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This is a page for the Champions of Hyrule, their Divine Beasts, and their successors in the stories set within The Myth of Link & Zelda: Survivors of the Calamity. As this adapts the games set in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom...

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The Original Champions

General

"The Divine Beasts were piloted by four individuals of exceptional skill from across the land."

— Lady Impa Sombreada

These are the four warriors from all over Hyrule chosen to pilot the Divine Beasts, the Humongous Mecha excavated by the royal family. Unfortunately, they were all killed in the Great Calamity. These are tropes that apply to all of them.

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• Action Girl: Mipha and Urbosa are more than capable of kicking ass just as much as the other Champions.
• And I Must Scream: All four of them were trapped inside their Divine Beasts as spirits helpless to break free from their fate for 100 years. They couldn't move on because they hadn't completed their mission to defeat Ganon, and they're unable to help Zelda when she starts losing the duel with Ganon.
• Ancestral Weapon: Their equipment was kept and maintained by their respective races. They're gifted to Link as a reward for freeing the Divine Beasts. Link bequeaths them to the New Champions and their helpers to use in the Yiga War.
• Badass Crew: The reason they were chosen to pilot the Divine Beasts was the fact that they were the most powerful and skilled warriors in the land. They were determined to be the only ones powerful enough to fight alongside Princess Zelda and Link who would actually carry out the destruction of Calamity Ganon. While they don't get much of a chance to show it off, the prequel is set to show them off at their absolute best.
• Big Damn Heroes: In death, they all save their hometowns. They use their Divine Beasts to rescue their hometowns and loved ones from being annihilated by powerful foes or even enormous Zerg Rushes of powerful enemies.
• Blue Is Heroic: They all wear a blue cloth made by Zelda as a symbol of their unique bond. Link notices that Revali put a piece of his on the Great Eagle Bow and wonders if the blue cloth Yunobo wears is Daruk's old garb.
• Competitive Balance: Just like the Goddess-chosen heroes, the four of them cover all the major aspects of combat. Mipha is the Medic, with Mipha's Grace focusing on health. Urbosa is the Mage, with Urbosa's Fury focusing on offensive lightning attacks. Revali is the Thief, with Revali's Gale giving him the greatest mobility perfect for his long-ranged fighting style. Daruk is the Fighter, focusing on brute strength and power, with his Daruk's Protection complementing his offensive power with defensive skill.
• Changing of the Guard: Each Champion before passing onto the afterlife has a discussion with their successor. Each Champions tells their successor that they're proud that their tribes are in good hands.
• Chromatic Arrangement: With a healthy dose of Color-Coded Elements given their Elemental Motifs and Elemental Powers.
  • Mipha's Grace is turquoise.
  • Urbosa's Fury is yellow.
  • Revali's Gale is green.
  • Daruk's Protection is red.
• Defiant to the End: All of them went down swinging against the Blights that killed them
• Disappears into Light: [[spoiler: After each of them meets with their successor to congratulate them on their accomplishment, each one move on from Hyrule, as their duty is fulfilled.
• Duty That Transcends Death: Even after the Blights are destroyed, all of them stay behind in their Divine Beasts to finish their duty in destroying Ganon. They also check on their successors before they finally move on to the afterlife.
• Dwindling Party: The Champions are down to Link and Zelda before the story's beginning. They're all dead and trapped in their Divine Beasts. Even Link himself died, leaving Zelda as the Sole Survivor of them all, with Link barely surviving because of the Shrine of Resurrection. For 100 years, Zelda was the only active Champion.
• Elemental Powers: They share their Divine Beasts' elemental attributes. Mipha is associated with water, Urbosa with lightning, Revali with wind, and Daruk with fire. Except for Revali, each of their equipment was able to manipulate the elements as well. Revali didn't need to use a weapon for his elemental power.
• Elite Four: Before Hyrule's destruction, they were this. They were outright stated to be the four best warriors in the land, and they were said to answer directly to Princess Zelda.
• Exposition Fairy: Within their own Divine Beasts. Unlike the game, each successive one lampshades how Link has already freed other Divine Beasts and likely doesn't need to spell out what to do. All of them at the very least tell him where to find the Guidance Stone.
• Five-Token Band: The Champions are a white male Hylian, a black female Hylian, a Goron, a Rito, a Zora, and a Gerudo.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Two males in Revali and Daruk, and two females in Urbosa and Mipha. Link and Zelda bring both sexes to three.
• Graceful Loser: All of them. Daruk, Mipha, and Urbosa take their deaths at the hands of the Blights in stride, and Urbosa outright says she died a "warrior's demise". Revali is a graceful loser, in his own way, to Link when he acknowledges that Link was the better fighter. He's most certainly not graceful about his loss to Windblight Ganon, though.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: Very few people alive in the present actually know how they earned their status as Champion, their weaponry. Kass's songs vaguely hint at their tasks to become pilots of the Divine Beasts but not much is revealed about what became of them beforehand.
• Jumped at the Call: All four of them immediately accepted Princess Zelda's offer to join the Champions.
• Killed Offscreen: In [[The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild Breath of the Wild], their deaths are not actually shown.
• Legacy of the Chosen: Each one of them has a successor in the present, and they themselves were successors to the Champions of 10,000 years ago.
• Magic Knight: Each Champion was skilled in combat and capable of wielding powerful forms of specific families of magic.
• Non-Uniform Uniform: Each one wears their Champion's Garb differently. Zelda and Link wear theirs as tunics, and in the former's case, it's her entire outfit. Mipha and Daruk wear theirs as sashes, Urbosa wears hers as a skirt, and Revali wears his as a scarf. The Champions' are each marked with an emblem of their Divine Beast, and Link's is marked with the Master Sword. Zelda made these outfits herself, so she likely tailored them to each Champion as she saw fit.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Kass sings about each Champion's trials to become pilots of the Divine Beasts. However, the flashbacks don't show this, as the earliest they occur is when the Champions are all coronated.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: Their spirits appear rather solid with a turquoise-green glow around them that are capable of touching objects in the world around them, as they're shown interacting with their Divine Beasts as if they were still solid.
• Posthumous Character: In Breath of the Wild, all of them are already dead. They're only seen as ghosts or in flashbacks.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Revali and Link avert this...because they aren't royalty. The rest of them are leaders or royalty in their respective races. Urbosa, Mipha, and Daruk are the chief, princess, and boss of their respective tribes. Zelda is also the Princess of Hyrule.
• Take Up My Sword: With each Divine Beast freed, the Champions grant him their powers, and the leader of their respective tribes gift him with their weapons. The New Champions play this straighter, with each one being specifically addressed by their predecessors, and being told that it's now left to them to be the Champions.
• Unfinished Business: Their spirits stay to pilot their Divine Beasts because of the fact that all of them feel unfulfilled that they didn't defeat Ganon. They also don't move on until after they address their successors to officially leave their tribes in the New Champions' hands.
• Victory Pose: Each Champion during their flashbacks during "The Champions' Ballad" arc are all given vivid descriptions of them posing. Said poses match the characters' official artworks in the original game.
• Weapon Specialization: And their weapons are maintained very well by their tribes 100 years later.
  • Mipha uses the Lightscale Trident, a weapon that allows her to manipulate water.
  • Urbosa uses her Scimitar of the Seven as a conduit for her electrical power, and the Daybreaker shield blessed to be invulnerable. She also had bracelets blessed with the same magic, but she didn't use them.
  • Daruk uses the Boulder Breaker, a massive slab of stone that can crush rock, and blessed with magic that can be used to heat rock up to magmatic temperatures.
  • Revali uses the Great Eagle Bow, with which he can fire multiple arrows simultaneously. It's later blessed with magic to divide arrows on its own in his honor.
• World's Best Warrior: It's never actually shown, but each one of them were chosen to be Champion because they were the greatest and most capable warriors in the land. Kass hints that some of their trials included some impressive feats of combat skill, but we never actually read what they did.

Mipha

Princess Mipha

Species: Zora

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The Champions

Likeness Based On: Anya Taylor-Joy

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"Yesterday, I was awash in a pool of tears. I had nearly given up hope and resigned myself to being trapped here, as a spirit, for the rest of eternity. But now you’re here. All this time, my hope was to see you once more."

The Zora Champion who piloted Ruta, the gargantuan aquakinetic elephant-shaped Divine Beast. Mipha was the healer of the Champions, and wielded her mystical Lightscale Trident as a conduit for manipulating magic water. She was the daughter of King Dorephan, sister of Prince Sidon, and the mother Princess Lochlia.

