User:Golden-wolf/The History of Hyrule

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History of Hyrule
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On this page you will find the history of Hyrule’s creation as is told by the manual to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. For anyone viewing this that for some crazy reason doesn't know what Hyrule is, it's the mythical land where the legend of Zelda takes place. The part about the Triforce and the chronology of the legend are my own personal ideas based on what I've played and what I've read.

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Creation of Hyrule
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Before life began, before the world had form, three golden goddesses descended upon the chaotic land of Hyrule. They were Din, the Goddess of Power, Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom, and Farore, the Goddess of Courage. Din, with her strong flaming arms, cultivated the land to create the earth. Nayru poured her wisdom onto the earth to give the spirit of law to the world. Farore's rich soul created all life forms who would uphold the law. These three great goddesses returned to the heavens, leaving behind the golden sacred Triforce. Since then, the Triforce has become the basis for Hyrule's providence. Where the Triforce stood became sacred land.

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The Triforce
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At the exact point where the three goddesses left Hyrule and entered the heavens, they left behind three mystical golden triangles. Together these three triangles came to be known as the holy Triforce. The three parts consisted of the Triforce of Wisdom, the Triforce of Power, and the Triforce of Courage. As a whole, the Triforce has the power to grant the wishes of one who touches it. However, the way the Triforce grants these wishes are a direct reflection of the heart of the wisher. If one pure of heart touches it with all three essences in balance, the world would enter a golden age. If one with an evil heart touches it without all three in balance, disaster will strike. The Triforce does not differentiate between the two, it just reflects and grants the wishes. So when Ganon finally seized control over the Triforce, it reflected what was in his heart and turned the Golden Land into the Dark World.

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The Legend...
''' NOTE: There is no such thing as an "official" LOZ timeline. I just like the idea of piecing it all together into one large legend as such many things here might not be true and i would like to point out that these ideas come from http://www.spiffy-entertainment.com/Zelda/hyrule.html. This also may contain spoilers .This is how I see it...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker The legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass The Legend of Zelda Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

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Ocarina of Time
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The Legend begins with the story that unfolds in "Ocarina of Time." When the young Hero of Time removed the Master Sword from it's pedestal and open the gates to the Sacred Realm, he unknowingly let Ganondorf sneak through. Ganondorf then found the Triforce. It's my belief that when he touched it, he became immortal with the Triforce of Power that infused itself within him. He did not however have all three essences in balance, so the Triforce split. The remaining two pieces infused themselves within two beings that best represented the respected essences. Princess Zelda was adorned with Wisdom and the Hero of Time with Courage. While link was trapped within the Sacred Realm for 7 years, Ganondorf returned to Hyrule with his new found power and ravaged Hyrule castle and sent the land into a time of darkness. When the Hero was ready, he set off to awaken the Sages that could seal Ganondorf away in the Sacred Realm forever. After this was accomplished, Princess Zelda sent the Hero back 7 years to resume his life as a child...

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Majora’s Mask
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This leads into "Majora's Mask." Link searches for his lost fairy companion, Navi, in the Lost Woods when he's ambushed by a Skull Kid and two fairies. The Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time. Link gives chase only to stumble down a hole leading him into the land of Termina where he has three days to prevent an ominous moon from destroying the land. The fate of Ganondorf is sort of a mystery, but I look at it this way. Although he was sealed away in the future, by the way of the Triforce (hey, this is a fictitious world...things can work illogically), Ganondorf was erased from the past and remained in the Sacred Realm where time has no place.

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Oracle of Seasons/Oracle of Ages
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After questing in Termina, Link returned to Hyrule Castle. He walked deep within the Castle when the Triforce appeared before him. "Link... Link... Accept the quest of the Triforce!" Link is then teleported to a distant land. Here's where the Oracle of Seasons and Ages unfold.(which I don’t quite know the story to because I haven’t finished them yet, but so far I haven’t seen any evidence which states that this isn’t the same Link from Oot and MM) At the end of the quest, Koume and Kotake attempt to bring Ganon back. Their spell was only strong enough to bring back a shadow of Ganon...only the sacrifice of Princess Zelda could complete the resurrection. But of course, Link prevailed and Ganon remained sealed away. Somewhat after this I think Link then retired and made himself a home in lon lon ranch and (this is guesswork) married Malon and started a family (I have reasons for this, and many of which I’ll include in another article) meanwhile everyone began settling in lon lon ranch and it soon became a little village and it was named Ordan. (This explains the setting for Twilight princess)

