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Woodland Residents
Koroks
A race of small adorable Plant People who live in their namesake forest, acting as guardians of the Master Sword in a sense.
- The Ageless: If the fact that they seem to know who Link is on sight, like Hestu, they seem to be long-lived. The fact that Hestu still seems to act a bit like a child indicates that they don't change in that time either.
- Beware the Cute Ones: They may be adorable, but once emboldened, they're willing to fight, even if they aren't very effective.
- The Fair Folk: They really don't qualify because they're active heroic characters, but given where they live, they can come across this way, especially since they live in an Eldritch Location forest.
- Hero-Worshipper: They all cheer Link on as he draws his Master Sword and reclaims it. They even swarm him like little children would a parent. Hestu has to actually shoo them away. They all have their own little nicknames for him, and some ask if he remembers them.
- Hidden Badass: They may be adorable and little, but make no mistake, they are willing to fight. The Yiga learn this the hard way when the little ones start dropping heavy rocks on them from above.
- Long-Lived: They don't seem to age at all even.
- Mythical Motifs: Nymphs, specifically Dryads, in many ways, aside from gender.
- The general Nymph association comes from the fact that they're not exclusive to trees and live pretty much anywhere in the natural world from the hottest regions of Death Mountain to the coldest regions in Hebra.
- They specifically adhere to Dryads because the ones living in Korok Forest are Plant People who live to protect it from any external threats, like the Yiga and Ganon.
- Nature Spirit: They're the most heavily associated with the natural world.
- Not Quite Flight: Only Hestu can fly. The others need to use propeller leaves to do the same.
- Plant People: They use leaves as propellers, and some of them even wear leaves as masks.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're little, they're cute, and they have a childlike worship for Link, cheering him on as if they were watching a performance.
- Underestimating Badassery: Not many people think highly of the Koroks. The Yiga specifically, as they didn't think the Koroks would put up much of a fight and only sent a few Yiga Footsoldiers after them.
The Great Deku Tree
The guardian of the Lost Woods and the Koroks. He also guards the Master Sword.
- Genius Loci: The Koroks are shown living within and around them. Hestu unfortunately is too big to fit inside the Great Deku Tree.
- Physical God: He's essentially the god of the forest, and the Koroks value him as one.
- Shipper on Deck: When Zelda wanted him to hold onto a message for her, he reminds her that it would probably be better if she told him herself.
- Wise Tree: The Great Deku Tree was entrusted to watch over the Master Sword by Zelda. He gives Link some advice, and fills him in on some details of events that happened in the past.
Hestu
An enormous Korok musician who can channel various powers through his maracas whenever he plays them.
- Adaptational Badass: Thanks to a change in his powers, he's much more active in a fight, and gets a chance to do so.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: He only has the power of inventory expansion in the original game, and a limited moveset in the prequel game. In The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild, he's shown using several different kinds of mystical music bubbles with different effects on the environment.
- Ascended Extra: In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, he's a minor character who has only tangential plot significance. In The Myth of Link & Zelda: Survivors of the Calamity, his role is ascended, with him being the one who gives Link the locations where the various pictures on the Sheikah Slate were taken. He also is an active participant in the war against the Yiga Clan during their massive invasion across the land. He also plays an active role in Age of Calamity, often helping the heroes to fly around Hyrule saving a massive amount of time.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a strange Korok who uses music and dancing to fight, but he's nonetheless an effective combatant and proves to be very useful to the heroes in Age of Calamity.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Hestu remarks that the three Triforce pieces create an upside-down triangle in the middle, and he theorizes that maybe Hylia will get a piece of her own that would complete the triangle. While Bani scoffs at this, Breath of the Wild ends up showing that he's not that far off the mark, as Hylia doesn't get a Triforce piece of her own, but does have her own spirit animal.
- Color-Coded Wizardry: The effects of Hestu's powers change depending on the color of the bubbles, and he has quite a few powers.
- Pure Red = miscellaneous mundane uses.
- Light Red = raw magical power and direct force.
- Purple = levitation and telekinesis.
- Yellow = electricity.
- Blue = snow and icy magic.
- Orange = fire.
- White = defensive and map marking.
- Pink = floral aroma.
- Turquoise = artistic molding that can be used to make a drawing.
- Green = detecting remnants of magic used in any given area, along with the kind of magic used.
