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The '''Black Tower''', officially named '''Ambi's Tower''', is a massive tower of stone and grout featured in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages|Oracle of Ages]]'' that was built to the heavens 400 years in [[Labrynna]]'s past by the order of [[Queen Ambi]].<ref>{{cite|This is the entry to the tower being built to the heavens by the order of Queen Ambi.|Construction Worker}}</ref> Originally, the project of building the tower was intended to guide Queen Ambi's love, the [[Captain]], home from the sea. These peaceful plans for the construction of the tower changed however when the Oracle of Ages, [[Nayru (Oracle)|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 the hapless queen to push her people much harder and to build the tower all the way to the heavens so as to go down in history as Labrynna's "greatest queen".<ref>{{cite|Oh... I shall be known as a great queen... Nayru, Oracle of Ages, give me an endless day, so the people can work without stopping to rest! Young and old alike will work toward my ends!|[[Queen Ambi]]}}</ref> She also hoodwinked the queen into allowing her 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,<ref>{{cite|It's not like Queen Ambi to drive us so hard. We're so busy we don't have time to sleep!|Construction Worker}}</ref> Queen Ambi's project, Ambi's Tower, began to earn a new title amongst her subjects: the Black Tower. | The '''Black Tower''', officially named '''Ambi's Tower''', is a massive tower of stone and grout featured in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages|Oracle of Ages]]'' that was built to the heavens 400 years in [[Labrynna]]'s past by the order of [[Queen Ambi]].<ref>{{cite|This is the entry to the tower being built to the heavens by the order of Queen Ambi.|Construction Worker}}</ref> Originally, the project of building the tower was intended to guide Queen Ambi's love, the [[Captain]], home from the sea. These peaceful plans for the construction of the tower changed however when the Oracle of Ages, [[Nayru (Oracle)|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 the hapless queen to push her people much harder and to build the tower all the way to the heavens so as to go down in history as Labrynna's "greatest queen".<ref>{{cite|Oh... I shall be known as a great queen... Nayru, Oracle of Ages, give me an endless day, so the people can work without stopping to rest! Young and old alike will work toward my ends!|[[Queen Ambi]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Queen Ambi...Now, with my powers, the flow of time is yours to command. For you, I shall create a day that never ends, so the people will never sleep, and work on the tower can continue. And when the tower reaches the heavens, you shall go down in history as the greatest queen to ever live!|[[Possessed Nayru]]}}</ref> She also hoodwinked the queen into allowing her 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,<ref>{{cite|It's not like Queen Ambi to drive us so hard. We're so busy we don't have time to sleep!|Construction Worker}}</ref> Queen Ambi's project, Ambi's Tower, began to earn a new title amongst her subjects: the Black Tower. | ||
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Some time before the events of ''Oracle of Ages'', Her Royal Highness [[Queen Ambi]] of [[Labrynna]] fell deeply in love with a [[Captain|sea-faring man]] who intensely loved her in return. This sea-faring man, the Captain, was the leader of a band of pirates that thirsted for adventure on the high seas beyond Labrynna's borders, much like himself. Despite his great love for Ambi, there came a day that the Captain's thirst for adventure prompted him to take his men and set out to discover what truly lay beyond Labrynna's coasts. While he and his men went off adventuring across the [[Zora Seas]], Ambi remained behind in Labrynna to fulfill her duties as the ruler of the kingdom, but she yearned to see her beloved again and prayed that he would safely return to her one day, so that their relationship with each other could be continued. | Some time before the events of ''Oracle of Ages'', Her Royal Highness [[Queen Ambi]] of [[Labrynna]] fell deeply in love with a [[Captain|sea-faring man]] who intensely loved her in return. This sea-faring man, the Captain, was the leader of a band of pirates that thirsted for adventure on the high seas beyond Labrynna's borders, much like himself. Despite his great love for Ambi, there came a day that the Captain's thirst for adventure prompted him to take his men and set out to discover what truly lay beyond Labrynna's coasts. While he and his men went off adventuring across the [[Zora Seas]], Ambi remained behind in Labrynna to fulfill her duties as the ruler of the kingdom, but she yearned to see her beloved again and prayed that he would safely return to her one day, so that their relationship with each other could be continued. | ||
Over the course of her reign, Ambi developed a reputation as a very kind and benevolent ruler that came to be beloved by her subjects. However, as time went by, Ambi grew increasingly concerned about the Captain's safety and began to wonder what had become of him or whether he would ever return to her. Eventually, her worry and distraction in regards to the Captain grew to such large proportions that she conceived a plan to either learn his location or guide him home from his lost adventure: to construct an immense tower that would be tall enough that it could see out all across the land and far across the sea. In this way, Ambi intended to erect the tower with peaceful intentions so as to search the land and sea for her beloved Captain or for it to act as a large beacon that would guide him home from the sea back to Labrynna. She hoped that wherever he was, the Captain would be able to see the tower and would thus have a means of finding his way back home to where she loyally awaited his return. This tower was then given the official title of "Ambi's Tower". | Over the course of her reign, Ambi developed a reputation as a very kind and benevolent ruler that came to be beloved by her subjects. However, as time went by, Ambi grew increasingly concerned about the Captain's safety and began to wonder what had become of him or whether he would ever return to her. Eventually, her worry and distraction in regards to the Captain grew to such large proportions that she conceived a plan to either learn his location or guide him home from his lost adventure: to construct an immense tower that would be tall enough that it could see out all across the land and far across the sea. In this way, Ambi intended to erect the tower with peaceful intentions so as to search the land and sea for her beloved Captain or for it to act as a large beacon that would guide him home from the sea back to Labrynna. She hoped that wherever he was, the Captain would be able to see the tower and would thus have a means of finding his way back home to where she loyally awaited his return. This tower was then given the official title of "Ambi's Tower".