Triforce of Power

The Triforce of Power is one of the three pieces of the Triforce. It embodies the essence of the Goddess of Power, Din, the creator of Hyrule. Whoever holds the Triforce of Power is granted "true power". This power is absolute, making the recipient of Din's blessing a god-like entity, vastly more powerful than any mortal, affording its wielder invulnerability, vast strength and an unlimited source of mystical power, making it likely the most dangerous of the three separate pieces in the wrong hands. Because of this, Ganon is almost always the bearer of the Triforce of Power, due to his sheer desire for ruling the world with an iron fist. It represents the top piece of the Triforce.
==Location and uses==
The Triforce of Power is one of the two Triforce pieces initially introduced in the original The Legend of Zelda alongside the Triforce of Wisdom where Ganon stole it and proceeds to search for its counterpart (which Princess Zelda, the Triforce of Wisdom's bearer, splits it into 8 pieces) as well to obtain ultimate power and thus be able to truly conquer Hyrule. In the NES game, after Link eventually recovers all the shards of the Wisdom piece and destroys Ganon in Death Mountain, the young hero ultimately obtains the Triforce of Power for himself in order to help Zelda, with the restored Triforce of Wisdom, restore peace to Hyrule. Later, in The Adventure of Link, Link unites this piece alongside the Wisdom and newly acquired Triforce of Courage after defeating Dark Link in the Great Palace to become the complete Triforce and wake Princess Zelda from her deep slumber. Link would also use the Triforce of Power alongside the other pieces to fully restore Hyrule after defeating Ganon in A Link to the Past.
In Ocarina of Time, when Ganondorf invaded the Sacred Realm and claimed the Triforce after Link pulls the Master Sword, the sacred triangles separated, leaving him with only the Triforce of Power, the aspect in which he most believed, while the Wisdom and Courage pieces respectively go to Princess Zelda and Link. Because he did not managed to obtain the other two pieces that are chosen by destiny, the villain was not satisfied and is determined to capture Zelda and defeat Link, and steal the Triforce of Wisdom and Courage in order to truly conquer Hyrule. Nevertheless, the Triforce of Power alone makes Ganondorf become the Evil King and is unimaginably powerful, granting him unlimited strength and matchless mystical power, as well as enabling him to transform into his beast form Ganon in the final battle, in which the Triforce's power made his entire body invulnerable except for his tail, making this area his Achilles' heel. The King of Evil uses this piece of the Triforce during Link's 7-year sleep to utterly throw Hyrule into chaos just like in . Even though the Seven Sages ultimately send him to the Evil Realm upon his eventual brutal defeat by the Hero of Time's hand at Ganon's Castle, the Triforce of Power was not lost from Ganondorf's hand, allowing him to reappear later and cause the goddesses to summon the Great Flood, sealing him in the underwater land of Hyrule. This is spoken of in the introduction of The Wind Waker. 
In Twilight Princess, Ganondorf gains the Triforce of Power through what the Sages referred to as a "Divine prank". It allows him to survive his execution via being stabbed in his chest by the Sword of the Sages, but is sent off into the Twilight Realm, which allows him to house the power given to him by his Triforce piece on Zant. Ganondorf seemingly loses the Triforce of Power after he is fatally impaled and defeated by the Master Sword at the end of the game by the Hero of Twilight, the descendant of the legendary Hero of Time (who appeared as the Hero's Spirit in-game).
In , Yuga manages to revive and fuse with Ganon, giving Yuga complete control, and as such, usurps Ganon's Triforce of Power. During the final battle, when Yuga further fuses with Princess Hilda while in portrait form, he also takes the Triforce of Wisdom from her, making himself more powerful. He intends to steal Link's Triforce of Courage to make it complete, but fails to do so when he is ultimately destroyed by the young hero.
In , Null (while using the Zelda echo) attempts to grab the Triforce, or as it calls the object, Prime Energy, to ensure it can bring everything back into the Void. However, the Golden Goddesses anticipated this move, and had the triforce split between itself, the real Princess Zelda, and Link. It is heavily implied that Null ended up with the Triforce of Power.
== Trivia ==
* The Legend of Zelda is the only instance anywhere in The Legend of Zelda series where Link actually obtains this piece of the Triforce by itself and being taken away from Ganon after destroying him with a Silver Arrow, despite this occurring at the very end of the game.
* As the Triforce since Ocarina of Time is widely known to split apart into three parts if one with a tainted heart were to touch the golden relic and obtain the one he believes in the most as well as the Sacred Realm turning into a world of evil according to Sheikah legends, in all cases seen throughout the series, the piece taken is always the Triforce of Power, and the person who stolen that particular fragment is none other than Ganon himself, or in the case of , Null.
* The Triforce of Power is the only piece of the Triforce never to be broken into fragments anywhere in the franchise, unlike its Wisdom and Courage counterparts. However, the planned but scrapped third entry of the Oracle games had Ganondorf splitting it into multiple parts as a way to safeguard it from Link and Princess Zelda, ironically like how the Triforce of Wisdom was split by Zelda in the original The Legend of Zelda to protect it from the villain.
* Interestingly, the Triforce of Power in The Legend of Zelda was used as part of the title logo and credits, and is seen upside down as opposed to the rightside-up Triforce of Wisdom. An inverted Triforce would not be seen in the series until A Link Between Worlds (not including BS The Legend of Zelda or Mystical Seed of Courage), released 27 years later, as the Lourle counterpart of Hyrule's.
* In Ocarina of Time, when obtaining the Golden Gauntlets, Link's tremendous superhuman strength is on-par with Ganondorf's with the Triforce of Power, as seen when he lifts and throw huge, black, incredibly heavy granite pillars at great distances.
* The notorious Fierce Deity form in Majora's Mask is considered by some fans as Link's answer to the Triforce of Power rather than Courage.
== Gallery ==
File:OoT3D Triforce of Power.png|Triforce of Power resonating on Ganondorf's fist in Ocarina of Time 3D
File:TLoZ Link and Zelda Million Publishing Artwork 2.png|Artwork of Link with Triforce of Power and Princess Zelda with the Triforce of Wisdom, in The Legend of Zelda
File:TLoZ NES Title Display.png|The Triforce of Power is visible on the title screen of The Legend of Zelda
File:Triforce of Power (The Moblins Are Revolting).png|The Triforce of Power in the 1980s TV series
File:Mascot(male)ending1.gif|The Triforce of Power on Ganon's ashes in BS The Legend of Zelda
File:Ganondorf using Triforce of Power OoT.png|A furious Ganondorf using the Triforce of Power to become Ganon in the final battle of Ocarina of Time
File:TWW Scroll of the Hero of Time 2.png|Ganon stealing the Triforce of Power in the opening cutscene of The Wind Waker
File:WW Triforce of Power glowing.png|The Triforce of Power appearing on Ganondorf's hand while choking Tetra in The Wind Waker
File:ALBW Yuga Ganon Triforce of Power.png|Yuga Ganon with the Triforce of Power on his hand in A Link Between Worlds
File:ALBW Yuga Ganon 2 Triforce Pieces.png|Yuga Ganon combining the Triforce of Power with the Triforce of Wisdom
File:HW Triforce of Power.png|The Triforce of Power being held by Lana in Hyrule Warriors
File:OoT manga Triforce of Power.png|The Triforce of Power in the Ocarina of Time Akira Himekawa manga
==References==
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