Dust_Collector
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So first off I wanna remove the "possibly" from his enhanced senses, reason he only has his ability to see invisible beings as a possibly is because Link has a shadow when he's invisible and it wasn't decided if the shadow is actually there and Ganon followed it or if the shadow is visible only to the player so they can see where Link is when they're controlling him. Decided to test it myself and yeah seems like the shadow is visible only to the player, the guards chase Link until he turns invisible and then they look around confused as to where he is and then go back to their normal patrols, and they don't even react to the shadow as it moves around them, so the shadow is just there for the sake of gameplay. I'd also like to remove the possibly from his deconstruction since I don't know why we currently assume there's a possibility that the sages might just naturally dissipate upon death based on nothing afaik (I've looked for anything to suggest it might just be how they die but I couldn't find anything). Don't feel as strongly about this as the enhanced senses stuff so if it's still agreed that it's better to assume that it's still only a possibility I can't be bothered to argue against it.
Major thing to here is I wanna add a resistance to sealing for his Triforce of Power (And by extension Sealing War) self. The sage of light, Rauru, has sealing powers because he sealed away and locked up the sacred realm barring a single entrance in the temple of time. Yet he couldn't seal away Ganon and his evil by himself and told Link he needed to awaken the other sages so that their combined power can do just that. Of course you'll notice he also mentions his power has little influence now, which might mean that his sealing powers have weakened and thus it wouldn't be a proper resistance for Ganon, but it doesn't matter too much since Link awakens the other sages and now they can all combine their power, but it's still not enough and during the final battle they don't attempt the sealing until Link and Zelda already weaken Ganon implying that he and his evil power wouldn't be sealed unless in a weakened state, backed up further by the Historia saying Zelda needed Links help before she could help seal Ganon away, and the encyclopedia saying that Link only won due to the combined power of the sages, Zelda, and the Master Sword, so without Link whipping out that holy sword the sages wouldn't have been able to seal Ganon away. I think this also might double as a resistance to dimensional BFR given that part of the whole sealing thing is that they also yeet him into the sacred realm but I dunno.
Now there is the issue of the downfall timeline where Ganon defeats Link, obtains the full Triforce and isn't weakened (In fact it's stated he finally achieved his true power), only to be instantly sealed away by Zelda and the other sages, but personally I'd chalk that up to PIS since Nintendo needed to make something up because otherwise they had no way to connect this to A Link to the Past timeline wise (Especially since this comes from the Historia, which just a few pages before says that Zelda needs Link's might to help seal Ganon, so it really feels like they just had to just inexplicably allow them to seal a complete Triforce empowered Ganon for the sake of continuity).
Major thing to here is I wanna add a resistance to sealing for his Triforce of Power (And by extension Sealing War) self. The sage of light, Rauru, has sealing powers because he sealed away and locked up the sacred realm barring a single entrance in the temple of time. Yet he couldn't seal away Ganon and his evil by himself and told Link he needed to awaken the other sages so that their combined power can do just that. Of course you'll notice he also mentions his power has little influence now, which might mean that his sealing powers have weakened and thus it wouldn't be a proper resistance for Ganon, but it doesn't matter too much since Link awakens the other sages and now they can all combine their power, but it's still not enough and during the final battle they don't attempt the sealing until Link and Zelda already weaken Ganon implying that he and his evil power wouldn't be sealed unless in a weakened state, backed up further by the Historia saying Zelda needed Links help before she could help seal Ganon away, and the encyclopedia saying that Link only won due to the combined power of the sages, Zelda, and the Master Sword, so without Link whipping out that holy sword the sages wouldn't have been able to seal Ganon away. I think this also might double as a resistance to dimensional BFR given that part of the whole sealing thing is that they also yeet him into the sacred realm but I dunno.
Now there is the issue of the downfall timeline where Ganon defeats Link, obtains the full Triforce and isn't weakened (In fact it's stated he finally achieved his true power), only to be instantly sealed away by Zelda and the other sages, but personally I'd chalk that up to PIS since Nintendo needed to make something up because otherwise they had no way to connect this to A Link to the Past timeline wise (Especially since this comes from the Historia, which just a few pages before says that Zelda needs Link's might to help seal Ganon, so it really feels like they just had to just inexplicably allow them to seal a complete Triforce empowered Ganon for the sake of continuity).
