Once upon a time, in Termina, long before the Ikanans existed, there were a pair of gods. These gods were children and used Termina as their playground. Majora, the younger, and Fierce, the elder. They enjoyed playing ‘A Battle of Good vs. Evil’, but, over time, Fierce grew up. Majora refused, remaining small and playing pranks upon the world.
After defeating a nameless evil, Majora began to resent Fierce for growing up and leaving Majora to play by himself. Majora became bitter and resentful, and tried to make Fierce play with him by playing pranks—and Fierce became tired of it. Fearing Majora’s power would only grow out of hand— he bound Majora’s body and soul into a mask, and left it in the desert.
One day a traveler in the desert came across the curious mask, and took it home with him. This traveler was one of the Ancient Ones. At the time, the Ancient Ones were having a bloody civil war— after one of their giants was murdered.
The mask spoke to him and said that it would aide them, and seemed to do this selflessly. With Majora in hand, half of the Ancient Ones were demolished, and the others built a massive temple to the creature, thanking it for it’s use. Fierce took notice of this destruction, and urged the Ancient Ones to seal Majora away inside the temple. They did not heed him, and suffered many a cruel joke before they finally did so— Over time did they all slowly die off, and found they could not rest, even in death.
More time passed, and the Ancient ones moved further down into the valley- and learned to become spies and scouts, taking the name of the Garo. It was lower in the valley that they discovered that a new race had moved in- the warriors called the Ikana.
The Garo and Ikanans clashed quickly, and because the Ikanans were very clearly warriors, they beat down the Garo- but the Garo could not die. The Ikana became frustrated, and sent out a man to venture into the desert, as the Ancient Ones had, to find something to make the incessant Garo perish. The Ikanan came upon the Stone Tower Temple and ventured inside, freeing Majora— and asking it to help them vanquish the Garo.
Majora obliged and wiped out the Garo that dared approach the Ikana, leaving the very few who hid away underground left. It was then that Majora began to prank the Ikanans, playing with their society until they collapsed from their own internal squabbles. Fierce again came along, and urged the Ikana to seal away Majora— when they refused, he did it himself, locking him away into the Stone Tower. But Majora had played another nasty prank.
Not to be outdone, he trapped Fierce into his own mask, and sealed him up inside the temple with him. The Ikanans also eventually died out, becoming Stalfos after death— and continued to be attacked by the remaining Garo, who were furious at them for releasing the sealed evil.
After several long centuries, a man would become intrigued by the legend of Majora. This man was the Happy Mask Salesman, and he bribed the thief Sakon to venture into the Stone Tower and retrieve Majora, without the intent to harm. It was not long after that Majora came in contact with the Skull Kid and the events of Majora’s Mask came to be.
I love absolutely everything about this. I’ve always fantasized about the Ikanans and Garo. How it was before the lot of them were dead. I so want to add to this idea. It’s really fantastic. I’m just so excited by this.
