Please keep in mind this is a story/theory built on research from all the Zelda games, except the GBs and MM which aren’t really covered here), I’m not saying there is any connection to the Zelda series, I just found that this is one possible way that they fit together if you read and play every Zelda and do the work of connecting the plots.
The Legend of Zelda:
Long ago, in a small kingdom known as Hyrule, a dark ruler name Gannondorf arose to be the leader of the thievish race of the Gerudo.
For some time the Hylians and Gerudo had been hated enemies, however, Gannondorf promised Hyrule’s King a new age of peace between the Gerudo and Hylians. The King of Hyrule was very optimistic about the upcoming alliance; however, a young Princess Zelda wasn’t convinced that Gannondorf’s intentions were for the good.
At the same time the Great Deku Tree, protector of the lands of Hyrule, sensed the rise of evil in the atmosphere and his own power was weakening. It seems it was time for the young boy without a fairy to rise up and cast down the evil, as was his destiny. In time the young hero, Link, came to know princess Zelda and together the contrived a plot to stop Gannondorf, though the were uncertain of his plans. Unfortunately, Link and Zelda were probably the cause of the greatest cataclysmic event ever to befall Hyrule, Link naively opened the portal to the Golden Realm and then Gannondorf went into it to seek out and capture the Triforce.
However, since not all three qualities of the Triforce were in Gannondorf, the Triforce split into three different parts, the True Zelda received the Wisdom Piece, the True Link received the Courage Piece, and Gannondorf received the Power Piece. What had been Gannondorf’s intentions from the beginning? Though none are for certain, it seems likely to avenge his ancestors for the great wars that the Hylia had always won against the Gerudo. In the end the boy, Link, came out from his banishment into time, and with the Master Sword he cast down the evil of Gannondorf, however, killing Gannondorf unleashed a greater evil then expected, the tainted Triforce of Power gave Gannondorf new life as Gannon the Terrible, a beastly deformity of the former Gannondorf. Link began his fight against this darker form and in his defeat Gannon was returned to his former body of Gannondorf and sealed away for all time…
Though the original Link was returned to his youth to make up for lost time, in an alternate plain, Hyrule remained in devastation following the imprisonment of Gannondorf, and so with the King of Hyrule dead it was in the favor of tradition that Zelda’s eldest brother came out of hiding and announced he would be coroneted King of Hyrule. With the Triforce reunited the Prince decided to better rule the Hyrule and help restore it to its former glory he must wield the Triforce, unfortunately, but his wishes were for Hyrule to regain former power, therefore, he was only able to receive the Triforce of Power. The prince searched out for the missing parts of the Triforce yet only Princess Zelda knew any truth behind were the missing parts lay. The Prince questioned Zelda and even threatened her, yet it was his advisor, a great wizard and one of the shades of Gannon, who became angry and cast Zelda into an internal slumber as punishment, and with his power exhausted the shade of Gannon perished at the spot.
The Prince grieved over the loss of his own sister and placed her in a hidden chamber in the palace of Hyrule, which had been reconstructed after Gannon’s terror. The Prince could do nothing but go on and continue with his rule over the Hylians, and so he had a child and in honor of his sister she was named Zelda II after his sister, and so the tradition of naming the child Zelda was born. Meanwhile the nursemaid and last of the shieka (the original forgers of the Master Sword?) , Impa, went out and found her successor. She instructed her new young successor to guide the new princess Zelda and continue on this tradition for all time, the young plump girl was then renamed Impa and set off on her task of guiding Zelda.
Though Zelda the Second has little overall importance she was the target of Gannon’s attacks on Hyrule, and therefore after the goddesses flooded Hyrule she came above seas and produced a new child, Zelda III. Zelda the Third would become a hideaway yet a good mother who would bare a new princess, her young daughter Zelda the fourth, however, needed hiding since Zelda III could tell evil was rising. She gave Zelda IV two names, Zelda and Tetra. As leader of a small gang of pirates she informed them that Tetra would be the new boss, no one is certain what became of Zelda III.
At the same time a young boy called Link was beginning life. The boy eventually needed to save his sister who was captured by a great bird when mistaken for Tetra the pirate. With the guidance of the original Zelda’s brother, well at least his spirit, Link eventually came to realize that Gannondorf was behind the entire thing, in a plot to find Zelda. However, it wasn’t really Gannondorf who was on the loose again, not precisely. Gannon the Terrible sent a new shade, Gannondorf, to help recover the Triforce and break Gannon free of his dark prison. In the end Tetra and Link fought and defeated the shade of Gannon, who they thought was the real Gannondorf. They set off to create a new nation in the image of the previous Hyrule.
So again time passed and the hero of the winds passed away. The new dynasty of Hyrule was formed and life was good, the shield on Gannon’s prison still in tact. Link the third was then born in a small country house in the new Hyrule. One night Link heard telepathic pleas from Princess Zelda (perhaps the V?), that she was being held prisoner in the palace of Hyrule. It seems that Gannon has again seen opportunity to attack at the heart of Hyrule, this time using a new shade, a wizard named Agahnim, a possible reincarnation of the first shade of Gannon. The new Link would rise up to defeat Agahnim and would even bring himself to fight Gannon himself, who was preparing to finally leave his imprisonment now that it was weakening. The seal on the Dark World was resealed and Link was proclaimed hero of Hyrule. Finally all was well, or was it?
Years passed and though we are uncertain how it happened, the great King of Evil, Gannon finally broke free of the Dark Realm. He captured Zelda (Zelda 6?), yet before he did she broke up the Triforce of Wisdom and sent Impa out to find a hero who could take on Gannon. It was Link the fourth who would be this hero, Impa found him and told of the story, so Link rose up to fight this new evil, finally Gannon was cast down and destroyed forever. Yet his minions weren’t ready to give up this easy. Gannon’s spirit was now darkly rooted and connected to the hero who had slain him, Link. Only by the blood of Link could the King of Evil return.
Meanwhile, approaching his sixteenth birthday the hero Link had a strange mark appear on the back of his hand, and mark unseen for several hundred years. Uncertain of what it meant he went to seek advise from Zelda (6?)’s nursemaid Impa, she gazed at the mark with fear and shock. Regaining her composure, she took Link to the North Castle, the was a door in the north castle, which was part of a mystically restored part of ancient Hyrule’s castle, that was called the door that doesn’t open. Only the descendants of Impa’s family, who had served the Royal Family for hundreds of years, knew how the door might open. Impa took Link’s left hand and pressed the back of it against the door. There was a sound of a lock falling, and slowly the door creaked upon and there on the alter lay a beautiful woman. Impa looked squarely at Link and then spoke, “Long ago, when Gannon was an average mortal man a young hero fought and helped seal him away. The boy was the bearer of the Triforce of Courage and boar the mark that you possess. After sealing Gannondorf away, the hero was sent back to his rightful time, however, in order to return to his old life. You are a recarnation of that boy, you are Link, in his image appointed by the Triforce" So Link was appointed to the task of finding the Triforce the Triforce of Courage, since his defeat of Gannon had given him the Triforce of Power and Wisdom. With his inborn piece, the piece of Courage, he could awaken the original Zelda and together they would become the rulers of the prophesy, and bring back Hyrule’s golden age.
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I know its long but at least its somewhat interesting... I hope.
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