Chancellor Cole


 * This page is about the character. For the boss, see Chancellor Cole (boss).

Chancellor Cole (キマロキ) is a character from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. He is the chancellor of New Hyrule and is one of the game's primary antagonists. Hidden beneath his suspicious pair of hats are demonic horns.

Biography
Chancellor Cole resides in Hyrule Castle and works for Princess Zelda. However, he had actually plotted to revive his true master, the Demon King, Malladus. He apparently felt that being the Chancellor would wield a great deal of power and influence instead of just being, as he put it, "a royal babysitter," which turned out to be the other way around to his disgust. When the Spirit Tracks start disappearing, however, Zelda grows suspicious of Cole and requests for Link to transport her to the Tower of Spirits with his Wooden Train.

Link and his mentor, Alfonzo set out from the castle station, but are stopped en route by Chancellor Cole and his second-in-command, Byrne. The pair easily defeat Link and Alfonzo and go on to murder Princess Zelda. Chancellor Cole then takes Zelda's lifeless body and uses it as a vessel in an attempt to revive the Demon King, Malladus. After Cole manages to revive Malladus at the Altar of the Demon King, he betrays Byrne, revealing to him that he was being manipulated all this time.

To stop him, Princess Zelda's ghost inhabits a Phantom Guardian and aids Link in stopping Chancellor Cole and reviving herself. When Link shoots Malladus with the Bow of Light, Malladus' spirit is separated from Princess Zelda's body, and thanks to Byrne holding Malladus off, allowing Zelda to return to it. Without Zelda's body to serve as a vessel, Malladus' spirit proceeds to possess the body of Chancellor Cole instead, much to his horror and reluctance; however, as Cole's body is not compatible, Malladus decides to cause as much destruction as possible before he is forced out of Cole's body. They are later defeated by Link and Princess Zelda. Cole is presumably destroyed along with Malladus.

Etymology
"Cole" is likely a play on the word coal as a reference to the widespread use of trains in New Hyrule. His Japanese name, "Kimaroki", refers to the Japanese Kimaroki Consist.