Kokiri all-out investigation.

The reason I’ve made this is simple, to educate all in the CANON evidence about the Kokiri. That means everything in OoT and WW can be used as references, even some things in TP and MM, even though no 100% Kokiri, I believe OoT/MM Link is part Kokiri but will state that no further, are in those games, are my references. No, I’m not taking the mangas as canon because the OoT manga is not using canon evidence to be made. You’ll see what I mean when you read.
Let’s begin with the various Links we see:
OoT/MM – Blue eyes, Kokiri clothes, dirty blond hair, Kokiri/Razor/Gilded/Great Fairy Sword, Deku/Hylian/Mirror Shield.
WW – Green eyes, Islander clothes, sun blond hair, Hero’s/Master Sword, Hero’s/Mirror Shield.
TP – Blue eyes, Ordonian clothes, dirty blond hair, Wooden/Ordon/Master Sword, Ordon/Wooden/Hylian Shield.
Each Link is unique and different; however, the Links of MM and TP have numerous physical similarities, thus leading most to believe he is of Link’s line. Also, many believe that Hero’s Shade is MM Link because he calls Link his son and of his line. No evidence to support them being related otherwise, I don’t believe.
Now, there’s also NO canon evidence that ANYBODY besides Mido made Link seem like an outcast. The females all encouraged Link when they noticed Navi, and even told him how to use her efficiently. Also, the males, except for Mido, asked Link for help with the chores “mean old Mido” had given them. Note also that Saria called him, and I quote:
“What?
Mido won’t let you see the Great Deku Tree?
Ohh… That bum! I don’t know why he’s so mean to everyone!
What he said is true, though.
The forest… strange things have been happening here lately…
You need to be ready for anything. You’d better find a weapon!
You can buy a shield at the shop, but there is only one sword hidden somewhere in the forest.”
She says this if you speak to her before entering the Great Deku Tree but after speaking with Mido for the first time.
Let’s continue with the various technologies we see among the Kokiri tribe:
1) Kokiri Sword – Clearly, this is the best weapon of the Kokiri. “This is a hidden treasure of the Kokiri, but you can borrow it for a while. Be sure to practice with it before you really fight!”
2) Deku Shield – It’s a nice, wooden shield, but it burns up pretty fast. The symbol on the front is either one most likely standing for the Kokiri, but this cannot be made certain.
4) Deku Stick – A brittle stick that burns up. It breaks after one use, but is a two-hander.
5) Deku Nut – It’s like a weaker version of the Bomb Flower, more like a flash grenade.
6) Fairy Slingshot – This is a weapon we found in the Great Deku Tree and is crucial throughout the child side of OoT.
7) Deku Seeds – The Kokiri use these in combination with any slingshots they may have hand crafted. They can be purchased in the Kokiri Shop and that’s why I think the Kokiri also have slingshots.
8) Fairy Ocarina – A cute Ocarina Saria gave to Link as a memento, or to remind him of her and the forest while on his quest.
9) Fairy Bow – A bow Link finds in the Forest Temple as an adult. It seems like it’d be about the same size as the Hero’s Bow of Majora’s Mask, or in other words, more like a Kokiri Longbow or Hylian Short bow.
10) Arrows – Sharp, pointy, fast, and bought in the Kokiri Shop. Now, why would these be on sale if the Kokiri didn’t use bows?
9) Recovery Hearts – Yes, it’s not a C Item, but yes, we do find these in the Kokiri Shop. 7 can be found in and on Saria’s House, and 5 more can be found in the Forest Temple, and 8 can be found, not counting chests, Inside the Deku Tree.
The other technologies I’ll display are SEEN, but not C Items:
10) Mirror and Sink – We see these in Link’s room, just look on the southern end.
11) Jars and Bottles – We see these mostly in Link’s and Saria’s homes, but they are in other Kokiri’s homes. Link has a Bottle on his table and in a cove in his home near there.
12) Buckets – Also in Link’s and Saria’s homes, I can’t recall if I saw any in other homes, though.
13) Rugs – We see these in Saria’s and Mido’s houses.
14) Wood Planks/Logs – For all their wooden needs, I guess, like beds and ladders.
15) Rope – It’s in the southwest corner of Link’s home.
16) Farming tools – In Link’s home there are pitchforks and hay.
17) Fire – There are three fires in the Know-it-All Brothers, and one looks like a giant campfire.
18) Beds – Beds can be found in every house, except the Know-it-All Brothers’ one, and there’s a total of five. Very strange, 5 beds for 14 residents, 8 male and 6 female. The math doesn’t add up.
19) Ladders – The only ladders are Inside the Deku Tree and Link’s House, but they still count.
20) Boulder – We don’t know for sure the Kokiri set it there, but it’d make sense that they’d guard their treasure with a boulder that magically moves in a continual pattern, right?
21) Signs, Chests, other obvious things – Signs everywhere, chests in Mido’s house and Inside the Deku Tree, Pots in several houses, and so on, so forth.
22) Underground/Underwater Routes – At some point, the Kokiri made contact with the outside world, and upon viewing it, the current Kokiri either lived outside the forest and the Great Deku Tree got lonely, or they despised it and sealed themselves in the forest, thus why the boulders were there in the Goron Village.
I'll add more later, but this is good for now.

