#four swords palace

[weepingtalecowboy]

Legend has too many parallels

Like the parallels are very big and even midna and Ravio share them as well because “from a different dimension of perpetual twilight and left link by the end for the greater good”

Even majora's mask and the fierce deity mask are something that Legend acquired (if we consider him triforce heroes link )

The same goes with Sky who has a harp VERY similar to the harp of ages you get in oracle of ages

Legend is an amalgamation of every other link in one way or another

Hyrule = straight up his predecessor and directly connected in the timeline

Sky = the harp of ages and Fi speaks to link (you even can update her the same way… she gold now)

Warriors = Ravio, Marin (he met both) , the knights and him sharing the position, a time guardian that is under the enemies command you befriend (possessed Nayru in oracle of ages)

Time = two time travel adventures (link to the past and oracle of ages), fierce deity, majora's mask , the den of trials (triforce heroes)

Four= four swords palace, the puppets in triforce heroes, if we count Cadence of Hyrule as a legend game then also a villain who has purple hair and ends up getting backstabbed by ganon for no good reason

Wind= sea gulls , whale god who traps link in his dream (phantom hourglass), after the hero of the time , Aryll has a hibiscus blossom on her dress… Marin's favorite flower

Twilight= dark form, complete opposite in the curse part , (wolf vs Rabbit parallels) , a person who helps you on your adventure comes from a realm where there is perpetually twilight…then saves the realm and watches friend leave you for the greater good(Link between worlds)

Wild= Flame themed calamity that a ganondorf wannabe wants to make worse like how onox wanted to ignite the flame of destruction and took control of the seasons (oracle of seasons and age of calamity)

[weepingtalecowboy]

Absolutely he just works for anything and everything

he even has specific traumas with every single link he can bond over

Trapped in a dream and meeting a whale god (wind and phantom hourglass)

Soldier trauma for Warriors (and the fact that both probably suffered under the circumstances of soldiers turning against them)

The master sword Fi (Sky and him bonding over her)

Time and him can share the fact that legend is theorized to have used the triforce to make the hero of time survive the fight with ganondorf

Twilight (spirit form like both bunny and wolf and it’s relation to dark magic)

Four (an entire dungeon called the four swords palace dedicated to scar people for life and also forced to fight four similar looking shades who look like four)

Hyrule (the decay of the timeline and the destruction of all legend worked so hard for)

He is just to vertical to not be a plot device

I love how well Legend works as a plot device for fics because of his veteran status. Got an item you need to work in? Legend probably has something that’s close enough, or you could just say he bought it for his stockpile. Need someone to be able to relate to a specific experience? Legend has 6 games worth of content for you to pull or extrapolate from. Need some background characters to help inform the heroes? Legend has 5 kingdoms worth of citizens he’s saved to choose from. Need romantic drama? He’s got that in spades no matter which partner you give him. So much content packed into one angry little man and I love that for him! :)

[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

[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

[calavanitas]

Purple Maiden from Four Swords Adventures, as promised!

[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

[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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