the gold wolf / dead soldier in twilight princess.

I think its Link from OoT/MM but thats just my opinion

like others have said the fact that the character model is left handed speaks for itself, the matter of him having different armour is no huge issue, as the Zelda series is largly based on situations which would not be possible in real life anyway. i mean it wouldnt do alot for the story if the first hidden skill you learnt you learnt was from yourself basically, it would reveal too much of the story if you were learning directly from Link OOT. could it be that who ever the hero's shade is it took on the form of the "solider" so as to better teach our young link from TP? not to mention the name "hero's shade" itself. my thoughts where that hero's shade meant like the hero's shadow, the other side of himself (link). keyword is the HERO's shade it doesnt say the soliders shade.

and a point which i dont think has been discussed is the actual secret moves he is teaching you, after the 7 moves are learnt he then classifys you as worthy to be the hero of time. why would a solider of any type no matter how high in the hylian army know those moves? if he did wouldnt he be classified as worthy of being the hero of time also, and we all know who that is....

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Originally Posted by eaker

and a point which i dont think has been discussed is the actual secret moves he is teaching you, after the 7 moves are learnt he then classifys you as worthy to be the hero of time. why would a solider of any type no matter how high in the hylian army know those moves? if he did wouldnt he be classified as worthy of being the hero of time also, and we all know who that is....

That's a kinda good point, but the problem is that Link from Ocarina of Time did not know most of the Hidden Skills you are taught in TP. I don't see why so many people associate those moves with OoT-Link - apart from the windmill attack, Link didn't know any of them. It was in fact Wind Waker-Link who was the first one to move anything like that with all his quicktime event-based attacks. So I might as well claim that the Hero's shade is Wind Waker-Link, right? But I don't, because it doesn't make too much sense. Just as I think that it doesn't make too much sense that it is OoT-Link.

I think he is a soldier who knew the skills. It doesn't matter if they howled the songs from OoT. That just means the people who made TP were lazy and edited the songs to sound like wolves or they wanted people to remember OoT because it was suppose to be one of the best of the Zelda games.

Dude, that's sooo weird how I posted a threat based on this in the theorizing section.
Here's the link if you wanna check it out:
http://www.zeldauniverse.net/forums/...ml#post2696901

Originally Posted by PeterGerri

That's a kinda good point, but the problem is that Link from Ocarina of Time did not know most of the Hidden Skills you are taught in TP. I don't see why so many people associate those moves with OoT-Link - apart from the windmill attack, Link didn't know any of them. It was in fact Wind Waker-Link who was the first one to move anything like that with all his quicktime event-based attacks. So I might as well claim that the Hero's shade is Wind Waker-Link, right? But I don't, because it doesn't make too much sense. Just as I think that it doesn't make too much sense that it is OoT-Link.

Yeah, this is true but if it WAS OoT Link, he could've just learned the skills when he returned to Hyrule and grew up how he was supposed to

The whole golden wolf and soldier thing was a mysterious. Learning that super kill move that is used in the final battle was important. The other moves really helped to. By the time the final battle was over, my fingers were numb. A real button masher!

He was just a soldier who wanted to pass on his teachings and couldn't rest in peace because of that. I think that's what he says when you first meet him in Faron Woods.

*thinking* Maybe he was a soldier from long ago who knew these moves that eventually were forgotten. He might've felt the need to teach it to someone who would one day save Hyrule. But some things confuse me. How would he know Link would need these skills? Or, how would he know that Link was destined to be the hero to save Hyrule? Maybe the Goddesses told him?

The truth is that the makers of the Zelda series don't always want to clear up all of these mysterious things. They don't even care about the story line. So, I guess whatever you think it is may be very close to their ideas.

Originally Posted by CWP

I think it probably is the Hero of Time from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Only he would know melodies like the Song of Healing and the Prelude of Light. Plus, Link may have gotten lost in the Lost Woods on his way back to Hyrule from Termina after MM and became a Stalfos like the Kokiri say you will, which would have turned him into the Hero's Shade he is in Zelda: Twilight Princess.

