19th February 2007, 3:47 AM
How would you know what nice weather is if you didn't see or experience bad weather? That's the balance they're talking about, you cant have one without the other. Evil has to exist in order to form heros.
The reason the goddesses flooded Hyrule is because Link didn't exist to destroy Ganon - Ganon was causing the famine and destruction from the Sacred Realm so he had no physical body. So because Ganon didn't actually exist in reality Link didn't form. Because of the lack of Link to stop his evilnessity and the fact that Ganon is blatently destroying Hyrule and turning it in to a living hell, the Goddesses flooded everything and put Hyrule in a spell so that it's litteraly forzen in time (and black and white for some reason) until Link can show up and destroy this form of Gannon, or the Gannondorf of this epoch. After a looooong time being frozen the King of Hyrule figures out a way to communicate to the world above the water through an avatar of the red lion boat, awaiting and searching for Link to destroy Ganon and unfreeze time so that Hyrule can begin to heal.
When Link shows up in the actual Hyrule, in the middle of a major seige on Hyrule castle by Gannondorf's minions, his presence causes time to flow again after he puts the stone statue of the triforce back together (reinvigorating the goddesses as a sign of hope that the 'Hero' exists). Destroying Gannondorf with the Master Sword frees Hyrule of its spell completely.
Now, of course Hyrule will be destroyed by the water and cleansed of the scars that Cannondorf formed so that it can heal and find its place in the next era. The King, having fulfilled his purpose, lets himself be taken by the water, and Link and Zelda go on to find Hyrule. Link grew up with Zelda, searching and waiting for this new land, eventually they get too old and die, others take their place in search of it, the waters slowly die down, and hundreds if not thousands of years later the new land is found which in actuality is the original Hyrule.
Definitely my favorite of the Zelda plots. MM is right behind it and i'm still enjoying TP so i cant really say where it fits yet in the scorecard.
The reason the goddesses flooded Hyrule is because Link didn't exist to destroy Ganon - Ganon was causing the famine and destruction from the Sacred Realm so he had no physical body. So because Ganon didn't actually exist in reality Link didn't form. Because of the lack of Link to stop his evilnessity and the fact that Ganon is blatently destroying Hyrule and turning it in to a living hell, the Goddesses flooded everything and put Hyrule in a spell so that it's litteraly forzen in time (and black and white for some reason) until Link can show up and destroy this form of Gannon, or the Gannondorf of this epoch. After a looooong time being frozen the King of Hyrule figures out a way to communicate to the world above the water through an avatar of the red lion boat, awaiting and searching for Link to destroy Ganon and unfreeze time so that Hyrule can begin to heal.
When Link shows up in the actual Hyrule, in the middle of a major seige on Hyrule castle by Gannondorf's minions, his presence causes time to flow again after he puts the stone statue of the triforce back together (reinvigorating the goddesses as a sign of hope that the 'Hero' exists). Destroying Gannondorf with the Master Sword frees Hyrule of its spell completely.
Now, of course Hyrule will be destroyed by the water and cleansed of the scars that Cannondorf formed so that it can heal and find its place in the next era. The King, having fulfilled his purpose, lets himself be taken by the water, and Link and Zelda go on to find Hyrule. Link grew up with Zelda, searching and waiting for this new land, eventually they get too old and die, others take their place in search of it, the waters slowly die down, and hundreds if not thousands of years later the new land is found which in actuality is the original Hyrule.
Definitely my favorite of the Zelda plots. MM is right behind it and i'm still enjoying TP so i cant really say where it fits yet in the scorecard.