Long ago, in a land like ours, there existed the AI, and the Hylians. The AI was a force of power that existed through an entity with free will, which served as an invisible reminder that there is always an opposite. The Hylians are what you'd expect; peaceful people living in a peaceful place. What would cause such a peaceful nation to turn into a machine if destruction? When faced with power, one changes. When faced with the infinite power of the universe and what it contains, one changes even more. But when faced with omniscience and infinite power at it's purest and highest form, destruction is the only product possible. There is only one who can resist this change. He reappears every 100 years, and they call him Link.