Line #82 Headscratchers/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast


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6	* Why did Link grab the Moon Pearl? He had no way of knowing he would need it: at that point in the game, he thought his quest was (1) get the pendants, (2) get the Master Sword, (3) kill Agahnim. There was no expectation that he would spend 2/3rds of the game in the Dark World -- [[DiscOneFinalDungeon that's]] [[InterfaceSpoiler just]] [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle metagaming]]. Heck, the stupid thing doesn't even serve a purpose in the dungeon we're given it!
7	** One of the two people you can talk to the first time you access the Dark World as a way to access the Tower of Hera, mention the Moon Pearl as a way to protect yourself from the effects of The Golden Power. Then in the first room of the Tower, Sahasrahla ''tells'' you to retrieve the Moon Pearl so that The Golden Power won't turn you into a bunny.
8	** This. The purpose of the Moon Pearl is to protect the bearer from the Golden Power. Link's ultimate goal at that time is to kill Agahnim, a wizard who is seemingly infused with the Golden Power. Bear in mind that Agahnim is supposedly some great wizard, but his sole powers seem to be firing an energy ball, firing another type of energy ball, going Palpatine on yo' ass, teleportation, and sending people into the Dark World. At the very least, that last point would have been a consideration to anyone confronting him; and at the most it could be that the Moon Pearl's power protected Link from Agahnim's deadly "Cause Subject To Sneeze Out Every Internal Organ Through Their Left Nostril" spell. It's not coded into the game (and hey, it's actually possible to skip the Moon Pearl), but it's a possibility.
9	** It's in the largest, hardest to reach chest in the tower. It's obviously valuable in some way, so why not grab it just in case?
10	** If you get the Master Sword and storm Hyrule Castle without getting the Moon Pearl, Sahasrahla's message to you after you're sent to the Dark World advises you to go back and get the Pearl. As a bunny, you can't actually access the first dungeon, cut down bushes, lift stones, or fight the relentless storm of baddies after you.
11	** Even if we disregard narrative reasons and player input, why does Link need a reason to take the pearl with him? It's a shiny orb called the "Moon Pearl"; you could probably get a good deal of money from just selling it even if it turned out not to have any other use.
12	** There's nothing saying that Link canonically obtains the Moon Pearl on his first visit to the tower, either. The question assumes that he took the pearl having no expectation that he would need to go back to the Dark World, but as noted above, he could've skipped over it on the first visit and only gone back for it once he knew it would be important.
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17	* What was the point of Blind the Thief posing as the fourth maiden? He refuses to go outside, despite asking you to take him outside, doesn't lead you into ambushes, trick you in any real way, or even directly attack you before you force him out of his disguise.
18	** This. He asks you to take him outside, but then won't follow you out the front door. What to do with him is even more confusing if you didn't manage to bomb the ceiling beforehand.
19	** He's trying to keep you inside his dungeon longer so his horde of monsters has a better chance of killing Link. Outside of gameplay, if Link thinks he's got the fourth maiden he won't be looking for the real one. My father spent almost two hours running around the dungeon trying to find an alternate exit before he realized he could blow a hole in the floor and then got curious and walked through the light patch.
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23	[[folder:Aganihm's peace]]
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25	* Was Aganihm really responsible for bringing peace to the lands by dealing with those problems using his own special magic? I was under the impression that he was merely dispelling the spells he had cast in the first place.
26	** I don't think it's ever specified if Agahnim cursed Hyrule and then later undid his own magic to look like a hero or if he legitimately saved them, but it's pretty unlikely that a random stranger just happened to pass through and dispel all the bad magic ''no one else'' could handle and then decided on a whim to turn against Hyrule.
27	** The calamities that befall Hyrule are caused by Ganon's evil spreading throughout the land once he takes the Triforce. When you defeat Agahnim in the Dark World, a faint image of Ganon appears and turns into a bat which flies to the Pyramid of Power; when you confront Ganon there, he reveals that he was indeed Agahnim. So: Ganon's evil curses Hyrule, then Agahnim (AKA Ganon, which the people of Hyrule didn't know) comes and dispells Ganon's evil. So basically yes, he's "dispelling the spells he cast in the first place".