So what exactly is this thread for? Just to find out what we know about them?

Wow, you have examined the Kokiri very carefully, you are obviously very interested in them, judging by this thread and your avatar. You have collected some nice info and I look forward to the other parts that you will post. I must say though that I think you're time would have been better spent examining a race we don't know a lot about, like the Sheikah or the Twili. I don't really think there are many mysteries surrounding the Kokiri.

"WW – Green eyes," really? I always thought his eyes were black.

A lot of good information though.

I looked at those eyes for 12 mins, I know they're green. And as I said, this is to educate people about the truth about the Kokiri. For instance, everywhere I went, I heard that Link was an outcast of the Kokiri, well, all the fan fics I've read, and that started to get me wondering, "Was Link actually an outcast?" That's how this started, strangely enough. I'm continuing the research in the Kokiri, and it's coming in quite astonishingly. For instance, that quote from Saria, she called Mido a bum. That made me laugh for ten minutes. And her facial expressions, you gotta see them.

I've never heard anyone call Link an outcast among the Kokiri, but I suppose that's because I don't read much fanfic...

The Deku are the next race to get my analyctic eye, but after that's the Sheikah. But if you want, you can do what I'm doing and analyze EVERY quote in the game. No, I haven't found them all, but yes, I'm working towards that end.
Happy Mask Salesman: "Have faith..."

Have you ever read the Zelda manga? That's where the idea came from, I think.

The Shop, Foreign Intervention, Laws, Monetary System, Commerce, Wars
As the title implies, and yes, I’m now using titles to generalize everything, this section will be about the Kokiri’s commerce and relations with other races in general. I attempted to get it organized, but it’s still slightly disorganized. It should be fine, though.
Kokiri Shop Manager: “We sell shields, but not swords!”
Saria: “You can buy a shield at the shop, but there is only one sword hidden somewhere in the forest.” They both mention the Deku Shield, which is very important early on.
When I was checking the effects of various items in the forest, I found they had similarities to ones outside the forest. For instance, Deku Nuts are like mini Bomb Flowers and Deku Sticks are like two-handed swords. Other similarities include: ladders, doors, chests, rugs, pots, and two Sages. This leads me to think the Kokiri weren’t quite as reclusive as we thought. Where there are this many similarities between the Kokiri and Hylians and Zoras and so on, so forth, there’s bound to be an old connectivity between the races. Perhaps before this war, there was peace and during that peace, the Kokiri didn’t fear dying because of the war.
Sign: “Stepping Stone in the Pond – If you boldly go in the direction you want to jump, you will leap automatically.
If you hop on the stones, you’ll become happier!” This means you get a Blue Rupee for doing it. Money makes the Kokiri happy, I guess.
Sign: “Kokiri Shop – We have original forest goods!” Original, perhaps, but I’m not too sure. Point is, the Kokiri have a market which they trade stuff at, like the Hylians. Perhaps their cultures rubbed off a bit on each other.
Observations: Mido has two or three chests with Rupees in them in his house and a Blue Rupee slightly hidden behind it. The Kokiri Tower Girl, and according to various sources Nintendo later named her Fado, has a Blue Rupee right next to her. There are two Blue Rupees in the enclosure containing the Kokiri Sword, one to the right of the entrance, and one in a slightly hidden hiding place from the boulder.
Sign: “Thrust Attack Signs! To thrust with your sword, tilt [Control Stick] while [L] Targeting, then use (B).” If you thrust attack this sign, you’ll get a Blue Rupee.
Twin in House: “My sister took some Rupees and went shopping at the store that has a red roof. Tee hee!
Speaking of Rupees, a green one is worth one, a blue one is worth five and a red one is worth twenty. Hee hee!” Is it an absolute coincidence that the Kokiri, Hylians, Gorons, Zoras, etc. all have the same currency rate? I doubt it, but then again, it’s possible that’s a coincidence.
There is no mention of the Kokiri ever joining a war, but the fact that they sell Arrows and Deku Seeds for bows and slingshots, as well as possess the Kokiri Sword, Fairy Bow, Fairy Slingshot, and can acquire Deku Nuts and Deku Sticks, and have a Forest Training Ground makes me think that the Kokiri were either in a war or at one point prepared for war, but the Great Deku Tree forbade it with his decree:
Sign: “Forest folk shall not leave these woods.”
Kokiri Forest Guard: “The Great Deku Tree said that if a Kokiri leaves the woods, he or she will die!”
I never took these words to be completely literal, and with my most recent discoveries, I believe the Kokiri kept things like the Fairy Bow and Kokiri Sword merely in case “outsiders” came, similar to how the Skull Kids were with their weapons. However, we have no idea how long this war lasted; it could have been going on for centuries. So, sometimes during this war, that sign was erected, maybe even right at the start of the war, and the Kokiri separated from all ties to all races. However, Bomb Flowers still grew near the forest and changed into the Deku Nuts; and Bottles may have floated from the point near Zora’s Domain into the Kokiri Forest, where Link and Saria would collect them. Clearly, this is a speculation and may seem a bit farfetched for those who never noticed all of the Bottles in Link’s House, but I feel that I’m merely piecing together a puzzle, or rather, a rubix cube.

