After all Six Sages are awakened, Link, the Hero of Time, returns to the Temple of Time and encounters Sheik once again. Sheik tells Link another legend of the Triforce passed down by the Sheikah. The Triforce itself is a grand scale that measures the three virtues ruled by the Golden Goddesses: Power, Wisdom, and Courage. If the heart of someone who holds the sacred triangle carries all three of these forces in balance, that person will acquire the Triforce intact, the divine authority to govern all.
If one's heart is not in balance, the Triforce will separate into three parts, and only one part will remain for the one who touched the Triforce: that part which embodies the force that one most believes in.
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If the one with an unbalanced heart would seek the full Triforce, then that person must strive to acquire the two lost parts, which will rest within two others chosen by destiny who will hold the crest of the goddesses on the backs of their hands. When Ganondorf laid his hands upon the Triforce, the prophecy came to pass; The Triforce indeed split into its three parts, and only the Triforce of Power remained in Ganondorf's hands.
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Ganondorf proceeded to conquer the Sacred Realm, and became the self-proclaimed King of Evil, but his lust for power was not yet satisfied. Ganondorf began hunting for those chosen by destiny to obtain the other two pieces of the Triforce that had escaped his grasp. Sheik reveals that Link himself wields the Triforce of Courage, and ultimately sheds his disguise to reveal his true identity as Princess Zelda, the seventh Sage as well as their leader who wields the Triforce of Wisdom.
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The now-grown Zelda tells Link that she thought that giving him the Ocarina of Time in the past would be the best way to keep it out of Ganondorf's grasp. However, she did not predict that he would follow Link into the Sacred Realm and take the Triforce of Power for his own. Zelda disguised herself as a Sheikah like Impa to hide herself from Ganondorf, and patiently waited seven years for Link to return. Zelda tells Link that the six Sages must seal Ganondorf inside the Evil Realm, in so that she herself must ultimately seal the door to the Sacred Realm itself to keep him imprisoned for ages to come. The princess also gives the young hero Light Arrows to aid their goal. However, in now finally revealing herself to Link, Zelda also fully exposes herself to Ganondorf, who has been waiting for such a moment. The King of Evil promptly encases her within a large magic crystal and brings her to his castle, constructed where Hyrule Castle had stood in the past before its destruction. Link rushes to Ganon's Castle to save the princess.