- Combo Platter Powers: He seems to have different powers for every color of bubbles he can produce. As of Age of Calamity, he has shown to have ten different kinds of powers, some of them seemingly random and unrelated.
- Composite Character: Sheikah artist Pikango who helps Link finds the various locations on the Sheikah Slate is Adapted Out. Hestu adopts this aspect of Pikango's role, helping Link find the various locations across Hyrule.
- Fighting Clown: He uses his powers to help entertain children, but he uses these same bubbles in combat, and it works.
- Gentle Giant: He's enormous, and a naturally timid cutie like the rest of the Koroks.
- Large Ham: Much of his dialogue is in all caps and he's incredibly energetic and bubbly.
- Magic Music: His magic has different effects depending on what he's doing at the moment.
- Musical Assassin: He uses the magic of his maracas to channel magic of different effects.
- Personality Powers: He's a very cute and bubbly individual, and his powers involve the creation of mystical bubbles.
- Verbal Tic: "Skalaka!"
Zoras
General
A race of long-lived aquatic humanoids who live among the rivers and near the ocean.
- Barbie Doll Anatomy: They wear no clothes, but Link make no observation of any genitals.
- Can't Argue with Elves: Elderly Zora are not very fond of Hylians, especially Link, because they fault him for the loss of Mipha. The younger ones avert this, as he was friends with many of them from when they were young children.
- Commune: They don't seem to have individual homes, instead living communally among each other, even royalty.
- Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity: They favor spears and elegant tridents. They also have a natural aversion to electric weapons because as an aquatic race, they're especially weak to the element.
- Fish People: The Zora are shaped similarly to humans, but they're evolved for an aquatic life.
- Interspecies Romance: As Lochlia proves, romances can occur between Hylians and Zora. 100 years ago, it was very much frowned upon and Mipha was rightfully afraid of backlash against Link just for being her lover and the father of her child.
- Irrational Hatred: One of the Zora openly admits that their animosity towards Link is incredibly unfounded. Kapson specifically admits that he knows that Mipha wasn't forced to be Champion, but it was easier to accept the idea that she was forced than to accept that they would have lost her either way.
- Long-Lived: They live for a long time, much like many sharks and whales can live for long periods, seemingly in excess of 200 years, if not more. They're one of the only races that personally remember Link. The young adults are fond of him, having seen him as a child, and the elders resent him, displacing their blame on him for their loss of Mipha.
- Mythical Motifs: Mermaids. They're fish-like humanoids with a penchant for spears and equally compatible in water as in on land. Unusually for this, their whole bodies are fish-like and they have legs instead of just having a fish tail with human upper bodies.
- National Weapon: Spears, implied to be the Silverscale Spears, are their default weapons. Royalty wield more ornate weapons, like Princess Mipha, the greatest warrior of all, wielding the Lightscale Trident. Her daughter Lochlia modeled herself after her mother, creating a similarly designed Lightscale Spear, Sidon uses Ceremonial Tridents that look identical to the Lightscale Trident, and King Dorephan uses an enormous Zora Battleaxe.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: Lochlia is the only Zora noted to have breasts, because she's a Hylian-Zora hybrid.
- Noodle People: They're very slender and tall with very short legs. The royal family averts this, as Lochlia has a Hylian's proportions as a hybrid herself, Sidon is far taller, and King Dorephan who's genuinely enormous in all manners of the word.
- Proportional Aging: It's not a solid proportional rate, but Lochlia confirms that Zoras take many decades to reach full maturity. She says that she was still the equivalent to a teenager at age 90.
- Really 700 Years Old: Most of them are over 100 years old, especially the young adults who look the equivalent of Hylians in their twenties.
- Silver Has Mystic Powers: They use weapons of silver and crystal.
- Super Swimming Skills: Natch, as they're fish people. They can create and enchant armor to do the same for non-Zora people.
- Weapon Specialization: They specialize in spears, fitting with their aquatic nature as polearms are the most hydrodynamic weapons, as well as tridents being associated with the god of the seas, Poseidon.
King Dorephan
King of the Zora, father of Mipha and Sidon, grandfather to Lochlia, and great-grandfather to Mipha, Link, Leilani, and Solarri.