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Twilight Princess
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The Next adventure is Twilight Princess. It my belief that this hero is the son of the previous one (OOT) how Ganon escaped from the sacred realm, I believe Ganon wasn’t really sealed in the sacred realm actually he was put on trial by the seven sages and they took a sword crafted by the them (not the master sword) and stabbed it into Ganon but it didn’t kill him because of the Triforce of power so it just created a wound in his stomach. Ganon then killed the sage of the water and the other six then sent him to the twilight realm where he met Zant and gave him a part of his power in return for him to gain entrance back to Hyrule. Link is a boy of 16 and is living as an orphan in Ordan village and his given a special task to deliver a sword to the royal family but on the day he was meant to be leaving, monsters came and kidnapped all the village children, link tried to give chase but came across the wall of twilight and got trapped inside (if you play the game it will make more sense) where link transformed into a blue-eyed wolf. Link was then taken to Hyrule castle and was imprisoned in a dungeon. After being freed from his prison by a strange girl, midna, link was asked to find the three fused shadows which contain unimaginable dark power, after collecting them link tried to go through the mirror of twilight only to find it shattered into four pieces( the first still being there )so link set off the find the other three. Once gathering them link entered the mirror of twilight where, with midna’s help, killed Zant only to find that Ganon is still alive and is the real enemy. Once Ganon was killed the sages wasted no time and sealed him the sacred realm forevermore. I don’t think that Link married Zelda in this one either, it looks to me that Zelda’s a little too old for link in this one. So I think that link married llia, his childhood (girl)friend.

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A Link to the Past
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There were many centuries of peace before the coming of the wizard, Agahnim and the story that unfolds in "A Link to the Past.” despite what the name suggests this Link is not from the future. What I believe is that that this is the very same spirit of the first Link, so technically he’s a ‘Link to the Past’ any way back to the plot. Using the decedents of the Sages, Ganon uses Agahnim as a pawn to open a gateway from the Sacred Realm to Hyrule. The new Hero foils the plot by freeing those decedents of the Sages and defeating Ganon once more (or so he thought...). After Link defeated Ganon and while he was speaking with the Triforce and before making his wish, I believe the servants of Ganon quickly took their fallen lord's body out of the Pyramid of Power and brought him forth to Hyrule and in hiding, prepared for his revival.

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Link’s Awakening
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Having believed Ganon dead and Hyrule safe, Link set off to better train himself. When he left Hyrule, the Triforce of Courage was split across the land (this explains the scenario for "Wind Waker"). Here unfolds the story of "Link's Awakening." While Link was questing in Koholint and wherever else he ended up after that, Ganon was revived in Hyrule. As I have said before, many centuries have passed and Link may or may not have married Zelda this time. This is not likely as it states in the intro of ‘wind waker’ that though Ganon returned the hero did not appear, so he probably didn’t marry Zelda.

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The Wind Waker
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A couple more centuries have gone by. Ganon has (once again) began his evil campaign to find the Triforce .returning back to ‘Link’s Awakening’ when Ganondorf came back to Hyrule the people prayed that the Hero would return to defeat this evil once more, but he did not appear. The gods sunk the land of Hyrule deep below the ocean and sealed it away. All that remained were islands. Ganon would still find a way to the lands above the Great Sea. There in the Forsaken Fortress, he plotted to find Princess Zelda by capturing all girls with long ears. The plan was working to perfection until the Helmaroc King caught a female pirate named Tetra. The bird was chased down by pirates and shot by catapult; dropping Tetra in the woods high atop Outset Island. A young boy named Link and his sister Aryll witnessed it all. With that, Link set off to see if the girl was ok. After this was confirmed, they headed out of the forest only to witness the capture of Aryll. Link joined the pirates to set off and rescue his sister and she unfolds the story of "The Wind Waker." At the end of this saga, the King of Hyrule wishes upon the Triforce that the land of Hyrule is forever sunk below the sea. Link and Zelda battle Ganon until Link deals the final blow...sinking the Master Sword into Ganon's head, sealing him in stone. With Hyrule sunk, Link, Zelda and the pirates sail off to find a new land...

