#four swords palace

[weepingtalecowboy]

Fanfic prompt: the chain talks about bad relationships

Like time mops about Ruta

Warriors entire love life gets mentioned

Twilight is crying over Midna

And Legend mops in the corner

and when it’s four's turn

He tells everyone about his “brother's” relationship with a demon

“that poor thing doesn’t deserve that nihilistic and pessimistic attitude 24/7 no idea how he has managed to stay sane…wait he has willingly endured the worst person ever for years no way he is sane”

Everyone feels bad for the brother because obviously the demon is in the wrong and the bad guy

(the colors overpowered Vio in that one not that he did anything to stop them because he was busy mopping about not getting to be with shadow )

And for weeks they feel bad and extremely uncomfortable that four never did anything about the situation

Demons are no joke and bad partners can be damaging

When they see the brother in question they immediately realize that the demon was not the bad guy in this

Vio really is this bad

Shadow(to the chain): “You know, I find his eternal pessimism... kind of charming.”

Sky *pointing to Vio who is laying face down on the ground*: “Wait. You find that charming?”

Shadow : “Oh, sure! Most demons are all fire and brimstone, but Vio? He just sits in the corner and contemplates the futility of existence. It’s nice to have someone who’s not all about chaos and destruction for a change because trust me I know bad relationships”

Warriors:“But... he’s so depressing. How do you live with that?”

Shadow *shrugging*: “Oh, it’s not so bad. He says the same things every day, so I know when to tune him out or else I would have lost it already”

Green (pretending to be four at the moment)*mock whispering to the chain*: he is in fact insane don’t let his charming demeanor fool you…,probably because of Vio”

That was an experience nobody forgot

[inumbrapugnabimus-maybe]

Four’s colors: standing there awkwardly

Legend: having a flashback to that one time he killed four colorful and identical dark links in the literal Palace of the Four Sword

Thanks for the request anon!

[theegh0st]

HORROR WARNING

[annienyx]

Palace of four swords

[abbycrashing]

New Au let's go!!!

This is called the Shadowed AU. In this story, when Legend clears the Foursword Palace, Shadow (who was not corrupted by the Dark World) helps him out and follows Legend around after his adventure!

Part two

[libr-0-cubicularist]

Context? I made a comic several months ago and forgot to ever finish it.

[sleepylink]

WAIT A MINUTE!

The Dark World in A Link to the Past is just a Corrupted version of the Sacred Realm.

It was Corrupted because of Ganon being sealed in it in the Hero's Downfall timeline.

Which means, the Palace of the Four Sword was originally in the Sacred Realm, until the events that lead to the Downfall Timeline were it was Also Corrupted when everything was changed into the Dark Realm.

Meaning the Hero of the Four Sword wasn't Corrupted by an Item, but Corrupted along WITH the Sacred Realm. Meaning Ganon was the one who Corrupted Four!

[bokettochild]

hello! I have an ask for you! I’ve seen a post or two of yours mention that four ends up corrupted and was curious if this is a head cannon and what it’s based on! I don’t know much about four at all, so I’d love more background on his cannon and what your head cannons for him are!

Alright, so this is somewhat founded in canon, but the long of the short is this.

Nintendo released a GameBoy copy of A Link To The Past that was packaged with LoZ: Four Swords. In this special edition of the game there was a bonus addition to ALTTP. In the dark world, at Ganon's Pyramid, there was a small hole in the wall of the pyramid that hadn't been there in the initial release. If you'd already completed Four Swords, you could enter this hole in the wall which would take you to a bonus dungeon: The Palace of the Four Sword

In this dungeon, Link (Legend) must face off against four hero look-a-likes as the bosses in different rooms, before reaching the main chamber where he faces off against all four together.

Because it's called the Palace of The Four Sword, some fans believe that the four beings within are, in fact, the Four Sword heroes. How would that happen though? Why would the hero still be alive almost a thousand years after his time? Why would he attack the new baby hero who stumbled across him?

A couple of theories include:

The Hero of the Four Sword (from here on he will be called "Four") died some time after his adventures and was buried in a crypt beneath Hyrule Castle as an honor for his service to the kingdom. Ganon's power animated Four's corpse, and when a young hero stumbled into the crypt through the Dark World, the demon used Four as his puppet to try and get rid of the hero.

After his adventures, Four decided to try and find a way to revive Shadow. This led to meddling with dark magics and becoming corrupted, forcing princess Zelda to seal him away. Because he's her dear friend (or lover, depends on the writer) she can't make herself kill him, but rather locks him away until she can find out how to rescue him. Corruption of his soul prevents him aging, so that when, a thousand years later, Legend stumbles across him, he's the same as he was the day his experiment failed and he became corrupted.

The beings within the Palace of the Four Sword are not Four, but rather the spirit of the damaged sword lashing out to protect their blade. Because he forged it, and was their only user, they maintained a similar form to his own.

Hope this helps!

[james-p-sullivan]

Palace of the Four Swords community on tumblr

As the title states this community is for the four swords fandom on tumblr and is welcome to all! This community is shipping friendly and will not tolerate hate or harassment of any kind.

