The four mighty goddesses descended upon the emptiness that was to be Hyrule. Din, with her strong flaming arms cultivated the land. Nayru, pouring her wisdom into the earth she created the law. Farore, breathed life onto the land so that the law would be obeyed. Ryo, her darkness flowed onto the land of serenity as she constructed chaos and forged death.

One sage, with-holding the powers of destruction, sent by Ryo to dispose of her meddlesome sisters. Sage of chaos, sage of oblivion, sent into that which her power ruled over by her creators sisters. The fourth goddess herself, not long after, had her physical form stripped of her, and the black piece that tainted the golden relic removed.

Both beings could not entirely disappear, and so they were entitled to reincarnation by the Three Sacred Maidens if they would repent for their acts of deceit.

"Both entitled to reincarnation if they repent..." Ganon read the line over and over again aloud, running his finger along the hylian script. "This other sage must be here then, ... and perhaps the goddess as well. This is going in my favor more than I anticipated."

Ganondorf stood up from a dark ebony throne just ahead of the mosaic window, closing the book and setting it down on the small pedestal at the side of it. "Good find, Dark Link. It has aided us phenomenally, as well as keeping this valuable information from the other sages and that fool of a hero."

Dark Link remained eerily still as he stood in his usual place, back against the wall as he awaited orders.

~~

"These flowers..." Impa murmured, narrowing her scarlet oculars at them before quickly hopping off and kneeling down to pluck one from it’s long row. "I know these flowers..." She turned to Link, twirling the stem between her fingers. "Your mother used to pick these flowers. She always said it was in one place, and one place only. She would never tell me where that place was..." She stood up and let go of the flower, the wind taking it down the hill towards the Temple.

"Zelda mentioned that!" Link blurted loudly. "It was dead and dried, but..." He looked down at the flowers as well. "...at least we know where she went, now." He smiled weakly.

"Are we just gonna stand here all day talking about flowers? Or are we at least going to go back and inform the princess and Darunia about our findings? If not, let’s head down there right now. I’d love to see the look on Ganondorf’s stupid face." Nabooru growled, glaring down at the dark temple.

"With just the three of us, I think that would be a little stupid." Link replied, peering down the hill at the structure as well. "Let’s tell Zelda first. See if they’ve found anything at all..."

They remounted, Link taking one of the flowers so he could tell Zelda exactly what they had found.

~~

"It is not much at all, is it?" Zelda looked down at a few notes she had taken on a small torn piece of parchment from a book as well as the page they had taken out of the book with the painting of the goddess and sage.

"It is still an achievement. Be glad we have found anything." Darunia commented, cleaning up all the mess they had caused in the labyrinth of a study. "We should get some rest anyway. Staying all day in a dim, dusty basement is no way for a princess to take care of herself."

"I do not need to be pampered." Zelda frowned at him. She got up and began helping return books to their proper shelving. "I still need to know who that person was that snuck in, and what they took..."Her eyes glanced in the direction the section was in.

Darunia nodded. "All will be found out, we just need to wait. Rushing things will not help anyone."

"I know..." She moved one of the books over and a large one fell of the shelf causing her to jolt. She sighed, rolling her eyes and picked up the fallen book, putting the others back.

Blowing the dust from the cover of the thick volume, she cocked her head quizzically as she read. "...Oblivion... Records…volume…two?" She gasped and flipped the book open in barely a second.

Darunia came around the corner, and stared at Zelda’s back as she hunched over the book in her hands, taking in ever word possible. "What’s the matter?" He asked, seeing her clasp a hand over her mouth which dropped open.

"Darunia... This book has accurate, detailed descriptions of the fourth goddess and eighth sage... paintings, small ones, but... also... how they were destroyed... "

Darunia stepped over to her quickly and peeked over her shoulder to read along with her finger.

The sage holding the powers of the fourth goddess, Ryo, had long brown hair and two different colored eyes. It is a theory that her right eye; green, was meant to represent Farore, while the left; blue, to represent Nayru. No theory of this involves Din. This sage was the first hylian, created before Farore forged the life unto this land of Hyrule.

The fourth goddess with piercing crimson orbs, blonde hair that was tied back in a thin ponytail. Blood red bangs came down to just below her chin. The reason for her exile and destruction is unknown, but one theory is that she had sent the sage of oblivion to try and destroy her sisters because they were in her way of destroying the very place they sought to make a paradise.

Another being was with them, also destroyed. Nothing is known of this creature.

"We are so lucky." Darunia smiled, rejoicing for a time.

"Not entirely... More luck than we have been dealt with, but there is still a great deal we do not know about this sage and goddess." Zelda flipped a few more pages, going back to the beginning and reading the original legend.

She walked back over to the desk and flipped the book open again from the beginning. Rummaging through some other papers she found a small container of ink and a quill. Turning the paper she had used to take the other notes on its back, she copied the text as small as she could, verbatim.

"Darunia, do you know when Rauru wants the next meeting?" Zelda asked while copying.

"In three days, I believe." He watched her copy with a quick, precise hand.