The Archive of Travelers' Tales Home	Chapter One: Ocarina of Time   |   Chapter Two: Majora's Mask   |   Chapter Three: A Link to the Past   |   Chapter Four: Oracle of Ages   |   Chapter Five: Oracle of Seasons   |   Chapter Six: The Legend of Zelda   |   Chapter Seven: The Adventures of Link   |   Chapter Eight: Link's Awakening
Main Page Guestbook Links Fan Stuff Message Board FAQ Chat Room E3 2003 The Legend of Zelda Magic Spells Areas The Full Legend of Zelda Items Enemies Characters Metroid Story Planets Enemies Items Starfox Story Characters Levels Vehicles Earthbound Characters Story Newspapers Kid Icarus Characters and Monsters Locations Story Items Questions? Comments? Concerns? E-mail Me.	A long, long time ago the World was in an age of Chaos. In the middle of this chaos, in a little kingdom in the land of Hyrule, a legend was being handed down from generation to generation, the legend of the "Triforce"; golden triangles possessing mystical powers. One day, an evil army attacked this peaceful little kingdom and stole the Triforce of Power. This army was led by Ganon, the powerful King of Darkness who sought to plunge the world into fear and darkness under his rule. Fearing his wicked rule, Zelda, the princess of this kingdom, split up the Triforce of Wisdom into eight fragments and hid them throughout the realm to save the last remaining Triforce from the clutches of the evil Ganon. At the same time, she commanded her most trustworthy nursemaid, Impa, to secretly escape into the land and go find a man with enough courage to destroy the evil Ganon. Upon hearing this, Ganon grew angry, imprisoned the princess, and sent out a party in search of Impa. Braving forests and mountains, Impa fled for her life from her pursuers. As she reached the very limit of her energy she found herself surrounded by Ganon's evil henchmen. All was not lost. A young lad appeared. He skillfully drove off Ganon's henchmen, and saved Impa from a fate worse than death. His name was Link. During his travels he had come across Impa and Ganon's henchmen. Impa told Link the whole story of the princess Zelda and the evil Ganon. Burning with a sense of justice, Link resolved to save Zelda, but Ganon was a powerful opponent. He held the Triforce of Power. And so, in order to fight off Ganon, Link had to bring the scattered eight fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom together to rebuild the mystical Triangle. If he couldn't do this, there would be no chance Link could fight his way into Death Mountain where Ganon lived. Link braved countless dangers to recover the fragments of the Triforce, which he had come to harbor a great respect for throughout his adventures. Link battled his way to Death Mountain to confront Ganon, and used the legendary Silver Arrow to pierce the King of Evil's black heart. Instead of returning to his prison in the Dark World, Ganon appeared to be utterly destroyed by the power of the Silver Arrow. His body disappeared, but the Seven Sages stated that they had not returned the evil sorcerer to the Dark World. Link knew better than to think that he had eliminated Ganon once and for all, but he felt confident that he had banished the beast to a nether-region with seals more powerful than what had held Ganon in the Dark World. Nevertheless, the threat of Ganon's return was never far from Link's mind.
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