Part 1
In The Beginning
The void was infinite. No vacuum, no stars, no sense of order or symmetry. There was only a vast nothingness accompanied only by Din, Nayru, and Farore; the three golden goddesses. They were virtually featureless beings, yet they were beautiful and magnificent. Each of them had wings attached to their smooth shoulders and effortlessly drifted through the depths of the abyss with their arms at their sides and their feet together.
Their three colored contrails raced towards each other, the only visible sign that there was something other than the void. Din, the goddess of power, glowed purple, Nayru, the goddess of wisdom, shone a brilliant blue, and Farore, the goddess of courage, beamed an intense shade of green.
When the contrails met, there was a moment of complete darkness as though the goddesses disappeared. Then, without warning, there was a violent explosion causing the void to erupt in a blinding light. As the brightness started to settle it was clear that something unique had just happened. Rock debris started to appear from the farthest reaches of the chaos, all directed to a focal point where the goddesses had met.
Din raced through the rocks with her hands out and each one she touched with her golden fingers shot forward and formed a solid spherical core. As more rock gravitated to the core it began to liquefy, turning a deep phosphorescent red. The liquid mass was growing exponentially until Din flew directly into the molten rock and caused the surface to coagulate. Bursting through and back towards the void she willed the continuing falling rocks to create an inner mantle, more malleable than the lava below.
The sphere was enlarging as the rest of the debris landed on top of the mantle and formed an outer layer of bedrock. Din looked down at their creation with wonder and amazement. Before there had been nothing, but now there was an endless possibility for what they could create next!
She dashed down and skimmed the surface of the sphere with her fingers creating canyons in the rock. In her hands she took portions of the land and molded mountain ranges, valleys, and craters; but close to the center of the sphere she made an exceptionally tall mountain.
Nayru and Farore smiled as they looked down upon the work that Din had finished and together they decided to name their creation Hyrule.
Nayru flew over the land, pouring her wisdom onto the earth. Natural progression began to take place; the sphere rotated, the craters formed by Din were filled with water, rivers began to flow, the atmosphere settled and clouds formed. A sun appeared and warmed the surface of the land.
Farore surveyed the changing sphere from above, within, and on the surface. She shot into the sky, leaving Hyrule in her green mist, and as it settled, life began. Grass grew in the meadows, trees appeared, forests thrived, and most importantly; she created all of the living creatures of this new world.
To the south of the tallest mountain was the vast forest. There she created the Deku Tree and gave it life. It was much larger than the rest of the trees in the forest, and she granted him the ability to create a race for himself; the Kokiri. The Deku Tree conjured up a child-like race with pointed ears and quiet disposition. He would be their protector and creator; they would not need to be outside of the forest of any reason.
Outside of the forest and directly to the east, Farore created a water dwelling race of people and named them the Zoras. The Zoras were able to breathe under water and had fins that allowed them to swim exceptionally well. Their skin was light blue on their backs and grey on the front. Farore created a deity for them, Lord Jabu-Jabu; a whale-like creature who dwelled in the fountain behind their domain.
In the middle of Hyrule Farore conjured the Hylians; a human sized race with pointed ears. They were appointed to be the goddess' Chosen People, the race that would be the closest to the gods. They were gifted with their hands and with the use of reason, and they constructed a castle and learned to farm the land. The Hylians recognized the importance of the goddesses and kept them close to their hearts, not wanting to show any sign of disrespect for their creators.
Near the top of the highest mountain she created the Gorons. They were solid beast with extremely muscular arms that hung down to their ankles and they had short, stout legs. They walked upright but could tuck their legs beneath themselves to roll down the mountain to the large cavern halfway up the mountain where they mined the rock, their source of food.
To the bottom of the large mountain she placed the Sheikah. She willed them to be a swift, sleek, and crafty people with very light brown skin and red eyes. They were imparted with an innate ability to create and harness magic. Farore willed them to be the protectors of the Hylian family chosen to be the Royal Family. The Sheikah were to move like shadows amongst the Hylians and keep harm from entering their kingdom.
And last, in the desert to the northwest of Hyrule, Farore created the Gerudo; a race of women skilled on horseback and with weaponry. They had a dark green, almost brown skin and bright red hair and they used jewelry in their hair and on their face. Knowing their command of the sword, the bow, and their aptitude for learning magic, Farore set that only one male leader would be born every one hundred years in order to keep them from overrunning the lands.
After the goddesses studied their creations and deemed them well they flew up into the heavens and met at a single point. At that point there remained three golden triangles that formed one larger triangle and they called it the Triforce. They left the Triforce as a reminder of their ability to create with good will and purity, but the place that the Triforce remained was sealed into another realm created by the goddesses, known as the Sacred Realm.
The Sacred Realm was cut off from Hyrule to keep the mortal races from having the relic in their possession. The Triforce, while an inanimate object holding no feeling or judgment, was still capable of transferring the power of the goddesses to anyone who could touch it. If anyone with a perfect balance of Wisdom, Courage, and Power were to touch the Triforce they would have not only the power of the goddesses, but have their wishes fulfilled and desires granted.
In order to keep tranquility in the event that a person impure of heart reached the Triforce, they designed it to split into three pieces and disperse. The person who touched it would receive the piece that best reflected their personality and desire; the other two pieces would seek out the most suitable person in the land who embodied that trait. In order to have all three pieces, that person would have to find the other two and take their life.
The way to the Sacred Realm was kept a secret. Rumors of people finding the Sacred Realm abounded, and people lead expeditions into the farthest reaches of the world in order to touch it for themselves. After thousands of years the rumors faded, and the story of the creation of Hyrule and the Triforce became the substance of legend. Few people remained who even knew of the existence of the Triforce, and they were mostly the bloodline of the Royal Family who ruled Hyrule from the outset.
In the thousands of years since that time, the kingdom was still segregated in its original form. The Kokiri were not even aware of the existence of other races, the Gorons remained in the mountain mining the caverns for their food, the Sheikah stayed either in the Royal Castle or outside of Hyrule in their towns and kept guard over the Royal Family, the Hylians lived life without care or worry under the reign of King Daltus Bint Hyrule, and the Gerudo continued to live in the desert far from the business of the entire kingdom of Hyrule under the leadership of the ruthless Drador Mandra.