (OoT & MM) : Has blonde hair and blue eyes, and his costume changes as the game progresses:
1) As a child - green tunic.
2) As a teenager - green tunic, white "underall," brown riding gloves, and earrings in both ears.
But he can get a red, blue one as well!
Link II (LttP & LA) : Has blonde hair, blue eyes, and also doesn't wear a "underall" as it is but he does have a brown, long sleeved shirt under his tunic.
Link III (LoZ, AoL, & FMT) : Has brown hair, an unknown eye color (in the comic series, they are sometimes red or brown, and in the cartoon and LoZ book they are brown). He does wear a brown "underall," however.
If you are confused though about what he is wearing read some of these otherwise skip it!
A "tunic" is the green thing Link wears. These were popular in Ancient Rome. An "underall" is the brown/white piece of clothing that Link wears under his tunic that covers his whole body.
Again like the Links the Zelda's are different but with even more distinct features.
Princess Zelda I (AoL): Has bushy red hair and is seen in a pink dress while under her sleeping spell.
Princess Zelda II (OoT & MM): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and usually wears a purple and white regal dress with a veil, when she is both young and old.
Princess Zelda III (LttP): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and wears a blue and white regal dress.
Princess Zelda IV (LoZ, AoL, & FMT, though not seen in AoL): Has reddish hair and green eyes, and usually wears thigh-high travelling boots, pink pants, and a purple shirt. On special occasions she slips into a regal dress, like on her birthday celebrations.
The Links are all left-handed, according to the games and instruction booklets, though it would reason to say that he could be ambidextrous. However, some of the Valiant comics and the first Zelda 64 demo showed Link right-handed. I may also add that in LttP, AoL, and LA, if you face East, Link switches his shield and sword to the opposite hands.
This was done so they did not have to change the sprites of facing east and could just flip Link looking west. But, the LttP Player's Guide says that Link II does this to block the evil magic from Death Mountain.
What is Link is he an elf or something? The first Link was a Hylian of the Kokiri Tribe, but he is not a member of the Kokiri race, who is eternal children who have fairies as guardian spirits. The second Link and third Link must be Hylians, as well. Where the elf part and the ears fits in, it's not certain, though the Kokiri descent is the only link.
Since there have been 3 Links and 4 Zelda's how many Ganons have there been? There is only one Ganon. Ganon has never, ever, been destroyed. He has been knocked down and wounded, but he hasn't been completely destroyed. It seems when Ganondorf Dragmire touched the Triforce; he became invincible whenever he possesses a Triforce.
According to the third Valiant comic, if someone possesses the Triforce of Power without the Triforce of Wisdom, you will become corrupted because you do not have the wisdom or the intelligence to control that power. In that comic, Ganon tricks Link into getting the Triforce of Power without also having the Triforce of Wisdom.
Because of the vast power without the wisdom to control it, Link starts to turn into a pig-man, like Ganon. However, upon giving it up, the Triforce of Courage saves him. So, since Ganon never had the Triforce of Wisdom except in LttP when they were all connected, the corruption turned him into a pig-man. Also, anyone who lives in the Dark World takes the animal shape of what is in his or her's heart.
Since he lived in the Dark World with the Triforce of Power after OoT, he turned into a pig-man anyway because of his greed.
However, OoT threw in a snag. Ganon has the Triforce of Power, but he does not turn into a pig man for seven whole years, until he is mortally wounded as Ganondorf. So, there are a few possibilities:
- Since Ganon was the first known person to hold the Triforce of Power (or any Triforce for that manner) his evilness may have "rubbed" off onto the Triforce.
- Ganon only lives in his Ganon form when he is in battle with Link.
- Ganon only permanently turned to Ganon after he tried to leave the Dark World, because he had no Triforce of Courage to protect him, like Link.
How old is Link(s)? Three ages have been given for two different Links. When we first see Link I in OoT, he is ten years old. We later see him as a seventeen year-old. Link III was sixteen in AoL, putting him around fourteen in the original LoZ.
How do any of us know that the Link in LA is the Link in LttP? The manual, for starters, as we see in this quote:
Link's Awakening tells the tale of the hero of A Link to the Past and how after his first great victory he set out on a mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
We all know where most of the Links came from but where is Link 3 from? According to the Valiant comics Link III came from the kingdom of Calatia, which is west of Hyrule just beyond Death Mountain. His parents' names were Arn and Medila, who were known for a drink they made. Calatia is a mountainous country, which is ruled by Queen Seline, a friend of King Harkinian.
Which Link and which Zelda are in OoS/OoA? At present, the best answer is clearly Link III and Zelda IV. This is due to Link III's ultimate destiny being the most open-ended at the conclusion of his last appearance, AoL (and even following the comics, cartoons, and CD-i titles).
Plus, while Ganon was "at last look" sealed in the Dark World in OoT by Link I (and he couldn't have made any appearances between then and LttP as the Sages' seal was still intact) and slain by a silver arrow by Link II in LttP, in Link III's time Ganon is still alive since his comic/cartoon resurrection... and from the storyline given on Fruit of the Mysterious Tree/Oa/S, Ganon is not only mysteriously back, but he recaptures the Triforce of Power and Zelda (we can reason to say this is Zelda IV as well).
Since Ganon is already alive at the start of this game, it would reason to say it is Link III until further story bits filter in shedding any light otherwise.
Did Link marry Zelda? The first Zelda is believed to have been put under a sleeping spell and was not awaken until AoL. Thus, Link I couldn't possibly have married her, or he did but Zelda was put to sleep after. The third Link was born in Calatia, not Hyrule. Why this is, it is unknown (Maybe Link II sailed there after his dream?).
It is also unknown why the second Link did not marry Zelda, but it is known that Link II might have been in love with Marin and not Zelda, but Marin disappeared with Koholint (or possibly she flew off like a seagull). The third Link and Zelda never totally defeated Ganon without being separated. Maybe they got married. However, maybe the Prince of Darkness chanted a spell on the family of Heroes, saying that "the one who strikes me down will never marry the one he loves" (A very cool storyline concept!).
A lot of people have wondered what Links uncle meant when he said Zelda is you… when he actually meant "Zelda is your sister," as many were led to believe by this unfinished sentence. The Japanese version of the game says "Zelda is your destiny...." The translation wouldn't fit in the text box, so it was just cut off to add suspense.
Zelda the game in general has appeared in many different types of media like the Valiant Comics produced five monthly comic books of Zelda Comics in Spring/Summer/Fall 1990. Each book had two long stories, composing of ten pages each, and three pages of two or one page short stories. Another Valiant comic book, The Nintendo Comic System, had a ten-page Zelda story in each. An unknown number (i think it was 3) were made. Unlike the regular Zelda comic, however, The Nintendo Comic System was a bimonthly comic. They are not available anywhere as far as I know.
DiC Enterprises produced thirteen episodes of a Zelda cartoon show, which aired Fridays in the 1989 - 1990 season. I know a few were produced on tape, but as far as I know the entire series has not. So far, twelve have been reviewed.
Around 1991-1992, Nintendo published 12 so-called "Adventure Books" similar to the old "Choose your own Adventure Books." Two of these were Zelda books: #9 ("The Crystal Trap") and #10 ("The Shadow Prince").
Link also appeared in four episodes of the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon.
Nintendo Power ran a Zelda comic serial loosely based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in Volumes 32-44. An entertaining read, they provide additional story to the game, as well as depth to its characters, while taking a slightly different path to the story's conclusion. It is now sold in graphic novel format in the magazine's Back Issue/Player's Guide order form.
Games were made for Phillips Cd-I but whatever became of those games well the Philips' CD-i ("CD Interactive"), was a CD-ROM-based system that failed early on in its career, it had three Zelda games for its system in 1993. They were "Link: The Faces of Evil," "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon," and "Zelda's Adventure."
It is great to kill the final boss in a game and Ganon but in every game he is back apart from in MM but how does he do it. Well In the AoL instruction booklet, it says that the blood of the hero who killed Ganon can only revive him. However, in the Zelda cartoon series, Ganon can revive himself and other monsters from the Evil Jar if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after AoL, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Wizards put the sleeping spell on Zelda but know one seems to know exactly who it was. No one knows for sure. It could be Ganon, but the picture in the AoL instruction booklet shows him as the shadow of the Prince. Another possibility is Carock, the wizard in the Maze Palace in AoL.
It seems only the creator of Zelda knows. However, the wizard died after he chanted the spell, so it couldn't be Carock. It seems it was just a crony of Ganon or Ganon himself, otherwise the earliest sighting of an early manifestation of Ganon's Aghanihm incarnation (though this is unlikely, as the people of Hyrule wouldn't trust him when he would later come to rid the land of all disease and ailment).
On Link's Hyrulian shield there is a picture of a bird holding a piece of the Triforce flying towards the three other pieces of the Triforce.
There is a belief that there's a fourth piece of the Triforce, most commonly called the Quadraforce or the Tetraforce. These theories are caused by The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, in which there appears to be a fourth Triforce piece carried by a bird pictured on Link's Hylian Shield.
The "Tetraforce" probably doesn't exist but the most convincing part to the theory is not new news. If you've taken time to notice in the OoT previews, both the old and new versions of the shield show something that looks mysteriously like a fourth piece of the Triforce.
Though the shield is toned down, but on the older one looks like someone at Nintendo, was trying to start people thinking about it. If it didn't exist, why did they try so hard to get people to think this?
Why would they put a fourth piece on both shields, if not to imply that the Tetraforce exists? The first shield, it could be just a temporary image in the design of the alpha game but in the beta version, they decided to keep it? It can't be coincidence, but it was perhaps to merely stir the controversy (they were successful to that end).
Though none in any of the wall carvings in the castle, or on the Temple of Time, and even the series of cinemas about the creation of the Triforce seems against it. The Bazaar said shield was a copy of the shields used by (old) Hylian Knights. And, it is on Princess Zelda's clothes. Her dress could have been old. The Tetraforce could be and OLD Royal Crest. The new Royal Crest is a three-Triforce mark.
Then if the complete Triforce is so omnipotent then the question is to whether or not anyone ever had the whole Triforce? The complete Triforce should grant any wish its owner's desires, yet it was not able to grant Ganon's wish in LttP. He wished for the entire world, and only managed to change The Golden Land into the Dark World. Even with that change, disloyal and good were there, like the fat fairy within Ganon's Pyramid of Power.
Did Ganon merely word his wish wrong? I doubt it, as it was a wish in his heart of Ganon, not spoken. So that only leaves the possibility of the Triforce not being powerful enough. Maybe it's not complete...
Here's one thought: Farore, the Goddess of Courage, made life to uphold the law. Yet the Gerudo's (or particularly Ganondorf) are highly unusual. Ganondorf Dragmire was born and has been the scourge of Hyrule for years. There are distortions on the flow of power in the Triforce. Like "Day of the Triforce," one day of the year when all the Triforce's' powers cease to work.
A Day of the Triforce occurs once a decade. Which Occurred in the LoZ comic #5. This day occurs on every exact decade (like 1980, 1990, 2000... etc.) and in The LoZ comic #2, "Once a lifetime," all of the evil magic in Hyrule can be harnessed by one wizard. A Wizzrobe and Ganon tried to blast Link with a spell containing all of the evil magic, but it backfired. In the third comic, Link gets a hold of the Triforce of Power and became corrupted.
In the cartoon, if Ganon got a hold of the Triforce of Wisdom, he'd rule forever yet in comic #3, Zelda comments that the Wisdom and Courage can defeat the Triforce of Power any day. After Link defeated Ganon, he lends his hand to its restoration.
But circumstances did not look very good. Hyrule was on the road to ruin. With the Triforce of Power, Ganon had left behind ruin that continued causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule.
Evil life, build-ups of evil magic, T.o.P.'s ability to corrupt people with its power, disturbances of the Triforce's power, T.o.P. possibly weaker than the other two Triforce's. How could these things been done? The three Goddesses seemed to have created order from chaos, just to leave it to turn back into chaos again.
One possibility could be that, while the three Triforce's we know of marked the ascent of the three Goddesses as they left the world of Hyrule each point up, the fourth Triforce points down on every picture seen in OoT. This "pointing down" could further the theory that it symbolizes and embodies a fourth, evil Goddess, perhaps pointing the way to the Hyrulian equivalent of Hell.
That, or it merely symbolizes the three Goddesses' original descent from the heavens before they created all life on Hyrule.
In desert, the Spirit Temple was sculpted as a snake lady; Sheik called it a goddess of the sand. One theory could be that there must have been an evil goddess -
Maybe called "Colossus" - that came later to destroy what the others had done. Or maybe even take over what the other three done. She hid the Triforce of [Creative] Power and replaced it with a Triforce of [Destructive] Power. But the evil goddess couldn't forge the powers of the Triforce's Wisdom and Courage, as absolute power corrupts absolutely. She then created life to oppose the law as well as evil magic's and sciences. If that happened, it would explain the above and other mysteries.
Why hasn't a fourth piece of the Triforce ever been mentioned? Maybe it will be. Why would it be called a Triforce if there were four pieces? Well, in LoZ, when there were two, Triforce meant that the pieces are shaped as triangles, so it could be called the Triforce even if there were 50 pieces.
If there are four Triforce pieces in the game, then why isn't there any more info in the games, since OoT is the prequel of them all? Maybe, Hylians had forgotten this their years under Ganon's tyranny, as he had left Hyrule in ruins before which could have destroyed bits of the legend from scrolls in libraries that were burned or tablets crumbled and buried under city ruins, leaving Hyrule's elders to die with the memories.
For none of the stories handed down through the generations ever mention a fourth Triforce piece, but yet in LoZ, they never said anything about the Triforce of Courage. None of the wise men or Impa ever said anything about a fourth piece! Then again only when Impa saw the mark on Link in AoL, that then she told him of a scroll that no one could read that told of the Triforce of Courage. How could anyone have possessed the three pieces of the Triforce, gained absolute power and control of the world when Ganon couldn't even escape Dark World or even beat Link, a mortal boy?
The annoying owl that pops up at the most awkward times to "help" you to most people has a name but it might not be the same in every game, but there's a lot of controversy over the owl. Mainly: "He's Rauru, since the gossip stone said so," "He's the same one as the owl in Zelda 4." Now the gossip stone actually says that Kapoera Gaebora is a reincarnation of a sage. Now many people misinterpreted that to think since he never appeared as the grown up you it must mean he became Rauru.
Now let's look at "reincarnation." Someone that used to be someone else in another life, not someone who is someone else in the present. Meaning Kapoera Gaebora was once a sage.
Two possibilities are that he was either the sage of the forest or the desert. The two things giving me this idea is the fact the owl is often met in the lost woods and the gossip stones giving this information are in the sacred forest meadow. But also at the end of the game the owl is seen flying off towards the desert?
One thing, the owl may be male as an owl but he may have been female as a sage. Could Kapoera Gaebora be the reincarnation of the lady of the Spirit Temple, the lady whose image can be seen throughout?
It could be theorized that Kapoera Gaebora is evil and pushed Link along in the earlier quest so he would open up the Chamber of Sages. Is Kapoera Gaebora now an owl as a punishment of a wrong he committed during his time as a sage?
Also remember the owl of OoT bears resemblance to the owl of Koholint Island in LA. Now really everything at this point is guesswork as there is no apparent connection between the two, aside from both being owls and both guiding a Link on their quests.
It could be said that every Link is a reincarnation of the previous; a way to bring a warrior when he is needed - in other words, fate (or perhaps the watching goddesses) is using Link as a toy. As such, he could have been assigned to be the guardian and guide of Link for all of Hyrule's eternity.
Where are all the races/characters from OoT by the original LoZ and LttP? Ever since Aghanihm gained the King's trust he spent long nights in the high tower of Hyrule Castle. Those at the castle, the townspeople could see strange lights, even faint sounds coming from the tower.
The maidens started to disappear, so, the disturbances must have been Aghanihm casting the maidens into the Dark World. But, the ceremony was once a full moon according to the LttP comic book and after he finally captured a maiden. So the other nights, Aghanihm must have been working on something else, like how to control the guards. While being instructed by Ganon, Aghanihm must have been experimenting the effects for a first Evil Jar on each of guards. It was yet to be perfected, but it still worked.
Here is how this Evil Jar could have worked: First they need to become subject to it. It isn't certain how it's done, but in the "Missing Link" cartoon, they held Link's body in the Evil Jar. Maybe long term exposure to the inside turns you into an energy-based creature whose life energy is dependent on the Triforce of Power.
When you become subject as an energy-based creature, you're practically immortal. You have a limited amount of energy. If you run out of energy you have to return to the Evil Jar to recharge and the Triforce of Power will replenish your energy. To destroy someone like that, you'll have to blast him or her with something so powerful that they reach the point of no return.
It starts in OoT, where we met the races. In LttP, nearly 200 years passed. Sheikahs are extinct, merged with Hylians; Zora's are becoming hostile and have no compassion for Hylians; the Kokiri are now aging and are in the forest, living as thieves; the Gerudo's are dead; Gorons... are dead, too.
Then, in LoZ, Ganon and his minions ransacked Hyrule and its surrounding populaces; he finished off the young and able. He enslaved them to the Evil Jar. So, who's who, what did the Evil Jar do? Well, no Sheikahs. Hyrulian Guards and Knights were turned to Armos and then turned to stone because Ganon couldn't trust their full loyalty, Stalfos and Ghini are Hylians, Zolas are Zora's, and Moblins and Goriyah are Kokiri.
Gerudo's are resurrected as Gibdo, and one would tend to believe the Gorons are throwing those rocks at you in LoZ, living as the very mountains themselves.
Zelda Story line
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According to the Hylian scrolls, three mythical goddesses descended from a distant nebula to the world that was and created order and life. There was Din, the Goddess of Power dyed the mountains red with fire and created land; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom created science and wizardry and brought order to nature;
Farore, the Goddess of Courage, who, through justice and vigour, created life - the animals that crawl the land and the birds that soar in the sky.
After the Goddesses had finished their work, they left the world, though not before creating a symbol of their strength left in the wake of their passing: a golden triangle known as the Triforce. A small but marvel portion of the essence of the Goddesses was held in this mighty artefact, which was to guide the intelligent life on the world of Hyrule.
Although it may have been an inanimate object, the Triforce held within it the power to bestow three titles which gave the person who received them great powers: The Forger of Strength, The Keeper of Knowledge, and The Juror of Courage.
From its place of hiding in the Sacred Realm (otherwise known as "The Golden Land" or "Land of the Golden Power") where the Goddesses had placed it, the Triforce beckoned people from the outside world to seek it in the hope that someone worthy of these titles would find it.
The Goddesses had created six distinct races to live in their new world - the fish-like Zora lived in the vast waterways of the land; the rock-eating Gorons dwelt inside the massive Death Mountain, and created bombs. In the Lost Woods, far to the east, the Elvin Kokiri lived.
The black-hearted Gerudo people made the desert their home, while the mysterious Sheikahs lived at the foot of Death Mountain, vowing to protect the royal Hylian family. The noble Hylians lived in the center of the world, in the large Hyrule Field.
With their magic infused blood, the Hylian people were endowed with psychic powers and skilled in wizardry. It was also said that their long, pointed ears enabled them to hear special messages from the goddesses, so the many people in Hyrule held them in high esteem. Their descendants settled in various parts of the world and passed on their knowledge and magical lore to all people.
In it's passing, however, the lore was often distorted or lost altogether
In Hyrule, there were many Hylian buildings, which were mentioned repeatedly in the Legends. These buildings, which later may lie in ruin, pale shadows of their former splendour, were closely tied to the Triforce. Some were said to contain the Triforce itself...
If it were only a symbol of the Goddesses, many would covet the Triforce. But a particular verse from the Book of Mudora made the Triforce even more desirable:
"In a realm beyond sight, the sky shines gold, not blue.