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The Phantom Hourglass
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On the way link and the pirates stop and investigate the rumoured ghost ship where tetra gets captured on it and link tries to save her (unsuccessfully) but gets washed up on the shore of an unknown island with a fairy trying to talk him to waking up, as soon as he does link and his new fairy companion, Celia, link sets off to rescue tetra. At the end of this adventure link wakes up to that it was all a dream (even though it was real) and tetra, link and the pirates continue their journey to find the land that would be the new Hyrule. I can almost guarantee you that Link and Tetra (Zelda) get married and have children.

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The Legend of Zelda
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Eventually the land they find I believe to be the location of "The Legend of Zelda" and "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link." They claim this land to be the new Hyrule. This would explain the complete change of geography between these two games and the others. Now one might bring up the fact that the land of "Ocarina of Time" was different from "A Link to the Past." I attribute that to differences of interpretation. All the same major landmarks are the same in both these games, just differing somewhat in exact location. Zelda I and II are completely different, thus it must be a new land altogether. I think that Zelda 1 is set south of Death Mountain and Zelda II is set in the north. The Triforce was also split so no future generation would be tempted by the power. The Great Palace was built to forever hide the Triforce of Courage until one fit to handle the power would come to claim it. The remaining two Triforce remained in the royal family. Many more years of peace reigned in the land. Eventually there came a new King of Hyrule who had a son and daughter. When the king died, the prince inherited the Triforce of Power and to the Princess the Triforce of Wisdom. The Princess also was the only one who knew the secret of the Triforce of Courage, passed on from the King to her. The Prince tried to attain this information, but the Princess wouldn't talk. A wizard also wanted the information. Infuriated with no response from Zelda, he cast a sleeping spell on the princess. The Prince locked the Princess in a magically sealed room and declared all future Princesses of the land be named Zelda in memorial... Now here's where I've added my own part to the Legend to try and fuse it together. Many, many years somewhere along the line, a fisherman pulled up the Master Sword (called the Magic Sword in Zelda I) and brought it to the land of New Hyrule (this is the old man that holds it in Zelda I until you're ready to wield it). When he pulled it up, Ganon was set free and found his way to New Hyrule. When Princess Zelda became aware of this, she split the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces. She couldn't stop Ganon from re-attaining the Triforce of Power however. The Triforce of Courage remained secretly hidden in the Great Palace far across the sea in Eastern Hyrule. Before being captured by Ganon, Zelda sent her attendant Impa out to find a Hero with the courage to defeat Ganon. She eventually came by him by chance in the woods....saved from attacking Goblins and told him her story. Here is where the story of "The Legend of Zelda" unfolds.

Link sets off, collects and reforms the Triforce of Wisdom and makes his way to the final showdown with Ganon. The Hero prevails and reduces Ganon to ashes.

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The Legend of Zelda 2: the Adventure of Link
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Ganon may have been defeated, but his legions remained. Only the blood of the Hero sprinkled upon the ashes of the fallen Ganon would revive the King of Evil. On the 16th birthday of the Hero, the symbol of the Triforce of Courage began to resonate upon his hand. Impa took Link to the North Palace far north of Death Mountain and told him the Legend of Zelda...the legend of the wizard, the prince and the eternal sleeping spell cast upon the former Princess of ages past. Link was able to open the sacred room and read the old scrolls detailing the whereabouts of the long hidden Triforce of Courage. It is here where the story of "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" unfolds. Link quests to unlock the seal on the Great Palace and gain the Triforce of Courage to complete the Triforce once again and awaken the fallen Princess...which he does after an epic battle with his own shadow.

This is all that has been told of the Legend...

(When the new games come out I will restart the process again and find out where they come in the legend. It’s great if you have different ideas but I really hope this has made you think)