- Animal Motifs: Unlike the other Zora, he's described as being whale-like in appearance, mostly owing to his enormous size. His blue color is retained from the game, giving him more of a whale shark motif.
- Every Scar Has a Story: Link notes a scar on his head, but he never actually asks anyone about it.
- Foil: To King Rhoam: They both are raising their children without a wife, and their daughters were destined for roles in the fight against Ganon, and said daughters had a romantic relationship with Link. But Rhoam was a Fantasy-Forbidding Father whose relationship with his daughter became estranged and consequently, she became abrasive to Link for a time. King Dorephan was a much kinder father whose children grew to be unflinchingly kind.
- The Good King: He's very caring about his people, and in turn, they love him very much. He also is worried for more than just his own people, knowing that if the giant dam breaks, the floodwaters would devastate anything downstream. He also had no issue with his daughter being in love with and having a daughter of her own with Link.
- Hope Spot: Upon seeing Link alive and well and still the same age 100 years after supposedly dying, and hearing that Princess Zelda was still alive in Hyrule Castle, he became hopeful that Mipha may still be alive inside Ruta. It agonizes Link to tell crush this hope by telling him that she didn't make it, so much so that Link can't bring himself to actually say outright that she's dead, instead saying he met her spirit.
- Large and in Charge: Among a tribe of Zora that are all larger than Link, he notes that King Dorephan is massive. The Yiga are completely helpless against him when he attacks, to the point where they're completely ineffective against him.
- Like a Son to Me: As Link is the father of his grandchild, King Dorephan sees Link as family. He's noticeably crushed when Link admits that he's lost his memories of him and his family.
- Musical Theme Naming: Along with the rest of his family, bearing names derived from solfège notes. In his case, it's the first two. Do-re-phan.
- Nice Guy: He's a joyful and friendly guy. It's pretty clear that both Mipha and Sidon especially took after him.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He outlived Mipha when she was killed by Waterblight Ganon. But this time, Mipha left behind a granddaughter in whom the king could see her, who in turn gave him some great-grandchildren to remember her by.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: The King of Zora has got a scar on his head, meaning he's seen some action. He shows it off when he uses his massive Zora Battleaxe to shred Yiga opponents, and then caps it off by creating a mystical tsunami to wash away the survivors.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: He fights alongside his people during the war against the Yiga, and is among them in the final battle against Calamity Ganon, fighting the horde of monsters emerging as Ganon's power rises.
- Stout Strength: His body is mostly torso, but that massive torso is nothing but muscle. He can wield an axe as tall as a building to attack the invading Yiga Clan.
- Top-Heavy Guy: Enough that his walk is described as a waddle.
Muzu
An elderly Zora who serves as the royal family's advisor.
- Animal Motifs: He's explicitly stated to be like a manta ray.
- Disappointed in You: Sidon and Dorephan aren't happy with his resistance to accepting Link's assistance.
- Fantastic Racism: He's the most openly racist against Hylians, and especially Link. He was already discriminatory against Hylians before the Calamity, and blamed Link afterwards for Mipha's death. He was mortified when he learned that Lochlia had Hylian ancestry, but claims to have never held it against her, but is still surprised when he learns that Mipha had hoped to marry Link one day.
- Humble Pie: He eases up on Link after he frees Ruta, and admits that he was wrong for being so racist, and asks Link and Lochlia for forgiveness.
- Lampshade Hanging: He outright is aghast at the convenient timing with which Link remembers Mipha and Lochlia.
- The Mentor: He was Mipha's mentor, and he deeply cared for her.
- Non-Standard Character Design: He's the only one described as being like a manta ray, versus the others that are shark-like.
- Racist Grandma: A Grandpa version, as he's an elderly Zora who despises Hylians, and especially Link. This is common among elderly Zora, but Muzu is the most openly rude to Link. His greater anger is understandable because he didn't just live alongside Mipha, he was her mentor, and it hit him very deeply when she died.
Bazz
The husband to Princess Lochlia, and the father of her children, who was close friends with Link when he was a child. He mentored Bazz in the ways of sword fighting. He works as a Zora soldier in adulthood.
- Battle Couple: He's a Zora soldier who's married to Lochlia, the Zora Princess who takes after her mother in combat proficiency.
- Childhood Friends: With Link. He's surprised to see Link 100 years later not only alive but the same age as he was 100 years earlier.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Possibly. He was a child at the same time Princess Lochlia was. They grew up together, so it's very possible that they've known each other since that time.