There, the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true."
Many aggressively searched for the wish-granting Triforce, but no one, not even the Hylian sages, was sure of its location; the knowledge had simply been lost over time. Some said the Triforce lay under the desert, others claimed that it was in the cemetery in the shadow of Death Mountain, but no one ever found it. That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.
To protect the Triforce from such a person, a great sage named Rauru took it upon himself to build the Temple of Light to safeguard the entrance to the Sacred Realm. Using a few magical items, he made a large and complex seal that could only be opened by one who was worthy enough to receive the relic.
Rauru's efforts may have been noble, but centuries later they would prove to be not quite as infallible as originally thought.
As the kingdom of Hyrule - at this time united as a single country - entered into a bright age, the sovereign King of Hyrule led his subjects fairly and just, the Triforce in his possession to ensure peace was maintained.
As all ultimately do, however, this king one day died. His youthful son, the prince, who should have become king and inherited everything his sovereignty should offer as Hyrule's monarch, could only inherit part of the Triforce. The prince search far and wide for the missing parts, but could not find them. It was then that a magician formerly close to the King brought him some unexpected news.
Before he died, it seemed the late King had spoken something about the Triforce to only the younger sister of the prince, a young Princess Zelda I.
The prince immediately questioned the defiant princess, but she would tell him nothing. After the prince, the magician threatened to put the princess into an eternal sleep if she did not talk. Even still, she stood her ground before her brother, saying nothing.
In his anger, the magician tried to cast a magic spell on the princess. The surprised prince tried to stop him, but the magician fought off the prince and continued casting the spell. Then, when the spell was finally cast, Princess Zelda fell on that spot and entered a sleep from which she might never awake. At the same time, the magician also fell down and breathed his last.
In his grief, the prince placed the princess in a room in the castle. He hoped that someday she would come back to consciousness. So that this tragedy would never be forgotten, he thus decreed that every female child born into the royal household should be given the name "Zelda."
Tears after the Legend of Zelda faded into the stuff of Hyrulian legend, in the blowing sand and the harsh climate of the desert, the cunning King of the Gerudo Thieves, Ganondorf Dragmire, found the way to break the mystic seal of Rauru.
He discovered he would need three sacred stones - one held by the Kokiri, one by the Goron, and one by the Zora.
He then would require the magical Ocarina of Time to open the seal, which was held by a member of the royal family. Climbing upon his black Gerudo steed, Ganondorf went to each of the tribes and attempted to get their stones by destroying them - he poisoned the Kokiri's guardian tree, he infested the cave which held the Goron's food source with monsters, and he made the protective deity of the Zora, Lord Jabu-Jabu, go mad and swallow the daughter of King Zora XVI, Princess Ruto.
He then went to hold an audience with the King of Hyrule, in an attempt to find which royal family member had the Ocarina. Ganondorf knew that it was only a matter of time before he had all the pieces to his plan complete.
Time, however, definitely did not seem on Ganondorf's side...
Meanwhile, in the middle of an ensuing war in Hyrule, an exhausted Hylian woman entrusted her infant to the Deku Tree in Kokiri Forest before dying. Named Link - Link the First - the boy was raised as one of the enigmatic Elvin Kokiri without any knowledge of his parents (as it is known, Kokiri have no parents).
Even by age 10 he was still unlike all the other Kokiri - they all had farie guardians. All except Link. One night, he had a nightmare that would haunt his dreams for many months - during a rainy night, in front of a magnificent castle; a young girl would be riding away on horse in the arms of a woman. She would give Link a stare of helplessness, and looked like she needed to say something. Behind them rode an evil-looking man with green skin in black armour. He would frighten Link, who would stir and awake uneasily.
One night, after his dreams, a farie came to Link. Her name was Navi, and she told him that the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the Kokiri, needed his help. Link went to the Tree, who explained to Link he was cursed. Upon entering the Tree, Link vanquished the source of the curse. But the Deku Tree was nearly gone.
Giving Link a green gem, he told Link with his dying breath to visit the Princess of Destiny in Hyrule Castle. Negating the myth that a Kokiri would die if they were to leave the village, Link departed with Deku Shield and Kokiri Sword in-hand, to the reluctance of his childhood companion Saria.
After a short journey, Link and Navi found the Princess - Princess Zelda II, the first known descendant of the Zelda put into an enchanted sleep - and the girl from Link's dream. She told Link of the evil man from his dream, which wanted the Triforce. She told Link the only way to stop him was to find the other two Spiritual Stones and with her Ocarina of Time, open the door to the Golden Land in the Temple of Time.
After travelling and curing the curses of the Goron and the Zora, Link brought the stones to the castle. But, just like in Link's dream the man in black armour was chasing Princess Zelda in the arms of her nursemaid Impa on a horse. Zelda threw the Ocarina of Time to Link, who caught it and fled to the Temple of Time.
There, he played the Song of Time, which opened the gate to a bleak Hyrule seven years into the future. As fate would have it, the evil man tricked the young hero, and he stole the Triforce from the Golden Land before the lad could enter.
The name of this king of thieves is Ganondorf Dragmire, but he is known by his alias, Mandrag Ganon, which means "Ganon of the Enchanted Thieves."
Then, the whole world as Link knew it, ended.
It is not known what Ganondorf Dragmire wished for from the Triforce. However, in time evil power began to emanate from the Golden Land and greedy men were drawn there to become members of Ganon's army. Black clouds permanently darkened the sky, and many disasters beset Hyrule. The lord of Hyrule sent for the Knights of Hyrule, summoning them for an audience before ordering the warriors to seal the entrance to the Golden Land.
The power of Ganondorf Dragmire's power was just too great, and he swiftly took over the land of Hyrule. The Triforce, being an inanimate object, cannot judge between good and evil. Therefore, it could not know that Ganondorf's wishes were evil; it merely granted them.
Evil things beset the land of Hyrule in short order, and the leaders of the six races tried to prevent the ongoing war. Their efforts, however, were unfortunately also in vain.
Seven years after Ganondorf first touched the Triforce Link awakened in the Temple of Light. Rauru, who had built the Temple, explained to Link of the evil that occurred. Rauru was only one of seven sages who would, if brought together, seal Ganon in the Golden Land. Link found five more - Saria the Kokiri, Daurina the Goron, Ruto the Zora, Impa the Sheikahs, and Nabooru the Gerudo - all of whom became sages.
Princess Zelda II, who remained in the disguise of a boy under the name "Sheik" for the past seven years, was to be the seventh.
When Link finally found Zelda - along the way befriending the horse Epona, with whom he rode and traversed the land no longer by foot alone and pulled the legendary Master Sword (also known as the "Sword of Evil's Bane" and the "Magical Sword") from its stone sheath in the Lost Woods - it was revealed the Triforce had split due to Ganondorf's corruption. He held the Triforce of Power, Zelda II held the Triforce of Wisdom, and Link himself held the Triforce of Courage.
Upon hearing of this, Ganondorf was quick to kidnap Zelda and challenge Link to face him.
Link took the full brunt of the fierce attack, and although he fought courageously, at some points he nearly lost. However, his efforts were not in vein, for Ganondorf was slain by Link's sword.
Upon escaping his crumbling tower, Ganondorf arose, and, using the power of his Triforce he turned himself into the Prince of Darkness, Ganon. Battling Ganon seemed futile, but he bought precious time for the Seven Sages to magically seal Ganon in the Sacred Realm (more commonly known as The Golden Land, or Land of the Golden Power). All of Hyrule rejoiced at the victory that upheld peace and order over Ganon's evil and chaos.
Link was returned to his land, in his time seven years before, a young boy once more riding Epona back toward Kokiri Forest.
This epic war, which had claimed many lives, became known as the "Imprisoning War" in stories told in later centuries.
Link I, without even having time to savour his victory over Ganon in the Imprisoning War, found he must tend to the plight of Termina.
The kingdom of Hyrule had been peaceful and in a state of rebuilding after Ganondorf's dark reign. Returning just a few months after his time travel adventures, young Link I, Hero of Time, rode home on the back of his trusty (and equally young) horse, Epona. As he cautiously made his way through the foggy, dark woods of the home he had returned to in Kokiri Forest, two faeries appeared out of nowhere.
Startled by the quick-moving, glowing creatures, Epona reared up and sent Link flying to the ground. As Link lay unconscious, a third stranger appeared out of the mist: a mask-wearing impish Skull Kid by the name of skullkid. Looking for valuables, Skullkid soon found Link's Ocarina of Time, took it, and made his escape on Epona.
Link, of course, quickly followed and soon came upon a doorway in a large tree. He slowly stepped inside - and fell into a bottomless pit that transported him into a weird, yet oddly familiar world full of familiar faces.
But while the landscape may have looked familiar, one thing was clearly different: In the sky above loomed a gigantic moon, slowly descending onto this world...
"In a few more days, this world will end," so spoke those living there. Even as they waited, time passed mercilessly. "If you can find the masked one, you may find a clue to saving this realm."
And so Link embarked on a new adventure to halt the setting of the moon on this strange world and to find his way back to his own land.
Link must stop the catastrophe in the new world, or at least return to his own world. The world he found himself trapped in (called Termina), as Link learned, existed in a parallel dimension. The passage of time seemed a factor from the start - Link was aware that if he spent too much time in the other world, the moon would impact the planet to apocalyptic result.
Without the help of the faerie Navi, Link joined up with the brother and sister faeries Trail and Chat that had startled Epona at the beginning of his quest (who consistently would warn Link of Stalchild's recurring presence), then set out on his new journey.
The new key element of Link I's second adventure was the newfound ability to transform into new characters by wearing the different masks. By donning a variety of masks, Link assumed the form of a Goron, a Zora, and even a Deku Scrub.
Each of these fantastic forms had its own abilities, as one would expect. In Goron form, for example, Link could roll up into a ball for some wild Goron rolling.
When it cane time to make music (a key piece to the puzzle), the Goron Link whipped out a set of bongos and started to beat them repeatedly. As a Zora, Link gained fantastic swimming abilities, and in the musical department, he could play an aquatic guitar as if second nature. Although becoming a Deku Scrub sounded rather undesirable to Link, in this form Link could hover like a helicopter and play a quintet's share of horns.
It is in each of these forms that Link explored different worlds full of danger and wonder anew. He made a great many new friends and battled an all-new army of enemies along the way until his confrontation with Stalkid.
When it was revealed that Stalkid was actually good-hearted and that it was the Mask of Majora he wore (stolen from the Mask Maker in Hyrule) that was evil, the Mask of Majora itself had to be confronted. In the aftermath, Link I returned to his homeland of Hyrule, his second victory then behind him as he returned Majora's Mask to the Mask Maker, its rightful owner.
Many centuries have passed since the Imprisoning War and the exploits of the Hero of Time across the lands of both Hyrule and the realm of Termina alike. The kingdom of Hyrule healed its wounds and the people lived in peace for a long time, a new era of peace dawning.
Memories of the vicious Imprisoning War faded over the generations.
So it is no surprise that no one was prepared for the new disasters that had recently struck Hyrule. Pestilence and drought, uncontrollable even by magic, ravaged the land. The King of Hyrule, after council with his sages, ordered an investigation of the imprisoned Golden Land, which was now appropriately called the "Dark World" under the twisted dominion of Ganon, but the Seven Sages' seal was apparently intact. He offered rewards for anyone who could find the source of these troubles.
In answer to these summons a stranger named Aghanihm came and quelled the disasters with a previously unseen form of magic. As a reward, the King gave him a new position as chief advisor and heir to the seven masses proclaimed him their hero.
Peace had returned to Hyrule?
To the ignorance of all, Aghanihm was a puppet figure, Ganon pulling the strings from the Dark World. Aghanihm moved quickly - he murdered the King, took over and isolated himself in Hyrule Castle, took control by way of his magic the Knights of Hyrule, and ruled the entirety of the kingdom as a shadow sovereign and monarch, but no one outside the castle knew of it.
Aghanihm didn't stop there - he then carried out his plot to magically banish all the descendants of the Seven Sages to the Dark World, so that the lifeblood of the Sages would no longer be in Hyrule, and the seal placed on the Dark World would be rendered broken. After Aghanihm was finished sending six of the seven descendants, Zelda III, the late King's daughter and princess of Hyrule as well as the final descendant, sent out a telepathic message to Link, a descendant of the Hero of Time.
Sixteen year-old Link II, his parents having been gone years and presumed deceased since being banished into the Dark World by Ganon because they were descendants of the Knights of Hyrule, heard the plea in his sleep. He awakened to see his Uncle with the family's sword and shield, preparing to set out into the night. He told Link not to leave the house until morning, for he had heard the plea as well as Link.
Link, knowing the plea was for him and not his Uncle waited a while and left towards the gates of Hyrule Castle, where Princess Zelda III was imprisoned.
In the castle, taking a "back door," Link found his Uncle seriously wounded. He didn't want Link involved, but knew the telepathic message was meant for his nephew. He briefly explained how to use the sword and shield before giving them to Link, passing away shortly thereafter. Arming himself with them, he found Zelda locked in the dungeons of the castle. He took her to the nearby Sanctuary, a temple where she would be safe in the care of a sage.
At the Sanctuary, Zelda expressed her belief that Link II was "the legendary hero who appears in Hyrule once every hundred years," while the sage explained that the only weapon that could slay Aghanihm was the Master Sword, the weapon that the original Link used against Ganon during the Imprisoning War.
Successfully tracking the recluse down, the wise man Link soon met in the desert named Sahasrahla further explained that to claim and wield the Master Sword, hidden for centuries now in the depths of the maddening Lost Woods, he would require three enchanted pendants before anything.
As it became clear to Link, one pendant was hidden in each of Hyrule's three dungeons - the Eastern Palace, the Desert Palace, and the Tower of Hera.
Setting out, Link was quick to obtain these pendants, champion their respective labyrinths/dungeons, and systematically slay their guardians.
After Link recovered the pendants he made haste to the Lost Woods and retrieved the Master Sword ("The Sword of Evil's Bane"), and with the power of the pendants, wrenched the blade from its stone.
It was after he withdrew the sword that he got the grim telepathic message from Zelda. She had been found by Agahnim's minions and had been recaptured. Link raced to the castle only in time to see Aghanihm send her to the Dark World, fully breaking the Sages' seal.
Link then battled Aghanihm by using the Master Sword to reflect Agahnim's black magic. But before Link could defeat him, Aghanihm banished Link to the Dark World.
Once in the Dark World, Link got a telepathic message from Sahasrahla. Sahasrahla told Link that the seven descendants were in crystal cocoons in seven dungeons. To stop Ganon from returning from the Dark World to conquer Hyrule, Link set out to find all of the descendants.
Link travelled to all the dungeons and, after many a hard battle, he finally found Zelda in the final Dark World dungeon. After rescuing all the descendants, Link went to Ganon's Tower atop Death Mountain. In the Tower he battled Aghanihm again, only this time he struck Aghanihm down, who was revealed at last as Ganon. Ganon changed himself into a bat and flew off to the Pyramid of Power, where Ganon kept the Triforce. Link did not give up, and followed the Prince of Darkness.
It was within the walls of the ominous Pyramid that Link did his final duel with Ganon. With the combined effort of the Master Sword and his Silver Arrows, Ganon was defeated.
Touching the Triforce with a wish of goodness in his heart, all evil was vanquished from the Dark and Light Worlds alike and the Dark World was returned to its former state of being as the Sacred Realm/Golden Land. Upon returning the Triforce to Hyrule, he found the King of Hyrule and his Uncle had returned to life, and peace had wholly returned to the kingdom.
Not long after his return, however, the King of Hyrule stepped down from the throne, turning it over to his daughter, the newly crowned Queen Zelda III. As one of her first tasks after ascending the throne, Zelda knighted Link, appointing him Master of the Knights of Hyrule.
Soon, as a final task, Link returned the Master Sword to its former place of resting in the Lost Woods.
While Hyrule was at peace, however, other lands would soon need Link's help...
After his first great victory, defeating Ganon and returning things to order in all of his beloved Hyrule, Link II set out on a lone mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
Presumably leaving his leadership of the Knights of Hyrule in the hands of another while he was to be away, Link sailed to foreign lands where he disciplined his mind and body alike. When he at last he felt ready to return to Hyrule, he bought a small sailboat and headed across the Great Hyrulian Sea. The journey ended abruptly in a storm that crushed and sank Link's ship.
Clinging to a piece of flotsam, the hero of Hyrule floated toward a mysterious tropical shore, unconscious and barely alive.
When Link washed up on the beach of a mysterious island, he had no energy to stand or cry for help. Through half-closed eyes, he gazed out on a tropical forest with a tall volcano's stunted peak visible in the distance, and he thought it was odd that a giant, spotted egg topped the volcano.
At one point, it seemed to him that Queen Zelda III herself was speaking to him and that he was in a soft bed. At times, he thought he was caught in a bizarre dream.
Indeed, Link awoke in a soft bed, but the young woman who tended him was not Zelda, but a young girl by the name of Marin. She had found him and brought him home to heal.
From Tarin, Marin's father, he learned that evil creatures had appeared shortly after his arrival. Then, when Link returned to the beach to retrieve his sword, an old, wizened owl flapped down beside him and told him the strangest story he'd ever heard. According to the wise old bird, Link was the hero who had come to wake the Wind Fish, and he couldn't leave until that task had been done.
In the adventures that would inevitably follow, the lot of them taking Link to every corner of the island, Link learned that Koholint Island existed only in the dreams of the Wind Fish... and he was a part of that dream.
According to a wise old owl that would frequently provide him with helpful information, Link had to collect 8 Instrument of the Sirens from the Nightmares.
Link collected the Cello from the Tail Cave, The Conch Horn from the Bottle Grotto, the Sea Lily Bell from the Key Cavern, the Surf Harp from Angler's Cave, the Marimba from Catfish's Maw, the Coral Triangle from the Face Shrine, the Organ of Evening Calm from the Eagle's Tower, and the Thunder Drum from Turtle Rock.
After collecting all the Instruments, Link sought out the Egg on top of the volcano on Mount Tamarack. Once there he played the Ocarina, using a song Marin taught him, and a hole opened in the egg. Link went in side and found a maze. After correctly going through the maze Link dropped into a room where he found the Evil Shadows. Link fought each of the shadows with out having any respite between battles.
After Link defeated the Evil Shadows he climbed the stairway up to a platform, where he met the Wind Fish and he played the Song of Awakening again. After playing the song the island disappeared and Link woke up on a piece of driftwood. Link then looked up after hearing a sound and he saw the Wind Fish flying away.
Knowing his friends he had met on his journey were gone, alive now only in memory, Link's victory was a sad one...
"To the Finder. . .
The Isle of Koholint is but an illusion. . .
Human, Monster, Sea, Sky. . .
A scene on the lid of the sleeper's eye. . .
Awake the dreamer, and Koholint will vanish much like a bubble on a needle. . .
Cast-away, you should know the truth!"-
From a Plaque on the Wall of the Southern Shrine
Some say it never existed. Others say that it was but an illusion. The island of Koholint... was it a dream or reality? In this essay you can discover the secrets of Koholint and the mystery of its disappearance.
Link II, descendant of the Hero of Time and Master of the Knights of Hyrule following his battle with Ganon, went a voyage around the world to increase his wisdom, courage, and power. However, a storm tossed his ship and lighting destroyed it deep within the Great Hyrulian Sea. He grabbed a piece of his ship and hoped for the best.
He awoke in the bed of a beautiful girl. She discovered him on the shore of the island, the island of Koholint. This was no normal island, for a giant egg lay atop the tallest mountain. The Hero enjoyed the company of the girl, Marin, but knew he had to return home and fulfil his duties as the Legendary Hero of Hyrule. But he could not leave the island by normal means. He had to collect the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, hidden in eight dungeons all around Koholint, and play them in front of the egg. Inside, the Wind Fish would awake and allow him to go home.
