Goddess Sword

The is a recurring in . It is a legendary blade that was crafted by the Goddess, Hylia, to aid her Chosen Hero. To this end, it is inhabited by a spirit known as Fi. In order to defeat the Demons which threaten The Surface, it is eventually tempered into the Master Sword by Link. The Goddess Sword undergoes several stages to reach this ability: first by transforming into the with Farore's Flame, the by Nayru's Flame, the with Din's Flame and ultimately, the with Hylia's blessing.
==Location and Uses==
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The Goddess Hylia created the Goddess Sword and Fi, an intelligent humanoid spirit who resides in the Sword, and gave it the purpose of assisting Hylia's chosen hero. She then enshrined the Sword inside the Statue of the Goddess before raising it into The Sky as part of Skyloft.
Preceding the Wing Ceremony, Fi appears to Link in his dreams, foretelling him of his destiny. After Link and Zelda are attacked by a black tornado, Fi appears again to Link in his sleep, calling for him to realize his destiny. After he awakens, Fi appears in the Knight Academy outside of Link's room to guide him Chamber of the Sword. Inside, Fi explains his fate as the Chosen Hero and encourages him to draw the Goddess Sword from its pedestal so that Fi can formally acknowledge him as her Master.
After Link receives the Goddess's Harp from Zelda, the young hero must temper the Goddess Sword using the three Sacred Flames in order for it to hold the necessary power to open the Gate of Time at the Sealed Grounds. Each time Link bathes the Goddess Sword in one of the Sacred Flames, the Sword is both empowered and physically altered. First, Farore's Flame converts it to the Goddess Longsword, which has doubled attacking power and greater reach. Then, Nayru's Flame converts it to the Goddess White Sword, which adds the ability to dowse for Rupees, Treasures, Gratitude Crystals and Goddess Cubes. Finally, Din's Flame converts it to the Master Sword, with four times the attacking power of original Goddess Sword, an even greater reach, and the Power to Repel Evil. However, this Master Sword is not fully capable of defeating Demise, and requires its true power to be unlocked by Hylia's blessing.
The final change to the Goddess Sword takes place in the distant past, before Zelda enters into a deep sleep to keep the seal placed upon Demise intact. Her blessing converts it to the True Master Sword, extending the cross-guard outward as well as restoring the gem and the Triforce symbol upon it. With this final transformation, the True Master Sword is capable of defeating Demise. Additionally, the time it takes to charge a Skyward Strike is reduced. In Hero Mode, the Skyward Strike is already at its maximum power and charging speed from the previous playthrough, so upon acquiring the True Master Sword its charge time is upgraded again to become nearly instantaneous.
The Goddess Sword houses a spirit, Fi, who guides Link in many ways, such as giving him helpful advice or actually pointing him in the direction he needs to go. When Fi has something to say, the Sword begins to glow, and Link can speak to Fi at any time by pressing down on the D-Pad. Moreover, the Sword has a treasure-seeking ability called Dowsing. With this ability, it can sense important people, items and objects to help Link locate them, acting as a sort of compass. Link can choose in the Dowsing menu which specific object or person he wishes to track down. While Dowsing, the Goddess Sword periodically beeps as it searches for the target, beeping with greater frequency the closer Link is to the target.
If Link holds the Goddess Sword up to the sky, it will be charged up by "energy from the heavens" and be able to release a Skyward Strike once it's swung. This beam can activate the various objects that the Goddess specifically left for the hero, such as Goddess Cubes, Goddess Walls and Goddess Crests.
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The is a that may be obtained at random within a that appears after tapping The Legend of Zelda series with the . It has 28 attack power and a durability of 45. The houses the fire of the . It is said that a "heavenly breeze" kicks up around its wielder.
Being made of metal, the will attract if it is equipped during a and conduct . It will also sink in , but it can be picked up and manipulated using the . If it is exposed to or a , the will not burn like a wooden would.
Although it is known as the , it instead resembles the .
===Tears of the Kingdom===
The Goddess Sword functions the same as it did in Breath of the Wild, however it is now rewarded upon completing the quest "The Mother Goddess Statue," involving the revival of the statue located in the Forgotten Temple. An amiibo is no longer required, and its implementation is likely canon due to the nature of the quest.
Its name is now referred to as the White Sword of the Sky and the description of the weapon has been changed to read, "A sword said to have once belonged to a hero from the sky. It's beautiful white blade stands out. When it's wielded, a strange but heavenly breeze kicks up around you." 
==Other Appearances==
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The Goddess Sword appears as part of Fi's moveset in . The three main tiers of the Sword are based on the upgraded versions of it that appear in . While the first two tiers are named identically to their counterparts, the Goddess White Sword was renamed the True Goddess Blade for its third tier. The star tier of the moveset added in the Master Quest pack DLC is the 8-bit Silver Arrow.
==Trivia==
*When Link first obtains the True Master Sword, it is stated that he is the only one capable of wielding it. Despite this, Ghirahim is able to disarm Link and wield it himself during the Thunder Dragon's Lightning Round, as the Lightning Round reuses the first Ghirahim fight, and Ghirahim's gimmick in that fight was mockingly stealing and using the Goddess Sword against Link.
*At the end of , because of the time travel involved, the Goddess Sword and Master Sword exist simultaneously inside the Statue of the Goddess of the past and the Temple of Hylia of the present, respectively.
*Despite its name, the Goddess Longsword is in fact an .
== Nomenclature ==
==Gallery==
File:Link SS 2.png|Artwork of swinging the from 
File:Link SS 3.png|Artwork of swinging the from 
File:Goddess Sword.png|The in its pedestal from 
File:HW - Fi Sword.png|Render of with the from 
File:HW Goddess Sword Render.png|Render of the from 
File:HW Goddess Sword Attack.png| executing an attack as the from 
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