Prompts
Hero of Twilight, Hero of Time, Hero of Seas, Hero of Light, Gerudo, Telma's Bar, Hero of the Skies, STAR Game, Rutela, Palace of Twilight, Spirit Temple, Reincarnation, Fierce Deity, Heroes of Hyrule, Champion of Light, Princess of Destiny, Courage Incarnate
So I haven't seen any other stories like this, or rather, this plot line. Anyway, I'm hoping it's original and that someone else likes it!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the Legend of Zelda Franchise, just copies of the games.
Not many Hylians knew about this particular part of their history.
They all knew the legend of the Triforce and the Golden Goddesses and how the Triforce broke apart. Slightly less common was the knowledge that the three parts embodied power, wisdom, and courage. Even less common was the knowledge that the three parts of the Triforce each had a bearer, the person who most strongly represented one of these traits.
Perhaps fifty people in the existence of time knew the rarest knowledge about the Triforce. All bearers of the Triforce were chosen not only by the Goddesses, but also by blood.
In order to properly explain this concept, we must go back. Back to the beginning.
True to the legend, after creating Hyrule, the three Golden Goddesses did indeed retreat to the heavens... What the legend did not say is that they came back five decades later.
The Goddesses had decided to take students, to be their Apostles.
Din, Goddess of Power had only to look to the leaders, upstarts, and the children of leaders and upstarts to find a person who desired power and had the ability to become powerful. She had chosen a young man feared for his strength and influence who had been exiled. The man and his entire family had been banished from their home on Death Mountain to the unforgiving desert.
Nayru, Goddess of Wisdom looked in libraries, among archivists, researchers, teachers, scribes, scholars, and storytellers for a person who was intelligent, sensible, had good judgement, and believed(like herself) that one could never know too much about anything. She had chosen a member of the royal family. Specifically, the younger brother to the crown prince. As was tradition in royal families, the younger brother had travelled the path of the scholar. Not only was the prince of above average intelligence, he also possessed a thirst for knowledge and a wealth of common sense.
Farore, Goddess of Courage, could not simply find people doing certain jobs and search their minds as her sisters had. She had to look deeper to find who she was looking for. She scoured the heights of the mountains, the depths of the lakes, oceans, and rivers, the heat of the desert, the flat, grassy plains, the shadows of the lush forests. Everywhere that there were people, Farore looked. There had been many courageous people. But not quite what she was looking for. After months of searching, she went to think in the place she felt most comfortable; the locals called it the Wandering Wood.
It was there that she met him. A little boy sitting on a log in the middle of the forest. He looked almost mystical. Blonde hair bleached almost white from the sun, lines of mud on his face as camoflauge, and big blue eyes the colour of fresh spring water. Dressed in clothes of leaves, he looked like the offspring of a Great Fairy. His features were softer than the typical Hylian boy but he was unmistakably male. He sat on a large stump playing a set of reed pipes in harmony with a vaguely human shaped forest creature.
She learned that the boy was the only link between the Hylian people and the creatures of the Wandering Wood, therefore he was called Link. Coming from a long line of Speakers, he understood the languages of the forest creatures. He lived in the forest in order to keep peace. Most of the creatures in the forest were dangerous and prone to rampaging in nearby villages. Link stopped them. People sometimes came into the forest in refuge or to stir up trouble. Link escorted them out. The Wandering Wood was rumoured by nearby villagers to be cursed. Anyone who went into the forest without a strong will would get lost and wander confused until they became a creature themselves. This was what happened to Link's parents. Link confessed that he feared becoming distracted and becoming one of the lost wanderers himself. This kind of bravery, sacrifice, strength of character, and determination in the face of fear was exactly what she was looking for.
This boy would be her Avatar of Courage.