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One hundred years prior to the game, a prophecy warned of the return of Calamity Ganon.{{Fact}} Hoping to prepare in the same fashion as their ancestors, the people of Hyrule began working to locate and excavate the Divine Beasts and Guardians.{{Fact}} Four [[Champion]]s from each of Hyrule's races were chosen to pilot the Divine Beast of their people and the restoration of the mechanical army seemed to be a phenomenal success.{{Fact}} Meanwhile, Princess Zelda worked to awaken her sealing powers alongside a young knight, Link, who had been appointed as her protector.{{Fact}} Zelda was determined to awaken her power and prayed at the three springs of the goddesses in Hyrule, but her efforts were met with failure.{{Fact}} Minutes after she had finished praying at the [[Spring of Wisdom]], the Calamity broke its seal and rose up around the castle. In a move that surprised everyone, however, it managed to corrupt the entire Guardian army with its Malice and turned them against Hyrule.{{Fact}} Even the Divine Beasts, with their pilots slain, fell under the control of incarnations of Ganon's [[Malice]].{{Fact}} With their strongest weapons turned against them, Hyrule was laid to ruin and Link grievously wounded, requiring him to sleep in a [[Shrine of Resurrection|Sheikah healing chamber]] for 100 years.{{Fact}} Princess Zelda went to confront the Calamity Ganon on her own and managed to seal it once more, though this required her to also become its prisoner to maintain the seal.<ref name="Old Man"/> | One hundred years prior to the game, a prophecy warned of the return of Calamity Ganon.{{Fact}} Hoping to prepare in the same fashion as their ancestors, the people of Hyrule began working to locate and excavate the Divine Beasts and Guardians.{{Fact}} Four [[Champion]]s from each of Hyrule's races were chosen to pilot the Divine Beast of their people and the restoration of the mechanical army seemed to be a phenomenal success.{{Fact}} Meanwhile, Princess Zelda worked to awaken her sealing powers alongside a young knight, Link, who had been appointed as her protector.{{Fact}} Zelda was determined to awaken her power and prayed at the three springs of the goddesses in Hyrule, but her efforts were met with failure.{{Fact}} Minutes after she had finished praying at the [[Spring of Wisdom]], the Calamity broke its seal and rose up around the castle. In a move that surprised everyone, however, it managed to corrupt the entire Guardian army with its Malice and turned them against Hyrule.{{Fact}} Even the Divine Beasts, with their pilots slain, fell under the control of incarnations of Ganon's [[Malice]].{{Fact}} With their strongest weapons turned against them, Hyrule was laid to ruin and Link grievously wounded, requiring him to sleep in a [[Shrine of Resurrection|Sheikah healing chamber]] for 100 years.{{Fact}} Princess Zelda went to confront the Calamity Ganon on her own and managed to seal it once more, though this required her to also become its prisoner to maintain the seal.<ref name="Old Man"/> | ||
Throughout Link's journey during the events of ''Breath of the Wild'', the Calamity can be seen swarming around Hyrule Castle, | Throughout Link's journey during the events of ''Breath of the Wild'', the Calamity can be seen swarming around Hyrule Castle, where Zelda is using her power to keep him tethered there. When Link arrives at the [[Sanctum]] of [[Hyrule Castle]], Ganon is found hibernating within a cocoon, attempting to regenerate a physical form.<ref>{{Cite|Hibernating within a cocoon, it attempted to regenerate a physical form after Link awoke but was forced to confront him in an incomplete state.|Hyrule Compendium|BotW}}</ref> Link awakes Ganon from this process prematurely, confronting it in an incomplete form resembling a grotesque mixture of Ganondorf, Malice and Guardian parts. Calamity Ganon fights with a mixture of attacks used by its four incarnations of Malice. | ||
====Dark Beast Ganon==== | ====Dark Beast Ganon==== | ||