- Good Parents: There's no indication that he's anything but a genuinely good parent to his four children.
- Hero-Worshipper: He's nothing but fond of Link and worships the memory of him.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Link gives him this threat, and it makes Bazz nervous. He promises that he will take care of Lochlia.
- The Leader: He's the captain of the guard, and his subordinates listen to him without question.
- Mirror Character: His life ended up mirroring his mentor, Link's. Both are high-ranking knights who fall in love with the princess of their kingdoms.
The Royal Great-Grandchildren
Princess Lochlia's four children with Bazz, Mipha, Link, Leilani, Solarri.
- Always Identical Twins: Averted. They're both sets of twins, but they're not identical, as they're all different colors.
- Cheerful Child: They're bundles of joy, and they're not even questioning it when they learn that Link is their father.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Young Mipha is light blue, young Link is deep blue, Leilani is pink, and Solarri is purple.
- Dead Guy Junior: Mipha is named after her late maternal grandmother. Link is not this trope, because Lochlia knew that her father was still alive.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Leilani and Mipha inherited Mipha's Grace.
- Take Up My Sword: They physically offer an object to someone else in honor of another character.
- They offer the Lightscale Trident to Link at the behest of King Dorephan.
- They each bring all of the Champions' gear to the New Champions to use against the Yiga Clan at the behest of Link himself.
Gerudo
General
A race of enormous muscular humans that are entirely women. They make their home in their namesake desert.
- Amazon Brigade: They show off how much of an effective unit of combat they are when they band together against the Yiga Clan's assault on their hometown. They escape with no deaths on their side.
- Amazonian Beauty: Young adult Gerudo are very tall and regarded as incredibly beautiful women. As they age, they lose their hourglass figure until they become rather ectomorphic in body shape. They take advantage of this and travel the world in the hopes of finding a husband.
- Bedlah Babe: The outfits they wear match this to a t.
- Bling of War: They have a fondness for jewelry, and it tends to be part of their armor and weaponry.
- Code of Honor: A few Gerudo discover Link's gender, but they don't reveal it out of respect for him. Muava doesn't because he listens to her story when she tends to be ignored. This is no longer the case when Riju decrees that he's allowed in the village undisguised.
- Conlang: They mostly speak English but they sprinkle in a few of their own language's words into their speech. They're the only race with their own unique language.
- Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity: Swords and shields. Specifically, ornate scimitars and gem-encrusted shields. Some of them use large claymores like Buliara, and others use spears.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Their weapons are described as being quite shiny, and some of their names match accordingly.
- Hartman Hips: As early as their teens, their hips are already twice the circumference of their shoulders, making them incredibly curvaceous. Link typically notes it whenever he sees a Gerudo.
- Horse of a Different Color: They move across the sand with the help of sand seals, pinniped-like creatures that swim across the sand while pulling their shield surfing masters behind them.
- Lady Land: It's not out of disgust for men, but Gerudo Town only consists of women, and men have to dress in disguise to gain entry into the town. Many Gerudo have loving husbands, and they dearly love their families in kind. Riju lessens this when she allows Champion Link to enter their town, as well as Gerudo and their husbands. Gorons are allowed in, to Link's confusion, although it's implied that if they didn't allow Gorons in, they'd never be able to trade with the as-of-yet all-male Gorons. Given that so many women and girls have no experience with men, hardly any of them see past his disguise.
- Legend Fades to Myth: Modern Gerudo are aware of Calamity Ganon's past as Ganondorf, but they believe that it was just a form it adopted, not that Ganondorf was an authentic living being. They learn the truth that he was a victim of Demise's curse as well, and Riju seems poised to help him reintegrate into their society.
- Magical Accessory: Rhondson is the only one shown doing it, but they can use jewelry to empower their clothes with protective properties against heat.
- Mythical Motifs: The Amazons. These are a race of highly muscular warrior women who don't allow men into their home, and whose leader has power to control lightning.
- National Weapon: The scimitar and shield. While some use claymores and spears, most soldiers use the scimitar and shield combination. Even Urbosa used this combo with her Scimitar of the Seven and the Daybreaker.