I seriously think you're looking too much into this now.
Pretty much everything you mentioned in that point for having relevance is just for gameplay reasons.
Every single Zelda game has had rupies [or technically rubies as they were called in the first game I believe] as the currency, so the Kokiri would be no different.
The training ground is just to teach you some basic things so you don't get whooped in the game.
Every culture in the world has some sort of trading/selling based system...it's called economy. It's not a coincidence or a thing of note that the Kokiri have one...it's in every culture on the face of this earth [and apparently Hyrule too]

My question is this:
"How would the Kokiri, if they had no contact with the outside world, have the same economic system as the other races in Hyrule?"
Quite simply, the odds are stacked against it being a coincidence. Thus, the Kokiri had outside contact in the past, it's simply that at some point, most likely the war, they put themselves out of the ring and, over time, forgot about a lot of things in the outside world.

The Deku Tree says that he has long served as the guardian of the forest, and that he gave life to all the Kokiri. Thus, they've always lived in the forest.
Did they ever have contact with the "outside world" so to speak? They obviously had some contact with the Royal Family because they were given the Kokiri Emerald to protect, but outside of that there's no contact mentioned. It doesn't seem likely that a race of forever-young forest dwellers fathered by a tree would have a lot of contact with anyone outside the Royal Family though.

Life, Foreign Intervention 2, Link's titles among the Kokiri
Kokiri Bridge female: "That's because the Great Deku Tree is our father, the forest guardian, and he gave life to all of us Kokiri!" Later: "I wonder if the Great Deku Tree gave life to everything in the forest, I mean in addition to us Kokiri?"
Great Deku Tree: "Long have I served as the guardian spirit... I am known as the Deku Tree..."
Another oddity, the Great Deku Tree never refers to himself as the Great Deku Tree, only the Deku Tree. Also, the dungeon is called "Inside the Deku Tree". Anybody else think that's kind of odd? Also, she makes it seem more like the Great Deku Tree MAY be responsible for giving life to the Skull Kids and other beings of the forest.

Fado: "In those days, it was the king who conducted for us..."
Strangely, Fado doesn't have his guardian fairy with him. Had anybody else noticed that?
Also, in the room where we face Phantom, has anybody else noticed that the Triforce symbol and not the Forest Temple symbol is in the center of the floor? I believe that's worth noting because that completely affirms that the Royal Family was here at some point.

And yes, I agree that the Kokiri had little contact, but there was still enough for the Royal Family to have rubbed off on the Kokiri enough to give them the same currency system, same language, etc.

Saria: "Now you're a true Kokiri, Link!"
Kokiri Tower Girl: "Hee hee hee! You came all the way up here? You're a real man!"
Mido: "Hey you! 'Mr. No Fairy!' What's your business with the Great Deku Tree?
Without a fairy, you're not even a real man!"
"Well, even with all that stuff, a wimp is still a wimp, huh?"
Skull Kid: "Hee hee! Under that mask... aren't you that Kokiri kid?"
Okay, I know, Skull Kid isn't a Kokiri, but when was I gonna put that quote? Anyway, judging by the way Skull Kid dresses in TP, he almost looks like a Kokiri with a green cape and a red tunic. Am I not correct? Of course, now I'm gonna have to put those two quotes the Deku Tree Sprout says that I hate.
Deku Tree Sprout: "Well, as you might have already guessed, you are not a Kokiri! You are actually a Hylian!"
"You are a Hylian, and were always boudn to leave this forest."
I apologize to myself and all other "Link is at least part Kokiri" fans, but such is the necessity of this thread as being as canon as possible.

