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The '''Great Flood''' is the name often associated with a catastrophic deluge that befell the land of [[Hyrule]] many years after the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' in what many fans have come to call the "Adult Timeline". It occurred when the Dark Lord [[Ganondorf]], the King of Evil who had reigned over the land of Hyrule as a tyrannical usurper king for seven dark years until the reappearance of the [[Hero of Time]] and his subsequent defeat at the Hero's hands, escaped from his exile in the tainted [[Sacred Realm]] and returned to Hyrule in a fiery rage.<ref>{{cite|The great evil that all thought had
The '''Great Flood''' is the name often associated with a catastrophic deluge that befell the land of [[Hyrule]] many years after the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' in what many fans have come to call the "Adult Timeline". It occurred when the Dark Lord [[Ganondorf]], the King of Evil who had reigned over the land of Hyrule as a tyrannical usurper king for seven dark years until the reappearance of the [[Hero of Time]] and his subsequent defeat at the Hero's hands, escaped from his exile in the tainted [[Sacred Realm]] and returned to Hyrule in a fiery rage.<ref>{{cite|The great evil that all thought had
been forever sealed away by the hero...once again crept forth from the depths of the earth, eager to resume its dark designs.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref> After discovering a way to deactivate the [[Master Sword]]’s power by means of disposing of the [[Sage]]s that safeguard its power, Ganondorf assumed his bestial form of the Dark Beast [[Ganon]] and attacked the land of Hyrule with his army of evil creatures.<ref>{{cite|After his defeat at the hands of the Hero of Time, Ganondorf was sealed away...but not for all time. He was revived, and he returned to Hyrule in a red wrath. He attacked this temple and stole my soul, knowing that he had to remove the power contained in that enchanted blade.|Laruto|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Once, long ago, this land of Hyrule was turned into a world of shadows by Ganon, who sought to obtain the power of the gods for his own evil ends.|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref> With the Hero of Time no longer in that branch of Hyrule’s history due to his departure back to his own age and no apparent Hero to take up the Master Sword, the kingdom was left nearly helpless against Ganon’s onslaught.<ref>{{cite|The people believed that the Hero of Time would again come to save them. ...But the hero did not appear.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref>{{cite|My power alone could not stop the fiend, and our only choice was to leave the fate of the kingdom in the hands of the gods...|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref>Appealing to the [[Golden Goddesses]] for their aid in saving them from evil, the people’s prayers were answered when the Goddesses instructed the people to take refuge on the mountaintops of Hyrule and brought down a torrential downpour from the heavens that buried the land of Hyrule beneath a vast ocean that came to be known in time as the [[Great Sea]].<ref>{{cite|Faced by an onslaught of evil, the people could do nothing but appeal to the gods. In their last hour, as doom drew nigh, they left their future in the hands of fate.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref>{{cite|When the gods heard our pleas, they chose to seal away not only Ganon, but Hyrule itself...and so, with a torrential downpour of rains from the heavens... Our fair kingdom was soon buried beneath the waves, forgotten at the bottom of the ocean. Yet all was not lost.[...] So, before the sealing of the kingdom, the gods chose those who would build a new country and commanded them to take refuge on the mountaintops.|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref> This was not the complete end of Hyrule however, as Hyrule was sealed within an enchanted air chamber that prevented the water from destroying it. A magical seal was also cast over the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time (now located within [[Hyrule Castle]] itself) that froze the entire land of Hyrule and everyone in it right where they stood, freezing them in time and draining them of color, primarily Ganondorf and his army.<ref>{{cite|By the way, boy... When you drew that sword of yours out of its resting place... Did you by chance notice how all of the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again?[...] While that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time, it has long played another role... You see, it is also a sort of key... a most wretched little key that has kept the seal on me and my magic intact! By withdrawing the blade, you have broken that seal...|Ganondorf|The Wind Waker}}</ref> The people of Hyrule would then go on to build a new civilization on the surface of the Great Sea and, with the passing of time, largely forget the memory of the magical kingdom of Hyrule that still existed deep beneath the waves.<ref>{{cite|The memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref>
been forever sealed away by the hero...once again crept forth from the depths of the earth, eager to resume its dark designs.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref> After discovering a way to deactivate the [[Master Sword]]’s power by means of disposing of the [[Sage]]s that safeguard its power, Ganondorf assumed his bestial form of the Dark Beast [[Ganon]] and attacked the land of Hyrule with his army of evil creatures.<ref name=quote2>{{cite|After his defeat at the hands of the Hero of Time, Ganondorf was sealed away...but not for all time. He was revived, and he returned to Hyrule in a red wrath. He attacked this temple and stole my soul, knowing that he had to remove the power contained in that enchanted blade.|Laruto|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Once, long ago, this land of Hyrule was turned into a world of shadows by Ganon, who sought to obtain the power of the gods for his own evil ends.|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref> With the Hero of Time no longer in that branch of Hyrule’s history due to his departure back to his own age and no apparent Hero to take up the Master Sword, the kingdom was left nearly helpless against Ganon’s onslaught.<ref name=quote5>{{cite|The people believed that the Hero of Time would again come to save them. ...But the hero did not appear.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref name=quote4>{{cite|My power alone could not stop the fiend, and our only choice was to leave the fate of the kingdom in the hands of the gods...|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref>Appealing to the [[Golden Goddesses]] for their aid in saving them from evil, the people’s prayers were answered when the Goddesses instructed the people to take refuge on the mountaintops of Hyrule and brought down a torrential downpour from the heavens that buried the land of Hyrule beneath a vast ocean that came to be known in time as the [[Great Sea]].<ref name=quote6>{{cite|Faced by an onslaught of evil, the people could do nothing but appeal to the gods. In their last hour, as doom drew nigh, they left their future in the hands of fate.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref><ref name=quote7>{{cite|When the gods heard our pleas, they chose to seal away not only Ganon, but Hyrule itself...and so, with a torrential downpour of rains from the heavens... Our fair kingdom was soon buried beneath the waves, forgotten at the bottom of the ocean. Yet all was not lost.[...] So, before the sealing of the kingdom, the gods chose those who would build a new country and commanded them to take refuge on the mountaintops.|Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule|The Wind Waker}}</ref> This was not the complete end of Hyrule however, as Hyrule was sealed within an enchanted air chamber that prevented the water from destroying it. A magical seal was also cast over the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time (now located within [[Hyrule Castle]] itself) that froze the entire land of Hyrule and everyone in it right where they stood, freezing them in time and draining them of color, primarily Ganondorf and his army.<ref name=quote8>{{cite|By the way, boy... When you drew that sword of yours out of its resting place... Did you by chance notice how all of the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again?[...] While that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time, it has long played another role... You see, it is also a sort of key... a most wretched little key that has kept the seal on me and my magic intact! By withdrawing the blade, you have broken that seal...|Ganondorf|The Wind Waker}}</ref> The people of Hyrule would then go on to build a new civilization on the surface of the Great Sea and, with the passing of time, largely forget the memory of the magical kingdom of Hyrule that still existed deep beneath the waves.<ref>{{cite|The memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath.|Introduction|The Wind Waker}}</ref>


