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===The Era without a Hero===

[[File:TWW Scroll of the Hero of Time 4.png|400px|thumb|The Hero of Time leaves and Ganon returns.]]

Many years after the Hero of Time's victory, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and [[Ganondorf]] managed to escape his imprisonment. Ganondorf intended to make good on his threat to the Hero of Time and the Seven Sages that he would escape 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]]|TWW}}</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]]|TWW}}</ref><ref name=quote3>{{Cite|Someday...When this seal is broken....That is when I will exterminate your descendants!!|[[Ganondorf]]|OoT}}</ref>

The people of Hyrule hoped that the Hero of Time would show up to save them, but the hero did not appear. Left with no other choice, they pleaded to the gods.<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|TWW}}</ref> The gods answered their prayers by instructing those chosen to take refuge on the mountaintops before they flooded Hyrule, keeping Ganon and his army trapped in time underneath the waves.<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. For the gods knew that to seal the people away with the kingdom would be to grant Ganon's wish for the destruction of the land. 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]]|TWW}}</ref>

The people of Hyrule would then go on to build a new civilization on the surface of the [[Great Sea]] and, with the passing of time, largely forget the memory of the old Hyrule that still existed deep beneath the waves.<ref>{{Cite|The memory of the kingdom vanished, but its legend survived on the wind's breath.|Introduction|TWW}}</ref> On [[Outset Island]], a tradition emerged of having young boys wear the green garb of the Hero of Time for one day on their birthdays.<ref>{{Cite|On a certain island, it became customary to garb boys in green when they came of age. Clothed in the green of fields, they aspired to find  heroic blades and cast down evil. The elders wished only for the youths to know courage like the hero of legend...|Introduction|TWW}}</ref>

[[File:TWW World Artwork.png|thumb|left|195px|Characters from the Great Sea]]

Beneath the waves, Ganon was revived and sought out the two sages who prayed for the power of the Master Sword. He killed them in order to stop the sword's power to repel evil and reach the surface world. He built a base in the [[Forsaken Fortress]] and filled it with his dark army. He sought out all young girls with long, pointed ears, in hopes that he would capture the descendant of Princess Zelda. In response, King [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]] also awoke and used his powers to guide a boat called the [[King of Red Lions]] on the surface world.<ref>{{Cite Book|quote=Hundreds of years passed, and Ganondorf, who should have been sealed at the bottom of the ocean along with Hyrule, was resurrected once again. He gave an order to his minions to attack the Wind and Earth temples, killing the two sages whose prayers gave the Master Sword the ability to destroy evil. Upon emerging from the sea, he turned the Forsaken Fortress into his base of operations and began his search for Princess Zelda, a descendent of the royal family who possessed the Triforce of Wisdom. King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule, ordered by the gods to put an end to Ganondorf's ambitions, awoke from his slumber. His spirit took up residence in a small red boat known as the King of Red Lions, and he began searching for the new Hero and the descendent of the royal family.|book={{HH}}|page=124|publisher=Dark Horse Books}}</ref>

On Outset, a young boy named Link came of age and was given the [[Hero's Clothes]] to wear for one day. Unfortunately, this was the day that the terrible bird called the [[Helmaroc King]] attacked the island, carrying the pirate captain named [[Tetra]]. The bird dropped Tetra on the island, but left with Link's sister [[Aryll]]. Link joined forces with Tetra's pirates in order to storm the Forsaken Fortress and rescue Aryll. The Helmaroc King captured Link once he reached Aryll's cell, and showed him to Ganon. Ganon thought the boy was worthless, so the bird threw him into the sea. Luckily, the King of Red Lions rescued Link and brought him to [[Windfall Island]]. Along with the magical baton called the [[Wind Waker (Item)|Wind Waker]], they journeyed across the Great Sea in order to retrieve the [[Goddess Pearls]] and open the gateway to Hyrule. Link raised the [[Tower of the Gods]] to the surface and proved his worth to be a hero by passing its trials. Then, he ventured down the ancient kingdom of Hyrule and drew the Master Sword from its pedestal.<ref>{{Cite Book|quote=Link's courage was recognized as he underwent the trials in the Tower of the Gods. He obtained the legendary blade known as the Master Sword in Hyrule, the kingdom sealed deep under the ocean.|book={{HH}}|page=126|publisher=Dark Horse Books}}</ref>

With the Master Sword in hand, Link went to challenge Ganon in the Forsaken Fortress, but Ganon told him that the sword was powerless to defeat him, because it did not have the power to repel evil. Link went back to Hyrule with Tetra, where the King of Red Lions revealed himself as the King of Hyrule and Tetra as his descendant Princess Zelda. Link then searched for the Sages of Earth and Wind in order to restore the power of the Master Sword. He awakened [[Medli]] as Sage of Earth and [[Makar]] as Sage of Wind. Their prayers restored power to the Master Sword. Link then searched for the [[Triforce of Courage]], which had been split into eight pieces when the Hero of Time left to return to his own time. Armed with the Triforce and the Master Sword, Link returned to the kingdom beneath the waves and challenged Ganon atop his tower.  

Ganon united the Triforce pieces and made a wish that he be the ruler of Hyrule. However, before he could touch the Triforce to make his wish come true, King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule touched the Triforce and wished for Hyrule to be washed away, so that his descendants could build a new future above the waves. Ganon was defiant, and faced Link and Zelda in battle. Link stabbed Ganon in his forehead, turning him to stone as the waves crashed around him. The King, staying behind to be buried beneath the waves along with his kingdom, sent Link and Zelda back the surface world in order to begin their new future.