@base <https://monomyth.metamuses.org/graph/> .
@prefix monomyth: <https://monomyth.metamuses.org/ontology#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
@prefix wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# ==============================================================================
# THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME (Video Game, 1998)
# ==============================================================================

<ocarina-of-time> a monomyth:NarrativeWork,
        schema:VideoGame ;
    rdfs:label "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"@en ;
    dcterms:title "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"@en ;
    dcterms:created "1998"^^xsd:gYear ;
    dcterms:creator "Shigeru Miyamoto",
        "Eiji Aonuma" ;
    schema:countryOfOrigin wd:Q17 ;
    schema:genre "Action-Adventure"@en,
        "Fantasy"@en ;
    owl:sameAs wd:Q213911 ;
    monomyth:interpretedBy <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    rdfs:comment """A 1998 action-adventure video game in which a boy raised among forest children
is drawn into a quest across time to prevent the king of evil from claiming an ancient relic of
divine power."""@en .

# --- Monomyth Expressions --------------

<ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> a monomyth:MonomythExpression ;
    rdfs:label "Link's Hero's Journey in Ocarina of Time"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """A specific interpretation of the monomyth structure as it is realized in the
narrative of 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time', focusing on the character Link's journey."""@en ;
    monomyth:interprets <ocarina-of-time> ;
    monomyth:hasHero <ocarina-of-time/characters/link> ;
    monomyth:hasCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/ganondorf>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/navi>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/the-great-deku-tree>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/rauru>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/saria>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/impa> ;
    monomyth:hasStageRealization <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-boy-without-a-fairy>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-does-not-hesitate>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-future-depends-upon-thee>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/beyond-the-forest>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/a-fairy-and-a-green-stone>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/stones-and-sages>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/seven-lost-years>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/a-quest-without-temptation>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/you-are-not-a-kokiri>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-seventh-sage>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-light-arrows>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-presses-on>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-tower-comes-down>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/six-sages-as-one>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/lay-the-master-sword-to-rest>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/child-and-hero>,
        <ocarina-of-time/stages/through-the-courtyard-window> .

# --- Characters -----------------------

<ocarina-of-time/characters/link> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Link"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """A boy raised among the Kokiri of the forest who discovers he is Hylian by birth,
destined to become the Hero of Time and wield the Master Sword against the forces of
darkness."""@en ;
    monomyth:heroOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Hero .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Princess Zelda (Sheik)"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """The princess of Hyrule who possesses prophetic visions of the kingdom's fate and
later disguises herself as Sheik, a Sheikah warrior, to guide Link through his adult quest while
evading Ganondorf's pursuit."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor,
        monomyth:Shapeshifter .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/ganondorf> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Ganondorf"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """The Gerudo king who seeks the Triforce to dominate Hyrule, whose ambition drives
the central conflict and whose corruption transforms the kingdom during the seven years of Link's
sealed sleep."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Shadow .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/navi> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Navi"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """A fairy dispatched by the Great Deku Tree to accompany Link, serving as his
constant companion, guide, and the visible sign that he finally belongs among the fairy-bonded
Kokiri."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Herald,
        monomyth:Ally .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/the-great-deku-tree> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "The Great Deku Tree"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """The ancient guardian spirit of Kokiri Forest who summons Link, reveals the first
fragment of his destiny, and dies entrusting him with the Kokiri Emerald and the charge to seek
Princess Zelda."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor,
        monomyth:Herald .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/rauru> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Rauru"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """The Sage of Light who watches over the Sacred Realm and greets Link upon his
awakening after seven years, explaining what has befallen Hyrule and commissioning the quest to
awaken the remaining sages."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Mentor .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/saria> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Saria"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """Link's closest friend among the Kokiri, who bids him farewell at the forest
bridge and later awakens as the Sage of the Forest Temple."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:Ally .

<ocarina-of-time/characters/impa> a monomyth:Character ;
    rdfs:label "Impa"@en ;
    rdfs:comment """Zelda's Sheikah guardian who escorts Link safely out of Hyrule Castle, teaches
him Zelda's Lullaby, and later awakens as the Sage of the Shadow Temple."""@en ;
    monomyth:characterOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:embodiesArchetype monomyth:ThresholdGuardian,
        monomyth:Ally .

