Note: As Cia is from a spin-off game in The Legend of Zelda series, she will only be scaled to characters like Link and Ganondorf based on their Hyrule Warriors incarnations, as opposed to scaling her to their mainline appearances.
Background
Cia is a powerful sorceress who watched over the balance of the Triforce as the Guardian of Time at the Valley of Seers. With her powerful magic and mysterious orb, she foresaw the future, knowing the fates of many individuals throughout the world. Despite this, she never interfered with these people.
However, one particular soul interested her. This was the soul of the hero of legend, who was constantly reincarnated throughout the years. Seeing this, she found another soul who was bound to the hero of legend’s soul. Saddened that she couldn’t be the one bound to the hero, Cia soon became corrupted by Ganondorf, who pushed all of the light away from her, creating her other half Lana. With the light gone, Cia became obsessed, wanting the legendary hero’s soul for herself. She opened up a Gate of Souls to spawn monsters across the world. Ganondorf, of course, was only using Cia so he could resurrect himself and get the Triforce. Due to her position as a guardian of the Triforce, the Triforce of Power was already in her grasp.
She used her monster army to attack Hyrule, and after the legendary hero Link and princess of Hyrule Zelda finally encountered Cia, the Triforce of Courage and Triforce of Wisdom were stolen, which she used to merge Hyrule with other worlds, open up more Gates of Souls, and release three of the four fragments of Ganondorf’s soul. After confronting a weakened Ganondorf, whose body was restored thanks to most of the fragments being free, she broke free from him and lost the two pieces of the Triforce she had just obtained.
Despite being free, she still sought the Triforce and Link. In her final battle against the heroes, she was defeated and soon faded away after learning that it was okay for her to not be with the person she wanted. Luckily, when another merging world crisis happened, Cia’s body was restored, as her soul was stolen by Phantom Ganon, but returned in time for her to help defeat him alongside Link and Lana. After redeeming herself by helping save the world, she and Lana returned to the Valley of Seers to perform their guardian duties together while holding on to the Triforce of Power.
However, one particular soul interested her. This was the soul of the hero of legend, who was constantly reincarnated throughout the years. Seeing this, she found another soul who was bound to the hero of legend’s soul. Saddened that she couldn’t be the one bound to the hero, Cia soon became corrupted by Ganondorf, who pushed all of the light away from her, creating her other half Lana. With the light gone, Cia became obsessed, wanting the legendary hero’s soul for herself. She opened up a Gate of Souls to spawn monsters across the world. Ganondorf, of course, was only using Cia so he could resurrect himself and get the Triforce. Due to her position as a guardian of the Triforce, the Triforce of Power was already in her grasp.
She used her monster army to attack Hyrule, and after the legendary hero Link and princess of Hyrule Zelda finally encountered Cia, the Triforce of Courage and Triforce of Wisdom were stolen, which she used to merge Hyrule with other worlds, open up more Gates of Souls, and release three of the four fragments of Ganondorf’s soul. After confronting a weakened Ganondorf, whose body was restored thanks to most of the fragments being free, she broke free from him and lost the two pieces of the Triforce she had just obtained.
Despite being free, she still sought the Triforce and Link. In her final battle against the heroes, she was defeated and soon faded away after learning that it was okay for her to not be with the person she wanted. Luckily, when another merging world crisis happened, Cia’s body was restored, as her soul was stolen by Phantom Ganon, but returned in time for her to help defeat him alongside Link and Lana. After redeeming herself by helping save the world, she and Lana returned to the Valley of Seers to perform their guardian duties together while holding on to the Triforce of Power.
More Info
- Title: The Dark Sorceress
- Darker half of the Guardian of Time
- Guardian of the Triforce alongside Lana
- From the Valley of Seers
- Became corrupted by Ganondorf
- Laughs or screams literally every time she attacks
- Wants to see Link’s shiny sword
Equipment
Scepter of Time
A darkness-imbued scepter that is Cia’s main weapon of choice. The end of it has a crystal-like mace used to hit hard, but it can also detach and be used like a flail, which is how she usually fights with it. Cia can also summon it from out of nowhere and deflect energy projectiles with it. She even has a more powerful scepter called the Crackling Scepter, a weapon based on her already upgraded scepter called the Scepter of Souls, but with the added element of electricity.
