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• #IGOS DU IKANA ALIVE SERIES#

A shell of yourself that you will shed when your song commands it. This soldier who has no heart is your twin image.

He adds, however, that “ is far too reckless for one to take on such a challenge.” His solution is to teach Link the Elegy of Emptiness.Īnd so… I grant to you a soldier who has no heart. When Link defeats Igos du Ikana, returning him to his senses, Igos charges Link to seal Stone Tower in order to return light to Ikana Canyon, which has been clouded in spirit by darkness. I will offer two separate interpretations of the song within the context of the game, and, by showing how these two interpretations coexist, will aim to reveal another aspect of precisely how the narrative of the game takes the player as one of its central elements - a theme which we’ve been working with for a while. But is there anything to say about the Elegy of Emptiness, besides shuddering and declaring it creepy? I think that there is, and that is the heart of my argument in this article. These statues are crucial to navigating the Stone Tower Temple, and they also look quite disturbing, resembling Link while at the same time seeming utterly inanimate.

It allows Link to create a statue version of whatever form in which he is currently manifested - Hylian, Deku, Zora, or Goron. This is the song taught to Link by Igos du Ikana (5:40 in the video), the king of the Ikana whom I mentioned much earlier in this series. One cannot avoid the haunting, barely-explained plot device that spawned the horror story “ BEN drowned,” along with countless memes of a Link Statue vacantly grinning at you.

In any analysis of “Majora’s Mask” that purports to be comprehensive, there must be an account of the Elegy of Emptiness.

#IGOS DU IKANA ALIVE SERIES#

The following is an entry in “A Comprehensive Theory of Majora’s Mask,” a series that analyzed the storytelling of Majora’s Mask from the time its 3D remake was announced to the time the remake was released.