Long ago, in the kingdom of Hyrule, there appeared a Wind Sorcerer named Vaati, who could bend the wind to his will and used this power to terrorize many villages in Hyrule. In his assaults on the villages, Vaati would kidnap any beautiful girls who caught his fancy.

Many knights from the castle and other brave men set out to subdue the sorcerer and rescue the girls, but each one fell in turn to Vaati’s awesome power. Just when the people began to lose hope, a young boy travelling with little but a sword at his side appeared.

When this boy heard what was happening, he said only, “I will defeat this sorcerer.” He boldly entered Vaati’s palace, mystically trapped the evil sorcerer inside the blade of his sword, and returned the young girls to their villages. The boy went deap into the forest and disappeared.

The villagers asked the girls how a bow so young could have saved them all and defeated the sorcerer when no one else could. The young girls told a story of how with just the wave of his sword, they boy’s body shattered into four pieces. Each of these pieces formed a complete copy of the boy. These four young boys worked together to defeat the sorcerer. The people did not believe the story, but called it the Four Sword nonetheless. As rumors of the blade’s power to divide a person into 4 entitie spread, the people built a shrine to protect it.

Princess Zelda of the land of Hyrule was a beautiful young girl born with the mysterious power to sense approaching forces of evil. For this reason, she was assigned with the sacred duty of protecting the shrine of the Four Sword and the blade itself. One day, Zelda was in Hyrule Castle when she sensed that something unusual was occuring at the Four Sword Shrine. She asked a boy named Link, whom she trusted above anyone else, to accompany her to investigate the happenings at the shrine…

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