Hey guys. Just to begin with again I'm only doing this once but if you recognize the name and story of this it is what you think it is and I own squat of this. Nothing not the characters or really the base of the story. I claim no rights I'm just doing this for the sake of it. Whoever David Eddings gave the rights to owns the story and probably half the characters I use. The other half belongs to Nindendo. I will try my best not to fully copy the story but I make no promises. All the goddesses that appear also are now gods.

Prologue

Being a History of the War of the Gods and the Acts of Geapora the Sorcerer - adapted from The Book of Hylian

When the world was new, the seven Gods dwelt in harmony, and the races of man were as one people. Hyla, the youngest of the Gods, was beloved by the Hylians. he abode with them and cherished them, and they prospered in his care. The other Gods also gathered peoples about the, and each God cherished his own people.

By Hyla's eldest brother, Deku, was God over no people. He dwelt apart from men and Gods, until the day that a vagrant child sought him out. Deku accepted the child as his discuple and called him Geapora. Geapora earned the secret of the Will and the Word and became a sorcerer. In the years that followed, others also sought out the solitary God. They joined in brotherhood to learn at the feet of Deku, and time did not touch them.

Now it happened that Deku took up a stone the shape of a triangle, no larger than the heart of a child, and he turned the stone in his hand until it became a living soul. The power of the living jewel, which men called the Triforce, was very great, and Deku worked wonders with it.

Of all the Gods, Ganondorf was the most beautiful, and his people were the Gerudo. They burned sacrifices before him, calling him Lord of Lords, and Ganondorf found the smell of sacrifice and the words of adoration sweet. The day came, however, when he heard of the Triforce, and from that moment he knew no peace.

Finally in a dissembling guise, he went to Deku. "My brother," he said, "it is not fitting that thou shouldst absent thyself from our company and counsel. Put aside this jewel which hath seduced thy mind from our fellowship."

Deku looked into his brother's soul and rebuked him. "Why lost thou seek lordship and dominion, Ganondorf? Is not Gerudo enough for thee? Do not in thy pride seek to possess the Orb, lest it slay thee."

Great was Ganondorf's shame at the words or Deku, and he raised his hand and smote his brother. Taking the jewel, he fled.

The other Gods besought Ganondorf to return the Orb, but he would not. Then the races of man rose up and came against the hosts of the Gerudo and made war on them. The wards of the Gods and of men raged across the land until, near the high places of Colossus, Ganondorf raised the Triforce and forced its will to join with his to split the earth asunder. The mountains were cast down, and the sea came in. But Hyla and Deku joined their wills and set limits upon the sea. The races of man, however, were separated one from the others, and the Gods also.

Now when Ganondorf raised the Triforce against the earth, its mother, it awoke and began to glow with a holy flame. The face of Ganondorf was seared by the golden fire. In pain he cast down the mountains; in anguish he cracked open the earth; in agony he let in the sea. His left hand flared and burned to ashes, the flesh on the side of his face melted like wax, and his left eye boiled in its socket. With a great cry, he cast himself into the sea to quench the burning, but his anguish was without end.

When Ganondorf rose from the water, his right side was still fair, but his left was burned and scarred hideously by the fire of the Triforce. In endless pain, he led his people away to the east, where they build a great city on the plains of Gerudoa, which they called Yoru no Machi, City of Night, for Ganondorf hid his maiming in darkness. The Gerudos raised an iron tower for their God and placed the Triforce in and iron cask in the topmost chamber. Often Ganondorf stood before the cask, then fled weeping, lest his yearning to look on the Triforce overpower him and he perish utterly.

The centuries rolled past in the lands of the Gerudo, and the came to call their maimed God Kal-Ganondorf, both King and God.

Hyla had taken the Hylians to the north. Of all the men, they were the most hardy and warlike, and Hyla put eternal hatred for the Gerudo in their hearts. With cruel swords and axes they ranged the north, even the fields of eternal ice, seeking a way to their ancient enemies.

Thus it was until the time when Eldin Bear-shoulders greatest king of the Hylians, traveled to the Vale of Deku to seek out Geapora the Sorcerer. "The way to the north is open," he said. "The signs and the auguries are propitious. Now is the time ripe for us to discover the way to the City of Night and regain the Triforce from One-eye."

