My name is Impa. I am the daughter of Ilysa, former chieftain of the Sheikah. I was the first mixed race being between the Sheikah and the humans, and I served as an ambassador between the two for many years. Before my time, the Hero of the Goddess, Link, and the mortal reincarnation of Hylia, Zelda, had fulfilled their destinies and defeated the Demon King, Demise. They have worked together for many years, building a strong future for the humans, and they paved the way for peace for many generations to come. Under Hylia's request, they put into motion a scheme that will allow a future generation of humans to build a new gate of time, which is to serve its purpose as the doorway between this realm and a realm that has existed far from the reaches of evil. The Triforce has been dissembled, and is now imbedded within the Spirit of the Hero, and the Blood of the Goddess. The third piece, the Triforce of Power was shattered into fragments and spread across the known land. The secret of the Sword of Four was never revealed, however if one pays close attention on a clear day at Snowpeak, a strange wind can still be felt.
The humans spread in number over the years, and have now colonized in Faron Province and Eldin Province. The two colonies decided to follow a hierarchy similar to the Sheikah, and they both preside under the growing City of Hyrule. Hyrule was formed two years after my birth, and it signified the official alliance between all races in the known regions. It is a growing city where humans, Gorons, Mogmas, Robots, Kikwis, and Parella can all live together harmoniously. New races have begun to emerge. Under Faron's blessing, some of the Parella have quickly evolved into a new race, one that seems to be a mix of human and Parella. They have become the Zora tribe. Like the Parella, Faron also granted the Kikwis with an evolution, where they have become a tribe of forest children, who will last eternally in her domain. They are the Kokiri tribe.
As time goes on, more and more humans mate with Sheikah, and the pure bloodline of the Sheikah diminishes. The Sheikah Elders were formed once my mother was made chieftain, and it consists of the Sheikah's most elite leaders and warriors. They have declared that the diminishment of the Sheikah tribe is destiny, and that the Sheikah will continue to serve Hylia. Supposedly, our people are setting the blocks for the infinity of future generations to take part in the struggle against Demise's powerful curse. While it is still unclear whether or not our tribes exist simultaneously, or if our tribes exist in the different dimensions of time, one thing is clear: there is foreshadowing of the creation of a powerful magic that can be used to divide the mortals of the realm. In order for such a magic to be usable by us or any other who happen upon it, our academic leaders have begun to focus on the use of masks…
My father was devastated when my mother died, and he sought solitude in the desert to mourn, but has never returned or been heard from since. He is not presumed to be dead, for his Loftwing remained in Faron Woods and still let's on that Groose is alive and well enough: the connection between some Loftwings and their owners is remarkable. However, my father's generation was the last generation to be paired with Loftwings, and the sky has become a far away place that is no longer visited frequently. A few of the smaller islands have come crashing down over the years, falling into uninhabited areas, left to be discovered as ancient ruins in the far future, but thankfully the vastness of Skyloft has remained afloat, and will remain afloat for the ages.
Only last month, a group of selected individuals was brought together, and the Hero's many items and weapons were sealed away into the lands many temples. These individuals were each taught a melody to teach their children, and their children are to teach their children these melodies. Zelda is said to have laid out the path for these melodies to become vital in several future generations, and she says that Hylia has given us the means to bend space and time if we use these melodies properly. The Sheikah refer to these people as sages, and these songs may give the future generations a fighting chance to defeat the evils of Demise's curse.
The Prophecy of the Great Divide is still looming over the growing success of the Hylian kingdom, and it will come to pass someday. My belief is that the Great Divide will split the humans and the Sheikah from one another as the pure blooded Sheikah attempt to save our race from extinction. Perhaps it will happen in a different context, but it is clear that in the future, the population of the Sheikah tribes will dwindle to almost nothing, and it is because we have allowed the humans to rejoin us on the surface peacefully; all in an effort to preserve the bloodline of Hylia…
For now the land exists in peace, but there will always be a new battle over the horizon: that is the nature of the world. Evil will emerge from the darkest depths of the realm, and light will appear only when things seem darkest. It is the balance of power, wisdom, and courage. The day will soon come upon us when both the hero and the goddess' reincarnation pass from this world, and their destinies will be put into the hands of fate. When that day comes, we must preserve their legends, and tell their stories for as many generations as we can: this will be The Legend of Zelda.
Notes:
-This fanfiction is a creation of mine and obviously does not represent the ideas of Nintendo in any direct way, although I did try to do a convincing job of how Skyward Sword links everything together.
-The chapter structure is fairly broken up, and that is a result of me writing a couple hundred words, and then leaving for a while, then coming back. Some chapters are longer than others, and some are rather short, but I decided not the merge those sections because I wrote them in separate sittings therefore they are separate ideas and belong as individual chapters.
