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Hyrule burns.
The Great Lord of Darkness, Ganondorf the Usurper, has invaded and conquered. Hyrule's armies are scattered and her peoples are subjugated. The war has been lost. The Dark One himself has taken the royal seat, and now rules the land with cruel malice.
A ragtag resistance, calling itself the Liberation, has doggedly fought for months against the overwhelming force that evil has brought to bear against them, but the fight goes poorly. One by one, their strongholds and hideouts are being found and crushed. Many have died, and the Liberation is near the breaking point. They will not be able to muster the strength to resist for much longer, and to make matters even worse, their great leader and general, Princess Zelda, has vanished.
All is lost - or so it seems. But there is one elf... one lone figure who will no longer stand idly by as the land he loves is beaten into submission, as the blood of his kinsfolk stains the cobblestones of Castle Town, as endless night threatens to envelop all that is good and pure in the world. He will not stand for it. He is ready to oppose the Usurper.
He now moves, unseen, through the streets of the coastal trade city, Termina. A public execution has been decreed to take place there on this day, an execution that he has sworn to prevent. It is here that this solitary hero will make his move; it is here that Ganondorf will realize that his hold on Hyrule is not yet complete.
The time is at hand. The hero prepares.
His name is Link.