Link’s Faith: Christianity in The Legend of Zelda - Link Is Christian. It Is Canon.
Link Was Christian, and You Cannot Pretend Otherwise
Let’s stop dancing around it. Link was Christian. That is not up for debate. And we are going to cover it all. The original Legend of Zelda on the NES flat-out called one of its items the Bible in Japan. The sprite shows a little book with a cross on the cover. The English manual swapped the name out for “Book of Magic,” but the cross stayed right there on the art. The follow-up, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link , doubled down with an actual item called the Cross . Pick it up, and suddenly invisible enemies like the Moa became visible. Then came A Link to the Past , which made things even clearer. The Japanese version literally calls the Sanctuary a church, the kindly old man inside a priest, and it even makes Link pray, visibly drawing a cross on his chest, to open the Desert Palace. You can argue all day about what Nintendo of America censored, but you cannot argue with what shipped. Link was a Christian hero. Period.
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