In the century since the fabled Hero of Time valiantly fought for the land of Hyrule's peace and tranquility, much has happened. Though the Hero was famed for removing the evil king Ganondorf and imprisoning him in the Sacred Realm with the help of Princess Zelda and the Six Sages, it did not remove evil from Hyrule permanently. The Hero's courage gave Hyrule many years of peace, however, the seed of evil lurked in the minds of many.
Seventy-five years after the defeat of Ganondorf, the noble king Daphnes, a descendant of Zelda herself, took the mantle of supreme monarch of Hyrule. Malon, who was known to have been in possession of the Ocarina of Time, passed away to begin the year, and she was notably the last living Hylian to have known the Hero of Time. Under Daphnes' rule, the Sheikah people were beginning to grow in numbers, as their days of prosecution had come to an end. A large community of them were settled in Kakariko Village.
The Goron race was still led by Link, the son of the Sage of Fire Darunia, who now had aged considerably. The Zora people were under the rule of King Zorbuchuk Verezone, a descendant of Princess Ruto, who ruled them with more strictness and ferocity than his predecessors. The Gerudo remained aloof to the other races, only venturing out of the desert every few years for mating purposes. They still remained feared by most of Hyrule. And the Kokiri, still eternally young, remained in the forest, now under the watch of the fully-grown Great Deku Tree sapling.
Not long after Daphnes took the crown, a man named Dhanim appeared, claiming of a huge darkness coming to the land of Hyrule within the next twenty-five years. Although advised to dismiss the claims, Daphnes had a strange feeling in the pit of his gut about the premonition, and chose to remain in contact with Dhanim to attempt to learn more about the future. This mistake would prove to be fatal.
After a few years of collaboration with the strange man, it was revealed that Dhanim was a priest and a disciple in a cult who still followed the ways of Ganondorf. He had every intention of finishing what the Gerudo King started in taking over Hyrule, and with Daphnes' defenses down, Dhanim had little problems in gaining the crown of Hyrule. Despite the years of peace, Daphnes was imprisoned and Dhanim assemble an army, training the men in secret. Sudden and unusual laws began to be enforced, the most notable of which was the sudden oppression against the Sheikah race. Their rights were removed initially, and then not long after, Dhanim's new army began to react to them violently.
In the following year, many more changes to the law were made, and no race was exempt from the sudden oppression. The Hylian nobles vehemently protested and attempted to stage a coup, though they failed. To show the rest of Hyrule how he was going to rule things, the nobles were executed, with Dhanim claiming that the same will happen to all those who oppose his will and the will of Ganondorf. However, ruling the land was not enough for the wicked man.
One night soon after, a squadron of the wicked king's men invaded Kakariko Village in the dead of night, setting it ablaze in an attempt to slaughter every remaining member of the Sheikah race. The Sheikah people put up resistance and eventually drove the squadron out, but not before losing the vast majority of their people. This night was known as the bloodiest night in Hyrule's history, and the few remaining Sheikah were forced into hiding in their last safe haven, the Shadow Temple. Dhanim ruled the land of Hyrule under a very fierce regime, and its citizens became overwhelmingly afraid of him.
The next fifteen years, it was revealed Dhanim had begun seeking out the Master Sword, which he knew was guarded by the Six Sages. Having tapped into some of the magic that had corrupted Ganondorf, Dhanim slowly began capturing the Sages from the Sacred Realm and keeping them from their duties. He also places a curse on the Great Deku Tree, not unlike the one Ganondorf had placed on the original tree a century before, rendering the entity of the forest comatose. The entirety of Hyrule became corrupt, and times resembled those of the Gerudo King's rule more than ever before. Evil had once again conquered the land.
However, word began to spread that the Sages were communicating with several of Hyrule's citizens, trying to prevent Dhanim from reaching the necessary tools to reach the Master Sword. Select individuals were approached by the Sages to put forth their abilities and skills for the sake of Hyrule, forming a Resistance Force to combat Dhanim's army and take him out. All races were reached out to in the time of need, and those who were willing agreed to defend Hyrule. They vowed to put their lives on the line to save the land from evil and to overthrow Dhanim, to follow in the footsteps of the Hero of Time to protect the land of the Hylian.
This is their story.