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31	[[folder:Agahnim's color]]
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33	* Why is Agahnim's official art red when his in-game sprite is green?
34	** Just a coloring error in-game, maybe? The sprites also have Link's hair looking kind of pinkish, after all.
35	** Back then, it was very common for in-game graphics and artwork to be vastly different. Neither of Zelda's clothes in artwork (pink and white "princess-y" dress that resembles her future incarnations and a more plain blue and white dress) resemble her in-game clothes (which is completely white) either.
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39	[[folder:Escaping the Dark Realm]]
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41	* Did it ever occur to Ganon to ask the Triforce, that was in his possession the whole time, to escape the Dark Realm? Or am I missing the point? And Please don't answer, "then there wouldn't have been a game". I know that already.
42	** Because he had presumably used his wish to rule Hyrule, and the Triforce granted him the magical power to do it. The Triforce doesn't seem to directly grant wishes.
43	** The Triforce grants what your heart truly desires. In Ganon's case, this was conquest.
44	** But what he truly desired was conquest of the ''light world''. I also don't recall anything stating that the Triforce only allows one wish per person. It didn't disappear like it did in ''The Wind Waker'', he clearly still had it. Why didn't he use it again?
45	** It's been suggested that the Triforce only stays together if one with a balanced heart makes a wish upon it. The scenario goes: Balanced heart touches the Triforce > That person gets to keep it and make as many wishes as they'd like. (Link gets the Triforce at the end of this game and gives it to the royal family.) Meanwhile, an imbalanced heart splits the Triforce > Imbalanced heart is forced to find all three pieces > Imbalanced heart gets ''one'' wish from the Triforce after reassembling it > Triforce returns to its original, unsplit form and location, and awaits a new host. (In Ganon's case, he collected all three pieces after defeating the Hero of Time, wished for omnipotence, and caused the Triforce to reset and return to the Sacred Realm, now the Dark World, and seal itself inside the Pyramid where no one could get to it.)
46	*** And then the Triforce just ''happens'' to come out of hiding when Ganon is killed? I call bull. He clearly had it on him.
47	*** Remember, the Triforce is weirdly sentient in this game. (Either that or the voice you hear from it is the Golden Goddesses speaking to Link, and they opened the door once Ganon was defeated.) And the fact that it was sealed up in a separate room sort of implies that he didn't have it on him.
48	** No game in the series ever implied that the Triforce is capable of doing anything more than granting a single wish, and it seems to grant them in an indirect fashion more often than not. Ganon's wish was conquering Hyrule, so the Triforce gave him just enough power to do so. The only reason he never managed to fully get his wish was because he got stuck in the Dark World (someone in the game, probably one of the Maidens, tells you that if Ganon ever leaves the Dark World, he'll become unstoppable). Ganon had access to the Triforce throughout the whole game (though he didn't have it '''in''' him, back then the Triforce was always a physical item rather than some times being a magic brand), but he had already had his wish granted by it.
49	** The Triforce grants wishes differently depending on the strength of the wish made upon it. The stronger the wish, the more powerful the Triforce's expression of that wish. Ganon's wish to conquer Hyrule wasn't that strong, so instead of simply making him the absolute ruler of the world instantly, it just gave him the resources necessary to achieve that goal and left it up to him to actually pull it off.
50	* Ganon wished to rule the universe. Only problem: he forgot he was in a separate universe designed specifically to host the Triforce, the Golden Land. His wish made him absolute ruler of that zone and warped it into the nightmare Link finds when he crosses over. Ganon had to break back into the mortal universe in order to conquer it with the power rulership of the former Golden Land gave him, which is why he needed the heirs of the seven sages in the first place.
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55	[[folder:Pink hair]]
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57	* ... Has no one noticed that Link's sprite has pink hair on it... Does anybody know why?
