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[[Link (Breath of the Wild)|Link]] and [[Zelda (Breath of the Wild)|Zelda]] are searching for the source of the [[gloom]] afflicting [[Hyrule]] in the [[Depths]] [[Beneath Hyrule Castle]]. There, they find murals depicting beings called [[Zonai]] and events recalling a battle with a demon king. Traveling further, they see a red-haired corpse held down by a strange [[Right Arm]]. A [[Secret Stone|tear-shaped object]] falls from the arm - apparently weakening it - and as Zelda picks it up, [[Ganon|the corpse]] revives. Still corpse-like, it ravages Link's health, ruins his right arm, shatters the [[Master Sword]] and causes a huge [[Upheaval]] which raises [[Hyrule Castle (Tears of the Kingdom)|Hyrule Castle]] into the air, opening a chasm that Zelda falls into. Link jumps after her, but she is [[warp|warped]] away, and only the mysterious hand saves him from the [[chasm]]. | Some years after the events of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild|Breath of the Wild]]'', [[Link (Breath of the Wild)|Link]] and [[Zelda (Breath of the Wild)|Zelda]] are searching for the source of the [[gloom]] afflicting [[Hyrule]] in the [[Depths]] [[Beneath Hyrule Castle]]. There, they find murals depicting beings called [[Zonai]] and events recalling a battle with a demon king. Traveling further, they see a red-haired corpse held down by a strange [[Right Arm]]. A [[Secret Stone|tear-shaped object]] falls from the arm - apparently weakening it - and as Zelda picks it up, [[Ganon|the corpse]] revives. Still corpse-like, it ravages Link's health, ruins his right arm, shatters the [[Master Sword]] and causes a huge [[Upheaval]] which raises [[Hyrule Castle (Tears of the Kingdom)|Hyrule Castle]] into the air, opening a chasm that Zelda falls into. Link jumps after her, but she is [[warp|warped]] away, and only the mysterious hand saves him from the [[chasm]]. | ||
Zelda awakens in the distant past, and is found by the first King of Hyrule, the [[Zonai]] [[Rauru (Tears of the Kingdom)|Rauru]], and his [[Hylian]] wife, [[Sonia|Queen Sonia]]. The two take her in. Visiting the king's sister, the scholar [[Mineru]], she reveals that finding the tear-shaped object - a Zonai "secret stone" - awakened and amplified her latent power to manipulate time, a power she shares with Sonia; while Rauru possesses the same sacred light she used to defeat Calamity Ganon. Unfortunately, Zelda has neither the knowledge or training required to reverse her trip through time and return to the present. Mineru does bring up one potential alternative, the forbidden art of [[draconification]] - which involves swallowing a secret stone and becoming an immortal dragon - but notes that "to become an immortal dragon is to lose yourself", making it an unappealing possibility. Meanwhile, the Gerudo King Ganondorf attacks Hyrule and after seeing the power of Rauru, Sonia and Zelda, decides to pretend fealty to Hyrule as a way to obtain a secret stone of his own. | Zelda awakens in the distant past, and is found by the first King of Hyrule, the [[Zonai]] [[Rauru (Tears of the Kingdom)|Rauru]], and his [[Hylian]] wife, [[Sonia|Queen Sonia]]. The two take her in. Visiting the king's sister, the scholar [[Mineru]], she reveals that finding the tear-shaped object - a Zonai "secret stone" - awakened and amplified her latent power to manipulate time, a power she shares with Sonia; while Rauru possesses the same sacred light she used to defeat Calamity Ganon. Unfortunately, Zelda has neither the knowledge or training required to reverse her trip through time and return to the present. Mineru does bring up one potential alternative, the forbidden art of [[draconification]] - which involves swallowing a secret stone and becoming an immortal dragon - but notes that "to become an immortal dragon is to lose yourself", making it an unappealing possibility. Meanwhile, the Gerudo King Ganondorf attacks Hyrule and after seeing the power of Rauru, Sonia and Zelda, decides to pretend fealty to Hyrule as a way to obtain a secret stone of his own. | ||
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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. She makes the [[Vow of Mineru, Sage of Spirit]], and has her avatar tied to a ring on Link's right middle finger, accompanying Link permanently. This allows the [[Hylian]] [[Champion]] to call upon Mineru's Power of Spirit anytime. | 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. She makes the [[Vow of Mineru, Sage of Spirit]], and has her avatar tied to a ring on Link's right middle finger, accompanying Link permanently. This allows the [[Hylian]] [[Champion]] to call upon Mineru's Power of Spirit anytime. | ||