# --- Stage Realizations ---------------

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-boy-without-a-fairy> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The boy without a fairy"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCallToAdventure ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/navi>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/the-great-deku-tree> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 1 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link is the only child in Kokiri Forest without a guardian
fairy, an absence that marks him as incomplete among his own people. The Great Deku Tree, dying from
a curse placed by Ganondorf, sends the fairy Navi to summon Link to his side. The call arrives as
both gift and burden: receiving Navi grants Link the belonging he has always lacked, but the summons
leads directly into the Deku Tree's cursed interior and the revelation that dark forces threaten
far beyond the forest."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-does-not-hesitate> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The hero does not hesitate"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RefusalOfTheCall ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:AbsentFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 2 ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/absent-refusal> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-future-depends-upon-thee> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The future depends upon thee"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:SupernaturalAid ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/navi>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/the-great-deku-tree> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 3 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """The Great Deku Tree, having been cleansed of the parasitic
curse by Link, knows the effort has come too late to save him. With his final words he entrusts Link
with the Kokiri Emerald, the first of three Spiritual Stones, and charges him to seek Princess
Zelda at Hyrule Castle. Navi remains as a permanent companion, a living gift of guidance that will
persist long after the guardian who dispatched her has withered to a hollow stump."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """The mentor dies in the act of commissioning the hero, compressing aid and
bereavement into a single beat that propels Link forward through obligation rather than
guidance."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/beyond-the-forest> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Beyond the forest"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCrossingOfTheFirstThreshold ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/saria> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 4 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link crosses the log bridge at the edge of Kokiri Forest,
where Saria is waiting. She gives him her Fairy Ocarina as a parting gift and says goodbye, knowing
he will not return as the same person. The Kokiri believe that any of their kind who leaves the
forest will die. Link steps off the bridge into Hyrule Field and the world opens around him, vast
and exposed, the sheltering canopy replaced by open sky."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/a-fairy-and-a-green-stone> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "A fairy and a green stone"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheMeetingWithTheGoddess ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/impa> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 5 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link sneaks through the castle grounds and peers through a
courtyard window to find Princess Zelda, who has been expecting him. She describes a prophetic
dream: darkness engulfing Hyrule, and a figure from the forest bearing a fairy and a green stone
appearing as a ray of light. Recognizing Link as that figure, she reveals Ganondorf's treachery and
entrusts Link with the mission to collect the remaining Spiritual Stones before the Gerudo king can
reach the Sacred Realm. Impa, Zelda's guardian, escorts Link safely out of the castle and teaches
him Zelda's Lullaby, a melody that will open doors sealed by royal authority."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """Zelda functions as authorizing visionary rather than transcendent encounter,
defining the quest before Link has faced any trial."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/sequential/goddess-before-trials> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/stones-and-sages> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Stones and sages"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheRoadOfTrials ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/navi> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 6 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """As a child, Link ventures into Dodongo's Cavern beneath Death
Mountain and into the belly of Lord Jabu-Jabu in Zora's Domain, earning the Goron Ruby and Zora's
Sapphire to complement the Kokiri Emerald. Each trial demands new skills and yields an alliance with
a people whose champion will later become a sage. After the seven-year seal, Link awakens as an
adult and the trials deepen: the Forest Temple reclaims Saria as the Sage of Forest, the Fire
Temple frees Darunia, the Water Temple rescues Ruto, the Shadow Temple liberates Impa, and the
Spirit Temple awakens Nabooru. The trials bifurcate across the temporal divide, with childhood tests
of resourcefulness giving way to adult confrontations with corruption, loss, and the consequences of
Ganondorf's seven-year reign."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/bifurcated-trials> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/seven-lost-years> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Seven lost years"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheBellyOfTheWhale ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/rauru> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 7 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link places the three Spiritual Stones on the altar of the
Temple of Time and plays the Song of Time on the Ocarina. The Door of Time opens, revealing the
Master Sword in its pedestal. He draws the blade and the Sacred Realm swallows him whole. His body
is too young to bear the sword's power, so the chamber seals him in enchanted sleep for seven years.
When he awakens in the Chamber of Sages, Rauru greets a young man who went to sleep as a child. The
boy who pulled the sword is gone; the adult who opens his eyes has no memory of the passage, only
its result. Hyrule outside has fallen to Ganondorf, who entered the Sacred Realm through the door
Link unwittingly opened for him."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """The most literal engulfment in the franchise: the hero is swallowed into
sacred sleep, emerging physically transformed without any agency in the
transformation."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasSequentialDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/sequential/whale-amid-trials> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/a-quest-without-temptation> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "A quest without temptation"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:WomanAsTheTemptress ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:AbsentFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 8 ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/temptress-absent> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/you-are-not-a-kokiri> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "You are not a Kokiri"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:AtonementWithTheFather ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 9 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """After completing the Forest Temple and returning to Kokiri