58	** There are some popular theories that his hair is pink due to system limitations or because it had to match up with his pink Bunny Link transformation, but from a technical standpoint, there’s no need for either of these to be true. We know the system could’ve handled blonde hair because it’s basically the same color as the sand in the desert or the grass throughout most of the Dark World. Link and Bunny!Link do not need to share palettes as they are never on-screen at the same time, and they use different shades of pink, so it wouldn’t matter anyway. Most likely the reason Link’s hair is pink is that the developers thought it looked better, and nothing else. It’s not uncommon in media to give characters pink hair to signify “strawberry blonde” like Link’s, just like his uncle’s hair is meant to be black but colored blue-violet in the game. It’s just an artistic choice, and that’s probably it.
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62	[[folder:Leaving Link in Hyrule]]
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64	* I know he didn't know Link had the Moon Pearl and so might've thought turning him into a helpless bunny in the Dark World would've worked, but is there any reason beyond that why Agahnim didn't just leave Link in Hyrule? He finishes transporting Zelda there and then seems to disappear himself, but it turns out he's just warped himself one room further and hidden it behind some curtains, and he waits patiently there for Link to find the entrance instead of just teleporting to the Dark World himself straightaway.
65	** Alright, you're gonna have to follow me for a bit: Agahnim wants to bring Ganon to Hyrule so Ganon can rule Hyrule. He knows that the one holding the Master Sword is the biggest threat to his plans, so he dumps Link in the Dark World, thinking Link won't be able to make it to Ganon by the time Ganon is able to return to the Light World. Also, he doesn't know Link is packing both the Moon Pearl AND the Magic Mirror that allows him to travel back and forth. Throwing Link into the Dark World as an effort to buy time makes total sense. Link is just too damn awesome to handle.
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69	[[folder:Sword beams]]
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71	* This was one of the earliest games in the series, and the first one to establish the Master Sword as being capable of shooting beams when Link was at full health. So why can't it ever do that in other games?
72	** Perhaps the Master Sword only gives out the real cool powers in dire emergencies?
73	** The full health sword beams were common in the sprite based overhead view games and non-existent in the games with 3D graphics. The reason for this should be obvious: in the sprite games the sword attack was a thrust and having a beam shoot out in a straight line looked cool, while in the 3D based games the sword attack was a swing so the beam effect would have looked strange and been impossible to aim. The sword beams actually originated with the original NES Legend of Zelda game, Link to the Past was merely the first game to put a limitation on the first sword you acquire.
74	** It's not really accurate to say that it would have been impossible to aim in 3D, because all fired weapons benefited from the lock-on gameplay mechanic. The troper a few lines below suggests it just would have been overpowered as shown in Majora's Mask, however you could potentially have some clever way of balancing it without it being hamstrung by a clunky animation, maybe we'll see this in a future game.
75	** The sword's attack is swing in A Link To The Past and the beam is a spiral. Majora's Mask also has sword beams for the fierce deity and it is a three dimensional polygon game. The reason for the inconsistency is that Zelda games never had explicit continuity beyond those that directly continued from each other (''The Legend Of Zelda'' -- ''Zelda 2 The Adventure Of Link'', Ocarina of Time -- Majora's Mask). It was only when ''The Wind Waker'' was released that it was stated they were ''all'' a part of a carefully thought out chronological narrative.
76	** I know the reason why, developmentally, since an overall continuity hadn't been established yet. I'm looking for an in-universe explanation. Why does it behave differently in ''A Link to the Past'' (and ''Breath of the Wild'', where it's supposed to be ''weaker'' than normal) than it does in all the other games?
77	** There just isn't an in-universe explanation, just like there isn't an explanation for why NES Link can do sword beams with any old sword. Out-of-universe, they probably decided that 3D sword beams were too overpowered, until they managed to work it into Skyward Sword (where it doesn't have the health limitation, but has a long charge time that makes it impractical to spam) and Breath of the Wild (where it's also impractical due to the animation being too clunky). In Majora's Mask we get to see how a fully realised 3D Sword Beam would look like, and it's absolutely broken and trivialises the game (but then, it was given to you as a special reward that was supposed to do just that, at a point in the game where the only challenge left is the final boss).
