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As fans of the Zelda series we often give
the spotlight to the hero Link.
I mean he is a stunning, dashing lad with
an impressive skill set ranging from swordsmanship,
archery and magical abilities to physical
traits such as his amazing agility, stretch
and courage.
This skill set of his is what enables him
to take on the great evils of the land such
as Vaati, Zant, Ganondorf, Ganon, Majora and
even the source of evil itself Demise but
one thing we often overlook is the skillset
of the enemies.
The darkness to the light which challenges
Link, especially their weapons.
Link has the master sword, the blade of evil's
bane but what do the enemies have?
Well today we are going to be looking at the
strongest enemy weapons in the Zelda series,
quick side note these will be in no particular
order, just a list of what I believe to be
the strongest.
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and let’s get into the best of the best
weapons of darkness in The Legend of Zelda.
[The Sword of Six Sages Blows In]
Kicking off our list takes us to my all time
favorite video game, Twilight Princess.
The game where Hyrule is shrouded in Twilight
and Link must venture into the darkness to
take on the King of Twilight, Zant.
The game has a phenomenal story and the long
awaited battle between Link and Ganondorf
at the end of the game is one of my favourite
parts.
We are told about Ganondorf throughout the
entire game but don’t actually meet him
until the very end when he is at his peak.
This is light vs dark, Link vs Ganondorf and
most importantly, Master Sword vs Sword of
Six Sages.
Ganondorf's blade in this time is immense.
The story behind it’s name is chilling.
The blade wasn’t originally his.
During Ganondorf's planned execution the sages
drew a blade to execute him with but this
execution was botched.
Due to the power of the triforce Ganondorf
possessed he was able to survive the blade
being pierced right into his abdominal region
and in a moment of arsenal fueled malice he
broke free of his shackles, grabbed the blade
out of himself and lunged for the sage of
water with said blade and murdered the sage.
In a moment of panic the sages banished Ganondorf
to the Twilight Realm but at the cost of one
of their own.
There were 7 sages but Ganondorf took one
of their lives and thus gave his blade the
name “The Sword of Six Sages”.
A truly chilling tribute to his malicious
attack but the blade doesn’t stop there.
You know how the Master Sword is the blade
that seals the darkness, well the Sword of
Six Sages is the opposite and we learn this
in a line of dialogue coming from Ganondorf.
Towards the final battle Ganondorf says to
Link “To take this foul blade… and use
it to blot out the light forever”.
It could just be symbolic of the darkness
of Twilight taking over the light of Hyrule
but considering this blade literally glows
when in combat with the hero I don’t question
that this blade has some form of sealing ability
in contrast to the Master Swords sealing abilities.
This blade was one that almost took over Hyrule
but more daughtinly, has a very chilling backstory.
[Ganon’s Trident Blows In]
Whilst our last pick focused on a weapon wielded
by Ganondorf this weapon is the piece of Ganondorf's
oversized pig form Ganon.
The original big bag of The Legend of Zelda
and one of his most iconic and deadly weapons
is his Trident.
The weapon appears in A Link To The Past,
Ocarina of Time, the Oracle Games, Four Swords
Adventures and A Link Between Worlds and the
iteration I’m talking about is the one from
Four Swords Adventure.
Granted yeah the other iterations are extremely
badass and powerful but the appearance in
Four Swords Adventure is both my favourite
and most powerful.
This is like the Sword of Six Sages it has
a backstory and of course it’;s actual ability.
In Four Swords Adventures Ganon actually found
the trident and stole it.
He broke the law of Gerudo and entered the
Pyramid across the Desert of Doubt and deep
within lay an inscription promising the potential
wielder the power to become the King of Darkness.
This was a match made in heaven for Ganon.
We don’t see much of it but within the final
battle we get a real good look at it.
Ganon uses it to attack Link but it’s no
ordinary Trident of Darkness.
The trident has the ability to draw and shoot
flurries of lightings that can send Link to
the dark world.
A truly powerful ability to best Link 9 times
out of ten.
Oh and it has a cool as f@ck trial of blue
fire when thrown.
It’s even mentioned by one of the Hyrulean
Knights that Ganon used the Trident to defeat
the army and send them into the Dark World.
