Towards the end of the Hyrulean Civil War, a lone woman sought refuge from the fires of war. Baby in arms, she escaped to the Forbidden Forest. She entrusted her baby to the Deku Tree, the spirit of the Kokiri Forest. The Deku Tree sensed that the child was intertwined with the fate of Hyrule and took the child in. Once the child's mother died, they were raised as a Kokiri. This child would later because the Hero of Time.