I must admit I somewhat misremembered, myself. Whenever the Hero of Time is mentioned, his destiny is simply said to be to lead Hyrule to a new goden age. Every quote seems to imply safeguards having been taken against the possibility of an evil person obtaining the Triforce, with the exception of this:
When evil rules all, an awakening voice from the Sacred Realm will call those destined to be Sages, who dwell in the five temples.
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Together with the Hero of Time, the awakened ones will bind the evil and return the light of peace to the world...
This is the legend of the temples passed down by my people, the Sheikah.
- Sheik
However, the essence of the story appears to be that Ganondorf's obtaining of the Triforce was not intended for, although it was a possibility.
In light of this, I am willing to change the way I look upon Ocarina of Time, and to a lesser extent the Wind Waker. The Wind Waker touches upon man's struggle to choose his own fate, by my reading, but on a more personal level than I originally thought. The line "and let our destinies finally be fulfilled..." speaks for itself, I feel.
Little is changed with regards to Twilight Princess; the game deals rather overtly with fatalism and willful resignation to one's fate, as exemplified by Midna carrying out the final punishment of the gods, redeeming her race by the destroying the Mirror of Twilight. A fitting antithesis/parallelism of the Wind Waker story.
One final thing of note; there is a set of dialogues on the Twilight Princess ROM that never made it into the game. Fans have translated these, and one of them is this:
When one who holds the chosen power appears...
Necessarily, one to accomplish the antithesis of that will be born.
That is the fate of those who bear the crests that were awarded by the gods you believe in.
Whenever those bearing the crests appear in this world...
An age of bloodshed will come, as often as need be.
Do not think everything ends with this...
Think of this as the beginning of a bloodsmeared history of light and darkness!
- Ganondorf
I do not suggest that either of us should take this into account in our reading of the game, but with regards to the general thematic concerns of the story, what would you say about this?
