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The origins of the Four Sword are revealed in ''The Minish Cap'', where it is revealed to have once been known as the [[Picori Blade]] and was used by the [[Hero of Men]] to lock away the beasts that plagued Hyrule during the [[War of the Bound Chest]].<ref name="prologue"></ref> By the start of the game, many long years have passed since the war, and the annual [[Picori Festival]] is being put on while marking the hundredth year since the Minish last came to Hyrule (as the [[Minish Door]] opens only once a century). The festival's sword-fighting tournament winner gains the honor of approaching the [[Bound Chest]] and touching the Picori Blade itself.<ref name="winner"></ref> The winner this year is a new face in Hyrule, a dark stranger named [[Vaati]].<ref>{{cite|Let the award ceremony commence! Vaati, champion of the competition, you may approach the blade!|Potho|MC}}</ref> However, the stranger reveals he is a powerful sorcerer and uses his dark magic to blast open the Bound Chest thinking the [[Light Force]] is inside, shattering the Picori Blade in the process.<ref>{{cite|...?!? Empty? There was nothing in there but those monsters? What is the meaning of this? Well, I know the force I'm after is somewhere out there. I'm in no hurry. I can take my time searching for it. Heh heh heh...|Vaati|MC}}</ref> When the evil sorcerer turns [[Princess Zelda]] to stone, Hyrule's [[King Daltus]] sends [[Link]] (and consequently his companion, [[Ezlo]]) on a quest to restore the Picori Blade and use its power to break Vaati's curse on Princess Zelda.<ref>{{cite|If Link has recovered, then yes, I would like to ask this of him. Please, turn my precious Zelda back to normal. The Picori should know how to create a new sacred sword.|King Daltus|MC}}</ref> | The origins of the Four Sword are revealed in ''The Minish Cap'', where it is revealed to have once been known as the [[Picori Blade]] and was used by the [[Hero of Men]] to lock away the beasts that plagued Hyrule during the [[War of the Bound Chest]].<ref name="prologue"></ref> By the start of the game, many long years have passed since the war, and the annual [[Picori Festival]] is being put on while marking the hundredth year since the Minish last came to Hyrule (as the [[Minish Door]] opens only once a century). The festival's sword-fighting tournament winner gains the honor of approaching the [[Bound Chest]] and touching the Picori Blade itself.<ref name="winner"></ref> The winner this year is a new face in Hyrule, a dark stranger named [[Vaati]].<ref>{{cite|Let the award ceremony commence! Vaati, champion of the competition, you may approach the blade!|Potho|MC}}</ref> However, the stranger reveals he is a powerful sorcerer and uses his dark magic to blast open the Bound Chest thinking the [[Light Force]] is inside, shattering the Picori Blade in the process.<ref>{{cite|...?!? Empty? There was nothing in there but those monsters? What is the meaning of this? Well, I know the force I'm after is somewhere out there. I'm in no hurry. I can take my time searching for it. Heh heh heh...|Vaati|MC}}</ref> When the evil sorcerer turns [[Princess Zelda]] to stone, Hyrule's [[King Daltus]] sends [[Link]] (and consequently his companion, [[Ezlo]]) on a quest to restore the Picori Blade and use its power to break Vaati's curse on Princess Zelda.<ref>{{cite|If Link has recovered, then yes, I would like to ask this of him. Please, turn my precious Zelda back to normal. The Picori should know how to create a new sacred sword.|King Daltus|MC}}</ref> | ||
To this end, Link has the blade's fragments re-forged into the [[White Sword]] by the master Minish smithy [[Melari]] and learns from the Minish that he needs the mystical [[Elements|Four Elements]] in order to transform it into a new sacred sword.<ref name="reforged">{{cite|Wow! That was fast work! But not so fast that I didn't finish your sword! Here, take a look! I call this blade the White Sword!|Melari|MC}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Once you infuse it with the power of the elements, it will become a sacred blade!|Melari|MC}}</ref> The Four Elements are the crystalline jewels infused with the powers of the four major elements of the world: earth, air, fire and water. They are scattered all across Hyrule in different locations, and Link must take them to the [[Elemental Sanctuary]] located in [[Hyrule Castle]]'s courtyard in order to infuse each into the blade of the re-forged sword.