Link (SoP)

The main protagonist of this game; he lives with his horse  Epona in the village of Redleaf, northern Akkala: a zone particularly  liked by wayfarers for its peculiar position between mountains and  seaside. His job is to be a forester but often he helps his fellow  villagers in their everyday duties.
Gifted by a very good sense of  orientation and sword skills, Link is already celebrated in his  homeland, mostly for bravely protecting it by the countless monsters who  usually scare the wayfarers during their wander.

His  adventure starts in the beginning of Autumn: the entire village of  Redleaf was preparing to host the yearly Fall Festival, and since it was  the period of the year which traditionally attracted most tourists,  Link overworked himself to make surd the festival was going as best it  could be.
In the day the festival begun, a mysterious, horrific,  creature suddenly appeared in the town nearly destroying it, causing  both the tourists and the locals to run away. As soon as he could, Link  took his wooden sword and fought the monster but was unexpectedly hit  hard by the beast, leaving him nearly dead.

In  his uncertain state, he heard a muffled voice which tried desperately to  tell him something he couldn’t distinguish. That voice vanished just  after.
Soon after, he was woken up by Cice, a little Fairy who took  care of him. After the fairy presented herself as to be sent by Princess  Zelda, who desperately tried to send him help with her weak telepathic  powers.
The magic being begged Link’s help in order to save Hyrule  from the return of Ganon and his fellow army, promising him the safety  of the village as well: when the forester accepted, Cice hurried Link  and Epona to go to the Kokiri Forest, where the Master Sword was  protected  and to defeat Ganon as soon as possible.
In the woods,  despite the Deku Tree and the Sword’s spirit agreed for the Hero to  extract it, they both weren’t as sure as they were with the other Links:  despite their awareness of the heroic nature of the Akkalan forester,  they still had the sensation he was too weak to defeat this force, but  didn’t know what exactly led them to these thoughts. They felt this  incarnation of Ganon was really different, almost as he came from  another world but at the same time they couldn’t prove it, so they  preferred remaining quiet.

With a new sword in  the sheath, the hero ran towards Hyrule Castle, where he met Zelda for  the first time a little before trying to defeat Ganon. Despite the  weakness of her powers,Zelda still cared about his arrive, to the point  to give him some of the best weapons in the castle. She also made her  mother bless him, despite the queen being deeply worried about the lack  of her daughter’s actual powers.
But when Link managed to defeat the  beast and everything was about to be restored into their original form, a  dark force revived Ganon, allowing him to be even more powerful than he  used to be; it destroyed the already corrupted castle, killing almost  everyone who lived there at the sole impact, including the Queen of  Hyrule.
In the tragedy, during the escape from a falling castle, the  Hero accidentally lost the Master Sword, but at the same time found the  barely surviving body of Princess Zelda. Cice ordered the swordman to  escort her to Kakariko Village, the birthace of her old nurse Impa; she  the only surviving person who could cure her.
After a troubled  travel, they arrived to the village: surprisingly, Impa was already  aware and prepared of their visit, having been advised by the late  spirit of Zelda’s mother in dream.

Without anything  else to do, and shocked by the dispersion of his beloved villagers and  failure of his heroic duties, the swordsman was requested by Impa to met  Nanas, a Sheikah scientist. A former ambulant shopkeeper, he’s known  for leaving behind his former life to do researches about a miraculous  Stone (which will be called the Sheikah Stone terminal in BOTW). This  stone can memorize some new information which can also be manipulated  into runes; they afflict the surrounding world with the connection of a  smaller rudimentary tablet made with an extremely rare material (also  known as a first version of the Sheikah Slate we’ll see in BOTW).
As  Link first stepped into Nanas’ home, the stone glowed in a light Nanas  didn’t ever see before, and automatically installed an unusual  rune the  scientist remembered not programming: when activated, Link could see  passages otherwise invisible which could lead him directly to the  monsters Ganon sent through all Hyrule.
The first passage he found  brought, in spite of himself, to the first beast he met in a deserted  Redleaf village. After finally destroying it,Link could open another  secret passage which led him… in the same place.
But something at the  same time seemed to have changed: some of the buildings, or new faces  which couldn’t recognize Link at all. As the hero remembered, they were  preparing themselves to host a festivity; however, when asked about the  Fall Festival, the people looked at him strangely and replied they  actually were excited about the upcoming visit of King Horatio Casimir  Hyrule.

Between the greeting crowd, the King recognised Link  instantly, deeply surprising the hero: as the King would tell him in a  second moment, the true reason he visited such a far village was a  Prophecy that has been handed down for centuries. It told a green  dressed Hero would come from another Hyrule’s Land of Autumn at the time  in which a single Princess Zelda existed in all the three timelines and  introduced the Fallen Timeline.
Unlike the other two parallel  Hyrules, the people living in this one were generally aware of not being  the only one. Added to the fact the King didn’t have a distinctive  legacy since the premature death of his wife, he became slowly worried  about the right time for the prophecy to happen, so he decided to go  against the court’s will, both relieved and even more worried to be  right about his encounter. In fact, both Link and Ganon would have to  come at the same time; in order to prevent a total destruction in his  land, the King explicitly asked Link to bring him the Zelda from his  dimension, defeat Ganon and finally reunite both the timelines he was  in, along with the third one.
Therefore, after hearing the King’s  request, Link and Cice went back to the Kakariko village in his world  and told Impa, Zelda and Nanas about the three Hyrule timelines; they  started their main quest, in order to find the Master Sword again and  rebuild Link’s native village.