==The Legend of the Hero of Time==
==The Legend of the Hero of Time==
Ancient legends in the land of Hyrule spoke of a legendary Golden Power, the Triforce, that resided in the magical [[Sacred Realm]] and had the power to grant the wishes of one who mastered it in its entirety.<ref>{{cite|For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods...|Great Deku Tree|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|The three goddesses hid the Triforce containing the power of the gods somewhere in Hyrule. The power to grant the wish of the one who holds the Triforce in his hands. If someone with a righteous heart makes a wish, it will lead Hyrule to a golden age of prosperity... If someone with an evil mind has his wish granted, the world will be consumed by evil...That is what has been told...|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> One day long ago, a man of great evil named [[Ganondorf]], of the [[Gerudo]] tribe, schemed to enter this magical realm and lay claim to the Triforce in order to become the true master of the world.<ref>{{cite|This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule...|Great Deku Tree|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|What Ganondorf is after must be nothing less than the Triforce of the Sacred Realm. He must have come to Hyrule to obtain it! And, he wants to conquer Hyrule...no, the entire world!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> With the unwitting assistance of a young boy named [[Link]] (who would grow up to become the Hero of Time) and Hyrule's [[Princess Zelda]], Ganondorf was able to enter the Sacred Realm through much cunning and deceit.<ref>{{cite|Though you opened the Door of Time in the name of peace... Ganondorf, the Gerudo King of Thieves, used it to enter this forbidden Sacred Realm! He obtained the Triforce from the Temple of Light, and with its power, he became the King of Evil...|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> However, because his heart was not in balance, the Triforce separated upon being touched by Ganondorf's tainted hands, leaving him with only the [[Triforce#Triforce of Power|Triforce of Power]] and transforming the Sacred Realm into a corrupt world of evil and despair.<ref>{{cite|If the heart of the one who holds the sacred triangle has all three forces in balance, that one will gain the True Force to govern all. But, if that one's heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three parts: Power, Wisdom and Courage. Only one part will remain for the one who touched the Triforce...the part representing the force that one most believes in.|Sheik|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|He went on to invade the Sacred Realm... Ganondorf had become the Evil King, and the Sacred Realm became a world of evil.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The Triforce of Wisdom was then bestowed upon Princess Zelda and the Triforce of Courage upon the Hero of Time respectively.<ref name=quote1>{{cite|The one who holds the Triforce of Courage is... You, Link! And the other, who holds the Triforce of Wisdom... is the seventh Sage, who is destined to be the leader of them all... It is I, the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The Hero of Time was put into an enchanted slumber for seven years until he matured enough to properly handle the Blade of Evil's Bane, the [[Master Sword]], which he had removed from the [[Pedestal of Time]].<ref>{{cite|The Master Sword is a sacred blade which evil ones may never touch... Only one worthy of the title of "Hero of Time" can pull it from the Pedestal of Time.... However, you were too young to be the Hero of Time... Therefore, your spirit was sealed here for seven years. And now that you are old enough, the time has come for you to awaken as the Hero of Time!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Meanwhile, Zelda went into hiding (disguised as a [[Sheikah]] warrior known as [[Sheik]]) for the seven dark years of Ganondorf's evil reign over the kingdom as the Usurper King of Hyrule, awaiting the time when Link would reappear and they could overthrow Ganondorf together.<ref>{{cite|I apologize for meeting you in disguise, but it was necessary to hide from the King of Evil.[...]I passed myself off as a Sheikah and hoped that you would return. I waited for seven years... And...now you are back. The dark age ruled by Ganondorf the Evil King will end!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>
Ancient legends in the land of Hyrule spoke of a legendary Golden Power, the Triforce, that resided in the magical [[Sacred Realm]] and had the power to grant the wishes of one who mastered it in its entirety.<ref>{{cite|For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods...|Great Deku Tree|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|The three goddesses hid the Triforce containing the power of the gods somewhere in Hyrule. The power to grant the wish of the one who holds the Triforce in his hands. If someone with a righteous heart makes a wish, it will lead Hyrule to a golden age of prosperity... If someone with an evil mind has his wish granted, the world will be consumed by evil...That is what has been told...|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> One day long ago, a man of great evil named [[Ganondorf]], of the [[Gerudo]] tribe, schemed to enter this magical realm and lay claim to the Triforce in order to become the true master of the world.<ref>{{cite|This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule...|Great Deku Tree|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|What Ganondorf is after must be nothing less than the Triforce of the Sacred Realm. He must have come to Hyrule to obtain it! And, he wants to conquer Hyrule...no, the entire world!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> With the unwitting assistance of a young boy named [[Link]] (who would grow up to become the Hero of Time) and Hyrule's [[Princess Zelda]], Ganondorf was able to enter the Sacred Realm through much cunning and deceit.<ref>{{cite|Though you opened the Door of Time in the name of peace... Ganondorf, the Gerudo King of Thieves, used it to enter this forbidden Sacred Realm! He obtained the Triforce from the Temple of Light, and with its power, he became the King of Evil...|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> However, because his heart was not in balance, the Triforce separated upon being touched by Ganondorf's tainted hands, leaving him with only the [[Triforce#Triforce of Power|Triforce of Power]] and transforming the Sacred Realm into a corrupt world of evil and despair.<ref>{{cite|If the heart of the one who holds the sacred triangle has all three forces in balance, that one will gain the True Force to govern all. But, if that one's heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three parts: Power, Wisdom and Courage. Only one part will remain for the one who touched the Triforce...the part representing the force that one most believes in.|Sheik|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|He went on to invade the Sacred Realm... Ganondorf had become the Evil King, and the Sacred Realm became a world of evil.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The Triforce of Wisdom was then bestowed upon Princess Zelda and the Triforce of Courage upon the Hero of Time respectively.<ref name=quote1>{{cite|The one who holds the Triforce of Courage is... You, Link! And the other, who holds the Triforce of Wisdom... is the seventh Sage, who is destined to be the leader of them all... It is I, the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The Hero of Time was put into an enchanted slumber for seven years until he matured enough to properly handle the Blade of Evil's Bane, the [[Master Sword]], which he had removed from the [[Pedestal of Time]].<ref>{{cite|The Master Sword is a sacred blade which evil ones may never touch... Only one worthy of the title of "Hero of Time" can pull it from the Pedestal of Time.... However, you were too young to be the Hero of Time... Therefore, your spirit was sealed here for seven years. And now that you are old enough, the time has come for you to awaken as the Hero of Time!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Meanwhile, Zelda went into hiding (disguised as a [[Sheikah]] warrior known as [[Sheik]]) for the seven dark years of Ganondorf's evil reign over the kingdom as the Usurper King of Hyrule, awaiting the time when Link would reappear and they could overthrow Ganondorf together.<ref>{{cite|I apologize for meeting you in disguise, but it was necessary to hide from the King of Evil.[...]I passed myself off as a Sheikah and hoped that you would return. I waited for seven years... And...now you are back. The dark age ruled by Ganondorf the Evil King will end!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>