Forest, Link finds a young sapling growing where the Great Deku Tree once stood. The Deku Tree
Sprout greets him and reveals what the original guardian never told him: Link is not Kokiri but
Hylian, brought to the forest as an infant by his wounded mother during a great war and entrusted to
the Deku Tree's care before she died. The deepest truth about who he is arrives not as a test of
worthiness but as a quiet disclosure, offered by the gentle successor to a dead
guardian."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/revelation-not-confrontation> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-seventh-sage> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The seventh sage"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:Apotheosis ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 10 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """With all five temple sages awakened, Sheik summons Link to the
Temple of Time and reveals herself as Princess Zelda, the seventh and final sage. She confirms
Link's identity as the Hero of Time and explains the full structure of the Triforce, which split
upon Ganondorf's touch: Courage chose Link, Wisdom chose Zelda, and Power remained with Ganondorf.
The hero's destiny, scattered across seven years of fragmented revelation, crystallizes into a
single coherent picture. Link stands in the temple as the fully recognized bearer of the Triforce of
Courage, his role no longer prophesied but declared."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """Realization arrives through external declaration and narrative convergence
rather than contemplative transcendence or a moment of divine stillness."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-light-arrows> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The light arrows"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheUltimateBoon ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/ganondorf> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 11 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Zelda bestows the Light Arrows upon Link, the sacred weapon
capable of piercing Ganondorf's dark power. The gift is immediate and urgent: moments after the
transfer, Ganondorf encases Zelda in a crystal prison and takes her to his tower, transforming the
boon's delivery into the precipitating act of the final confrontation. The six sages channel their
combined power to create a rainbow bridge spanning the chasm to Ganondorf's fortress, opening the
path that only the fully equipped hero can walk."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """The boon is bestowed rather than seized, arriving as Zelda's gift in the
moment before her capture rather than as the prize of completed trials."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-presses-on> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The hero presses on"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RefusalOfTheReturn ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:AbsentFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 12 ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/return-refusal-absent> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/the-tower-comes-down> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "The tower comes down"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheMagicFlight ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 13 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Ganondorf is defeated atop his tower but triggers its collapse
with his final act of spite. Link and Zelda race downward through crumbling corridors, Zelda using
her power to unseal iron barriers while the structure disintegrates around them. Flames, falling
stone, and reanimated guardians block the descent. They emerge at the base moments before the tower
crashes into rubble, only to hear something stir beneath the wreckage: Ganondorf, drawing on the
Triforce of Power, transforms into the monstrous Ganon and rises from the ruins for a final
confrontation."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/six-sages-as-one> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Six sages as one"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:RescueFromWithout ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/rauru>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/saria> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:StrongFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 14 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link drives the Master Sword into Ganon's skull and Zelda
channels the power of the six awakened sages to bind him. Together they seal Ganondorf into the
Sacred Realm, a prison sustained not by the hero's strength alone but by a collective sacred
authority that no single warrior could supply. Ganondorf, raging against the seal, swears to break
free and destroy their descendants, but the binding holds."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """The sages' intervention completes what the hero's sword began; the sealing
requires collective sacred authority beyond any individual's reach."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/lay-the-master-sword-to-rest> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Lay the Master Sword to rest"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:TheCrossingOfTheReturnThreshold ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:PerfectFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 15 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Zelda takes back the Ocarina of Time and plays the Song of
Time to send Link back to his childhood, closing the circle that opened when he first drew the
Master Sword. The adult world dissolves around him. Link returns to the Temple of Time as a child,
the sword resting again in its pedestal, Navi departing through a window into light. He stands alone
in the temple, carrying the memory of a future that has been unmade."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasSemioticDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/semiotic/temporal-return> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/child-and-hero> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Child and hero"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:MasterOfTheTwoWorlds ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 16 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link has traversed both the child era and the adult era,
the ordinary Hyrule and the Sacred Realm, carrying within a small body the experiential knowledge
of a completed hero's journey. Yet the mastery is entirely private. The adult timeline has been
erased, the people he saved do not remember being saved, and the two worlds he bridged now exist
only in his memory. He walks through Hyrule Castle Town as a child among children, unrecognized and
unrecognizable."""@en ;
    monomyth:fitNote """Link's mastery is experiential and private: he has traversed both eras but
can demonstrate this to no one, since the adult timeline has been erased."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/private-mastery> .

