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The Ocarina of Time Trilogy
Book One: "Purhpciy fu hith Papuulcespi" -- Prologue: Creation
By The Last Princess of Hyrule
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Excerpt from the chapter "On Origins" from The Book of Mudora:
In a Realm beyond sight,
The sky shines gold not blue,
There, the Triforce's might,
Makes mortal dreams come true . . .
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Before there was the earth, before the spirits and time began, there were three Golden Goddesses. All that is, was, and will be came about through Their wishes and desires. Though little known is about Their origins, what They did will never be forgotten by the peoples of this world.
This land of Hyrule began as Chaos. Chaos ruled it, making and creating only more Chaos. With such as it was, no matter was created, no life began. All was Chaos and Chaos was nothing. Then, the Great Goddesses descended upon the disarray, divine will in mind.
The first Goddess, the Powerful Din, called upon all Her strength to create and shape land. She built the mountains above the plain and dug the rich valleys into the earth; the rolling hills and the turbulent seas made as graceful additions. With the order begun by Din, the desolation of Chaos began to fall away and take shape of the land known today as Hyrule.
The second Goddess, the Wise Nayru, saw Din's work as masterful, but incomplete. Nayru used Her power of Wisdom to bring order and the spirit of law to the land. The laws became the bindings to which the Goddesses held Hyrule to Them. In coincidence, Chaos was forced from Their presence by Nayru's Light of Wisdom and into the darkness, where it yet would not hide for long.
The third and final Goddess, the Courageous Farore, looked upon Her sisters' work with disdain. A land shaped and governed, no doubt, but with no life to profit from it. The Resilient One, with Her love of freedom, felt a desire for others to experience the warmth of the Goddess's sun and the cool patter of Their rainfall. Thus, Farore's rich soul produced life forms to uphold the laws of Hyrule.
However, despite the pure and perfect land They had fashioned, the Goddesses were not satisfied. The life flourishing in Hyrule seemed removed from the Goddesses, impersonal as the Chaos They had vanquished. To elucidate this quandary, each Goddess decided upon leaving Her own special mark; a part of Herself in the land They had created.
Thus, Din, in the image of Her own, created the Gerudo, a race comprised solely of females. The Goddess of Power had always felt that female creatures possessed superior composition as opposed to male. Hence, only one male was born to the Gerudo race, every one hundred years. In order to survive, the Gerudo relied on the powers of seduction Din had imbued them with.
Nayru's ideal beings, the race of the Zora, were a wise and reserved people. She believed that violence was product of Chaos, though Din held not such principle. The pacifist aquatic race inhabited the waters that flowed through the land, remaining secluded to the Gerudo and their ways.
Lastly, Farore, who felt the shine of innocence, created the Kokiri, a race comprised of children who never reached maturity. The Kokiri lived deep in the forests of Hyrule and, in their seclusion, never learned the complications of adulthood.
Satisfied with Their work, the Goddesses prepared to depart. However, within the moment they turned away, Hyrule fell once again to the mercy of Chaos. The mountains crumbled and the life died as Chaos tore apart the laws. That was when the Goddesses realized the terrible mistake They had made—in creating Hyrule, They had made it completely dependant upon Them.
So, the Goddesses created six elements, which would hold the fabric of the world in line. Light, Forest, Fire, Water, Shadow, and Spirit were made to watched over Hyrule in the Goddesses' stead. Then, in order to keep the elements tightly aligned with Hyrule, the Goddesses put one race in charge of each element. The Gerudo governed Spirit, the Zora harnessed Water, and the Kokiri preserved Forest.
However, there were still three elements left unguarded. So, working as one, the Goddesses created the Sheikah, the Gorons, and the Hylians. The Sheikah took over the element of Shadow, the Gorons guarded Fire, and the Hylians controlled Light.
To keep the members of each race from feuding for single control of each element, the Goddesses chose from each race a supreme being to hold the pure element itself, preserved within a medallion. Each Sage, as these holders came to be called, perfectly exemplifying their element and preserved from mortal destruction by the blessings of the Divine. Then, the Goddesses took the Sages from the physical land of Hyrule. To protect the Sages and the Elemental Medallions, the Goddesses created the Sacred Realm, a realm of perfection removed from Hyrule. The Sacred Realm was to be inaccessible by any but the immortal Sages and the Golden Goddesses.
