Hidden Village

The Hidden Village is a location in Twilight Princess and Link's Crossbow Training. It lies in the Lanayru Province, north of the Bridge of Eldin. Prior to the events in Twilight Princess, the Hidden Village served as the secret home to the Sheikah tribe; however, due to the "prolonged wars," the tribe dwindled and the town fell into decline, becoming infested with Bulblins and leaving only one resident, Impaz.

Twilight Princess
Early in Link's quest, entry into the village is blocked off due to a rockslide that happened long ago. After Link shows the Wooden Statue to Ilia, she remembers that someone saved her from monsters and is still in danger. Gor Coron recalls where he has seen the Wooden Statue before, which leads Link to the Hidden Village. Link goes there to rescue the one who helped Ilia with the aid of Darbus, who breaks through the rocks to clear the young hero's path path. When Link first visits the town, it is infested by 20 Bulblins, all of which he must slay in order to rescue Ilia's helper. The only other resident of the village, named Impaz, comes out of her home after Link slays every single one of the beasts. Thanking the young hero for his help in defeating the Bulblins, she hands Link the Horse Call, which is an item Ilia gave to Impaz before escaping the Hidden Village.

Shortly after Ilia recovers her memory with the aid of the Horse Call, Link returns to the Hidden Village and shows the Dominion Rod to Impaz. The old woman recognizes the rod upon seeing it and gives the young hero the Ancient Sky Book, which is only to be carried by the messenger to the heavens. It is with the help of this book that Link eventually reaches the City in the Sky.

Most of the buildings in the village were abandoned and ruined by the Bulblins, and as such, only Impaz's house is still fit for residence. Impaz's house is also home to several cats that she takes care of. In the backyard of one of the abandoned buildings, Link can find a Howling Stone as well as a Cucco who asks Link, in wolf form, to play a game with the cats in exchange for a Piece of Heart. The various stray felines wandering the village will play the mini-game with Wolf Link where he has to talk to each individual cat at least once.

Link's Crossbow Training
The Hidden Village appears in Stage 5 of Link's Crossbow Training as a Ranger Mode bulbin hunt/shoot-out. Link freely moves through the village to kill the 25 bulbins. Most of the bulbins are found in clusters and shoot flaming arrows as soon as they see Link. Several explosive barrels can be found, which when hit, destroy everything within their vicinity. Slaying all 25 bulbins will add a multiplier of the remaining time to the score.

Theory
It is heavily implied that this village is an older Kakariko Village, the ancient village of the Sheikah, mostly due to a sign saying "Welcome to Old Kakarico" in Hylian (misspelling noted).

Trivia

 * In Link's Crossbow Training, the 'Kakariko Shootout' stage takes place in Hidden Village, and is essentially a replication of the Hidden Village Bulbin scene from Twilight Princess.
 * Impa from Ocarina of Time was, as she directly quoted, "born and raised" in Ocarina of Time's Kakariko Village, whereas the Hidden Village was implied to have been built by her.
 * Hidden Village shares a connection with Old Kasuto, which is ghost town with a single resident that appears in The Adventure of Link, as well.
 * Throughout the village, several posters can be found that say the word "Wanted" written in Hyrulean text. The posters have a drawing of an unknown man with a mustache and goatee, along with an apparent reward of 1,000,000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion) Rupees.

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File:Impaz_comes_out.jpg|Impaz cautiously checks to see if all the Bulblins are gone. 