Telma, wife of Geapora, was great with child, and he was reluctant to leave her. But Eldin prevailed. They stole away one night to join Eldin's sons, Lan Bull-Neck, Faron Fleet-foot, and Lina Iron-grip.

Cruel winter gripped the northland, and moors glittered beneath the stars with frost and steel-gray ice. To seek out their way, Geapora cast an enchantment and took the shape of a great wolf. On silent feet, he slunk through the snow-floored forests where the trees cracked and shattered in the sundering cold. Grim frost silvered the ruff and shoulders of the wolf, and ever after the hair and beard of Geapora were silver.

Through the snow and mist they crossed into Gerudoa and came at last to Yoru no Machi. Finding a secret way into the city, Geapora led them to the foot of the iron tower. Silently they climbed the rusted stairs which has known no step for twenty centuries. Fearfully they passed through the chamber where Ganondorf tossed in pain-haunted slumber, his maimed face hidden by a steel mash. Stealthily they crept past the sleeping God in the smoldering darkness and came at last to the chamber where lay the iron cask in which rested the living Triforce.

Eldin motioned for Geapora to take the Triforce, but Geapora refused. "I many not touch it," he said, "lest it destroy me. Once it welcomed the touch of man or God, but its will hardened when Ganondorf raised it against its mother. It will not be used so again. It reads our souls. Only one without ill intent, who is pure enough to take it and convey it in peril of his life, with no thought of power or possession may touch it now."

"What man has no ill intent in the silence of his soul?" Eldin asked. But Lina Iron-grip opened the cask and took up the Triforce. Its fire shone through his fingers, but he was not burned.

"So be it, Eldin," Geapora said. "Your youngest son is pure. It shall be his fate and the fate of all who follow him to bear the Triforce and protect it." And Geapora sighed, knowing the burden he had placed upon Lina.

"Then his brothers and I will sustain him," Eldin said, "for so long as this fate is upon him."

Lina muffled the Triforce in his cloak and hid it beneath his tunic. They crept again through the chambers of the maimed God, down the rusted stairs, along the secret way to the gates of the city, and into the wasteland beyond.

Soon after, Ganondorf awoke and went as always into the Chamber of the Triforce. But the cask stood open, and the Triforce was gone. Horrible was the wrath of Kal-Ganondorf. Taking his great sword, he went down from the iron tower and turned and smote it once, and the tower fell. To the Gerudo he cried out in a voice of thunder. "Because you have become indolent and unwatchful and have let a thief steal that for which I paid so dear, I will break your city and drive you forth. Gerudo shall wander the earth until Hi no toraianguru, triangle of fire, is returned to me." Then he cast down the City of Night in ruins and drove the hosts of the Gerudo into the wilderness. Yoru no Machi was no more.

Three leagues to the north, Geapora heard the wailing from the city and knew that Ganondorf had awakened. "Now will he come after us," he said, "and only the power of the Triforce can save us. When the hosts are upon us, Iron-grip, take the Triforce and hold it so they may see it."

The hosts of the Gerudo came, with Ganondorf himself in the forefront, but Lina held forth the Triforce so that the maimed God and his hosts might behold it. The Triforce knew its enemy. Its hatred flamed anew, and the sky became alight with its fury. Ganondorf cried out and turned away. The front ranks of the Gerudo hosts were consumed by fire, and the rest fled in terror.

Thus Geapora and his companions escaped from Gerudoa and passed again through the marches of the north, bearing the Triforce once more into the Kingdoms of the West.

Now the Gods, knowing all that had passed, held council, and Deku advised them, "If we raise war again upon our brother Ganondorf, our strife will destroy the world. Thus we must absent ourselves from the world so that our brother may not find us. No longer in flesh, but in spirit only may we remain to guide and protect our people. For the world's sake it must be so. In the day we war again, the world will be unmade."

The Gods wept that they must depart. But Farore, Bull-God of the Labryins, asked, "In our absence, shall not Ganondorf have dominion?"

"Not so." Deku replied, "So long as the Triforce remains with the line of Lina Iron-grip, Ganondorf shall not prevail."

