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The {{name|Great Flood}} is the name often associated with a deluge that befell the land of [[Hyrule]] many years after the end of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' in the [[Adult Timeline]]. Described in the introduction of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Wind Waker]]'', it occurred when [[Ganon]]dorf escaped from his imprisonment in the [[Sacred Realm]] and returned to Hyrule, after the departure of the Hero of Time.<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>  

Many years after the departure of the [[Hero of Time]], the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and [[Ganon]]dorf managed to escape his imprisonment. Ganondorf intended to make good on his threat to the Hero of Time and the Seven Sages that he would escape one day to make their descendants pay for his imprisonment.<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><ref name=quote3>{{cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|[[Ganon]]dorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> As the darkness was covering the land, the people of Hyrule prayed that the Hero of Time would once again come to save them, but the hero did not appear.<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>