Great Fairy

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

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 the game 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:
 * Death Mountain, where you get the Magic Spin Attack
 * The path to Hyrule Castle, where you get Din's Fire
 * Zora Fountain, where you get Farore's Wind
 * Death Mountain Crater, where you get a Large Magic Meter
 * Desert Colossus, where you get Nayru's Love
 * Ganon's Castle, where you get the Defense Upgrade.

Majora's Mask
The five Great Fairies 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.

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 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 this game, 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 Fairies' Woods above Link's home and gives Link a larger wallet. Other upgrades include a huge wallet, big bomb bag bag, huge bomb bag, large quiver, and a huge quiver.

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 and upgrade your Quiver, Bomb Bag, and Wallet. They also heal you when you are hurt.

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 Fairy Queen, the "Great Fairy" only appears in this game 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, or he can revisit the queen Great Fairy. 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 contains a "Shrine of the Sacred Fountain", where the "Goddess of the Servant Spirits" resides and helps to empower them.