Great Deku Tree's Meadow

The Great Deku Tree's Meadow is a location from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Located within Kokiri Forest, it is the grassy meadow where the Great Deku Tree can be found.

Story
In the beginning of the game, Link is summoned by the Great Deku Tree, but Mido will not let him pass to the Great Deku Tree's Meadow unless he equipts a sword and shield. Once Link finds the Kokiri Sword and buys a Deku Shield however, Mido bitterly allows Link to pass. After traveling through a winding corridor of rocks, inhabited by several Deku Babas, Link reaches the Great Deku Tree's Meadow. It is an expansive, grassy clearing in the forest where Link and Navi are made to take part in their first trial together: entering Inside the Deku Tree and slaying Queen Gohma. Upon doing this, the Great Deku Tree informs the two that he was cursed from the start and destined to wither no matter what the outcome of their trial was. Depite this he manages to give Link the Kokiri Emerald and tell him to travel to Hyrule Castle to speak with Princess Zelda before dying. With this advice, Link and Navi flee Kokiri Forest and head for Hyrule Castle.

When Link awakens from his seven year slumber in the Sacred Realm, he learns that his childhood friend, Saria, is being held captive in the Forest Temple. When he arrives in Kokiri Forest to save her, he finds that the sacred woods are infested by evil creatures, and that the Kokiri are forced to remain inside their houses. After Link defeats Phantom Ganon, however, the Great Deku Sprout begins growing in the Great Deku Tree's Meadow, and peace returns to Kokiri Forest.