That wouldn't work Shiek(Zelda) taught Link the Prelude of Light,Requem of Spirit,Bolero of Fire,Minuet of the Forest,Nocturne of Shadow,and Serenade of Water.The happy Mask Salesman taught Link the Song of Healing.So Link was not the only person who knew those songs.For they were taught to him by other people.

Maybe it is the Hero of Time.
There's a lot of evidence to it, and the fact he's wearing different armour is pretty easy to explain. I mean, TP link is wearing the Hero's tunic anyway, it's be pretty hard to both wear the same tunic at the same time.

Originally Posted by Severian

ok so the soldier that link learns those secret moves from. was he supposed to be anyone in particular? like maybe he was the previous link from ocarina of time or something. considering most of the songs that wolf link howls are songs from ocarina of time. specifically one of them was the prelude of light. HOWEVER! the singing stones all have the eye of the sheikah on them. was he supposed to be a sheikah soldier or the remains of the old link?

Maybe, but the OOT Link didn't get armor at the end.... Or maybe it's the link from the LTTP! If you read LTTP the armor that link gets from zelda after he saves zelda is the same as the gold wolf/ dead soldier. My guess is that some how he knows the song and stuck around as a ghost in Hyrule. But the Link in that game was a bunny... so that might have shot my therey out of the water... But the did show that link turned into something else in the book.... Hmmmm.. OW!!!! My head herts. T-T thanks alot now it's going to keep herting until I find out. owwwww..... T-T

i thought it was oot link but thats just my opinion lol everone has a different view

I think it has to be one of the past Links at least. Because he was always talking about the bloodline of the Hero. So for him to know the techniques that only the bloodline of the Hero would know, he'd have to be one of the previous Links.

Well, if it isn't OoT Link its the same bloodline. If its not the Hero of Time its some other big shot knight, maybe TP Links ancestor, since in ALttP its said that you have to be of knightly decent to bear the triforce of courage.

Personally it would be allot more simple if it were the Hero of Time, but how many years passed between OoT and TP? It COULD be some other Hero, the Hero of Time's decendant maybe? Or maybe some knight thats even older, but i doubt that.

Edit: Oops i was thinknig about weilding the Master Sword, but it comes down to the same thing i guess.

The skeleton guys/gold wolfs name is Heros Shade, right? I think it's the Hero of Time wearing armour. I mean, what other Links know Ocarina of Time melodies other than OoT Link himself?

Originally Posted by ~Twilight Zora~

The skeleton guys/gold wolfs name is Heros Shade, right? I think it's the Hero of Time wearing armour. I mean, what other Links know Ocarina of Time melodies other than OoT Link himself?

Except, as someone else mentioned, the Hero's Shade does NOT teach Link the songs: TP Link is actually the one that howls them first. Plus, it doesn't explain why the Ballad of Gales is in there.

It'd have to be quite a few heros back. Because when he was talking to me after the last lesson he was like, "When I was young, I accepted the title of the hero, but failed to pass on the teachings I had learned to those that took the title of the hero after me, now, at last I have fulfilled my duty." or something along the lines of that.

He's just some guy with a sword for gods sake!

If they wanted him to be reffered as OoT Link, or anyone else specific, they would've made him look like him perhaps?

There's been someone teaching you various sword techniques in every Zelda game. What makes you think this guy is special? Just because the means of getting to him are EPIC! It doesn't mean he's related to Link somehow.

Okay, here's the deal:
The hero's shade was obviously a hero. This is because a shade is a ghost-like being, belonging to someone. If it belongs to a hero, then chances are it's a Link, as we don't know any other Hero's in The Legend of Zelda series. Which Link, however, we don't know. Chances are it's a few links back, which means that we'd need to know the timeline in order to figure it all out.

No one knows the timeline.