Fused Shadow



Fused Shadows are manifestations of extremely powerful magic, used by the Dark Interlopers during the Civil War to gain the Triforce. Link must retrieve the Shadows in order to defeat Zant in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. There are four Fused Shadows in all. Three of them are locked away in the Forest Temple, the Goron Mines, and the Lakebed Temple. Midna has already found the fourth Shadow and wears it as a type of helmet. The shadows seem to each have a significant amount of power on their own as they seem to have the power to curse other individuals and turn the surrounding environment into monsters. Once Link has retrieved the Shadows, Midna uses them to try and send Zant back to the Twilight Realm, but is unsuccessful.

At the end of the game, Midna kills Zant by using the power of the Shadows; their powers were very underestimated by her. She puts them on to take on the form of a demonic beast to shatter the barrier around Hyrule Castle, purge Princess Zelda's body of Ganondorf's Twilight particles and battle Ganon's soul. Ganon ultimately bested Midna, and reincarnated himself into his human body. Ganondorf then crumbles the Fused Shadows in his hand.

The Fused Shadows combine to make a large helmet, hinted by how Midna wears it in that sort of fashion and the combined Fused Shadows' appearance. Strangely, Midna is much too small for the helmet to fit her, which is probably why the helmet manifests its power into Midna's size and strength, while the Fused Shadows seem to grow larger as well. The helmet, when in its dormant, neutral state, seems to be able to fit on an average Darknut. Of course, that would be referring to the Darknut (version) from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Trivia

 * At the back of the Fused Shadows, there is a Sheikah emblem.
 * One of the Fused Shadows' eyes is like the eye of Majora's Mask.
 * Animal Crossing: City Folk features a helmet called Midna's mask, which is the fused shadow Midna wears along with her hair. It is obtained through the Tom Nook point system.