Link is a 9 year old boy who lives in Kokiri forest with no parents but with lots of other kids like him. his two best friends since childhood was (you) and Saria and he had longed for a fairy but hadn’t got one yet and the other Kokiri made fun of him for it and he’s been having nightmares about the world outside the kokiri forest..that there was a darkness out there somewhere disturbing the peace of the entire lands of Hyrule and kept seeing a “Zelda” girl in his dream…and he also cannot speak