Black Tower

The Black Tower, officially named Ambi's Tower, is a massive tower of stone and grout featured in Oracle of Ages that was built to the heavens 400 years in Labrynna's past by the order of Queen Ambi. Originally, the project of building the tower was intended to guide Queen Ambi's love, the Captain, home from the sea. Having left Labrynna several years prior and not yet returned, Queen Ambi worried about his safety and decided to build what was originally called Ambi's Tower to the heavens to search the entire land and sea for any sign of his return or to act as a beacon to guide him home from the sea. These peaceful plans for the construction of the tower changed however when the Oracle of Ages, Nayru (secretly under the control of Veran, the Sorceress of Shadows), arrived as though from nowhere and became Queen Ambi's most trusted adviser through Veran's cunning. She convinced Queen Ambi to send those closest to her away so as to prevent a power loss and then convinced the hapless queen to push her people much harder to build the tower. Soon she also hoodwinked the queen into believing that if she was able to push the construction of the tower to the heavens, she would go down in history as Labrynna's greatest queen as well as conning her into allowing Veran to use the powers of the Oracle of Ages to create an endless day so the people would have to work on the tower without rest. Oblivious to the suffering and misery she was inadvertently bringing upon her people, Queen Ambi's project, Ambi's Tower, began to earn a new title amongst her subjects: the Black Tower.

Soon afterward, the Hyrulean Hero Link followed Veran into Labrynna's past with the aid of the Harp of Ages and set about solving the mystery of what Veran's true goal could be in bringing misery to Labrynna's people. What nobody yet realized is that Veran's true goal was to use the Black Tower to call upon an Age of Darkness as well as create enough suffering amongst Labrynna's people that it would pass through the tower and be delivered unto Veran's superior, the Gerudo witches collectively known as Twinrova, who hoped to use this negative energy to light the Flame of Sorrow, one of the three Flames of the Dark Rites necessary to revive the King of Evil, Ganon. The tower soon reached the heavens even as Labrynna's people suffered beneath a now-possessed Queen Ambi (whom Veran had taken over once she was ejected from Nayru's body by Link), and Link was forced to enter the tower to stop her. Using the Huge Maku Seed given to him by the Maku Tree after collecting the eight Essences of Time scattered across Labrynna, Link was able to break the barrier of dark energy Veran had cast around the tower's highest turret and faced the Sorceress of Shadows herself at the summit. After prying Queen Ambi from Veran's grip and battling the evil sorceress in many grotesque forms, Link utterly destroyed Veran. However, this did not stop all the negative energy and sorrow she had created from passing through the tower and on into the hands of Twinrova, lighting the Flame of Sorrow. The Black Tower still stands tall over Labrynna to this day, four hundred years after it served as the site of the final battle between the Hyrulean Hero and the Soceress of Shadows.