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• Action Mom: She was a mother to a fifteen-year-old Princess Lochlia (which is toddler-age for a Zora) when she was coronated as Champion.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Very downplayed, because Mipha is and always has been a Nice Girl in all versions. However, this version is not upset over Link spending more time with Zelda or their growing relationship.
• Age-Gap Romance: Link was a child when he first met her. She was already a maturing Zora at the time, something that takes decades for a Zora. Her precise age is never specified, but it's clear that she's far older than Link is chronologically.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Subverted. Link and Mipha love each other dearly, and they had a romantic relationship in Link's teen years that resulted in the creation of their child Princess Lochlia. However, they ended their relationship because of the lifespan difference between them. They still love each other, but Mipha quietly hoped that they would one day find their way back to each other, at least until she realized that Link was moving on and she should do the same.
• Animal Motifs: The narration outright says that she's dolphin-like in appearance.
• Auto-Revive: Whenever Link is lethally injured, her soul comes to his rescue and heals him.
• Berserk Button: The only time Mipha is shown being angry in ''The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild' is when Revali is when he badmouths Link during the ceremony at the Sacred Ground.
• Cannot Spit It Out: A different one to the videogame. She doesn't struggle to tell Link that she loves him. In fact, it's known between both of them. What she fails to tell him is her hope that they could once more be in a romantic relationship. She kept it to herself for years until Link found love in Zelda, at which point Mipha decided that she could find someone else to love too, even though they would always love each other dearly.
• Childhood Friends: Link and Mipha had been friends since he was a child. She always healed his injuries and taught him how to use spears. They had a Relationship Upgrade and a daughter together.
• Childhood Friend Romance: She and Link had a romantic relationship when he was a teenager. They even had a daughter, but the relationship ended mutually because of how Mipha and their daughter would drastically outlive Link.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: The Zora Armor is something that Zora Princesses craft for the men they wish to marry. Mipha made one for Link in the hopes they would find their way back together. However, when she decided that she would move on even though she loved Link, she decided to gift him with the Zora Armor as an official parting gift.
• Combat Medic: Her most notable power is her healing, but she's also the greatest polearm wielder in the Zora.
• Composite Character: Much like her canon version, she combines attributes of Saria and Ruto from Ocarina of Time, where she's surprised to see Link grow up so quickly like Saria, and wanted to marry Link like Ruto. However, it wasn't put to the side but outright "cancelled" when Link and Mipha decided to end their Mayfly–December Romance.
• Cool Big Sis: She was this to Link when he was a child. And she also was this to her baby brother Sidon.
• Cute Bruiser: She's an overall adorable Zora princess with a gentle and caring persona and healing magic. That doesn't stop her from being a Champion who could wield a spear with more skill than any other Zora.
• Cute Monster Girl: Many of the Zora are described with rather unattractive descriptors thanks to being very fish-like compared to the human Link. However, Mipha is described as being incredibly gorgeous and beautiful.
• Daddy's Girl: She verbally wonders about her father when she readies Ruta to strike Ganon. She wishes that she could see him one last time. Her daughter inherited this nature from her.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: Her daughter Lochlia worships her mother. At one point, she resented her and Link for not being able to have a "normal" family unit, until she learned why they couldn't be together.
• Declaration of Protection: When they're on Ruta together in Zora's Domain, Mipha tells Link that she will heal him no matter how badly he's injured. She keeps true to this in death. Every time Link is badly injured, her soul comes to him and heals him, each time she tells him that she will always protect him.
• Famed In-Story: Mipha is beloved by all of the Zora people. Her death is a horrible tragedy for all of them, and the Zora who were adults when she was alive mourn her evermore.
• Fish Person: She's described more like a dolphin, but regardless, she's a member of a race of fish people.
• Foil: To Zelda. Zelda struggles with confidence, her powers, and having the respect of her people. Mipha is confident, is masterful with her powers, and has the respect of her people. But Zelda has one thing Mipha wants: a romantic relationship with Link, and it's through this that Mipha was going to advise Zelda on focusing on the emotions as fuel.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic. She's the kindest, gentlest, and most demure of the Champions.
• Futureshadowing: The flashback where Zelda recruits her has her carrying her brother and her daughter up a waterfall, just like how Sidon would take Link up the waterfalls around Ruta.
• Good Parents: From what little we see of them together, Mipha was a good mother to her daughter. Lochlia has nothing but absolute fondness for her late mother.
• Heal It with Water: Mipha's Grace is explicitly aquatic in nature, with Link describing it as feeling like warm gentle water running over his skin.
• Healing Hands: Mipha's Grace is her special power, allowing her to heal others with her magic. Her daughter inherited it. And whenever Link is near death, her spirit comes to his rescue.
• The Heart: She's the sweetest member of the Champions. It's perfect for her abilities as a healer and a princess of the Zora.
• History Repeats: Link reads the tablets at Zora's Domain and reads about their history with the Hero of Time. He doesn't get far enough to realize that said princess of the time fell in love his predecessor, reflecting the situation with him and Mipha. Both Zora Princesses Did Not Get The Guy, though Mipha did for a time.
• Informed Ability: Her ability to wield polearms is said to be without skill, but none of the flashbacks in Breath of the Wild demonstrate this. But if her Malice-made Hollow is any indication, she really was a force to be reckoned with in life.
• Instant Expert: It's mentioned that she had the easiest time mastering her Divine Beast.
• Interspecies Romance: She's a Zora Princess in love with the Hylian Link. Deconstructed because the difference in life span was something that their love couldn't overcome.
• Like a Daughter to Me: She's was as close with Muzu as she was with her own father.
• Like Brother and Sister: When Link was a child, Mipha was a big sister to him, educating him in spear usage. This changed when he matured into a teenager.
• Love Cannot Overcome: An especially tragic case. Love cannot change the nature of a Mayfly–December Romance and the consequences that come with it.
• Loved by All: She was adored by her people. There was a little slip up when she had a child with a Hylian out of wedlock (the Hylian part not being discovered until after her death), but eventually the people look past that and they all love her regardless.
• Making a Splash: Her Lightscale Trident explicitly gave her the power to conjure and manipulate water.
• Mayfly–December Romance: It was only lightly touched upon in the game, but is fully deconstructed in Breath of the Wild. Zoras live much longer than Hylians. Link and Mipha enter a romantic relationship that creates their daughter Lochlia. However, the lifespan difference makes them realize that their daughter would lose her father while she's still young, and she would watch her father age to death, leading to the end of their relationship so that Mipha would (hopefully) find another Zora to love so that Lochlia would at least have someone to fill the void in Lochlia's inevitably fatherless life.
• Missing Mom: Mipha's own mother is never mentioned or seen. It's likely that she's been long dead since Sidon was young.
• Musical Theme Naming: Her name, Mipha, literally combination of the third and fourth notes of the solfège, Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti.
• Mythology Gag:
  • She retains the red skin color she had in the games that gave her a resemblance to Queen Rutela from the Era of Twilight. In fact, said queen is outright mentioned by name in one scene.
  • She's in love with the Hylian Hero of Hyrule, and the relationship ultimately doesn't work out, much like Ruto. Speaking of whom, Divine Beast Vah Ruta is named for Ruto.
• Nice Girl: She's a ladylike, soft-spoken, demure young female Zora who is almost infinitely kind. She holds no envy whatsoever towards Zelda for obtaining Link's affection and love and was ready to offer her some advice in getting access to her powers.
• Old Flame: To Link. Even in death, she still loves him and he still loves her. She even spent years hoping that they'd find their way back to each other's arms.
• Onee-sama: Just like in canon, she was this to Sidon, who worships her memory and even 100 years later, looks to her prior examples as guidance for him.
• The Power of Love: It fuels her ability to heal others.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse: She was a soft-spoken girl, but make no mistake, she was the Zora Champion for a reason. Said reason is that she was the greatest warrior among the Zora with her Lightscale Trident.
• Prongs of Poseidon: Her signature weapon was the Lightscale Trident which had the power to manipulate and conjure water.
• The Quiet One: She's an introverted girl who's very soft-spoken during the few times that she does openly speak.
• Red Is Heroic: She has red skin and is chosen to pilot Divine Beast Vah Ruta in the fight against Calamity Ganon.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: She and her younger brother Sidon are complete opposites. Mipha was a demure, soft-spoken, reserved, and an introverted girl of few words. Sidon is a brash, loud, energetic, and very extroverted. Flashbacks show that Sidon was a bit timid in his younger years.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She's the most graceful and feminine of the Champions, even sounding proper and ladylike while speaking of destroying Ganon. That doesn't take away from her being as competent in a fight as her fellow Champions.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: The only man she was ever in a relationship with, and the father of her only child, was Link. She crafted Zora Armor betrothal gift for him in the hopes that they would one day rekindle their old flame.
• Support Party Member: Her powers made her The Medic in the Champions.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The demure reserved ladylike healer to Urbosa's formal outgoing and combat-oriented tomboy.
• Town Girls: She's the ladylike "femme" to Urbosa's tough "butch" and Zelda's "neither".
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Her father is an enormous whale-like Zora, while in life, she was shorter than Link (most Zora are taller than him). We may never see her, but Mipha and Sidon and by extension Lochlia take after the unseen Zora Queen.
• Water Is Womanly: She's a kind an gentle princess and Champion of the aquatic Zoras with the power to heal, and even more outwardly feminine than Zelda or Urbosa. Her magic is over water, and her healing magic is also aquatic in nature.
• White Magician Girl: The opposite of Zelda and Urbosa, Mipha's powers center entirely on the supportive healing role.

Urbosa

Chief Urbosa

Species: Gerudo

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The Champions

Likeness Based On: Sibongile Mlamba

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"I know you have suffered much regarding what happened to us Champions. But this is how things had to happen. I see that now. And make it clear to Zelda that she has no blame in any of this. And let her know...I couldn’t be prouder of her, and my people."

The Gerudo Champion who piloted Naboris, a colossal camel-shaped Divine Beast. She was a powerful swordswoman with powers over lightning, wielding her magic in tandem with her mystical weapons in the Scimitar of the Seven and the ornate enchanted shield named the Daybreaker.

