Kokiri (RPG)

The Kokiri are people of Hylian origin settled around the Kokiri Forest and Lost Woods.

Overview
Perhaps the strangest branch of humankind, the Kokiri were originally a series of particularly violent Hylian tribes who made their home in the Kokiri Forest and Lost Woods. Incurring the wrath of the Great Deku Tree, the Kokiri tribes were transformed into a new form of life over a generation.

Unlike their forebears, they could technically be classified as a form of plantlife; rather than being born, they grew from seeds in the ground, developing a human biology in a womb-like shell. They bore appearances of Hylian children, but did in fact not age as long as they were within the Great Deku Tree's sphere of influence. They also possessed guardian Fairies to protect them and guide them from harm and immorality, though those disappeared after the Great Deku Tree's death. To protect the Kokiri and keep them in the forest, the Great Deku Tree put a curse on the Lost Woods, that they may be nearly untraversable, locking the Kokiri off from the world. Very few of them, such as Mido and Saria were able to navigate them without trouble.

Ancient Age
At some point in the century preceding the invasion of Ganon, violent Hylian tribes settled in the Kokiri Forest. Bandits and shamans, these tribes used the forest as staging grouns for invasions of the plains, where they would abduct and cannibalize members of other Hylian tribes. At some point, these bandits incurr the wrath of the Great Deku Tree and Huskus, who swiftly kill most of them in a swift war. Taking pity on their children, the Great Deku Tree took them in and used them as a plan for a new lifeform. These new Kokiri would spread throughout the woods, becoming simply legends to the Hylians who were now completely cut off from the forests.

First Decline
In 121KoH, the Kokiri would face an uprecedented invasion from forces of the Rebellion: Gohma transported through a Mirror of Twilight and led by Onox into the groves. With the help of the Huskus, they defend their grove from Onox, but Kasuto is forced to awaken his chosen heir Saria as a Sage ahead of her time. Much to the shock of the Kokiri, chieftain Mido is revealed to be her killer, and exiled from the forest, with chieftess Mirora taking his place.

The Kokiri and Huskus defend themselves against an incoming army of the Gohma, but find that the First Sage Sulkaris is among them. Absorbing Mirora after being led to believe she is a Sage, she quickly finds herself in a powerful but ultimately mortal body, and quickly slain. Ex-Sage Palagard of the Huskus entraps her spirit and prevents her manifestation in the world, but he is unable to stop her from mortally wounding the Great Deku Tree.

Saria, the new chieftess by the process of elimination ventures out of the Kokiri Forest with her companion, Link, seeking help. However, the two only find indifference and malice, leading to Link dead and Saria without any protection. She spends the rest of the Gerudo Wars in company of Darunia, and the two become great friends before returning to the Kokiri Forest.

Second Decline
Immediately following the end of the Gerudo Wars, the Kokiri and the Huskus find themselves in struggle over the leadership of the forest and other matters, including the Huskus no longer wishing to act as protectors of the Kokiri. Saria and Palagard engage in a brutal war that ends with the near total extinction of the Kokiri, leaving only three alive in the entire world, as the Huskus themselves only end up with a pyrrhic victory to celebrate. Though their legacy lives on through legend, the Kokiri themselves spell their own doom.