The Champions were gone. All of them, fallen to Ganon’s nasty Blights, their Divine Beasts taken over… word had reached the princess and her knight just an hour ago.

Revali, blasted out of the sky. Mipha, her slight body skewered on the Blight’s blade. Urbosa, Daruk… slain just as brutally as the other two. Hyrule’s Champions were no more, leaving only you, her loyal knight until the end.

Both your garments and your skin were smeared with dirt, as was the princess’s. You were pulling her along, running as fast as your legs could carry you, eyes squinting against the pounding rain— when Zelda slipped, falling to her knees. You are quick to rush to her side.

“All of this. All of them. Father, Mipha, Revali, Urbosa, Daruk… all the townspeople…” She says in a trembling voice, her fists clenching on the mud below her. “Dead! All because of this accursed power and my own weakness!”