- One-Gender Race: They are all exclusively made up of women. They only reproduce by going out and traveling to find husbands, all of whom currently seen consist of Hylian men. Riju reveals that Ganondorf was the last male born to them. With Zelda freeing Ganondorf from the curse, and the reveal to everyone that he was a victim just like they were, it seems that there will now be a single male Gerudo in existence once more.
- Open Secret: If Rhondson is any hint, it's known that men sneak into town by disguising themselves as women.
- Pointy Ears: The narration never reveals if they do or don't have these like their do in the game.
- Poirot Speak: They mostly speak proper English, but they often use their own language for greetings, and often say "voe" and "vai" in place of "man/men" and "woman/women".
- Proud Merchant Race Guy: Their town is a major center of commerce, as they often trade in jewelry and other desert-originating products to the rest of Hyrule.
- Secret-Keeper: A few of the residents see through Link's disguise, but they don't ever rat him out. They eventually don't need to, because Riju decides that Link shall be permitted into town.
- Statuesque Stunner: They're all incredibly tall, and they're renowned for their Amazonian Beauty.
- Xenafication: They lean heavily into their Amazon inspiration, being warriors of incredible caliber, and also not above dismembering and beheading their foes in combat. They go heavily in on this side of them when they Yiga attack them.
Buliara
Riju's personal bodyguard, and she's very protective of her charge.
- Action Girl: She's a Gerudo who serves as Riju's personal bodyguard. She's incredibly effective in a fight, as the Yiga and eventually Hollow Urbosa learn the hard way.
- Ascended Extra: She gets more to do later in The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild, where she participates in the war against the Yiga, and even gets a chance to wield Urbosa's Scimitar of the Seven in combat.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: Riju is an Adaptational Badass who is willing to get into a fight, but Buliara will stop at nothing to keep her safe.
- Cool Big Sis: She's way younger than Link in all aspects, but she's literally bigger than he is, and adopts this role to him by telling him that he did the right thing by slaying the Yiga Clan.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She's cold and distant and untrusting of Link at first, but she quickly warms to Link enough to give him a talk about his massacre of the Yiga Clan, where she reassures him that he did the right thing, and tells him that Hyrule is safer for it.
- Frontline General: She fights alongside her soldiers against the Yiga Clan, and alongside Riju.
- Hidden Depths: She's a hardcore warrior who's extremely blunt and dismissive of strangers, and is implied to have experienced a lot of violence...but she apparently also has enough of a heart and mind and knowledge to be an effective therapist, as she helps Link through a traumatic moment seamlessly.
- Not So Stoic: She's shown happy and enthusiastic when her people are celebrating their victory over Calamity Ganon.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the red, very blunt with Link and usually uncompromising, with Riju playing the reasonable and clam blue.
- Seen It All: The narration mentions that Buliara, as a Gerudo soldier, has seen some stuff, but learning that a pregnant Sheikah woman was brutally slain by the Yiga rattles her, as well as the guards that happen to hear it.
Captain Teake
Buliara's subordinate, and the captain of the Gerudo soldiers.
- Action Girl: Just like the rest of the Gerudo.
- Berserk Button: She unintentionally presses Link's when speaking of the Gerudo, and notices his reaction.
- Bit Character: She doesn't have much of a role or plot relevance.
- Frontline General: She fights alongside her soldiers in the war against the Yiga.
- Not So Stoic: Along with Buliara, she's shown for once being happy after their victory over Calamity Ganon.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She has none of it when Link enters the barracks, at least until he reveals that Buliara sent him, at which point she unequivocally believes him and helps him out.
Barta
A Gerudo soldier who gets herself into trouble, first seen imprisoned in the Yiga Clan hideout.
- Action Girl: She's a Gerudo. She fights alongside Link to combat the Yiga Clan inside the hideout.
- I Owe You My Life: One of the reasons she sticks by to help Link in Yiga Clan Hideout.
- Leeroy Jenkins: She barged into the Yiga hideout without any backup and nearly got killed because of it.
- No One Gets Left Behind: She refuses to leave Link when he gets trapped behind a metal wall. She only does so when Link insists, and she goes to get him help.
- Not Quite Dead: She's almost dead by the time Link finds her. He saves her with Mipha's Grace, much to her surprise.
Muava
An elderly Gerudo woman who takes care of the Goddess Statue that's found on a lonely corner of Gerudo Town.
