The Legend of Zelda series characters

This is a list of characters from The Legend of Zelda video game series. This list only covers those that appear in more than one game or in games which do not have their own character pages; for any others, please see the page for the appropriate game in the See also links below.

Agahnim

Agahnim is a powerful priest who appears primarily in A Link to the Past.

According to the English version of the game, Aghanim is a wizard. This was changed from the Japanese version where Aghanim is a priest, because at the time Nintendo had a policy of removing or altering any potentially offensive religious references in English-language versions of games for their systems (they also changed the Hylian script, probably for similar reasons).

Whether he was a minion of Ganon, or indeed Ganon himself in disguise, is not made clear in the game. It is to be assumed that he was, but there is no solid proof. The manga emphasises Agahnim as being a separate person. The only evidence the game supplies of them being the same is that immediately after Link defeats Agahnim, Ganon, in the form of a bat, flies away from the courtyard where the battle took place, and crashes through the roof of the Pyramid of Darkness, where he waits in the room below for Link to confront him.

The manual accompanying the game described some of the story behind Agahnim's rise to power. When the lands were in chaos, the people prayed for redemption. Agahnim appeared, as if in answer to their cries, quelled the strange storm, and drove back all the evils that had threatened Hyrule.

Out of gratitude, the king gave him splendid gifts and appointed him his chief advisor, and ostensibly he was helping the land and doing great things for the people. However, his true purpose was to take over Hyrule. He cast a shadow over the minds of the soldiers and made them obey his bidding. The king mysteriously vanished, what he did to him is unknown. After that he sought to seal away the Seven descendants one by one so that the Dark World could be opened and Ganon could once more venture forth to claim the Triforce.

Agahnim had Princess Zelda put in jail. She sent a telepathic message to Link's home, probably hoping that since Link's uncle was outside of the castle he would not have been overpowered as his fellow soldiers were. After hearing the message, Link's Uncle then went out to save her, giving Link strict instructions to stay in bed until he returned.

But Link had also heard the message. He followed, and found his way into the castle through the sewers, where he came across his dying Uncle who gave him his sword and shield. He saved Zelda and brought her to the Sanctuary, where the Sage hid her.

After proving his worth as a hero by collecting the three pendants, Link was able to draw the Master Sword from the pedestal where it slept.

At that moment Agahnim's possessed soldiers found the hiding place, captured Zelda, and left the Sage for dead. The Sage eventually died, and Link used the Master Sword to enter Agahnim's lair, but once he reached him, it was too late, as Agahnim just sent Zelda into the Dark World. Link then fought the Wizard, and once the Wizard fell, Link was banished to the Dark World. Link had to retrieve the seven Crystals containing the seven Maidens, and use them to break the seal on Ganon's Tower. Once he broke the seal on the Tower and reached the highest room, he fought an even more powerful Agahnim, and once he defeated him once and for all, Ganon, in bat form, escaped from his corpse and flew into the Pyramid of Power.

He reappears as one of the shadow bosses near the end of Link's Awakening, as a mere black outline, but he acts the same as his old self.

He reappears in The Oracle of Seasons as a mini-boss, mimicking the Ganon's Tower equivalent, but he looks significantly different from his original self, more akin to his smaller Wizzrobe cousins.

It is often believed that the Wizard that casted the spell on Zelda from Zelda II was none other than Agahnim, as the Wizard in the Zelda II storyline casted her into an eternal sleep in his attempts to force her to give the Prince the Triforce of Courage.

• Anju

A young woman who has a pen full of chickens that frequently escape. She also runs an inn with her grandmother. Her brother lived in the Lost Woods for being a freak. He helps Link in a trading quest to acquire the Biggoron Sword. Anju falls in love with and later marries Kafei after moving to Termina to run her inn.

• Anju's Grandmother

A very old and senile woman who thinks Link is her dead son Tortus. She hates her granddaughter Anju's cooking.

• Beaver Bros.

Two beavers that are brothers that live in a waterfall near the Zora city in Termina. They horde bottles and heart pieces and refuse to give them to anyone who can't outswim them both. They defeated Mikau in this game.

• Beedle
• Biggoron

A VERY large Goron. He sells powder keg bombs to Gorons who can pass his test to earn a license to sell them. He'll also forge a sword for Link if he brings Biggoron different items depending on the game. There seems to be other Biggorons in other locations such as Termina and Holodrum but this may just be the same Biggoron travelling.

• Bombers Gang

A group of children out to help people in Clock Town of Termina.

• Bonooru
• Butler

A butler to the Deku King of Termina. His son is a Deku Boy in Hylia. If Deku Link can defeat him in a race, the butler will give him the Mask of Scents.

• Cremia

A young girl who runs Romani Ranch with her sister Romani in Termina. They're famous for their prized Romani Milk but lately bandits have been stealing it. Mysterious ghosts/aliens are also plagueing the ranch, stealing the cows that make the Romani Milk.

