Great Fairy

Great Fairies can power Link's items up, and appear in many games in the series. Their appearance differs vastly between games.

A Link to the Past
Several Great Fairies appear in A Link to the Past.

Great Fairy


The Great Fairy in the Waterfall of Wishing will power up your Shield and Boomerang.

Fat Fairy
The Fat Fairy can be found within the Pyramid of Power in the Dark World. To gain access to her hidden fountain, Link must use the Super Bomb to blow a hole in the lower levels of the Pyramid. She will grant Link the Silver Arrows required to defeat Ganon, and will also power up your Tempered Sword into the Golden Sword. Incidentally, the Fat Fairy's appearance can be blamed on Ganon's magic.



Venus
Venus, the Queen of Fairies will allow you to hold more Arrows and Bombs.

Link's Awakening
Many Great Fairies appear throughout Link's Awakening to heal Link at their fountains. In the DX remake of the game, the Fairy Queen appears in the bonus Color Dungeon, where she will let him change his tunic for a red or blue tunic every time he visits her.

Ocarina of Time
The Great Fairies' locations in Ocarina of Time:
 * Great Fairy of Power - Death Mountain, where you get the Magic Spin Attack
 * Great Fairy of Magic - The path to Hyrule Castle, where you get Din's Fire
 * Great Fairy of Magic - Zora Fountain, where you get Farore's Wind
 * Great Fairy of Wisdom - Death Mountain Crater, where you get a Large Magic Meter
 * Great Fairy of Magic - Desert Colossus, where you get Nayru's Love
 * Great Fairy of Courage - Ganon's Castle, where you get the Defense Upgrade.

Majora's Mask
The five Great Fairies in Majora's Mask can be resurrected by collecting the Stray Fairies in the three days. They give you helpful items, such as a Magic Meter, and the Great Fairy's Sword. After this is done and she disappears, Link gives an odd wave to her.

"I am the Great Fairy of Magic. I thought that masked child was helping me, and I grew careless. All I can offer you now is this: I shall grant you Magic Power as a sign of my gratitude. Please accept it!"

- Great Fairy of Magic

"I am the Great Fairy of Power! Thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. As thanks, I grant you prowess with this new sword technique!"

- Great Fairy of Power

"I am the Great Fairy of Courage! Thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. As thanks, I shall lend you my strength."

- Great Fairy of Courage

"I am the Great Fairy of Wisdom. Thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. As thanks, I shall enhance your Magic Power."

- Great Fairy of Wisdom

"I am the Great Fairy of Kindness. Thank you for returning my broken and shattered body to normal. As thanks, I grant you the Fairy's Sword."

- Great Fairy of Kindness

Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons
Many Great Fairies appear throughout these games to heal Link at their fountains, and two of them participate in password secrets.

In Oracle of Ages, the Stray Fairies of the Fairies' Woods at first jumble up the topography of the forest and force Link to play a supernatural game of hide-and-seek to be granted access to the Wing Dungeon. Later, Link encounters the Fairy Queen, guardian of the seas, who was cursed by Veran into an Octorok shape, so that she could poison the seas and kill the Zora without the Queen's interference. She asks Link to find the Fairy Powder hidden in the nearby Library to heal her, and once he does, she removes all of the pollution from the Zora Sea, allowing unhindered travel around it.

Four Swords
After you beat each boss, a Great Fairy will speak to you, and if you and your friends performed well enough, she will give you one of the Great Keys.

The Wind Waker
There are seven Great Fairies in The Wind Waker, five of which have their fountain under a giant shell. Another must be rescued from inside a Big Octo, and the last, the Goddess of Fortune, lives in the Forest of Fairies above Link's home and gives Link a larger Wallet. Other upgrades include Bomb Bag upgrades and Quiver upgrades.


 * See also: Fairy Queen

Four Swords Adventures
The Fairy Queen first appears in the Hyrule Castle level, where Phantom Ganon has split her into two River Zora-like creatures. When the Links find one of these creatures, she asks them to find her other half, and when he does, they reunite and obliterate the barrier and soldiers guarding the entrance to the castle. She then thanks the Links, and promises to tell the other Great Fairies to help the Links whenever he needs them. From then on, when the Links discover a Great Fairy's Fountain, the Great Fairy will refill their hearts and upgrade their item, if they choose. This is an important part of many of the puzzles in the game.

The Minish Cap
Great Fairies are hidden throughout the land of The Minish Cap and upgrade your Quiver, Bomb Bag, and Wallet. They also heal you when you are hurt.

The three Great Fairies featured in this game are the Great Butterfly Fairy, the Great Dragonfly Fairy and the Great Mayfly Fairy. In each case they possess wings resembling those of the insect from which they take their names.

Twilight Princess
"Welcome, Hero, to the Cave of Ordeals. I am the Great Fairy. I reign over all fairies of this realm as their queen."

- Great Fairy

The Great Fairy only appears in Twilight Princess within the Cave of Ordeals, with a fountain every ten floors. Each time Link reaches a new fountain, the Great Fairy will send other Great Fairies to the Spirit Springs across Hyrule. Every time Link reaches the last fountain, she will give Link a bottle's-worth of Great Fairy's Tears. When Link completely runs out of these tears, the Great Fairies at the Springs will refill one. If Link completes the cave again, the Great Fairy will give him a bottle of tears even if he already has one with him, provided of course that Link has a empty bottle. The Great Fairy also warps Link out of the Cave of Ordeals if he asks her to.

Phantom Hourglass
While not explicitly called a Great Fairy, the Secret Island in the Southwest Great Sea in Phantom Hourglass contains a "Shrine of the Sacred Fountain", where the "Goddess of the Servant Spirits" resides and helps to empower them.