New Translations From Hyrule Historia

The amazing people over at GlitterBerri have been hard at work uncovering all of the details hidden within the Japanese text of Hyrule Historia. As each day passes they come closer to getting every page translated. Since our last update on their progress, they have fully translated five different sections and are still hard at work at bringing us even more.

From a statement from Shigeru Miyamoto to mysteries of the Triforce and the Palace of the Twilight, the new translations from Hyrule Historia may uncover more exciting details of the Zelda series than previous sections of the book. Make the jump inside to read a few quotes from Miyamoto and to find out more about what was uncovered in the translations.

Miyamoto’s Statement
– Link was named “Link” to convey the meaning of someone who connects. The idea was of a character that would cross time and link the energy spread around the world.
– Link is meant to represent the player.
– Impa’s name came from the verb “to impart.”
– Impa, Link and Zelda were the original “three guardians of the Triforce.” The Triforce relationship nowadays is between Link, Zelda and Ganon, but that was established in Ocarina of Time; the first Ganon was a villain looking for the Triforce.
– Miyamoto fears that, with increasing production values, the most important parts of gaming will be neglected.
– He believes what matters in a videogame is the game system, the action, the sensations, the creativity, and the production values.
– He’s been watching over the Zelda series like a guard to ensure the series goes in the right direction.
– As long as players are still interested in Zelda, new games will continue to be born.

The Sorcerer’s Birth and the Tempering of the Four Swords

As this year marked the 100th year of the Picori Festival, the festival was more magnificent than ever before. The winner of the annual swordsmanship tournament was a man of unknown origin named Vaati.
Vaati was after the Bounded Chest. He broke the Picori Blade and opened the chest, but the Light Force that he was looking was nowhere to be found. Instead, a horde of monsters came gushing out of its insides.
Vaati turned Princess Zelda to stone and set out to look for the Light Force all over the human world.

Those Chosen by the Triforce

Although young, Princess Zelda, the princess of Hyrule, possessed the power of someone chosen by the Gods. One night, she had a premonition of Hyrule’s future in her sleep.
Ganondorf was after the Sacred Realm’s Triforce, which could lead to the world’s destruction. Princess Zelda believed in that prophecy, but his father, the king of Hyrule, did not. Princess Zelda and her nurse Impa took it upon themselves to keep an eye on Ganondorf when he visited the castle.

Those Chosen by the Triforce (continued)

While Link gathered the three spiritual stones, Ganondorf attacked Hyrule Castle. He took that strong measure in order to take away by force the treasure protected by the royal family and that led to the Sacred Realm.
As Princess Zelda escaped from the castle with the help of Impa, she saw Link. Princess Zelda prayed for the Triforce to be protected and threw the ocarina to Link.

The Palace of the Twilight

To enter the Twilight Realm, Link travelled to the Mirror of Twilight. There, Midna noticed that the Mirror of Twilight had been destroyed by Zant. She learns that Zant’s powers come from Ganondorf, who had been banished to the Twilight Realm long ago.
Midna and Link collects the shards of the Mirror of Twilight, which had been scattered both throughout Hyrule and in the ancient City in the Sky.

The Resistance

•Twilight Hyrule Castle
Zant had been defeated, but the battle wasn’t over yet. In his mission to cover the world in twilight, Zant had managed to hand over the control of Hyrule Castle to the King of Darkness. With the help of The Resistance, Link advances through the twilight covered fortress.
•Ganondorf’s Full Recovery
Ganondorf, the King of Darkness, had once again returned to the Light World and sits waiting in the throne room of Hyrule Castle. He fights Link taking on many different forms, at first possessing the body of Zelda and later attacking him as a beast and on horseback.
Princess Zelda, whose spirit had been residing in Midna up until that point, covers Link using the Light Arrows.

Ganondorf’s Repeated Revivals

•Ganondorf’s Secret Plans
After hundreds of years, Ganondorf, who had been sealed away when Hyrule sunk into the ocean, is revived again. Ganondorf attacked the temples of the Great Sea, killing the two sages who had been praying for the Master Sword.
Once he was out on the open sea. He set up a base in the Forsaken Fortress and began searching for the one granted the Triforce of Wisdom, the descendant of Princess Zelda.
•The Descendants of the Royal Family and the Pirate Crew.
For the sake of preventing Ganondorf, King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule is awakened from his seal by the Goddesses. Calling himself “The King of Red Lions”, he posses a red boat and sets out to search for a new hero and the descendant of the royal family.
In this era, Zelda -the descendant of the royal family- had been brought up as Tetra, the captain of a pirate crew.

Searching for the Four Elements

•The Picori World and the Elements
Feeling guilty for the trouble Vaati has caused, Ezlo takes Link to　magical portal, which upon entry makes Link shrink to the size of a Picori.　Thus, Link was able to enter Minish Village.
The Picori Blade could be repaired, but to break Vaati’s curse it had to be infused with power to become a holy sword.　Link set out to search for the four elements hidden all over the world to infuse them with the sword in the Elemental Sanctuary.
•Vaati’s　Ploy
Vaati, being unable to locate the Light Force on his own, took control over the King of Hyrule and force every soldier in the kingdom to look for it.
He learned from the legends of the Wind Tribe that “when the Four Elements are gathered, the path to the Light Force will open”.
Since he knew that Link were already gathering said elements, Vaati decided to bide his time and let Link do all the work for him.

Above are the beginning paragraphs for each newly translated section of Hyrule Historia. To dig deeper into each section and continue reading just click the bold link above each paragraph. I have to give full thanks to the people working over at GlitterBerri for all they have done to translate this book for all of us Zelda fans. Their work is greatly appreciated! Although all of the recently translated pages are full of info, I found Miyamoto’s statement to be the most exciting, but what do you guys think? Which section did you find to be the most informative? Which did you enjoy reading the most?

Source: Hyrule Historia Translations

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