Ganon (Total War)

King Ganon is the leader of the Moblins.

Hero Power
Inspire Hate: Ganon's presence may cause enemy units to blindly charge against orders.

Biography
His parents murdered and his homeland scorched by Hylian Knights during his childhood, Ganon made it his lifelong goal to return the favour. Despising everything about the Hylians, Ganon will not rest until he slaughters every single one of them and defiles their holy relics. A massive creature in his own right, while his size certainly is something to be terrified of the true feature of Ganon that all fear is his cunning and intelligence. While not exactly a scholar, Ganon's skill in commanding, organising, and strategy nearly lead him to topple the Kingdom of Hyrule once and for all.

Involvement
Ganon was born in Demise and grew up during one of the numerous conflicts between the Hylians and the Moblins. His father died during the war and his mother was killed by the Hylians in front of him. With her last words, she told him that the Hylians are barbaric monsters who don't know any better than slaughter. Moments later, Demise appears before Ganon, saying that he would not stay idle any longer and takes Ganon as his protégé.

Ganon eventually becomes king of the Moblins after many years. He gathers the leaders of the Blin races and forms a plan to destroy the Hylians, by capturing Princess Zelda, daughter of King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule and forcing her to reveal the location of the Triforce, the divine power of the Goddesses.

Ganon succeeds in capturing Zelda and occupying two Hylian towns, Lon Lon Ranch and Kakariko, but Zelda remains silent on the Triforce's location. Fortunately for him, a renegade Sheikah called Bongo agrees to help him discover the location of the Triforce from the Princess, if he helps her to seek something in the Shadow Temple. Inside, Ganon's army encounters the Stalfos, something neither him nor Bongo foresaw. However, Ganon succeeds and manages to vanquish a demon called Dethl.

With the help of Bongo's Eye of Truth, Ganon discovers the location of the Triforce: under the King's throne in Hyrule Castle. Bongo advises him to seek allies in the Gerudo Desert, as Hyrule Castle is the most fortified location in the kingdom. Ganon first attempts to parlay with the five Gerudo Warlords, who, in their pride, reject his offers; in return, Ganon curses them by poisoning the oases in the desert, preventing male Gerudo from being born.

Following Bongo's advice, Ganon then leads an army further west to the Gerudo Cliffs, land of the Darknut Legion and the Zuna, and challenges the Darknut God King Zalunbar in a tournament, for then he'll be compelled to accept Ganon's wish that Zalunbar and his army join the Moblins in their conquest. Even though Zalunbar tries his best to avoid this by first cheating and then suddenly 'changing' his mind when Ganon defeats his army, he eventually has to submit to Ganon when his master Vaati reminds him that the Triforce is the power that the Wind Tribe had left on Hyrule before they departed to the skies, which Zalunbar's predecessor, the Black Knight, seeked five millennia past.

The alliance between Moblin, Darknut and renegade Sheikah manages to take the city. The King of Hyrule has already moved the Triforce after his daughter was captured, though Bongo learns of its location at Spectacle Rock.

Ganon takes control of the Fire Temple from the Gorons and successfully wins Dakkon, the incumbent Sage of Fire and King of Death Mountain, to his side, but shortly after that, the Hylians and loyal Sheikah under command of Zelda, Impa and Rauru assault the Fire Temple. Ganon sends Ogalon and Dakkon to deal with the invaders while he extracts the Triforce from its cradle.

However, Ganon was not aware of Bongo's ulterior motives: the real Triforce is under Lake Hylia in the Water Temple, and Bongo lied to Ganon in order to covet the Triforce for herself and her followers, the Dark Interlopers. After realising that Bongo played him for a fool and lied about the Triforce's location, he is so filled with despair that he collapses into a sobbing fit. When Zelda arrives, Ganon does not even bother resisting and is easily cut down.

At this moment, the contents of the diary which he kept during the whole war is finally revealed: crude, childish drawings of Hylians and Moblins living together in peace. It turns out he wanted to use the power of the Triforce to end the enmity between Hylians and his people and to bring back everyone who had to die because of it. Zelda, Impa and Rauru never discover this, because they are too preoccupied with stopping Bongo and the Dark Interlopers from stealing the Triforce from the Water Temple.

After Ganon's death, Demise retrieves his body in the Fire Temple and buries him in the Arbiter's Grounds in the Gerudo Desert.

In 171 AG, the Gerudo warlord Ganondorf, learning about Demise's campaign against Hylia, who has recently returned to Hyrule, offers his services to Demise. Demise intends to use Ganondorf as a sacrifice to resurrect Ganon, since he needs a loyal servant who could command the Gerudo even after failing to cure their people. Ganon's ghost invades the unwilling Ganondorf's mind and attempts to take full control, but Ganondorf eventually convinces Ganon that Demise has been responsible for all the ruin wrought upon the Moblins. Ganon relinquishes his hold over Ganondorf, leaving Demise at the mercy of the Gerudo army.

In-game
King Ganon appears at the start of the Freeform Campaign as the leader of the Moblins.