Spoiler What is the Skyward Sword?

[DaFunk]

The Skyward Sword kinda looks like the master sword.. Do they have a connection? Please tell me what you think.

 

[Link19x]

the skyward sword is the master sword o.o they kinda confirmed it at E3

 

[Locke]

The thing that leads link into this other land is the Skyward Sword. The mysterious figure you see in that artwork was the Skyward Sword; when it's giving Link advice, it will take the form of that figure. You may have figured this out, but this is the Master Sword -- the Skyward Sword eventually becomes the Master Sword.

-Miyamoto at the E3 2010 Developers Roundtable (sources can be found in the SS Resources link in my sig)

They do indeed have a connection - the same one, it seems, as that of the Picori Blade and the Four Sword. But we don't know when the transformation will take place (during or after the game), why, how, etc


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[Cococrash11]

The creator said that the Skyward Sword will somehow turn into the Master Sword.

 

[Ronin]

Skyward Sword + Master Sword = :mastersword: (same blade, guard, hilt, and pommel).

Yes, Skyward Sword is the origin story of how the Master Sword came to be, and will probably cover how the MS attained its powers of banishing the evil from existing in the soul. Ergo, the Skyward Sword will likely be Link's first blade, that is before its "transformation."

 

[Yonatesf]

-Miyamoto at the E3 2010 Developers Roundtable (sources can be found in the SS Resources link in my sig)

Actually, it was Aonuma who said this.