Shadow Beast

The Twilit Messengers are Twilit beings of darkness created by the ruler of the Twilight Realm, Zant, the ursurped Twilight King. They are members of the Twili race, who are the descendants of the Dark Interlopers who invaded the Sacred Realm, that had the light blotted out of them, and taken over by darkness after the power of the Sols were sealed away.

They are black, tentacled beings with strange markings on them of the Twili race. They served as the main attack force of Zant's Invasion of Hyrule. They arrive in Hyrule through the use of Twilight Portals. The messengers attack in groups of three or four, and project Twilight walls onto the land to trap and kill opponents. If all but one fall, the last remaining messenger has the ability to revive the others, so Link was required to attack them at the same time in his Wolf form. After killing a group, their Twilight portal becomes available to Link.

After Link assembled the Mirror of Twilight, which opened the way into the Twilight Realm, he restored the Sols to their rightful shrine, which let light back into the realm, and reverting most of the messengers back into Twili.