Spirit War

The is a fan name given to the conflict described in the back-story of Spirit Tracks that resulted in the creation of the railroad system that covers Hyrule during the events of the game. The story of the Spirit War is first spoken of by the aged Niko, one of the few surviving original settlers of the reborn kingdom of Hyrule, who opens the game with this story.

Characters

 * Spirits of Good
 * Malladus

Items

 * Bow of Light

Places

 * New Hyrule
 * Dark Realm

History
After a period of relative peace for the first settlers of the land, the Demon King Malladus rose to power and began to cause much devastation, forcing the good spirits of the land to engage him in a prolonged war. Exhausting all of their energies and even using the Bow of Light in an attempt to drive away the Demon King, the good spirits, unable to truly kill him, buried him deep in an underground prison and sealed it with a set of shackles, the Spirit Tracks, and a lock, the Tower of Spirits. The good spirits, their power spent, returned to the heavens, giving the land over to the Hyrulean settlers.

Aftermath
The Hyrulean monarchy was then re-established to govern the land, which was officially named as the reborn kingdom of Hyrule. Tetra, the then-current incarnation of Princess Zelda, was elevated to her destined status as ruler of the kingdom (even later appearing in the central stained glass window of Hyrule Castle) and took the reins of the kingdom. The wise Lokomo who guarded the Tower of Spirits, Anjean, established a close friendship with the feisty young royal and entrusted to her a sacred treasure: the Spirit Flute. Tetra promised Anjean that she and her descendants would use the Spirit Flute to protect the land henceforth, and the two carried on their friendship to the end of the former's days. Thus, the kingdom of Hyrule that had been drowned beneath the Great Sea was restored in the land of spirits, fulfilling the wish of the deceased Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule that the Hero of Winds and Tetra would be the seeds of Hyrule's future by re-establishing it in a new land.

Trivia

 * A resident of Hyrule Castle Town makes the statement that people have asserted that the Spirit Tracks had been around even before the settling of the land. This means that the war happened long before Tetra and Link came to the land.