The chronological origin point of the entire series: the goddess Hylia seals Demise's malice beneath the floating island of Skyloft, and the first Link and Zelda forge the bond — and the Master Sword's earliest form — that echoes through every era that follows.
Notable & Interesting
- Establishes Demise's dying curse, which the series repeatedly invokes to explain why Link, Zelda, and Ganon(dorf) keep reincarnating.
- The Loftwing-riding, motion-controlled Wii original was remastered for Switch in 2021 with button controls added.
Connections
- Thematically linked to
Ocarina of TimeDemise's dying curse is the mythological engine behind every later Ganon.
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Also on the Shared Trunk (Before the Split)
The Minish Cap
Link teams up with a sentient talking hat, Ezlo, and gains the ability to shrink to the size of the tiny Minish people to stop Vaati, the wind mage whose rise here sets in motion conflicts referenced throughout the pre-split era.
Four Swords
A cooperative-multiplayer dungeon crawler in which Link draws the Four Sword and splits into four colored copies of himself to stop Vaati, who has escaped his imprisonment and kidnapped Princess Zelda.
Ocarina of Time
Link travels between childhood and adulthood to stop Ganondorf from seizing the Triforce. Its ending is the single fork point of the entire official timeline: depending on how it's interpreted, three different futures branch out from here.