The Goddesses then observed Hyrule for a thousand years. In this time, They saw that the Hylian race perpetuated itself far beyond the others, and even beyond the expectations of the Goddesses. The Goddesses agreed that this race was superior in civility to the other races. Thus, the Goddesses made the Hylians rulers of Hyrule. However, the Hylians were not so superior that they did not fight amongst themselves. The Goddesses realized that none of the races, even the Hylians, could govern themselves in fair fashion. Therefore, the Goddesses picked the best family line of each race and made them its respective leaders.
The Goddesses referred to each of these Royal families as a legacy. In the Gerudo line, Din had decreed that the lone male was always to be made king. That line was known as the Amber Legacy. The Zora Royal Family was called the Sapphire Legacy; the Goron, the Ruby Legacy. For the Kokiri, Farore allowed them to chose their leader, whom came from the same line nonetheless, and was known as the Emerald Legacy. In the Sheikah society, the leading family held rank little higher than an average person, though the family was still most important to the Goddesses and called the Amethyst Legacy, while the Hylian Royal family, which the Goddesses considered greatest of all, became known as the Silver Legacy.
Unfortunately, even with the Legacy families, Chaos still existed in Hyrule, brought out when the races warred with each other. But, try as They might, the Goddesses could neither stop nor prevent the wars. The six elements should have been in agreement with each other, thus negating the possibility of a spark of discontent ever igniting into full bonfire of war, but when the races were dissatisfied, each element portrayed this through their appropriate Sage. Therefore, the races continued to fight as the Goddesses tried to create a solution.
At last, Nayru devised a plan. Since the elements could not govern themselves in an egalitarian fashion at times of displeasure, a single being must do so for them. So, the Goddesses created a seventh element. Nameless, the element was created to lead the others when the times of conflict arose. The Seventh Sage, in charge of the new element, was to be the greatest, purest, most perfect, ideal being in all Hyrule. However, because the racial wars were a rare occasion, the Goddesses felt it be inhumane to keep the Seventh Sage immortal, locked away in the Sacred Realm with nothing to do during the interim between divergences. The six elemental Sages were in perpetual motion with their elements, but the seventh would spend that time doing nothing.
Therefore, the Goddesses decided that every generation, a new Seventh Sage would be chosen, fitting the standards, to lead the other Sages were the wars to begin again. However, the chosen one never knew they were Sage until a war arose. Thus, many generations of Seventh Sages lived their lives without war or even knowing their divine role.
With this and final act, Their labors complete, the Goddesses departed Their land for the heavens. And at the point where They left the world, there was a brilliant flash of light as They simultaneously made Their final wish. Their wish was that They might always be remembered in Their people's hearts. Thus, the Sacred Triangles remained to symbolize the patron Goddesses of Hyrule. The triangles, called a variance of names; the divine, the golden, the enigmatic Triforce; became the basis of Hyrule's providence.
The wish of the Goddesses was granted—the people never forgot the legend of Creation, nor the Triforce, which became known to have great power; the power to grant the heart's greatest desire of the one who held the whole Triforce, as it had for the Goddesses.
The people of Hyrule sought the relic and finally someone held it. However, the Triforce had a catch. Only a person with a heart balancing the values of the Goddesses—Power, Wisdom, and Courage—could gain control of the complete Triforce. When the holder had one virtue outweighing the others, the Triforce split into three pieces—Power, Wisdom, and Courage—leaving the holder with the piece that portrayed the value most prominent in his heart.
However, even one piece gave the holder the power to overthrow the Silver Legacy and the Hylians, thus making the holder ruler of Hyrule. However, the Sages intervened before the Triforce holder had a chance to kill the Royals. To prevent this near-catastrophe from ever possibly happening again, the Sages gathered the Triforce, which, when all three pieces were together, became complete again, and sealed it away in the Sacred Realm.
Though no mortal beings could enter the Realm, they did try, and grew in ambition with every failure. It was a great system, which everyone thought infallible. But not even the Goddesses could have foretold the day when this perfect order failed at last.
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