Zora Mask
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| Game(s) Present | Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask |
| MM Properties | Transforms Link into a Zora (See Zora Link) |
The Zora's Mask is an item that appears in both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
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Appearances, Location and Uses
Ocarina of Time
In Ocarina of Time, the mask is available for trade in the Happy Mask Shop. It serves no purpose other than to provoke different reactions from people Link talks to while wearing it. When shown to Princess Ruto, she will express her happiness that Link has become a Zora.[1]
Majora's Mask
In Majora's Mask the mask allows Link to take on the body of the Zora guitarist, Mikau, becoming Zora Link. The transformation lends Link many abilities, including an impressive fighting style, two built-in Boomerangs, an Electric Barrier Shield that consumes magic power, and hightened agility in the water, including the ability to walk on the seafloor and swim at high speeds. The Zora Mask is one of four Transformation Masks in the game,[2] the other three being the Deku Mask, the Goron Mask, and the Fierce Deity's Mask.
Link acquires the mask while visiting Great Bay. He notices a Zora floating in the water surrounded by gulls, near death.[3] Once Link helps the Zora to shore, he tells Link that he is Mikau, guitarist for the famous Zora band The Indigo-Go's.[4] He sings a song explaining that he was trying to help another band member recover eggs that were stolen from her by Gerudo Pirates, but was fatally injured in the process.[5] Full of regret, he cannot die in peace, and asks someone to heal his soul.[6] By playing the Song of Healing, Link can rest Mikau's soul, leaving behind the Zora Mask.
Non-canon Appearances
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A Link to the Past comic
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In the A Link to the Past comic, Zora grants Link the Zora's Mask when he first meets the young hero. After Link mentions that he is going to the Palace of Darkness to rescue the imprisoned Maiden, Zora takes one of his scales and places it on Link's face, calling it Zora's Mask, which is meant to disguise the young hero's face and not look so conspicuous as he is sneaking around the palace.[7] Although Link is at first able to sneak around with the Zora's Mask without being noticed,[8] he is eventually discovered by a Rocklops, who sees right through Link's disguise.[9]
Gallery
Link obtaining the Zora Mask in Majora's Mask
References
- ↑ "All right! You actually decided to become a Zora! Are you actually ready to marry me now?" — Princess Ruto (Ocarina of Time)
- ↑ "When you wear it, you will transform into the shape you just were." — Happy Mask Salesman (Majora's Mask)
- ↑ "Hey, what do you think that is? Out there in the bay, beneath where the gulls are flying... Can't you see it?" — Tatl (Majora's Mask)
- ↑ "Uuungh...I am Mikau of the Zora people......guitarist in the Zora band... I think this is it for me... My final message..." — Mikau (Majora's Mask)
- ↑ "But that girl, our vocalist... She laid some strange eggs. And she's lost her voice, You can't hear what she says. Whoa-oh! In Great Bay now somethin' is a-happenin'. Is it now? Oh! Baby, listen to me. I don't wanna beg. Gerudo Pirates! They stole that girl's eggs. I went to stop the Gerudo Pirates, then pow and bam! I got knocked down, and here I am!" — Mikau (Majora's Mask)
- ↑ "Baby! If I die like this... Even if I die... It won't be in peace... That's for suuure! Somebody, please rescue her eggs before the pirates take their toll. Oh, somebody, somebody, please heal my soul." — Mikau (Majora's Mask)
- ↑ "If you mussst go, take my Epheremelda for your ggguide... Also, your gggrotesssque face isss too conssspicuousss... You musst wear Zzzora's Masssk!!" (A Link to the Past (Nintendo Power), pg. 6)
- ↑ "Now I know why Zora put this thing on my face!" (A Link to the Past (Nintendo Power), pg. 9)
- ↑ "I can see another face behind the mask! The face of an intruder! Death to the interloper!" (A Link to the Past (Nintendo Power), pg. 9)
 Names in Other Regions 
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ゾーラのお面 (Zora no Otsura) | Zora's Mask |
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Máscara Zora | Zora Mask |
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Máscara zora 
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Zora mask | |
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Masque Zora | |
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Zora-Maske | |
| Ocarina of Time Mask Trading Sequence |
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| Keaton Mask > Skull Mask > Spooky Mask > Bunny Hood Gerudo Mask - Goron Mask - Zora Mask - Mask of Truth |
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