As Link II travelled around the island, collecting the instruments, he soon discovered Koholint was not the island he believed. Clues, such as the plaque in the Southern Shrine, proved his theory - which Koholint would disappear forever if he awoke the Wind Fish. But he had no choice.
Link awoke the fish, and the island disappeared. But what if he didn't? What if he just let the Wind Fish sleep and he lived with Marin forever?
He could not, due to events in Koholint past. While the Wind Fish slept, an evil creature called The Shadow entered the dream. At first, it took over the inside of the giant egg. Then The Shadow sent its eight strongest minions, the Nightmares, to guard the instruments in the dungeons so no one could wake up the Wind Fish. The Shadow placed weaker minions inside the dungeons to help the Nightmares. Then it started to place its minions on the Overworld.
That is when Link II arrived.
The Shadow began to place more of its creatures to destroy the Hero, because The Shadow knew that Link had the potential to destroy itself. Nevertheless, Link destroyed the Nightmares, collected the instruments, and destroyed The Shadow. He then awoke the Wind Fish, which destroyed the island.
Some say it was a tragedy that Link awoke the Wind Fish. But what would happen if he didn't? It was obvious that The Shadow had been building up its power. Sooner or later, The Shadow would have amassed enough power to send his minions to take over the island's two villages. Even a Legendary Hero cannot hold back endless amounts of monsters. Koholint would have been overrun, and ruled by The Shadow with an iron fist.
Link destroyed The Shadow and the island, but he saved it from a fate far worse than death. So in the end, he was still a hero.
One last note before the end of this essay. At the end of Link's Awakening, if beaten with no lives lost, you can see Marin flying off the island with wings. Her dream was to fly like a seagull, and she wished this wish to the Wind Fish before he awoke. Perhaps, this can be taken as a sign that the piece of the island Link held most dear was preserved.
Some time after Link II had set sail once more after the bitter resolution of the nightmare that had been his Koholint debacle, the hero of both Hyrule and Koholint found he presented with a new dilemma. Perhaps afraid to chance again the Great Hyrulian Sea - the same sea that had nearly claimed him - it was not Hyrule he returned to. By chance or by fate, Link ventured to the land of Calatia, a kingdom to the west of central Hyrule not too unlike his homeland.
After Link II settled and eventually passed away in Calatia, the years began to pass with increasing pace. A woman by the name of Medila, wife of Arn, one of Link II's blood-descendants, gave birth to their first child. By simple coincidence or fate, this child was named "Link," the third known to bear the name in Hyrulian history.
As he grew to adolescence, Link III quickly became known in Calatia as a courageous young man who was more than skilled enough in the ways of swordplay. It seemed inevitable when the young man one day began to yearn for fame, fortune, and romance, and left Calatia to search for adventure elsewhere.
He wouldn't have to go far to find it.
After a short journey, Link arrived in the neighbouring land of Hyrule, and while searching for signs of adventure he took notice of an old woman surrounded by evil minions. Links felt compelled to assist the woman, and ran towards the villainous monsters, hoping he could defeat them and help the woman.
To the gratitude of the elderly woman, Link did well to ward the monsters off. She introduced herself as Impa, a descendant of the ancient Sheikahs and the original Impa. Then she told Link the woeful tale of Hyrule and Princess Zelda IV.
Link had almost thought his short adventure was over. He had no way have knowing this was to be only just the beginning.
Hyrule had declined, becoming a rustic land with few remaining signs of its earlier glory and splendour. The land was overrun, and Ganon was to blame. At the heart of the conflict lay a missing piece of the Triforce and Zelda. Of how Ganon came by the Triforce of Power no tale is told.
When she discovered that Ganon had acquired a piece of the Triforce, though, Zelda broke the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and hid them. She knew a hero was needed to challenge Ganon, so she sent her nurse, Impa, to search throughout the land, even as Zelda IV herself was captured.
During her quest, Impa long evaded Ganon's reach, but in a forest glade she too fell into his clutches and would have been carried off if it not for the heroic actions of a passing youth named Link, the third to bear the name.
Once the villains had been driven away, Impa told the young man about Zelda's secret. Then, unable to hold back her tears, she told him how Zelda had been taken captive. No sooner had Link heard the tale of Zelda's sorrow than he pledged to defeat Ganon and rescue the Princess.
He set off at once, knowing only that he had to collect the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom. At every turn in the path he met monsters and other evil soldiers of Ganon who challenged him in battle.
Link's first task was to find the hidden dungeons where Zelda had secretly hidden the divided Triforce. Many of the entrances were disguised, and only by using all of his wits and the scraps of hints that he picked up along the way was he able to succeed. Inside the dungeons, he met countless enemies, for Ganon's minions had taken hold of even the most remote chambers.
After countless adventures along the way, cutting through endless Octorok, Moblins, leevers, and Stalfos, Link gathered all eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom from their eight respective dungeons and pulled the legendary Master Sword, "The Sword of Evil's Bane," (more commonly called "The Magical Sword" in this era) once used by Link I and II from its place of resting in the Lost Woods. He then scaled Death Mountain and gained entrance to Spectacle Rock, where the final leg of his journey lay. Ganon's great labyrinth - the ninth he had traversed thus - dwarfed any that Link had yet encountered. In a hidden chamber, he discovered a magical Silver Arrow and, taking the prize, he traced his way through the maze until he came face-to-face with Ganon himself.
The battle between youthful hero and villainous foe raged across the chamber, but Ganon remained invisible, seemingly unaffected by the cuts of Link's sword.
As Link began to tire, he tried a last, desperate strategy, putting the Silver Arrow to the test. The bowstring sang and the arrow flew straight. Ganon was destroyed.
With the defeat of Ganon, Link's mind turned to the purpose that had driven him here - the rescue of Princess Zelda IV.
One chamber remained to be explored and Link went ahead. Here Zelda greeted him and the pieces of the Triforce's of Power and Wisdom were reunited.
With the destruction of Ganon and the power of the Triforce restored, peace reigned once more in Hyrule. Princess Zelda ruled over the land beside her father, and the country prospered. It seemed as if the shadow of Ganon had been destroyed forever. But the youthful hero of the age remained ever vigilant. Wherever Link roamed, he looked for signs of Ganon's return, for he could not believe that he had truly banished evil from the land.
Two years after Link III's first adventure through Hyrule, Princess Zelda IV still ruled the kingdom of Hyrule beside her father, King Harkinian, and things seemed to be at ease from within...
yet evil still loomed over the land from without. Hyrule seemed fast on the road to ruin. The power that the vile heart of Ganon had left behind was causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule. What's more, even after the fall of Ganon; many of his underlings remained, awaiting their master's return.
Link III, who had remained in Hyrule to lend his hand to its restoration in this time of healing, found that circumstances did not look good. Link III was destined to become a hero still, but in the peaceful days that ensued, he would ultimately grow restless.
He wandered the forests, crossed the deserts and delved into the caverns of Hyrule, looking for any clues that might explain his feelings of unease. In time he became aware of a whisper that passed between the birds, beasts, and even through the blades of grass: there was a new magic in the land, nameless and terrifying.
One day, a strange mark, exactly akin to the crest of the kingdom, appeared on the back of Link's hand as he approached his 16th birthday. The worried Link went to Impa, who was shocked and frightened when she took notice of the birthmark.
Taking him to the North Palace, Link was led to a door within called "the door that does not open," a door that would open upon contact with the birthmark on Link's hand.
As Link III unlocked and opened this mysterious door, Impa immediately told Link at last the Legend of Zelda; how the sister of an ancient prince - Zelda - withheld the Triforce from him, was placed into an enchanted, timeless slumber by the prince's magician, and how this woeful princeful decreed every female child born into the royal household was decreed to be given the name "Zelda."
Lying as still as marble, the original mythical Princess Zelda I from ages before slept her dreamless sleep of enchantment within the room before them, just as the Legend said she would be.
When Link found her thus arrayed in the North Palace, he saw at once that she was spellbound indeed. Link III's mission seemed clear enough from the beginning. By refusing to reveal the secret power of the Triforce to a magician, this Princess Zelda had brought on her own downfall. But all was not lost.
If Link III somehow unlocked the mystery of the Great Palace, he could save this ancient Zelda and the newly realized Triforce of Courage Impa spoke of. He set off.
Again Link found himself taking to the fields and forests, but these places had become wild and dangerous, inhabited by enemies of old. Link found himself relying on his wits and swordplay at every step.
Creatures he had never before seen also waylaid him: spiders called Deelers that dropped from trees, tall Geldarms that rose from the sands of the Tantari Desert, and Daira armed with axes and hatred.
Link's mission was to enter each of six palaces and restore a missing crystal to its proper statue. Together, the statues created a magical lock on the Great Palace and only by replacing the six crystals could Link open the final door. In each palace, however, he had to battle a Statue Guardian of great strength: Barba the Dragon, Iron knuckle the Knight, Carock the Wizard, and others.
As he closed the palaces one by one, Link crossed nearly the entire expanse of Hyrule, from Ruto in the northwest to Death Mountain in the south, from the Island Palace in the Stormy Straights to Maze Island in the Far Eastern Sea. He helped villagers when he could, but he never lost sight of his ultimate goal. Finally, after uncovering the secrets of Old Kasuto, Link pushed on to the Great Palace where he encountered what he thought to be the final obstacle in his quest - the Thunderbird.
Once the Thunderbird was vanquished, Link thought that Zelda I and Hyrule would be saved, but it was not to be... not yet.
Exhausted from his journeying, Link had one more enemy to defeat - an enemy so unexpected that he did not know what to do, for the enemy was his own self... his own shadow.
Link III defeated his own Shadow and awoke the original Princess Zelda I from her seemingly eternal sleep. But it would seem that evil was not entirely banished from Hyrule for suddenly, without warning, Ganon, the Prince of Darkness, returned to Hyrule.
Previously it was thought that only the blood of the hero who killed Ganon could revive him. It became known, however, that Ganon can revive himself and any other of his monster minions from the "Evil Jar" (the otherworldly place where all the dead monsters go) if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after Link III's quest to awaken the original Princess Zelda from her enchanted slumber and recover the Triforce of Courage, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Although he was not restored to all of his original power, Ganon got his hands on the Triforce of Power again, which had been bestowed to the people of Hyrule as a sign of goodwill. Link III and Zelda IV, the same Zelda he rescued from the clutches of Ganon on his original quest, knew that Hyrule would not be at peace with Ganon still alive, for Ganon still yearned for the dominion of the land of Hyrule.
Soon Ganon would throw clever plan after clever plan at Link and Zelda,
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man! sorry but maybe a bit pointless. I mean, good piece loadsa effort but who in gods name will read it. ?!?!?!?!?!?!??????!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!
My God ZP!
OK, I'm taking bets on exactly how many people read this:
Zero at 1/3 odds on
OK, I'm taking bets on exactly how many people read this:
Zero at 1/3 odds on
I as you know probably given a hint by my name am a big fan of Zelda and have followed it ever since the SNES because of my age I wasn't able to own a NES and the Zelda games for that but it doesn't take a moron to find that out!
I started a topic in the FOG prime called 'Splutter, splutter, cough, cough' and here it is Splutter, splutter, cough, cough V2, my new and improved topic, now not just a tribute to the greatest RPG series ever but my favourite games company Nintendo and there consoles and some of its greatest moments!!! Just before they enter into the next generation of consoles…129bit leaving some of the classics and greats far behind them. This has taken me since about an hour after I posted V 1.0 until now!!
So here is to continue and add to my topic to the greatest RPG saga Nintendo has ever seen or even the world for that matter…Zelda on the Nintendo!!
The way in which the story goes or should I say, the chronological order of the games in The Legend of Zelda saga is this...
Zelda, Chapter One. - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Two. - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Three. - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992 on the SNES)
Zelda, Chapter Four. - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993 & 1998 on the GB and on the GBC)
Zelda, Chapter Five. - The Legend of Zelda (1987 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Six. - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1989 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Seven. - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages (2000 on the GBC)
"Link I," "Link II," "Link III," "Zelda I," "Zelda II," "Zelda III," and "Zelda IV."
There have been 3 links altogether and 4 Zelda's altogether. Link I and Zelda II are the Link and Zelda in The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
Whilst Link II and Zelda III are the Link and Zelda in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening/DX.
Link III and Zelda IV are the Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Fruit of the Mysterious Tree, the Zelda comics, and the Zelda cartoons.
Plus Zelda I is the sleeping princess from the past in The Adventure of Link. If you are still confused, this is further explained.
If I refer to just "Link" or just "Zelda" it most likely I will mean all of the Links and Zelda's in general.
Also, these abbreviations are used in the games and in this topic and are the names of the games so far released and the development:
LoZ - The Legend of Zelda
AoL - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
LttP - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LA - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
LADX - The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
OoT - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
MM - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
FMT - The Legend of Zelda: Fruit of the Mysterious Tree Trilogy/
OoS/OoA - for the Oracle of Seasons/Ages which is now correct since that is what the trilogy is made up of!!
Why doesn't Link know Zelda in LttP? In LttP there was some confusion as there is now of why Link didn't know Zelda in LttP but it was because it isn't the same old Link! There are in fact three Links. The Link and Zelda in LoZ and AoL are descendants of the Link and Zelda in LttP and LA. But the Link and Zelda in OoT are even earlier! Between the three Links and four Zelda's, this is how you break it down:
Link I and Zelda II (OoT & MM)
Link II and Zelda III (LttP & LA)
Link III and Zelda IV (LoZ, FMT, the cartoons, the comics, the Adventure Books, and the CD-i games)
Link III and Zelda I (AoL) (she's the sleeping princess)
Have you seen my Links?
LINK THE FIRST
HERO OF TIME
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
LINK THE SECOND
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP, LA )
LINK THE THIRD
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
Zelda and where she was seen!
PRINCESS ZELDA THE FIRST
SEEN : 1139 H.R.
( AoL )
PRINCESS ZELDA II,
PRINCESS OF DESTINY
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
PRINCESS ZELDA III
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP )
PRINCESS ZELDA IV
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
But although they are all Link in the same game in a way they are not all different and have differences you can tell them by!
Link I (OoT & MM) : Has blonde hair and blue eyes, and his costume changes as the game progresses:
1) As a child - green tunic.
2) As a teenager - green tunic, white "underall," brown riding gloves, and earrings in both ears.
But he can get a red, blue one as well!
Link II (LttP & LA) : Has blonde hair, blue eyes, and also doesn't wear a "underall" as it is but he does have a brown, long sleeved shirt under his tunic.
Link III (LoZ, AoL, & FMT) : Has brown hair, an unknown eye color (in the comic series, they are sometimes red or brown, and in the cartoon and LoZ book they are brown). He does wear a brown "underall," however.
If you are confused though about what he is wearing read some of these otherwise skip it!
A "tunic" is the green thing Link wears. These were popular in Ancient Rome. An "underall" is the brown/white piece of clothing that Link wears under his tunic that covers his whole body.
Again like the Links the Zelda's are different but with even more distinct features.
Princess Zelda I (AoL): Has bushy red hair and is seen in a pink dress while under her sleeping spell.
Princess Zelda II (OoT & MM): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and usually wears a purple and white regal dress with a veil, when she is both young and old.
Princess Zelda III (LttP): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and wears a blue and white regal dress.
Princess Zelda IV (LoZ, AoL, & FMT, though not seen in AoL): Has reddish hair and green eyes, and usually wears thigh-high travelling boots, pink pants, and a purple shirt. On special occasions she slips into a regal dress, like on her birthday celebrations.
The Links are all left-handed, according to the games and instruction booklets, though it would reason to say that he could be ambidextrous. However, some of the Valiant comics and the first Zelda 64 demo showed Link right-handed. I may also add that in LttP, AoL, and LA, if you face East, Link switches his shield and sword to the opposite hands.
This was done so they did not have to change the sprites of facing east and could just flip Link looking west. But, the LttP Player's Guide says that Link II does this to block the evil magic from Death Mountain.
What is Link is he an elf or something? The first Link was a Hylian of the Kokiri Tribe, but he is not a member of the Kokiri race, who is eternal children who have fairies as guardian spirits. The second Link and third Link must be Hylians, as well. Where the elf part and the ears fits in, it's not certain, though the Kokiri descent is the only link.
Since there have been 3 Links and 4 Zelda's how many Ganons have there been? There is only one Ganon. Ganon has never, ever, been destroyed. He has been knocked down and wounded, but he hasn't been completely destroyed. It seems when Ganondorf Dragmire touched the Triforce; he became invincible whenever he possesses a Triforce.
According to the third Valiant comic, if someone possesses the Triforce of Power without the Triforce of Wisdom, you will become corrupted because you do not have the wisdom or the intelligence to control that power. In that comic, Ganon tricks Link into getting the Triforce of Power without also having the Triforce of Wisdom.
Because of the vast power without the wisdom to control it, Link starts to turn into a pig-man, like Ganon. However, upon giving it up, the Triforce of Courage saves him. So, since Ganon never had the Triforce of Wisdom except in LttP when they were all connected, the corruption turned him into a pig-man. Also, anyone who lives in the Dark World takes the animal shape of what is in his or her's heart.
Since he lived in the Dark World with the Triforce of Power after OoT, he turned into a pig-man anyway because of his greed.
However, OoT threw in a snag. Ganon has the Triforce of Power, but he does not turn into a pig man for seven whole years, until he is mortally wounded as Ganondorf. So, there are a few possibilities:
- Since Ganon was the first known person to hold the Triforce of Power (or any Triforce for that manner) his evilness may have "rubbed" off onto the Triforce.
- Ganon only lives in his Ganon form when he is in battle with Link.
- Ganon only permanently turned to Ganon after he tried to leave the Dark World, because he had no Triforce of Courage to protect him, like Link.
How old is Link(s)? Three ages have been given for two different Links. When we first see Link I in OoT, he is ten years old. We later see him as a seventeen year-old. Link III was sixteen in AoL, putting him around fourteen in the original LoZ.
How do any of us know that the Link in LA is the Link in LttP? The manual, for starters, as we see in this quote:
Link's Awakening tells the tale of the hero of A Link to the Past and how after his first great victory he set out on a mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
We all know where most of the Links came from but where is Link 3 from? According to the Valiant comics Link III came from the kingdom of Calatia, which is west of Hyrule just beyond Death Mountain. His parents' names were Arn and Medila, who were known for a drink they made. Calatia is a mountainous country, which is ruled by Queen Seline, a friend of King Harkinian.
Which Link and which Zelda are in OoS/OoA? At present, the best answer is clearly Link III and Zelda IV. This is due to Link III's ultimate destiny being the most open-ended at the conclusion of his last appearance, AoL (and even following the comics, cartoons, and CD-i titles).
Plus, while Ganon was "at last look" sealed in the Dark World in OoT by Link I (and he couldn't have made any appearances between then and LttP as the Sages' seal was still intact) and slain by a silver arrow by Link II in LttP, in Link III's time Ganon is still alive since his comic/cartoon resurrection... and from the storyline given on Fruit of the Mysterious Tree/Oa/S, Ganon is not only mysteriously back, but he recaptures the Triforce of Power and Zelda (we can reason to say this is Zelda IV as well).
Since Ganon is already alive at the start of this game, it would reason to say it is Link III until further story bits filter in shedding any light otherwise.
Did Link marry Zelda? The first Zelda is believed to have been put under a sleeping spell and was not awaken until AoL. Thus, Link I couldn't possibly have married her, or he did but Zelda was put to sleep after. The third Link was born in Calatia, not Hyrule. Why this is, it is unknown (Maybe Link II sailed there after his dream?).