A true relentless attack with a truly powerful
weapon.
[Demise’s Sword Blows In]
Now for a very unique weapon.
Skyward Sword is the game that tells the beginning
of Hyrule and the very first evil that plagued
the land.
The source of all evil to come in fact, Demise
and my god is this evil one hell of a badass.
Demise is a totally shredded gym lad if you
will with a fiery main and ggnatic blade in
all black, rocking an inverted triforce symbolism
his hatred for the gods and goddess of the
land.
This beast is evil and his blade matches.
Ghirim, the puppet enemy of Skyward Sword
is actually revealed to be the sword of Demise
towards the end of the game.
Ghirihim was simply Demise testing Link out
to size him up anticipating their battle and
boy was that some plan because damn Link gives
it to Demise but this is not to take away
from the incredible ability of Demise's Sword.
Putting the fact that the blade is literally
another enemy and a strong one at that it’s
essentially the anti Master Sword.
If Link is struck by the blade it will send
him flying backwards and if Demise raises
it to the sky it will begin to attract and
absorb lightning and send a shock towards
Link, oh and to add to all of that it can
also send beams similar to the Master Sword
in other games when at full charge.
This sword is truly symbolic of evil.
Fi is the spirit of the Master Sword, the
light side.
Ghirahim is the spirit of Demise's sword,
the dark side.
If it wasn’t for the Hero of Skies courageous
efforts Demise and his masterful blade would
have written the history of Hyrule very differently.
[Darknut Sword Blows In]
The previous entries have all been the blades
and pointy thing of the big bads of the series
but this one is for a standard enemy.
Actually I take that back as we are talking
about the Darknuts.
Oh yeah babey, let’s go.
These tough nut, athletic, combat trained,
monstrous dark knights are arguably the strongest
non boss enemy in the entire Zelda series.
They’ve certainly got my vote and their
claymore sized blade is one of the toughest
pieces of metal in the series.
Darknuts are covered in thick plated armour
which is near impenetrable and the blade matches.
As I mentioned it’s more of a claymore,
to the regular Hylian but to a Darknut this
is just a sword and my god it is strong.
This thing can absolutely wipe Link out if
struck and due to the solid form of the blade
and strength of the Darknuts it makes it one
of the most strong weapons wielded by an enemy
in the entire series, at least in my opinion.
It might not have magical abilities of darkness
but it had good old fashioned raw strength.
[Zant’s Scimitar Blows In]
Now to venture into the Twilight.
The realm of shadows and darkness led by an
evil figure known as Zant.
The sidekick or rather pupper of Ganondorf
and although we previously discussed Ganondorf's
Sword of Six Sages from Twilight Princess
the spotlight is on Zants Scimitar?
Hold on a second, is that a Scimitar?
Well I’ve had this questionable issue in
the past when I made my “5 Zelda Items You
Might NOT Know About!” video a while back
and I didn’t question it’s name.
Not to mention the fact I pronounced it Scim-i-tar
and got absolutely destroyed in the comments
for making a mistake, im sorry im only human
i didn’t know to pronounce stop leaving
comments about please it keeps me up at night
oh my god.
Okay, it’s not your conventional scimitar
at all but it’s called that in the game
files so that’s what I’m going by.
Perhaps it was originally intended to be one
but they changed the design but not the file
now or maybe it got mixed up with his blades
used in his boss fight.
I don’t know but what I do know is that
his blade is extremely powerful and not in
the sense of combat.
This blade had the ability to revive the dead
and we see this in action within the Arbiter's
Grounds, when Link finds the chamber containing
the skeletal remains of a beast Zant appears
on top of the remains and after a brief conversion
with Link he stabs the blade into the skull
of the remains and we see red Twili veins
begin to fill throughout the skull sourced
from the blade.
It contains some sort of Twili magic that
injected into the skull of Stallord causes
the remains to come to life and almost crush
Link to death.
The skull even floats and spits fireballs.
Those abilities all came from this blade,
the Scimitar of Twilight.
Alright nope that doesn’t work for me, new
name.
Those abilities all came from this blade,
the Sword of Twilight.
We don’t see it in combat at all but just
knowing it has this ability, makes it powerful
alone.
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