Blind is only what you make it

Waking in your own tomb with nothing but your non seeing eyes is not the best way to start your new life but you get what you get, and once Link falls out of the thick liquid tome he can suddenly make out outlines of a pedestal and some weird stone? But it quickly disappears, interesting enough clicking his tongue some how brings it back?

Wild wakes up in the shrine of resurrection blind as a bat. With echo location he finds his way through his first adventure and meets a chain of confused Links