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Maple in A Link to the Past

Maple is an apprentice witch of her grandmother, Syrup, in Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. In the Game Boy Advance remake of A Link to the Past, the young witch replaces the generic assistant of Syrup as the Magic Shop's keeper.

Personality

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Maple in the Oracle series

She likes to sneak out and fly her broomstick, though her skills on it are somewhat questionable, often swooping about and crashing into Link. Maple's inability to control her broomstick causes many of her, and Link's, items to scatter about the ground. However, in order for Maple to crash in to Link, Link must walk up to Maple while she is riding the broomstick, ironically.

Maple appears after Link has killed thirty monsters, or fifteen while wearing the Maple's Ring. Whenever Link 'bumps' into Maple, a large amount of both of their items are thrown about the area. Maple will waste little time gathering her dropped items, grabbing everything, even Link's items. Depending on how many of Link's fallen rupees she is able to collect over time, Maple will eventually trade her broom for a vacuum cleaner. In a Linked Game, Maple is even capable of riding a flying saucer. Link will not drop any major items when bumping into Maple, such as the sword, Pieces of Heart or the Seed Satchel.

In A Link to the Past, when Link talks to her in the Magic Shop, Maple gives him a sample of Red Potion, effectively restoring all his heart containers.

Characteristics

Maple follows Link around, even through time in Oracle of Ages, flying down to him every 30 enemies, or 15 with the Maple's Ring, he defeats. The rarity of the item she has, usually the ring, is often signified by how erratically she flies. The more complex the path she takes, the rarer the items she has. Maple appears only on certain screens of the map (see the gallery below).

Item Priority

The items dropped by both Maple and Link have a certain priority level to Maple. Depending on what is dropped, this can be used to Link's advantage. The priorities, from greatest to least, are as follows:

1. Piece of Heart
2. Gasha Seed
3. Magic Potion
4. Magic Ring
5. Bombs
6. Mystical Seeds
7. Recovery Hearts
8. Red Rupees
9. Green Rupees

Her preference for Gasha Seeds makes obtaining a Magic Potion or Magic Ring far easier if she also drops a Gasha Seed.

Manga

Non-Canon Information

Maple plays a fairly large role in the Oracle of Seasons manga, alongside Ricky and Link, journeying with them after meeting in the Temple of Seasons. Maple constantly says she only tags along because she wants the Rod of Seasons, but after obtaining it from Link through a stroke of good luck on her part and leaving them, Maple eventually returns to Link's aid just in time to help him defeat Gorgon (in the manga)/Onox. She is depicted in the manga as a kind witch, despite her selfishness who does not have constant effective control over most of her spells. She is essential in the defeat of Dark Dragon.

Trivia

• Her name combined with her teacher's makes Maple Syrup, a mixture made from tree sap similar to Syrup's ingredients.
• Maple bears a resemblance to Beth from Twilight Princess.

Gallery

• File:Maple Locations OoS.png

  The places where Maple can be found in Oracle of Seasons

• File:Ooa-maple1.png

  The places where Maple can be found in the present map of Holodrum (marked in red)

• File:Ooa-maple2.png

  The places where Maple can be found in the past map of Holodrum (marked in red)

• File:The Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Ages.png

  Maple at the end of Oracle of Ages listening to Nayru.

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