Sure enough, Link returned seven years later from the Sacred Realm and came in search of the mythical [[Seven Sages]] who were said to have the power to bind Ganondorf and return the light of peace to Hyrule. Through much toil and trouble, the Hero of Time braved the many evils Ganondorf had cast upon the realm and sought out each of the major temples throughout Hyrule and, on the instructions of [[Rauru]] the Sage of Light<ref>{{cite|Find the other Sages and save Hyrule!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>, awakened each of the Seven Sages, who curiously turned out to be figures he himself had befriended in his childhood ([[Saria]] the Sage of Forest, [[Darunia]] the Sage of Fire, [[Princess Ruto|Ruto]] the Sage of Water, [[Impa]] the Sage of Shadow, and [[Nabooru]] the Sage of Spirit). After each of the Sages had been awakened, Princess Zelda revealed herself to be the seventh Sage and Leader of the Sages as well as revealing that she and Link both contained the other two pieces of the Triforce Ganondorf had failed to capture.<ref name=quote1/> Ganondorf soon captured Zelda however and hoped to use her as bait to lure the Hero of Time to his [[Ganon's Tower|tower keep]] at the top of his [[Ganon's Castle|castle]] in order to steal the Triforce of Courage back from him.<ref>{{cite|But, with the Triforce of Wisdom that Zelda has... When I obtain these two Triforces... Then, I will become the true ruler of the world!! If you want to rescue Zelda, come to my castle!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Link followed to the fiend's castle and, with the assistance of the remaining Sages<ref>{{cite|It's Rauru, the Sage. We six will gather our power to create a bridge to the castle where Ganondorf dwells...|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>, entered Ganon's Castle and fought his way to Ganondorf's throne room atop Ganon's Tower. Here the Hero of Time confronted the King of Evil in an epic battle that ended with Ganondorf collapsing to the ground seemingly dead and Zelda released from her prison. Ganondorf then attempted to crush the two in the ruin of the tower however when he began to bring down his own castle around them.<ref>{{cite|This tower will collapse soon! With his last breath, Ganondorf is trying to crush us in the ruins of the tower! We need to hurry and escape!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The pair escaped in time however, only to see Ganondorf emerge from the rubble and transform into the Dark Beast Ganon. The Hero of Time then fought Ganon in hand to hand combat and defeated him with the might of the Master Sword, allowing the Sages the time they needed to bind him and throw him back into the void of the Evil Realm before sealing the portal between the worlds.<ref>{{cite|I'm using my power to hold the Evil King! You use your sword and deliver the final blow!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Ancient Creators of Hyrule! Now, open the sealed door and send the Evil Incarnation of Darkness into the void of the Evil Realm!!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf screamed in rage that as long as the Triforce of Power was in his hand, he would return one day to exterminate the descendants of the Hero of Time and the Sages to make them pay for his imprisonment.<ref>{{cite|YOU... CURSE YOU...ZELDA! CURSE YOU...SAGES!! CURSE YOU...LINK! Someday... When this seal is broken.... That is when I will exterminate your descendants!! As long as the Triforce of Power is in my hand....|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Princess Zelda then used her power as a Sage to send the Hero of Time back to his own age in order to regain his lost childhood.<ref>{{cite|Link, give the Ocarina to me... As a Sage, I can return you to your original time with it.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Upon his departure, the Triforce of Courage split apart into eight shards and scattered across the land to be found again one day by another Hero that would have need of its power.<ref>{{cite|When the Hero of Time was called to embark on another journey and left the land of Hyrule, he was separated from the elements that made him a hero. It is said that at that time, the Triforce of Courage was split into eight shards and hidden throughout the land.|King of Red Lions|The Wind Waker}}</ref> The Master Sword was also left in the Hero's wake, being returned to its pedestal in turn. With this act, the Hero of Time vanished from this branch of Hyrule's history, leaving only his legend behind.
Sure enough, Link returned seven years later from the Sacred Realm and came in search of the mythical [[Seven Sages]] who were said to have the power to bind Ganondorf and return the light of peace to Hyrule. Through much toil and trouble, the Hero of Time braved the many evils Ganondorf had cast upon the realm and sought out each of the major temples throughout Hyrule and, on the instructions of [[Rauru]] the Sage of Light<ref>{{cite|Find the other Sages and save Hyrule!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>, awakened each of the Seven Sages, who curiously turned out to be figures he himself had befriended in his childhood ([[Saria]] the Sage of Forest, [[Darunia]] the Sage of Fire, [[Princess Ruto|Ruto]] the Sage of Water, [[Impa]] the Sage of Shadow, and [[Nabooru]] the Sage of Spirit). After each of the Sages had been awakened, Princess Zelda revealed herself to be the seventh Sage and Leader of the Sages as well as revealing that she and Link both contained the other two pieces of the Triforce Ganondorf had failed to capture.<ref name=quote1/> Ganondorf soon captured Zelda however and hoped to use her as bait to lure the Hero of Time to his [[Ganon's Tower|tower keep]] at the top of his [[Ganon's Castle|castle]] in order to steal the Triforce of Courage back from him.<ref>{{cite|But, with the Triforce of Wisdom that Zelda has... When I obtain these two Triforces... Then, I will become the true ruler of the world!! If you want to rescue Zelda, come to my castle!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Link followed to the fiend's castle and, with the assistance of the remaining Sages<ref>{{cite|It's Rauru, the Sage. We six will gather our power to create a bridge to the castle where Ganondorf dwells...|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref>, entered Ganon's Castle and fought his way to Ganondorf's throne room atop Ganon's Tower. Here the Hero of Time confronted the King of Evil in an epic battle that ended with Ganondorf collapsing to the ground seemingly dead and Zelda released from her prison. Ganondorf then attempted to crush the two in the ruin of the tower however when he began to bring down his own castle around them.<ref>{{cite|This tower will collapse soon! With his last breath, Ganondorf is trying to crush us in the ruins of the tower! We need to hurry and escape!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> The pair escaped in time however, only to see Ganondorf emerge from the rubble and transform into the Dark Beast Ganon. The Hero of Time then fought Ganon in hand to hand combat and defeated him with the might of the Master Sword, allowing the Sages the time they needed to bind him and throw him back into the void of the Evil Realm before sealing the portal between the worlds.<ref>{{cite|I'm using my power to hold the Evil King! You use your sword and deliver the final blow!|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Ancient Creators of Hyrule! Now, open the sealed door and send the Evil Incarnation of Darkness into the void of the Evil Realm!!|Rauru|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf screamed in rage that as long as the Triforce of Power was in his hand, he would return one day to exterminate the descendants of the Hero of Time and the Sages to make them pay for his imprisonment.<ref name=quote3>{{cite|YOU... CURSE YOU...ZELDA! CURSE YOU...SAGES!! CURSE YOU...LINK! Someday... When this seal is broken.... That is when I will exterminate your descendants!! As long as the Triforce of Power is in my hand....|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Princess Zelda then used her power as a Sage to send the Hero of Time back to his own age in order to regain his lost childhood.<ref>{{cite|Link, give the Ocarina to me... As a Sage, I can return you to your original time with it.|Princess Zelda|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Upon his departure, the Triforce of Courage split apart into eight shards and scattered across the land to be found again one day by another Hero that would have need of its power.<ref>{{cite|When the Hero of Time was called to embark on another journey and left the land of Hyrule, he was separated from the elements that made him a hero. It is said that at that time, the Triforce of Courage was split into eight shards and hidden throughout the land.|King of Red Lions|The Wind Waker}}</ref> The Master Sword was also left in the Hero's wake, being returned to its pedestal in turn. With this act, the Hero of Time vanished from this branch of Hyrule's history, leaving only his legend behind.