78	** This is just an educated guess, but maybe use of the sword beam is some sort of RoyaltySuperpower-esque thing? Something that's reserved only for knights and other highborn heroes? Looking at the overall series continuity, in ''A Link to the Past'', much ado is made about Link being one of the last in the line of the Knights of Hyrule. In ''Skyward Sword'', the first incarnation of Link is a Skyloft Knight. (Also, his sword beam is coined as the separate "Skyward Strike" ability.) In ''A Link Between Worlds'', there's more evidence than not that Link is a descendant of the one in ''A Link to the Past''. And in ''Breath of the Wild'', Link is both the son of a knight and the royal bodyguard of Princess Zelda. These four heroes are the only ones who have been able to use the sword beam, as opposed to the Hero of Time, who was of an unknown background, his descendant in ''Twilight Princess'', who was an ordinary farmhand, and the Hero of Winds, who was a complete nobody before he rose to become a hero.
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84	* One wonders how there are people in Misery Mire, considering the only way to get in is via a portal that is only accessible by using the magic flute (and you're apparently the first person to have used the flute in some time, considering that the bird in Kakariko town square actually pops out of a sculpture when you play it). The story rules out the possibility that they were there before Ganon transformed the Golden Land into the Dark World, as he was apparently the first person to enter the region for an unspecified amount of time. Most likely there are other methods of entering that aren't represented by game mechanics and the MST3KMantra should apply, but one wonders why Link would have had to go through all the trouble then.
85	** It's feasible to believe that since people had been getting trapped in the Dark World for centuries, someone may have at some point blocked off the Mire between Ganon's imprisonment and when Agahnim weakened the barriers. It's also believable that the Sacred Realm had SOME kind of native life in it to a degree, since Ganondorf was the first being from Hyrule to enter since the Sacred Realm's creation.
86	** It's actually justified in a pretty simple way: According to the backstory, the Swamp's waters were rising at a dangerous pace due to constant endless raining, so the dwellers of the DarkWorld blocked the entrance to the swamp so the region doesn't flood, blocking anyone who might have been living in that Swamp.
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92	* Given that the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Sages]] represent multiple races in Hyrule (Goron, Kokiri, Zora, Hylian, Gerudo), why are the maidens all Hylian? Yeah, {{retcon}}, but I wonder what the in-story reason is, especially [[FridgeHorror since the other races no longer exist]].
93	** Actually, when you consider the fact that Link is descendant to the blood-line of the Hylian Knights, logic follows that these maidens must also have [[InterspeciesRomance blood-lines of their respective races, making them Hylian part-Goron, Kokiri, Zora, and Gerudo respectively.]]
94	*** The instruction manual actually discusses this. Hylians in this game are considered an extinct if not all-but-extinct race, specifically because of interspecies romance. Now, they are muddled up and referred to as Hyruleans, with no physical differences from Hylians but carrying the blood of Gorons, Zora, and (possibly) Gerudo (its implied Ganon may have killed them all in this timeline) as well as the Hylia. The Hylia themselves in this game are referred to as if they were the Sheikah of later games, as well as being an ancient civilization.
95	** Indeed, appearance-wise, there is little difference between Hylians, Gerudo, and Kokiri, aside from one group being perpetual children -- which does make the idea of descendants kind of gross and weird -- and the other has distinguishing red hair and dark skin, and Ruto's interest in Link in ''Ocarina of Time'' implies that crossbreeding isn't out of the question for Zoras. All this would leave is the ambiguous nature in which Gorons reproduce to be able to explain the bloodline of the sages in ''A Link to the Past''.