• Dampé the Gravekeeper

A weird old man that's a gravekeeper. He likes to collect kinstones. He will dig around the graveyard at night for a small fee. He later moves to the Ikana Greveyard in Termina. In the future, he dies and his ghost resides at his grave just outside Kokori Village in Hylia.

• Darmani

A Goron warrior who fell in battle trying to end the long winter in the Goron Village of Termina. He gives his spirit, in the form of a mask, to Link so Link may carry out his final mission. He was also a fairly accomplished Goron racer. He's the Goron Elder of Termina's son's hero.

• Dimitri

A Dodongo in the Oracle games that Link can ride on, depending on which animal friend he chooses.

• Epona

Link's horse. Was once owned by Malon in Hylia but was given to Link. She was later stolen by the Skull Kid and sold to Romani in Termina. Link reobtained her there. For more, click on her name.

• Ganon

The main villain of the Zelda games. Has not been featured as prominently in recent Zelda games. For more, click on his name.

Great Deku Tree

The Great Deku Tree, appearing in Ocarina of Time and The Wind Waker, is the 'Father of the Forest' charged with watching over the Kokiri who live in Kokiri Forest and the Lost Woods. He is an exceptionally large tree with a human-like face located in a clearing in the southern area of Kokiri Forest.

When the game begins, the Deku Tree is suffering from a curse cast upon him by Ganondorf in an effort to gain the Spiritual Stone of Forest which is in the Deku Tree's possession. Knowing Link's destiny, the Deku Tree sends Navi the fairy to retrieve the boy and asks him to destroy the curse spider within him. Though Link defeats Gohma, it is too late. Before he dies, the Deku Tree gives Link the Kokiri Emerald and tells him to seek out Princess Zelda at Hyrule Castle. After adult Link completes the Forest Temple, however, a new Deku Sprout appears. It is this sprout who tells Link the truth about his past. This is possibly the same tree Link comes across in The Wind Waker. A theory about the original The Legend of Zelda is that the first dungeon, the Tree Dungeon, is a dead Deku Tree.

The Great Deku Tree is not to be confused with the Deku Tree in Oracle of Seasons. As that game is not even set in Hyrule, and trees are normally rooted to one spot, he can't realistically be the same tree in both places.

Happy Mask Salesman

The Happy Mask Salesman first appeared in Ocarina of Time, offering to let Link work for him as a Happy Mask Salesman. After selling all the masks, Link receives the Mask of Truth, allowing him to understand what the Gossip Stones say.

In Majora's Mask, Link first meet him in the base of the Clock Tower, after Link had been turned into a Deku by the Skull Kid. He tells Link that a small imp-like creature stole his mask, dubbed Majora's Mask, and that if you get the Instrument he stole and the Mask, he will return him to normal. When Link gets his Instrument back and goes back in time, the Salesman teaches him the Song of Healing, and returns him to normal. But then, once he realizes that Link didn't get the Mask, he goes crazy and shakes Link in the air, and sends you off to get it once again. In Majora's Mask, the Happy Mask Salesman keeps a "Mario Mask" on the back of his large backpack.

His most recent appearance was in Oracle of Ages. He owns a shop on the outskirts of Labryna Town, and is very hungry, and will give you a Mask in exchange for something to eat.

His origins are unknown, as he may either be from Hyrule or the parallel universe Termina, and it is never established which. He was introduced in Ocarina of Time, which takes place in Hyrule, but he also knows how to travel from Hyrule to Termina, which could mean that he is native to either land, or possibly somewhere else.

• Impa

Nursemaid for Princess Zelda and a High Priestess. Click the name for more.

• Japas

Friend of Mikau's and another member of the Indigo-Gos, a Zora band.

Jabu-Jabu

Jabu-Jabu, called Lord Jabu-Jabu by the Zoras, first appeared in Ocarina of Time. He has the appearance of a giant fish, and is worshipped by the Zora race as he is their patron deity. He lives in Zora's Fountain where the Zoras care for him and bring him food.

In Ocarina of Time, Ganondorf places a curse on him, causing him to act strangely, and swallow his Zora caretaker, Princess Ruto, while she is bringing him food. Link must then enter Lord Jabu-Jabu's belly to rescue her and break the curse.
Sometime during the seven years Link is trapped in the Sacred Realm, Lord Jabu-Jabu disappears from Zora's Fountain, and is never seen or mentioned in the game again.

He also appears in Oracle of Ages. In this game the player also found a dungeon in his belly. In the Past age setting the player could encounter a younger and significantly smaller Jabu-Jabu (too small for the player to enter and explore), while in the Present age the player saw him at his more well-known size.

There has been speculation that The Wind Waker's Jabun may be Lord Jabu-Jabu or a relative, due to his similar name and and appearance.

• Kafei

Boyfriend and later husband of Anju in Termina.

• Link

Hero of time and the main character of almost every Zelda game. Click the name for more.

• LuLu

Singer of the Indigo-Gos band of Zoras.

Malon

In Link's Awakening, a girl named Marin is a main character. She is a pretty red-haired girl, and it seems that she is the romantic interest of Link. Her father is Tarin.

