Ancient Sages

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The Ancient Sages were a group of wise men who protected the Mirror of Twilight at Arbiter's Grounds in shortly before the Twili invasion. The sages were the ones that were set to execute Ganondorf, and put him on the death sentence at the prison. They chained him to a boulder and impaled him with a blade of light (Sword of the Sages), but the Triforce of Power revived him. Ganondorf broke off his chains and stabbed one of the sages (who bore the Water Medallion's symbol), and in a hasty act, the surviving sages activated the Twilight Mirror and banished Ganondorf to the Twilight Realm.

The sages instructed Link to go after the shards of the shattered Twilight Mirror to enter the Twilight Realm.

Each of the Ancient Sages bears a symbol of one of the medallions found in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, often taken to mean that they are The Seven Sages from that game. However, unlike the ones from Ocarina of Time, they are all old men, while most of the sages from Ocarina of Time were female. This does however bring them into line with the story presented in A Link to the Past, in which the sages were all male. The Ancient Sage pictured here bears the symbol of the Light Medallion.