Link (Goron)


 * Not to be confused with Goron Link, the transformation in Majora's Mask.

Link is the name of two Goron characters who appear in and, respectively. In Ocarina of Time, Darunia names his son after the Hero of Time. In Majora's Mask, the name-sharing is a coincidence. Link can exploit the coincidence to claim the Goron's reservation at the Stock Pot Inn.

Ocarina of Time
In, Darunia's son Link was was born sometime during the hero's seven year long sleep. He Darunia named him after the original Link who saved the Gorons by chasing off the Dodongos which had taken possession of Dodongo's Cavern, the place that the Gorons use as their chief source of nourishment. In order for the Hero of Time to receive the Fire Medallion and awaken, the young hero must find Link the Goron at Goron City. When Link the Goron first meets the young hero, he mistakes the green-clad Hylian as one of Ganondorf's servants, and defiantly keeps rolling around the city in order to avoid encapturement. In order to stop the Goron child, the young hero must impede the Goron with a Bomb. Upon learning the hero's name, Link the Goron realizes that the Hylian is the hero his father had told him about. As such, he asks the hero to save Darunia and the other Gorons, who have been imprisoned at the Fire Temple by Ganondorf and threatened to be fed to Volvagia, knowing only the young hero could accomplish that task. The Goron Link helps the hero by providing him information on Volvagia's weakness, giving him the Goron Tunic, and revealing the secret entrance into Death Mountain.

Majora's Mask
Another Goron named Link visits East Clock Town in. He can only be found on the First Day, from 3:00 PM until 6:00 AM the next day. The Goron Link has a reservation at the Stock Pot Inn which he claims at 4:10 PM. If he claims the room, he will go into the Knife Chamber, and will not be seen again. However, the young hero Link can claim this room before his eponymous Goron counterpart does and receive the Room Key, due to having the same name and Anju not being able to remember the faces of the customers. The mix-up is not discovered, because of the Goron Link's tendency to suffix his sentences with "goro," which confuses Anju.

If the young hero claims the room before the Goron Link did, the latter will decide to sleep outside, resting near the outside of the Stock Pot Inn and sleeping from 6:00 PM. At the Dawn of the Second Day, the disadvantaged Goron will leave Clock Town.