Triforce of Wisdom

The Triforce of Wisdom is one of the three pieces of the Triforce. It embodies the essence of the Goddess of Wisdom, Nayru, the author of law. It imparts divine wisdom upon its holder, and grants the holder untold mystical abilities, including the ability to heal others and, presumably, the ability to communicate telepathically. The Triforce of Wisdom leads its holder to make the right decisions, making them wiser than any mortal. Princess Zelda is usually the Triforce of Wisdom's bearer. It represents the lower-left piece of the Triforce.
==Location and uses==
The Triforce of Wisdom is one of the two Triforce pieces initially introduced in the original alongside the Triforce of Power, where Zelda purposely splits up the Triforce of Wisdom into eight fragments and hides them throughout the land, fearing Ganon's rule after he steals its counterpart. Link must fully reassemble the Triforce of Wisdom if he hopes to enter Death Mountain (Level-9), destroy Ganon once and for all, take the Triforce of Power for himself, and rescue the princess of Hyrule in order to save the land. During the final battle, Link uses the restored Triforce of Wisdom's light to expose Ganon from the pitch-black darkness before the fight. In The Adventure of Link, after defeating his shadow self in the Great Palace and obtaining the Triforce of Courage, Link unites the previous two pieces with it to wake up Princess Zelda from her deep magical slumber. The young hero would also use the Triforce of Wisdom alongside the Power and Courage pieces to fully restore Hyrule back to its peaceful state after destroying Ganon in A Link to the Past.
When the Triforce was split into its three aspects in Ocarina of Time by Ganondorf claiming the Triforce in the Sacred Realm shortly after Link pulls the Master Sword from its pedestal in the Temple of Time, Princess Zelda was imparted with the Triforce of Wisdom, while Ganondorf and Link respectively obtain the Triforce of Power and Triforce of Courage. This seemingly allowed her to disguise herself as a male Sheikah named Sheik, for 7 years, until the eventual return of the Hero of Time; The Triforce of Wisdom on the back of Sheik's hand shines before revealing his true identity to the young hero as Princess Zelda. Her possession of the Triforce of Wisdom also makes her leader of the Six Sages, and she is also one, herself, as the seventh, indicating her importance of giving Link the Light Arrows and sealing Ganon away into the Evil Realm upon his brutal defeat by the hero. The Triforce's power also allows the princess to send the Hero of Time back to his original time at the end of the game, creating new history doing so.
In The Wind Waker, before the events of the game, the Triforce of Wisdom was split in two. Zelda, in her disguise as the pirate Tetra, carries a large part of this piece of the Triforce in the form of a pendant that was given to her by her mother before she passed away. The remaining fragment is then given to her by the King of Hyrule, thus revealing her true identity as the Princess of Hyrule. It is explained by Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule that the Triforce of Wisdom was given to Tetra's ancestors with the task of protecting it from Ganondorf's grasp. It was first seen when Link, the Hero of Winds, attempted to strike down Ganondorf with the powerless Master Sword and Tetra tried to save him from being killed by the evil warlock, which his Triforce of Power resonated upon seeing the "pendant".
In Twilight Princess, when Zant transformed the kingdom of Hyrule into a world covered by Twilight, the Triforce of Wisdom seemingly protects Princess Zelda from becoming a spirit in the world of Twilight, much like how Link, the Hero of Twilight, was protected by his Triforce of Courage. Later on in the game, Princess Zelda transfers her powers to the dying Midna in order to save her, thus allowing the Twili imp to be able to withstand light.
In A Link Between Worlds, during the finale, Princess Hilda steals the Triforce of Wisdom from Zelda and summons Yuga. When Yuga, after he fuses with Ganon betrays Hilda and absorbs her, he takes the Triforce of Wisdom for himself, combining it with the Triforce of Power after usurping Ganon's control, during the final battle.
In Echoes of Wisdom, Zelda, similar to in Ocarina of Time, ended up getting the Triforce of Wisdom after Null's attempt of using the Triforce to bring Hyrule into the void via an echo of Zelda failed. Although Null deduced Zelda's holding of the Triforce of Wisdom, it ignored her for the time being due to intending to grab Link's Triforce of Courage first.