<ref>{{cite|Queen Ambi had a boyfriend--a seafaring man. But he set sail one day and never came back. She's building a tall tower so she can search the lands for any sign of his return. It's called Ambi's Tower. It was a touching tale...|Resident of Lynna Village}}</ref> | ||
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Meanwhile, 400 years in the future beyond Ambi's reign, the Sorceress of Shadows known as [[Veran]] took possession of Zelda's nursemaid, [[Impa]], and used her body to gain Link's trust so as to get him to remove a barrier that was preventing her from approaching the location of [[Nayru (Oracle)|Nayru]], the Oracle of Ages. Once this was accomplished and the pair had met with Nayru herself in the [[Forest of Time]], the evil sorceress left the body of Impa and possessed Nayru's instead. Once Veran was secured in Nayru's body, the [[Possessed Nayru]] opened a Time Portal to the past, journeying back 400 years to the reign of Queen Ambi. | Meanwhile, 400 years in the future beyond Ambi's reign, the Sorceress of Shadows known as [[Veran]] took possession of Zelda's nursemaid, [[Impa]], and used her body to gain Link's trust so as to get him to remove a barrier that was preventing her from approaching the location of [[Nayru (Oracle)|Nayru]], the Oracle of Ages. Once this was accomplished and the pair had met with Nayru herself in the [[Forest of Time]], the evil sorceress left the body of Impa and possessed Nayru's instead. Once Veran was secured in Nayru's body, the [[Possessed Nayru]] opened a Time Portal to the past, journeying back 400 years to the reign of Queen Ambi. | ||
Shortly after her arrival in Ambi's age, Veran used the form of Nayru to seduce Queen Ambi and used the queen's kind heart against her, becoming her most trusted adviser as a result. As Nayru, Veran persuaded Ambi to send those closest to her away from [[Ambi's Palace]] and to have the palace sealed off from the general public. This would ensure that Veran's grip on Ambi would go unopposed and serve to isolate the queen from anybody that may have brought her to her senses about Nayru's true nature. Pretending to sympathize with the queen's story of lost love, Veran began to twist the project of Ambi's Tower to serve her own purposes secretly. She persuaded Ambi that if she built the tower all the way to the heavens that history would forever remember her as Labrynna's greatest queen.<ref>{{cite|They said the Oracle of Ages convinced Queen Ambi to build a Black Tower...|[[Maku Tree (Female)|Maku Tree]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Ambi's Tower will soon be complete! Once Ambi's Tower is done, history shall remember me as the greatest of queens!|[[Queen Ambi]]}}</ref> Ambi was tricked into allowing Nayru to create an endless day so that construction of the tower could continue uninterrupted. The queen was oblivious however to the fact that by forcing her people to work continuously on the tower without rest, she would inadvertently bring untold sorrow and misery to her subjects, which was exactly what Veran wanted. As these events unfolded, the citizens of [[Lynna Village]] began to secretly give the tower a new but ominous title: the Black Tower.<ref>{{cite|At first, this tower was being built to guide Queen Ambi's love safely back from the sea. But ever since Nayru came, the sun sits high in the sky as if time itself has stopped. It's not like Queen Ambi to push us so hard. In the village, they've started calling it the Black Tower.| | Shortly after her arrival in Ambi's age, Veran used the form of Nayru to seduce Queen Ambi and used the queen's kind heart against her, becoming her most trusted adviser as a result. As Nayru, Veran persuaded Ambi to send those closest to her away from [[Ambi's Palace]] and to have the palace sealed off from the general public. This would ensure that Veran's grip on Ambi would go unopposed and serve to isolate the queen from anybody that may have brought her to her senses about Nayru's true nature. Pretending to sympathize with the queen's story of lost love, Veran began to twist the project of Ambi's Tower to serve her own purposes secretly. She persuaded Ambi that if she built the tower all the way to the heavens that history would forever remember her as Labrynna's greatest queen.<ref>{{cite|They said the Oracle of Ages convinced Queen Ambi to build a Black Tower...|[[Maku Tree (Female)|Maku Tree]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Ambi's Tower will soon be complete! Once Ambi's Tower is done, history shall remember me as the greatest of queens!|[[Queen Ambi]]}}</ref> Ambi was tricked into allowing Nayru to create an endless day so that construction of the tower could continue uninterrupted. The queen was oblivious however to the fact that by forcing her people to work continuously on the tower without rest, she would inadvertently bring untold sorrow and misery to her subjects, which was exactly what Veran wanted. As these events unfolded, the citizens of [[Lynna Village]] began to secretly give the tower a new but ominous title: the Black Tower.<ref>{{cite|At first, this tower was being built to guide Queen Ambi's love safely back from the sea. But ever since Nayru came, the sun sits high in the sky as if time itself has stopped. It's not like Queen Ambi to push us so hard. In the village, they've started calling it the Black Tower.|Construction Worker}}</ref><ref>{{cite|There are few who still call it Ambi's Tower. Now everyone calls it the Black Tower.|Resident of Lynna Village}}</ref> | ||
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