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• Action Girl: Her flashback where Zelda asks her to become Champion shows her easily demolishing a pair of Yiga Clan Footsoldiers...and she spotted them without them dropping their disguises, something that Link can't even do.
• Action Mom: She's a mother to a young daughter...who she was still pregnant with when she was recruited as Champion.
• Actually Pretty Funny: She's the only victim of Daruk's photobombing of their Team Shot who's still smiling while everyone else is in extreme shock.
• Amazonian Beauty: Like the rest of the Gerudo. She's incredibly tall and muscular, and wears clothes that shows off her abs.
• Ambiguously Related: Unlike the game, it's averted. She explicitly has a daughter with whom she was pregnant when she became Champion. It's also made endlessly clear that Riju is her descendant.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: She's a Gerudo, meaning she's tall and incredibly muscular, but she's the Team Mom to the Champions, especially Zelda.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears heels as part of her outfit, even when walking along the sand of the desert.
• Cool Big Sis: She was close with Zelda's mother, and essentially watches over her with a mix of this and some motherly instinct, helped by the fact that she is a mother to her biological daughter. She has some shades of this with Link, whom she allows to carry her newborn daughter. Link is twice Zelda's age, making him closer to her in age, and thus more like a sister than a mother.
• Dance Battler: She was said to fight with a style that resembles dancing. This is described in detail when she combats the Yiga Clan Footsoldiers, where she's described as using mostly twirls and pivots like a dancer, and moving with incredible grace and power.
• Electric Black Guy: She's very dark-skinned and can snap her fingers to call down lightning strikes.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic. She's the calmest, wisest, and most level-headed woman who is a mother-figure to Zelda and the Champions as a whole, as well as an actual mother to her own daughter.
• Hartman Hips: The narration says that she has incredibly curvaceous hips.
• The High Queen: She's the Chief of the Gerudo, and she was absolutely adored by her people. Her descendant Riju 100 years later yearns to follow in her footsteps, and the Gerudo of Riju's time still look back fondly on Urbosa's memory.
• Identical Granddaughter: She had red hair, blue nails and lipstick, bright green eyes, and dark brown skin. Her descendant Riju has many of these same features.
• It's Personal: She's incredibly insulted that Calamity Ganon was once a Gerudo. Originally, she saw this as a stain that Ganondorf was ever a member of the Gerudo, and saw him as a stain on her people. She realizes she was wrong about Ganondorf when she learns that he was a victim of Demise's curse. However, she still takes it personally that the entity dared to use one of her people as its puppet, and is very eager to destroy it as payback.
• Jumped at the Call: She answered "yes" to Zelda's request to her being Champion without any hesitation at all, even though she was pregnant at the time.
• Lady of Black Magic: She is a mature, graceful, and very level-headed wielder of electrical offensive magic.
• Lady of War: She was said to fight with the power of a muscular Gerudo and the moves of a dancer, which is shown in a flashback where she fights with twirls and pivots even when wearing high heels in the desert sand, and while pregnant.
• The Lancer: To Daruk's The Leader. Both are mature, but Daruk is jovial, upbeat, and a jokester, while Urbosa is composed and serious, while having a sense of humor, she remains mostly focused on the task at hand.
• Like a Daughter to Me: She was the Queen of Hyrule's Best Friend, and she becomes a mother-figure to Zelda, and even uses the Queen's Affectionate Nickname "little bird" when speaking to Zelda.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Urbosa's Scimitar of the Seven is complemented with the Daybreaker. Said shield is blessed with magic that allows it to absorb any and all attacks without breaking. She has two bracelets that are similarly enchanted, but she didn't use them.
• Magical Gesture: A Badass Fingersnap is her default gesture when summoning her lightning, and she uses it to activate Naboris's power.
• Mama Bear: Two Yiga Footsoldiers learned the hard way that just getting close to Zelda while around her will invoke a dangerous response. Her being pregnant doesn't slow her down.
• The Mentor: She, along with Daruk, are the most mature members. Unlike Daruk, she's much more down-to-earth and is more serious. She ends up being a mother/sister figure to the other Champions.
• Mundane Utility: She uses her powers to scare Zelda awake as a joke.
• Mythology Gag: She outright says that Naboris was named for Nabooru, the Sage of Light from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. She also talks about Ganon's past as Ganondorf, and says that she saw Ganondorf as a stain on her people's past, until she learned that he was as much a victim of the curse as the rest of Hyrule.
• Nice Girl: She's a friendly woman to everyone, save the Yiga, and is like a big sister to Link and a surrogate mother to Zelda. She's happy to help both of them through their struggles.
• Offhand Backhand: When she was fighting the clandestine Yiga Footsoldiers, she zaps the one that tried to strike her from behind without even turning to face him.
• Older Than They Look: She was best friends with Zelda's mother since Zelda was born. So even though her musculature is much like the younger adult Gerudo, it means that she's likely in her late thirties or early forties.
• Old Shame: In-Universe. She's extremely bitter that Calamity Ganon once adopted the form of a Gerudo, in Ganondorf, and she sees that as a stain on her people. She uses this shame to motivate herself, and is glad to have a personal stake that lets her take so much more pleasure in getting some payback. She at one point believed that Ganondorf himself was at fault, but she learned otherwise, recognizing that he's a victim of Demise's curse, too. She still sees Calamity Ganon using a Gerudo as its pawn as a deep insult to her people nonetheless.
• Parental Substitute: To Zelda, especially made more prominent by the fact that she was dear friends with Zelda's mother from before Zelda was born. Her relationship with the age lifted Link is more like a sister.
• Pregnant Badass: She was pregnant when Zelda came to recruit her into the Champions. She was still pregnant when she was coronated as a Champion, but she had given birth to her daughter by the time the Calamity had struck.
• The Promise: She swears that she won't rest until the Calamity falls. She holds true to that in death, 100 years after the plan was originally supposed to happen.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: She's the Gerudo Chief, and she can throw down in a fight without nary a struggle as their greatest warrior.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She was the Gerudo Chief before her tragic death, and she was their greatest fighter, and being an expectant mother doesn't slow her down in the slightest.
• Sinister Scimitar: Averted. Urbosa's main weapon is the Scimitar of the Seven, but she's a heroic Gerudo woman.
• Shipper on Deck: She requested that Link not give up on trying to get along with Zelda and explains why Zelda's so resentful of him. Revali reveals that she easily figured out that they had become lovers, as they had done a poor job of hiding it.
• Shock and Awe: Urbosa's Fury is her power to summon lightning bolts with a snap of her fingers. She can also channel her magic through her sword. Link does the same thing with the Master Sword, which Revali comments on.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She was the chief of the Gerudo, and her eyes were a deep green and her hair was bright red.
• So Proud of You: She was the Team Mom of the Champions, and a surrogate mom to Zelda, and she asks Link to tell her that she's nothing but proud of her. She tells Riju the same thing when she speaks with the young Gerudo Chief before she moves on.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's taller than her other Champions, save Daruk, thanks to being a Gerudo. But this doesn't take away the fact that many people find her incredibly beautiful.
• Team Mom: She and Daruk adopted leadership and parental roles to the other Champions.
• Together in Death: She called the Queen of Hyrule her dearest friend. They reunited in death once Urbosa's purpose is fulfilled.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She's the Amazonian muscular tomboy to Mipha's gentle and demure girly girl.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Her long red hair is tied back in a huge ponytail, versus Zelda who wears her hair down, or at most in several braids.
• Town Girls: She's the combat-focused electric-magic "butch" to Mipha's support-focused healing magic "femme" to Zelda's balanced magic "neither".

Revali

Master Revali

Species: Rito

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The Champions

Likeness Based On: Zac Efron

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"And one more thing, Link. Give my regards to the princess. Tell her that I never once doubted she’d do it. We’re all proud of her."

The Rito Champion who piloted Medoh, a titanic raptor-shaped Divine Beast. He was the greatest archer in the Rito, without equal in skill with his Great Eagle Bow, and renowned for his power to create a vertical updraft that gave him the one-of-a-kind power of direct vertical ascension.

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• The Ace: Revali is still worshipped 100 years after his death for being their greatest archer and his power to create an updraft that gave him the unique ability to rise upwards. He developed all of these skills himself through extremely rigorous work, as shown when Zelda came to recruit him. Using Revali's Gale wasn't easy, as he could easily fall out of the whirlwind if he wasn't careful. He was the only one who could wield his bow with proficiency. He wasn't happy with Link's apparent indifference to this, though Link did find his boastfulness funny.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's not as abrasive as he was in the games. For one, he's shown being in good enough spirits with Link that he can engage in snark with him, especially in reference to the Divine Beasts' strange designs. He also expresses to Link that he never doubted Zelda would be able to accomplish her goal of unlocking her power.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's a very skilled warrior, and he knows it. His flashback with Link consists of him bragging about his powers, while simultaneously throwing potshots at Link for seemingly doing no work to get where he is.
• Always Someone Better: He was not happy that his role in battle, in his eyes, was less than what he was truly worthy of. His sister Takki confirms that Revali wanted to duel Link to prove himsef.
• Animal Eyes: He has vertically slit irises.
• The Big Guy: He's a haughty self-centered archer who knows how good he is, and his attack style focuses almost entirely on offense and offensive mobility.
• Bird People: He's a member of the Rito, a bird race.
• Blood Knight: He was clearly eager to prove himself in life. He did so by throwing himself into building his skills and abilities in combat. He was disappointed that he never got a chance to get into a duel with Link personally.
• Blow You Away: Revali's power is the power to create updrafts. He and his people called it Revali's Gale. His sister's descendant Teba masters it enough to use it in offensive manners.
• Break the Haughty: Revali's got an ego, even in death, but it's noticeably dented when Link comes to him. He's the only one who doesn't acknowledge how dangerous Windblight Ganon is, and claims that it only got the best of him because he was "winging it". He reluctantly admits that Link is the better fighter of the two after he beats Windblight Ganon.
• Combat Aestheticist: He sees combat as art, and he wants to prove that he's the better artist.
• Cuteness Proximity: He seemed to have a soft spot for Mipha. The only time he smiles, and not smugly, is when he sees her trying to get over her nervousness.
• Defrosting Ice King: They never bury the hatchet, but Revali is much chummier with Link after his death, enough that they can engage in friendly snark about the Divine Beast interiors.
• Determinator: In life and in death, he was a firm and determined warrior. He spent a long time mastering Revali's Gale, and honing his skills as an aerial archer.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: An expert in his field who's cocky because he knows just how good he is. That's not so different from many real life surgeons, as cockiness is a common trait among them.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He's not happy that Zelda witnessed his slip up with Revali's Gale and his verbal desperation to try and perfect it, because he does not want to be seen as a failure. He deflects that she was rude to eavesdrop on him, and quickly pulls it off perfectly the second time.
• Fatal Flaw: His smugness and arrogance, and his contemptuous behavior towards Link. He gets better with Link after he's killed by Windblight Ganon, and loses some smugness enough to confess, in his own way, that Link is the better man between them.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric. He's the most abrasive and arrogant of the Champions.
• Glory Seeker: He repeatedly boasts that he should be the one to defeat Ganon, as his entire goal is establishing himself as a hero. It's born from his insecurities and jealousy of those more skilled than he is.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's a Champion of Hyrule, but he's not exactly friendly. He even admits this to Teba in the final chapter before he moves on to the afterlife.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted. With the other four Champions, both the females are melee fighter, while he's the only ranged one. Counting Link and Zelda, there's an even gender ratio of ranged and melee fighters, as Zelda is ranged as well.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: He's not happy that his hard work over his entire life seems to have tossed aside in favor of a random knight who happened to be chosen by a magic sword, and that he's just playing support to this knight.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He tells Teba at the end that Teba wouldn't have liked him if they met in life.
• I Just Want to Be Special: He doesn't admit it, but it's obvious that this is the case. He's entirely dissatisfied to be just playing support to Link despite Revali's intense and rigorous dedication to perfecting his craft. It's what fuels a lot of his jealous and dickish behavior.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: He was skilled enough in life to use the Great Eagle Bow to full effectiveness. He was able to use it for multishots, something that not even Link can do without a magic assist. The flashback showing Zelda recruiting him shows him firing three bomb arrows at once and each one striking a target, before flooding the rest of the Flight Range with more strikes that destroy all the other targets in seconds.
• In a Single Bound: Revali's power is that of winds, allowing him to vertically ascend, a feat that no Rito ever thought possible. He grants it to Link after his spirit is freed. He uses it to lift himself into the air to get the final blow to Dark Beast Ganon.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: His arrogance and smugness mask jealousy towards Link, and insecurity born from (in his view) being pushed aside to just support The Chosen One.
• It's All About Me: No matter who is talking with him, it's very likely the conversation will veer towards how great he is.
• Jerkass: He's as dedicated to defending Hyrule as all the other Champions, but he's very abrasive. Most of the time, he's condescending and envious of Link. After Link defeats Windblight Ganon, he admits Link's the better man...by saying he was Born Lucky. He's kinder to Link in this version of the story, engaging in some snarky lampshading with him.
• Lampshade Hanging: His Deadpan Snarker moments with Link consist of both of them commenting on the bizarre structure of the Divine Beast interiors.
• Mage Marksman: The other Champions are all Magic Knights, and Zelda's a straight mage. Revali is the greatest archer in the team, and is skilled with wind magic.
• Master Archer: He's capable of midflight natural multishot, meaning he can fire multiple arrows at the same time without a magic enhancement in his bow. Not even Link can do that, and it's why he was recruited to the Champions.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: No one else, aside from an enhanced Link, can wield the Great Eagle Bow, which has the greatest draw strength of any bow. But as the youngest Champion, Revali is smaller than most other Rito.
• Multishot: He can fire three arrows in one shot, and unlike Link, he can do this himself without magic. Link needs the magic of a bow that splits arrows in order to pull that off.
• Mythology Gag: His Divine Beast's name is a reference to Sage of Earth from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Medli.
• The Napoleon: The narration states him to be the youngest Champion, and it shows in that he's not fully grown. Most Rito tower over Link, but he's only a bit taller than him. He also has a huge ego and is very smug, both of which cover up his major insecurities over any perceived slights. His main one is being "tapped to merely assist" Link.
• Narcissist: He wants nothing less than absolute adoration. Anything less is an affront and an insult to him.
• No Hero to His Valet: His people adored him in life and still do 100 years after his death as the Rito Champion. But Link isn't impressed, and in fact, finds his ego and constant shade-throwing funny. And Revali was afraid that Zelda wouldn't be all that impressed, if his Don't You Dare Pity Me! reaction is any indication.
• Not So Above It All: He's extremely haughty, but even he's not above teasing Link in a genuinely playful manner about his "secret" relationship with Zelda.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • His entire screentime in flashbacks is him being a bombastic egocentric ass who keeps suggesting that Link's a loser (which Mipha and Daruk do not appreciate) because he didn't prove his worth and strength to earn his position, though he doesn't realize that this is wrong. So his noticeable somberness after Zelda fails to awaken her power at the Spring of Wisdom is quite a departure making it clear how hopeless the situation is, and that he's rather fond of her.
  • When Link enters Revali to free it from Windblight Ganon, Link immediately notices that his voice isn't as smug as it was 100 years ago.
• Pet the Dog:
  • When Mipha is visibly nervous and has to calm down a bit, Revali smiles at her. And it's one of the very rare instances where it's not a smug one.
  • He asks Link to tell Zelda that he always believed she would unlock her power successfully. And more than that, he's actually proud of her for all the work that she's done.
  • He comments on Link channeling Urbosa's Fury through the Master Sword in the same way that Urbosa channeled it through her Scimitar of the Seven, and the way he says it indicates that he was nothing but fond of Urbosa.
• Punny Name/Meaningful Name: His name is Revali, which is abstractly pronounced like "rival". Fitting for the guy who sees himself as Link's rival.
• The Reliable One: His power has the most practical use for Link, as it gives him incredible mobility, which is most useful for Link.
• The Resenter: Like Zelda, he's not happy that Link is thrust forward just by the fact that he wields the Master Sword, but this isn't actually true, as Link had put it in a lot of work to be and remain a skilled combatant. He spends most of his time boasting about his abilities to Link, and even after Link frees him, he only says that he's Born Lucky. However, the narration says that his tone and his hesitation is him actually admitting that Link really is the better man.
• Self-Made Man: All of the Champions had to put in work to get their skills, but Revali is the only one who wasn't chosen by anything, whether it be a royal or blessed lineage, or being chosen by the Master Sword. Noticeably, he's the only one who's successor is not a direct descendant of his.
• Scarf of Asskicking: He's always worn a scarf. He replaces it with his Champion's cloth which he wears as a scarf for the rest of his life.
• Sophisticated as Hell: He speaks formally with SAT-level terminology, but his formal speech doesn't hide his smug character, nor does it mask how he constantly mocks Link and boasts about his own abilities in snobbish manners.
• Token Evil Teammate: He's not evil by any stretch, as he's one of the Champions. But he's the most abrasive and jerkish member of the Champions.
• Token Flyer: He's the only Champion capable of natural (read: nonmagical) flight. Anyone else in the Champions who flies who fly through the use of magic powers.
• Trick Arrow: He mostly uses bomb arrows, which complements his multishot skills.
• Utility Party Member: He's capable of natural flight, which gives him numerous advantages beyond just combat. It lets him provide recon for the other Champions, and gives Link extensive mobility. It especially lets Link activate Flurry Rush at any time without needing to expend energy in a jump.
• Worthy Opponent: He fancied himself this to Link. He's disappointed that he never had a chance to duel Link.