It is also unknown why the second Link did not marry Zelda, but it is known that Link II might have been in love with Marin and not Zelda, but Marin disappeared with Koholint (or possibly she flew off like a seagull). The third Link and Zelda never totally defeated Ganon without being separated. Maybe they got married. However, maybe the Prince of Darkness chanted a spell on the family of Heroes, saying that "the one who strikes me down will never marry the one he loves" (A very cool storyline concept!).
A lot of people have wondered what Links uncle meant when he said Zelda is you… when he actually meant "Zelda is your sister," as many were led to believe by this unfinished sentence. The Japanese version of the game says "Zelda is your destiny...." The translation wouldn't fit in the text box, so it was just cut off to add suspense.
Zelda the game in general has appeared in many different types of media like the Valiant Comics produced five monthly comic books of Zelda Comics in Spring/Summer/Fall 1990. Each book had two long stories, composing of ten pages each, and three pages of two or one page short stories. Another Valiant comic book, The Nintendo Comic System, had a ten-page Zelda story in each. An unknown number (i think it was 3) were made. Unlike the regular Zelda comic, however, The Nintendo Comic System was a bimonthly comic. They are not available anywhere as far as I know.
DiC Enterprises produced thirteen episodes of a Zelda cartoon show, which aired Fridays in the 1989 - 1990 season. I know a few were produced on tape, but as far as I know the entire series has not. So far, twelve have been reviewed.
Around 1991-1992, Nintendo published 12 so-called "Adventure Books" similar to the old "Choose your own Adventure Books." Two of these were Zelda books: #9 ("The Crystal Trap") and #10 ("The Shadow Prince").
Link also appeared in four episodes of the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon.
Nintendo Power ran a Zelda comic serial loosely based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in Volumes 32-44. An entertaining read, they provide additional story to the game, as well as depth to its characters, while taking a slightly different path to the story's conclusion. It is now sold in graphic novel format in the magazine's Back Issue/Player's Guide order form.
Games were made for Phillips Cd-I but whatever became of those games well the Philips' CD-i ("CD Interactive"), was a CD-ROM-based system that failed early on in its career, it had three Zelda games for its system in 1993. They were "Link: The Faces of Evil," "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon," and "Zelda's Adventure."
It is great to kill the final boss in a game and Ganon but in every game he is back apart from in MM but how does he do it. Well In the AoL instruction booklet, it says that the blood of the hero who killed Ganon can only revive him. However, in the Zelda cartoon series, Ganon can revive himself and other monsters from the Evil Jar if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after AoL, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Wizards put the sleeping spell on Zelda but know one seems to know exactly who it was. No one knows for sure. It could be Ganon, but the picture in the AoL instruction booklet shows him as the shadow of the Prince. Another possibility is Carock, the wizard in the Maze Palace in AoL.
It seems only the creator of Zelda knows. However, the wizard died after he chanted the spell, so it couldn't be Carock. It seems it was just a crony of Ganon or Ganon himself, otherwise the earliest sighting of an early manifestation of Ganon's Aghanihm incarnation (though this is unlikely, as the people of Hyrule wouldn't trust him when he would later come to rid the land of all disease and ailment).
On Link's Hyrulian shield there is a picture of a bird holding a piece of the Triforce flying towards the three other pieces of the Triforce.
There is a belief that there's a fourth piece of the Triforce, most commonly called the Quadraforce or the Tetraforce. These theories are caused by The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, in which there appears to be a fourth Triforce piece carried by a bird pictured on Link's Hylian Shield.
The "Tetraforce" probably doesn't exist but the most convincing part to the theory is not new news. If you've taken time to notice in the OoT previews, both the old and new versions of the shield show something that looks mysteriously like a fourth piece of the Triforce.
Though the shield is toned down, but on the older one looks like someone at Nintendo, was trying to start people thinking about it. If it didn't exist, why did they try so hard to get people to think this?
Why would they put a fourth piece on both shields, if not to imply that the Tetraforce exists? The first shield, it could be just a temporary image in the design of the alpha game but in the beta version, they decided to keep it? It can't be coincidence, but it was perhaps to merely stir the controversy (they were successful to that end).
Though none in any of the wall carvings in the castle, or on the Temple of Time, and even the series of cinemas about the creation of the Triforce seems against it. The Bazaar said shield was a copy of the shields used by (old) Hylian Knights. And, it is on Princess Zelda's clothes. Her dress could have been old. The Tetraforce could be and OLD Royal Crest. The new Royal Crest is a three-Triforce mark.
Then if the complete Triforce is so omnipotent then the question is to whether or not anyone ever had the whole Triforce? The complete Triforce should grant any wish its owner's desires, yet it was not able to grant Ganon's wish in LttP. He wished for the entire world, and only managed to change The Golden Land into the Dark World. Even with that change, disloyal and good were there, like the fat fairy within Ganon's Pyramid of Power.
Did Ganon merely word his wish wrong? I doubt it, as it was a wish in his heart of Ganon, not spoken. So that only leaves the possibility of the Triforce not being powerful enough. Maybe it's not complete...
Here's one thought: Farore, the Goddess of Courage, made life to uphold the law. Yet the Gerudo's (or particularly Ganondorf) are highly unusual. Ganondorf Dragmire was born and has been the scourge of Hyrule for years. There are distortions on the flow of power in the Triforce. Like "Day of the Triforce," one day of the year when all the Triforce's' powers cease to work.
A Day of the Triforce occurs once a decade. Which Occurred in the LoZ comic #5. This day occurs on every exact decade (like 1980, 1990, 2000... etc.) and in The LoZ comic #2, "Once a lifetime," all of the evil magic in Hyrule can be harnessed by one wizard. A Wizzrobe and Ganon tried to blast Link with a spell containing all of the evil magic, but it backfired. In the third comic, Link gets a hold of the Triforce of Power and became corrupted.
In the cartoon, if Ganon got a hold of the Triforce of Wisdom, he'd rule forever yet in comic #3, Zelda comments that the Wisdom and Courage can defeat the Triforce of Power any day. After Link defeated Ganon, he lends his hand to its restoration.
But circumstances did not look very good. Hyrule was on the road to ruin. With the Triforce of Power, Ganon had left behind ruin that continued causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule.
Evil life, build-ups of evil magic, T.o.P.'s ability to corrupt people with its power, disturbances of the Triforce's power, T.o.P. possibly weaker than the other two Triforce's. How could these things been done? The three Goddesses seemed to have created order from chaos, just to leave it to turn back into chaos again.
One possibility could be that, while the three Triforce's we know of marked the ascent of the three Goddesses as they left the world of Hyrule each point up, the fourth Triforce points down on every picture seen in OoT. This "pointing down" could further the theory that it symbolizes and embodies a fourth, evil Goddess, perhaps pointing the way to the Hyrulian equivalent of Hell.
That, or it merely symbolizes the three Goddesses' original descent from the heavens before they created all life on Hyrule.
In desert, the Spirit Temple was sculpted as a snake lady; Sheik called it a goddess of the sand. One theory could be that there must have been an evil goddess -
Maybe called "Colossus" - that came later to destroy what the others had done. Or maybe even take over what the other three done. She hid the Triforce of [Creative] Power and replaced it with a Triforce of [Destructive] Power. But the evil goddess couldn't forge the powers of the Triforce's Wisdom and Courage, as absolute power corrupts absolutely. She then created life to oppose the law as well as evil magic's and sciences. If that happened, it would explain the above and other mysteries.
Why hasn't a fourth piece of the Triforce ever been mentioned? Maybe it will be. Why would it be called a Triforce if there were four pieces? Well, in LoZ, when there were two, Triforce meant that the pieces are shaped as triangles, so it could be called the Triforce even if there were 50 pieces.
If there are four Triforce pieces in the game, then why isn't there any more info in the games, since OoT is the prequel of them all? Maybe, Hylians had forgotten this their years under Ganon's tyranny, as he had left Hyrule in ruins before which could have destroyed bits of the legend from scrolls in libraries that were burned or tablets crumbled and buried under city ruins, leaving Hyrule's elders to die with the memories.
For none of the stories handed down through the generations ever mention a fourth Triforce piece, but yet in LoZ, they never said anything about the Triforce of Courage. None of the wise men or Impa ever said anything about a fourth piece! Then again only when Impa saw the mark on Link in AoL, that then she told him of a scroll that no one could read that told of the Triforce of Courage. How could anyone have possessed the three pieces of the Triforce, gained absolute power and control of the world when Ganon couldn't even escape Dark World or even beat Link, a mortal boy?
The annoying owl that pops up at the most awkward times to "help" you to most people has a name but it might not be the same in every game, but there's a lot of controversy over the owl. Mainly: "He's Rauru, since the gossip stone said so," "He's the same one as the owl in Zelda 4." Now the gossip stone actually says that Kapoera Gaebora is a reincarnation of a sage. Now many people misinterpreted that to think since he never appeared as the grown up you it must mean he became Rauru.
Now let's look at "reincarnation." Someone that used to be someone else in another life, not someone who is someone else in the present. Meaning Kapoera Gaebora was once a sage.
Two possibilities are that he was either the sage of the forest or the desert. The two things giving me this idea is the fact the owl is often met in the lost woods and the gossip stones giving this information are in the sacred forest meadow. But also at the end of the game the owl is seen flying off towards the desert?
One thing, the owl may be male as an owl but he may have been female as a sage. Could Kapoera Gaebora be the reincarnation of the lady of the Spirit Temple, the lady whose image can be seen throughout?
It could be theorized that Kapoera Gaebora is evil and pushed Link along in the earlier quest so he would open up the Chamber of Sages. Is Kapoera Gaebora now an owl as a punishment of a wrong he committed during his time as a sage?
Also remember the owl of OoT bears resemblance to the owl of Koholint Island in LA. Now really everything at this point is guesswork as there is no apparent connection between the two, aside from both being owls and both guiding a Link on their quests.
It could be said that every Link is a reincarnation of the previous; a way to bring a warrior when he is needed - in other words, fate (or perhaps the watching goddesses) is using Link as a toy. As such, he could have been assigned to be the guardian and guide of Link for all of Hyrule's eternity.
Where are all the races/characters from OoT by the original LoZ and LttP? Ever since Aghanihm gained the King's trust he spent long nights in the high tower of Hyrule Castle. Those at the castle, the townspeople could see strange lights, even faint sounds coming from the tower.
The maidens started to disappear, so, the disturbances must have been Aghanihm casting the maidens into the Dark World. But, the ceremony was once a full moon according to the LttP comic book and after he finally captured a maiden. So the other nights, Aghanihm must have been working on something else, like how to control the guards. While being instructed by Ganon, Aghanihm must have been experimenting the effects for a first Evil Jar on each of guards. It was yet to be perfected, but it still worked.
Here is how this Evil Jar could have worked: First they need to become subject to it. It isn't certain how it's done, but in the "Missing Link" cartoon, they held Link's body in the Evil Jar. Maybe long term exposure to the inside turns you into an energy-based creature whose life energy is dependent on the Triforce of Power.
When you become subject as an energy-based creature, you're practically immortal. You have a limited amount of energy. If you run out of energy you have to return to the Evil Jar to recharge and the Triforce of Power will replenish your energy. To destroy someone like that, you'll have to blast him or her with something so powerful that they reach the point of no return.
It starts in OoT, where we met the races. In LttP, nearly 200 years passed. Sheikahs are extinct, merged with Hylians; Zora's are becoming hostile and have no compassion for Hylians; the Kokiri are now aging and are in the forest, living as thieves; the Gerudo's are dead; Gorons... are dead, too.
Then, in LoZ, Ganon and his minions ransacked Hyrule and its surrounding populaces; he finished off the young and able. He enslaved them to the Evil Jar. So, who's who, what did the Evil Jar do? Well, no Sheikahs. Hyrulian Guards and Knights were turned to Armos and then turned to stone because Ganon couldn't trust their full loyalty, Stalfos and Ghini are Hylians, Zolas are Zora's, and Moblins and Goriyah are Kokiri.
Gerudo's are resurrected as Gibdo, and one would tend to believe the Gorons are throwing those rocks at you in LoZ, living as the very mountains themselves.
Zelda Story line
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According to the Hylian scrolls, three mythical goddesses descended from a distant nebula to the world that was and created order and life. There was Din, the Goddess of Power dyed the mountains red with fire and created land; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom created science and wizardry and brought order to nature;
Farore, the Goddess of Courage, who, through justice and vigour, created life - the animals that crawl the land and the birds that soar in the sky.
After the Goddesses had finished their work, they left the world, though not before creating a symbol of their strength left in the wake of their passing: a golden triangle known as the Triforce. A small but marvel portion of the essence of the Goddesses was held in this mighty artefact, which was to guide the intelligent life on the world of Hyrule.
Although it may have been an inanimate object, the Triforce held within it the power to bestow three titles which gave the person who received them great powers: The Forger of Strength, The Keeper of Knowledge, and The Juror of Courage.
From its place of hiding in the Sacred Realm (otherwise known as "The Golden Land" or "Land of the Golden Power") where the Goddesses had placed it, the Triforce beckoned people from the outside world to seek it in the hope that someone worthy of these titles would find it.
The Goddesses had created six distinct races to live in their new world - the fish-like Zora lived in the vast waterways of the land; the rock-eating Gorons dwelt inside the massive Death Mountain, and created bombs. In the Lost Woods, far to the east, the Elvin Kokiri lived.
The black-hearted Gerudo people made the desert their home, while the mysterious Sheikahs lived at the foot of Death Mountain, vowing to protect the royal Hylian family. The noble Hylians lived in the center of the world, in the large Hyrule Field.
With their magic infused blood, the Hylian people were endowed with psychic powers and skilled in wizardry. It was also said that their long, pointed ears enabled them to hear special messages from the goddesses, so the many people in Hyrule held them in high esteem. Their descendants settled in various parts of the world and passed on their knowledge and magical lore to all people.
In it's passing, however, the lore was often distorted or lost altogether
In Hyrule, there were many Hylian buildings, which were mentioned repeatedly in the Legends. These buildings, which later may lie in ruin, pale shadows of their former splendour, were closely tied to the Triforce. Some were said to contain the Triforce itself...
If it were only a symbol of the Goddesses, many would covet the Triforce. But a particular verse from the Book of Mudora made the Triforce even more desirable:
"In a realm beyond sight, the sky shines gold, not blue.
There, the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true."
Many aggressively searched for the wish-granting Triforce, but no one, not even the Hylian sages, was sure of its location; the knowledge had simply been lost over time. Some said the Triforce lay under the desert, others claimed that it was in the cemetery in the shadow of Death Mountain, but no one ever found it. That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.
To protect the Triforce from such a person, a great sage named Rauru took it upon himself to build the Temple of Light to safeguard the entrance to the Sacred Realm. Using a few magical items, he made a large and complex seal that could only be opened by one who was worthy enough to receive the relic.
Rauru's efforts may have been noble, but centuries later they would prove to be not quite as infallible as originally thought.
As the kingdom of Hyrule - at this time united as a single country - entered into a bright age, the sovereign King of Hyrule led his subjects fairly and just, the Triforce in his possession to ensure peace was maintained.
As all ultimately do, however, this king one day died. His youthful son, the prince, who should have become king and inherited everything his sovereignty should offer as Hyrule's monarch, could only inherit part of the Triforce. The prince search far and wide for the missing parts, but could not find them. It was then that a magician formerly close to the King brought him some unexpected news.
Before he died, it seemed the late King had spoken something about the Triforce to only the younger sister of the prince, a young Princess Zelda I.
The prince immediately questioned the defiant princess, but she would tell him nothing. After the prince, the magician threatened to put the princess into an eternal sleep if she did not talk. Even still, she stood her ground before her brother, saying nothing.
In his anger, the magician tried to cast a magic spell on the princess. The surprised prince tried to stop him, but the magician fought off the prince and continued casting the spell. Then, when the spell was finally cast, Princess Zelda fell on that spot and entered a sleep from which she might never awake. At the same time, the magician also fell down and breathed his last.
In his grief, the prince placed the princess in a room in the castle. He hoped that someday she would come back to consciousness. So that this tragedy would never be forgotten, he thus decreed that every female child born into the royal household should be given the name "Zelda."
Tears after the Legend of Zelda faded into the stuff of Hyrulian legend, in the blowing sand and the harsh climate of the desert, the cunning King of the Gerudo Thieves, Ganondorf Dragmire, found the way to break the mystic seal of Rauru.
He discovered he would need three sacred stones - one held by the Kokiri, one by the Goron, and one by the Zora.
He then would require the magical Ocarina of Time to open the seal, which was held by a member of the royal family. Climbing upon his black Gerudo steed, Ganondorf went to each of the tribes and attempted to get their stones by destroying them - he poisoned the Kokiri's guardian tree, he infested the cave which held the Goron's food source with monsters, and he made the protective deity of the Zora, Lord Jabu-Jabu, go mad and swallow the daughter of King Zora XVI, Princess Ruto.
He then went to hold an audience with the King of Hyrule, in an attempt to find which royal family member had the Ocarina. Ganondorf knew that it was only a matter of time before he had all the pieces to his plan complete.
Time, however, definitely did not seem on Ganondorf's side...
Meanwhile, in the middle of an ensuing war in Hyrule, an exhausted Hylian woman entrusted her infant to the Deku Tree in Kokiri Forest before dying. Named Link - Link the First - the boy was raised as one of the enigmatic Elvin Kokiri without any knowledge of his parents (as it is known, Kokiri have no parents).
Even by age 10 he was still unlike all the other Kokiri - they all had farie guardians. All except Link. One night, he had a nightmare that would haunt his dreams for many months - during a rainy night, in front of a magnificent castle; a young girl would be riding away on horse in the arms of a woman. She would give Link a stare of helplessness, and looked like she needed to say something. Behind them rode an evil-looking man with green skin in black armour. He would frighten Link, who would stir and awake uneasily.
One night, after his dreams, a farie came to Link. Her name was Navi, and she told him that the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the Kokiri, needed his help. Link went to the Tree, who explained to Link he was cursed. Upon entering the Tree, Link vanquished the source of the curse. But the Deku Tree was nearly gone.
Giving Link a green gem, he told Link with his dying breath to visit the Princess of Destiny in Hyrule Castle. Negating the myth that a Kokiri would die if they were to leave the village, Link departed with Deku Shield and Kokiri Sword in-hand, to the reluctance of his childhood companion Saria.
After a short journey, Link and Navi found the Princess - Princess Zelda II, the first known descendant of the Zelda put into an enchanted sleep - and the girl from Link's dream. She told Link of the evil man from his dream, which wanted the Triforce. She told Link the only way to stop him was to find the other two Spiritual Stones and with her Ocarina of Time, open the door to the Golden Land in the Temple of Time.
After travelling and curing the curses of the Goron and the Zora, Link brought the stones to the castle. But, just like in Link's dream the man in black armour was chasing Princess Zelda in the arms of her nursemaid Impa on a horse. Zelda threw the Ocarina of Time to Link, who caught it and fled to the Temple of Time.
There, he played the Song of Time, which opened the gate to a bleak Hyrule seven years into the future. As fate would have it, the evil man tricked the young hero, and he stole the Triforce from the Golden Land before the lad could enter.
The name of this king of thieves is Ganondorf Dragmire, but he is known by his alias, Mandrag Ganon, which means "Ganon of the Enchanted Thieves."
Then, the whole world as Link knew it, ended.
It is not known what Ganondorf Dragmire wished for from the Triforce. However, in time evil power began to emanate from the Golden Land and greedy men were drawn there to become members of Ganon's army. Black clouds permanently darkened the sky, and many disasters beset Hyrule. The lord of Hyrule sent for the Knights of Hyrule, summoning them for an audience before ordering the warriors to seal the entrance to the Golden Land.
