Link, who underwent training overseas, encounters a shipwreck during his return to Hyrule due to a violent storm. As he comes to his senses on Koholint Island, he is taken in by a benevolent man called Tarin and his daughter Marin, who bears a striking resemblance to Princess Zelda. A cryptic owl informs Link that he needs to awaken the Wind Fish by gathering and playing the eight Instruments of the Sirens if he wishes to return home. The Nightmares of the Wind Fish, the guardians of the Sirens' Instruments, are the bosses in Link's Awakening. Link must perform the Ballad of the Wind Fish using all eight Instruments to gain access to the Wind Fish's colossal egg situated atop the Tal Tal Mountains, inside which the creature slumbers. The final Nightmare is located there, and it presents itself as a shadowy apparition, with visions of adversaries from Link's past looming over him.