Guardian’s Gate
A gate that Cia can call upon with her magic that summons beings that follow her commands. The being she calls upon all the time is Dark Link, and she can summon up to four of them one by one through the same gate or all at once by creating multiple gates. These Dark Links are just as strong as the original Link. She can also use the gate itself as a physical weapon to attack by moving it around and slashing enemies.
Crystal Ball
A crystal ball that Cia uses to see the fates of all people across ages. However, if she is under intense stress while using it, this can cause it to break.
Items
Cia has a few different items that she can use. They’re useful depending on the situation at hand, and most of them have an upgraded form that lasts for a limited time after Cia obtains that specific item’s power-up. The following is a list of all the items Cia can use:
- Bombs: Explosives that Cia throws that detonate upon contact, which launch enemies into the air or break giant rocks in the way. She can throw many of them at once. When upgraded to the Super Bomb, Cia throws one giant bomb, resulting in a bigger explosion with fiery effects that hurt enemies when they land on the ground.
- Hero’s Bow: A bow that Cia uses to fire arrows that pierce through enemies. She can also use it to target enemy weak spots, but she can only fire one at a time. When upgraded to the Sacred Bow, Cia can fire a barrage of Light Arrows at once, which are especially effective against evil opponents.
- Boomerang: A boomerang that Cia can throw to stun enemies or remove weak obstacles in the way. She can even throw three of them at once. When upgraded to the Gale Boomerang, she can only throw one boomerang, but it will create miniature tornados that hit enemies multiple times with electric-based damage.
- Hookshot: A chain and hook that lets Cia latch onto walls or enemies and bring herself towards them faster. When upgraded to the Clawshot, Cia can shoot it into the sky and bring down a tiny moon for a darkness-based attack.
- Hammer: A giant hammer that Cia can slam into the ground to create big shockwaves that stun enemies or hit switches. When upgraded to the Upgraded Hammer, she can create even bigger shockwaves and break through enemy guards.
- Ocarina: An instrument that warps Cia away with a small tornado when she plays it. It only sends her to locations with activated Owl Statues. This item doesn’t have an upgraded form.
Potions
A bottle with medicine that lets Cia recover health and gain more energy for her stronger attacks when she drinks it. The potion type with the greatest effects is the Yellow Potion, and Cia can hold up to three of them at once.
Triforce of Power
A piece of the Triforce that embodies the essence of the Goddess of Power, Din. With it, Cia’s power grows immensely. She is even capable of teleporting others away or merging entire eras together. It also helps prevent her death should she lose all of her magic and resonates when it detects people who have other pieces of the Triforce. It is currently under her and Lana’s protection at the Valley of Seers.
Powers & Abilities
Dark Magic
Being a dark sorceress with no light in her whatsoever, Cia is incredibly skilled in dark magic. She can use it in a variety of ways, such as creating dark explosions, stomping on dark spheres that spread waves of darkness all around her, shooting dark energy balls, creating landmines that stun enemies before erupting with dark energy when landed on or commanded to, taking the darkness within a person’s heart and transforming it into a dark clone of them, which she can summon up multiple of, locking enemies’ feet in place with a Magic Circle, creating platforms to be used as a surface, making chains that act as obstacles to trap enemies, creating monstrous bodies for spirits, which she can also get rid of, powering up others, locating others, or stealing things from others.
Along with this, Cia can feel darkness and contain it, but she also has a few other uses when manipulating darkness. She can have darkness coarse through her body safely for a maximum of 14 seconds at a time, which makes every physical attack she does get imbued with darkness. She won’t flinch against regular attacks from enemies, and can refresh the effect while it’s still going on. Cia also briefly runs darkness through her body whenever she uses her strongest magical attack: raining down powerful dark beams from the sky. Cia can do this even longer than 14 seconds, but doing so risks her losing her own life, as whenever she does this, she taps into her own life force to increase her magical output. Cia’s darkness attacks do more damage when she consecutively hits a single enemy as opposed to multiple at once. Also, it seems she is incapable of being hurt by her own dark magic.
