When I was 10 or 11, I stumbled across a website. I was so young at the time I barely remember how I ended up there in between feeding my neopets and talking on the neoboards, but I did. I didn't even play any Zelda games at the time, really only aware of it because of games like Smash Brothers Melee and having seen my best friend play one of the games on her gameboy during a sleepover.

That website was The Grand Adventures. Please note that you can only view the wayback pages without it auto-refreshing to death if you disable javascript.

My first experience with fanfiction was reading Eloze and Mudora. There was a period of time where I thought they were canon, because I was a silly child who had never played any actual Zelda games and wikis weren't as common back then as they are now. (And I hadn't read the Zelda encyclopedia yet) You can still find the writing for Eloze at North Castle. Another old Zelda website.

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