NeoFirst Story and Plot Tracker

[Nicholas Steel]

• Age of Dim (20 years before NeoFirst)
• King Dim, having slowly grown mad with heartbreak from Sarai's death at his hand, uses the Triforce of Power to raise an army to invade neighbouring kingdoms, including Calatia.
• Someone (let's call him Miro), an orphan of Calatia, vows to assassinate Dim.
• Miro sneaks into Hyrule and into Hyrule Castle and works with the morose Queen Zelda to slay Dim.
• Zelda, sensing disaster approaching, gives Miro her baby to take into hiding. Before leaving, Zelda bequeaths the baby with the Triforce of Wisdom. This baby will grow up to become NeoFirst's Zelda.
• King Dim, in the depths of pain, summons Sarai from death using Queen Zelda as a sacrifice.
• Miro slays King Dim and Sarai, and claims the Triforce of Power.
• With the King slain and the Triforce of Power missing, Hyrule is thrown into chaos. Hyrule Castle is stormed by looters and/or monsters.
• Miro returns home, but not before hiding the Triforce of Power somewhere.

why would zelda trust miro? why does she give it to miro? miro kills zelda? thus is zelda deranged? unless miro is pretending to be a good guy but that is not the impression i got.

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[/LIST]why would zelda trust miro? why does she give it to miro? miro kills zelda? thus is zelda deranged? unless miro is pretending to be a good guy but that is not the impression i got.

Queen Zelda is disquieted by Dim's war-making and general decomposition of character, and the Triforce of Wisdom gives her a faint prescience of her ritual sacrifice at the hands of Dim. When Miro sneaks into the castle, he and Zelda make plans to assassinate Dim, but she entrusts her two most valuable possessions to Miro for hiding just in case Dim manages to kill her first. (Which he does.)

Feel free to work out the deeper details yourself if you ever want to build a quest telling this story.

... just wondering (Out of generic curiosity.) why each um ... ... tri-part moral has been assigned to that particular item.

Well, the Ring has to be Wisdom (Nayru, Nayru's Love etc.) and the Sword is Power because it seems to me to be a more overt symbol of power than the more subtle Arrows.

Suggest a source of arrows AND magic to renew yourself if you need it.

Off the top of my head, let's say that he has an attack that involves summoning tribble enemies.

Does she need to despair? Has any previous Zelda ever despaired? Maybe she's just overpowered? Her magic isn't THAT good. o.o'

Hey, I'm willing to shift the balance away from Surrender and toward Control if you like. Despair to me just seems more, um, operatic. Maybe even Wagner-esque.

Also: she's a different Zelda! A Zelda that calls the shots, a Zelda that follows you into the jaws of death rather than waving you off from some Sanctuary.

And can we come up with a better name for the final boss? Lord Menace sounds... lame, somehow. Phantom Menace sounds cool (mainly because PM *is* cool). but Lord Menace does not.

Well, "Lord Menace" is a merging of the names of the two "makers" of the original First Quest (the other being War Lord). I think it's somewhat appropriate. ("War Phantom" is too much of a noun, and "Shadow Lord" is hardly a name at all. So there.)
Then again, the fact that I've been reading a lot of Stephen Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant may explain the choice of villain name better. (Actually, it probably explains a lot of things about my plotline.)