==Reconstruction==
==Reconstruction==
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==Return of the Dark Lord==
==Return of the Dark Lord==
Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason (possibly because the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time were taken from their original place near the portal to the [[Sacred Realm]]), and the Dark Lord [[Ganondorf]] saw his chance to escape his imprisonment. Using the might of the Triforce of Power, he was able to successfully shatter the seal, reopening the gateway between the worlds and returning to Hyrule in a red wrath, intending to make good on his final threat to the Hero of Time and the Seven Sages that he would return one day to make their descendants pay for his imprisonment. Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower base]] not far away from the new site of Hyrule Castle and attacked Hyrule with his army of dark creatures. The Dark Lord knew the only threat to him lay within the very weapon that defeated him an age before, the Blade of Evil's Bane known as the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by a new set of Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind. Using the power granted to him by the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf crafted two horrible monsters, the giant Poe [[Jalhalla]] and the great sand worm [[Molgera]], and ordered them to invade the two new temples with his army and dispose of the Sages. Molgera invaded the Wind Temple and settled into the shrine chamber at the heart of the temple after wiping out the [[Kokiri]] Sage of Wind, [[Fado (The Wind Waker)|Fado]]. In turn, Jalhalla invaded the Earth Temple and also settled into the shrine chamber meant for the Earth Sage, wiping out the [[Zora]] Sage of Earth, [[Laruto]]. The only consolation for the Sages was that their two special instruments survived the invasion of the temples, and both were passed down to their descendants in turn. There in the depths of the two temples, their spirits would linger on, waiting for their successors to take their rightful place as the new Sages of the Master Sword. With the Master Sword now deactivated and thus powerless against him, Ganondorf reverted to his bestial form of the Dark Beast [[Ganon]] and continued his attack on the kingdom of Hyrule. Everywhere he went, he rained much death and destruction all throughout the kingdom as the realm descended into darkness. The sitting [[King of Hyrule]], [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]], attempted to use what magic he wielded to stop Ganon, but he was not powerful enough to stop the fiend since Ganondorf possessed the Triforce of Power and had its full strength at his command. The people of Hyrule prayed that the Hero of Time would once again come to save them from the very evil he had once helped seal away and thus deliver them once again from evil's grasp.
Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason (possibly because the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time were taken from their original place near the portal to the [[Sacred Realm]]), and the Dark Lord [[Ganondorf]] saw his chance to escape his imprisonment. Using the might of the Triforce of Power, he was able to successfully shatter the seal, reopening the gateway between the worlds and returning to Hyrule in a red wrath, intending to make good on his final threat to the Hero of Time and the Seven Sages that he would return one day to make their descendants pay for his imprisonment.<ref name=quote2/><ref name=quote3/> Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower base]] not far away from the new site of Hyrule Castle and attacked Hyrule with his army of dark creatures. The Dark Lord knew the only threat to him lay within the very weapon that defeated him an age before, the Blade of Evil's Bane known as the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by a new set of Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind. Using the power granted to him by the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf crafted two horrible monsters, the giant Poe [[Jalhalla]] and the great sand worm [[Molgera]], and ordered them to invade the two new temples with his army and dispose of the Sages. Molgera invaded the Wind Temple and settled into the shrine chamber at the heart of the temple after wiping out the [[Kokiri]] Sage of Wind, [[Fado (The Wind Waker)|Fado]].<ref>{{cite|I had been praying here so that the power to repel evil would continue to be contained within the blade of the Master Sword... But I was attacked by the evil Ganondorf... and this is what happened to me.|Fado|The Wind Waker}}</ref> In turn, Jalhalla invaded the Earth Temple and also settled into the shrine chamber meant for the Earth Sage, wiping out the [[Zora]] Sage of Earth, [[Laruto]].<ref name=quote2/> The only consolation for the Sages was that their two special instruments survived the invasion of the temples, and both were passed down to their descendants in turn. There in the depths of the two temples, their spirits would linger on, waiting for their successors to take their rightful place as the new Sages of the Master Sword.<ref>{{cite|Nothing can stop the flow of time or the passing of generations...but the fate carried within my bloodline endures the ravages of all the years. It survives.|Laruto|The Wind Waker}}</ref> With the Master Sword now deactivated and thus powerless against him, Ganondorf reverted to his bestial form of the Dark Beast [[Ganon]] and continued his attack on the kingdom of Hyrule. Everywhere he went, he rained much death and destruction all throughout the kingdom as the realm descended into darkness. The sitting [[King of Hyrule]], [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]], attempted to use what magic he wielded to stop Ganon, but he was not powerful enough to stop the fiend since Ganondorf possessed the Triforce of Power and had its full strength at his command.<ref name=quote4/> The people of Hyrule prayed that the Hero of Time would once again come to save them from the very evil he had once helped seal away and thus deliver them once again from evil's grasp.<ref name=quote5/>


