During a desperate confrontation with the newly unsealed Demon King Ganondorf, Princess Zelda is swept away through time by the power of a mysterious secret stone, cast far into the distant past to the age when the kingdom of Hyrule was first being founded. Stranded in this ancient era, she is discovered by her own ancestors, the noble King Rauru and Queen Sonia, who take her in and vow to help her find a way back to her own time. As the days pass, Zelda lends her aid to the fledgling kingdom, assisting Rauru with his royal duties, honing her innate powers of light and time under Sonia's guidance, and venturing into the mysterious Depths that lie beneath the land, unaware of the gathering darkness that threatens this bygone age.