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I am a sorcerer now, and my power is beyond compare! No longer will I tire away as your apprentice! Now, all shall call ME master!
~ Vaati after betraying Ezlo.
You really are obsessed with stopping me, aren't you? Ah, very well. I have not yet drained all of the light force housed in Princess Zelda. But what I have should suffice… I will be transformed! Unstoppable! But let me first attend to the pesky worms that would trifle with me… Hmph! I will have no more of you interfering with my plans! Let me show you true power!!
~ Vaati preparing to battle Link at the end of The Minish Cap.
That blade you have… is that not the accursed Four Sword? So it is the power of that blade that has brought you this far… Hoh hoh hoh hoh hoh! Did you think a dull and rusty blade such as that could defeat me again? You know not your own folly! Watch now as the hunter becomes the hunted! […] Prepare to meet the full might of Vaati the wind mage!
~ Vaati confronting Link at the end of Four Swords.

Vaati, also known as the Wind Sorcerer, is the secondary antagonist of The Legend of Zelda franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Four Swords trilogy.

He was once a Minish boy who was a pupil of the respected Minish sage Ezlo. However, Vaati grew obsessed with the evil he saw in humanity and as a result betrayed and cursed his master during his own quest for power, transforming himself into a dangerous and powerful mage in the process.

Biography

This biography of Vaati is organized into the latest "official Zelda timeline", this may change completely in the future as the timeline given is merely meant as an example, and there have been official timelines before it.

Unified Timeline

The Unified Timeline refers to events before the split in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and thus occurs in every timeline, the split happens in the final battle with Ganon.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

Vaati was only a boy when I took him on as my apprentice. But... he became enchanted by the wickedness in the hearts of men.
~ Ezlo about his former apprentice Vaati.

The origin tale of Vaati is told in the adventures that Link faced with the Minish Cap. Originally of the Minish race, Vaati was fascinated by the evil that could come from the heart of man. When his master, Ezlo, fashioned a powerful magical cap as a gift for the humans - one that could make one's wishes come true - Vaati stole the cap, transformed into a sorcerer and cursed his master into the shape of a living cap so that he would not stop him. Then, taking human form, Vaati set out to find the means to allow him to become the greatest sorcerer the world had ever seen.

Vaati's transformation

Vaati's transformation into his second form.

He found that means in the legends of the Light Force, a mystical magic said to bestow upon the wielder the powers of godhood. Initially believing that it was locked away in the Bound Chest, Vaati participated in Hyrule's annual fencing tournament in order to earn the right to approach it. When the Hylian soldiers became wise to his intentions, Vaati brutally manhandled them with his magic. When confronted by Princess Zelda and Link, Vaati turned the former into a stone statue and knocked out the latter when he tried to interfere. With the Bound Chest opened, Vaati discovered that it was empty. Unfazed, he continued his search, eventually impersonating King Daltus to make the soldiers help him.

Over the course of the game, Vaati continuously sought the location of the Light Force, finding it, in the end, in the unlikeliest of places - within Zelda. Vaati managed to extract some of the Light Force from Zelda and transformed into a tall sorcerer form known as Vaati Reborn. Link defeated the form with the power of the Four Sword and Vaati transformed into a demonic, one-eyed black orb known as Vaati Transfigured, but was vanquished again. In his anger, Vaati transformed yet again, into a larger, more powerful version of this form known as Vaati's Wrath, but even this could not defeat Link, who sealed Vaati within the Four Sword. Zelda then proceeded to use the magical cap to restore what Vaati had done, destroying the cap in the process.

In the game, Vaati is seen in a total of five forms; a Minish, a human, a demonic sorcerer, a wind mage, and a true demon form.

Between The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap and The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords

Vaati managed to break out of his seal and attacked the land of Hyrule once again. Here, he kidnapped maidens and took them to his Palace of Winds until Link rose up again and defeated him, sealing him inside the Four Sword again.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords

The seal on Vaati was apparently weakened over time, and a long time later Vaati managed to break out of his prison within the Four Sword. Vaati kidnapped Princess Zelda, taking her to his palace to make her his bride, forcing four Links to go off and search for the princess. After traveling over three different lands and the dungeons they contained, Link and his three other selves confronted the wind mage in the Wind Palace, the seat of Vaati's power. After an arduous battle between the sorcerer and the heroes, Link was able to reseal Vaati into the Four Sword's blade.

Vaati has two forms in this game. The first is Vaati possessing a statue of himself, encased in armor, similar to the Vaati's Transformation form from later in The Minish Cap. In the second form, he appears as he does in the opening cutscene, and the battle is very much like the battle against Cyclok in the later Phantom Hourglass.

Child Timeline

This is the timeline where Link was sent back to the past and was able to warn the Royal Family of Ganondorf's treachery, leading to the events of the backstory of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

After Link had rescued Zelda and sealed Vaati in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, Hyrule was at peace for a time. This changed when Ganondorf stole the Dark Mirror from the Temple of Darkness. Creating Shadow Link to kidnap Zelda and the Shrine Maidens, Ganondorf tricked Link into releasing the Four Sword, unsealing Vaati in the process.

During his adventure to save Hyrule, Link found out that Vaati was not the real enemy. Instead, Ganondorf had instigated the ordeal with Vaati to distract Link, allowing Ganondorf the time needed to steal the power of the Hylian Shrine Maidens.

Over the course of the adventure, Link rescued the Shrine Maidens and Zelda, and restored his good name upon defeating Shadow Link with Zelda's help. At the final battle, Link and his split selves defeated and killed Vaati, and sealed Ganon within the Four Sword with the help of Zelda and the Shrine Maidens. With this, peace returned to Hyrule, and the Four Sword was laid to rest in its shrine. With this being the last tale in the Four Swords era.

Adult Timeline

Vaati never makes any appearances, as he is sealed in the Four Sword located in the sunken Hyrule. When the flood of the Great Sea erases Hyrule after Ganondorf's defeat, Vaati and the Four Sword are erased along with it.

Decline Timeline

The Four Sword is unsealed in the Game Boy Advance version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, but Vaati does not make any appearance, suggesting that over time Vaati might have decayed into nothingness inside the Four Sword.

Other Media

Super Smash Bros.

Vaati appears as a Primary Grab-type spirit of the Ace class in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. His spirit battle is against Ridley on the Hyrule Castle stage equipped with an Ore Club, with heavy winds in effect.

Trivia

  • Vaati's final form resembles DethI from Link's Awakening.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is the only game that Vaati appears in where he is not the final boss. Instead, he serves as the penultimate boss before Ganon emerges as the final boss.
  • Vaati is one of the most recurring villains in The Legend of Zelda franchise aside from Ganon himself. He has appeared in three games, a record that is matched only by Twinrova. While various other villains do appear multiple times, they are almost always reincarnations or different versions (i.e. Phantom Ganon and Dark Link), whereas Vaati is the exact same character in all of his appearances.

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