𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒂

✦ Name

Acacia, owning the honourary titles of "Princess" and later "Queen" by her marriage to Ganondorf.

Appearance ✦

Female and Hylian, and as such has two, long elven ears. Acacia stands at a very short 5’2” (1.57 m) and weighs roughly 111 lbs (50.80 kg). She is slender but muscular with phthalo green eyes and wildly curly chestnut brown hair that falls to her waist, usually adorned with ivy, braids and flowers. Her tribe in general do not wear clothing and Acacia is no different. She is largely naked, painted in intricate symbols and decals in deep plum paint from ear to toe. The only clothing she does wear are strips of purple silk, translucent and glittery, held in place from her arms, legs and loins by heavy gold chains and belts, embedded with various gemstones. She has the symbol of Nayru, The Goddess of Wisom, on her forehead and wears gold and hacksilver as earrings, bellyrings, nose rings and adjoining chains. When out and about on the surface, she has a crude longbow with a quiver on her thigh, a skull-hammer and a stone knife.

As her other clan members, Acacia is proficient in the art of Fairy Magic, harnessing the power to manipulate light itself as a weapon or shield or any other purpose she so desires with the flick of her wrist. Because of this, she can also levitate, enabling her with the ability to fly, transform into a fairy and the ability to summon her winged companions. It makes her difficult to measure or keep track of.

✦ Relationships

Name Ganondorf - husband in most/all reincarnations.

Hyrule - sentiel/step-son.

Name Aiyanna - mother/chieftess.

Name Hexa - sister.

Tahobase - step-grandson in some reincarnations (via his father, Hyrule).

Name Shade - step-daughter in some reincarnations (Ganondorf's biological daughter).

Backstory ✦

Before the Hylian race of Skyloft returned to inhabit what would become civilised Hyrule, there lived another elfin race. During the years of Surface, hundreds of years prior to the kingdom’s establishment, an unnamed pointed-eared group of humanoids surfaced. Born from what was left behind from the Hylians who did not flee the Demonic Horde, these indigenous peoples spent their earliest years as hunters and gatherers. They built their huts and established their tribes heart in Hyrule Field. Their most notable claim was their outstanding skills as warriors and were one of the first to use magic, thus resulting in the other races—the early Zora and Goron—gave them the moniker of witches, their group a coven. When their second chieftain became afflicted with a serious plague one fall, none of the witchdoctors’ medicines could cure his ailment. Falling into a wave of despair, the coven was thrown into turmoil. They prayed for some holy intervention to spare their leader from a painful and untimely death. They were answered in the form of fairies, small creatures with incredible healing properties and holy magic. They aided the coven and Nayl was spared. The primitives, in awe of the power displayed, bestowed their eternal gratefulness, idolising the winged companions as holy creatures of great reverence, placing them aside the Three Goddesses, building them great fountains and monuments beneath the surface of the earth.

As time passed, the two races maintained a strong alliance with one another, choosing not to question their devotion. In return for their offerings and kindness, loyalty and prayer, they bestowed the witches with the knowledge of their magic, teaching them levitation, manipulation of light and shapeshifting amidst other things.

Life continued as such until the inhabitants from Skyloft returned, bringing with them civilisation and the Hylian Royal Family. Deeming themselves the true elfin race, they attempted to conform the primitives to their ways which was met with resistance and ultimately hostility. They would not give up their land, convert their religion to solely the goddesses and thus war was declared. Homes were burned, people enslaved, men murdered. Eventually, after half a decade of resistance, the coven was forced to leave their land, taking what they could and retreated to a life of seclusion beneath the earth, finding sanctuary with the fairies in the very temples they had built for them.

Their winged friends were most accommodating, and utilising the vast tunnel system between the fountains, the witches made their way around beneath the ground, only surfacing at night in fear of being killed. During the reign of King Daphnes Hyrule, fifteen years after their exile, the coven was approached with a truce. The queen, Aiyanna, accepted and after lengthy debate over terms and agreement was reached. The Hylian family would have the aid of the indigenous people as an ally in times of warfare, had access to them when they needed spells and medicines otherwise unavailable, had permission to farm on the fields without their land being raided and in turn the witches could maintain their regal independence and their rights to worship the fairies. For the first time, peace, and the “fairy witches” could surface without fear of being killed.

Though still treated with chariness and mystism, and permitted to enter the city to trade, they prefer to keep to themselves.

• There are both male and female witches.

• For the most part, the clan’s hierarchy works very much like an ant colony. Upon their fifth birthday, a child is subjected to the goddess trial, where they are given a mark of one of the three. The mark of power (Din), represent the fearsome, the warriors and the hunters. The mark of courage (Farore), represent the talented and the creative, the architects, the homemakers, the smiths. And the mark of wisdom (Nayru), given to those who represent scholars, the diplomats, the priests and teachers. Markings are given to both men and women and each division has a captain, the one individual who the others of the sector come to, who acts as a personal attendant to the chieftain or chieftainess.

• To present, these had been Hexa, the commander of the fairy army and eldest daughter of the queen. Her sister, Acacia, the head scholar, and Teter, the head mason and master hunter.

• The position of division captain or even tribal chief can be challenged, by anyone of any rank, by means of a hand to hand duel, a tradition.

The coven worked on this simple, animal triangle and had done so until they were divided by the abandonment of Acacia brought about by Ganondorf claiming to be seeking an alliance. He approached the coven, and the queen, unaware of his plan to storm Hyrule castle, accepted his proposition and assigned Acacia to discuss terms with him.

As she spent time with the warlock, he seduced her, slowly manipulating her to his cause and her initial mistrust melted away at his overdramatised and inspiring scenario: to free his people from the dusty corner of the desert they had been driven into over the years, left as a dying race by the Hylian family. It was a lie but one well tailored as the young princess saw in him a kindred spirit and gradually she became infatuated, a seed of influence amongst her powerful clan.

Her decision to abandon the coven came on the eve before Ganondorf’s army were set to besiege the castle. An enormous argument erupted between the division leaders and their queen, spitting treason upon Acacia for renouncing their existing treaty with the Hylian royal family . Acacia, unswayed in her newfound righteousness, mocked her own for selling their loyalty to the very elves who stole what was rightfully theirs years afore and pushed them beneath the earth.

The coven was divided by common interest, beyond repair. Those who burned with the same vengeful passion as Acacia left with her and Ganondorf to travel into the desert, both fairy and witch alike, and one half stayed behind, faithful to King Daphnes and the family they had sworn their allegiance to, and they could do nothing but watch.

• Ganon was fully aware of the coven’s pre-existing treaty with Princess Zelda’s family, and his intention was to break her defences from the inside out and divide them to weaken the resistance he would face, which he did through his seduction of Acacia.

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