Zelda Lore in a Minute

The Zelda series consists of many sequels over a twenty year long history and definitely creates very deep and complex history with many twists and turns. The confusion caused by the lengthy history has created much debate between the fans for years before Nintendo finally released the official timeline a year ago. But all of this might still be confusing for a beginner to the series. Fortunately YouTube member Lore is here to help out anyone who might be a little confused with a minute long look into the lore of the series. The video might only be little over 60 seconds long but it does a pretty good job of covering everything from the creation of Hyrule and the Triforce to the founding of the kingdom and the split timelines.

Jump inside to check it out for yourself.

In the beginning, the world was created by the three goddesses Din, Farore and Nayru, who shaped the land and gave it life before leaving a symbol of their power (the Triforce) in the care of the goddess Hylia. The Demon King Demise wanted this power for himself, so waged war with Hylia until she sent the last remaining people, along with the triforce, into the sky to form the city of Skyloft. That didn’t work, Ghirahim kidnapped princess Zelda, revived Demise, and the hero Link defeated him — in doing so cursing the trio’s offspring to clash with each other until the end of time. Hyrule is founded along with the Temple of Time, and there was much rejoicing. After some early battles with an emo wind mage, Link’s descendant was tasked with rescuing Zelda by opening the Doors of Time, unsealing the Master Sword and defeating Ghirahim’s incarnation Ganondorf with the aid of a magical Ocarina, leading to a series of adventures involving an eldritch god of madness and death, an invasion of monsters from the dark world, an island adventure in a talking boat, and a land adventure in a magic train. Or in the alternate timeline split where Link fails to defeat Ganondorf, some time travel, some weather manipulation, and waking up a magic whale with an enchanted cello. Years after waking up said whale, the evil sorceress Yuga begins sealing the descendants of the mystical seven sages into paintings, and Link’s current incarnation must travel between the worlds of Lorule and Hyrule to save them all and defeat a revived Ganondorf with the help of Princess Zelda before both worlds are torn apart and remade in Ganon’s evil image.

If anyone is interested in the lore of the franchise itself, they also made a handy video covering that as well.

I thought this was actually pretty good. I did not expect a minute long video to really be capable of covering majority of the lore of the series so handily. But somehow they managed to pull it off and do a decent job of it. Of course this did leave out nearly all the little bits from the side adventure games like Minish Cap and Spirit Tracks, but I suppose the storylines of those games did have very little impact on the overall story.

Source: YouTube