<ocarina-of-time/stages/through-the-courtyard-window> a monomyth:StageRealization ;
    rdfs:label "Through the courtyard window"@en ;
    monomyth:realizesStage monomyth:FreedomToLive ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOf <ocarina-of-time/monomyths/link-journey> ;
    monomyth:involvesCharacter <ocarina-of-time/characters/link>,
        <ocarina-of-time/characters/princess-zelda> ;
    monomyth:hasFitQuality monomyth:ModerateFit ;
    monomyth:stageRealizationOrder 17 ;
    monomyth:realizationDescription """Link walks through the castle grounds and peers through the
courtyard window to find Zelda again, exactly as he did at the journey's beginning, before any of it
happened. She turns and sees a boy with a fairy and a green stone. Whether she recognizes him,
whether the meeting will unfold differently this time, the narrative does not say. The ending mirrors
the opening almost exactly, but the symmetry is deceptive: one of the two figures standing in that
courtyard carries the weight of an entire erased future, and the other does not yet know there is
anything to carry."""@en ;
    monomyth:hasNarrativeDivergence <ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/bittersweet-freedom> .

# --- Narrative Divergences ------------

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/absent-refusal> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Absent refusal divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-does-not-hesitate> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RefusalOfTheCall ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """Link moves from call to action without psychological resistance.
The Kokiri child who has yearned for a fairy receives one and immediately answers the summons. Mido's
physical blockade at the forest path requires obtaining a sword and shield, but this functions as a
mechanical gate rather than an expression of the hero's doubt or fear. The narrative's opening invests
in spatial wonder rather than existential hesitation, reflecting a design where the child
protagonist's eagerness is the point: in a world where Link has always been the outsider, the call
is the first moment of belonging, and refusing it would contradict everything the character has
silently endured."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/bifurcated-trials> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Bifurcated trials divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/stones-and-sages> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheRoadOfTrials ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """Link's trials divide across a temporal rupture that fundamentally
alters their character and stakes. The child phase presents three dungeon quests to gather Spiritual
Stones, each testing courage and resourcefulness within a familiar Hyrule. The seven-year seal then
intervenes, and when trials resume, the hero is physically transformed, the kingdom corrupted, and
each temple now demands the awakening of a sage whose power is needed to confront Ganondorf. The two
phases share a structural function but differ in tone, difficulty, and narrative weight: preparation
in the first, genuine confrontation with darkness in the second. This bifurcation creates a
developmental arc within what is formally a single stage, turning it into a before-and-after portrait
of the same hero measured against the same world at different scales of maturity and
peril."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/temptress-absent> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Absent temptress divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/a-quest-without-temptation> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:WomanAsTheTemptress ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """The quest offers no sustained moment of temptation, seduction, or
invitation to abandon the journey for comfort or desire. Lon Lon Ranch and its pastoral tranquility
present the closest structural candidate, yet Malon functions as a friend rather than a figure of
dangerous attraction, and the ranch remains an optional interlude rather than a narrative test of
resolve. The absence reflects both the protagonist's youth and the narrative's design: Link is a
child thrust into responsibility without the psychological complexity that temptation requires, and
even as an adult his single-mindedness is presented as a virtue rather than a limitation to be
tested. The stage's function finds no purchase in a narrative where the ordinary world has been
destroyed and no comfortable alternative remains to lure the hero away from his
path."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/revelation-not-confrontation> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Revelation rather than confrontation divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/you-are-not-a-kokiri> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:AtonementWithTheFather ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """Link's encounter with the father archetype arrives as passive
disclosure rather than active confrontation. The Deku Tree Sprout simply tells Link what has always
been true: he is Hylian, not Kokiri, placed in the forest as an infant by his dying mother during
a great war and entrusted to the guardian tree's care. There is no dramatic standoff, no test of
worthiness imposed by a paternal authority, no crisis of submission or defiance. The deepest truth
about the hero's identity is delivered gently by a sapling grown where a great tree once stood,
lending the moment an elegiac quality that substitutes quiet grief for the awe and terror that
typically mark this stage. The father figure itself has already died; what remains is not authority
but memory, and the reckoning is less a confrontation with power than an acceptance of
orphanhood."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/return-refusal-absent> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Absent return refusal divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/the-hero-presses-on> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:RefusalOfTheReturn ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """Link transitions directly from defeating Ganon to the sages'
sealing ritual without hesitation or reluctance to leave the special world behind. The narrative's
momentum carries the hero forward through castle collapse and final confrontation without pause, and
the decision to return is ultimately made for Link by Zelda rather than by him, removing the
psychological space where reluctance could arise. The absence is structurally reinforced by the
medium itself: after the climactic battle, control shifts to cutscene and the hero's agency is
temporarily suspended precisely when the archetype would expect an internal reckoning with the
prospect of return."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/private-mastery> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Private mastery divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/child-and-hero> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:MasterOfTheTwoWorlds ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """The hero has genuinely traversed both temporal worlds and the
Sacred Realm between them, yet the time-travel return erases the public dimension of that mastery.
In the restored child timeline, no one witnessed Link's adult deeds, the sages were never awakened,
and the kingdom never fell. Link possesses experiential knowledge of both eras but cannot demonstrate,
share, or leverage it. This transforms the archetype from a state of demonstrated dual-world fluency
into an entirely interior condition: the hero masters two worlds that no longer coexist, making the
mastery real but invisible, a private achievement that the surrounding community has no framework to
recognize or validate."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/narrative/bittersweet-freedom> a monomyth:NarrativeDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Bittersweet freedom divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/through-the-courtyard-window> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:FreedomToLive ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """Zelda restores Link's childhood, but the gift carries an
unresolved weight. The hero returns to a moment before the quest began, standing again before the
princess, yet he carries within him the memory of a future now erased: friendships forged in temples,
battles survived, a world saved that will never know it needed saving. The freedom is genuine in that
Link has been released from the burden of the Hero of Time, but it is shadowed by a loneliness that
the narrative acknowledges without resolving. Rather than the serene transcendence or liberated
purposefulness that typically marks this stage, the ending offers a more melancholy reading: the
hero's reward is the chance to live an ordinary life whose full meaning only he will ever
understand."""@en .