- The Aloner: She's never seen with any other Gerudo, but she doesn't seem to mind so much.
- All of the Other Reindeer: She says that other Gerudo avoid her, which is why she stays near the Goddess Statue, because they're both neglected.
- Back for the Finale: She comes back in the final chapter, having chosen to take Purah's de-aging rune, and gives thanks to the Goddesses for having been granted a second chance in life, and not only to chase her dreams again, but live life completely, not just contently.
- I Was Quite a Looker: She nearly name drops this. She, like most Gerudo, was an Amazonian Beauty in her youth, enough that men always looked at her when she walked in. She gets to show it when she takes Purah's de-aging rune, and it once more a beautiful muscular young woman.
- Love at First Sight: She chastises her younger self for having a "fairytale notion" for love, believing that she'd find love at some special place. She didn't know that it really existed. She learns otherwise from Link, and also learns of Purah's life-extension rune work. She ultimately chooses to take back a second chance for her life.
- Secret-Keeper: She easily sees through Link's disguise, much to his horror. However, she chooses not to tell him, and just requests that he stay and talk with her for a bit.
Rito
General
A tribe of avian humanoids that live in the windy Tabantha region around a spire-like mountain.
- Animal Eyes: If Revali's eyes are any indication, they're eyes have vertical pupils like that of a cat.
- Bird People: Various members are given direct birdlike comparisons, and all of them are feathered with beaks and talons.
- Entertainingly Wrong: At first, members of this race believe that Link's a descendant of the Hylian Champion from 100 years before, not knowing that he's actually the very same person and presume the Sheikah Slate is a family heirloom. It's not until they notice the Master Sword and Link reveals that he knows of Revali's sister that they realize otherwise.
- Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity: Choose any random combatant among the Rito, it's very likely that they'll use bows. They do have spears and blades, but they don't typically use them as much as their archery equipment.
- Feather Fingers: The Rito's fingers are feathered, as are the rest of their bodies.
- Informed Flaw: Averted. While in the game, their night vision being poor means nothing, here, it means that Link and Teba will have greater struggle against Medoh since approaching it during the day is too risk, leaving Link to be the one to shoot at Medoh while Teba acts as a distraction.
- Mundane Utility: They use their own feathers to craft cold-resistant clothing for non-Rito, specifically Hylians. And as their feathers keep them safe from the cold, they're very good at their job.
- Mythical Motifs: The Ornithese Areioi, the Birds of Ares, masterful archers who guarded the Amazons' sacred temple built to Ares on an island in the Black Sea. The Rito are the best archers in the land who live on an island in Lake Totori, and have a sacred Sheikah Shrine within their village.
- National Weapon: Bows, as they're very fitting for aerial combat. The Swallow Bow is their standard bow. The Falcon Bow from the game is never mentioned or seen, but the Great Eagle Bow is regarded as the greatest of them all.
- Not Quite Flight: They have a hard time with flying. They can flap their wings to gain some height, but it's more difficult with their size compared to other birds. They mostly glide and stay level, and only ascend with natural updrafts. This is why Revali's Gale was such an amazing accomplishment, as it allowed them genuine flight.
- Secret-Keeper: Apparently. In the present day, the fact that Revali had a sister and said sister is the ancestor to Teba is something that's kept from outsiders. It's never explained why this is the case, beyond Saki saying "complicated reasons".
- Stay in the Kitchen: Unlike the Zora, which makes it clear that women and men fight on the front lines together, there's explicit mentioning of the Rito warriors being male. Saki is the sole female Rito fighter in their ranks.
Saki
Teba's caring wife who helps Link find him.
- Action Mom: She's a mother to a young son, Tulin, and she's the sole Action Girl among the Rito warriors.
- Adaptational Badass: She's only a Hidden Badass in the original game, where she's largely inactive and instead relegates helping her husband to other people, with hints that she is a skilled archer who just doesn't fight because of her culture. However, this version of her joins in the war against the Yiga alongside her husband and the male Rito.
- Housewife: She defaults to taking care of Tulin while Teba is out to fight Medoh. But she's no pushover...not by a long shot.
- Non-Mammalian Hair: Link notes that she has actual hair. It makes him wonder for a moment if she's got some Hylian ancestry within her, but he doesn't ask her.
