I realized, the moment my companions and I fell into the fissure, that we would not be destroyed as my enemy no doubt intended. We would instead continue falling into that starry expanse as our own world faded away into the dark 'hole' we had fallen through. Though I am unable to to understand how this happened, and can't help but wonder where we will inevitably end up or how we will get back home, I realize that such wondering is futile. As another dark 'hole' appears before us, I close realizing that perhaps our ending has not yet been written.

—Erdwin, his first impressions of the mysterious Star Fissure

Dundrasil had fallen.

That was what most people of Ereda was focused on. Yet another kingdom had fallen, and had Ben reduced to ruin in only a night, similar to Zwaardrust. But something else had happened that night that wasn't as important on a local scale, but on a cosmological scale was of supreme importance.

A young girl was running along a river carrying a small basket with a lid when she stepped awkwardly on a stone and tumbled into the river. She quickly came up sputtering only to realize that she had lost her grip on the basket. At that she turned around just in time to see the basket seemingly go over a ledge and down a waterfall, but when she got there she was shocked to see that... there was no waterfall. The river seemingly continued without any break in it at all that would suggest that it had fallen into an underground cave or river. But for the moment she was too full of hating herself for losing the Luminary.

Meanwhile, in the basket...

The baby inside was gurgling and cooing at all the stars he could see from his basket. He could see a large black spot that held a strange crack above him. But as he wasn't comprehensive enough to realize what was going on, he was just enjoying all the stars spinning above him.

—

"So let me get this straight, Impa." Said King Rhoam, "You found this boy in a basket on the beach near Luralin Village?"

"That is true." Said Impa.

"And he was wearing a necklace with a green stone containing a golden symbol?" Asked the king.

"Also true." Replied Impa.

After a pause, the king finally said, "Give me an hour, let me be alone." As he entered his bedroom he saw something really strange. A small white... thing was standing on the basket's edge and looking down at the baby boy.

"And what might you be?" Asked the King, "Some spy of Calamity Ganon?"

At that the thing looked up at the king and surprised him by speaking. "You can see me?"

—

Eventually the king left his quarters and saw that his five year old daughter was now with Impa.

"Who's that?" Asked the girl, seeing the bundle of blankets he was carrying.

"Zelda, this is someone very important. This is your new brother Gaebril. Gaebril, this is your big sister Zelda." Said the King, introducing them to each other. He didn't tell them about the white thing he met. Apparently this thing called itself Tick-Tockle, and called his race the 'Tockles'. It was apparently interested in the boy, but there was a lot of things that the Tockle said that was confusing to him, especially that mention of 'another world'.

—Fourteen Years Later—

Gaebril was well on his way to being a fine strapping young lad, but everyone could tell that he was different. What was seemingly the most important was his long, brown-grey hair that hid the fact that he didn't have the long ears of the Royal Family; as well as the strangely shaped birthmark on his right hand.

But that was of seemingly no consequence to both him and his best friend Link. The two of them were practically inseparable to the point that some thought that they were brothers.

This year, however, everyone was a bit more grim than usual. They were often saying things like 'Ganon is returning.', but Gaebril didn't really understand that, but it did mean that his older sister Zelda was getting more and more uptight about it. But because Gaebril was such an energetic child and spent more time at Castle Town Smithy than in his studies, a lot of that went right over his head.

One day, his sister Zelda, his friend Link and the four Champions were going to begin a cleansing ritual at three supposedly sacred springs when one of the Castle Town soldiers came up to him.

"Sorry Gaebril, but the king wants to talk with you." Said the Soldier.

"I'll be back in a moment." Said Gaebril, getting up and heading out to the castle.

It was nearly half an hour before Gaebril returned. He was looking a bit more upset than he usually did when he had to talk to the king.

"What happened little buddy?" Asked the Goron Champion, Daruk, "What did the king want with you?"

"I'm being sent home." Answered Gaebril, "The chancellor says I'm a troublemaker."

"You?! A troublemaker?!" Cried the Zora Champion, Mipha, "That's ridiculous!"

"The chancellor said that something happened at Zora's Domain." Explained Gaebril, "And my name was mentioned, so obviously I was a troublemaker. So the King's sending me home."

"This wasn't about the noodles was it?" Asked the Gerudo Champion, Urbosa, "Because that wasn't really your fault."

"No, Urbosa, it wasn't about the noodles." Replied Gaebril.

"Maybe you're finally getting punished for those hot peppers back at my village." Suggested the Rito Champion, Revali.

"That was just an accident." Answered Gaebril, while getting his stuff together.

"I was the one who made Link swallow that frog, not you." Said Zelda, who had changed her clothes.

"I don't know what I did." Answered Gaebril, "But dad said he had something for me and me only."

—

Later, in the village of Cobblestone, a man who had the local nickname of Chalky had found a basket with a small baby boy inside. He had taken the little boy in, but everyone was a little confused with the wooden box that had been in the basket.

It was seven sided, with a different symbol carved on each side, and another odder symbol carved on the lid. It was a series of abstract shapes that seemed to suggest a bird holding onto three (or four?) triangles arranged in such a way as to create one larger triangle with the birds two wingtips and beak touching where each triangle touched another. It was really hard to determine if it really was a box or just a wooden block because there seemingly wasn't any hinges, keyhole, or lid. The only other thing was a riddle engraved on the bottom of the box.

Give me food and I will live.

Give me drink, and I will die.