# --- Sequential Divergences -----------

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/sequential/goddess-before-trials> a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Goddess before trials divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/a-fairy-and-a-green-stone> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheMeetingWithTheGoddess ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """The encounter with the luminous feminine arrives before the trials
rather than after them. Zelda appears in the castle courtyard almost immediately after Link enters
Hyrule, making her the figure who defines and authorizes the quest rather than the one who greets the
hero at its midpoint. By placing the prophetic princess at the journey's outset, the narrative
establishes her as the quest-giver whose vision the hero must validate through subsequent action,
transforming the encounter from a moment of earned transcendence into one of commission, and shifting
its function from culmination to catalyst."""@en .

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/sequential/whale-amid-trials> a monomyth:SequentialDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Engulfment amid trials divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/seven-lost-years> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheBellyOfTheWhale ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """The symbolic death and rebirth arrives not at the close of the
departure act but embedded within the trials themselves, splitting them into two distinct halves.
Link pulls the Master Sword after completing the child-era dungeon sequence, and the seven-year seal
that follows constitutes the engulfment at the heart of this archetype. By placing it midway through
the trials rather than before them, the narrative creates a structural hinge: everything before the
seal is preparation undertaken in innocence, everything after is confrontation undertaken with
knowledge of what has been lost. The displacement turns a threshold between acts into a pivot within
the central act itself."""@en .

# --- Semiotic Divergences -------------

<ocarina-of-time/divergences/semiotic/temporal-return> a monomyth:SemioticDivergence ;
    rdfs:label "Temporal return threshold divergence"@en ;
    monomyth:divergenceOf <ocarina-of-time/stages/lay-the-master-sword-to-rest> ;
    monomyth:divergesFrom monomyth:TheCrossingOfTheReturnThreshold ;
    monomyth:divergenceRationale """The return threshold is crossed through time rather than space.
Zelda uses the Ocarina of Time to send Link backward seven years, dissolving the boundary between
his adult heroic identity and his childhood self. Where the archetype envisions a hero physically
re-entering the ordinary world carrying new wisdom, this narrative achieves the return by rewinding
the world itself around the hero, making the threshold a temporal membrane rather than a spatial
border. The semiotic shift has profound consequences: the hero does not bring wisdom back to a
waiting community, because the community never experienced the crisis from which he saved them. The
sign of return looks identical to the sign of departure, a child standing in a courtyard, but its
meaning has been wholly transformed by what only the hero remembers."""@en .