==The Divine Deluge==
==The Divine Deluge==
The Hero of Time however did not appear to save Hyrule as had been hoped, having been sent back across the flows of time to his own age. Thus, neither he nor his descendants were present to save Hyrule from Ganon's massacre of the kingdom of Hyrule. Left with no other choice, the people of Hyrule cried out to the three Golden Goddesses for their help in delivering them from Ganon's evil and destruction. Ganondorf was on the verge of completely conquering the land of Hyrule, his troops having even penetrated the majestic [[Hyrule Castle]] itself. It was then however that the Goddesses answered the peoples' prayers, instructing them to flee to Hyrule's mountaintops in order to escape the apocalypse they were about to unleash upon the land to halt Ganondorf's invasion. King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule remained behind with his doomed kingdom while he sent his daughter, [[Princess Zelda]], to flee to the mountaintops with their people. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses created a great storm that swept the skies over the beautiful land of Hyrule, causing a torrential downpour. The water began to build and rise, burying the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it beneath the floodwaters. As the water continued to rise, it covered the land, turning it into a vast ocean that sprawled the entire realm, leaving only Hyrule's mountaintops above the waves of the new ocean, turning them into islands. This was not the total end of Hyrule however; the Golden Goddesses cast a spell over the entire country of Hyrule, encasing it within an enchanted air chamber that kept the water from flowing in and destroying the land. In addition, they also cast a magical seal over the [[Master Sword]] and the [[Pedestal of Time]], a seal that would keep the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it (namely Ganondorf and his army) frozen in time right where they stood and drained of color, leaving them as frozen statues beneath the waves of the vast new ocean. This seal also served to limit Ganondorf's power as well; as long as the Master Sword was not pulled from the Pedestal of Time, Hyrule would remain locked in an enchanted slumber and Ganondorf's powers would be severely limited. The Golden Goddesses then crafted a great [[Tower of the Gods|tower]] that would serve to test any aspiring Heroes, to see if they were worthy of wielding the Blade of Evil's Bane and thus destroy the evil that had haunted the land of Hyrule. Only one who conquered the trials of this tower would be permitted to open a portal that would safely transport him to the remains of Hyrule Castle deep beneath the waves and take the up the Master Sword. This tower could only be raised from the bottom of the sea by one possessing the three special [[Goddess Pearls|Pearls of the Goddesses]], one for each Goddess. With this, the land of Hyrule was left largely forgotten at the bottom of the ocean that came to be known in time as the [[Great Sea]]. Hyrule's people would go on to build a new country on the surface of the Great Sea while the memory of the magical land of Hyrule was left forgotten at the bottom of the ocean.
The Hero of Time however did not appear to save Hyrule as had been hoped, having been sent back across the flows of time to his own age. Thus, neither he nor his descendants were present to save Hyrule from Ganon's massacre of the kingdom of Hyrule. Left with no other choice, the people of Hyrule cried out to the three Golden Goddesses for their help in delivering them from Ganon's evil and destruction.<ref name=quote6/> Ganondorf was on the verge of completely conquering the land of Hyrule, his troops having even penetrated the majestic [[Hyrule Castle]] itself. It was then however that the Goddesses answered the peoples' prayers, instructing them to flee to Hyrule's mountaintops in order to escape the apocalypse they were about to unleash upon the land to halt Ganondorf's invasion.<ref name=quote7/> King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule remained behind with his doomed kingdom while he sent his daughter, [[Princess Zelda]], to flee to the mountaintops with their people. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses created a great storm that swept the skies over the beautiful land of Hyrule, causing a torrential downpour. The water began to build and rise, burying the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it beneath the floodwaters. As the water continued to rise, it covered the land, turning it into a vast ocean that sprawled the entire realm, leaving only Hyrule's mountaintops above the waves of the new ocean, turning them into islands. This was not the total end of Hyrule however; the Golden Goddesses cast a spell over the entire country of Hyrule, encasing it within an enchanted air chamber that kept the water from flowing in and destroying the land. In addition, they also cast a magical seal over the [[Master Sword]] and the [[Pedestal of Time]], a seal that would keep the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it (namely Ganondorf and his army) frozen in time right where they stood and drained of color, leaving them as frozen statues beneath the waves of the vast new ocean. This seal also served to limit Ganondorf's power as well; as long as the Master Sword was not pulled from the Pedestal of Time, Hyrule would remain locked in an enchanted slumber and Ganondorf's powers would be severely limited.<ref name=quote8/> The Golden Goddesses then crafted a great [[Tower of the Gods|tower]] that would serve to test any aspiring Heroes, to see if they were worthy of wielding the Blade of Evil's Bane and thus destroy the evil that had haunted the land of Hyrule.<ref>{{cite|This tower, which the pearls of the gods have caused to appear, is a place that the gods of the ancient world prepared so that they might test the courage of men. Only one who is able to overcome the trials that await here will be acknowledged by the gods to be a true hero.|King of Red Lions|The Wind Waker}}</ref> Only one who conquered the trials of this tower would be permitted to open a portal that would safely transport him to the remains of Hyrule Castle deep beneath the waves and take the up the Master Sword. This tower could only be raised from the bottom of the sea by one possessing the three special [[Goddess Pearls|Pearls of the Goddesses]], one for each Goddess.<ref>{{cite|Once you have placed each of the pearls in its proper location, the proving grounds for your courage will become apparent.|King of Red Lions|The Wind Waker}}</ref> With this, the land of Hyrule was left largely forgotten at the bottom of the ocean that came to be known in time as the [[Great Sea]]. Hyrule's people would go on to build a new country on the surface of the Great Sea while the memory of the magical land of Hyrule was left forgotten at the bottom of the ocean.