-Other than research I have done over the course of my life, my knowledge of the Zelda universe is fairly limited. I have only played Ocarina of Time (not all of it, although I know almost everything that happens), Majora's Mask, Windwaker, Four Swords Adventures, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword. Therefore I'm mostly linking the story to those games, because I can't really link it to the other numerous games in the franchise. Although I really wanted to make a connection to Veran because she sounds badass, but ultimately I had a strong enough antagonist with Ghirahim and his hordes of monsters.
-There are a few references to the events of Ocarina of Time: the creation of a new Gate of Time and Temple of Time, as well as the Sages and their musical melodies. The Sages are also connected to Wind Waker in that regard.
-Groose is supposed to be the "prime Gerudo" in this story; he goes off to the desert to make his own life away from the place where he lost his wife. His descendants will include Nabooru, and yes, Ganondorf. By having Ganondorf as an incarnation of Groose, Demise's curse really hits hard as Zelda and Link have to fight their best friend for eternity. Yikes.
-The Loftwings becoming sentient enough to support the magic of Hylia's magic is my way of saying they evolve to become the Oocoo people from Twilight Princess. While they are sentient enough, they do have to stabilise the floating city with their new technologies, as well as having to create new ways for humans to reach the City in the Sky because there are no longer Loftwings to catch people after being launched up by Bird Statues
-My interpretation of how Impa is continuously named Impa was pretty unoriginal, but hey, do what you gotta do right? I guess Zelda would follow that structure too, and while Link is commonly known as Link, you can pretty much always change his name in the newer games.
-Ghirahim. Wow. So. I tried really hard to be blunt about it, so if you didn't get it, I wanted Ghirahim to become Vaati in the everlasting tangle of Demise's curse. He becomes slightly deformed from his original form as a result of jumping from the void where Link fights Demise, and his magical powers are stronger as a result of not having a physical body for so long. Purple skin. Angular crown. I mean really, just google what the humanoid version of Vaati looks like and that's your guy.
-It was really important for me that Zelda and Link didn't end up together. Because, Link and Zelda are eternally connected, so imagine if each time their incarnations met up, they mated. It would become incest in a way, wouldn't it? I dunno. Plus, Link and Pipit are kind of hot together. Also sorry for the random explicit chapters, I understand this is mostly plot, but I wanted to spice it up a little.
-Gaepora = Kaepora Gaebora (or whatever his name is, I forget how to spell it). Owl man who is vitally connected to Link and Zelda while also being wise and having close ties to the Triforce (his cabin was at the Sealed Grounds for those 7 years, watching over it) as well as he would've become a sage, probably taking off towards whichever temple would become the new temple of time, because he had a personal issue with time travel. He lost his daughter for 7 years because of time travel, so you can't blame the guy.
-My idea with the Sheikah, is that they exist in different times. Check Hyrule Historia, the events of the games happen in a chronological order, where the timeline eventually splits. Thus, the only explanation as to how all these guardians and lands exist, is because they don't exist at the same time. The Hylian tribe is the main tribe that goes to war against Hyrule, and their remnants are seen in Ocarina of Time. The Kakariko tribe, mostly just Impaz when you get to gameplay, are the tribes that exist in the lands of Twilight Princess before the events of the game. That tribe creates the Fused Shadow, having hunted the Triforce in their time, and are widely theorised to have become the Twili. The Ikana tribe, would exist where Termina is, and that tribe is responsible for the creation of Majora's Mask, Majora being an antagonist to the "Fierce Deity". My belief is that Termina is a parallel dimension, not like Lorule though. So Fierce Deity would be their version of Hylia really. My belief. Run with it if you'd like. Also the whole Sheikah and the truth thing, again, I thought that was clever to bring that in, as well as their connection to the afterlife.
-I liked the fact that some Parella became Zora, and some Kikwi became Kokiri, because that meant that there were more races, and those races could branch out and create the world of Hyrule we have come to know.
-I really wanted to connect somehow to Valoo and Jabun from Windwaker, or at least Lord Jabu Jabu from Ocarina of Time, or maybe the random giant Turtle from Majora's Mask, but this became really long really fast and I started to lose a sense of what to do plot wise.
-I think it's also important to realise that Eldin Volcano isn't necessarily Death Volcano according to Nintendo, but let's face it, I tried my absolute best to make that thing deadly in this fic, so I was trying to make that a thing.
-When the City of Hyrule gets created, the humans would leave Faron Woods, leaving a bunch of Kokiri next to this fabulous tree with a bunch of huts and stuff. C'mon. I basically wrote the transition for Nintendo.
-Faron was my favourite ally in Skyward Sword, and she really showed that she could put people in their place, much more so than Eldin or Lanayru, so yeah, she magically helps people evolve. Deal with it.
-Also, I really have no idea why I brought in the Four Sword into this, I guess just to Link Vaati with it, because of Four Swords Adventures. I never played Minish Cap so Four Swords is the only place I know Vaati from.