When Link decides to seek out the Master Sword once more, he first seeks to consult the [[Great Deku Tree]], the sword's traditional guardian, but finds the path to it through the [[Lost Woods]] completely impassable. He instead opts to reach the [[Korok Forest]] through the [[Depths]], and upon doing so, finds the Great Deku Tree and all the Koroks largely unexpressive, with the forest cast in a strange light. He ventures into the Deku Tree to find a [[Gloom]] chasm having burned its way down through to the tree's base, and upon descending it, encounters a [[Gloom Spawn]], which he battles and defeats. This cures the Great Deku Tree and restores the life to the forest and character to the Koroks. The Great Deku Tree recounts that the last time he saw Link was before the [[Upheaval]], when he and Zelda retrieved the Master Sword just prior to the expedition under Hyrule Castle. He wonders where the Master Sword now is, and senses it moving across Central Hyrule, where Zelda, in her form as the [[Light Dragon]], has now descended low enough to be easily reachable by Link. Link travels to and lands upon the Light Dragon, where, after a struggle, he recovers the Master Sword, now fully restored, while he and the Light Dragon are awash in sacred golden light high in the sky. | |||
'''War in the Depths of Hyrule''' | '''War in the Depths of Hyrule''' | ||
With all the Sages now united, one thing remains: the destruction of Ganondorf. Link descends into the [[Depths]] deep below Hyrule Castle, fighting swarms of gloom-covered monsters on his way there, before eventually returning to the caverns he and Zelda had explored previously. With the tools at his disposal to now remove the rocks that were originally obscuring the latter part of the ancient Zonai murals, he discovers that the remaining murals depict Zelda's resolve to repair the Master Sword, and her transformation into the Light Dragon. At the site where Ganondorf returned to life and instigated the [[Upheaval]], Link finds a further deep, long chasm which descends into [[Gloom's Lair]], with a massive towering nest of [[Gloom]] housing the healing Demon King found at its deepest base. Ganondorf's entire army of monsters spawns at the nest's entrance, commencing the War in the Depths of Hyrule, and the Sages reunite for the intense, climactic battle. With all of Ganondorf's ground forces defeated, the previous bosses encountered across Hyrule - [[Colgera]], the [[Marbled Gohma]], [[Mucktorok]], the [[Queen Gibdo]] and the [[Seized Construct]] - all respawn, and each of the five Sages battles the boss associated with their temple and secret stone. Link ventures into the Gloom nest for the final showdown with Ganondorf. | |||
Ganondorf, still in his corpse-like appearance, laments at the state of the world being bathed in "insufferable light", rather than darkness, as Link approaches him. He then slams his fist into the ground, wreathing himself in Gloom magic, and re-emerges as the fully revived Demon King of ages past. He draws a [[Gloom Sword]] and engages Link in single combat, proving to be formidable in his ability to [[Perfect Dodge|dodge]] and counter just as well as Link. Partway through the battle, Ganondorf activates his secret stone, effectively healing the previous damage he took and doubling all aspects of his strength, and fights Link and the Sages all at once. While Ganondorf remains all of the threat he had been immortalized as, Link still manages to nearly defeat him after a fierce battle. Ganondorf's resolve to destroy Link and the very world remains devastating however, and as he nears defeat, he swallows his secret stone, willing to sacrifice all of himself to meet this end. He undergoes an explosive draconification, transforming into the deadly [[Demon Dragon]], and ascends into the sky from deep in the [[Depths]] of Hyrule with Link in his jaws. Zelda, as the Light Dragon, intercepts him and rescues Link, and the two of them battle the Demon Dragon in the sky. Link is ultimately able to weaken the Demon Dragon substantially with the Master Sword and uses it destroy the secret stone upon the dragon's forehead, causing it to bleed light and perish in a massive, earth-shattering explosion. | |||
In a last act of grace, the spirits of Rauru and Queen Sonia descend from the sky and use their lingering power to restore Zelda to her former self. She falls unconscious from high in the sky, and Link dives down to her and catches her, the two of them land safely into a lake below. Zelda comes to, realizing she is back to her old self, in her own time, and that the Master Sword did in fact make it Link, meaning that her plan was a success and that evil has been vanquished once more. She thanks Link, full of joy and gratitude, and expresses relief that she is finally home. | |||
==Gameplay== | ==Gameplay== | ||