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==References==

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The Great Flood is the name often associated with a catastrophic deluge that befell the land of Hyrule many years after the end of Ocarina of Time in what many fans have come to call the "Adult Timeline". It occurred when the Dark Lord Ganondorf, the King of Evil who had reigned over the land of Hyrule as a tyrannical usurper king for seven dark years until the reappearance of the Hero of Time and his subsequent defeat at the Hero's hands, escaped from his exile in the tainted Sacred Realm and returned to Hyrule in a fiery rage.[1] After discovering a way to deactivate the Master Sword’s power by means of disposing of the Sages that safeguard its power, Ganondorf assumed his bestial form of the Dark Beast Ganon and attacked the land of Hyrule with his army of evil creatures.[2][3] With the Hero of Time no longer in that branch of Hyrule’s history due to his departure back to his own age and no apparent Hero to take up the Master Sword, the kingdom was left nearly helpless against Ganon’s onslaught.[4][5]Appealing to the Golden Goddesses for their aid in saving them from evil, the people’s prayers were answered when the Goddesses instructed the people to take refuge on the mountaintops of Hyrule and brought down a torrential downpour from the heavens that buried the land of Hyrule beneath a vast ocean that came to be known in time as the Great Sea.[6][7] This was not the complete end of Hyrule however, as Hyrule was sealed within an enchanted air chamber that prevented the water from destroying it. A magical seal was also cast over the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time (now located within Hyrule Castle itself) that froze the entire land of Hyrule and everyone in it right where they stood, freezing them in time and draining them of color, primarily Ganondorf and his army.[8] The people of Hyrule would then go on to build a new civilization on the surface of the Great Sea and, with the passing of time, largely forget the memory of the magical kingdom of Hyrule that still existed deep beneath the waves.[9]

The Legend of the Hero of Time

Ancient legends in the land of Hyrule spoke of a legendary Golden Power, the Triforce, that resided in the magical Sacred Realm and had the power to grant the wishes of one who mastered it in its entirety.[10][11] One day long ago, a man of great evil named Ganondorf, of the Gerudo tribe, schemed to enter this magical realm and lay claim to the Triforce in order to become the true master of the world.[12][13] With the unwitting assistance of a young boy named Link (who would grow up to become the Hero of Time) and Hyrule's Princess Zelda, Ganondorf was able to enter the Sacred Realm through much cunning and deceit.[14] However, because his heart was not in balance, the Triforce separated upon being touched by Ganondorf's tainted hands, leaving him with only the Triforce of Power and transforming the Sacred Realm into a corrupt world of evil and despair.[15][16] The Triforce of Wisdom was then bestowed upon Princess Zelda and the Triforce of Courage upon the Hero of Time respectively.[17] The Hero of Time was put into an enchanted slumber for seven years until he matured enough to properly handle the Blade of Evil's Bane, the Master Sword, which he had removed from the Pedestal of Time.[18] Meanwhile, Zelda went into hiding (disguised as a Sheikah warrior known as Sheik) for the seven dark years of Ganondorf's evil reign over the kingdom as the Usurper King of Hyrule, awaiting the time when Link would reappear and they could overthrow Ganondorf together.[19]

Sure enough, Link returned seven years later from the Sacred Realm and came in search of the mythical Seven Sages who were said to have the power to bind Ganondorf and return the light of peace to Hyrule. Through much toil and trouble, the Hero of Time braved the many evils Ganondorf had cast upon the realm and sought out each of the major temples throughout Hyrule and, on the instructions of Rauru the Sage of Light[20], awakened each of the Seven Sages, who curiously turned out to be figures he himself had befriended in his childhood (Saria the Sage of Forest, Darunia the Sage of Fire, Ruto the Sage of Water, Impa the Sage of Shadow, and Nabooru the Sage of Spirit). After each of the Sages had been awakened, Princess Zelda revealed herself to be the seventh Sage and Leader of the Sages as well as revealing that she and Link both contained the other two pieces of the Triforce Ganondorf had failed to capture.[17] Ganondorf soon captured Zelda however and hoped to use her as bait to lure the Hero of Time to his tower keep at the top of his castle in order to steal the Triforce of Courage back from him.[21] Link followed to the fiend's castle and, with the assistance of the remaining Sages[22], entered Ganon's Castle and fought his way to Ganondorf's throne room atop Ganon's Tower. Here the Hero of Time confronted the King of Evil in an epic battle that ended with Ganondorf collapsing to the ground seemingly dead and Zelda released from her prison. Ganondorf then attempted to crush the two in the ruin of the tower however when he began to bring down his own castle around them.[23] The pair escaped in time however, only to see Ganondorf emerge from the rubble and transform into the Dark Beast Ganon. The Hero of Time then fought Ganon in hand to hand combat and defeated him with the might of the Master Sword, allowing the Sages the time they needed to bind him and throw him back into the void of the Evil Realm before sealing the portal between the worlds.[24][25] Ganondorf screamed in rage that as long as the Triforce of Power was in his hand, he would return one day to exterminate the descendants of the Hero of Time and the Sages to make them pay for his imprisonment.[26] Princess Zelda then used her power as a Sage to send the Hero of Time back to his own age in order to regain his lost childhood.[27] Upon his departure, the Triforce of Courage split apart into eight shards and scattered across the land to be found again one day by another Hero that would have need of its power.[28] The Master Sword was also left in the Hero's wake, being returned to its pedestal in turn. With this act, the Hero of Time vanished from this branch of Hyrule's history, leaving only his legend behind.

Reconstruction

The land of Hyrule began the long process of healing in the wake of Ganondorf's reign of terror over the kingdom that left it a sad ruin of its former self. Hyrule Castle was eventually rebuilt near the center of Hyrule on an island in the center of what appears to be Lake Hylia (as seen in The Wind Waker), which is fed by a river that is believed by some to be Zora's River itself (since Zora's River was known to feed into Lake Hylia). Hyrule's people began to rebuild their shattered kingdom, and the Hyrulean monarchy was eventually restored with Princess Zelda likely having led the effort to rebuild Hyrule and restore it to its former glory. As time would go by, it was eventually decided that a new set of Sages would safeguard the Master Sword's power by continuously praying to the Goddesses for its power to forever remain within its enchanted blade.[29][30] .As such, two new temples were constructed for the so-called "Sages of the Master Sword", with the Wind Temple built inside one of the mountains to the north and the Earth Temple built within another large mountain to the south.[31] The temples were each built with two different entrances, one at ground level and the other residing at the mountain's summit.[32] Three new instruments were also created to carry the Sages' prayers to the Goddesses: a harp that would be held by the Earth Sage, a violin that would be held by the Wind Sage, and a magical conductor's baton known as the Wind Waker that would be used by the sitting ruler of Hyrule to conduct the other two in unison.[33] For unknown reasons (perhaps because the Temple of Time took structural damage during Ganondorf's reign and eventually collapsed), the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time were moved to a special chamber in the basement of Hyrule Castle (protected by a giant statue of the Hero of Time himself), where stained glass windows depicted the Seven Sages and the sealing away of Ganon. So Hyrule knew peace for a time, thanks largely to the efforts of the Seven Sages and the Hero of Time.