Daruk

Boss Daruk

Species: Goron

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The Champions

Likeness Based On: Cooper Andrews

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"We all have to live with the pressures of being who we are, sometimes it’s easy even for us to forget that we’re still just people. We're just like everyone else. As long as I remember that, it makes my life and my job and my duty that much easier."

The Goron Champion who piloted Rudania, a mountainous lizard-shaped Divine Beast. He had the strongest physical offensive power in his weapon, the Boulder Breaker, and the best defense with his gift of shielding himself in a barrier.

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• Absurd Phobia: Of all the things to fear, he's afraid of dogs. It stems from his childhood when dogs would chase him. It's hilarious to imagine this mountain of a guy curling up in fear at the sight of a sweet Hylian Shepherd, right after he attacked a bunch of Bokoblins without any fear.
• Acrofatic: Gorons by nature are extremely rotund and huge, but he's no slouch in combat and can still move quick on his feet as seen when Zelda recruits him.
• Action Dad: He mentions that he has sons, though they're never actually seen.
• Affectionate Nickname: He always calls Link "little guy", in life and in death.
• Barrier Warrior: He was the strongest physical hitter, and the only Champion who had the power of shielding. Yunobo has it too, as does Link after he frees Rudania.
• Beehive Barrier: Daruk's Protection manifests as a red polyhedron barrier instead of a perfect sphere. It can shrug pretty much any attacks thrown at it.
• BFS: The Boulder Breaker is as long as his height, and he wields it like a giant warhammer, even though it's supposedly a kind of sword.
• Big Brother Mentor: He's the most mature member of the Champions, and acts as a brother figure to Link. He's very welcoming to Link, as they were already close before the Champions were brought together, and he gives him some advice regarding Zelda. He's also the one who encouraged Link to date Mipha.
• Big Fun: He's a huge rotund guy, and he's also the most joyful of the bunch. He loves to lighten the mood and almost always has a huge smile on his face, even to the point where he photobombs the Champions' image. He's not fond of formal shindigs either...even though he wants to give Link all the ceremonial honors they could.
• The Big Guy: He's literally the biggest Champion, which comes with him as a Goron. He's the strongest and heaviest hitter in the group. But role-wise, he's more The Leader.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's a fun-loving guy, but he's still a Champion for a reason. He can wipe the floor with enemies...if they're not crushed into the floor.
• Book Dumb: He had the hardest time piloting Rudania compared to the other Champions.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine. He's the most upbeat and enthusaistic Champion.
• Funny Background Event: The narrative mentions Daruk looking around at the other Champions with a squint...which is him planning the big photo bomb he does.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: His speech reflects his life as a Goron, as he often makes references to mountains and uses rock imagery. For example, he says "can't see the range for the peaks", a rock corruption of the idiom "can't see the forest for the trees".
• Home-Run Hitter: As one Bokoblin found out right around the time that Zelda came to recruit him, Daruk can launch his foes immense distances.
• Hypocritical Humor: In a flashback, he calls a bunch of fleeing Bokoblins "spineless little cuccos". He immediately cowers in terror at the sight of a sweet little dog. Even Zelda finds it funny.
• Large Ham: He's huge, loud, and bombastic. More than any other Champion.
• The Leader: Even though Zelda is nominally the commander of the Champions, it's really Daruk who takes this role. He's the only one shown taking command of the other Champions when Calamity Ganon awakens, as Zelda herself is frozen in horror.
• Lightning Bruiser: He's a huge Goron who can take a lot of damage, but he can still run or roll fast like any other Goron. He runs in to save someone, a dog that he ends up being afraid of, from a bunch of Bokoblins and doesn't stumble once.
• Manly Facial Hair: Like many Gorons, he had a very thick beard. It was even carved into the statue made in his likeness, and it's enough to be a mountain on its own.
• The Matchmaker: He played this between Link and Mipha, having been the one to encourage their relationship in Link's younger years.
• Mythology Gag: His character is very similar to the canon Darunia from Ocarina of Time, and his Divine Beast's name is an anagram of Darunia.
• Nice Guy: The most outwardly friendly and jovial guy in every scene where he's present.
• Old Soldier: He's the most mature Champion, and it shows. He has a lot of hair, something characteristic of older Gorons. The fact that it's white makes him seem even older. Regardless, his age doesn't slow him down.
• One-Handed Zweihänder: Because he's so huge and strong, he wields the Boulder Breaker with a single hand. Even Link with Super-Strength needs both hands to do so effectively.
• Playing with Fire: The Boulder Breaker has the power to heat up rock to tremendously hot temperatures. But his shielding power is red, also using this trope in defensive manners.
• Shrinking Violet: He used to be one in his younger years.
• Silicon-Based Life: The Gorons are beings of rock, and Daruk is their Champion.
• Stout Strength: He's a massively rotund Goron, as they all are. He's the strongest Goron, strong enough to wield the largest weapon in their arsenal with one hand, hence why he's their Champion.
• Team Dad: As the unofficial leader, and the most mature member of the Champions, he fits this perfectly.
• Top-Heavy Guy: As with all Gorons, his legs are tiny compared to the rest of him.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Zelda is shocked and amused to realize that Daruk is terrified of dogs. In fact, Daruk gets nervous that Calamity Ganon may manifest as a dog monster.

The New Champions

General

"Your teacher educated you on the Champions, and the trials they faced. Perhaps you’re meant to help usher in a new generation of Champions."

— Link (to Kass)

These are the individuals who take up the mantle of Champion unofficially from the original four Champions. These people are the ones who help Link to free the Divine Beasts of their respective races from Ganon's control. One of these Champions isn't a replacement, but one that has been waiting for Link for 10,000 years.

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• Action Girl: Riju and Lochlia are both capable of kicking lots of ass just the same as the other.
• The Cavalry: Paya uses portals to bring them into the final battle against Calamity Ganon's strengthening forces. All of them use their various elemental powers to wipe out a massive Zerg Rush of monsters closing in on Link and Impa.
• Foil: To the original Champions of Hyrule:
  • The Champions were brought together under the pretense of helping to save all of Hyrule from the calamitous entity that is Ganon. However, the New Champions are much more focused on their own race's respective problems brought on by the Divine Beasts. The Zora come closest to a uniting force in Hyrule, but they're still heavily swamped by problems brought on by Ruta's rampage. But once they solve these problems, they become much more focused on Hyrule's general well-being.
  • Each character contrasts their predecessor in one way or another.
    • Mipha is a soft-spoken, demure, and quiet who was completely beloved by her people. Sidon is outspoken, loud, and extroverted, and Lochlia took a very long time to achieve recognition from her people.
    • Urbosa and Daruk were confident and firm as leaders. Riju and Yunobo are young and insecure, and Yunobo isn't even the boss of his people yet.
    • Revali was brash, smug, and boastful. Teba is stoic, friendly, and humble.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Each one of them temporarily accompanies Link on his quest to free each Divine Beast. Lochlia and Yunobo spend the most time with him, the former as an active combatant, and the latter being mostly escorted by Link and Cerako to drive off Rudania.
• It's Up to You: All of them only help Link with the battle against the Divine Beast itself. When the time comes for Link to infiltrate them, they all leave it to them. Teba intended to go with him, but his injury prevented that from happening.
• Legacy Character: To the original Champion team. Riju, Lochlia, and Yunobo all descend from one of the Champions. Sidon is Mipha's younger brother, and Teba descends from Revali's sister. Four of these five New Champions have the power of their predecessor.
• Superpowerful Genetics: The ones who descend from other Champions inherited the original Champion's power. Riju inherited Urbosa's Fury, Yunobo inherited Daruk's Protection, and Lochlia inherited Mipha's Grace and Flurry Rush from her father Link.
• Two Girls to a Team: Riju and Lochlia are the team's female members. As Riju always fights alongside Patricia, it turns them all into a Gender-Equal Ensemble...unless you include the spoiler character below.

