In the era of the Hero of Time, sometime in the middle of the seven years that the Hero missed. Location – the Spirit Temple, currently under the control of Koume and Kotake:


As Ganondorf's most loyal servants – not to mention Mother figures – Koume and Kotake were in charge of all the interrogating, brainwashing, torturing, and general other things that went along with a hostile takeover. This of course meant that they needed to have a base of operations for these things, and in an effort to be conscientious about space had combined their torture chambers with their inner sanctum, the repurposed Spirit Temple that they had... appropriated... from the Gerudo. This worked well, for the most part. Prisoners were kept on the lower levels, the sanctum was on the upper levels, and generally there was too much stone in the way for the screaming to bother the two witches much.

The one problem with the setup that the two sisters could see was that, because people knew where their sanctum was, they also knew where the prisoners were, and Koume and Kotake spent no small amount of time dealing with the imbeciles who tried to break in to rescue somebody. In fact, they almost spent more time dealing with that than anything else. While under normal circumstances this would be annoying, the two witches had made use of the near constant influx of 'invaders' and had filled out their brainwashing program quite nicely.

That was, until a certain upstart Gerudo got herself captured while making sure a young boy escaped safely. Nabooru, her name was, and both Koume and Kotake were somewhat miffed at her betrayal since she had been such a promising warrior for their King. However, they were more concerned about the boy who had gotten away.

"Do you think we should chase him, Koume?"

"He does know our location, Kotake."

"True, Koume. But he's also only a boy. What harm could he do?"

"That's a good point, Kotake. It's not like he's the Hero or anything."

They both shared a good laugh at that for a few moments before returning to the serious business at hand.

"So, Koume," Kotake said, "should we torture her, interrogate her, or brainwash her?"

"Brainwash, Kotake, definitely brainwash," Koume scolded. "We already interrogated her, remember?"

"Yes, you're right, Koume. Much better choice."

"Glad you think so, Kotake."


Some years later, a blond-haired teenage boy stormed the Spirit Temple, rescued Nabooru, and ended up smacking Twinrova so hard that Koume and Kotake began hallucinating. While the Hero watched them curiously and put away his weapon, the two sisters began squabbling with each other.

"Brainwash, you said, what a good idea Koume!" Kotake snapped.

"It was your idea Kotake!" Koume retorted. "Look at us now, we're dead!"

Down on the floor, the Hero rolled his eyes. He most certainly hadn't hit them hard enough to kill – though he had hit hard enough to give a concussion.


Link put down The History of the Spirit Temple and picked up his list, which by now had a fair amount of rules on it. "Rule... Number... Ten..." he muttered as he wrote.


Rule Number Ten: I will not interrogate my enemies in the inner sanctum - a small hotel well outside my borders will work just as well.