It is a peaceful time in Hyrule. Two months have passed since Link, with the help of Zelda and the Twilight Princess, Midna, defeated Ganondorf and Zant. For the first few weeks after Midna returned to the Twilight Realm and shattered the Mirror of Twilight, Link had kept to himself when he returned to Ordon, not speaking much to anybody. Everybody worried, but Ilia knew what he was sad about. Once, she had gone into Link's house when he had been out, to find a drawing. It was a drawing of a beautiful woman, and at the bottom, it said one word. Midna. Link had come in while she was still looking at the drawing and sighed. Ilia knew that the woman in the picture, apparently named Midna, was somebody close to him that he missed. Little did they know that Midna would soon be returning to the world of light.
As in the world of light, it had been a time of peace in the Twilight Realm. Midna sat on her throne each day, bored with her responsibilities. That is, she was bored when she wasn't thinking of the world of light, and Link. A month after she had returned, she learned that Zant had a brother, named Zyx. She found Zyx to be very disloyal to her, and more recently, completely rebellious towards her. Midna didn't know what Zyx was planning, but she did know that something bad was about to happen to the world of light. What Zyx was planning was almost a repeat of his brother's failed attempt. He was planning…Twilight's Rising.