Great Deku Tree

Great Deku Tree
The Great Deku Tree, is the 'Father of the Forest' charged with watching over the Kokiri who live in Kokiri Forest and the Lost Woods. He is an exceptionally large tree with a human-like face located in a clearing in the southern area of Kokiri Forest.

When Ocarina of Time begins, the Deku Tree is suffering from a curse cast upon him by Ganon in an effort to gain the Spiritual Stone of Forest which is in the Deku Tree's possession. Knowing Link's destiny, the Deku Tree sends Navi the fairy to retrieve the boy and asks him to destroy the curse spider within him. Though Link defeats Gohma, it is too late. Before he dies, the Deku Tree gives Link the Kokiri Emerald and tells him to seek out Princess Zelda at Hyrule Castle. After adult Link completes the Forest Temple, however, he discovers a little sprout, which grows into the Deku Sprout. It is this sprout who tells Link the truth about his past, and reveals that Link is not a member of the Kokiri, but rather a Hylian who was given to them by his mother, who died soon after. This is possibly the same tree Link comes across in The Wind Waker, and that the Koroks, the leaf-faced tree creatures, are evolutions of the Kokiris that the Great Deku Tree once fathered. A theory about the original The Legend of Zelda is that the first dungeon, the Tree Dungeon, is a dead Deku Tree.

Appearances The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarnia of Time and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker,

The Great Deku Tree is not to be confused with the Maku Tree in Oracle of Seasons.