Great Sea

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Great Sea

Map of the Great Sea in The Wind Waker
Game(s) The Wind Waker
Related place(s) World of the Ocean King

The Great Sea[1] is the setting in which the events of The Wind Waker take place. In Phantom Hourglass, the Great Sea only makes an appearance during the introduction and ending sequences of the game.

In-game, the Great Sea is restricted to an area of 7x7 1000-unit squares, each containing an island of its own.

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History

Main article: Great Flood

Many years before The Wind Waker begins, the land of Hyrule is flooded by the Gods as a last resort to stop Ganon's forces when The Hero of Time didn't arrive to destroy them. Its surviving people flee to the mountain-tops and try to restore peaceful life. Those mountain-tops became the many islands of The Great Sea. Many years pass, and the people forget about the "Old" Hyrule, except in a bedtime story told to children, and in a coming of age ceremony for young boys.

Islands

Main Article: Great Sea Islands

Link navigating the Great Sea

Most of the islands in the Great Sea are quite small, with little intelligent life inhabiting them. The chief island is Windfall, which has the only major village, exept for a small settlement on Outset. There was a large pirate hideout at the Forsaken Fortress, until recently.

Some of the more prominent islands include:

People

There are many people in the great sea, but the main group is Hyrulean. They live on Windfall and Outset Island, but they are also scattered around. The Rito live on Dragon Roost Island, and the Koroks reside on Forest Haven with the Great Deku Tree. Gorons in this game are in the form of Goron Merchants. The wherabouts of the Zora are unknown, also a fish creature called Jabun is in this game, obviously someone like Jabu-Jabu. There are at least one group of pirates, Tetra's gang, but there probably was or is some more that are not seen in-game.

Trivia

  • Contrary to popular belief, the Great Sea is not the setting in which most of the events of Phantom Hourglass take place.[2] Link, Tetra and the rest of the pirate crew are only navigating the Great Sea during the introduction and ending sequences of the game; the rest of the time is spent in a new sea with the implied name of the World of the Ocean King.[3]
  • The Great Sea is also a stage in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, although the stage is called Pirate Ship.

References

  1. ↑ "When the Hero of Time was called to embark on another journey and left the land of Hyrule, he was separated from the elements that made him a hero. It is said that at that time, the Triforce of Courage was split into eight shards and hidden throughout the land. Even I do not know where they rest, but this much I do know: they lie hidden somewhere in this Great Sea." —King of Red Lions (The Wind Waker)
  2. ↑ "Our world? So what is the world that we are in now? What is this place..." —Tetra (Phantom Hourglass)
  3. ↑ "We are inhabitants of this world. We must return to the world of the Ocean King!" —Leaf, The Spirit of Power (Phantom Hourglass)


Islands in The Wind Waker
Forsaken Fortress Star Island Northern Fairy Island Gale Isle Crescent Moon Island Seven-Star Isles Overlook Island Four-Eye Reef Mother and Child Isles Spectacle Island Windfall Island Pawprint Isle Dragon Roost Island Flight Control Platform Western Fairy Island Rock Spire Isle Tingle Island Northern Triangle Island Eastern Fairy Island Fire Mountain Star Belt Archipelago Three-Eye Reef Greatfish Isle Cyclops Reef Six-Eye Reef Tower of the Gods Eastern Triangle Island Thorned Fairy Island Needle Rock Isle Islet of Steel Stone Watcher Island Southern Triangle Island Private Oasis Bomb Island Bird's Peak Rock Diamond Steppe Island Five-Eye Reef Shark Island Southern Fairy Island Ice Ring Isle Forest Haven Cliff Plateau Isles Horseshoe Island Outset Island Headstone Island Two-Eye Reef Angular Isles Boating Course Five-Star Isles

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