Triforce



The Triforce is a sacred relic left behind by the three goddesses Din, Farore and Nayru after they finished creating the land of Hyrule. It was formed at the point where they left the world and consists of three seperate triangles: the Triforce of Power on top, the Triforce of Courage on the right and the Triforce of Wisdom on the left.

The Triforce has a power to grant the wish of whoever touches it, but it seems it can only grant one wish per person for a period of time, because in A Link to the Past, Ganon makes a wish to turn the Golden Land into the Dark World. It seems that he can't make another wish straight away, or he would have used it to return to the normal world. However, as you are battling Ganon, he says "I shall destroy you, and use my wish to rule both worlds forever!".

There is an argument about whether the Triforce is inanimate. On one hand, it seems that it doesn't know good from evil and merely grants wishes. However, it also speaks to Link at the end of A Link to the Past.

The Triforce in Ocarina of Time
The Triforce is kept in the Temple of Light in a place called the Sacred Realm, or 'Golden Land', where it is kept safe. It is said that the Triforce has the power to grant any wish its beholder desires, and because of this many men have tried to find a way to gain access to the Sacred Realm to claim it for themselves. Unfortunately one man once succeed in doing so, an evil man by the name of Ganondorf, a male Gerudo from the desert in the west of Hyrule. However there was another tale told about the Triforce, one that stated that if a person whose Wisdom, Power and Courage were out of synchronisation with each other should lay their hand upon it, the Triforce would shatter into its three seperate pieces, each of which would seek out a hiding place in the body of the person who most represented that section's element. When Ganondorf layed his hand upon the Triforce this prophecy came true, and the Triforce shattered, sending the three piece into the bodies of Ganondorf (Power), Princess Zelda (Wisdom) and Link (Courage).

The Seven Sages, with Princess Zelda, then managed to trap Ganon and his Triforce of Power in the Golden Land. However Ganon used the Triforce's power to eventually turn the Golden Land into the Dark World.

The Triforce in A Link to the Past
The Triforce makes an appearance in A Link to the Past. This game takes place a long time after Ocarina of Time, and Ganon has used the Triforce of Courage to corrupt the Golden Land and sends forth Aganhaim in the normal world to take control of Hyrule and make a portal between the worlds. At the end, Link receives the Triforce, and uses it to make a wish to restore order to the world.