Return of the Dark Lord

Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason (possibly because the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time were taken from their original place near the portal to the Sacred Realm), and the Dark Lord Ganondorf saw his chance to escape his imprisonment. Using the might of the Triforce of Power, he was able to successfully shatter the seal, reopening the gateway between the worlds and returning to Hyrule in a red wrath, intending to make good on his final threat to the Hero of Time and the Seven Sages that he would return one day to make their descendants pay for his imprisonment.[2][26] Ganondorf reconstructed his tower base not far away from the new site of Hyrule Castle and attacked Hyrule with his army of dark creatures. The Dark Lord knew the only threat to him lay within the very weapon that defeated him an age before, the Blade of Evil's Bane known as the Master Sword. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by a new set of Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind. Using the power granted to him by the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf crafted two horrible monsters, the giant Poe Jalhalla and the great sand worm Molgera, and ordered them to invade the two new temples with his army and dispose of the Sages. Molgera invaded the Wind Temple and settled into the shrine chamber at the heart of the temple after wiping out the Kokiri Sage of Wind, Fado.[34] In turn, Jalhalla invaded the Earth Temple and also settled into the shrine chamber meant for the Earth Sage, wiping out the Zora Sage of Earth, Laruto.[2] The only consolation for the Sages was that their two special instruments survived the invasion of the temples, and both were passed down to their descendants in turn. There in the depths of the two temples, their spirits would linger on, waiting for their successors to take their rightful place as the new Sages of the Master Sword.[35] With the Master Sword now deactivated and thus powerless against him, Ganondorf reverted to his bestial form of the Dark Beast Ganon and continued his attack on the kingdom of Hyrule. Everywhere he went, he rained much death and destruction all throughout the kingdom as the realm descended into darkness. The sitting King of Hyrule, Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, attempted to use what magic he wielded to stop Ganon, but he was not powerful enough to stop the fiend since Ganondorf possessed the Triforce of Power and had its full strength at his command.[5] The people of Hyrule prayed that the Hero of Time would once again come to save them from the very evil he had once helped seal away and thus deliver them once again from evil's grasp.[4]

The Divine Deluge

The Hero of Time however did not appear to save Hyrule as had been hoped, having been sent back across the flows of time to his own age. Thus, neither he nor his descendants were present to save Hyrule from Ganon's massacre of the kingdom of Hyrule. Left with no other choice, the people of Hyrule cried out to the three Golden Goddesses for their help in delivering them from Ganon's evil and destruction.[6] Ganondorf was on the verge of completely conquering the land of Hyrule, his troops having even penetrated the majestic Hyrule Castle itself. It was then however that the Goddesses answered the peoples' prayers, instructing them to flee to Hyrule's mountaintops in order to escape the apocalypse they were about to unleash upon the land to halt Ganondorf's invasion.[7] King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule remained behind with his doomed kingdom while he sent his daughter, Princess Zelda, to flee to the mountaintops with their people. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses created a great storm that swept the skies over the beautiful land of Hyrule, causing a torrential downpour. The water began to build and rise, burying the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it beneath the floodwaters. As the water continued to rise, it covered the land, turning it into a vast ocean that sprawled the entire realm, leaving only Hyrule's mountaintops above the waves of the new ocean, turning them into islands. This was not the total end of Hyrule however; the Golden Goddesses cast a spell over the entire country of Hyrule, encasing it within an enchanted air chamber that kept the water from flowing in and destroying the land. In addition, they also cast a magical seal over the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time, a seal that would keep the land of Hyrule and everyone still in it (namely Ganondorf and his army) frozen in time right where they stood and drained of color, leaving them as frozen statues beneath the waves of the vast new ocean. This seal also served to limit Ganondorf's power as well; as long as the Master Sword was not pulled from the Pedestal of Time, Hyrule would remain locked in an enchanted slumber and Ganondorf's powers would be severely limited.[8] The Golden Goddesses then crafted a great tower that would serve to test any aspiring Heroes, to see if they were worthy of wielding the Blade of Evil's Bane and thus destroy the evil that had haunted the land of Hyrule.[36] Only one who conquered the trials of this tower would be permitted to open a portal that would safely transport him to the remains of Hyrule Castle deep beneath the waves and take the up the Master Sword. This tower could only be raised from the bottom of the sea by one possessing the three special Pearls of the Goddesses, one for each Goddess.[37] With this, the land of Hyrule was left largely forgotten at the bottom of the ocean that came to be known in time as the Great Sea. Hyrule's people would go on to build a new country on the surface of the Great Sea while the memory of the magical land of Hyrule was left forgotten at the bottom of the ocean.