96	** Simple: ''A Link to the Past'' takes place in a timeline in which Ganon wins. It's not made explicitly clear ''when'' he defeats the Hero of Time, just that he does. Regardless of the actual timing, it means that the sages of ''Ocarina of Time'' are either never awakened by Link, or are [[FridgeHorror slaughtered after Link himself is slain]]. This leads to the Imprisoning War, and seven completely ''different'' sages, who are the ancestors of the maidens Link rescues in this game.
97	** ''A Link Between Worlds'' seems to imply the InterspeciesRomance route, with Rosso looking somewhat Goron-like.
98	** Which raises further questions. The Zoras are egg-laying fish-people and the Gorons subsist on stone. How exactly are they and Hylians compatible? It is also inconsistent, given the very idea of InterspeciesRomance has been consistently mocked in the series.
99	*** AWizardDidIt. But real answer, Hylians are a magical race seperate from humans in-game so maybe there's more compatibility than meets the eye. As for Zoras, they would have to pass on their genes to a Hylian through males and a few generations would certainly allow that setup to happen eventually.
100	** ''Breath of the Wild'' further implies the InterspeciesRomance route - the Zora king, Dorephan, knew of and supported his firstborn daughter's plans to marry a Hylian, suggesting there wouldn't have been an issue with regard to succession and siring new heirs. And we've yet to discover how Gorons reproduce at all, but all of them do have belly buttons, and there are a couple Gerudo who express interest in them...Who knows?
101	*** ... assuming, of course, that the reason Dorephan didn't object to a potential Mipha/Link wedding is that it would have solidified a powerful political alliance, as Link's role in Hylia as its Champion is equivalent to a high official. As for the succession, well, he's still got Sidon. And if Link and Mipha came to live in Zora's Domain, Mipha could "arrange something" and Link could just recognize the resulting child as his.
102	** A Link Between Worlds was at least intended to a remake of this game before being slightly retooled and made into a loose-fitting sequel. It’s possible they intended to retcon the continuity issue out of existence by turning the maidens of this game into the multiracial sages of that one, with Oren being Ruto’s descendant, Rosso being Darunia’s, Irene being Nabooru’s, Gulley being Saria’s (somehow), Osfala being Rauru’s, and Impa being...well, y’know.
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106	* ''Ocarina of Time'' states that if the wrong person tries to use the Triforce, it splits into its components as a defense mechanism. Yet here, Ganon was apparently able to use the full Triforce without that happening. [[WatsonianVersusDoylist I know the obvious answer is that the writers didn't come up with the defense mechanism idea until OoT]], but maybe we can try to find an in-universe explanation just for fun?
107	** We don't need to, as ''Hyrule Historia'' already took care of it: ''A Link to the Past'' occurs on a timeline where Ganondorf was victorious against the Hero of Time. He has the full combined Triforce because he was successfully able to recover the Triforce of Courage and Triforce of Wisdom from Link and Zelda, respectively.
108	** That's a {{retcon}}, though; in the backstory for this game, it says that Ganondorf got the whole Triforce when he entered the Sacred Realm. No mention of the split and tracking down the other bearers. The best explanation I can come up with is LiteraryAgentHypothesis; the details about the splitting [[ShroudedInMyth were lost over time]]. That seems like it would be a pretty important detail, though.
109	** Doesn't matter. Even if it's a retcon, that still makes it canon. Also, keep in mind that ''A Link to the Past'' came ''first'', and that the entire "The Triforce splits if you're not in balance" spiel was ''itself'' a retcon. ''Hyrule Historia'' was merely plugging the plothole ''Ocarina of Time'' introduced.
110	** Hm. True enough, though disappointing. I suppose that does answer my question.
111	** Come to think of it, there's another inconsistency too: ''Ocarina of Time'' says that the defense mechanism is to protect the Triforce from someone with an impure heart, but in the backstory for [=ALttP=], it says that the Triforce doesn't judge between good and evil and just does whatever its bearer wishes.
112	** The Triforce judges whether one's heart is ''imbalanced'', not impure -- that has nothing to do with being good or evil. Ganondorf received only the Triforce of Power in ''Ocarina of Time'' because that was the virtue his heart most reflected, while the other two went to Zelda, the wisest, and Link, the bravest. If it splits due to an imbalanced heart, the only way to reunite it and gain your wish is to seek out the other two pieces and reclaim them.
