Pedestal of the Master Sword

The Pedestal of Time (Ocarina of Time) rests in the center of a hidden chamber within the Temple of Time. Access to this chamber is blocked by the Door of Time.



The Pedestal of Time is the resting place of the legendary Master Sword. Link can draw the Master Sword from the Pedestal of Time, however since he was too young to become the Hero of Time, his soul was frozen in time for seven years, until his body matured to the proper age.

As soon as this occurs, Ganondorf enters the Sacred Realm and retrieves the Triforce of Power. He then proceeds to use it to subjugate Hyrule.

As an adult, Link can return the Master Sword to the Pedestal of Time in order to travel back seven years to the past and become a child again, and vice versa to travel back to the future and become an adult.

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, the Master Sword is found in a special basement chamber in Hyrule Castle and is still resting in what some believe to be the Pedestal of Time, given the presence of the Sages in the room's windows along with the fate of Hyrule. If this pedestal is the Pedestal of Time, it could possibly mean that sometime prior to the Great Flood the Pedestal along with the Master Sword were moved to Hyrule Castle from the Temple of Time.

The Pedestal of Time also makes an appearance in Twilight Princess holding the Master Sword, only to be reached after passing a rigorous test of the mind. Later in the game, it is used again in the Temple of Time of the past to open the way deeper into the temple.

The Pedestal of Time might possibly have been introduced even sooner than Ocarina of Time. The Master Sword's location in Twilight Princess and its location in A Link to the Past suggest that the pedestal the sword rests within in each game may be the one and same, meaning that the Pedestal of Time's true first appearance may have been in A Link to the Past, where it revealed the prophecy of the Great Cataclysm.