The power of Ganondorf Dragmire's power was just too great, and he swiftly took over the land of Hyrule. The Triforce, being an inanimate object, cannot judge between good and evil. Therefore, it could not know that Ganondorf's wishes were evil; it merely granted them.
Evil things beset the land of Hyrule in short order, and the leaders of the six races tried to prevent the ongoing war. Their efforts, however, were unfortunately also in vain.
Seven years after Ganondorf first touched the Triforce Link awakened in the Temple of Light. Rauru, who had built the Temple, explained to Link of the evil that occurred. Rauru was only one of seven sages who would, if brought together, seal Ganon in the Golden Land. Link found five more - Saria the Kokiri, Daurina the Goron, Ruto the Zora, Impa the Sheikahs, and Nabooru the Gerudo - all of whom became sages.
Princess Zelda II, who remained in the disguise of a boy under the name "Sheik" for the past seven years, was to be the seventh.
When Link finally found Zelda - along the way befriending the horse Epona, with whom he rode and traversed the land no longer by foot alone and pulled the legendary Master Sword (also known as the "Sword of Evil's Bane" and the "Magical Sword") from its stone sheath in the Lost Woods - it was revealed the Triforce had split due to Ganondorf's corruption. He held the Triforce of Power, Zelda II held the Triforce of Wisdom, and Link himself held the Triforce of Courage.
Upon hearing of this, Ganondorf was quick to kidnap Zelda and challenge Link to face him.
Link took the full brunt of the fierce attack, and although he fought courageously, at some points he nearly lost. However, his efforts were not in vein, for Ganondorf was slain by Link's sword.
Upon escaping his crumbling tower, Ganondorf arose, and, using the power of his Triforce he turned himself into the Prince of Darkness, Ganon. Battling Ganon seemed futile, but he bought precious time for the Seven Sages to magically seal Ganon in the Sacred Realm (more commonly known as The Golden Land, or Land of the Golden Power). All of Hyrule rejoiced at the victory that upheld peace and order over Ganon's evil and chaos.
Link was returned to his land, in his time seven years before, a young boy once more riding Epona back toward Kokiri Forest.
This epic war, which had claimed many lives, became known as the "Imprisoning War" in stories told in later centuries.
Link I, without even having time to savour his victory over Ganon in the Imprisoning War, found he must tend to the plight of Termina.
The kingdom of Hyrule had been peaceful and in a state of rebuilding after Ganondorf's dark reign. Returning just a few months after his time travel adventures, young Link I, Hero of Time, rode home on the back of his trusty (and equally young) horse, Epona. As he cautiously made his way through the foggy, dark woods of the home he had returned to in Kokiri Forest, two faeries appeared out of nowhere.
Startled by the quick-moving, glowing creatures, Epona reared up and sent Link flying to the ground. As Link lay unconscious, a third stranger appeared out of the mist: a mask-wearing impish Skull Kid by the name of skullkid. Looking for valuables, Skullkid soon found Link's Ocarina of Time, took it, and made his escape on Epona.
Link, of course, quickly followed and soon came upon a doorway in a large tree. He slowly stepped inside - and fell into a bottomless pit that transported him into a weird, yet oddly familiar world full of familiar faces.
But while the landscape may have looked familiar, one thing was clearly different: In the sky above loomed a gigantic moon, slowly descending onto this world...
"In a few more days, this world will end," so spoke those living there. Even as they waited, time passed mercilessly. "If you can find the masked one, you may find a clue to saving this realm."
And so Link embarked on a new adventure to halt the setting of the moon on this strange world and to find his way back to his own land.
Link must stop the catastrophe in the new world, or at least return to his own world. The world he found himself trapped in (called Termina), as Link learned, existed in a parallel dimension. The passage of time seemed a factor from the start - Link was aware that if he spent too much time in the other world, the moon would impact the planet to apocalyptic result.
Without the help of the faerie Navi, Link joined up with the brother and sister faeries Trail and Chat that had startled Epona at the beginning of his quest (who consistently would warn Link of Stalchild's recurring presence), then set out on his new journey.
The new key element of Link I's second adventure was the newfound ability to transform into new characters by wearing the different masks. By donning a variety of masks, Link assumed the form of a Goron, a Zora, and even a Deku Scrub.
Each of these fantastic forms had its own abilities, as one would expect. In Goron form, for example, Link could roll up into a ball for some wild Goron rolling.
When it cane time to make music (a key piece to the puzzle), the Goron Link whipped out a set of bongos and started to beat them repeatedly. As a Zora, Link gained fantastic swimming abilities, and in the musical department, he could play an aquatic guitar as if second nature. Although becoming a Deku Scrub sounded rather undesirable to Link, in this form Link could hover like a helicopter and play a quintet's share of horns.
It is in each of these forms that Link explored different worlds full of danger and wonder anew. He made a great many new friends and battled an all-new army of enemies along the way until his confrontation with Stalkid.
When it was revealed that Stalkid was actually good-hearted and that it was the Mask of Majora he wore (stolen from the Mask Maker in Hyrule) that was evil, the Mask of Majora itself had to be confronted. In the aftermath, Link I returned to his homeland of Hyrule, his second victory then behind him as he returned Majora's Mask to the Mask Maker, its rightful owner.
Many centuries have passed since the Imprisoning War and the exploits of the Hero of Time across the lands of both Hyrule and the realm of Termina alike. The kingdom of Hyrule healed its wounds and the people lived in peace for a long time, a new era of peace dawning.
Memories of the vicious Imprisoning War faded over the generations.
So it is no surprise that no one was prepared for the new disasters that had recently struck Hyrule. Pestilence and drought, uncontrollable even by magic, ravaged the land. The King of Hyrule, after council with his sages, ordered an investigation of the imprisoned Golden Land, which was now appropriately called the "Dark World" under the twisted dominion of Ganon, but the Seven Sages' seal was apparently intact. He offered rewards for anyone who could find the source of these troubles.
In answer to these summons a stranger named Aghanihm came and quelled the disasters with a previously unseen form of magic. As a reward, the King gave him a new position as chief advisor and heir to the seven masses proclaimed him their hero.
Peace had returned to Hyrule?
To the ignorance of all, Aghanihm was a puppet figure, Ganon pulling the strings from the Dark World. Aghanihm moved quickly - he murdered the King, took over and isolated himself in Hyrule Castle, took control by way of his magic the Knights of Hyrule, and ruled the entirety of the kingdom as a shadow sovereign and monarch, but no one outside the castle knew of it.
Aghanihm didn't stop there - he then carried out his plot to magically banish all the descendants of the Seven Sages to the Dark World, so that the lifeblood of the Sages would no longer be in Hyrule, and the seal placed on the Dark World would be rendered broken. After Aghanihm was finished sending six of the seven descendants, Zelda III, the late King's daughter and princess of Hyrule as well as the final descendant, sent out a telepathic message to Link, a descendant of the Hero of Time.
Sixteen year-old Link II, his parents having been gone years and presumed deceased since being banished into the Dark World by Ganon because they were descendants of the Knights of Hyrule, heard the plea in his sleep. He awakened to see his Uncle with the family's sword and shield, preparing to set out into the night. He told Link not to leave the house until morning, for he had heard the plea as well as Link.
Link, knowing the plea was for him and not his Uncle waited a while and left towards the gates of Hyrule Castle, where Princess Zelda III was imprisoned.
In the castle, taking a "back door," Link found his Uncle seriously wounded. He didn't want Link involved, but knew the telepathic message was meant for his nephew. He briefly explained how to use the sword and shield before giving them to Link, passing away shortly thereafter. Arming himself with them, he found Zelda locked in the dungeons of the castle. He took her to the nearby Sanctuary, a temple where she would be safe in the care of a sage.
At the Sanctuary, Zelda expressed her belief that Link II was "the legendary hero who appears in Hyrule once every hundred years," while the sage explained that the only weapon that could slay Aghanihm was the Master Sword, the weapon that the original Link used against Ganon during the Imprisoning War.
Successfully tracking the recluse down, the wise man Link soon met in the desert named Sahasrahla further explained that to claim and wield the Master Sword, hidden for centuries now in the depths of the maddening Lost Woods, he would require three enchanted pendants before anything.
As it became clear to Link, one pendant was hidden in each of Hyrule's three dungeons - the Eastern Palace, the Desert Palace, and the Tower of Hera.
Setting out, Link was quick to obtain these pendants, champion their respective labyrinths/dungeons, and systematically slay their guardians.
After Link recovered the pendants he made haste to the Lost Woods and retrieved the Master Sword ("The Sword of Evil's Bane"), and with the power of the pendants, wrenched the blade from its stone.
It was after he withdrew the sword that he got the grim telepathic message from Zelda. She had been found by Agahnim's minions and had been recaptured. Link raced to the castle only in time to see Aghanihm send her to the Dark World, fully breaking the Sages' seal.
Link then battled Aghanihm by using the Master Sword to reflect Agahnim's black magic. But before Link could defeat him, Aghanihm banished Link to the Dark World.
Once in the Dark World, Link got a telepathic message from Sahasrahla. Sahasrahla told Link that the seven descendants were in crystal cocoons in seven dungeons. To stop Ganon from returning from the Dark World to conquer Hyrule, Link set out to find all of the descendants.
Link travelled to all the dungeons and, after many a hard battle, he finally found Zelda in the final Dark World dungeon. After rescuing all the descendants, Link went to Ganon's Tower atop Death Mountain. In the Tower he battled Aghanihm again, only this time he struck Aghanihm down, who was revealed at last as Ganon. Ganon changed himself into a bat and flew off to the Pyramid of Power, where Ganon kept the Triforce. Link did not give up, and followed the Prince of Darkness.
It was within the walls of the ominous Pyramid that Link did his final duel with Ganon. With the combined effort of the Master Sword and his Silver Arrows, Ganon was defeated.
Touching the Triforce with a wish of goodness in his heart, all evil was vanquished from the Dark and Light Worlds alike and the Dark World was returned to its former state of being as the Sacred Realm/Golden Land. Upon returning the Triforce to Hyrule, he found the King of Hyrule and his Uncle had returned to life, and peace had wholly returned to the kingdom.
Not long after his return, however, the King of Hyrule stepped down from the throne, turning it over to his daughter, the newly crowned Queen Zelda III. As one of her first tasks after ascending the throne, Zelda knighted Link, appointing him Master of the Knights of Hyrule.
Soon, as a final task, Link returned the Master Sword to its former place of resting in the Lost Woods.
While Hyrule was at peace, however, other lands would soon need Link's help...
After his first great victory, defeating Ganon and returning things to order in all of his beloved Hyrule, Link II set out on a lone mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
Presumably leaving his leadership of the Knights of Hyrule in the hands of another while he was to be away, Link sailed to foreign lands where he disciplined his mind and body alike. When he at last he felt ready to return to Hyrule, he bought a small sailboat and headed across the Great Hyrulian Sea. The journey ended abruptly in a storm that crushed and sank Link's ship.
Clinging to a piece of flotsam, the hero of Hyrule floated toward a mysterious tropical shore, unconscious and barely alive.
When Link washed up on the beach of a mysterious island, he had no energy to stand or cry for help. Through half-closed eyes, he gazed out on a tropical forest with a tall volcano's stunted peak visible in the distance, and he thought it was odd that a giant, spotted egg topped the volcano.
At one point, it seemed to him that Queen Zelda III herself was speaking to him and that he was in a soft bed. At times, he thought he was caught in a bizarre dream.
Indeed, Link awoke in a soft bed, but the young woman who tended him was not Zelda, but a young girl by the name of Marin. She had found him and brought him home to heal.
From Tarin, Marin's father, he learned that evil creatures had appeared shortly after his arrival. Then, when Link returned to the beach to retrieve his sword, an old, wizened owl flapped down beside him and told him the strangest story he'd ever heard. According to the wise old bird, Link was the hero who had come to wake the Wind Fish, and he couldn't leave until that task had been done.
In the adventures that would inevitably follow, the lot of them taking Link to every corner of the island, Link learned that Koholint Island existed only in the dreams of the Wind Fish... and he was a part of that dream.
According to a wise old owl that would frequently provide him with helpful information, Link had to collect 8 Instrument of the Sirens from the Nightmares.
Link collected the Cello from the Tail Cave, The Conch Horn from the Bottle Grotto, the Sea Lily Bell from the Key Cavern, the Surf Harp from Angler's Cave, the Marimba from Catfish's Maw, the Coral Triangle from the Face Shrine, the Organ of Evening Calm from the Eagle's Tower, and the Thunder Drum from Turtle Rock.
After collecting all the Instruments, Link sought out the Egg on top of the volcano on Mount Tamarack. Once there he played the Ocarina, using a song Marin taught him, and a hole opened in the egg. Link went in side and found a maze. After correctly going through the maze Link dropped into a room where he found the Evil Shadows. Link fought each of the shadows with out having any respite between battles.
After Link defeated the Evil Shadows he climbed the stairway up to a platform, where he met the Wind Fish and he played the Song of Awakening again. After playing the song the island disappeared and Link woke up on a piece of driftwood. Link then looked up after hearing a sound and he saw the Wind Fish flying away.
Knowing his friends he had met on his journey were gone, alive now only in memory, Link's victory was a sad one...
"To the Finder. . .
The Isle of Koholint is but an illusion. . .
Human, Monster, Sea, Sky. . .
A scene on the lid of the sleeper's eye. . .
Awake the dreamer, and Koholint will vanish much like a bubble on a needle. . .
Cast-away, you should know the truth!"-
From a Plaque on the Wall of the Southern Shrine
Some say it never existed. Others say that it was but an illusion. The island of Koholint... was it a dream or reality? In this essay you can discover the secrets of Koholint and the mystery of its disappearance.
Link II, descendant of the Hero of Time and Master of the Knights of Hyrule following his battle with Ganon, went a voyage around the world to increase his wisdom, courage, and power. However, a storm tossed his ship and lighting destroyed it deep within the Great Hyrulian Sea. He grabbed a piece of his ship and hoped for the best.
He awoke in the bed of a beautiful girl. She discovered him on the shore of the island, the island of Koholint. This was no normal island, for a giant egg lay atop the tallest mountain. The Hero enjoyed the company of the girl, Marin, but knew he had to return home and fulfil his duties as the Legendary Hero of Hyrule. But he could not leave the island by normal means. He had to collect the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, hidden in eight dungeons all around Koholint, and play them in front of the egg. Inside, the Wind Fish would awake and allow him to go home.
As Link II travelled around the island, collecting the instruments, he soon discovered Koholint was not the island he believed. Clues, such as the plaque in the Southern Shrine, proved his theory - which Koholint would disappear forever if he awoke the Wind Fish. But he had no choice.
Link awoke the fish, and the island disappeared. But what if he didn't? What if he just let the Wind Fish sleep and he lived with Marin forever?
He could not, due to events in Koholint past. While the Wind Fish slept, an evil creature called The Shadow entered the dream. At first, it took over the inside of the giant egg. Then The Shadow sent its eight strongest minions, the Nightmares, to guard the instruments in the dungeons so no one could wake up the Wind Fish. The Shadow placed weaker minions inside the dungeons to help the Nightmares. Then it started to place its minions on the Overworld.
That is when Link II arrived.
The Shadow began to place more of its creatures to destroy the Hero, because The Shadow knew that Link had the potential to destroy itself. Nevertheless, Link destroyed the Nightmares, collected the instruments, and destroyed The Shadow. He then awoke the Wind Fish, which destroyed the island.
Some say it was a tragedy that Link awoke the Wind Fish. But what would happen if he didn't? It was obvious that The Shadow had been building up its power. Sooner or later, The Shadow would have amassed enough power to send his minions to take over the island's two villages. Even a Legendary Hero cannot hold back endless amounts of monsters. Koholint would have been overrun, and ruled by The Shadow with an iron fist.
Link destroyed The Shadow and the island, but he saved it from a fate far worse than death. So in the end, he was still a hero.
One last note before the end of this essay. At the end of Link's Awakening, if beaten with no lives lost, you can see Marin flying off the island with wings. Her dream was to fly like a seagull, and she wished this wish to the Wind Fish before he awoke. Perhaps, this can be taken as a sign that the piece of the island Link held most dear was preserved.
Some time after Link II had set sail once more after the bitter resolution of the nightmare that had been his Koholint debacle, the hero of both Hyrule and Koholint found he presented with a new dilemma. Perhaps afraid to chance again the Great Hyrulian Sea - the same sea that had nearly claimed him - it was not Hyrule he returned to. By chance or by fate, Link ventured to the land of Calatia, a kingdom to the west of central Hyrule not too unlike his homeland.
After Link II settled and eventually passed away in Calatia, the years began to pass with increasing pace. A woman by the name of Medila, wife of Arn, one of Link II's blood-descendants, gave birth to their first child. By simple coincidence or fate, this child was named "Link," the third known to bear the name in Hyrulian history.
As he grew to adolescence, Link III quickly became known in Calatia as a courageous young man who was more than skilled enough in the ways of swordplay. It seemed inevitable when the young man one day began to yearn for fame, fortune, and romance, and left Calatia to search for adventure elsewhere.
He wouldn't have to go far to find it.
After a short journey, Link arrived in the neighbouring land of Hyrule, and while searching for signs of adventure he took notice of an old woman surrounded by evil minions. Links felt compelled to assist the woman, and ran towards the villainous monsters, hoping he could defeat them and help the woman.
To the gratitude of the elderly woman, Link did well to ward the monsters off. She introduced herself as Impa, a descendant of the ancient Sheikahs and the original Impa. Then she told Link the woeful tale of Hyrule and Princess Zelda IV.
Link had almost thought his short adventure was over. He had no way have knowing this was to be only just the beginning.
Hyrule had declined, becoming a rustic land with few remaining signs of its earlier glory and splendour. The land was overrun, and Ganon was to blame. At the heart of the conflict lay a missing piece of the Triforce and Zelda. Of how Ganon came by the Triforce of Power no tale is told.
When she discovered that Ganon had acquired a piece of the Triforce, though, Zelda broke the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and hid them. She knew a hero was needed to challenge Ganon, so she sent her nurse, Impa, to search throughout the land, even as Zelda IV herself was captured.
During her quest, Impa long evaded Ganon's reach, but in a forest glade she too fell into his clutches and would have been carried off if it not for the heroic actions of a passing youth named Link, the third to bear the name.
Once the villains had been driven away, Impa told the young man about Zelda's secret. Then, unable to hold back her tears, she told him how Zelda had been taken captive. No sooner had Link heard the tale of Zelda's sorrow than he pledged to defeat Ganon and rescue the Princess.
He set off at once, knowing only that he had to collect the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom. At every turn in the path he met monsters and other evil soldiers of Ganon who challenged him in battle.
Link's first task was to find the hidden dungeons where Zelda had secretly hidden the divided Triforce. Many of the entrances were disguised, and only by using all of his wits and the scraps of hints that he picked up along the way was he able to succeed. Inside the dungeons, he met countless enemies, for Ganon's minions had taken hold of even the most remote chambers.
After countless adventures along the way, cutting through endless Octorok, Moblins, leevers, and Stalfos, Link gathered all eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom from their eight respective dungeons and pulled the legendary Master Sword, "The Sword of Evil's Bane," (more commonly called "The Magical Sword" in this era) once used by Link I and II from its place of resting in the Lost Woods. He then scaled Death Mountain and gained entrance to Spectacle Rock, where the final leg of his journey lay. Ganon's great labyrinth - the ninth he had traversed thus - dwarfed any that Link had yet encountered. In a hidden chamber, he discovered a magical Silver Arrow and, taking the prize, he traced his way through the maze until he came face-to-face with Ganon himself.