Along with this, Cia can feel darkness and contain it, but she also has a few other uses when manipulating darkness. She can have darkness coarse through her body safely for a maximum of 14 seconds at a time, which makes every physical attack she does get imbued with darkness. She won’t flinch against regular attacks from enemies, and can refresh the effect while it’s still going on. Cia also briefly runs darkness through her body whenever she uses her strongest magical attack: raining down powerful dark beams from the sky. Cia can do this even longer than 14 seconds, but doing so risks her losing her own life, as whenever she does this, she taps into her own life force to increase her magical output. Cia’s darkness attacks do more damage when she consecutively hits a single enemy as opposed to multiple at once. Also, it seems she is incapable of being hurt by her own dark magic.
Aerokinesis
Using her magic, Cia can manipulate the air around her to create powerful tornadoes that suck enemies in and set them up for follow-up attacks.
Levitation
Using her magic, Cia can levitate into the air. She usually does this to get around the battlefield more easily or perform extremely powerful attacks.
Teleportation
Mind Manipulation
Using her magic, Cia can control others’ minds by enhancing them with darkness. This is how she recruited her commanders Wizzro and Volga.
Transmutation
Summoning
Healing
Portal Creation
Using her magic, Cia can create Gates of Souls, which are portals to other eras in time. These special portals are mainly used for spewing out monsters to create armies, but they can also trap others by putting them into the portal and then sealing it up.
Duplication
Using the power of darkness, Cia can divide herself up to four different Cias. These copies are as strong and have the same abilities as the original.
Focus Spirit
A special mode that Cia can go into once she has enough magical energy. She envelops herself in dark power, increasing her strength, speed, and defense immensely, as well as letting her not even flinch against most attacks and break through enemy guards. It normally lasts for a maximum of 20 seconds, but if Cia defeats a certain amount of enemies while still in this mode, she’ll get special bonuses and extend the duration of it. She can end the mode in two ways. The first lets her sacrifice the duration of the mode at any point to perform a magical attack where she fires dark beams from out of four Guardian’s Gates, which stuns enemies and leaves them wide open for more attacks. When her time in the mode runs out, Cia instead floats into the air and sends out one last shot of dark magic out of her scepter onto the ground that creates a large explosion of darkness.
Feats
Strength
- Defeated Volga, who took a hit from Levias, who can push giant stone roads
- Defeated Argorok, who survived being hit by a small moon
- Had her magic and Triforce of Power used to create a storm and merge the Wind Waker era with hers
Speed
Durability
- Took a hit from Midna and Ganondorf
- Took hits from Link, who rivalled her in power
Training & Experience
- Has lived for many generations and read the fates of all who lived
- Took down several giant monsters, such as King Dodongo, Argorok, the Imprisoned, Gohma, and Manhandla
- Successfully obtained the Triforce and merged multiple worlds together using it
- Helped defeat Phantom Ganon
- Defeated Wizzro, Volga, Midna, Agitha, Zant, Ghirahim, Fi, and Ganondorf
Weaknesses
The constant use of dark magic powered up by her life force can unhinge Cia badly, and it can eventually kill her if she doesn’t stop. She is completely willing to lose her life when doing this if it means she is victorious. Also, it’s possible for others to break free from her mind control, and if someone overcomes the darkness in their heart, Cia is unable to pull from it anymore. Finally, if Cia is drained of all of her magic and doesn’t have the Triforce of Power, she’ll disappear.
Summary
Advantages
- Can call upon Dark Links or monsters with her Guardian’s Gates or summoning magic
- Can see into the future with her crystal ball
- Can use Yellow Potions to heal and regain energy for stronger attacks
- Triforce of Power grants her reality warping and lets her live even after using up all her magic
- Can use her dark magic for a variety of purposes, such as turning enemies’ dark sides against them, locking their feet in place, restricting their movement, locating people, stealing things, or powering herself up by tapping into her life force
- Levitation and teleportation grants her better mobility
- Has multiple useful abilities to end enemies quickly, such as mind control, transmutation, and portal creation
- Can duplicate herself
- Can power up immensely through the use of Focus Spirit and stun enemies with one of its finishers
Disadvantages
- Constant use of dark magic powered by her life force can unhinge her, and even eventually kill her
- Will try to be victorious at any cost, even her own life
- Others are capable of breaking free from her mind control
- Is unable to pull from the darkness in others’ hearts if they have overcome it
- Will disappear if she is drained of all her magic and doesn’t have the Triforce of Power
