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Sidon continues to worry about Yona, but Yona correctly identifies that Sidon is yielding to the fear of losing someone he loves, with the loss of his older sister [[Mipha]] still weighing on him. Yona insists that Sidon must overcome his past and face the future with courage as the next-in-line ruler of the Domain, and to trust the domain with Yona as he ventures with Link to investigate. After enthusiastically swearing himself to this end, Sidon and Link head to the source of the light pillar, which opens up a whirlpool leading to the underground [[Ancient Zora Waterworks]]. Upon activating the Zonai terminal at its center, a tremendous water falls from the sky onto the Lake, allowing Sidon and Link to swim up it and reach [[Wellspring Island]], where the gravity is noticeably lower. They eventually navigate their way up to the [[Water Temple]], where they find and eventually battle the source of the sludge, the mischievous [[Mucktorok]]. Zora's Domain is cleansed completely upon its defeat, and all the wounded Zora including King Dorephan are fully healed. Sidon inherits a [[Secret Stone]] from his distant ancestor - the ancient Zora [[Sage]] of Water - making himself the new Sage of Water. From this point on, Sidon can create a remote avatar and, after making the [[Vow of Sidon, Sage of Water]], has the avatar tied to a ring on Link's right pointer finger, accompanying Link permanently. This allows the [[Hylian]] [[Champion]] to call upon Sidon's Power of Water anytime. King Dorephan takes the opportunity to retire as King, and Sidon and Yona become the new King and Queen of Zora's Domain. | Sidon continues to worry about Yona, but Yona correctly identifies that Sidon is yielding to the fear of losing someone he loves, with the loss of his older sister [[Mipha]] still weighing on him. Yona insists that Sidon must overcome his past and face the future with courage as the next-in-line ruler of the Domain, and to trust the domain with Yona as he ventures with Link to investigate. After enthusiastically swearing himself to this end, Sidon and Link head to the source of the light pillar, which opens up a whirlpool leading to the underground [[Ancient Zora Waterworks]]. Upon activating the Zonai terminal at its center, a tremendous water falls from the sky onto the Lake, allowing Sidon and Link to swim up it and reach [[Wellspring Island]], where the gravity is noticeably lower. They eventually navigate their way up to the [[Water Temple]], where they find and eventually battle the source of the sludge, the mischievous [[Mucktorok]]. Zora's Domain is cleansed completely upon its defeat, and all the wounded Zora including King Dorephan are fully healed. Sidon inherits a [[Secret Stone]] from his distant ancestor - the ancient Zora [[Sage]] of Water - making himself the new Sage of Water. From this point on, Sidon can create a remote avatar and, after making the [[Vow of Sidon, Sage of Water]], has the avatar tied to a ring on Link's right pointer finger, accompanying Link permanently. This allows the [[Hylian]] [[Champion]] to call upon Sidon's Power of Water anytime. King Dorephan takes the opportunity to retire as King, and Sidon and Yona become the new King and Queen of Zora's Domain. | ||
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Link journeys to the Gerudo Desert and finds that it has become blanketed by a heavy sand shroud. Along his attempts to navigate his way to [[Gerudo Town]], he encounters strange and resilient zombie-like creatures known as [[Gibdo]]s. Eventually he makes it to Gerudo Town, finding it completely deserted. The entire town has evacuated to an underground Gerudo Shelter, and upon Link making his way inside of it, learns from her chief bodyguard [[Buliara]] that [[Riju]] is training in the [[North Gerudo Ruins]]. Despite the Gerudo's traditional law of not allowing any [[voe]] within the town's walls, Link is given near unprecedented access to the town and its resources as a special guest. | Link journeys to the Gerudo Desert and finds that it has become blanketed by a heavy sand shroud. Along his attempts to navigate his way to [[Gerudo Town]], he encounters strange and resilient zombie-like creatures known as [[Gibdo]]s. Eventually he makes it to Gerudo Town, finding it completely deserted. The entire town has evacuated to an underground Gerudo Shelter, and upon Link making his way inside of it, learns from her chief bodyguard [[Buliara]] that [[Riju]] is training in the [[North Gerudo Ruins]]. Despite the Gerudo's traditional law of not allowing any [[voe]] within the town's walls, Link is given near unprecedented access to the town and its resources as a special guest. | ||