Sidon

Prince Sidon

Species: Zora

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The New Champions

Likeness Based On: Thomas Dekker

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"Thank you, Link! You are indeed the man I thought you were! Now Zora's Domain will be saved for certain!"

Princess Mipha's younger brother, King Dorephan's son, and Princess Lochlia's uncle.

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• Animal Battle Aura: Fitting with his motif, his attacks involving manipulating water are described as being shaped like sharks.
• Animal Motifs: Sharks. He's described as having a little bit of a hammerhead look in the narration, and his power over water manifests in shark shapes.
• Best Friends-in-Law: He came very close to being this to Link. However, their relationship ended, and they never married, though they did give him a niece.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lochlia tells Link about Sidon's quest to destroy the Fell Octorok, a mountain-sized Octorok, and succeeded and no worse for wear. He's also not fond of people attacking his niece's character. He may be sweet, but make no mistake, he's still a warrior prince for a reason.
• Big Little Brother: He's taller than Mipha, his older sister. But she was killed when she was still a young adult, meaning she likely hadn't reached her adult height yet. For reference, Mipha is shorter than Link and their daughter who's Link's height. Most Zora are several inches, if not a few feet taller than Link. Sidon is five feet taller than Link. His head tail is described as being gigantic even when he was a little child.
• Big Sister Worship: He absolutely worships Mipha's memory even 100 years after her death.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: He twice says this to Link after they meet. Mipha used to say it to him when he was a little child.
• Catchphrase: "I believe in you!"
• Declaration of Protection: Silently. In the flashback showing Zelda coming to recruit Mipha, Mipha tells him and Lochlia to watch over Zora's Domain should anything happen to her. They both say yes, with Sidon using his classic twinkle smile pose. Lochlia responds by using her mother's healing power.
• Dramatic Irony: He understandably calls Link "young one", since he's over 100 years old. He doesn't know that Link is Older Than He Looks, older than him in fact.
• Foil: Mipha was a tiny, soft-spoken, shy, demure girl of few words with healing magic. Sidon is enormous, loud, extraverted, and charismatic without any healing magic.
• Foreshadowing: Sidon mentions that Link's name sounds familiar. Link was Mipha's former lover and the father of his niece Lochlia.
• He's All Grown Up: In the past as a child, Sidon was a preciously adorable child. He grew into quite a muscular adult 100 years later, taller than most of the other Zoras in his tribe.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Link, after Ruta is freed. He's effectively Link's brother-in-law, as he's the father to Sidon's grand-nieces and nephew.
• Intergenerational Friendship: A unique one in both directions. Link is the older one, but Sidon has lived more of his life consciously, making him effectively older than Link.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He's giddy to realize that Link is the Hylian Champion. He's also not above pulling his honorary brother-in-law into a massive bear hug.
• Large and in Charge: He's not as large as his father, but he's still over ten feet tall, taller than most of the other Zora in the domain.
• Loved by All: Unlike his niece, all of the Zora love him, even those against his choice to work with a Hylian.
• Musical Theme Naming: His name, Sidon, combines the last and first notes in the solfège. Not the American one, but one used in other countries that use Si instead of Ti. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Si.
• Nice Guy: His bombastic character meshes perfectly with his friendly nature. He regularly checks in on Link as he goes up the route to Zora's Domain, and warns him of the monsters in his way.
• No Indoor Voice: Much of his dialogue is accompanied with exclamation points.
• Primary-Color Champion: Along with his entire family. He shares his red color scheme with his sister and niece.
• Prince Charming: He's quite kind and charismatic that everyone loves.
• Red Is Heroic: He's one of the New Champions, and he shares his sister's red skin.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something:
  • He took down an Octorok the size of a mountain that was terrorizing Hateno Bay, even though no other warriors survived their encounters with it.
  • He also was the most proactive in trying to find a Hylian who could help the Zora with their Divine Beast problems, instead of just relegating it to his subordinates. He's the one who carries Link to the waterfalls coming from Ruta's body so that Link could strike them with shock arrows.
• Scary Teeth: His teeth are sharp in accordance with his shark motif. But he's nowhere near a Threatening Shark.
• Stout Strength: He's far larger than the other Zora, aside from his gargantuan father, but he's still just as capable of feats of acrobatics, agility, and swimming as any other Zora.
• Threatening Shark: Not his friends and his people. He looks most like a shark among the Zoras, but he's the friendliest and kindest character, rivalled only by his late sister. The Yiga, however, learn that he is a brutal fighter nonetheless, so he plays this straight from their perspective.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Implied. Link takes note that most Zoras have very short legs in relation to their bodies, and notes that only Lochlia has long legs. It never says how long his legs are, but Link never mentions that he's an exception like Lochlia is.
• Twinkle Smile: Taken straight from the game. His signature move is him pumping his fist and smiling wide enough for his teeth to shine. The narration even outright uses the word "twinkle" when he does this move as a child.
• Warrior Prince: He's the son of King Dorephan of the Zora and is beloved by his people. He slew a massive mountain-sized Octorok in Hateno Bay, willingly fought Divine Beast Vah Ruta, and participates in the war against the Yiga Clan.
• The Wise Prince: He's a kind prince, and he loves his people dearly. Several of the younger Zora appreciate that he doesn't have any animosity or disdain towards Hylians. He cares more about saving his people than pleasing the racism of the Zora elders.

Lochlia SPOILER

Princess Lochlia

Species: Zora

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The New Champions

Likeness Based On: Elle Fanning

Appearances: Breath of the Wild | Age of Calamity

"When I was little, I would practice these speeches of pure anger that I wanted to scream at you. I wanted to tell you how much I despised you for leaving. I would rehearse every single word, and then, when I would see you...I would forget, because all I could think about was how much I loved you, especially because you always smiled at me, always happy to see me."

Princess Mipha and Link's daughter, the granddaughter of King Dorephan and niece of Prince Sidon.

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• Action Mom: She's a young mother of four kids, and she regularly defeats the Lynel haunting Ploymus Mountain. She proceeds to kick ass when she assists her father in killing the Lynel on Ploymus Mountain (which is now a Gold Lynel), helps him calm Ruta, and finally participates in the Yiga War.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her parents called her "Lolita". They thought of her as their "lady of the lake" because of where she was born. Her husband calls her this, too.
• Animal Motifs: She inherited her mother's dolphin motif.
• Battle Couple: Her husband Bazz is a warrior who was trained by Link.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Much like her uncle, she's no pushover and can and will fight viciously. She proved herself by slaying the Lynel on Ploymus Mountain on multiple occasions.
• Bullet Time: She inherited this power from her father, Link. She can use Flurry Rush just like he can.
• Cheerful Child: She was a cheery little child who loved her parents dearly. She grows up to become a good mother to her children.
• Combat Medic: Just like her mother.
• Daddy's Girl: Like Mother, Like Daughter. Mipha was very close with her father in life, and Lochlia is shown just the same as a small child with Link. She goes through a period in her life where she resents him, but she learns the hard way what happens with relationships between creatures with massive lifespan differences, and is shown being this as a young adult woman.
• Dead Guy Junior: She named one of her kids after her dead mother. She named her son after her father, but that doesn't count because she knew her father was still alive.
• Decomposite Character: She adopts some of Sidon's role as a companion in beating Ruta, but it's downplayed because she doesn't take any of Sidon's canon events. All of her story is original.
• Fish People: She's a Zora, so naturally.
• Half-Breed Discrimination: Some of her people resented her for her Hylian ancestry as it began to show, but no one had the courage to express this in front of the royal family. It drove her to recklessness to try and prove herself to her people, specifically, vanquishing a Lynel on Ploymus Mountain on her own.
• Half-Human Hybrid: She's the only one seen in the Breath of the Wild. She's unmistakably a Zora woman, as she has the pink skin from her mother and scales. However, her proportions are Hylian, with long legs and arms, and was short for a Zora, only as tall as her father. She also has hair instead of a head fin, and her face is mostly human. She has nose, and larger and fuller lips than most of the Zora.
• Hates Their Parent: Subverted. She did resent her father Link for a long time for not being around as much as she would have liked. But after she became friends with a Hylian and watched her age to death while she was still young, she finally understood why Mipha and Link couldn't be together.
• Healing Hands: She inherited her mother's healing power, as does the daughter she named after her mother.
• Hereditary Hairstyle: The fact that she has hair is a giveaway that she's a Zora-Hylian hybrid. What makes her this trope is that she has the same skunk stripe that her father is described as having.
• Heroic Bastard: Her parents never married, though Mipha hoped they would rekindle their flame. It doesn't stop Lochlia from being quite the effective combatant, nor diminishes her heroism.
• Heroic Lineage: Her parents were both Champions, and she ends up following in their footsteps to become one of the New Champions.
• Like Mother, Like Daughter: She's a kind and sweet healer just like her mother. She even designed her weapon after her mother's and has the same water-based manipulation powers that her mother wielded.
• Making a Splash: Her spear, like Mipha's Lightscale Trident, had a re-creation of the Zora's Sapphire on it, allowing her to conjure and manipulate water. She does it to an even greater degree of efficiency than Sidon, as she can compress the water to the point where it can slice through rock.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: She had one with a Hylian girl. She watched her friend age to death while she barely got out of her childhood. It helped her to realize why her parents couldn't be together.
• Musical Theme Naming: The first syllable in her name, Lochlia, rhymes with the sixth note in the solfège music scale. Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti. They aren't spelled the same, but Lochlia's name is pronounced LAH-kli-ah.
• Non-Mammalian Hair: As a hybrid of a Zora mother and Hylian father, she has hair instead of a head fin.
• Original Character: She's an original character to the fanfics.
• Parental Abandonment: Her father, Link, wasn't around as much as she would have liked. Her parents were trying to soften the inevitable blow of losing him to old age while she was still young. And then the Great Calamity happened, killing her mother and lethally injuring her father to the point where he needed to be placed in stasis for 100 years to save him, leaving her without any parents while she was still very young. Thankfully, she doesn't hold this against them in her young adult years.
• Portal Pool: She can warp through bodies of water like her mother was said to be able to do. She makes use of it to fight Hollow Mipha.
• Prongs of Poseidon: For a brief time, she uses her mother's Lightscale Trident. She chooses to relinquish it and forge her own Champion path with her own Lightscale Spear.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: She never thought badly of her father, but she was very much unhappy that her parents weren't together, which kept her from spending as much time with him as she wanted. But after going through the inevitably tragic natural end to a Mayfly–December Friendship, she finally understood why her parents couldn't be together, and forgave Link for it, once more completely idolizing him.
• Red Is Heroic: Just like her mother and her uncle, she's red-skinned and very much a hero of the Zora.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She regularly kills the Lynel on Ploymus Mountain, something that she initially did to earn the love and respect of her people after spending years under the shadow of their resentment for her Hylian ancestry.
• Secret-Keeper: She knew that her father was alive in the Shrine of Resurrection, but she never told this to her family or anyone in the domain.
• Superpowerful Genetics: She has her mother's healing abilities and her father's time-stop speed, making her that much better as a warrior.
• Tell Me About My Father: She often sought information about her father from Impa in Kakariko Village. Mipha also kept a diary that was exclusively about Link just for her to read so that she could learn of her father after he died, back when they thought they would outlive him.
• Tragic Keepsake: She wears her mother's blue Champion's scarf, and wears a small bracelet that was once hers.
• Walking Spoiler: Her existence spoils that Link has a child, and grandchildren, and that there are five New Champions instead of four.
• Water Is Womanly: She's a graceful fighter with an affinity for water, just like her ladylike mother.