At the moment, I think communities are invite only (even though it’s set to public) so please interact with this post in anyway to be sent an invitation! ☺️

💚💙❤️💜🖤

[occasionallyprosie]

Not me only realizing I could've done "Killing in self-defense" with Legend and Four in reference to the Palace of the Four Sword in ALTTP

[weepingtalecowboy]

The answer to legend’s eye color would be ‘yes’ (four conspiracy theorized too much and completely missed the obvious answer)

I heard the argument about legend's eye color

But that gave me a hilarious idea

Fanfic prompt :

Legend's eye color changes depending on magic circumstances

It is red if there is prominent dark magic actually surrounding him (lorule , dark world , twilight realm , etc)

It is blue when he is in an area with a lot of light magic because it is strong enough to nullify or repress the effects of dark magic (sacred realm, fairy fountain near a light guardian)

And violet when both magic sources are around but prone to changing depending on how much of what magic is around ( Hyrule kingdom by default)

And green when he is near a water source or actually wet because the mermaid curse is pretty green looking in the oracle game and even more prone to changing

And depending upon who he is close to it also gets influenced (like with Hyrule he has blue eyes or violet, with twilight because of the twilight shard red eyes or violet , with sky blue eyes again, with warriors, time and wind violet eyes and if it is raining he has green eyes)

So image what sort of reaction four would have if he sees legend's eye colors rotate that way (green, red , violet and blue)

He freaked the hell out because legend mentioned that he retrieved the four sword once

And he very inconspicuously (it was not inconspicuous no matter how much Vio is in denial about it) tries to conspiracy theorist through it

But it is barely noticeable that they stay consistent because how the chain is close together anyway if you don’t search for it

Like he will have violet eyes then twilight would run up and they go red and sky and hyrule join as well so now they are blue and then he takes a sip of water and they go green then twilight moves away a bit and they go back to violet or blue

And if they fight monsters they are usually red or violet

This made four think that legend's colors are different from his in temperament

Legend's red obviously seems more like a fighter than four's (that kinda annoyed blue that his color rarely shows up in battle but when Hyrule and legend are being cuddly guess what , blue is there )

Legend's violet is way to social in comparison to four's (and much more snarky as well but that is just because he always has violet eyes when he and warriors interact , hyrule and sky tend to leave them to their teasing)

And legend's green seems to badly be around for anything but a meal or a break (soup is their only kind off meals so obviously his eyes turn green over water heavy stuff and also them messing around in rivers)

And how fast legend seem to change from one to another color is really worrying to four because that must be exhausting and confusing to pass around control this often without stopping once for an actual duration of time

And he tries to teach legend how to use the four sword but he having heavy trauma keeps pushing away lessons (I still decades later never recovered from the fight against the dark colors it is genuinely harder to beat then ganon )

So four tries to even harder

(While completely missing the fact that legend in fact cannot use the four sword (as it is pretty much useless in link to the past) nor has he ever used it)

Four tries so aggressively to bond with his probably successor that it makes twilight’s desperate attempts to connect with time look like nothing

He wants to fix this mess of a four sword user as soon as he can but legend actually has to trust him with the four sword stuff (which legend obviously wants to take to his grave for entirely different reasons because damn he killed the little guy and four seems to know that and it makes him feel horrible that four actually is such a nice person , why must he be so insistent on knowing what happened to the four sword)

So they dance around each other so aggressively that even wild and twilight find it impossible (a real pot , kettle situation they are totally not Better)

[calavanitas]

Purple Maiden from Four Swords Adventures, as promised!

[tuliptxffi]

I've got a LOT on my mind right now.

How does the Four Swords Dungeon(or maybe palace of the four sword) exist in the Downfall Timeline, and not in the Child Timeline as well?

Although, before you answer that, is the Four Swords Dungeon(/palace of the four sword) even canon in the first place?

Dawg I need someone to solve this omfg

[doctorcanon]

Foreshadowing again.

[blarefordaglare]

👀👀👀

OMGGGGGG

okok so I finally found a guy to play four swords with, that’s also like 👀🩷 and returned (if you understand good job I portrayed this right)

IM SO HAPPY

He was green and I was red and IT WAS AWESOME (kinda)

We kept being called “little eggs” by the great fairy. And at one point we collected so little rupees we weren’t even worth that title.

AND I HATE RUPEE WRATHS SO MUCH. We just kept chasing eachother trying to give it to the other player. He ended up collecting more though in the end and winning haha

he also kept picking me up and either A: throwing me into a pit or B: NOT LETTING ME COLLE CT ANY RUPEES. (I did get my revenge by using a magnet to force him into a pit)

and then there was this one point where he picked me up and pushed me into a rupee Like, in a CORNER, and I couldn’t get out. It swallowed ALL MY MONEY and he wouldn’t kill it. But because it did I just purposefully died so it would be game over (if you die you have to pay rupees and if you don’t have enough then game over)

and then later he invited me for drinks and oh my gosh I normally don’t (cough, lies, cough) and oh MAN it was awesome and I had a Bloody Mary, and DANG I MISSED THEM

overall it was so much fun, he’s so sweet 🤭

[thelittlelegends]

Four Swords (2002) was released by Nintendo & Capcom for Game Boy Advance as part of a re-release of Link to the Past. This re-release was when (and why) the Palace of the Four Sword was added to that game! An Anniversary Edition was briefly released in 2011 but removed from the EShop in 2012, only returning for a month around the release of A Link Between Worlds for download. At present, emulation appears to be the best way to get and play the game yourself if you do not already own it. Here is the best text game guide I could find, and here is a four-player Let's Play from 2014.

ETA: Nintendo wanted to make a fool of me a week after the Four Swords post here, clearly! We have updated the infographic with the latest news -- Four Swords is on Nintendo Switch Online!

A note on disambiguation: Four Swords (2002) is being notated with its release year due to the confusion of this game, Four Swords Adventures (posted separately), and Four Swords (Manga). A post explaining the differences in more detail is here.

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