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{{quote|The heir to a power that imprisons darkness. She sacrificed her freedom over 100 years ago to keep Calamity Ganon sealed away and prevent him from further destroying Hyrule. After Link helped free her from that long duty, she committed herself to rebuilding and restoring Hyrule-but has now gone missing.|In-Game Description}} | {{quote|The heir to a power that imprisons darkness. She sacrificed her freedom over 100 years ago to keep Calamity Ganon sealed away and prevent him from further destroying Hyrule. After Link helped free her from that long duty, she committed herself to rebuilding and restoring Hyrule-but has now gone missing.|In-Game Description}} | ||
After being freed from the need to keep Calamity Ganon at bay, Zelda settles down in [[Hateno Village]], founding the [[Hateno School]] there with [[Symin]]'s help. She also tasks [[Hudson Construction]] with rebuilding Hyrule, and involves herself in various other projects, including the discovery of [[Dondon]]s. While investigating a strange [[gloom]] spreading from [[Beneath Hyrule Castle]] with Link, she discovers [[Zonai]] murals in the [[Forgotten Foundation]] and is excited by the potential. However, on pressing further down, they find the mummified [[Ganon]]dorf being held down by a strange arm in the [[Imprisoning Chamber]]. With the arm disturbed, a [[Secret Stone|strange stone]] falls from it and picks it up. With this, the mummy revives, ravages Link's health and recognises her. She barely has time to wonder what is going on, before the whole chamber collapses. Link dives after her, but she vanishes in a flash of light... | |||
...reappearing thousands of years earlier, in the distant past of Hyrule, where she meets the Zonai [[Rauru (Tears of the Kingdom)|King Rauru]] and his Hylian wife [[Sonia|Queen Sonia]], the first King and Queen of Hyrule. They take her in, and together with the king's sister [[Mineru]], explain the "secret stone" she found, and the time power she possesses - boosted by the stone - which sent her into the distant past. With no way back to the present - save the forbidden act of [[draconificiation]], which would turn her into an immortal dragon at the cost of identity death - she reluctantly settles into the past and becomes close to the ancient royals, especially Sonia, who helps guide her in the use of the [[Recall|time power]] she shares. | |||
However, the Ganondorf of the past intercedes, and despite Zelda's warnings, Rauru accepts his vow of fealty, thinking it better to keep him close. He is proven wrong when a sting operation conducted by Zelda and Sonia, where a copy of Zelda controlled by Ganondorf attempts to kill Sonia and is exposed by the royals, ends in tragedy. Ganondorf kills Sonia and takes her secret stone, redubbing himself the "Demon King". Zelda uses the [[Purah Pad]] to warp herself, the dying Sonia and the angry Rauru away before the Demon King can kill them. As the Demon King's Army beats back Hyrule's army, and looks toward total triumph, Rauru recruits a group of [[sage]]s from the leaders of the major Hyrulean races, and gives them secret stones. Joined by Zelda as the Sage of Time, and Mineru as the Sage of Spirit, the group of six sages swears fealty to Rauru. In the final battle, Rauru sacrifices himself to keep Ganondorf contained for thousands of years, until the events which led to Zelda travelling back in time. While Zelda and most of the sages survive, Mineru is mortally wounded. | |||
In the aftermath, Zelda finds herself drawn to the back of the [[Temple of Time (Tears of the Kingdom)|Temple of Time]], where the [[Decayed Master Sword]] appears from a time rift. The [[Fi|voice in the sword]] explains to her that Link survived Ganondorf's attack. Knowing this, and with the sword in hand, Zelda comes to a decision. She goes to Mineru and tells her she intends to draconify herself, so that her sacred power can allow the Master Sword to repair itself and increase its power, giving Link a chance in the present day when Ganondorf revives. Sick as she is, the Zonai sage objects, but relents when she sees she can't talk Zelda out of it and agrees to help. Zelda then travels to the other four sages, begging that they ensure their descendents help Link when the time comes. | |||
Before Mineru's body dies, she uses her power as the sage of spirit to separate her ghost from her body, and enters the Purah Pad. Zelda then gives the Purah Pad to a [[Steward Construct]] for Link, and swallows the stone. She just has time to grab the Master Sword and wish for Ganondorf's destruction before transforming into the [[Light Dragon]], which travels high into the sky, the Master Sword embedded in its head, to pass the millenia. As it does so, eleven [[Dragon's Tear]]s fall from its eyes, landing across Hyrule. | |||
In the present, shortly before he sent the Decayed Master Sword back in time, Link has a vision of Zelda, which grants him a version of her time power, [[Recall]], as a rune in his new Zonai right arm. Knowing none of what occurred in the past, after he sends the sword back, Link sees a fake Zelda disappear at Hyrule Castle, and involved in multiple [[Regional Phenomena]] which afflict the major non-Hylian races of Hyrule. This is eventually revealed to be a puppet of Ganondorf, but Link destroys it with the help of the present-day descendents of the sages, who have inherited their secret stones. Putting the pieces together, they realise that the woman who looked like Zelda in the visions of their ancestors was ''their'' Zelda, and she is trapped in the past. They also realise there was one more sage - Mineru. When Link finds a [[Zonai Relic]] on Dragonhead Island, it wakes Mineru's voice, who has him put together a [[Mineru's Construct]] to hold her consciousness. After recovering her secret stone, she explains what happened to Rauru and Zelda; and bades him to recover the Master Sword from the Light Dragon's head. Link can also learn more about Zelda's time in the past by finding the Dragon's Tears, which react with the Recall rune to show Link a [[Tears of the Kingdom Memories|vision of Zelda's time in the past]]. | |||
After Link finally defeats Ganondorf with the sages' aid, the "Demon King" draconifies himself rather than lose. Pulling Link into the sky, the hero is saved by the Light Dragon, who helps him destroy the Demon King once and for all. Afterward, the ghosts of Rauru and Sonia show up, and transform the Light Dragon back into Zelda before vanishing, along with changing Link's arm into a normal human arm. Zelda awakes in Link's arms, feeling that she'd been "sleeping" her entire time as the Light Dragon and wanting to tell him everything. This completes the [[Find Princess Zelda]] main quest. | |||
In an ending scene that can be found only after completing all [[Main Quest]]s, Link, Purah, Mineru, and all living Sages appear in the Sky at the location where Link transferred the Master Sword to Zelda. The Sages pledge their allegiance and support to Zelda. Mineru disappears for a final time, having completed the task she had originally promised Zelda she would uphold. Zelda promises that she will always work towards the vision of Hyrule that King Rauru, Queen Sonia, and the original Sages had wished for - a land of peace for all time. | In an ending scene that can be found only after completing all [[Main Quest]]s, Link, Purah, Mineru, and all living Sages appear in the Sky at the location where Link transferred the Master Sword to Zelda. The Sages pledge their allegiance and support to Zelda. Mineru disappears for a final time, having completed the task she had originally promised Zelda she would uphold. Zelda promises that she will always work towards the vision of Hyrule that King Rauru, Queen Sonia, and the original Sages had wished for - a land of peace for all time. | ||