113	** True, that was bad wording on my part. Even still, judging someone based on whether they have the three virtues seems like it contradicts the backstory in the manual, which seems to imply pretty strongly that the Triforce isn't supposed to judge people period. (Though apparently a closer translation reveals that it's something like "only the gods can judge people" and there is an emphasis on good vs. evil rather than the specific virtues so eh.)
114	** If the manual does indeed say that, then that would be where the "''Ocarina of Time''-induced retcon" would come into play which, as the person above has mentioned, still makes it canon.
115	** Didn't ''A Link to the Past'' occur after ''Ocarina of Time'', chronology wise? If so, then the back story of ''A Link to the Past'' is describing what the people remember of ''Ocarina of Time''. Ganon got sealed into the Golden Realm just before he acquired the Triforce. Wouldn't the seal keep the Triforce from splitting in the first place? Unless there were people in the realm to send Courage and Wisdom to, Ganon would have had all three. By the time Link beats him, he has a balanced heart and can use the Triforce without worry.
116	** No, the seal wouldn't have prevented the Triforce from splitting. Ganon got his hands on the Triforce ''before'' he was sealed in the Golden Land. The entire purpose of the Imprisoning War in ''A Link to the Past's'' backstory was because they couldn't stop him otherwise. The Imprisoning War in this case was an entirely different event than what is depicted in ''Ocarina of Time'', because in the Downfall timeline Link ''failed'' to awaken the Sages, leading to a bloody war between the Hylian Knights and Ganon's army.
117	** ...Not quite, my friend. The Downfall Timeline came about as a result of a hypothetical Game Over suffered by Link '''during the final battle against Ganon''' in ''Ocarina of Time'', thus allowing him to obtain both Link's and Zelda's Triforce pieces, and forcing the seven sages to have to seal him inside the Sacred Realm. As has been suggested on a different page, it's possible that, if the Triforce is split and reassembled by one with an imbalanced heart, they only get a chance at ''one wish'' before it resets itself back to its resting place in the Sacred Realm, which would've been inside the sealed chamber in the Pyramid in ''A Link to the Past'', where Ganon couldn't get to it.
118	** No. The Sacred Realm itself had the Triforce split as a defensive measure. If the Triforce had been somewhere else Ganon could have grabbed it and gotten the entire thing instantly. By killing Link in ''Ocarina of Time'', Ganon got the entire Triforce and kept it until ''A Link to the Past'' Link eventually killed Ganon and got it for himself.
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122	[[folder: The Seven Sages]]
123	* Why is one of them shorter than the others? Why?
124	** Why does it matter?
125	** Considering the sages in this game are the same as those from ''Ocarina of Time'', it's possible the shorter one is supposed to be or represent Saria, since as a Kokiri, she was the only child among them. Rauru, Darunia, Ruto, Nabooru, Impa, and Zelda were all significantly taller adults, meaning the Sage of Forest could've been remembered as being the youngest and smallest.
126	** I always thought that that sage was kneeling.
127	** The Sages are people, people have different sizes. It's more surprising that all of the other six have exactly the same height.
128	** Clearly, they would all be different sizes in real life -- what we see of them is just a simplified depiction. What's being asked is why one of them is shown to be shorter than the others in that depiction.
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131	[[folder:What Holds the Big Bag?]]
132	* So, this one is more about ''The Ancient Stone Tablets''... Basically, at the beginning of every week's adventure in the Platform/{{Satellaview}}-exclusive "[[MissionPackSequel second quest]]," the player is given an item called the "Big Bag." It's basically a bag ''three times the size of the player'', has a label on it which reads "XL," and [[BagOfHolding holds the player's entire inventory]]. My question… Where in the world does the "mysterious youth" actually ''store'' the Big Bag if the Big Bag holds everything they collect? (The same could be asked of Link in ''A Link to the Past'' (among other games), but he never officially gets a Big Bag. It's implied, in his case.)