Riju is encountered attempting to master her Power of Lightning, and with Link's help, is able to channel it accurately by following Link's arrows. They are then both ambushed by a group of Gibdos, and discover by putting [[Riju's Power of Lightning]] into action that Gibdos are tremendously weak to electricity. Just at that moment, [[Kara Kara Bazaar]] is beset by a hive full of Gibdos, and in defending the town from the onslaught, Link and Riju additionally discover that [[Riju's Power of Lightning]] is effective in destroying their hives. Just as the Bazaar is liberated however, four more hives appear around Gerudo Town, and Zelda is briefly spotted walking towards them. In Gerudo Town, Link works with Riju, Buliara and the Gerudo soldiers to strategize proper defenses in keeping the town safe from the coming invasion, with all soldiers now equipped with electric spears, and | Riju is encountered attempting to master her Power of Lightning, and with Link's help, is able to channel it accurately by following Link's arrows. They are then both ambushed by a group of Gibdos, and discover by putting [[Riju's Power of Lightning]] into action that Gibdos are tremendously weak to electricity. Just at that moment, [[Kara Kara Bazaar]] is beset by a hive full of Gibdos, and in defending the town from the onslaught, Link and Riju additionally discover that [[Riju's Power of Lightning]] is effective in destroying their hives. Just as the Bazaar is liberated however, four more hives appear around Gerudo Town, and Zelda is briefly spotted walking towards them. In Gerudo Town, Link works with Riju, Buliara and the Gerudo soldiers to strategize proper defenses in keeping the town safe from the coming invasion, with all soldiers now equipped with electric spears, and they eventually succeed in destroying all the hives and waves of Gibdos and [[Moth Gibdo]]s. | ||
Riju then investigates an ancient mural in the shelter upon hearing a mysterious voice telling her and Link to come to it, of which a similar message was inscribed upon the mural by Gerudo ancestors. Link uses the guidance of the mural to align a path of reflected light between three stone pillars in the [[Gerudo Desert]]. Doing so causes a lightning-powered pedestal to appear in the center of the pillars, and Riju and Link briefly see Zelda standing in front of it before she vanishes. Riju uses her Power of Lightning to activate the pedestal, and the [[Lightning Temple]] rises up from the sand. Its entrance is blocked by a cocoon that looks like a larger Gibdo hive, and upon shattering it Link and Riju are attacked by the source of the Gibdos and the sand shroud -- the [[Queen Gibdo]]. It hastily retreats to the temple's top floor upon being struck by Riju's lightning, and Link and Riju venture inside the temple and navigate their way up to it, defeating it after an intense fight. The sand shroud and most of the Gibdos vanish from Gerudo Desert, and Gerudo Town repopulates back on the surface once more. Riju inherits a [[Secret Stone]] from her distant ancestor - the ancient Gerudo [[Sage]] of Lightning, who emphasizes the Gerudo's role in bringing the [[Demon King Ganondorf|Demon King]] into the world - making herself the new Sage of Lightning. From this point on, Riju can create a remote avatar and, after making the [[Vow of Riju, Sage of Lightning]], has the avatar tied to a ring on Link's right ring finger, accompanying Link permanently. This allows the [[Hylian]] [[Champion]] to call upon Riju's Power of Lightning anytime. | |||
'''Finding The Fifth Sage''' | |||
With the four [[Regional Phenomena]] solved, Link returns to [[Lookout Landing]] to report to [[Purah]]. At that moment, a [[Blood Moon]] appears in the sky, and Purah witnesses Zelda standing on the floating [[Hyrule Castle]]. Link pursues Zelda intent on rescuing her, and hears her voice calling to him as he scales the levels of the castle searching for her. In every location he finds her however, Zelda suddenly vanishes, with hoards of monsters taking her place. Finally, he makes it to the [[Sanctum]] of the castle, where Zelda seems to finally meet him face to face. She tells Link she wants to show him something, and Hyrule Castle transforms into its former, undamaged self from before the [[Calamity]]. She tells him to take in every detail, for it will be the last thing that Link ever sees, with her voice darkening into that of [[Ganon|the corpse]] he and Zelda encountered at the very beginning. He shows himself in a channeled vision above Zelda, revealing her to be nothing more than a puppet used to trick Link. This Zelda then re-materializes into five [[Phantom Ganon]]s and attack Link simultaneously, with Link being joined and protected by the four sage descendants -- Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon and Riju -- right before being ravaged by [[Gloom]] once more. The corpse, who finally reveals himself to be the still-alive [[Demon King Ganondorf]], imparts upon Link and the sages a vision of the world he wishes to make upon his full restoration -- one of an army of monsters storming and destroying the landscape of Hyrule -- and withdraws his presence from the castle. | |||
