Link's Mother and War

In OOT we find out about Link's mother and that there was a war going on when Link was born:

quote:
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Deku Tree Sprout, after Link beats Forest Temple:
Some time ago, before the King of Hyrule unified this country, there was a fierce war in our world.

One day, to escape from the fires of the war, a Hylian mother and her baby boy entered this forbidden forest.

The mother was gravely injured... Her only choice was to entrust the child to the Deku Tree, the guardian spirit of the forest.

The Deku Tree could sense that this was a child of destiny, whose fate would affect the entire world, so he took him into the forest.

After the mother passed away, the baby was raised as a Kokiri. And now, finally, the day of destiny has come!
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(Thanks OldBeane for the quote sauce)

I'm just wondering what people's thoughts are on what this war was. It must have taken place at least 10 years before OOT because Link was already born. Plus Ganondorf was alive at that time, as was Impa. So, Hyrule was not yet unified. Who was at war, who was fighting? What does everybody think?

hmm thats an interesting topic and i never really thought of that. i'd say it was an army from out side of hyrule trying to invade because i dont see the greudos trying to take over hyrule castle so i'd say it would have to be an army from Termina or somewhere else.

Yeah the other army could have been a land from a different Zelda game, that Hyrule was later allies with. Link's mother was probably in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I use to think the imprisoning war was the war links mother got hurt in. I think this nintendo just made that to explain why link was raised in the forest.

Yeah , I also always thought that it was the imprisoning war.
It made sence to me anyway.

i think its all the tribes and ganon's forces fighting. the tribes couldnt compete against each other AND ganons forces, so Hyrule unified them, defeated ganons forces, and named the land hyrule after himself. then 10 years later ganondorf starts his new plan and link is called forth. all makes sence, i think i read that somewhere, too.

so they first joined together to defeat the gerudos? makes sense

and the imprisoning war was supposed to be AFTER OoT

I always thought that the war was the imprisoning war......maybe it was just a war between all the races of Hyrule before they were unified.

but it doesn't make sense in the timeline though for it to be the imprisoning war, you see

I see it as a feirce civil war between races, Link's dad was on the Hylian side and he kicked the bucket. Link's mom was probavly trying to escape, but a few men from another side saw her and started throwing things at her. sharp big things that is, that made her sustain greivous injuries.

Hmmmm......If it was a Goron/Zora/Gerudo that killed the Mother....I'm surprised that Link didn't put two and two together on who might have killed his mom and decided to go on a rampage on them.

I thought she was running away to safety and she got hit or something

^ Exactly my point. She was running away from the war to try and save her son....but wait, why Korkri Forest? She probably knew that the Korkri couldn't leave the forest, so they were not part of the war, so she picked the forest.
When she was trying to save her son, she probably got nicked by a few arrows to the shoulders and arms. (Thankfully, the baby wasn't hit, or else OoT would have never began.)

thinking about it, in MM it says the garos are shells of spies from an army that invaded ikana i think.so it could be possible they invaded hyrule too at one point.

hmm.. possible ^^. but as for his mother being hit and the forest, it says in the game that his mother was gravely injured, THEN she took him to the forest, because no evil could enter there. its in the sequence how link talks to the deku sprout.

I think maybe some outside forces came and attacked the Hylians, and the King's soldiers weren't able to hold them off, so the King had to get the Zoras and Gorons to help, and possibly the Gerudos too, since the desert is a part of Hyrule in OOT, so all the places united to make Hyrule and defeat the opposing army. Perhaps Ganondorf instigated the war, but pretended to have nothing to do with it, and maybe even helped the Hylian armies, so in OOT he could "pledge his allegience" to the King of Hyrule. I don't think Zelda said how long Ganondorf had been "loyal" to the King. So maybe it was a Star Wars attack of the Clones Emperor type of thing?

Maybey the war was because Ganon ordered the Garudo's to attack.

It definetly was a war between the races: Hylians, Gorons, Zoras and Gerudos. The kokiri tribe was the only one that didn't fight. Link's mother fled to kokiri forest because that was the only safe place. She died at her injuries and Link growned up between the kokiri's.