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{{Hatnote|This page is about the princess. For the game, see [[The Legend of Zelda]]. For the series, see [[The Legend of Zelda (Series)]].}} | {{Hatnote|This page is about the titular princess. For the game, see [[The Legend of Zelda]]. For the series, see [[The Legend of Zelda (Series)]].}} | ||
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{{Main|Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)}} | {{Main|Zelda (The Legend of Zelda)}} | ||
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Zelda is the ruling princess of [[Lesser Hyrule]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''. When [[Ganon]] | Zelda is the ruling princess of [[Lesser Hyrule]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''. When [[Ganon]] his army into Hyrule and seized the [[Triforce of Power]], Zelda took the [[Triforce of Wisdom]] and broke it into [[Triforce Shard|eight fragments]]. She then told her servant, [[Impa]], to find someone with enough courage to find the pieces and use it to destroy Ganon; the evil king found out about this and imprisoned Zelda. She is ultimately rescued by [[Link (The Legend of Zelda)|Link]], after he reunites the Triforce of Wisdom and defeats Ganon. | ||
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==''The Adventure of Link''== | ==''The Adventure of Link''== | ||
{{main|Zelda (The Adventure of Link)}} | |||
{{float|right|[[File:Princess Zelda Sleeping.png]]}} | {{float|right|[[File:Princess Zelda Sleeping.png]]}} | ||
Even though ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|The Adventure of Link]]'' | Even though ''[[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link|The Adventure of Link]]'' features the same Link as ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', the game has a very different Zelda. This Zelda sleeps in a chamber and cannot wake until someone reunites the full [[Triforce]] and wishes on it for her to awaken. | ||
A long time ago, | A long time ago, a [[King of Hyrule]] died, and passed the [[Triforce]] down to [[Prince of Hyrule|his son]], the next king. But the king did not trust his son and so the Triforce was incomplete, missing a third of its power, the [[Triforce of Courage|Courage]]. A [[magician]] told him that the only one who knew where it is was Princess Zelda; they questioned her, but she wouldn't say, so the wizard put her in an endless sleep. When the wizard died afterwards, the prince ordered every princess born in the [[Royal Family of Hyrule|Royal Family]] to be called Zelda, so the tragedy would never be forgotten. | ||
==''A Link to the Past'' & ''Link's Awakening''== | ==''A Link to the Past'' & ''Link's Awakening''== | ||
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====The Future==== | ====The Future==== | ||
Seven years later, Link appears on the [[Pedestal of Time]], all grown up and equipped with the Master Sword. Sheik appears before him, and tells him who he is, where the other sages are located, and where to get a useful item for the first dungeon. Sheik appears later in the game to teach Link the last 6 [[Ocarina Songs]] right before each dungeon: [[Minuet of Forest]], [[Bolero of Fire]], [[Serenade of Water]], [[Nocturne of Shadow]], [[Requiem of Spirit]], and [[Prelude of Light]] (the last one is not taught before a dungeon). Sheik appears several other times throughout the game: at the Temple of Time, after the [[Forest Temple (Ocarina of Time)|Forest Temple]], where he tells Link how to go back to the past, how to fight beaten bosses again (3DS version), and teaches him the Prelude of Light; at [[Lake Hylia]], right after the [[Water Temple (Ocarina of Time)|Water Temple]], where he witnesses the lake's restoration and speaks with Link for a few seconds; and at [[Kakariko Village]], a bit after the Water Temple, where he tries to fight the Evil Spirit of [[Bongo Bongo]] sealed inside the [[Bottom of the Well|well]], and teaches Link the Nocturne of Shadows. | Seven years later, Link appears on the [[Pedestal of Time]], all grown up and equipped with the Master Sword. Sheik appears before him, and tells him who he is, where the other sages are located, and where to get a useful item for the first dungeon. Sheik appears later in the game to teach Link the last 6 [[Ocarina Songs]] right before each dungeon: [[Minuet of Forest]], [[Bolero of Fire]], [[Serenade of Water]], [[Nocturne of Shadow]], [[Requiem of Spirit]], and [[Prelude of Light]] (the last one is not taught before a dungeon). Sheik appears several other times throughout the game: at the Temple of Time, after the [[Forest Temple (Ocarina of Time)|Forest Temple]], where he tells Link how to go back to the past, how to fight beaten bosses again (3DS version), and teaches him the Prelude of Light; at [[Lake Hylia (Ocarina of Time)|Lake Hylia]], right after the [[Water Temple (Ocarina of Time)|Water Temple]], where he witnesses the lake's restoration and speaks with Link for a few seconds; and at [[Kakariko Village (Ocarina of Time)|Kakariko Village]], a bit after the Water Temple, where he tries to fight the Evil Spirit of [[Bongo Bongo]] sealed inside the [[Bottom of the Well|well]], and teaches Link the Nocturne of Shadows. | ||
