Right after the events of The Legend Of Zelda, Link notices a weird mark on the back of his left hand, like the crest of Hyrule. He finds Impa, who takes Link to a door in the North Castle, the door has not opened for many years. Impa puts Link’s left hand on the door, and opens it, showing a sleeping maiden. Impa tells Link that the maiden is Zelda, Hyrule’s Princess of long ago. Zelda’s brother had tried to force her into telling where their recently died father had hidden the three golden triangle treasures of the kingdom, known as the Triforce. Princess Zelda refused to tell him the information, so the prince’s friend who was a Wizard, in anger, tried to kill her with a spell. But put a sleeping spell instead, and also resulted in his own death. The prince, being unable to change the spell, placed his sister in the castle tower, hoping that she would one day awaken. He decreed that females born in the royal family from then on would be named Zelda, in remembrance of this tragedy.
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