Link feels pretty comfortable with life. He has his sister Ari, best friend Sheik, and loving parents that he would never trade for anything in the world. Hyrule is in a time of peace, led by a nameless Princess and her even more mysterious Knight. Monsters are so rare that they’re often unheard of outside schools and their books. Legend has it the Princess’ Knight is the next Hero of Hyrule. They wield the Blade of Evil’s Bane--the Master Sword--which according to Sheik’s family means that they are destined to defeat the evil Ganondorf, should he come to rise. Link doubts he will. But one day, everything changes. A plague fills the land and, within just a few hours, thousands of people are dead or becoming sick. There are reports of monsters with names no one had heard in decades swarming the most peaceful villages, wiping them out as if they’d simply had to blink for everything to be gone. The Princess is in hiding, gravely wounded. Her Knight? Dead. At least that was what Link thought until he, Ari, and Sheik stumble upon someone deep in the woods, by a pedestal for the sword rumored to seal darkness itself.
