Ancient Sages

The Ancient Sages are a recurring group in the Legend of Zelda series. Seemingly immortal, they have lived since ancient times and are the creators of the Master Sword and the Temple of Time.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Rauru, one of the Seven Sages, reveals that he is also an Ancient Sage. Long prior to the events of the game, he, along with the rest of the sages, helped construct the Temple of Time to protect the Sacred Realm from evil.

A Gossip Stone reveals that Kaepora Gaebora is the reincarnation of an Ancient Sage. Due to in-game hints and the method of time travel, however, many believe him to be the same being as Rauru.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Ancient Sages protect the Mirror of Twilight, located atop the Arbiter's Grounds. They are strange, ethereal beings that move in a graceful, poetic manner. Aside from them being mostly identical, however, each of the Ancient Sages bears a symbol of one of the Six Medallions from Ocarina of Time.

The Sages present themselves to Link after he defeats Stallord in the Arbiter's Grounds and makes his way to the Mirror Chamber. They explain to him the entire story of Ganondorf's failed execution; the Ancient Sages were the ones that were set to execute Ganondorf and sentenced him to death at the Arbiter's Grounds. They chained him to a boulder and impaled him with the Execution Sword, but the Triforce of Power revived him, much to their surprise. Ganondorf broke his chains and killed the Sage of Water; in a hasty act, the surviving sages activated the Mirror of Twilight and banished Ganondorf to the Twilight Realm.

The Ancient Sages also tell Link that Zant tried to destroy the mirror completely, but could not, as only the true ruler of the Twilight Realm may destroy it. Link is then given the task of collecting the remaining mirror shards and entering the Twilight Realm. The Ancient Sages already have a piece of the Mirror of Twilight which they give to him.

It is later revealed by Auru (when Link talks to him at Telma's Bar), that the Ancient Sages once served the royal family and where appointed as the tutors of a young Princess Zelda. Auru is also revealed to known them well enough, that they told him tales of the cursed mirror held within the Arbiter's Grounds (which Auru would later pass on to Link, unwittingly providing a clue to the location of the Mirror of Twilight Link and Midna were searching for).

After the Mirror of Twilight was restored, they then apologize to Midna, as they were in part responsible for ruining the Twilight Realm when they overestimated their abilities when sealing away Ganondorf, and ask for her forgiveness, also revealing, to her shock, that they knew that she was the Twilight Princess. Midna states that she was hardly qualified to forgive them, because she had to flee from her people due to Zant's rise to power. They then fade away.

It is likely, although never explicitly stated, that Rauru is the Sage of Light, seeing as he reveals himself to be an Ancient Sage in Ocarina of Time.

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