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The {{name|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 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>

~~==Involvments==~~

==Return of the Dark Lord==

~~===Characters===~~

Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and the Dark Lord [[Ganon|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. Ganondorf intended 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>{{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><ref name=quote3>{{cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower headquarters]] not far away from 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 previously, the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind.

*[[Ganondorf]]

*[[Golden Goddesses]]

*[[Laruto]]

*[[Fado]]

*[[Princess Zelda]]

~~===Items===~~

*[[Triforce]]

*[[Master Sword]]

*[[Goddess Pearls]]

~~===Places===~~

*[[Hyrule Castle]]

*[[Earth Temple|Earth]] and [[Wind Temple]]s

*[[Ganon's Tower]]

~~==Event Procedure==~~

~~===Reconstruction of Hyrule===~~

~~[[File:Hyrule-The Wind Waker.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hyrule as it looked at the time of the Great Flood.]]~~

After the Hero of Time defeated Ganon and returned to his own time, as seen in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]],'' the land of Hyrule began the long process of healing in the wake of Ganondorf's reign of terror. [[Hyrule Castle]] was rebuilt near the center of Hyrule on an island in the center of a large lake. For unknown reasons, 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, which is shown holding the [[Master Sword#The Wind Waker|Master Sword]] and [[Mirror Shield#The Wind Waker|Mirror Shield]]), where stained glass windows depicted the [[Sage|Seven Sages]] and the sealing away of [[Ganon]]. The Master Sword is surrounded by several large statues of Hylian knights extending their swords upward, crossing each other's. At times the statues may lower or raise their blades.

~~{{clear|left}}~~

===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, and the Dark Lord [[Ganon|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. Ganondorf intended 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>{{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><ref name=quote3>{{cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower headquarters]] 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 previously, the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind.

[[File:Normal opening 4.png|thumb|350px|right|The Hero of Time journeys through the currents of time to return to his own age.]]

Using the power granted to him by the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf entered the [[Wind Temple]] and [[Earth Temple]] and lay siege to the two Sages.<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> <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 continued his attack on the kingdom of Hyrule. The [[King of Hyrule]], [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]], attempted to use the extent of his magic to stop Ganon, but could not overcome the Dark Lord, and left Hyrule's fate to the Goddesses.<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>{{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>

===The Divine Deluge===

==The Divine Deluge==

[[File:Normal opening 5.png|300px|thumb|left|The people of Hyrule pray to the Goddesses for deliverance, resulting in the Great Flood.]]

The Hero of Time did not appear to save Hyrule, having been sent back across the flows of time to his own age. 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.<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> Ganondorf was on the verge of completely conquering the land of Hyrule, his troops having even penetrated [[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, though evidenced by [[Tetra]]'s survival, it is implied that he had [[Princess Zelda]] be among her people at the time of the flood. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses caused a torrential downpour, covering the land and turning the mountaintops into islands.

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 The {{name|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 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>
-==Involvments==
+==Return of the Dark Lord==
-===Characters===
+Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and the Dark Lord [[Ganon|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. Ganondorf intended 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>{{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><ref name=quote3>{{cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower headquarters]] not far away from 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 previously, the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind.
-*[[Ganondorf]]
-*[[Golden Goddesses]]
-*[[Laruto]]
-*[[Fado]]
-*[[Princess Zelda]]
-===Items===
-*[[Triforce]]
-*[[Master Sword]]
-*[[Goddess Pearls]]
-===Places===
-*[[Hyrule Castle]]
-*[[Earth Temple|Earth]] and [[Wind Temple]]s
-*[[Ganon's Tower]]
-==Event Procedure==
-===Reconstruction of Hyrule===
-[[File:Hyrule-The Wind Waker.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hyrule as it looked at the time of the Great Flood.]]
-After the Hero of Time defeated Ganon and returned to his own time, as seen in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]],'' the land of Hyrule began the long process of healing in the wake of Ganondorf's reign of terror. [[Hyrule Castle]] was rebuilt near the center of Hyrule on an island in the center of a large lake. For unknown reasons, 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, which is shown holding the [[Master Sword#The Wind Waker|Master Sword]] and [[Mirror Shield#The Wind Waker|Mirror Shield]]), where stained glass windows depicted the [[Sage|Seven Sages]] and the sealing away of [[Ganon]]. The Master Sword is surrounded by several large statues of Hylian knights extending their swords upward, crossing each other's. At times the statues may lower or raise their blades.
-{{clear|left}}
-===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, and the Dark Lord [[Ganon|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. Ganondorf intended 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>{{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><ref name=quote3>{{cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|Ganondorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> Ganondorf reconstructed his [[Ganon's Tower|tower headquarters]] 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 previously, the [[Master Sword]]. He sought to render the blade powerless against him and discovered its power was protected by Sages, the Sage of Earth and the Sage of Wind.
 [[File:Normal opening 4.png|thumb|350px|right|The Hero of Time journeys through the currents of time to return to his own age.]]
 Using the power granted to him by the Triforce of Power, Ganondorf entered the [[Wind Temple]] and [[Earth Temple]] and lay siege to the two Sages.<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> <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 continued his attack on the kingdom of Hyrule. The [[King of Hyrule]], [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]], attempted to use the extent of his magic to stop Ganon, but could not overcome the Dark Lord, and left Hyrule's fate to the Goddesses.<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>{{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>
 {{clear}}
-===The Divine Deluge===
+==The Divine Deluge==
 [[File:Normal opening 5.png|300px|thumb|left|The people of Hyrule pray to the Goddesses for deliverance, resulting in the Great Flood.]]
 The Hero of Time did not appear to save Hyrule, having been sent back across the flows of time to his own age. 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.<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>  Ganondorf was on the verge of completely conquering the land of Hyrule, his troops having even penetrated [[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, though evidenced by [[Tetra]]'s survival, it is implied that he had [[Princess Zelda]] be among her people at the time of the flood. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses caused a torrential downpour, covering the land and turning the mountaintops into islands.

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