


Rauru advises him to go to the Temple of Time and meet with someone who is waiting for him there. When Link has successfully awakened his childhood friend, the leader of the Gorons, the Zora princess, Princess Zelda's bodyguard and the female leader of the Gerudo thieves as the new Sages, only one remains. To help him with this, Princess Zelda, disguised as Sheik, teaches the young hero the " Prelude of Light", a melody that he can play on his ocarina to quickly return to the Temple of Time any time he wishes. In order to awaken all of the Sages, Link must keep returning to the Temple of Time to use the Pedestal of Time to travel in time back and forth seven years. When Link finally awakens seven years later within the heart of the Sacred Realm, the Temple of Light, the ancient Sage known as Rauru explains the Kingdom of Hyrule's dire situation to him, gives him the Light Medallion, and charges him with the task of awakening Six Sages so that all seven of them will have enough power to seal Ganondorf within the Sacred Realm and save the Kingdom. However, his spirit is unexpectedly sealed away for seven years by the Master Sword, for Link was not yet old enough to become the Hero of Time. After collecting the three Stones and getting the Ocarina of Time from a young Princess Zelda, who was fleeing Hyrule Castle with her nursemaid Impa, Link travels to the Temple of Time to acquire the Master Sword and enter the Sacred Realm in order to obtain the Triforce before Ganondorf does. ĭuring the Era of the Hero of Time, a few years after the Hyrulean Civil War that left him an orphan in Kokiri Forest, a young Link begins collecting the three Spiritual Stones from the Kokiri, Goron and Zora races to let him gain entry to the chamber in which the Master Sword resides. If the Hero of Time withdraws the Master Sword from its Pedestal, it will once again open the portal to the Sacred Realm, granting access to the Temple of Light. It is said that only the Hero of Time may enter the secret chambers of the Temple and draw the Master Sword. The inscription reads that the person needs to have possession of all three Spiritual Stones, stand with the Ocarina of Time, and play the " Song of Time". Within the Temple stands a sacred altar which bears inscribed instructions to opening the Door of Time, which leads to the chamber of the Master Sword. When the Master Sword was infused into the Pedestal of Time, it sealed that gateway in the hopes of preventing all but the most worthy to reach the Sacred Realm, where the sacred Triforce lies within the Temple of Light. Inside the Temple of Time is a chamber that is home to the Master Sword and the Pedestal of Time however, the entrance to this chamber is sealed by the Door of Time. Using the Master Sword and the three Spiritual Stones as keys to the Sacred Realm, this new temple was the sanctified gateway between Hyrule and the Sacred Realm, and its purpose was to protect that gateway, and thus the Triforce, from evildoers who would seek to misuse it. Rauru borrowed the name for the Temple from legends of the events of Skyward Sword, about a hero who had traveled between two times. To put an end to these wars, an ancient Sage named Rauru built over the remains of the Sealed Temple a new Temple of Time, which contained the only entrance to the Sacred Realm. Many years after the events of Skyward Sword, there was an Era of Chaos with wars and fighting over the Triforce that was located in the Sacred Realm.
