By trading them items that they long for, Link works his way through the Well and finds the Mirror Shield. The Gibdo curse that was eating away at Pamela's father is turned into a Gibdo Mask, which Link uses to communicate with the Gibdos living in the nearby Well. Link enters the house and heals the soul of Pamela's father with the " Song of Healing". Link restores the flow of water in the canyon and reactivates the Music Box House where Pamela and her cursed father reside the song it emits, " Farewell to Gibdos", is hated by the Gibdos in the area, and they burrow under the ground whenever the song plays. Link learns of the curse placed on the area, and frees Sharp, one of the Composer Brothers from the curse by playing a song that he learned from his brother, Flat. On his quest to halt the impending destruction of Termina, Link arrives in the desolate Ikana Canyon. While it may be too much to ask that the Garo be revisited any time soon, their haunting presence in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is certainly a memorable one, and their story deserves some recognition.Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. The story of the Ikana and the Garo is meant to be a sort of cautionary tale that hatred only begets hatred. While sad, this story keeps with the theming of Majora's Mask, a very somber sequel that often reflects on death and how desperate acts create additional suffering. While not as tear-jerking as Majora's Mask's best quests, the downfall of an entire civilization is certainly very depressing. The Garo attacked and, in Sharp's desperation, became their undoing. All in all, it is a very tragic story about how hatred can breed eternal torment. The Garo, having invaded Ikana as enemy spies, are unable to now move on thanks to the curse while the Ikana are eternally tormented to continue their war. Thus, the conflict was born anew, with the forces of the two sides now locked in a war in undeath. In a way, this ensured the Ikana Royal Family would be revived and that the Ikana Kingdom would not fall at the cost of an eternal conflict between the restless spirits of the Ikana and the Garo. This deal was, like all deals with Majora, a trick that instead cursed the land with undeath. Sharp, observing his land invaded by the Garo, made a deal with one of Majora's wearers for " the revival of the Royal Family" of Ikana. As the Garo spirits were so well spread-out by the time of Link's arrival it can be presumed that they were successful in their invasion. Considering what Majora may have been in the past, this shouldn't be shocking.įlat, Sharp's composer brother, suggests that Sharp made a deal with the devil in response to the land of the Ikana being taken over. Regardless, it does appear that Majora was indeed responsible.
It is somewhat unlikely if the Skull Kid was the one who cursed the land as the timeline of the curse seems long ago and Skull Kid had only recently taken the mask. One of the Ikana Kingdom's royal composers, Sharp, remarks that a " masked one" is responsible for the dead lingering in the land, suggesting that Majora's Mask was responsible for the land's curse though the identity of this wearer is unknown.
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