The battle between youthful hero and villainous foe raged across the chamber, but Ganon remained invisible, seemingly unaffected by the cuts of Link's sword.
As Link began to tire, he tried a last, desperate strategy, putting the Silver Arrow to the test. The bowstring sang and the arrow flew straight. Ganon was destroyed.
With the defeat of Ganon, Link's mind turned to the purpose that had driven him here - the rescue of Princess Zelda IV.
One chamber remained to be explored and Link went ahead. Here Zelda greeted him and the pieces of the Triforce's of Power and Wisdom were reunited.
With the destruction of Ganon and the power of the Triforce restored, peace reigned once more in Hyrule. Princess Zelda ruled over the land beside her father, and the country prospered. It seemed as if the shadow of Ganon had been destroyed forever. But the youthful hero of the age remained ever vigilant. Wherever Link roamed, he looked for signs of Ganon's return, for he could not believe that he had truly banished evil from the land.
Two years after Link III's first adventure through Hyrule, Princess Zelda IV still ruled the kingdom of Hyrule beside her father, King Harkinian, and things seemed to be at ease from within...
yet evil still loomed over the land from without. Hyrule seemed fast on the road to ruin. The power that the vile heart of Ganon had left behind was causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule. What's more, even after the fall of Ganon; many of his underlings remained, awaiting their master's return.
Link III, who had remained in Hyrule to lend his hand to its restoration in this time of healing, found that circumstances did not look good. Link III was destined to become a hero still, but in the peaceful days that ensued, he would ultimately grow restless.
He wandered the forests, crossed the deserts and delved into the caverns of Hyrule, looking for any clues that might explain his feelings of unease. In time he became aware of a whisper that passed between the birds, beasts, and even through the blades of grass: there was a new magic in the land, nameless and terrifying.
One day, a strange mark, exactly akin to the crest of the kingdom, appeared on the back of Link's hand as he approached his 16th birthday. The worried Link went to Impa, who was shocked and frightened when she took notice of the birthmark.
Taking him to the North Palace, Link was led to a door within called "the door that does not open," a door that would open upon contact with the birthmark on Link's hand.
As Link III unlocked and opened this mysterious door, Impa immediately told Link at last the Legend of Zelda; how the sister of an ancient prince - Zelda - withheld the Triforce from him, was placed into an enchanted, timeless slumber by the prince's magician, and how this woeful princeful decreed every female child born into the royal household was decreed to be given the name "Zelda."
Lying as still as marble, the original mythical Princess Zelda I from ages before slept her dreamless sleep of enchantment within the room before them, just as the Legend said she would be.
When Link found her thus arrayed in the North Palace, he saw at once that she was spellbound indeed. Link III's mission seemed clear enough from the beginning. By refusing to reveal the secret power of the Triforce to a magician, this Princess Zelda had brought on her own downfall. But all was not lost.
If Link III somehow unlocked the mystery of the Great Palace, he could save this ancient Zelda and the newly realized Triforce of Courage Impa spoke of. He set off.
Again Link found himself taking to the fields and forests, but these places had become wild and dangerous, inhabited by enemies of old. Link found himself relying on his wits and swordplay at every step.
Creatures he had never before seen also waylaid him: spiders called Deelers that dropped from trees, tall Geldarms that rose from the sands of the Tantari Desert, and Daira armed with axes and hatred.
Link's mission was to enter each of six palaces and restore a missing crystal to its proper statue. Together, the statues created a magical lock on the Great Palace and only by replacing the six crystals could Link open the final door. In each palace, however, he had to battle a Statue Guardian of great strength: Barba the Dragon, Iron knuckle the Knight, Carock the Wizard, and others.
As he closed the palaces one by one, Link crossed nearly the entire expanse of Hyrule, from Ruto in the northwest to Death Mountain in the south, from the Island Palace in the Stormy Straights to Maze Island in the Far Eastern Sea. He helped villagers when he could, but he never lost sight of his ultimate goal. Finally, after uncovering the secrets of Old Kasuto, Link pushed on to the Great Palace where he encountered what he thought to be the final obstacle in his quest - the Thunderbird.
Once the Thunderbird was vanquished, Link thought that Zelda I and Hyrule would be saved, but it was not to be... not yet.
Exhausted from his journeying, Link had one more enemy to defeat - an enemy so unexpected that he did not know what to do, for the enemy was his own self... his own shadow.
Link III defeated his own Shadow and awoke the original Princess Zelda I from her seemingly eternal sleep. But it would seem that evil was not entirely banished from Hyrule for suddenly, without warning, Ganon, the Prince of Darkness, returned to Hyrule.
Previously it was thought that only the blood of the hero who killed Ganon could revive him. It became known, however, that Ganon can revive himself and any other of his monster minions from the "Evil Jar" (the otherworldly place where all the dead monsters go) if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after Link III's quest to awaken the original Princess Zelda from her enchanted slumber and recover the Triforce of Courage, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Although he was not restored to all of his original power, Ganon got his hands on the Triforce of Power again, which had been bestowed to the people of Hyrule as a sign of goodwill. Link III and Zelda IV, the same Zelda he rescued from the clutches of Ganon on his original quest, knew that Hyrule would not be at peace with Ganon still alive, for Ganon still yearned for the dominion of the land of Hyrule.
Soon Ganon would throw clever plan after clever plan at Link and Zelda,
I started a topic in the FOG prime called 'Splutter, splutter, cough, cough' and here it is Splutter, splutter, cough, cough V2, my new and improved topic, now not just a tribute to the greatest RPG series ever but my favourite games company Nintendo and there consoles and some of its greatest moments!!! Just before they enter into the next generation of consoles…129bit leaving some of the classics and greats far behind them. This has taken me since about an hour after I posted V 1.0 until now!!
So here is to continue and add to my topic to the greatest RPG saga Nintendo has ever seen or even the world for that matter…Zelda on the Nintendo!!
The way in which the story goes or should I say, the chronological order of the games in The Legend of Zelda saga is this...
Zelda, Chapter One. - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Two. - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000 on the N64)
Zelda, Chapter Three. - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992 on the SNES)
Zelda, Chapter Four. - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993 & 1998 on the GB and on the GBC)
Zelda, Chapter Five. - The Legend of Zelda (1987 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Six. - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1989 on the NES)
Zelda, Chapter Seven. - The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages (2000 on the GBC)
"Link I," "Link II," "Link III," "Zelda I," "Zelda II," "Zelda III," and "Zelda IV."
There have been 3 links altogether and 4 Zelda's altogether. Link I and Zelda II are the Link and Zelda in The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
Whilst Link II and Zelda III are the Link and Zelda in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening/DX.
Link III and Zelda IV are the Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, The Adventure of Link, Fruit of the Mysterious Tree, the Zelda comics, and the Zelda cartoons.
Plus Zelda I is the sleeping princess from the past in The Adventure of Link. If you are still confused, this is further explained.
If I refer to just "Link" or just "Zelda" it most likely I will mean all of the Links and Zelda's in general.
Also, these abbreviations are used in the games and in this topic and are the names of the games so far released and the development:
LoZ - The Legend of Zelda
AoL - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
LttP - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LA - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
LADX - The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX
OoT - The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
MM - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
FMT - The Legend of Zelda: Fruit of the Mysterious Tree Trilogy/
OoS/OoA - for the Oracle of Seasons/Ages which is now correct since that is what the trilogy is made up of!!
Why doesn't Link know Zelda in LttP? In LttP there was some confusion as there is now of why Link didn't know Zelda in LttP but it was because it isn't the same old Link! There are in fact three Links. The Link and Zelda in LoZ and AoL are descendants of the Link and Zelda in LttP and LA. But the Link and Zelda in OoT are even earlier! Between the three Links and four Zelda's, this is how you break it down:
Link I and Zelda II (OoT & MM)
Link II and Zelda III (LttP & LA)
Link III and Zelda IV (LoZ, FMT, the cartoons, the comics, the Adventure Books, and the CD-i games)
Link III and Zelda I (AoL) (she's the sleeping princess)
Have you seen my Links?
LINK THE FIRST
HERO OF TIME
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
LINK THE SECOND
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP, LA )
LINK THE THIRD
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
Zelda and where she was seen!
PRINCESS ZELDA THE FIRST
SEEN : 1139 H.R.
( AoL )
PRINCESS ZELDA II,
PRINCESS OF DESTINY
SEEN : 575 H.R. ; 582 H.R.
( OoT, MM )
PRINCESS ZELDA III
SEEN : 775 H.R. ; 776 H.R.
( LttP )
PRINCESS ZELDA IV
SEEN : 1137 H.R. ; 1139 H.R.; 1140 H.R.
( LoZ, AoL, FMT )
But although they are all Link in the same game in a way they are not all different and have differences you can tell them by!
Link I (OoT & MM) : Has blonde hair and blue eyes, and his costume changes as the game progresses:
1) As a child - green tunic.
2) As a teenager - green tunic, white "underall," brown riding gloves, and earrings in both ears.
But he can get a red, blue one as well!
Link II (LttP & LA) : Has blonde hair, blue eyes, and also doesn't wear a "underall" as it is but he does have a brown, long sleeved shirt under his tunic.
Link III (LoZ, AoL, & FMT) : Has brown hair, an unknown eye color (in the comic series, they are sometimes red or brown, and in the cartoon and LoZ book they are brown). He does wear a brown "underall," however.
If you are confused though about what he is wearing read some of these otherwise skip it!
A "tunic" is the green thing Link wears. These were popular in Ancient Rome. An "underall" is the brown/white piece of clothing that Link wears under his tunic that covers his whole body.
Again like the Links the Zelda's are different but with even more distinct features.
Princess Zelda I (AoL): Has bushy red hair and is seen in a pink dress while under her sleeping spell.
Princess Zelda II (OoT & MM): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and usually wears a purple and white regal dress with a veil, when she is both young and old.
Princess Zelda III (LttP): Has golden hair and blue eyes, and wears a blue and white regal dress.
Princess Zelda IV (LoZ, AoL, & FMT, though not seen in AoL): Has reddish hair and green eyes, and usually wears thigh-high travelling boots, pink pants, and a purple shirt. On special occasions she slips into a regal dress, like on her birthday celebrations.
The Links are all left-handed, according to the games and instruction booklets, though it would reason to say that he could be ambidextrous. However, some of the Valiant comics and the first Zelda 64 demo showed Link right-handed. I may also add that in LttP, AoL, and LA, if you face East, Link switches his shield and sword to the opposite hands.
This was done so they did not have to change the sprites of facing east and could just flip Link looking west. But, the LttP Player's Guide says that Link II does this to block the evil magic from Death Mountain.
What is Link is he an elf or something? The first Link was a Hylian of the Kokiri Tribe, but he is not a member of the Kokiri race, who is eternal children who have fairies as guardian spirits. The second Link and third Link must be Hylians, as well. Where the elf part and the ears fits in, it's not certain, though the Kokiri descent is the only link.
Since there have been 3 Links and 4 Zelda's how many Ganons have there been? There is only one Ganon. Ganon has never, ever, been destroyed. He has been knocked down and wounded, but he hasn't been completely destroyed. It seems when Ganondorf Dragmire touched the Triforce; he became invincible whenever he possesses a Triforce.
According to the third Valiant comic, if someone possesses the Triforce of Power without the Triforce of Wisdom, you will become corrupted because you do not have the wisdom or the intelligence to control that power. In that comic, Ganon tricks Link into getting the Triforce of Power without also having the Triforce of Wisdom.
Because of the vast power without the wisdom to control it, Link starts to turn into a pig-man, like Ganon. However, upon giving it up, the Triforce of Courage saves him. So, since Ganon never had the Triforce of Wisdom except in LttP when they were all connected, the corruption turned him into a pig-man. Also, anyone who lives in the Dark World takes the animal shape of what is in his or her's heart.
Since he lived in the Dark World with the Triforce of Power after OoT, he turned into a pig-man anyway because of his greed.
However, OoT threw in a snag. Ganon has the Triforce of Power, but he does not turn into a pig man for seven whole years, until he is mortally wounded as Ganondorf. So, there are a few possibilities:
- Since Ganon was the first known person to hold the Triforce of Power (or any Triforce for that manner) his evilness may have "rubbed" off onto the Triforce.
- Ganon only lives in his Ganon form when he is in battle with Link.
- Ganon only permanently turned to Ganon after he tried to leave the Dark World, because he had no Triforce of Courage to protect him, like Link.
How old is Link(s)? Three ages have been given for two different Links. When we first see Link I in OoT, he is ten years old. We later see him as a seventeen year-old. Link III was sixteen in AoL, putting him around fourteen in the original LoZ.
How do any of us know that the Link in LA is the Link in LttP? The manual, for starters, as we see in this quote:
Link's Awakening tells the tale of the hero of A Link to the Past and how after his first great victory he set out on a mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
We all know where most of the Links came from but where is Link 3 from? According to the Valiant comics Link III came from the kingdom of Calatia, which is west of Hyrule just beyond Death Mountain. His parents' names were Arn and Medila, who were known for a drink they made. Calatia is a mountainous country, which is ruled by Queen Seline, a friend of King Harkinian.
Which Link and which Zelda are in OoS/OoA? At present, the best answer is clearly Link III and Zelda IV. This is due to Link III's ultimate destiny being the most open-ended at the conclusion of his last appearance, AoL (and even following the comics, cartoons, and CD-i titles).
Plus, while Ganon was "at last look" sealed in the Dark World in OoT by Link I (and he couldn't have made any appearances between then and LttP as the Sages' seal was still intact) and slain by a silver arrow by Link II in LttP, in Link III's time Ganon is still alive since his comic/cartoon resurrection... and from the storyline given on Fruit of the Mysterious Tree/Oa/S, Ganon is not only mysteriously back, but he recaptures the Triforce of Power and Zelda (we can reason to say this is Zelda IV as well).
Since Ganon is already alive at the start of this game, it would reason to say it is Link III until further story bits filter in shedding any light otherwise.
Did Link marry Zelda? The first Zelda is believed to have been put under a sleeping spell and was not awaken until AoL. Thus, Link I couldn't possibly have married her, or he did but Zelda was put to sleep after. The third Link was born in Calatia, not Hyrule. Why this is, it is unknown (Maybe Link II sailed there after his dream?).
It is also unknown why the second Link did not marry Zelda, but it is known that Link II might have been in love with Marin and not Zelda, but Marin disappeared with Koholint (or possibly she flew off like a seagull). The third Link and Zelda never totally defeated Ganon without being separated. Maybe they got married. However, maybe the Prince of Darkness chanted a spell on the family of Heroes, saying that "the one who strikes me down will never marry the one he loves" (A very cool storyline concept!).
A lot of people have wondered what Links uncle meant when he said Zelda is you… when he actually meant "Zelda is your sister," as many were led to believe by this unfinished sentence. The Japanese version of the game says "Zelda is your destiny...." The translation wouldn't fit in the text box, so it was just cut off to add suspense.
Zelda the game in general has appeared in many different types of media like the Valiant Comics produced five monthly comic books of Zelda Comics in Spring/Summer/Fall 1990. Each book had two long stories, composing of ten pages each, and three pages of two or one page short stories. Another Valiant comic book, The Nintendo Comic System, had a ten-page Zelda story in each. An unknown number (i think it was 3) were made. Unlike the regular Zelda comic, however, The Nintendo Comic System was a bimonthly comic. They are not available anywhere as far as I know.
DiC Enterprises produced thirteen episodes of a Zelda cartoon show, which aired Fridays in the 1989 - 1990 season. I know a few were produced on tape, but as far as I know the entire series has not. So far, twelve have been reviewed.
Around 1991-1992, Nintendo published 12 so-called "Adventure Books" similar to the old "Choose your own Adventure Books." Two of these were Zelda books: #9 ("The Crystal Trap") and #10 ("The Shadow Prince").
Link also appeared in four episodes of the Captain N: The Game Master cartoon.
Nintendo Power ran a Zelda comic serial loosely based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, in Volumes 32-44. An entertaining read, they provide additional story to the game, as well as depth to its characters, while taking a slightly different path to the story's conclusion. It is now sold in graphic novel format in the magazine's Back Issue/Player's Guide order form.
Games were made for Phillips Cd-I but whatever became of those games well the Philips' CD-i ("CD Interactive"), was a CD-ROM-based system that failed early on in its career, it had three Zelda games for its system in 1993. They were "Link: The Faces of Evil," "Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon," and "Zelda's Adventure."
It is great to kill the final boss in a game and Ganon but in every game he is back apart from in MM but how does he do it. Well In the AoL instruction booklet, it says that the blood of the hero who killed Ganon can only revive him. However, in the Zelda cartoon series, Ganon can revive himself and other monsters from the Evil Jar if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after AoL, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Wizards put the sleeping spell on Zelda but know one seems to know exactly who it was. No one knows for sure. It could be Ganon, but the picture in the AoL instruction booklet shows him as the shadow of the Prince. Another possibility is Carock, the wizard in the Maze Palace in AoL.
It seems only the creator of Zelda knows. However, the wizard died after he chanted the spell, so it couldn't be Carock. It seems it was just a crony of Ganon or Ganon himself, otherwise the earliest sighting of an early manifestation of Ganon's Aghanihm incarnation (though this is unlikely, as the people of Hyrule wouldn't trust him when he would later come to rid the land of all disease and ailment).
On Link's Hyrulian shield there is a picture of a bird holding a piece of the Triforce flying towards the three other pieces of the Triforce.
There is a belief that there's a fourth piece of the Triforce, most commonly called the Quadraforce or the Tetraforce. These theories are caused by The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, in which there appears to be a fourth Triforce piece carried by a bird pictured on Link's Hylian Shield.
The "Tetraforce" probably doesn't exist but the most convincing part to the theory is not new news. If you've taken time to notice in the OoT previews, both the old and new versions of the shield show something that looks mysteriously like a fourth piece of the Triforce.
Though the shield is toned down, but on the older one looks like someone at Nintendo, was trying to start people thinking about it. If it didn't exist, why did they try so hard to get people to think this?
Why would they put a fourth piece on both shields, if not to imply that the Tetraforce exists? The first shield, it could be just a temporary image in the design of the alpha game but in the beta version, they decided to keep it? It can't be coincidence, but it was perhaps to merely stir the controversy (they were successful to that end).
Though none in any of the wall carvings in the castle, or on the Temple of Time, and even the series of cinemas about the creation of the Triforce seems against it. The Bazaar said shield was a copy of the shields used by (old) Hylian Knights. And, it is on Princess Zelda's clothes. Her dress could have been old. The Tetraforce could be and OLD Royal Crest. The new Royal Crest is a three-Triforce mark.
Then if the complete Triforce is so omnipotent then the question is to whether or not anyone ever had the whole Triforce? The complete Triforce should grant any wish its owner's desires, yet it was not able to grant Ganon's wish in LttP. He wished for the entire world, and only managed to change The Golden Land into the Dark World. Even with that change, disloyal and good were there, like the fat fairy within Ganon's Pyramid of Power.
Did Ganon merely word his wish wrong? I doubt it, as it was a wish in his heart of Ganon, not spoken. So that only leaves the possibility of the Triforce not being powerful enough. Maybe it's not complete...
Here's one thought: Farore, the Goddess of Courage, made life to uphold the law. Yet the Gerudo's (or particularly Ganondorf) are highly unusual. Ganondorf Dragmire was born and has been the scourge of Hyrule for years. There are distortions on the flow of power in the Triforce. Like "Day of the Triforce," one day of the year when all the Triforce's' powers cease to work.
