Bongo (Total War)

Bongo is the nickname of the leader of the Dark Interlopers - an organisation of renegade Hylians, Gerudo and Sheikah, who coveted the throne of the Kingdom of Hyrule and the Triforce. Her real name is not known to anyone.

Biography
Once a famous Sheikah who helped establish Kakariko Village, Bongo-Bongo's true name (and gender) has been lost with time. All that is known is that the individual was notable for playing drums, could see the truth in all matters and ended up betraying the Sheikah for unknown reasons. Because of this betrayal, Bongo was decapitated and the corpse dumped into the well of Kakariko. As of this day, it is the final test of all Sheikah to converse with the twisted beast that manifested from Bongo's corpse.

Involvement
Some time before 1 BG, Bongo starts to experience frequent nightmares. After Ganon, King of the Moblins, assaults Lon Lon Ranch and takes Princess Zelda I prisoner, Bongo sends him a letter, sealed with the Sheikah sigil.

Ganon sends an army to take Kakariko and speak to Bongo. She offers to help him extract the location of the Triforce from Zelda if he would help her confront the source of her nightmares in the Shadow Temple. Ganon accepts, and leads an army into the temple.

Inside, Ganon and Bongo encounter the Stalfos, something neither of them expected. It turns out that these creatures were summoned by Dethl, a Druthulidi residing at the bottom of the temple, who is also responsible for haunting Bongo's dreams. A battle ensues, however, Ganon and the Moblins manage to defeat the creature. Before they could leave the temple, Dethl jumps into Bongo's body and escapes, creating the Eye of Truth - an artefact with the ability to read the truth and control people.

With the fate of the Shadow Temple resolved, Bongo agrees to help Ganon reveal the location of the Triforce: under the King's throne in Hyrule Castle. The Moblins, the Inerlopers and their new allies and the Darknut Legion, defeat the Hylian defenders and take the city.

When Bongo enters the throne room, Ganon has already inflicted a mortal wound to the King and overturned the throne, but cannot find the Triforce; fortunately for Bongo, she still has enough time to extract the Triforce's new location - the Water Temple under Lake Hylia - from the King before he dies. Realising that Ganon also wants the Triforce, and that he will contest with her once the Triforce has been found however, she decides to lie to him that the Triforce is at Spectacle Rock. During this fruitless endeavour, Ganon's army is attacked by the Hylians under command of Zelda, Impa and Rauru.

With Ganon dead because of Bongo's betrayal and Princess Zelda's army on the other side of Hyrule, the renegade Sheikah and the Dark Interlopers now seek the Triforce at the Water Temple. However, they did not expect the Gerudo and the Fairies under command of Twinrova and Veran, who have recently been informed of the Triforce's location, to come there and contest with them on the holy artefact. When the three armies are busy fighting eachother, the Zora lead by General Rutela sweep in and defeat all of them. During the battle, Bongo nearly succeeds in extracting the Triforce from its cradle, but she is interrupted by Demise, master of Ganon, who is furious over Bongo's betrayal of his student. Even though Veran later manages to distract Demise and throw him down to Lake Hylia, it was too late as Bongo is immediately arrested by Impa.

Most of the Interlopers, the Fairies and the Gerudo prisoners captured in the battle are banished via the Mirror of Twilight in the Arbiter's Grounds, which is thought to be a portal to an endless void (but in reality it actually leads to the Realm of Twilight, another planet in the universe). Bongo, however, is guillotined in Kakariko and has her corpse dumped into the well in the village.

In the Gerudo Wars, the Sheikah wizard Agahnim secures the Eye of Truth and uses it to brainwash Hylian soldiers into serving him. After Agahnim's death, it comes into possession of General Akazoo, who is driven mad by Dethl's influence via the artefact, until he betrays the Kingdom of Hyrule. Akazoo is eventually killed by Link and General Kazakk.

In 172 AG, Akazoo, having recently raised from the dead and wishing to confront the source of his madness, delves into the Shadow Temple. It is revealed that Dethl has manifested from Bongo's corpse as a monster called Bongo-Bongo. Rather than rebel against Dethl, Akazoo instead chooses to embrace the madness and releases Bongo-Bongo from the temple.

In 175 AG, Princess Zelda V lures Akazoo's Stalfos into battle with Ganondorf's Gerudo, Nardu's Lizalfos, and Hylia's Wizzrobes. Impa eventually puts Bongo out of her misery and kills the creature she had become, as well as destroying the Eye of Truth.