Suspecting that Ganondorf's fleeing, rather than further attacking, is due to continued efforts to rebuild his full strength, Link and the sages return to [[Lookout Landing]] to strategize. In talking with [[Purah]], they realize that there was a fifth sage that fought alongside [[Rauru]] and Zelda who has not yet been found in the present day, and that information on their whereabouts could be best gleaned from major ruins from the age of legends. The four sages depart to their homelands for information, and Link ventures alone to other parts of Hyrule. | |||
Link's travels then take him to [[Kakiriko Village]], where a thorough survey of floating [[Ring Ruins]] that had descended around the village was underway but forestalled, due to the preconception that Zelda had ordered the floating ruins off limits. When they learn that this Zelda was a puppet of Ganondorf, [[Paya]], the new village chief, and [[Tauro]], the head of the Zonai research team, re-open access to the ruins and further surveying. Link enters the inside of the floating ruins and fetches a photograph of a stone slab engraved in Zonai script, and Tauro is able to decipher references to the [[Demon King Ganondorf|Demon King]], Zelda, the sage [[Mineru]], and a mention of a southeast location that fellow research team member [[Calip]] takes to refer to the [[Zonai Ruins]] in the jungles of [[Faron]]. Paya also recognizes the phrase "dragon land", further confirming Calips catch; as dragon-themed architecture is unique to the location of the Zonai Ruins. Tauro, Calip and Link make haste towards the ruins, setting up a small camp in the [[Popla Foothills]]. | |||
At [[Dracozu Lake]], close to the [[Spring of Courage]], Tauro finds doorways that have opened in tall, dragon-resembling pillars with metal horns at the top, containing both a riddle and a set of chests only Link is able to open. These chests contain a set of ritual dress modelled after the eternal dragon [[Farosh]] -- the [[Charged Set]]. Link follows the riddle to an altar at the "tail" of the serpent-shaped [[Dracozu River]], where he dons the Charged set and places an offering of a [[Zonai Charge]]. At that moment, the four tall pillars activate, and lightning strikes all four at once, absorbing the energy of a constant lightning storm that had previously consumed the [[Thunderhead Isles]] floating in the sky above the jungle. On [[Dragonhead Island]], the largest of these isles, Link encounters an ancient Zonai artifact that resembles a headpiece. It speaks to him, drawing him on a path that leads him to [[Tobia's Hollow]], where the headpiece activates an elevator that takes Link down into [[the Depths]] to a long abandoned [[Construct Factory]]. | |||
The headpiece, now attached to a zonai vessel resembling a torso, is revealed to be the actual head of a Construct that the voice tasks Link with the remaining assembly of in order for the Construct to properly house the voice's still lingering spirit. Link journeys to four depots around the factory to procure and assemble the Construct body's arms and legs, and the fully reassembled Construct comes alive. Link navigates the Construct across the Depths to the [[Spirit Temple (Tears of the Kingdom)|Spirit Temple]] to retrieve the voice's secret stone, but not before having their way blocked by a [[Seized Construct]], an earlier prototype build of the current Construct body that became possessed by Ganondorf's power. After defeating it, the voice's spirit finally emerges from Link's [[Purah Pad]] and seals itself within her secret stone, affixing it to the Construct and finally allowing it to introduce herself to Link as Mineru, the ancient [[Sage]] of Spirit and one of the Zonai. She details how she and Zelda withdrew after Rauru imprisoned Ganon and made the final plan to prepare for Link's future battle with Ganondorf, with Zelda undergoing draconification to live long enough to repair the [[Master Sword]], and Mineru, nearing death, to preserve her spirit in the Purah Pad with the original plan of re-awakening to Link once he acquires it. If Link does not already have the Master Sword, she will urge Link to pursue it before facing Ganondorf. | |||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||