After all 6 sages are safe, Link goes back to the Temple of Time and finds Sheik waiting for him. He tells him about the legend where the Triforce separates during the wish, and that Ganondorf has the Triforce Power, Sheik has Wisdom, and Link has Courage. He also finally reveals himself to be Princess Zelda, and that she was hiding from Ganondorf by changing her appearance while she waited for Link. During this conversation, Ganondorf took this chance of capturing Zelda and lures Link into his castle. | After all 6 sages are safe, Link goes back to the Temple of Time and finds Sheik waiting for him. He tells him about the legend where the Triforce separates during the wish, and that Ganondorf has the Triforce Power, Sheik has Wisdom, and Link has Courage. He also finally reveals himself to be Princess Zelda, and that she was hiding from Ganondorf by changing her appearance while she waited for Link. During this conversation, Ganondorf took this chance of capturing Zelda and lures Link into his castle. | ||
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==''Skyward Sword''== | ==''Skyward Sword''== | ||
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[[File:Zelda with her Loftwing.png|right|Artwork from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]''|150px]] | [[File:Zelda with her Loftwing.png|right|Artwork from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]''|150px]] | ||
In this game, Zelda is not a princess, but a normal girl who is a student at the [[Knight Academy]] along with [[Link (Skyward Sword)|Link]], the headmaster of which is her father [[Gaepora]]. She is Link's closest friend and rides around on a [[Zelda's Loftwing|Blue Loftwing]]. After she is chosen to act as [[Hylia|the goddess]] in the [[Ceremony of the Goddess]] for the winner of the [[Wing Ceremony]], an annual race in which Link is competing for the right to become a senior in the academy, she helps Link locate his [[Crimson Loftwing]], hidden by his rival and her stalker, [[Groose]]. After Link wins the race, Zelda joyfully jumps off Skyloft for Link and his bird to catch her, and then they go to the top of the statue to continue on with the ceremony. Zelda hands him the [[Sailcloth]], a legendary parachute used as the prize for that year's race. She then pushes Link off the statue and tells him to land on the circle in the ground with his new sailcloth. After that, Zelda asks Link out on a date in the sky. While flying, a black tornado appears out of nowhere and sucks Zelda in while it throws Link off his bird unconscious. | |||
After waking in the [[Sealed Grounds]], she is found by an [[Impa#Skyward Sword|old woman]], who tells her that she is the literal reincarnation of the goddess [[Hylia]], as part of a plan to permanently destroy the demonic [[Demise]] who Hylia was fatally wounded in the sealing of. The old woman sends her to two springs - the [[Skyview Spring]] and the [[Earth Spring]] - to purify herself and recover the memories of a past life. She finds the first behind the [[Skyview Temple]] and prays there with little difficulty; but is waylaid by a group of [[bokoblin]]s outside the [[Earth Temple]], and is only saved by the intervention of [[Impa#Skyward Sword|Impa]], a [[Sheikah]] servant of the goddess. After praying in the spring, she is stopped by going to the late-arriving Link by Impa, who pushes her onward through a portal to [[Lanayru Desert]]. | |||
Zelda and Impa go through the desert into the [[Temple of Time (Skyward Sword)|Temple of Time]], and Impa destroys the entrance to delay the enemy. Zelda plays her harp to activate the [[Gate of Time]] leading to the past. As soon as it opens, Zelda sees Link come in through the side entrance of the temple, but [[Ghirahim]] breaks through the blocked entrance Impa created, and blocks Link from getting closer to Zelda with magical fire. While Impa and Ghirahim fight, Zelda sends the Goddess Harp to Link and tells him that he will need it. Link manages to delay Ghirahim while Impa and Zelda escape through the Gate. Zelda promises Link that they will see each other again before Impa pulls her through the Gate of Time, dropping a magical bomb to destroy it behind them. | |||