Riju

Lady Makeela Riju

Species: Gerudo

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The New Champions

Likeness Based On: McKenna Roberts

Appearances: Breath of the Wild

"I will not stand by and watch when I have a power that can help us."

The young Gerudo Chief who descends from the family line of Gerudo chiefs. She's incredibly young, but nonetheless well-respected.

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• Action Girl: She's the only actual girl in the New Champions, as Lochlia is a woman with a family of her own. She can still fight effectively by herself.
• Ambiguously Related: Averted. It's made explicitly clear, unlike the canon games, that Riju descends from Urbosa. Link even remarks on their Strong Family Resemblance.
• Attack Animal: She fights alongside Patricia, who tugs her along the sand and slings her around. But Patricia herself fights a bit, too, and Riju fights Kolana on foot.
• Barrier Warrior: In the fight against Naboris, Riju uses the Thunder Helm to conjure a barrier that Naboris's lightning cannot penetrate.
• The Beastmaster: Downplayed compared to her combat gameplay in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. She does fight with extensive help from her sand seal, but she combines that attack with the usage of a Moonlight Scimitar.
• Cool Crown: A passing line in the narration mentions that she and Urbosa both wear an ornate crown.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: Her mother died, having been murdered by Kolana, and this left Riju as the only one who could take the role of chief. She's barely a teenager.
• Electric Black Guy: She has power over lightning just like Urbosa.
• First-Name Basis: She's fine with Link using her given name Riju.
• Foil:
  • To Urbosa. Urbosa is an adult woman who was confidant in herself and a motherly figure, plus being an actual mother. Riju is a young girl who hasn't grown into her role as Chief, and also is sorely lacking a mother that she needs at her age.
  • Subverted with Ganondorf. At a glance, they appear to be so. Ganondorf and Riju were both raised to be leaders from the time they were young children and are heavily concerned with their people. Ganondorf became a vicious warlord greedy for the resources of a kingdom more powerful than his own while brainwashing and deceiving his own people. Riju focuses on her people at all times, trusts outsiders, and fosters trust between her people and all others. But the subversion is because Ganondorf wasn't the one actually doing that. He was being brainwashed and controlled by Demise's curse.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Link notices that she has sand seal plushies in her bedroom. He asks her where he can get some of those, and her response is deflective.
• Hidden Depths: She's the ruler of her people, but if the stuffed sand seals are any indication, she's still a little girl with all the interests that go with it.
• The High Queen: She's a regal, formal, benevolent and wise ruler, far beyond what her age would suggest. Her people remain loyal to her no matter the pitfalls under her rule, and she also remains completely concerned about their concerns. She even amends the law forbidding men from entering the town, allowing Gerudo to bring their husbands back to town. The ending indicates that she wants the newly freed Ganondorf to reintegrate into Gerudo society. Link is not happy that a child has to take this role, on.
• Identical Granddaughter: Link notes that Riju's nails and lips have the same blue shade as Urbosa's, and their skin, eye, and hair color are identical. He thinks to himself that Riju looks just like and nothing like Urbosa at the same time.
• It's Personal: She really wants to fight and kill Kolana because Kolana killed her mother.
• Inadequate Inheritor: Riju fears that she won't be able to be an effective ruler like the chiefs before her, specifically her late mother, mostly because of her age, and the fact that the Yiga Clan stole the heirloom under her new ruler. Link reassures her that she will be a great ruler, though he's not happy a child is the one taking this role.
• It's All My Fault: She faults herself for the Yiga getting the Thunder Helm. She believes she's a weak leader, something she already believed before, and this had only confirmed it in her eyes.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": She gets a little bit giddy when Link mentions that Lochlia's his daughter, meaning he dated Mipha, and when Link reveals that he and Zelda were in a relationship. She even adorably giggles at the latter.
• Little Miss Badass: Being only barely a teenager doesn't stop her from riding a sand seal across the desert through a massive sandstorm to shield Link from Naboris's powerful lightning, or from personally fighting the woman who killed her mother in close combat.
• Mask of Power: The Thunder Helm is an mystical relic of the Gerudo royal line that allows its wearer to resist all forms of electricity, including that from Naboris.
• Mirror Character: Riju is very much like Zelda. They lost their mothers at very tender ages leading them to mature way faster than they should have. They felt like they weren't worthy successors to their mothers, and blame themselves for failing to do something important, though for different reasons.^note Zelda's plight comes from the gossipmongers in the court, and her failure is to awaken her powers. For Riju, it's mostly her young age that makes her feel inadequate, and her failure was to keep the Thunder Helm from being stolen by the Yiga. They both manage to fix these mistakes thanks to Link's help. In fact, Link notices the similarities between Riju and Zelda and is able to more effectively help Riju because of his experience with Zelda.
• Not So Above It All: Link takes note of her stuffed sand seals in her bedroom. When he asks her about them, she gets deflective, though it doesn't go any further than that. Link's dialogue indicates unhappiness that she can't just be a child like she should.
• One Size Fits All: Averted just like during the games.
  • The narrative during a flashback mentions that Urbosa's crown looks drastically oversized on the very young Riju.
  • Link is taken aback when he sees how young Riju is, especially when he realizes that she's so small that she needs a booster seat to sit on the throne, and even more, needs to use stairs to get up there.
  • The Thunder Helm is meant for an adult, and is very big on Riju. It slips on her multiple times, but thankfully doesn't interfere with its defensive power.
  • Finally, she can't use Urbosa's Scimitar of the Seven because the blade is almost as big as she is. She settles for using the Daybreaker as a shield surf while using a Moonlight Scimitar for her own purposes. A version of the weapon is made for her at the end of Breath of the Wild.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She's a regal and formal girl who's incredibly selfless and kind towards practically everyone, and quite smart. So the fact that she expresses overt hatred for and irrationally wants to fight Kolana herself speaks volumes of how much Kolana murdering her mother has left an impact on her.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While men are not allowed to enter Gerudo Town, she permits Link to do so even after realizing his true gender because she recognizes his value as an ally after he retrieves the Thunder Helm and proves his identity as Champion. She even amends the law preventing men from entering the town, specifically permitting Link to enter, along with any man accompanied by his Gerudo wife. And finally, she's more than ready to help a newly freed Ganondorf reintegrate into the Gerudo society, working to keep the blame for what happened to Hyrule from being placed on his shoulders.
• Revenge Before Reason: She's only a child, but she wants to fight and kill Kolana herself, even though she'd have a better chance with someone helping her.
• Secret-Keeper: She maintains Link's secret that he's a man in Gerudo Town. Until she chooses to amend the law to allow him to enter the village, and for all the Gerudo to bring their husbands back to town.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: It must be a trait of her family. She's got incredibly red hair and incredibly green eyes, just like Urbosa did before her.
• Sinister Scimitar: She fights with a Moonlight Scimitar and uses the Daybreaker to surf across sand with Patricia.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Her people love her, and no one badmouths her as a leader. Nonetheless, Riju still feels the pressure of ruling her people and wishes not to let them down.
• Vague Age: She's mentioned to be adolescent, and Link notes that her curves are already that of a Gerudo woman. Her exact age isn't specified.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: She's a calm and collected and very intelligent ruler of her people. She also has knowledge of Sheikah technology, as she recognized the Sheikah Slate, and also remembered the stories of Link and Zelda. She deduces Link's identity from these facts, but Link doesn't think this is a good thing, as he sees it that her "early maturity" is the result of a child adopting intense coping mechanisms just to survive as a child.

Teba

Master Teba

Species: Rito

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The New Champions

Likeness Based On: Mark Wahlberg

Appearances: Breath of the Wild

"I know the look of someone who has a personal investment in a dangerous endeavor. I see it all the time in the mirror."

A warrior in the Rito who is determined to protect his home village from Divine Beast Vah Medoh. He had already made an attempt once before that didn't go so well, but he refuses to let failure stop him.

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• Action Dad: He has a son and has no problem putting his life on the line to help his village and his kid. His wife isn't fond of him being so reckless, however.
• Badass Family: Teba wants his son to become as good a warrior as he is, and even asks if Link would help out with that. His wife Saki worries about him fighting, but she's just as capable as he is.
• The Bait: He uses himself as this to draw fire from Medoh's cannons. It gets him injured.
• Birds of a Feather: He and Link bond as fathers. He could easily tell that Link had a deep personal stake in the fight against Medoh.
• Blow You Away: Unlike his game counterparts, he gets full control of Revali's Gale, even able to use it for offensive purposes.
• Catch a Falling Star: He catches Link when he's tumbling out of the air upon defeating Dark Beast Ganon.
• Excellent Judge of Character: Aside from his earliest impression, he quickly figures out much about Link just from their first interactions, most notably he recognizes that Link likely was a father.
• Foil: To Revali. They're both skilled archers, who are skeptical of Link's skills and usefulness, but Teba is a classic archer, with a relatively stoic, methodical, and quiet approach to conflict who easily acknowledges Link's usefulness after he proves himself. On the other hand, Revali is much more outgoing and smug in himself, and has to convince himself that Link was Born Lucky in order to accept his skill level. Teba also is older than Revali and has a family, while Revali was likely younger than an adult without a nuclear family of his own (though he had a sister in life).
• Game-Breaking Injury: He fully intended to go in Medoh with Link, but he gets a bad injury on his leg that prevents him from going in. He ultimately declines to go with Link on the added detriment that he would more than likely get in the way.
• Humble Hero: He's one of the New Champions, but his origins are very much commoner. He is only distantly related to Revali, something that isn't well-known beyond the Rito tribe, and his main accomplishment is being an accomplished self-made archer.
• In the Blood: Revali remarks that he must get the stubbornness from his ancestor, Revali's sister Saki.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Like in the games, he wanted to learn how to do Revali's Gale himself. He succeeds. And not long after, Revali's spirit visits him and speaks with him.
• Let Me Get This Straight...: He drops the trope name when Link first meets him, aghast that a random Hylian guy wants to help him bring down a Divine Beast.
• Not Bad: His reaction to Link's accomplishment in the Flight Range makes it clear he's very impressed, but he understates his reaction to it.
• Nice Guy: He is rather nice from the start, if a bit blunt and stubborn. After freeing Medoh, he loses some of the bluntness.
• Related in the Adaptation: Revali and Teba were completely unrelated in the game. In this story, Teba is a descendant of Revali's sister Takki.
• Strength Equals Worthiness: Teba is dismissive of Link until he witnesses Link's skills as an archer.
• Token Adult: He's the oldest in the group in maturity. Lochlia has a family, but is younger than young adult Sidon. The rest of the team consist of child Champions Riju and Yunobo.
• Wingman: While combatting Medoh, Teba defaults to acting as the distraction to draw enemy fire. It makes sense as he's a natural flyer while Link can only ascend and descend with his paraglider.

