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Prologue
As the royal Princess of Hyrule, the young Zelda grew up learning of fairytales and how she came to be the heir to the Hylian throne. As a young girl her caretaker, a Sheikah woman by birth and maternal figure by employment told her the legends of the Goddess who bestowed light onto the land at a time of darkness and the handsome knight who became the blessed Hero of Hyrule.
As the young princess grew older, however, that story changed from a heart-felt fairytale to a darker legend of sacrifice and heartbreak. She came to learn that while the Goddess Hylia had bestowed light to the land, there was an evil darkness that plagued her sacred land then and now and for all the time that passed between.
The young Princess also soon learned that while the Goddess Hylia did shed her divinity to be reborn a mortal Hylian , she did so not to bless the land, but to be reborn with her mortal love over and over again until the end of history.
This rendition of the tale was much less pleasant than Zelda’s childhood version but it did contain one part of the story that piqued the blossoming Princess’s interest. As it would turn out, the Hero was not chosen by random, nor was he designed by the Goddesses to save the land. He was chosen because Hylia fell in love with him. Suddenly the story of how the Princess came to be the Princess turned into a romance in which she learned that throughout the entirety of Hyrule’s history, whenever evil plagued the land a princess carrying the blood of the Goddess would inherit her sacred power of light and a humble man who carried the spirit of the fallen Hero would gain the courage to rescue the land. And these two would forever be tied together by an unbreakable bond that drew them closer like gravity itself. It was a connection designed by the Goddess of Light in her moment of heartbreak.
Wether this design was a blessing or a curse, however, was yet to be determined.
So Zelda grew up hoping the time would never arise in which she would need to unlock the Goddess’ divine power or face an evil darkness that poisoned her beautiful land. If it ever did, however, she particularly hoped such a Hero didn’t arise to steal her heart away and promise heartbreak like the one that sacrificed the Goddess such a time ago.