Majora's Mask (Object)



Majora's Mask is the final enemy Link must defeat before saving the land of Termina.

The Mask itself manifests in three forms: a hovering mask (Majora's Mask), a pedantic legged-being (Majora's Incarnation), and a vicious humanoid monster with whips as arms (Majora's Wrath).

Majora's Mask
To defeat the Mask, Link must stun it with some projectile weapon to make it collapse to the ground, allowing him to strike it with his sword. However, it must be a strike to the back to stun it; and after the Mask has taken enough damage, it will shoot beam fire at Link. The beam can be deflected with his Mirror Shield to reflect it back at the mask. Majora's Mask has tentacles in this form and can use a whirling attack.

Majora's Incarnation
To defeat the Incarnation, Link must shoot it with a Light Arrow or other weapon to stun it, and then strike it with his sword. Majora's Incarnation is very fast and unpredictable but takes very few hits to defeat. While it's various dances are funny, and it's child-like antics entertaining, they can be a bit grating on the nerves.

Majora's Wrath
To defeat Majora's Wrath, Link must use a projectile weapon to stun it while its paused, then strike it with a Light Arrow or his sword. This process must repeated until it is defeated. Majora's Wrath can inflict very heavy damage and jump from one side of the arena to the other. Because it is slow to attack, it can however, be easily defeated.

Fierce Deity and the Moon Dungeons
Majora's Mask is encountered when Link talks to the lonely child under the tree inside the Moon. Using the Fierce Deity Mask, Majora's Mask can easily be defeated, however, some fans think this takes some of the fun out of the battle.

To obtain the Fierce Deity Mask, however, you need to obtain all 23 (including the 3 transformation masks) and use them to enter the 4 moon dungeons. While on the moon, you will notice 5 children, 4 of which are running around wearing the masks of the 4 bosses you defeated. Each will allow you entrance to their dungeon, for a fee of masks. If you give all 20 masks to the four children at the entrance and exit of each dungeon, the child wearing Majora's Mask will grant you the Fierce Deity's Mask.

Theories on Origins of Majora's Mask
Though the game doesn't give much specific history on the origins of Majora's Mask, it does state that the mask was used by an ancient and evil tribe in their hexing rituals. When the mask's evil and corrupted power was revealed it was sealed away, until hundreds of years later is was sought out and found by the Happy Mask Salesman. Soon afterwards, the Skull Kid stole the mask from the salesman and began to access its power, awakening the consciousness of the mask.

Some believe Majora's Mask to be the incarnation of a powerful entity by the name of Majora who fought in a great war against five other tribes who had a respective leader; the tribe of Odolwa (the monster of Woodfall Temple), the tribe of Goht (the boss of Snowhead Temple), the tribe of Gyorg (the giant fish of Great Bay Temple), the tribe of the Twinmold (the sand-worm duo of Stone Tower Temple), and the tribe of the Fierce Deity.

How Majora's Mask was created
Majora's creation is explained in one of the Zelda comics that were released at the same time as the game. The story goes that 10 million years ago (before the time setting of Majora's Mask) there lived an evil creature which fed on the desires of the countless numbers of humans who had come before it to try and claim its armor and be granted one wish. Anyway a traveler who looks similar to Link came forward to talk to the monster to ask it why it had not left the same place for thousands of years. After a discussion the Monster realized it had its own wish and it was to rest. So went to sleep and disappeared, leaving only its armor behind. The traveler then took the armor and carved it into Majora's mask attempting to seal the evil in it forever.