In the [[Temple of Hylia]] of the past, Zelda's full memories of her time as Hylia are restored, and when Link arrives, she tells him of Hylia's plans, guilty over her past self's plans involving using him as a weapon rather than a person. After blessing the [[Master Sword]], upgrading it to the [[True Master Sword]], she seals herself away - partly as penance, partly to keep Demise's monstrous form, [[The Imprisoned]], sealed until the present day. As the seal forms, she asks him to wake her up when the seal is broken and Demise is gone. | |||
When Link uses the [[Triforce]] to kill The Imprisoned by dropping the [[Isle of the Goddess]] on him, Zelda awakens in the present day. However, the joyful reunion is interrupted by Ghirahim, who knocks her out and takes her through the Gate of Time to the past, hoping to use her divine soul to alter history and restore Demise. While Link follows, defeating Ghirahim's [[horde]] and ultimately Ghirahim himself, he is too late to stop the ceremony from succeeding and reviving Demise with Zelda's soul. Hoping to restore her, he challenges Demise and beats him in a dimension of the latter's creation, freeing Zelda's soul to return to her; but not before the dying Demise curses "those who share the blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero" to eternally fight an [[Ganon|incarnation of Demise's hatred]]. | |||
The | The restored Zelda begs Impa to come back to the present day with them, but the latter tells her the past is her native time, but promises they will see one another again. Zelda gives her one of her bracelets as a keepsake, but when they travel to the present day for the final time, they see the old woman wearing the bracelet, revealing her to be an aged Impa. After one final talk with Zelda, the old woman passes. Later, while Link and Zelda stand on the [[Statue of the Goddess]] alone with the Triforce, she says that she wants to stay and live in the land below. | ||
==''A Link Between Worlds''== | ==''A Link Between Worlds''== | ||
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Furthermore, Zelda's power did not awaken easily, regardless of the steps she took to do so. With each passing day, she became increasingly frustrated with her inability to prevent the impending doom of [[Calamity Ganon|Calamity Ganon's]] return. This frustration was also fueled by her relationship with [[Link | Furthermore, Zelda's power did not awaken easily, regardless of the steps she took to do so. With each passing day, she became increasingly frustrated with her inability to prevent the impending doom of [[Calamity Ganon|Calamity Ganon's]] return. This frustration was also fueled by her relationship with [[Link (Breath of the Wild)|Link]]. After Link was chosen to wield the [[Master Sword#Breath of the Wild|Master Sword]], and was appointed as Zelda's protector by the King himself, Zelda believed that Link's path as the chosen hero was of relative ease. Compared to the continual failures in fulfilling her role, Link always achieved anything he set his mind to. Early on their relationship, Zelda often told Link that she did not need his protection, and that she preferred to be left alone to continue her research. | ||
After Link bravely defended Zelda from the [[Yiga Clan]] in the [[Gerudo Desert (Breath of the Wild)|Gerudo Desert]], she began to open up to Link. Zelda realized that Link struggled with his role as well, in that all of Hyrule was watching him and expecting him to be the fearless hero that would defeat Ganon when he returned. After this revelation Zelda started to appreciated Link's presence and company, realizing that the two weren't so different after all. | After Link bravely defended Zelda from the [[Yiga Clan]] in the [[Gerudo Desert (Breath of the Wild)|Gerudo Desert]], she began to open up to Link. Zelda realized that Link struggled with his role as well, in that all of Hyrule was watching him and expecting him to be the fearless hero that would defeat Ganon when he returned. After this revelation Zelda started to appreciated Link's presence and company, realizing that the two weren't so different after all. | ||
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File:Sealing Bow - HWAoC icon.png|link=Sealing Bow|[[Sealing Bow]] | File:Sealing Bow - HWAoC icon.png|link=Sealing Bow|[[Sealing Bow]] | ||
File:Bow of Light - HWAoC icon.png|link=Bow of Light|[[Bow of Light]] | File:Bow of Light - HWAoC icon.png|link=Bow of Light|[[Bow of Light]] | ||
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File:Master Cycle Hunter - HWAoC icon.png|link=Master Cycle Hunter|[[Master Cycle Hunter]] | |||
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