- Pink Means Feminine: Downplayed. She's a very feminine woman who's very caring and motherly...but she's also very much an Action Mom.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the sweet-hearted and kind blue to her husband's blunt and dismissive red.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's described as purple-pink, and her human hair is the same color. She's quite a sweet and gentle person compared to her much more blunt husband and equally blunt-but-sweet son.
- Violently Protective Wife: She has none of it when the Yiga are attacking and once more, Teba is sent out to fight. She joins in on the fight with him.
Tulin
Teba and Taki's son.
- Demoted to Extra: He never actually speaks in this fic, compared to how Link can speak with him directly.
- Strong Family Resemblance: He's described as being equally grey as his father, and both are in turn similarly colored to their ancestor Sakki.
- The One Guy: He's the only male Rito child named in the fic.
Harth
One of the warriors among the Rito. He's close friends with Teba. He and Teba, and what are implied to be a larger group of Rito, attacked Medoh, resulting in the deaths of many Rito, and Harth's injury.
- Adaptational Badass: He's a Rito warrior in canon, but he's never seen fighting. This time, he joins Teba on the frontlines of the Yiga War and makes it clear why he's a warrior.
- Foil: To Teba. Teba is dismissive and cold towards Link when they first meet, Harth is much warmer towards him. Harth also wants to save his best friend's life over guarding the village from the greater threat of Medoh, while Teba is willing to put his life on the line to help the greater good of his people.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: Teba has grey feathers leaning towards white, while Harth is outright a black bird.
Kass
A wandering Rito who sings along with his family.
- Ascended Extra: He makes sporadic appearances throughout the story, but his role ascends during the arc that adapts "The Champions' Ballad". In fact, it's there where his backstory is more fleshed out.
- Gentle Giant: He's described as being larger than the already tall Link, but he's a very sweet man.
- Happily Married: To Amali, with whom he has five daughters, and whom he cares about deeply.
- The Heart: He's a very empathetic person and is shown giving comfort talks to Link and Kaneli at various points.
- I Never Told You My Name: He addresses Link by name even though Link never actually said his name to Kass. Link notices and keeps a closer eye on him. Kass himself admits this mistake and said that he quietly hoped that Link wouldn't have picked up on it.
- Related in the Adaptation: Implied. One of his daughters calls Kaneli her grandfather. This is never expanded upon, and thus it's left unknown if that's just how children address their elder, or if Kass or Amali are a child of Kaneli.
- Rhymes on a Dime: All of his singing is this. He doesn't talk like this, though.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Kass accidentally reveals that he knows who Links is, but he doesn't outright tell him this until much later on.
- Shared Family Quirks: He, his wife, and his daughters are all very talented musicians and singers.
- The One Guy: To his family of seven. His wife is obviously female, and his children are all girls. He's the sole male in his family.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: He implies that in order to enter Gerudo Town, he had to dress as a woman. He only says, like in canon, he "had to leave his comfort zone".
Kaneli
The elder of the Rito Tribe, who mistakes Link for his own descendant, and sends him to aid in calming Medoh.
- Adipose Rex: He is a very large guy and very rotund. He's friendly, but it stands out from the otherwise generally slender Rito.
- Animal Motifs: He looks like an owl.
- Beard of Barbarism: Link notices that he has a very thick beard befitting his apparent age.
- Entertainingly Wrong: He knows of the Champions and the Sheikah Slate, but he doesn't seem to know about the Shrine of Resurrection, and doesn't know that Link was actually put in that chamber to be brought back to life. Because of this, he thinks Link descends from the Hylian Champion who inherited the Sheikah Slate, but seeing the Master Sword and hearing Link talk of Revali's sister makes him realize otherwise.
- Foil: To Impa. They're both wise old leaders of their people who assist Link in his quest and were fighters in their youth. But Impa knew who Link was, while Kaneli initially mistook him for his own descendant.
- Mythology Gag: His catchphrase in the game was "hoo hoo hoo!", befitting his owl-like appearance. This version of him only says it once.
- The Owl-Knowing One: He looks like an owl, and from all intents and purposes is quite a reasonable leader of his people, and Kola implies that he tells the children stories like a grandfather would.
- Retired Badass: He used to be a fighter in his youth, and he also apparently believed at one point that all Rito should mandatorily be warriors for a part of their life. He regrets that he isn't able to help his warriors fight the Yiga Clan personally, and feels that not mandating combat training left his people unprepared for a fight of this scale.
