Prologue: The King's Journal Entry
My name is King Eric Bosphoramus Hyrule IV. Just last night, my wife gave birth to twins—identical daughters.
The eldest has been named in accordance with the royal family traditions, and as such she is Princess Zelda VII, after Princess Zelda the Wise, who held back Calamity Ganon for a century and saved Hyrule in the process.
Of course, naming both girls Zelda would be quite confusing, so the younger has been named Princess Link, after Link the Brave, Hero of Hyrule, who awoke from a century-long coma and rushed to save the Princess and free Hyrule from the clutches of the Calamity.
And yet, even though they will be well taken care of due to their status as Princesses, I worry. It has long been said that twins born in the royal family are a bad omen, and as such a tradition has developed of drowning the younger twin as soon as they have been born. And yet... I cannot bring myself to commit such an atrocity. Who am I to condemn a child simply for being born? And yet the nobles and Branch family will not take kindly to my decision. They will belittle Link, treat her as lower than the lowest, and that is what worries me.
I can only hope that she will be as strong as Link the Brave was.