It is the winter of 1315, but it is not the frigid winds that keep every royal, noble, merchant, and peasant alike locked up inside of their homes. It is a much colder wind that is sweeping through - the winds of change.

Once upon a time, the kingdom of Hyrule thrived under the fair sovereignty of the Harkinian royal family - the crown prince Sheik, and his parents Link and Zelda. Its people more often than not died of natural causes, starvation and conflict a rarity, the surname 'Dragmire' nothing more than a horrible, far-from-cherished memory.

All of this was to change, however, on the eve of a peasant girl's fifteenth birthday. One whom Sheik dearly despised, but would ultimately become his only chance for survival. Racing down staircases, hugging walls, nearly out of breath in a place that he should have felt at ease in, Sheik is the sole royal survivor of a catastrophe which left Hyrule's monarchy in shards.

An entirely unfamiliar scenario he would have never expected to unfold.

He is the kingdom's last hope.

Or what is left of it, anyway...