Chapter 1: Male
In the beginning of the world, when the three goddesses made the realm of Hyrule, they also made the six races of people that called the land their home. To the race that called themselves "Gerudo" was given the land between the Great Wasteland and the valley that defined the western edge of Hyrule. It was in this region that the Gerudo settled and built a great fortress, so that they could defend themselves from the other races that lived to the east and the monsters that lived in the west.
On the far side of the desert, the Gerudo built a temple honoring the great spirit of the desert. When the temple was completed, all the young Gerudo began to make pilgrimages to the temple as a rite of passage into adulthood. This custom pleased the spirit, and she made the Gerudo prosperous and strong. But as the centuries passed, the pilgrimage was discontinued, and the spirit became displeased. In her anger, she placed a curse on the Gerudo tribe so that their women would only bear female children. Only one child born every hundred years would be male, and when he was born, the tribe would have to obey him completely.
The centuries passed, and the tribe became accustomed to their curse. Every spring, the warriors of the tribe rode out into Hyrule, capturing Hylian men to ensure the survival of their race.
On a winter morning, long after the curse had been set on the people of the valley, a young woman of the tribe gave birth to a child. The woman's name was Meari, and she had just that spring participated in the annual spring raid for the first time, having come of age to do so. The child's father had been a man from Hyrule village, but to the Gerudo tribe he was just another of the nameless men who had been captured for the good of the tribe.
It was something that had happened countless times in the tribe before, but this time was different, special. Unlike the vast majority of births in the Gerudo tribe, the child of Maeri had been born male.