A Day of the Triforce occurs once a decade. Which Occurred in the LoZ comic #5. This day occurs on every exact decade (like 1980, 1990, 2000... etc.) and in The LoZ comic #2, "Once a lifetime," all of the evil magic in Hyrule can be harnessed by one wizard. A Wizzrobe and Ganon tried to blast Link with a spell containing all of the evil magic, but it backfired. In the third comic, Link gets a hold of the Triforce of Power and became corrupted.
In the cartoon, if Ganon got a hold of the Triforce of Wisdom, he'd rule forever yet in comic #3, Zelda comments that the Wisdom and Courage can defeat the Triforce of Power any day. After Link defeated Ganon, he lends his hand to its restoration.
But circumstances did not look very good. Hyrule was on the road to ruin. With the Triforce of Power, Ganon had left behind ruin that continued causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule.
Evil life, build-ups of evil magic, T.o.P.'s ability to corrupt people with its power, disturbances of the Triforce's power, T.o.P. possibly weaker than the other two Triforce's. How could these things been done? The three Goddesses seemed to have created order from chaos, just to leave it to turn back into chaos again.
One possibility could be that, while the three Triforce's we know of marked the ascent of the three Goddesses as they left the world of Hyrule each point up, the fourth Triforce points down on every picture seen in OoT. This "pointing down" could further the theory that it symbolizes and embodies a fourth, evil Goddess, perhaps pointing the way to the Hyrulian equivalent of Hell.
That, or it merely symbolizes the three Goddesses' original descent from the heavens before they created all life on Hyrule.
In desert, the Spirit Temple was sculpted as a snake lady; Sheik called it a goddess of the sand. One theory could be that there must have been an evil goddess -
Maybe called "Colossus" - that came later to destroy what the others had done. Or maybe even take over what the other three done. She hid the Triforce of [Creative] Power and replaced it with a Triforce of [Destructive] Power. But the evil goddess couldn't forge the powers of the Triforce's Wisdom and Courage, as absolute power corrupts absolutely. She then created life to oppose the law as well as evil magic's and sciences. If that happened, it would explain the above and other mysteries.
Why hasn't a fourth piece of the Triforce ever been mentioned? Maybe it will be. Why would it be called a Triforce if there were four pieces? Well, in LoZ, when there were two, Triforce meant that the pieces are shaped as triangles, so it could be called the Triforce even if there were 50 pieces.
If there are four Triforce pieces in the game, then why isn't there any more info in the games, since OoT is the prequel of them all? Maybe, Hylians had forgotten this their years under Ganon's tyranny, as he had left Hyrule in ruins before which could have destroyed bits of the legend from scrolls in libraries that were burned or tablets crumbled and buried under city ruins, leaving Hyrule's elders to die with the memories.
For none of the stories handed down through the generations ever mention a fourth Triforce piece, but yet in LoZ, they never said anything about the Triforce of Courage. None of the wise men or Impa ever said anything about a fourth piece! Then again only when Impa saw the mark on Link in AoL, that then she told him of a scroll that no one could read that told of the Triforce of Courage. How could anyone have possessed the three pieces of the Triforce, gained absolute power and control of the world when Ganon couldn't even escape Dark World or even beat Link, a mortal boy?
The annoying owl that pops up at the most awkward times to "help" you to most people has a name but it might not be the same in every game, but there's a lot of controversy over the owl. Mainly: "He's Rauru, since the gossip stone said so," "He's the same one as the owl in Zelda 4." Now the gossip stone actually says that Kapoera Gaebora is a reincarnation of a sage. Now many people misinterpreted that to think since he never appeared as the grown up you it must mean he became Rauru.
Now let's look at "reincarnation." Someone that used to be someone else in another life, not someone who is someone else in the present. Meaning Kapoera Gaebora was once a sage.
Two possibilities are that he was either the sage of the forest or the desert. The two things giving me this idea is the fact the owl is often met in the lost woods and the gossip stones giving this information are in the sacred forest meadow. But also at the end of the game the owl is seen flying off towards the desert?
One thing, the owl may be male as an owl but he may have been female as a sage. Could Kapoera Gaebora be the reincarnation of the lady of the Spirit Temple, the lady whose image can be seen throughout?
It could be theorized that Kapoera Gaebora is evil and pushed Link along in the earlier quest so he would open up the Chamber of Sages. Is Kapoera Gaebora now an owl as a punishment of a wrong he committed during his time as a sage?
Also remember the owl of OoT bears resemblance to the owl of Koholint Island in LA. Now really everything at this point is guesswork as there is no apparent connection between the two, aside from both being owls and both guiding a Link on their quests.
It could be said that every Link is a reincarnation of the previous; a way to bring a warrior when he is needed - in other words, fate (or perhaps the watching goddesses) is using Link as a toy. As such, he could have been assigned to be the guardian and guide of Link for all of Hyrule's eternity.
Where are all the races/characters from OoT by the original LoZ and LttP? Ever since Aghanihm gained the King's trust he spent long nights in the high tower of Hyrule Castle. Those at the castle, the townspeople could see strange lights, even faint sounds coming from the tower.
The maidens started to disappear, so, the disturbances must have been Aghanihm casting the maidens into the Dark World. But, the ceremony was once a full moon according to the LttP comic book and after he finally captured a maiden. So the other nights, Aghanihm must have been working on something else, like how to control the guards. While being instructed by Ganon, Aghanihm must have been experimenting the effects for a first Evil Jar on each of guards. It was yet to be perfected, but it still worked.
Here is how this Evil Jar could have worked: First they need to become subject to it. It isn't certain how it's done, but in the "Missing Link" cartoon, they held Link's body in the Evil Jar. Maybe long term exposure to the inside turns you into an energy-based creature whose life energy is dependent on the Triforce of Power.
When you become subject as an energy-based creature, you're practically immortal. You have a limited amount of energy. If you run out of energy you have to return to the Evil Jar to recharge and the Triforce of Power will replenish your energy. To destroy someone like that, you'll have to blast him or her with something so powerful that they reach the point of no return.
It starts in OoT, where we met the races. In LttP, nearly 200 years passed. Sheikahs are extinct, merged with Hylians; Zora's are becoming hostile and have no compassion for Hylians; the Kokiri are now aging and are in the forest, living as thieves; the Gerudo's are dead; Gorons... are dead, too.
Then, in LoZ, Ganon and his minions ransacked Hyrule and its surrounding populaces; he finished off the young and able. He enslaved them to the Evil Jar. So, who's who, what did the Evil Jar do? Well, no Sheikahs. Hyrulian Guards and Knights were turned to Armos and then turned to stone because Ganon couldn't trust their full loyalty, Stalfos and Ghini are Hylians, Zolas are Zora's, and Moblins and Goriyah are Kokiri.
Gerudo's are resurrected as Gibdo, and one would tend to believe the Gorons are throwing those rocks at you in LoZ, living as the very mountains themselves.
Zelda Story line
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According to the Hylian scrolls, three mythical goddesses descended from a distant nebula to the world that was and created order and life. There was Din, the Goddess of Power dyed the mountains red with fire and created land; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom created science and wizardry and brought order to nature;
Farore, the Goddess of Courage, who, through justice and vigour, created life - the animals that crawl the land and the birds that soar in the sky.
After the Goddesses had finished their work, they left the world, though not before creating a symbol of their strength left in the wake of their passing: a golden triangle known as the Triforce. A small but marvel portion of the essence of the Goddesses was held in this mighty artefact, which was to guide the intelligent life on the world of Hyrule.
Although it may have been an inanimate object, the Triforce held within it the power to bestow three titles which gave the person who received them great powers: The Forger of Strength, The Keeper of Knowledge, and The Juror of Courage.
From its place of hiding in the Sacred Realm (otherwise known as "The Golden Land" or "Land of the Golden Power") where the Goddesses had placed it, the Triforce beckoned people from the outside world to seek it in the hope that someone worthy of these titles would find it.
The Goddesses had created six distinct races to live in their new world - the fish-like Zora lived in the vast waterways of the land; the rock-eating Gorons dwelt inside the massive Death Mountain, and created bombs. In the Lost Woods, far to the east, the Elvin Kokiri lived.
The black-hearted Gerudo people made the desert their home, while the mysterious Sheikahs lived at the foot of Death Mountain, vowing to protect the royal Hylian family. The noble Hylians lived in the center of the world, in the large Hyrule Field.
With their magic infused blood, the Hylian people were endowed with psychic powers and skilled in wizardry. It was also said that their long, pointed ears enabled them to hear special messages from the goddesses, so the many people in Hyrule held them in high esteem. Their descendants settled in various parts of the world and passed on their knowledge and magical lore to all people.
In it's passing, however, the lore was often distorted or lost altogether
In Hyrule, there were many Hylian buildings, which were mentioned repeatedly in the Legends. These buildings, which later may lie in ruin, pale shadows of their former splendour, were closely tied to the Triforce. Some were said to contain the Triforce itself...
If it were only a symbol of the Goddesses, many would covet the Triforce. But a particular verse from the Book of Mudora made the Triforce even more desirable:
"In a realm beyond sight, the sky shines gold, not blue.
There, the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true."
Many aggressively searched for the wish-granting Triforce, but no one, not even the Hylian sages, was sure of its location; the knowledge had simply been lost over time. Some said the Triforce lay under the desert, others claimed that it was in the cemetery in the shadow of Death Mountain, but no one ever found it. That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.
To protect the Triforce from such a person, a great sage named Rauru took it upon himself to build the Temple of Light to safeguard the entrance to the Sacred Realm. Using a few magical items, he made a large and complex seal that could only be opened by one who was worthy enough to receive the relic.
Rauru's efforts may have been noble, but centuries later they would prove to be not quite as infallible as originally thought.
As the kingdom of Hyrule - at this time united as a single country - entered into a bright age, the sovereign King of Hyrule led his subjects fairly and just, the Triforce in his possession to ensure peace was maintained.
As all ultimately do, however, this king one day died. His youthful son, the prince, who should have become king and inherited everything his sovereignty should offer as Hyrule's monarch, could only inherit part of the Triforce. The prince search far and wide for the missing parts, but could not find them. It was then that a magician formerly close to the King brought him some unexpected news.
Before he died, it seemed the late King had spoken something about the Triforce to only the younger sister of the prince, a young Princess Zelda I.
The prince immediately questioned the defiant princess, but she would tell him nothing. After the prince, the magician threatened to put the princess into an eternal sleep if she did not talk. Even still, she stood her ground before her brother, saying nothing.
In his anger, the magician tried to cast a magic spell on the princess. The surprised prince tried to stop him, but the magician fought off the prince and continued casting the spell. Then, when the spell was finally cast, Princess Zelda fell on that spot and entered a sleep from which she might never awake. At the same time, the magician also fell down and breathed his last.
In his grief, the prince placed the princess in a room in the castle. He hoped that someday she would come back to consciousness. So that this tragedy would never be forgotten, he thus decreed that every female child born into the royal household should be given the name "Zelda."
Tears after the Legend of Zelda faded into the stuff of Hyrulian legend, in the blowing sand and the harsh climate of the desert, the cunning King of the Gerudo Thieves, Ganondorf Dragmire, found the way to break the mystic seal of Rauru.
He discovered he would need three sacred stones - one held by the Kokiri, one by the Goron, and one by the Zora.
He then would require the magical Ocarina of Time to open the seal, which was held by a member of the royal family. Climbing upon his black Gerudo steed, Ganondorf went to each of the tribes and attempted to get their stones by destroying them - he poisoned the Kokiri's guardian tree, he infested the cave which held the Goron's food source with monsters, and he made the protective deity of the Zora, Lord Jabu-Jabu, go mad and swallow the daughter of King Zora XVI, Princess Ruto.
He then went to hold an audience with the King of Hyrule, in an attempt to find which royal family member had the Ocarina. Ganondorf knew that it was only a matter of time before he had all the pieces to his plan complete.
Time, however, definitely did not seem on Ganondorf's side...
Meanwhile, in the middle of an ensuing war in Hyrule, an exhausted Hylian woman entrusted her infant to the Deku Tree in Kokiri Forest before dying. Named Link - Link the First - the boy was raised as one of the enigmatic Elvin Kokiri without any knowledge of his parents (as it is known, Kokiri have no parents).
Even by age 10 he was still unlike all the other Kokiri - they all had farie guardians. All except Link. One night, he had a nightmare that would haunt his dreams for many months - during a rainy night, in front of a magnificent castle; a young girl would be riding away on horse in the arms of a woman. She would give Link a stare of helplessness, and looked like she needed to say something. Behind them rode an evil-looking man with green skin in black armour. He would frighten Link, who would stir and awake uneasily.
One night, after his dreams, a farie came to Link. Her name was Navi, and she told him that the Great Deku Tree, the guardian of the Kokiri, needed his help. Link went to the Tree, who explained to Link he was cursed. Upon entering the Tree, Link vanquished the source of the curse. But the Deku Tree was nearly gone.
Giving Link a green gem, he told Link with his dying breath to visit the Princess of Destiny in Hyrule Castle. Negating the myth that a Kokiri would die if they were to leave the village, Link departed with Deku Shield and Kokiri Sword in-hand, to the reluctance of his childhood companion Saria.
After a short journey, Link and Navi found the Princess - Princess Zelda II, the first known descendant of the Zelda put into an enchanted sleep - and the girl from Link's dream. She told Link of the evil man from his dream, which wanted the Triforce. She told Link the only way to stop him was to find the other two Spiritual Stones and with her Ocarina of Time, open the door to the Golden Land in the Temple of Time.
After travelling and curing the curses of the Goron and the Zora, Link brought the stones to the castle. But, just like in Link's dream the man in black armour was chasing Princess Zelda in the arms of her nursemaid Impa on a horse. Zelda threw the Ocarina of Time to Link, who caught it and fled to the Temple of Time.
There, he played the Song of Time, which opened the gate to a bleak Hyrule seven years into the future. As fate would have it, the evil man tricked the young hero, and he stole the Triforce from the Golden Land before the lad could enter.
The name of this king of thieves is Ganondorf Dragmire, but he is known by his alias, Mandrag Ganon, which means "Ganon of the Enchanted Thieves."
Then, the whole world as Link knew it, ended.
It is not known what Ganondorf Dragmire wished for from the Triforce. However, in time evil power began to emanate from the Golden Land and greedy men were drawn there to become members of Ganon's army. Black clouds permanently darkened the sky, and many disasters beset Hyrule. The lord of Hyrule sent for the Knights of Hyrule, summoning them for an audience before ordering the warriors to seal the entrance to the Golden Land.
The power of Ganondorf Dragmire's power was just too great, and he swiftly took over the land of Hyrule. The Triforce, being an inanimate object, cannot judge between good and evil. Therefore, it could not know that Ganondorf's wishes were evil; it merely granted them.
Evil things beset the land of Hyrule in short order, and the leaders of the six races tried to prevent the ongoing war. Their efforts, however, were unfortunately also in vain.
Seven years after Ganondorf first touched the Triforce Link awakened in the Temple of Light. Rauru, who had built the Temple, explained to Link of the evil that occurred. Rauru was only one of seven sages who would, if brought together, seal Ganon in the Golden Land. Link found five more - Saria the Kokiri, Daurina the Goron, Ruto the Zora, Impa the Sheikahs, and Nabooru the Gerudo - all of whom became sages.
Princess Zelda II, who remained in the disguise of a boy under the name "Sheik" for the past seven years, was to be the seventh.
When Link finally found Zelda - along the way befriending the horse Epona, with whom he rode and traversed the land no longer by foot alone and pulled the legendary Master Sword (also known as the "Sword of Evil's Bane" and the "Magical Sword") from its stone sheath in the Lost Woods - it was revealed the Triforce had split due to Ganondorf's corruption. He held the Triforce of Power, Zelda II held the Triforce of Wisdom, and Link himself held the Triforce of Courage.
Upon hearing of this, Ganondorf was quick to kidnap Zelda and challenge Link to face him.
Link took the full brunt of the fierce attack, and although he fought courageously, at some points he nearly lost. However, his efforts were not in vein, for Ganondorf was slain by Link's sword.
Upon escaping his crumbling tower, Ganondorf arose, and, using the power of his Triforce he turned himself into the Prince of Darkness, Ganon. Battling Ganon seemed futile, but he bought precious time for the Seven Sages to magically seal Ganon in the Sacred Realm (more commonly known as The Golden Land, or Land of the Golden Power). All of Hyrule rejoiced at the victory that upheld peace and order over Ganon's evil and chaos.
Link was returned to his land, in his time seven years before, a young boy once more riding Epona back toward Kokiri Forest.
This epic war, which had claimed many lives, became known as the "Imprisoning War" in stories told in later centuries.
Link I, without even having time to savour his victory over Ganon in the Imprisoning War, found he must tend to the plight of Termina.
The kingdom of Hyrule had been peaceful and in a state of rebuilding after Ganondorf's dark reign. Returning just a few months after his time travel adventures, young Link I, Hero of Time, rode home on the back of his trusty (and equally young) horse, Epona. As he cautiously made his way through the foggy, dark woods of the home he had returned to in Kokiri Forest, two faeries appeared out of nowhere.
Startled by the quick-moving, glowing creatures, Epona reared up and sent Link flying to the ground. As Link lay unconscious, a third stranger appeared out of the mist: a mask-wearing impish Skull Kid by the name of skullkid. Looking for valuables, Skullkid soon found Link's Ocarina of Time, took it, and made his escape on Epona.
Link, of course, quickly followed and soon came upon a doorway in a large tree. He slowly stepped inside - and fell into a bottomless pit that transported him into a weird, yet oddly familiar world full of familiar faces.
But while the landscape may have looked familiar, one thing was clearly different: In the sky above loomed a gigantic moon, slowly descending onto this world...
"In a few more days, this world will end," so spoke those living there. Even as they waited, time passed mercilessly. "If you can find the masked one, you may find a clue to saving this realm."
And so Link embarked on a new adventure to halt the setting of the moon on this strange world and to find his way back to his own land.
Link must stop the catastrophe in the new world, or at least return to his own world. The world he found himself trapped in (called Termina), as Link learned, existed in a parallel dimension. The passage of time seemed a factor from the start - Link was aware that if he spent too much time in the other world, the moon would impact the planet to apocalyptic result.
Without the help of the faerie Navi, Link joined up with the brother and sister faeries Trail and Chat that had startled Epona at the beginning of his quest (who consistently would warn Link of Stalchild's recurring presence), then set out on his new journey.
The new key element of Link I's second adventure was the newfound ability to transform into new characters by wearing the different masks. By donning a variety of masks, Link assumed the form of a Goron, a Zora, and even a Deku Scrub.
Each of these fantastic forms had its own abilities, as one would expect. In Goron form, for example, Link could roll up into a ball for some wild Goron rolling.
When it cane time to make music (a key piece to the puzzle), the Goron Link whipped out a set of bongos and started to beat them repeatedly. As a Zora, Link gained fantastic swimming abilities, and in the musical department, he could play an aquatic guitar as if second nature. Although becoming a Deku Scrub sounded rather undesirable to Link, in this form Link could hover like a helicopter and play a quintet's share of horns.
It is in each of these forms that Link explored different worlds full of danger and wonder anew. He made a great many new friends and battled an all-new army of enemies along the way until his confrontation with Stalkid.
When it was revealed that Stalkid was actually good-hearted and that it was the Mask of Majora he wore (stolen from the Mask Maker in Hyrule) that was evil, the Mask of Majora itself had to be confronted. In the aftermath, Link I returned to his homeland of Hyrule, his second victory then behind him as he returned Majora's Mask to the Mask Maker, its rightful owner.
Many centuries have passed since the Imprisoning War and the exploits of the Hero of Time across the lands of both Hyrule and the realm of Termina alike. The kingdom of Hyrule healed its wounds and the people lived in peace for a long time, a new era of peace dawning.
Memories of the vicious Imprisoning War faded over the generations.
