Magic Armor



The Magic Armor is an optional item that can be acquired in both The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

The Wind Waker
To get this item Link must go through many steps starting with buying a sail from Windfall Island's shopkeeper Zunari. Link comes back to his shop later and agrees to help him trade for new items in his shop.

There are three other Goron Merchants across the great sea. They are found near or on Greatfish Isle, Mother & Child Island and Bomb Island respectively. Link goes to each of them three times in total. Link trades the original item for rarer items as you go. Once Link trades a total of two times, giving Zunari three items, he returns to Zunari and claims his reward.

Twilight Princess
This armor was available for purchase when Link first went to the shop in Hyrule Castle Town for two hundred thousand Rupees, more money than Link could possibly carry in his wallet. To lower the price, Link began by donating one thousand Rupees to Gor Ebizo in Malo Mart. This money went to repairing Hyrule Castle's western bridge. Link then donated two thousand Rupees to the same Goron so that Malo can buy the shop in Hyrule Castle Town that sold the armor. As a result, the price of the Magic Armor was lowered to the affordable cost of five hundred and ninety eight Rupees.

After the bridge was repaired, Gor Liggs gave Link a quest to drench his son with hot spring water. Link did this and the son re-opened his shop inside Hyrule Castle Town. This sidequest reduced the cost of the second donation to two hundred Rupees.

Wind Waker
The Magic Armor provided protection from damage, but drained magic for its use. If all magic was spent, the armor's function would be nullified.

Twilight Princess
The Magic Armor protected Link from detriment, but to do so made his Rupees “magical” (instead of losing health, Link would lose Rupees). When Link ran out of Rupees, not only did the armor cease to provide temporary immortality, but it became so heavy that Link was weighted down and his speed was reduced (in a way identical to the Iron Boots.) The armor uses 2 rupees per second and takes 10 rupees for every quarter of a heart Link would take.

Connection to Royal Family
This armor may be connected to the royal family due to the Triforce mark and the helm's similarity to a crown. The armor may have belonged to the Hero's Shade, due to similarities of appearance of the armor. We have never seen any Hero of Time, or anyone at all, for that matter, whearing this armour besides Link in Twilight Princess and The Wind Waker, so the Magic Armour's connection to the Royal Family is centered around the ever-present Triforce Mark.