133	** I assumed that you don't actually carry the bag itself around with you and it's instead kept by your allies. You hand all your equipment over to them for safekeeping when you're not adventuring, and they store it in the bag. When you "get" the Big Bag, you just open it and retrieve your stuff before returning the empty bag.
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135	[[folder:Death Mountain]]
136	* On the game's map, Death Mountain appears to simply tower over the kingdom, and has a river divide it. In the actual game though, this river is replaced with a bottomless pit which also borders the bottom of the mountain. So is there some sort of tall cliff around the mountain itself? Is the mountain more like an island in the center of a big pit? Where is the water?
137	** Just because it ''looks'' like a bottomless pit doesn't mean it actually is one. There could be a running river at the bottom, but it's too far away to make out.
138	** The map could be referring that the waterfall which you see directly below it (aka one screen west from the Potion Shop).
139	* In Zelda II, Death Mountain was actually bigger vertically than it was horizontally. At the very least, if the player looks off the bridge on the northern half, shouldn't they see more mountains below, instead of trees?
140	** No, because ''Adventure of Link'' takes place after ''A Link to the Past'', with at least four games happening in between them. Plenty of time for the geography to have changed.
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143	[[folder:Link's living arrangements]]
144	* Why does the house Link and his uncle live in have a) only one bed, and b) no bathroom or outhouse?
145	** Bathrooms not making it into fiction is so common that it's [[NobodyPoops a practically omnipresent trope.]] Most of the houses don't have the amenities that actually living in them would require. (Fewer beds than people comes up all the time in the series: some houses don't even have beds at all.) The game includes a few details for immersion, but didn't quite go all the way. Though from what we saw in the darkened room when Zelda was speaking telepathically, Link's uncle apparently finds that wooden stool to be the most comfortable place to spend the night!
146	** In times of old (as recently as the mid-1800s), it wasn’t unheard of for multiple people to share the same bed, even if they were unacquainted strangers. Link’s uncle was probably seated on the stool because he was preparing to head to the castle to rescue Zelda.
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150	* Why do Zelda and the Seven Maidens keep their hylian forms in the Dark World? The game treats the Moon Pearl as this unique legendary item, but apparently if you're magical and plot important the Dark World's rules just don't apply?
151	** I'd assume that the crystals they're all trapped inside have something to do with it. Either that or their physical appearances just happen to be exact reflections or their true selves, so that they stay the same in the Dark World.
152	** The Dark World's transformations aren't inevitable: the Moon Pearl is one way of resisting it, but it isn't necessarily the only way, or even the only one of its kind. The series also has other examples of characters with special powers being resistant or immune to transformation. (Such as Zelda keeping her human form in the Twilight, instead of becoming a spirit.) Maybe one of the powers they inherited is a resistance to polymorphing, or maybe Moon Pearls are a really popular jewelry choice among the descendants of sages!
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155	[[folder:Fake swords in the Lost Woods]]
156	* Even after claiming the true Master Sword, Link continues to mistake the replicas littering the forest for the legendary blade when you come across them. To say nothing of being fooled at all after the first time. Does he keep forgetting that he has the Master Sword stowed to his back all the time?
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159	[[folder:The Master Sword sleeps again...]]
160	* At the end of the game, Link puts the Master Sword back in its pedestal in the Lost Woods... even if he has already traded the Master Sword away to the Faerie Queen for "something better in return." How did he get the Master Sword back? Or did the Faerie Queen just upgrade it, like the dwarves had done? (And if that were the case, why would she describe it as if it were a completely different sword? She could have said "I will empower it and give it back to you" instead of "I will give you something better in return.")
161	** She meant it as one would mean the phrase "become a better person". She didn't say she would give you a separate thing than the thing you threw into the water; she just said she would give you something better than what you originally had, which she did.
162	** Even if she had taken it, Link could've gone back to her fountain and asked for it back, offering to return the Golden Sword in exchange if need be.
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