So it was that the Gods departed, and only Ganondorf remained. But the knowledge that the Triforce in the hands of Lina denied him dominion cankered his soul.

Then Geapora spoke with Eldin and his sons. "Here we must part, to guard the Triforce and to prepare against the coming of Ganondorf. Let each turn aside as I have instructed and make preparations."

"We will Geapora," vowed Eldin Bear-shoulders. "From this day, Hyrule is no more, but the Hylians will deny dominion to Ganondorf as long as on Hylian remains."

Geapora raised his face. "Hear me, Ganondorf One-eye," he cried. "The golden Triforce is secure against thee, and thou shalt not prevail against it. In the day that thou come against us, I shall raise war against thee. I will maintain watch upon thee by day and by night and will abide against they coming, even to the end of days."

In the wastelands of Gerudoa, Kal-Ganondorf heard the voice of Geapora and smote about him him fury, for he knew that the golden Triforce was forever beyond his reach.

Then Eldin embraced his sons and turned away, to see them never again. Lan went north and dwelt in the lands drained by the River Mira. He built a city at Lan Tor and called his land Lanaryu. And he and his descendants stood athwart the northern marches and denied them to the enemy. Faron when south with his people and found horses on the broad plains drained by the Deku River. The horses they tamed and learned to ride for the first time in the history of man, mounted warriors appeared. Their country they called Faron, and they became nomads, following their herds. Eldin returned sadly to Val Hyla and renamed what was left of his kingdom Eldin, for now he was alone and without sons. Grimly he built tall ships of war to patrol the seas and deny them to the enemy.

Upon the bearer of the Triforce, however, fell the burden of the longest journey. Taking his people, Lina went to the west coast of Ordona. There he built ships, and he and his people crossed to the Isle of Winds. They burned their ships and built a fortress and a walled city around it. The city they called Windfall and the fortress the Hall of the Windfall King. Then Hyla, God of the Hylians, caused two iron starts to fall from the sky. Lina took up the stars and forged a blade from one and a hilt from the other, setting the Triforce upon it as a pommel, that held the two large parts together. So large was the sword that none but Lina could wield it. In the wasteland of Gerudoa, Kal-Ganondorf felt in his sould the forging of the sword and he tasted fear for the first time.

The sword was set against the black rock that stood at the back of Lina's throne, with the Triforce at the highest point, and the sword joined to the rock so that none but Riva could remove it. The Triforce burned with warm fire when Lina sat upon the throne. And when he took down his sword and raised it, it became a great tongue of warm fire, but it did not burn him.

The greatest wonder of all was the marking of Lina's heir. In each generation, one child in the line of Lina bore upon the back of his right hand, the mark of the Triforce. The child so marked was taken to the throne chamber, and his hand was placed upon the Triforce, so that it might know him. With each infant touch, the Triforce waxed in brilliance, and the bond between the golden Triforce and the line of Lina became stronger with each joining.

After Geapora had parted from his companions, he hastened to the Vale of Deku. But there he found that Telma, his wide, had borne twin daughters and then had died. In sorrow he named the elder Impa. Her hair was dark as the raven's wing. In the fashion of sorcerers, he stretched forth his hand to lay it upon her brow, and a single lock at her forehead turned frost-white at his touch. Then he was throubled, for the white lock was the mark of the sorcerers, and Impa was the first female child to be so marked.

His second daughter, fair-skinned and golden-haired, was unmarked. He called her Telpora, and he and her dark-haired sister loved her beyond all else and contended with each other for her affection.

Now when Impa and Telpora had reached their sixteenth year, the Spirit of Deku came to Geapora in a dream, saying, "My beloved disciple, I would join they house with the house of the guardian of the Triforce. Choose, therefore, which of they daughters thou wilt give to the Windfall King to be his wife and the mother of his line, for in that line lies the hope the world, against which the dark power of Ganondorf may nor prevail."

In the deep silence of his soul, Geapora was tempted to choose Impa. But, knowing the burden which lay upon the Windfall King, he sent Telpora instead, and wept when she was gone. Impa wept also, long and bitterly, knowing that her sister must fade and die. In time, however, they comforted each other and came at least to know each other.

They joined their powers to keep watch over Ganondorf. And some men say that they abide still, keeping their vigil through all the uncounted centuries.