<ref>{{cite|If you want to infuse the sword, you must go to the elemental sanctuary. The sanctuary is a strange realm, trapped between two worlds. It is the bridge between the Minish world and the human world.|Melari|MC}}</ref> Meanwhile, Vaati, still searching for the Light Force,<ref>{{cite|You all know of the power the Picori gave to mankind, do you not? The golden light force of limitless magical power... I want it!!! It is somewhere here in Hyrule! Go now, and bring me this power!|King Daltus|MC}}</ref> learns that it rests in a sealed chamber within the Elemental Sanctuary, and that the sacred blade is necessary to gain access to it. The villain decides to wait for Link to restore the sacred blade and use him to gain entry to this chamber. This plan succeeds when Link successfully retrieves the final element, the [[Elements#Wind Element|Wind Element]], from the [[Palace of Winds]] and brings it to the Elemental Sanctuary, where infusing its power into the blade alongside the others fully regenerates the blade and transforms it into the Four Sword. This opens the chamber revealing the location of the Light Force, which turns out to be embodied within the body of Princess Zelda. Vaati learns this and takes Zelda to the roof of the now [[Dark Hyrule Castle]] to perform the ceremony necessary to extract the Light Force from her.<ref>{{cite|Well, you're too late. A mere three more chimes to the bell will bring the ceremony to its end! And with the third toll of the bell, I will become like a god! And your precious Princess Zelda will be nothing more than cold, dead stone.|Vaati|MC}}</ref> Link arrives in time to stop the ceremony and is forced to confront Vaati in several deadly forms (ending with him finally transforming into his Wind Mage form), | To this end, Link has the blade's fragments re-forged into the [[White Sword]] by the master Minish smithy [[Melari]] and learns from the Minish that he needs the mystical [[Elements|Four Elements]] in order to transform it into a new sacred sword.<ref name="reforged">{{cite|Wow! That was fast work! But not so fast that I didn't finish your sword! Here, take a look! I call this blade the White Sword!|Melari|MC}}</ref><ref>{{cite|Once you infuse it with the power of the elements, it will become a sacred blade!|Melari|MC}}</ref> The Four Elements are the crystalline jewels infused with the powers of the four major elements of the world: earth, air, fire and water. They are scattered all across Hyrule in different locations, and Link must take them to the [[Elemental Sanctuary]] located in [[Hyrule Castle]]'s courtyard in order to infuse each into the blade of the re-forged sword.<ref>{{cite|If you want to infuse the sword, you must go to the elemental sanctuary. The sanctuary is a strange realm, trapped between two worlds. It is the bridge between the Minish world and the human world.|Melari|MC}}</ref> Meanwhile, Vaati, still searching for the Light Force,<ref>{{cite|You all know of the power the Picori gave to mankind, do you not? The golden light force of limitless magical power... I want it!!! It is somewhere here in Hyrule! Go now, and bring me this power!|King Daltus|MC}}</ref> learns that it rests in a sealed chamber within the Elemental Sanctuary, and that the sacred blade is necessary to gain access to it. The villain decides to wait for Link to restore the sacred blade and use him to gain entry to this chamber. This plan succeeds when Link successfully retrieves the final element, the [[Elements#Wind Element|Wind Element]], from the [[Palace of Winds]] and brings it to the Elemental Sanctuary, where infusing its power into the blade alongside the others fully regenerates the blade and transforms it into the Four Sword. This opens the chamber revealing the location of the Light Force, which turns out to be embodied within the body of Princess Zelda. Vaati learns this and takes Zelda to the roof of the now [[Dark Hyrule Castle]] to perform the ceremony necessary to extract the Light Force from her.<ref>{{cite|Well, you're too late. A mere three more chimes to the bell will bring the ceremony to its end! And with the third toll of the bell, I will become like a god! And your precious Princess Zelda will be nothing more than cold, dead stone.|Vaati|MC}}</ref> Link arrives in time to stop the ceremony and is forced to confront Vaati in several deadly forms (ending with him finally transforming into his Wind Mage form). By creating four copies of himself, Link finally manages to destroy him. | ||
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