References

  1. ↑ "The great evil that all thought had been forever sealed away by the hero...once again crept forth from the depths of the earth, eager to resume its dark designs." — Introduction (The Wind Waker)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "After his defeat at the hands of the Hero of Time, Ganondorf was sealed away...but not for all time. He was revived, and he returned to Hyrule in a red wrath. He attacked this temple and stole my soul, knowing that he had to remove the power contained in that enchanted blade." — Laruto (The Wind Waker)
  3. ↑ "Once, long ago, this land of Hyrule was turned into a world of shadows by Ganon, who sought to obtain the power of the gods for his own evil ends." — Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule (The Wind Waker)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The people believed that the Hero of Time would again come to save them. ...But the hero did not appear." — Introduction (The Wind Waker)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "My power alone could not stop the fiend, and our only choice was to leave the fate of the kingdom in the hands of the gods..." — Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule (The Wind Waker)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Faced by an onslaught of evil, the people could do nothing but appeal to the gods. In their last hour, as doom drew nigh, they left their future in the hands of fate." — Introduction (The Wind Waker)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "When the gods heard our pleas, they chose to seal away not only Ganon, but Hyrule itself...and so, with a torrential downpour of rains from the heavens... Our fair kingdom was soon buried beneath the waves, forgotten at the bottom of the ocean. Yet all was not lost.[...] So, before the sealing of the kingdom, the gods chose those who would build a new country and commanded them to take refuge on the mountaintops." — Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule (The Wind Waker)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "By the way, boy... When you drew that sword of yours out of its resting place... Did you by chance notice how all of the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again?[...] While that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time, it has long played another role... You see, it is also a sort of key... a most wretched little key that has kept the seal on me and my magic intact! By withdrawing the blade, you have broken that seal..." — Ganondorf (The Wind Waker)
  9. ↑ "The memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath." — Introduction (The Wind Waker)
  10. ↑ "For it is in that Sacred Realm that one will find the divine relic, the Triforce, which contains the essence of the gods..." — Great Deku Tree (Ocarina of Time)
  11. ↑ "The three goddesses hid the Triforce containing the power of the gods somewhere in Hyrule. The power to grant the wish of the one who holds the Triforce in his hands. If someone with a righteous heart makes a wish, it will lead Hyrule to a golden age of prosperity... If someone with an evil mind has his wish granted, the world will be consumed by evil...That is what has been told..." — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  12. ↑ "This evil man ceaselessly uses his vile, sorcerous powers in his search for the Sacred Realm that is connected to Hyrule..." — Great Deku Tree (Ocarina of Time)
  13. ↑ "What Ganondorf is after must be nothing less than the Triforce of the Sacred Realm. He must have come to Hyrule to obtain it! And, he wants to conquer Hyrule...no, the entire world!" — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  14. ↑ "Though you opened the Door of Time in the name of peace... Ganondorf, the Gerudo King of Thieves, used it to enter this forbidden Sacred Realm! He obtained the Triforce from the Temple of Light, and with its power, he became the King of Evil..." — Rauru (Ocarina of Time)
  15. ↑ "If the heart of the one who holds the sacred triangle has all three forces in balance, that one will gain the True Force to govern all. But, if that one's heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three parts: Power, Wisdom and Courage. Only one part will remain for the one who touched the Triforce...the part representing the force that one most believes in." — Sheik (Ocarina of Time)
  16. ↑ "He went on to invade the Sacred Realm... Ganondorf had become the Evil King, and the Sacred Realm became a world of evil." — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "The one who holds the Triforce of Courage is... You, Link! And the other, who holds the Triforce of Wisdom... is the seventh Sage, who is destined to be the leader of them all... It is I, the Princess of Hyrule, Zelda." — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  18. ↑ "The Master Sword is a sacred blade which evil ones may never touch... Only one worthy of the title of "Hero of Time" can pull it from the Pedestal of Time.... However, you were too young to be the Hero of Time... Therefore, your spirit was sealed here for seven years. And now that you are old enough, the time has come for you to awaken as the Hero of Time!" — Rauru (Ocarina of Time)
  19. ↑ "I apologize for meeting you in disguise, but it was necessary to hide from the King of Evil.[...]I passed myself off as a Sheikah and hoped that you would return. I waited for seven years... And...now you are back. The dark age ruled by Ganondorf the Evil King will end!" — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  20. ↑ "Find the other Sages and save Hyrule!" — Rauru (Ocarina of Time)
  21. ↑ "But, with the Triforce of Wisdom that Zelda has... When I obtain these two Triforces... Then, I will become the true ruler of the world!! If you want to rescue Zelda, come to my castle!" — Ganondorf (Ocarina of Time)
  22. ↑ "It's Rauru, the Sage. We six will gather our power to create a bridge to the castle where Ganondorf dwells..." — Rauru (Ocarina of Time)
  23. ↑ "This tower will collapse soon! With his last breath, Ganondorf is trying to crush us in the ruins of the tower! We need to hurry and escape!" — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  24. ↑ "I'm using my power to hold the Evil King! You use your sword and deliver the final blow!" — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  25. ↑ "Ancient Creators of Hyrule! Now, open the sealed door and send the Evil Incarnation of Darkness into the void of the Evil Realm!!" — Rauru (Ocarina of Time)
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 "YOU... CURSE YOU...ZELDA! CURSE YOU...SAGES!! CURSE YOU...LINK! Someday... When this seal is broken.... That is when I will exterminate your descendants!! As long as the Triforce of Power is in my hand...." — Ganondorf (Ocarina of Time)
  27. ↑ "Link, give the Ocarina to me... As a Sage, I can return you to your original time with it." — Princess Zelda (Ocarina of Time)
  28. ↑ "When the Hero of Time was called to embark on another journey and left the land of Hyrule, he was separated from the elements that made him a hero. It is said that at that time, the Triforce of Courage was split into eight shards and hidden throughout the land." — King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
  29. ↑ "I am a Zora sage. For an age, I offered my prayers here in the Earth Temple, praying that the power to repel evil would ever remain within the Master Sword." — Laruto (The Wind Waker)
  30. ↑ "I am Fado of the Kokiri tribe. I know I appear to you as a child, but the eyes can oft deceive. I am a most esteemed sage. I had been praying here so that the power to repel evil would continue to be contained within the blade of the Master Sword." — Fado (The Wind Waker)
  31. ↑ "The sages should be here in Hyrule...in the Wind Temple to the north and the Earth Temple to the south, praying to the gods." — King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
  32. ↑ "Unfortunately, Ganon seems to have erected some sort of magical barrier down here in Hyrule, blocking our path to the temples. But...each temple should have another entrance high upon Hyrule's mountaintops, which are now islands above the sea." — King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
  33. ↑ "That Wind Waker you hold was used long ago to conduct us sages when we played our song to call upon the gods. In those days, it was always the king who conducted for us..." — Fado (The Wind Waker)
  34. ↑ "I had been praying here so that the power to repel evil would continue to be contained within the blade of the Master Sword... But I was attacked by the evil Ganondorf... and this is what happened to me." — Fado (The Wind Waker)
  35. ↑ "Nothing can stop the flow of time or the passing of generations...but the fate carried within my bloodline endures the ravages of all the years. It survives." — Laruto (The Wind Waker)
  36. ↑ "This tower, which the pearls of the gods have caused to appear, is a place that the gods of the ancient world prepared so that they might test the courage of men. Only one who is able to overcome the trials that await here will be acknowledged by the gods to be a true hero." — King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
  37. ↑ "Once you have placed each of the pearls in its proper location, the proving grounds for your courage will become apparent." — King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
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