"After forming all that is, when it was time for them to depart this realm, the gods consummated the land with a symbol forged of their own power, in the form of a sacred, golden, triangle: the "Triforce." Their course finally running to completion, the gods left the Triforce to govern this land. The Triforce, respectively: "one who would Conquer Power," "one who would Govern Wisdom," and "one who would Temper Courage" held three different emblems. It would shine in the Sacred Realm, somewhere in the world, until one who was worthy of inheriting those powers appeared."
At the time the gods left this world, after having created everything, a golden holy triangle "Triforce," constituting the symbol of the gods' personal power, was left behind and was to rule the entire world. Each part of the Triforce, "the Ruler of Power", "the Administrator of Wisdom" and "the Forger of Courage", carried a crest. Until the appearance of an appropiate person who would take over this force, it was located in a holy place somewhere in the world, shining continiously.
Now, we've all taken the English manual's word for it that those names are titles bestowed by the triforce, and that in itself it's an inanimate object. However, the Japanese clearly states the triforce is to rule the world - how could it do that if it was inanimate? What if, the triforce is instead more like three beings, formed fromt he goddesses power. Then the three triangles we see are the "crests" that each part carries - a physical manifestation of the triforce, which is actually a seperate being - and these beings are "the Ruler of Power", "the Administrator of Wisdom" and "the Forger of Courage." So the ruler of power is a part of the trifroce, who is physically manifested as the Triforce of Power but is actually a third of the being who rule the world of Hyrule in the goddesses absence - they're kind of demi-gods formed from the actual goddesses. Then the esence of the triforce, at the end of the game, is when we actually hear these demi-gods speaking.
http://www.zhq2.com/...incess_boss.wmv
http://www.zhq2.com/...rest_temple.wmv
http://www.zhq2.com/...s_horseback.wmv
http://www.zhq2.com/...ess_village.wmv
Edited by Showsni, 29 January 2006 - 09:10 PM.