How would the Kokiri, if they had no contact with the outside world, have the same economic system as the other races in Hyrule?

In Star Trek, a good number of alien life forms are capable of speaking perfectly good English. Why? Nobody knows, it's just how video games and movies work.

I thought it was simply because of things like... umm... what're they called? Oh, right, translators. Ever watch Star Trek: Enterprise? It was a cool SciFi show, it was about the first Warp 5 Earth space ship, which of course was called Enterprise.

Originally Posted by Kokiri Mage7

My question is this:
"How would the Kokiri, if they had no contact with the outside world, have the same economic system as the other races in Hyrule?"
Quite simply, the odds are stacked against it being a coincidence. Thus, the Kokiri had outside contact in the past, it's simply that at some point, most likely the war, they put themselves out of the ring and, over time, forgot about a lot of things in the outside world.

I'm assuming Rupees are a rare item to come by. Hence its monetary value in Hyrule. Of course Rupees appear under bushes throughout the world (due to the Picori/Minish as portrayed in TMC) so even if they never had contact with the outside world doesn't mean they wouldnt still find rupees of different colours to be valuable.

Originally Posted by Kokiri Mage7

I thought it was simply because of things like... umm... what're they called? Oh, right, translators. Ever watch Star Trek: Enterprise? It was a cool SciFi show, it was about the first Warp 5 Earth space ship, which of course was called Enterprise.

Bah, you got my point.

And TOS and TNG are the only Star Treks for me.

NEON, I suppose you got a valid point there, but also, aren't kids the only ones who can see Minish/Picori? Thus, wouldn't we, or any Kokiri for that matter, have met the Picori? Perhaps it was the Picori who created the monetary system which would explain why the Kokiri have the same one as the Hylians, Sheikahs, etc. and the same language. Maybe everyone in the game just speaks Minish. lol

Sages, Forest and Air Temples
With all of my other research projects going on, I have been neglecting this one. I apologize.
"...Time to set the records straight, to right the wrongs..." Power Rangers Mystic Force. Yes, I watched that series because it had magic and I'm super interested in magic. If you think I'm weird, then you're not the only one.

Actually, there's not THAT much to say about the Sages and Temples... I was looking and saw few note-worthy things:
1) Both temples have 2 trees set in front of them. The Air Temple has two full-grown palm trees, coconutless. The Forest Temple has a tree and the stump of a tree which Saria sits on.
2) Saria: "This is the Sacred Forest Meadow! It's my secret place! I feel...
This place will be very important for both of us someday. That's what I feel."
3) Fado: "I am Fado of the Kokiri tribe. I know I appear to you as a child, but the eyes can oft decieve. I am a most esteemed sage.
I had been praying here so that the power to repel evil would continue to be contained within the blade of the Master Sword...
But I was attacked by the evil Ganondorf... and this is what happened to me."
"Once you do, I'm certain the holder of the instrument will feel the blood of the sages awaken within his veins.
That Wind Waker you hold was used long ago to conduct us sages when we played our song to call upon the gods.
In those days, it was always the king who conducted for us..."

I have several questions about these things:
1) Did the King of Hyrule conduct Saria as well? She appeared to be the only other Sage, other than Fado, Laruto, and Zelda, who had a musical instrument and that made me ponder this. Also, we see the floor in the Forest Temple's boss room is not unlike the one in the Air Temple.
2) Are ALL sage lines hereditary? Fado and Laruto make note that their descendents are the next sages. Does this go the same for the "Elemental" Six Sages? If so, then is the Fairy Ocarina more like Fado's Violin and merely an indicator by the Deku Tree as to who the next sage could be? If not, then how are these sages determined? Simply that they met a hero in the past? If so, then who did Rauru meet? If not, then HOW?!
Admittedly, I've digressed. However, that is most of what I have on the sages and temples... Your thoughts?

Im all for reserching a race, but i don't think the Kokiri are the best choice...

Most of the stuff you have mentioned, such as the economy and the weapons are in the game to aid Link, they are for gameplay... not for some massive back story about the Kokiri.
Untill another game featuring Kokiri comes out, i stand by what i believe; they are children who live in a forest protected by a tree and had some connections to the royal family of their country.
I doubt they ever went to war against any of the other races in Hyrule, they are too small, they would have gotten slaughted by the Gorons...

As someone else mentioned, time is better spent reserching the Twili... they are a race that fans need to know more about...