Yunobo

Young Yunobo

Species: Goron

Citizenship: Hyrulean

Affiliation(s): The New Champions

Voice Based On: Ben Schwartz

Appearances: Breath of the Wild

"I did it? I did it! I never knew I could do that!"

A young Goron who is Daruk's grandson. He inherited his grandfather's power of Daruk's Protection.

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• Acrofatic: He's a Goron, meaning he's quite rotund, but that doesn't stop him from being quite an agile Goron. His Goron curl is as mobile as any other Gorons.
• Adaptational Badass: The Adaptation Expansion of Breath of the Wild gives him a chance to take a level in badass before Calamity Ganon's defeat. He uses his powers creatively and uses his grandfather's Boulder Breaker in battle for a while.
• Barrier Warrior: He uses himself as a wrecking ball while using Daruk's Protection to dish out extra damage.
• Beady-Eyed Loser: He is incredibly valuable to the Gorons, and they all appreciate him, but his shy and cowardly nature gets on their nerves much of the time.
• Beehive Barrier: Daruk's Protection has a polyhedron shape to it instead of a perfect spherical barrier.
• Blue Is Heroic: Link notes that he wears a blue cloth and wonders if it was Daruk's old sash.
• Cowardly Lion: He's frightened of monsters, but that doesn't stop him from fighting off the rampaging Rudania several times. He grows out of it enough that he's willing to go up against the Igneo Talus Titan.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He uses the power of the Boulder Breaker to manipulate rocks and heat.
• Establishing Character Moment: Directly taken from the canon videogame moment, where he's introduced as hiding behind Daruk's Protection and freaking out over the idea that monsters are coming in.
• Famous Ancestor: His grandfather is Daruk, the Goron Champion from before the Great Calamity, chosen to pilot Rudania.
• Foil: Daruk is a loud-mouthed and bold Goron, Yunobo is gentle and more cowardly and easily scared. He starts growing out of it after Rudania is freed from Ganon's influence, enough that he's willing to jump into the fray of battle to help his fellow Gorons.
• Gentle Giant: He's an enormous Goron, but he's more like a giant teddy bear.
• Ground Pound: He does this against Hollow Daruk, causing a large rock to melt into a sphere of lava.
• Human Cannonball: He's not human, but it applies either way. He uses his shielding power to immunize himself from damage, allowing him to be used as a cannonball to drive away the rampaging Rudania.
• Lovable Coward: He's terrified of monster to the point of being petrified, but he's still an absolute sweetheart.
• Magma Man: He can use Daruk's Protection and the power of the Boulder Breaker to heat rock up to magmatic temperatures, enough that it will completely melt into bright hot lava.
• Mirror Character: To his grandfather Daruk, who was once a Cowardly Lion like Yunobo. In fact, when facing down dogs, he freezes up and hides himself in his shielding power.
• Playing with Fire: He can use his shielding power and the Boulder Breaker to heat rock up to volcanic temperatures.
• Shrinking Violet: He's quite shy and lacks a lot of confidence in himself. He starts getting better after he helps Link throw back Rudania.
• Silicon-Based Life: He's a Goron, so he's literally partially made of rock.
• Verbal Tic: Many times, he says "goro" at the end of his sentences.

SPOILER

Monk Maz Koshia

"Together, we shall begin the end of Calamity Ganon, an end to the curse that has plagued our land since time immemorial."

A powerful Sheikah Monk who was left within the Final Trial also called Divine Beast Vah Eponia. He gives Link a long-running series of strenuous trials until he personally battles Link to prove his worth of having the Master Cycle Zero Eponia, an immense horse-shaped Divine Beast.

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• The Ace: Every Sheikah Monk has spent 10,000 years in perpetual meditation, awaiting the arrival of Link, and they all have telepathic powers that allow them to hold control over Guardians within their shrines. Maz Koshia is so powerful that he can fight Link physically and make him work for victory. He remains after his defeat to pilot Divine Beast Vah Eponia so that Link may fight Calamity Ganon. It takes Link using the full power of the Wolf in order to beat him. Even then, that doesn't stop Link from actually getting killed once by him.
• Ascended Extra: His game counterpart simply was the final boss of The Champions' Ballad DLC and had no part in the final battle. Here, he personally pilots a new Divine Beast and fires it upon Ganon. He then returns to Kakariko Village, clearly intending to continue helping.
• Bait-and-Switch: Link approaches him like any other Sheikah Monk. He's shocked when he twitches his finger and stands up after saying "In the name of Goddess Hylia".
• Beam-O-War: When he sees that Link is about to unleash his absolute strongest attack, Maz Koshia immediately unleashes his own beam attack that clashes with Link's power. Link wins, and in doing so, impresses Maz Koshia enough to end the fight.
• Blow You Away: When he's enormous, he can summon enormous tornadoes to attack Link with nothing but stamps of his feet.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: He can use swords and bows with equal efficiency...and simultaneously as he uses his doppelgangers. Even better is that he uses the elemental arrows, not just normal ones.
• Cool Old Guy: He's fanatically devoted to destroying the curse left behind by Demise. He's also very personable with Link when they're not fighting, speaking to him formally as if he were a friend. He very likely knew Link's prior incarnation 10,000 years ago.
• Deflector Shields: He conjures one around the arena that keeps Link from being launched off the arena.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Monk Maz Koshia can create 12 flawless clones that all can fight independently. Link has to use either the Great Spin or Urbosa's Fury to attack them all at once to reveal the real one. Unlike Impa's they're indistinguishable from the real him.
• Extra-ore-dinary: He uses metal balls to attack Link, but he uses so many of them that Link can't use Magnesis to stop them. He can only avoid them by falling off the edge of the arena.
• Eye Beams: He can fire a laser from his face veil which has the Sheikah eye on it. He does this when he notices Link is about to use the full force of his power with the Wolf.
• Final-Exam Boss: His combat style combines numerous different powerful foes that Link has faced down, particularly Thunderblight Ganon and Master Kohga to much deadlier efficiency. Link has to use all his energy just to avoid his attacks at first, let alone fight back.
• Flash Step: Monk Maz Koshia can move so fast that Link can't see him. In a scene straight out of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Monk Maz Koshia does this to keep Link from clashing his Daybreaker Bracelets together to attack him.
• Good Counterpart: To Master Kohga, Sooga, Kolana, and Astor. In fact, he's a good and much more effective version of these four. They use different styles of attacks, prioritizing sorcerous martial arts and wizardry through Sheikah technology. Monk Maz Koshia combines all of these to much more effective tactics that very nearly kill Link. He fights very much like Master Kohga, only without the silliness that Link noted about Kohga. But at the end of it all, he's a hero through and through, and only fought Link to test his might, instead of truly wanting him dead.
• Hand Seals: He uses hand gestures to use his magic to different effects, including his duplication and arena tilting powers.
• Healing Factor: His wounds created by the Master Sword heal instantly.
• Hero Killer: He actually gets a fatal strike in on Link who clinically dies from those injuries. He's only saved by Mipha's soul coming to heal him.
• Honor Before Reason: He allows Link time to recover from attacks so that the battle is rather fair between them.
• I Choose to Stay: Instead of disintegrating into light like all the other Sheikah Monks, Maz Koshia stays behind to pilot Eponia while Link battle Ganon personally. He also lingers around watching over Kakariko Village in the last chapter.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: He's incredibly skilled with Sheikah martial arts, sorcery, and Sheikah magitek.
• Laser Blade: He uses a Guardian Sword ++ for his sword fighting moments.
• Levitating Lotus Position: He frequently adopts this pose, many times when he turns gigantic.
• Me's a Crowd: He summons several of his clones and starts encircling Link, with the clones closing in around him, until Link uses the Great Spin to obliterate the clones.
• Mythology Gag: His Divine Beast is a reference to Epona, the heroic horse that has served as Link's loyal battle steed for many generations, something that Maz Koshia outright tells Link.
• No-Sell: Link impales Maz Koshia with the Master Sword. His only response is to kick Link back into the force field around the arena.
• Not Quite Flight: He doesn't fly, he levitates in a lotus position, though he can and does walk along the ground.
• Old Master: He's the oldest Sheikah in existence who built the Final Trial Divine Beast Vah Eponia and personally stayed there to safeguard it for the hero to solve. He's got many powers and skills, like swordfighting, growing to enormous size, duplication, telekinesis, and conjuration. He has several powers akin to Master Kohga of the Yiga Clan, meaning it was likely the ancient Sheikah who cultivated these powers.
• Paper Talisman: Along with smoke, he teleports with a flash of these. They look the same as every other Sheikah, including the Yiga Clan.
• Power Glows: The Sheikah eye on his face veil glows when the battle begins. At various points, his hands also glow blue, signaling his use of power during the fight several times.
• Religious Bruiser: He's fanatically devoted to Hylia to the point of self-mummification for 10,000 years. And after all that time, he's still capable of kicking tremendous amounts of ass, giving Link one hell of a fight.
• Shock and Awe: Aside from using shock arrows, he has the power to call lightning down just like Urbosa does.
• Sizeshifter: He can shrink and grow at will to attack Link in different ways. The first time is slow, but Monk Maz Koshia can do this almost instantly.
• Smoke Out: Just like any Sheikah, he teleports with smoke and paper talismans.
• Strength Equals Worthiness: Link has to prove himself by defeating Monk Maz Koshia in battle. But in the end, he doesn't seem defeated so much as impressed by Link channeling the full power of the Wolf.
• Supernatural Floating Hair: His Mystical White Hair floats as if unaffected by gravity.
• Time Abyss: He's ten thousand years old. And spent all of that time waiting for Link to arrive and complete the Final Trial.
• Weather Manipulation: During the last phase of Link's fight with him, the weather suddenly turns to a torrential storm. He's also shown snapping his fingers to summon lightning.

