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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Return of Ganondorf=== | ===Return of Ganondorf=== | ||
Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and [[Ganon|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>{{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!!|[[Ganon]]dorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> | Many years after the departure of the Hero of Time, the seal of the Seven Sages began to weaken for an unknown reason, and [[Ganon|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>{{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!!|[[Ganon]]dorf|Ocarina of Time}}</ref> As the darkness was covering the land, the people of Hyrule prayed that the Hero of Time would once again come to save them, but the hero did not appear.<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> | ||
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===The Divine Deluge=== | ===The Divine Deluge=== | ||
[[File:Normal opening 5.png|250px|thumb|left|The people of Hyrule pray to the Goddesses for deliverance, resulting in the Great Flood.]] | [[File:Normal opening 5.png|250px|thumb|left|The people of Hyrule pray to the Goddesses for deliverance, resulting in the Great Flood.]] | ||
The | The [[King of Hyrule]], [[Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule]], attempted to use his magic to stop Ganondorf, but failed. Left with no other choice, the people pleaded to the three Golden Goddesses.<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><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> The Goddesses eventually answered the peoples' prayers, instructing those chosen to flee to Hyrule's mountaintops in order to escape the coming flood and to prevent Ganon's wish of the destruction of the land. Once the people were safely away, the Goddesses caused a torrential downpour, covering the land and turning the mountaintops into islands.<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]]|The Wind Waker}}</ref> The king chose to remain behind with his doomed kingdom. He split the [[Triforce#Triforce of Wisdom|Triforce of Wisdom]] into two parts and instructed the [[Princess Zelda#Antediluvian Princess|princess]] of that era to keep one piece and flee to the mountaintops with her servants.<ref>{{cite book|quote=The gods chose which of the kingdom's subjects would ascend to the new land, telling them to escape to the tallest mountains. They then flooded the world, sinking Ganondorf and Hyrule to the bottom of the ocean and sealing them away. Though the king was sealed along with his kingdom, the princess took a piece of the Triforce that had been broken in two by the king and managed to escape to the ocean's surface with several of her retainers.|book=[[Hyrule Historia]]|publisher=Dark Horse Books|page=123}}</ref> | ||
Ganon's army had already infiltrated [[Hyrule Castle]] when the goddesses sealed the kingdom within an enchanted air chamber that prevented the water from destroying it. A magical seal was also cast over the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time that froze the entire land of Hyrule and Ganon's army, freezing them in time and draining the entire castle of color.<ref name=quote8>{{cite|By the way, boy... When you drew that sword of yours out of its resting place... Did you by chance notice how all of the monsters frozen in time down there suddenly began stirring again?[...] While that sword is indeed the blade of evil's bane, at the same time, it has long played another role... You see, it is also a sort of key... a most wretched little key that has kept the seal on me and my magic intact! By withdrawing the blade, you have broken that seal...|[[Ganon]]dorf|The Wind Waker}}</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|The Wind Waker}}</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|The Wind Waker}}</ref> | ||