In the next Zelda game, Ocarina of Time, the characters reappeared as Malon and Talon. Although technically they're different characters, according to the storyline, they're named similarly, look the same, and have the same personality, more or less, so it's fair to refer to them as representations of the same character. The two own Lon Lon Ranch, where they take care of Epona the horse. Malon calls Link "fairy-boy" in this game, because he has a guardian fairy. A Gossip stone in the same game says that she is waiting to be swept off her feet by a knight in shining armor. In the Legend of Zelda Manga, based on the game, this idea is expanded, and Link becomes her knight in shining armor.

A note on the name difference: In the Japanese language, there is no distinction made between the 'L' sound and the 'R' sound in the Japanese writing system. Therefore, the difference between 'Marin' and 'Malon' is most likely due to the interpretations of two different translation teams.

In Majora's Mask, Link visits an alternate world called Termina which is populated by different versions of Ocarina of Time characters. Malon has two equivalents in this world, Romani (younger sister) and Cremia (elder sister), two orphaned sisters who own Romani Ranch. These characters make use of the two Malon character models in Ocarina of Time, one for child Malon and one for adult Malon after Link has been asleep for 7 years.

Malon also made a cameo in Oracle of Seasons. She had a small house in which you could visit her. Talon also makes an appearance as her father.

In Four Swords Adventures and The Minish Cap, Malon and Talon once again own the Lon Lon Ranch, although it is nothing like the ranch in Ocarina of Time.

Every incarnation of Malon has long red hair, is often dreaming of something (be it flying as a seagull, being swept off her feet by a prince, or defeating aliens who try to abduct her cows), and always has a fondness for animals.

Moosh

Moosh is a large, blue polar bear with wings in Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Depending on which game you have and how you play through, you may only see Moosh once. He has the ability to fly, seeing as how he has rather small but useful wings. Moosh also has a great fondness for bananas. His other counterparts are Ricky the kangaroo and Dimitri the Dodongo.

The Old Man

The Old Man is a character found in the original The Legend of Zelda for the NES, and also in its remake BS Zelda for the Satellaview. The Old Man was a bald character who wore a red gown and had a white beard in the game. The player could usually find the old man in dungeons or inside caves, usually between two torches (if the player attacked the old man, the two torches defended him by spitting fireballs). The Old Man was used for several things in the game, ranging from giving the player items to help him in his quest to giving the player advice on how to move forward in the game.

The Old Man reached cult, almost phenomenon status for his notorious mistranslated dialogue, akin to Star Wars' Yoda, but even worse! Internet websites created homages and parodies of the Old man, specifically because of his dialogue in the game.

Examples of Old Man Quotes

"10th enemy has the bomb."

"Take any road you want."

"Dodongo dislikes smoke"

"Lets play money making game."

"The secret is in the easternmost peninsula."

External Links

Hyspace.com's "Profile" parodying the Old Man

The Three Goddesses/Oracles

Din

Din is the Goddess of Power. According to legend, she used her strong flaming arms to sculpt the land and create the red earth. She also helped create the sacred Triforce, along with Nayru and Farore. That being the case, she is often associated with the Triforce of Power.

In Oracle of Seasons, Din is the legendary Oracle of Seasons, traveling incognito. When Link is sent to Holundrum, Din finds him unconcious, and eventually, he runs into her group. After dancing with her, a creature in a suit of armor comes down in a tornado, and knocks away everyone but Link and Din. Link makes an attempt to defend her, but is knocked away, and she is taken away, and put in a crystal seal.

The Minish Cap also refers to her as a famous dancer.

Farore

Farore is the Goddess of Courage. According to legend (told by the Deku Tree in Ocarina of Time), with her rich soul, she created all the life forms who would uphold the spirit of law. She also helped create the sacred Triforce, along with two other godsesses, Din and Nayru. She is often associated with the Triforce of Courage.

Farore is a character in Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. In both games, she lives in one of the Maku Trees, and if you give her a code, she gives you an item. Exchanging codes between games is needed to get some secret items. The Minish Cap's figurine gallery refers to Farore as a helpful person looking for a house.

Farore actually appeared in Ocarina of Time's beta version in her golden goddess form, flying through Kokiri Forest. This part of the beta version did not make it in to the final version of the game.

There was a third Oracles game, which had Farore star equally as Nayru and Din are in Ages and Seasons. Miyamoto decided that it would be too hard to link three different games, so he dumped this one.

Nayru

Nayru is the Goddess of Wisdom. According to legend, she used her wisdom to give the spirit of law to the world. She also helped Din and Farore create the sacred Triforce. She is associated with the Triforce of Wisdom.

In Oracle of Ages, Nayru is the legendary Oracle of Ages, traveling incognito. Her body is stolen by Veran, a creature that can transform into many forms. Veran uses it to alter time.

Also, in The Minish Cap, she is referred to as coming from a line of priestesses from Labrynna, the country where Oracle of Ages takes place.

• Princess Zelda

See also

• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening characters
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time characters
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask characters
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker characters