Takki
Revali's older sister.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Link talks about combat as an art form in a very literary sense, she dryly remarks that Link should write books and poetry for a living. Link sarcastically agrees with her.
- Informed Attribute: Revali claims that his sister is stubborn, but we don't see her being anything beyond a Deadpan Snarker in the one scene she has.
- In the Blood: According to Revali, stubbornness is a trait that Takki had, and her descendant Teba is equally stubborn.
- No Hero to His Valet: From what little is seen of her, she doesn't seem anywhere near as impressed as all other Rito with her brother, regarding him with the same kind of annoyance any older sister would their showoff of a baby brother.
- One-Shot Character: In Breath of the Wild, she only appears briefly in Chapter 27 during Link's flashback featuring Revali.
- Original Character: Revali is never demonstrated as having any close family in neither The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild nor Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the friendly and amiable Blue to her brother Revali's abrasive and blusterous red.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: She's friendly, amiable, and very light in color. Revali is abrasive, boastful, and very dark in color. That being said, Revali also has light spots on his body, hinting at some of his sister's kinder nature in him.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She's described as being the same color as Teba, her descendant.
Gorons
General
A race of enormous rock-like beings who live in the active volcano of Death Mountain in Eldin.
- Alliterative Name: The Gorons' main weapons are Cobble Crushers, Stone Smashers, and the Boulder Breaker.
- Be the Ball: They curl themselves into a ball to roll around.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: It's implied that they eat rocks, if Daruk's dialogue is anything to go by, just like in canon.
- Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity: Enormous weapons that can break and crush rock with ease. They're said to be greatswords, but they're more like giant hammers.
- Locked Out of the Loop: None of the Gorons ever make any mention of any possible approaching Calamity, and they're more concerned about Rudania's rampage being bad for business than anything else. Subverted, because they're included in the Yiga Clan war, and they become active participants against the dark forces in the final battle.
- Mythical Motifs: Golems. They're beings almost made entirely of rock, and while they're not idiots, they're at first the most oblivious to Calamity Ganon's threat.
- National Weapon: They use giant hammer-like weapons that are ostensibly called greatswords. They're the default weapon of Gorons, though some of the do use giant pickaxes instead. Most of them use Stone Smashers and Cobble Crushers, or in Daruk's case, the Boulder Breaker.
- One-Gender Race: There's not a single female Goron seen or mentioned, and unlike the Gerudo mentioning Ganondorf, there's no indication if there's ever been a female Goron.
- Powerful Pick: Some Gorons use their giant pickaxes to fight with instead of more traditional Goron weaponry.
- Prospector: These guys specialize in mining gemstones and selling them to the other races, a very valuable practice.
- Silicon-Based Life: They look to be literally made of rock.
- Stout Strength: They tend to be very large with small legs and apparently swollen. But much of that size is musculature, and they're the physically strongest race in Hyrule.
- Super-Strength: They're naturally stronger than any other race in Hyrule.
- Super-Toughness: Being made of rocks, they can take way more punishment than poor Hylians can.
- Volcano Lair: Death Mountain is an active volcano with lava flowing around it. They're evolved to have immunity the burning heat, so this is no issue for them.
Bludo
The boss of Goron City, managing leadership necessities while protecting the city from dangerous external threats. He's regarded as the toughest and strongest Goron in the story, though his back pains make his job difficult.
- Adaptational Badass: Despite supposedly driving off Rudania with Yunobo's help, he's not showing do is in the game. He doesn't do it in this version either, but he does get into fights in this story, especially with the Yiga Clan trying to lay siege to his hometown.
- Benevolent Boss: He's a bit sour, but he values his Gorons, and they all value his leadership.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": He's so old that he suffers regular backpains, and it's to the point where can't always do what he wants or needs even with painkillers.
- Eyepatch of Power: Link takes not that he wears an eyepatch.
- Retired Badass: He seems ancient compared to other characters, but he goes on the front lines to combat Rudania. He leads them for real against the Yiga Clan's invasion.
- Worf Had the Flu: His back problems prevent him from helping against Rudania after Link arrives, which he lampshades. He's much more effective in the Yiga War when the clan attempts to kill him, Yunobo, and wipe out his town.