So it is no surprise that no one was prepared for the new disasters that had recently struck Hyrule. Pestilence and drought, uncontrollable even by magic, ravaged the land. The King of Hyrule, after council with his sages, ordered an investigation of the imprisoned Golden Land, which was now appropriately called the "Dark World" under the twisted dominion of Ganon, but the Seven Sages' seal was apparently intact. He offered rewards for anyone who could find the source of these troubles.
In answer to these summons a stranger named Aghanihm came and quelled the disasters with a previously unseen form of magic. As a reward, the King gave him a new position as chief advisor and heir to the seven masses proclaimed him their hero.
Peace had returned to Hyrule?
To the ignorance of all, Aghanihm was a puppet figure, Ganon pulling the strings from the Dark World. Aghanihm moved quickly - he murdered the King, took over and isolated himself in Hyrule Castle, took control by way of his magic the Knights of Hyrule, and ruled the entirety of the kingdom as a shadow sovereign and monarch, but no one outside the castle knew of it.
Aghanihm didn't stop there - he then carried out his plot to magically banish all the descendants of the Seven Sages to the Dark World, so that the lifeblood of the Sages would no longer be in Hyrule, and the seal placed on the Dark World would be rendered broken. After Aghanihm was finished sending six of the seven descendants, Zelda III, the late King's daughter and princess of Hyrule as well as the final descendant, sent out a telepathic message to Link, a descendant of the Hero of Time.
Sixteen year-old Link II, his parents having been gone years and presumed deceased since being banished into the Dark World by Ganon because they were descendants of the Knights of Hyrule, heard the plea in his sleep. He awakened to see his Uncle with the family's sword and shield, preparing to set out into the night. He told Link not to leave the house until morning, for he had heard the plea as well as Link.
Link, knowing the plea was for him and not his Uncle waited a while and left towards the gates of Hyrule Castle, where Princess Zelda III was imprisoned.
In the castle, taking a "back door," Link found his Uncle seriously wounded. He didn't want Link involved, but knew the telepathic message was meant for his nephew. He briefly explained how to use the sword and shield before giving them to Link, passing away shortly thereafter. Arming himself with them, he found Zelda locked in the dungeons of the castle. He took her to the nearby Sanctuary, a temple where she would be safe in the care of a sage.
At the Sanctuary, Zelda expressed her belief that Link II was "the legendary hero who appears in Hyrule once every hundred years," while the sage explained that the only weapon that could slay Aghanihm was the Master Sword, the weapon that the original Link used against Ganon during the Imprisoning War.
Successfully tracking the recluse down, the wise man Link soon met in the desert named Sahasrahla further explained that to claim and wield the Master Sword, hidden for centuries now in the depths of the maddening Lost Woods, he would require three enchanted pendants before anything.
As it became clear to Link, one pendant was hidden in each of Hyrule's three dungeons - the Eastern Palace, the Desert Palace, and the Tower of Hera.
Setting out, Link was quick to obtain these pendants, champion their respective labyrinths/dungeons, and systematically slay their guardians.
After Link recovered the pendants he made haste to the Lost Woods and retrieved the Master Sword ("The Sword of Evil's Bane"), and with the power of the pendants, wrenched the blade from its stone.
It was after he withdrew the sword that he got the grim telepathic message from Zelda. She had been found by Agahnim's minions and had been recaptured. Link raced to the castle only in time to see Aghanihm send her to the Dark World, fully breaking the Sages' seal.
Link then battled Aghanihm by using the Master Sword to reflect Agahnim's black magic. But before Link could defeat him, Aghanihm banished Link to the Dark World.
Once in the Dark World, Link got a telepathic message from Sahasrahla. Sahasrahla told Link that the seven descendants were in crystal cocoons in seven dungeons. To stop Ganon from returning from the Dark World to conquer Hyrule, Link set out to find all of the descendants.
Link travelled to all the dungeons and, after many a hard battle, he finally found Zelda in the final Dark World dungeon. After rescuing all the descendants, Link went to Ganon's Tower atop Death Mountain. In the Tower he battled Aghanihm again, only this time he struck Aghanihm down, who was revealed at last as Ganon. Ganon changed himself into a bat and flew off to the Pyramid of Power, where Ganon kept the Triforce. Link did not give up, and followed the Prince of Darkness.
It was within the walls of the ominous Pyramid that Link did his final duel with Ganon. With the combined effort of the Master Sword and his Silver Arrows, Ganon was defeated.
Touching the Triforce with a wish of goodness in his heart, all evil was vanquished from the Dark and Light Worlds alike and the Dark World was returned to its former state of being as the Sacred Realm/Golden Land. Upon returning the Triforce to Hyrule, he found the King of Hyrule and his Uncle had returned to life, and peace had wholly returned to the kingdom.
Not long after his return, however, the King of Hyrule stepped down from the throne, turning it over to his daughter, the newly crowned Queen Zelda III. As one of her first tasks after ascending the throne, Zelda knighted Link, appointing him Master of the Knights of Hyrule.
Soon, as a final task, Link returned the Master Sword to its former place of resting in the Lost Woods.
While Hyrule was at peace, however, other lands would soon need Link's help...
After his first great victory, defeating Ganon and returning things to order in all of his beloved Hyrule, Link II set out on a lone mission of training, to hone his skills, sharpen his wits and master techniques of battle from around the world.
Presumably leaving his leadership of the Knights of Hyrule in the hands of another while he was to be away, Link sailed to foreign lands where he disciplined his mind and body alike. When he at last he felt ready to return to Hyrule, he bought a small sailboat and headed across the Great Hyrulian Sea. The journey ended abruptly in a storm that crushed and sank Link's ship.
Clinging to a piece of flotsam, the hero of Hyrule floated toward a mysterious tropical shore, unconscious and barely alive.
When Link washed up on the beach of a mysterious island, he had no energy to stand or cry for help. Through half-closed eyes, he gazed out on a tropical forest with a tall volcano's stunted peak visible in the distance, and he thought it was odd that a giant, spotted egg topped the volcano.
At one point, it seemed to him that Queen Zelda III herself was speaking to him and that he was in a soft bed. At times, he thought he was caught in a bizarre dream.
Indeed, Link awoke in a soft bed, but the young woman who tended him was not Zelda, but a young girl by the name of Marin. She had found him and brought him home to heal.
From Tarin, Marin's father, he learned that evil creatures had appeared shortly after his arrival. Then, when Link returned to the beach to retrieve his sword, an old, wizened owl flapped down beside him and told him the strangest story he'd ever heard. According to the wise old bird, Link was the hero who had come to wake the Wind Fish, and he couldn't leave until that task had been done.
In the adventures that would inevitably follow, the lot of them taking Link to every corner of the island, Link learned that Koholint Island existed only in the dreams of the Wind Fish... and he was a part of that dream.
According to a wise old owl that would frequently provide him with helpful information, Link had to collect 8 Instrument of the Sirens from the Nightmares.
Link collected the Cello from the Tail Cave, The Conch Horn from the Bottle Grotto, the Sea Lily Bell from the Key Cavern, the Surf Harp from Angler's Cave, the Marimba from Catfish's Maw, the Coral Triangle from the Face Shrine, the Organ of Evening Calm from the Eagle's Tower, and the Thunder Drum from Turtle Rock.
After collecting all the Instruments, Link sought out the Egg on top of the volcano on Mount Tamarack. Once there he played the Ocarina, using a song Marin taught him, and a hole opened in the egg. Link went in side and found a maze. After correctly going through the maze Link dropped into a room where he found the Evil Shadows. Link fought each of the shadows with out having any respite between battles.
After Link defeated the Evil Shadows he climbed the stairway up to a platform, where he met the Wind Fish and he played the Song of Awakening again. After playing the song the island disappeared and Link woke up on a piece of driftwood. Link then looked up after hearing a sound and he saw the Wind Fish flying away.
Knowing his friends he had met on his journey were gone, alive now only in memory, Link's victory was a sad one...
"To the Finder. . .
The Isle of Koholint is but an illusion. . .
Human, Monster, Sea, Sky. . .
A scene on the lid of the sleeper's eye. . .
Awake the dreamer, and Koholint will vanish much like a bubble on a needle. . .
Cast-away, you should know the truth!"-
From a Plaque on the Wall of the Southern Shrine
Some say it never existed. Others say that it was but an illusion. The island of Koholint... was it a dream or reality? In this essay you can discover the secrets of Koholint and the mystery of its disappearance.
Link II, descendant of the Hero of Time and Master of the Knights of Hyrule following his battle with Ganon, went a voyage around the world to increase his wisdom, courage, and power. However, a storm tossed his ship and lighting destroyed it deep within the Great Hyrulian Sea. He grabbed a piece of his ship and hoped for the best.
He awoke in the bed of a beautiful girl. She discovered him on the shore of the island, the island of Koholint. This was no normal island, for a giant egg lay atop the tallest mountain. The Hero enjoyed the company of the girl, Marin, but knew he had to return home and fulfil his duties as the Legendary Hero of Hyrule. But he could not leave the island by normal means. He had to collect the Eight Instruments of the Sirens, hidden in eight dungeons all around Koholint, and play them in front of the egg. Inside, the Wind Fish would awake and allow him to go home.
As Link II travelled around the island, collecting the instruments, he soon discovered Koholint was not the island he believed. Clues, such as the plaque in the Southern Shrine, proved his theory - which Koholint would disappear forever if he awoke the Wind Fish. But he had no choice.
Link awoke the fish, and the island disappeared. But what if he didn't? What if he just let the Wind Fish sleep and he lived with Marin forever?
He could not, due to events in Koholint past. While the Wind Fish slept, an evil creature called The Shadow entered the dream. At first, it took over the inside of the giant egg. Then The Shadow sent its eight strongest minions, the Nightmares, to guard the instruments in the dungeons so no one could wake up the Wind Fish. The Shadow placed weaker minions inside the dungeons to help the Nightmares. Then it started to place its minions on the Overworld.
That is when Link II arrived.
The Shadow began to place more of its creatures to destroy the Hero, because The Shadow knew that Link had the potential to destroy itself. Nevertheless, Link destroyed the Nightmares, collected the instruments, and destroyed The Shadow. He then awoke the Wind Fish, which destroyed the island.
Some say it was a tragedy that Link awoke the Wind Fish. But what would happen if he didn't? It was obvious that The Shadow had been building up its power. Sooner or later, The Shadow would have amassed enough power to send his minions to take over the island's two villages. Even a Legendary Hero cannot hold back endless amounts of monsters. Koholint would have been overrun, and ruled by The Shadow with an iron fist.
Link destroyed The Shadow and the island, but he saved it from a fate far worse than death. So in the end, he was still a hero.
One last note before the end of this essay. At the end of Link's Awakening, if beaten with no lives lost, you can see Marin flying off the island with wings. Her dream was to fly like a seagull, and she wished this wish to the Wind Fish before he awoke. Perhaps, this can be taken as a sign that the piece of the island Link held most dear was preserved.
Some time after Link II had set sail once more after the bitter resolution of the nightmare that had been his Koholint debacle, the hero of both Hyrule and Koholint found he presented with a new dilemma. Perhaps afraid to chance again the Great Hyrulian Sea - the same sea that had nearly claimed him - it was not Hyrule he returned to. By chance or by fate, Link ventured to the land of Calatia, a kingdom to the west of central Hyrule not too unlike his homeland.
After Link II settled and eventually passed away in Calatia, the years began to pass with increasing pace. A woman by the name of Medila, wife of Arn, one of Link II's blood-descendants, gave birth to their first child. By simple coincidence or fate, this child was named "Link," the third known to bear the name in Hyrulian history.
As he grew to adolescence, Link III quickly became known in Calatia as a courageous young man who was more than skilled enough in the ways of swordplay. It seemed inevitable when the young man one day began to yearn for fame, fortune, and romance, and left Calatia to search for adventure elsewhere.
He wouldn't have to go far to find it.
After a short journey, Link arrived in the neighbouring land of Hyrule, and while searching for signs of adventure he took notice of an old woman surrounded by evil minions. Links felt compelled to assist the woman, and ran towards the villainous monsters, hoping he could defeat them and help the woman.
To the gratitude of the elderly woman, Link did well to ward the monsters off. She introduced herself as Impa, a descendant of the ancient Sheikahs and the original Impa. Then she told Link the woeful tale of Hyrule and Princess Zelda IV.
Link had almost thought his short adventure was over. He had no way have knowing this was to be only just the beginning.
Hyrule had declined, becoming a rustic land with few remaining signs of its earlier glory and splendour. The land was overrun, and Ganon was to blame. At the heart of the conflict lay a missing piece of the Triforce and Zelda. Of how Ganon came by the Triforce of Power no tale is told.
When she discovered that Ganon had acquired a piece of the Triforce, though, Zelda broke the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and hid them. She knew a hero was needed to challenge Ganon, so she sent her nurse, Impa, to search throughout the land, even as Zelda IV herself was captured.
During her quest, Impa long evaded Ganon's reach, but in a forest glade she too fell into his clutches and would have been carried off if it not for the heroic actions of a passing youth named Link, the third to bear the name.
Once the villains had been driven away, Impa told the young man about Zelda's secret. Then, unable to hold back her tears, she told him how Zelda had been taken captive. No sooner had Link heard the tale of Zelda's sorrow than he pledged to defeat Ganon and rescue the Princess.
He set off at once, knowing only that he had to collect the eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom. At every turn in the path he met monsters and other evil soldiers of Ganon who challenged him in battle.
Link's first task was to find the hidden dungeons where Zelda had secretly hidden the divided Triforce. Many of the entrances were disguised, and only by using all of his wits and the scraps of hints that he picked up along the way was he able to succeed. Inside the dungeons, he met countless enemies, for Ganon's minions had taken hold of even the most remote chambers.
After countless adventures along the way, cutting through endless Octorok, Moblins, leevers, and Stalfos, Link gathered all eight pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom from their eight respective dungeons and pulled the legendary Master Sword, "The Sword of Evil's Bane," (more commonly called "The Magical Sword" in this era) once used by Link I and II from its place of resting in the Lost Woods. He then scaled Death Mountain and gained entrance to Spectacle Rock, where the final leg of his journey lay. Ganon's great labyrinth - the ninth he had traversed thus - dwarfed any that Link had yet encountered. In a hidden chamber, he discovered a magical Silver Arrow and, taking the prize, he traced his way through the maze until he came face-to-face with Ganon himself.
The battle between youthful hero and villainous foe raged across the chamber, but Ganon remained invisible, seemingly unaffected by the cuts of Link's sword.
As Link began to tire, he tried a last, desperate strategy, putting the Silver Arrow to the test. The bowstring sang and the arrow flew straight. Ganon was destroyed.
With the defeat of Ganon, Link's mind turned to the purpose that had driven him here - the rescue of Princess Zelda IV.
One chamber remained to be explored and Link went ahead. Here Zelda greeted him and the pieces of the Triforce's of Power and Wisdom were reunited.
With the destruction of Ganon and the power of the Triforce restored, peace reigned once more in Hyrule. Princess Zelda ruled over the land beside her father, and the country prospered. It seemed as if the shadow of Ganon had been destroyed forever. But the youthful hero of the age remained ever vigilant. Wherever Link roamed, he looked for signs of Ganon's return, for he could not believe that he had truly banished evil from the land.
Two years after Link III's first adventure through Hyrule, Princess Zelda IV still ruled the kingdom of Hyrule beside her father, King Harkinian, and things seemed to be at ease from within...
yet evil still loomed over the land from without. Hyrule seemed fast on the road to ruin. The power that the vile heart of Ganon had left behind was causing chaos and disorder in Hyrule. What's more, even after the fall of Ganon; many of his underlings remained, awaiting their master's return.
Link III, who had remained in Hyrule to lend his hand to its restoration in this time of healing, found that circumstances did not look good. Link III was destined to become a hero still, but in the peaceful days that ensued, he would ultimately grow restless.
He wandered the forests, crossed the deserts and delved into the caverns of Hyrule, looking for any clues that might explain his feelings of unease. In time he became aware of a whisper that passed between the birds, beasts, and even through the blades of grass: there was a new magic in the land, nameless and terrifying.
One day, a strange mark, exactly akin to the crest of the kingdom, appeared on the back of Link's hand as he approached his 16th birthday. The worried Link went to Impa, who was shocked and frightened when she took notice of the birthmark.
Taking him to the North Palace, Link was led to a door within called "the door that does not open," a door that would open upon contact with the birthmark on Link's hand.
As Link III unlocked and opened this mysterious door, Impa immediately told Link at last the Legend of Zelda; how the sister of an ancient prince - Zelda - withheld the Triforce from him, was placed into an enchanted, timeless slumber by the prince's magician, and how this woeful princeful decreed every female child born into the royal household was decreed to be given the name "Zelda."
Lying as still as marble, the original mythical Princess Zelda I from ages before slept her dreamless sleep of enchantment within the room before them, just as the Legend said she would be.
When Link found her thus arrayed in the North Palace, he saw at once that she was spellbound indeed. Link III's mission seemed clear enough from the beginning. By refusing to reveal the secret power of the Triforce to a magician, this Princess Zelda had brought on her own downfall. But all was not lost.
If Link III somehow unlocked the mystery of the Great Palace, he could save this ancient Zelda and the newly realized Triforce of Courage Impa spoke of. He set off.
Again Link found himself taking to the fields and forests, but these places had become wild and dangerous, inhabited by enemies of old. Link found himself relying on his wits and swordplay at every step.
Creatures he had never before seen also waylaid him: spiders called Deelers that dropped from trees, tall Geldarms that rose from the sands of the Tantari Desert, and Daira armed with axes and hatred.
Link's mission was to enter each of six palaces and restore a missing crystal to its proper statue. Together, the statues created a magical lock on the Great Palace and only by replacing the six crystals could Link open the final door. In each palace, however, he had to battle a Statue Guardian of great strength: Barba the Dragon, Iron knuckle the Knight, Carock the Wizard, and others.
As he closed the palaces one by one, Link crossed nearly the entire expanse of Hyrule, from Ruto in the northwest to Death Mountain in the south, from the Island Palace in the Stormy Straights to Maze Island in the Far Eastern Sea. He helped villagers when he could, but he never lost sight of his ultimate goal. Finally, after uncovering the secrets of Old Kasuto, Link pushed on to the Great Palace where he encountered what he thought to be the final obstacle in his quest - the Thunderbird.
Once the Thunderbird was vanquished, Link thought that Zelda I and Hyrule would be saved, but it was not to be... not yet.
Exhausted from his journeying, Link had one more enemy to defeat - an enemy so unexpected that he did not know what to do, for the enemy was his own self... his own shadow.
Link III defeated his own Shadow and awoke the original Princess Zelda I from her seemingly eternal sleep. But it would seem that evil was not entirely banished from Hyrule for suddenly, without warning, Ganon, the Prince of Darkness, returned to Hyrule.
Previously it was thought that only the blood of the hero who killed Ganon could revive him. It became known, however, that Ganon can revive himself and any other of his monster minions from the "Evil Jar" (the otherworldly place where all the dead monsters go) if he isn't slain by a silver arrow. It seems that one of Ganon's minions discovered this after Link III's quest to awaken the original Princess Zelda from her enchanted slumber and recover the Triforce of Courage, and helped Ganon revive himself.
Although he was not restored to all of his original power, Ganon got his hands on the Triforce of Power again, which had been bestowed to the people of Hyrule as a sign of goodwill. Link III and Zelda IV, the same Zelda he rescued from the clutches of Ganon on his original quest, knew that Hyrule would not be at peace with Ganon still alive, for Ganon still yearned for the dominion of the land of Hyrule.
Soon Ganon would throw clever plan after clever plan at Link and Zelda,
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