The Divine Beasts

General

"They constructed four mechanical wonders that came to be known as the Divine Beasts."

— Lady Impa Sombreada

This a group of five tremendous animal-shaped automatons excavated from the ground alongside the Guardians well-over 100 years ago. The people of Hyrule who brought them out of the ground did so in the hope of using them to combat Calamity Ganon upon his prophesied return. Alas, it failed. The pilots of the Divine Beasts were named the Champions.

As the quote above indicates, the fifth Divine Beast was not excavated with the other four. It only became known after Link had awakened from the Slumber of Restoration. Thus, it is the only one that has had a singular master for its entire existence. And it has a miniature version of itself meant to be used by the hero called the Master Cycle Zero.

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• Animal Mecha: Each Divine Beast is shaped like an animal.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Ruta, Medoh, and Naboris all have a weak point that must be attacked in order to open up the way for them to be infiltrated by Link.
• Big Damn Heroes: In Chapter 36, the Champions use the powers of the Divine Beasts to save their hometown from an extremely strong foe or powerful Zerg Rush.
• Classical Elements Ensemble: Each Divine Beast is associated with specific elements corresponding to the races that piloted them. Ruta controls water and ice, Naboris controls earth and electricity, Medoh controls wind, and Rudania controls flames and volcanos. Eponia's element is stated as nature which can be interpreted as the life essence version of Element No. 5, but is never demonstrated.
• Demonic Possession: Except for Eponia, Calamity Ganon sent shards of its power in the form of the Blights (Waterblight Ganon, Thunderblight Ganon, Windblight Ganon, and Fireblight Ganon) to conquer the Divine Beasts and kill their Champions.
• Eternal Engine: Each Divine Beast serves the role of a dungeon, and the interiors largely consist of gears and cogs that make the Divine Beast go. The fifth one is literally shaped like an engine, but this doesn't correspond to Eponia's exterior appearance.
• Four Is Death: The Great Calamity occurred when there were four Divine Beasts. When Eponia was unearthed, the number reached five, and the heroes emerged victorious.
• Haunted Technology: Malevolent example early on, as each Divine Beast is possessed by a demonic shard of Calamity Ganon. Benevolent example afterwards, as the spirits of the Champions remain behind to pilot the Divine Beasts to finish their 100-year plan to defeat Ganon.
• Humongous Mecha: They are colossal in size, so much so that they're almost literally wandering mountains.
• It Only Works Once: The very first time the Divine Beasts were used to defeat Calamity Ganon, it learned from this event. It took over the Divine Beasts and the Guardians to prevent them from being used against it.
• Magitek: Like the Guardians and the Sheikah Slate, they are ancient machines fueled by magical energy, likely from Sheikah flames. They don't even have an actual cockpit, they're controlled by telepathy.
• Mechanical Abomination: The Divine Beasts are sentient magical technological constructions as big as small mountains that can move swiftly and worshipped as gods by the various people of Hyrule. Their abilities are powerful enough to manipulate the weather around them, and a laser beam so powerful that it can deal tremendous damage to an Eldritch Abomination. The Champions that pilot them have such a strong bond that they can still pilot the beasts in death, and the only way that something could overtake them was for the previously mentioned abomination to create four physical shards of its power.
• Mechanical Lifeforms: They're sentient mechanical constructs shaped like animals. Ruta looks like and elephant, Naboris looks like a camel, Medoh looks like a raptor, Rudania looks like a lizard, and Eponia looks like a horse. The Master Cycle Zero resembles a unicorn.
• Mythology Gag: The original four beasts retain their names from canon, named for characters from various games in the franchise, one Sage from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, three sages from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and one recurring character through the games. Medoh is two letters off Medli, Ruta is one letter off Ruto, Rudania is an anagram of Darunia, and Naboris and Eponia are explicitly stated to be named for Nabooru and Epona respectively.
• Named After Someone Famous: The five Divine Beasts were explicitly given names in accordance with characters associated with the different races across time and histories. The tablets in Zora's Domain refer to Ruto in all but name, reflecting the namesake of Ruta. Urbosa speaks to Naboris about how it was named in honor of Nabooru. Monk Maz Koshia tells Link that Eponia was named for his loyal steed Epona. Rudania and Medoh are the only ones not outright confirmed, but the names are too quite similar to Darunia the Goron Sage and Medli the Rito Sage.
• Physical God: Their level of power and magic make them the most powerful entities in the land, equivalent to gods.
• Ragnarök Proofing: The Sheikah must have been incredibly good at creating machines that can resist decay into the elements, because the Guardians, the Sheikah Slate, the ancient shrines, and the Sheikah Towers, they were buried for 10,000 years, but are perfectly functional upon being excavated from the terrain.
• There Is Another: The last arc of the story reveals that there's a fifth Divine Beast, and technically a sixth. The fifth Divine Beast is Divine Beast Vah Eponia, an enormous horse-shaped Divine Beast, which has a smaller copy that is converted into a rune called the Master Cycle Zero.
• Time Abyss: These beasts, along with the Guardian army, are over 10,000 years old.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Every Divine Beast is equipped with functions that allow them to fire a massive laser beam that decimates and deals incredible damage to Calamity Ganon.
• Weather Manipulation: Ruta can create perpetual rainstorms, Naboris can engulf itself in an electrical sandstorm.

Ruta

Divine Beast Vah Ruta

"Divine Beast Vah Ruta has great power. It has the unique ability to create an endless supply of water."

— King Dorephan

The magitek elephant with power over water, piloted by Princess Mipha of the Zora tribe. It's primary attack outside of the laser beam are ice projectiles that can home in on enemies.

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• An Ice Person: It can unleash a barrage of icicles to attack with. They appear to be based on the Cryonis rune, as it can be used to destroy the block it creates.
• Honorable Elephant: Ruta's a giant mechanical elephant piloted by a heroic Champion.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Its major ice attack allows it to create a swarm of large blocks of Cryonic ice that can home in on foes. Mipha uses this to save the Zora from the army of Malice Guardians closing in around Zora's Domain.
• Making a Splash: Its primary magical power is to conjure an infinite stream of water. It can do this so much that it actually could have destroyed Zora's Domain and much of the land downstream if it hadn't been stopped.

Naboris

Divine Beast Vah Naboris

"All who come here have seen Divine Beast Vah Naboris, cloaked in a massive sandstorm, hurling lightning at any who dare approach."

— Riju

The magitek camel with power over lightning, piloted by Chief Urbosa of the Gerudo. It can create a ball of purple lightning between its humps to attack anything that can gets close to it, and can hide itself inside a sandstorm.

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• Death from Above: Its primary attack when Link and Riju get close to it is to charge up a ball of purple electricity and hurl it at them from the air. Only Riju's Thunder Helm can protect them from the electrical strikes.
• Dishing Out Dirt: It can summon a sandstorm around itself as a way of hiding. Not necessarily that you can't see it, so much as warning you to stay away from it.
• Giant Foot of Stomping: Kali and Patricia have to pull Riju and Link in ways that prevent Naboris's feet from crushing the two of them.
• Shock and Awe: Its main active attack is firing collections of electricity. Urbosa uses this attack to save her hometown from a large group of Moldugas and Molduking ready to destroy it.

Medoh

Divine Beast Vah Medoh

"There's Divine Beast Vah Medoh. Its barrier is up again. What a pain...You see those cannons? I'll draw their fire."

— Teba

The magitek bird with power over winds piloted by Master Revali of the Rito. It can engulf itself in an impenetrable barrier that

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• Beam Spam: Its only attacks are beams of light and energy, usually from the outside barrier projectors that double as defensive cannons. It doesn't need them to do this, as lacking them doesn't prevent Revali from firing a barrage of beams that tear apart the sky along with an armada of Malice Guardian Skywatchers.
• Deflector Shields: Medoh's got the best defense of any Divine Beast, as it can create a completely impenetrable barrier around itself.
• Giant Flyer: It's still as big as any Divine Beast, and is equally capable of flying.
• High-Altitude Battle: Medoh never descends from the sky until after its freed from Windblight Ganon. As a result, Link and Teba have to fight it in the air.
• Long-Range Fighter: Like its Champion, Medoh has no physical attacks, aside from using its entire body as a weapon, which is not efficient for it.
• Noble Bird of Prey: Its design is based on a bird, and its large enough to entirely destroy Rito Village in one fell swoop. But once Revali's spirit gets control of it back, it fights exclusively for the heroes.
• Token Flyer: Reflecting how the Rito are the token flying race among the Hyrulean races.

Rudania

Divine Beast Vah Rudania

"That right there is Divine Beast Vah Rudania. It’s been acting up recently, causing eruptions and really disrupting our mining operations and flooding our mines with magma."

— Krane

The magitek lizard with power over fire and magma piloted by Boss Daruk of the Gorons. It can trigger enormous eruptions just by striking its tail against the crater of Death Mountain, and it can even guide the magma bombs that emerge from these eruptions.

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• Attack Drone: It can release drones from its back to patrol Death Mountain around it. If they pick something up, Rudania attacks.
• Blackout Basement: Its interior is pitch black until Link gets the map from the Guidance Stone.
• Death from Above: When it attacks, it usually does so with an eruption from Death Mountain. It calls out magma bombs that it can guide to land in specific places.
• Fiery Salamander: Lizard, really. But it's still a giant mechanical reptilian, reflecting the dinosaur-themed nature of the Gorons and Death Mountain, especially with King Dodongo.
• Magma Man: It can manipulate eruptions and can use molten rock as weaponry. It uses this power to save Goron City from the Igneo Talus Titan marching towards the city.

Eponia

Divine Beast Vah Eponia

"This is Divine Beast Vah Eponia, named for the ancient horse that has been the mount of numerous heroes. A hidden Divine Beast known only to us monks. It is a masterpiece of innovation, created for the one true hero."

— Monk Maz Koshia

The magitek horse with power over nature. It was a secret Divine Beast known only to the Sheikah Monks of 10,000 years ago. It was hidden away, built specifically for the Hero of Hyrule to use, but as he was meant to physically fight Ganon, Monk Maz Koshia serves as its pilot.

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• Cool Horse: It's an enormous horse-shaped Divine Beast built to fight Calamity Ganon.
• Gaia's Vengeance: Its power is just like that of a classic Gaia's Avenger. According to the narration of Breath of the Wild, it controls the natural world itself.
• Green Thumb: It's informed power is that over nature itself.
• Informed Ability: As this Divine Beast wasn't conquered by Ganon, nor was even actually known about, its power over nature is never displayed. It's only mentioned in the narration.
• There Is Another: This was a secret fifth Divine Beast meant for the hero who wields the Master Sword.

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