== Trivia ==
* The Triforce of Wisdom is the piece of the Triforce broken up into fragments the most times in the franchise, as seen in The Legend of Zelda and The Wind Waker. It is also the one stolen by antagonists the most as well.
* Although the Triforce of Wisdom, indeed grants divine wisdom due to the blessings of Nayru, the piece itself does not appear to affect one's own intelligence. In the case of Ocarina of Time, Princess Zelda, despite being its bearer and as a Sage, displays a character flaw multiple times throughout the game's story; Her desperate decision of protecting the Sacred Realm through Link failed during their childhood, she left herself completely exposed to Ganondorf upon shedding her Sheik disguise for the Hero when the princess knows she should be hiding, and, most notably, when Zelda sends the Hero of Time back to the past at the ending, she was not aware of the longtime negative effects for Link and Hyrule when the princess split the timeline, consequently making his legacy not being remembered in the Child Timeline, as well as leaving the Adult counterpart without a Hero when Ganon eventually returns by the events of The Wind Waker and the kingdom ultimately being flooded.
* Link fully reassembling the Triforce of Wisdom in the original Legend of Zelda is the first instance in The Legend of Zelda series where the the three main characters obtain a part of the Triforce that normally belongs to another, although by the release of the NES game in 1986, the Triforce of Courage was not yet in existence until its sequel, The Adventure of Link in the following year, and was not the hero's standard piece until the N64's Ocarina of Time in 1998.
* The number of fragments of the Triforce of Wisdom being split in The Legend of Zelda was reused for the Triforce of Courage's Shards in The Wind Waker - eight.
== Gallery ==
File:TLoZ Triforce Shard Sprite.png|A shard of the Triforce of Wisdom in The Legend of Zelda
File:OoT3D Crest of Wisdom.png|Triforce of Wisdom resonating on Zelda's hand in Ocarina of Time 3D
File:TLoZ Link Holding the Triforce of Wisdom Artwork 3.png|The Legend of Zelda artwork of Link holding the Triforce of Wisdom
File:TLoZ Link Using Triforce Artwork.png|Artwork of Link using the Triforce of Wisdom to expose Ganon in The Legend of Zelda
File:TLoZ Triforce of Wisdom exposing Ganon.png|The Triforce of Wisdom exposing Ganon in The Legend of Zelda, in-game
File:TLoZ Triforce used by Zelda and Link.png|Princess Zelda using the Triforce of Wisdom (left) with Link holding its Power counterpart in the ending of The Legend of Zelda
File:Triforce of Wisdom (Underworld Connections).png|The Triforce of Wisdom in the 1980s TV series
File:Mascot(female)ending.gif|The female player character using the Triforce of Wisdom in BS The Legend of Zelda
File:WW Triforce of Wisdom Shard.png|A large shard of the Triforce of Wisdom in The Wind Waker
File:WW Triforce of Wisdom.png|The Triforce of Wisdom on Princess Zelda's hand in The Wind Waker
File:Zelda's Triforce.png|The Triforce of Wisdom on Princess Zelda's hand in Twilight Princess
File:ALBW Hilda Holding Triforce of Wisdom.jpg|Princess Hilda holding the Triforce of Wisdom in A Link Between Worlds
File:ALBW Hilda Absorbing Triforce of Wisdom.png|Princess Hilda absorbing Zelda's Triforce of Wisdom in A Link Between Worlds
File:ALBW Yuga Ganon 2 Triforce Pieces.png|Yuga Ganon combining the Triforce of Wisdom with the Triforce of Power in A Link Between Worlds
File:HW Triforce of Wisdom.png|The Triforce of Wisdom on Zelda's hand in Hyrule Warriors
File:OoT manga Triforce of Wisdom and Courage.png|Zelda's Triforce of Wisdom resonating alongside Link's Triforce of Courage in the Ocarina of Time Akira Himekawa manga
== Referances ==
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