What happened during the seven years Link was asleep?
You’re a terrible man to have kept me waiting for these seven long years…. There are many quotes in OoT referring to the seven years Link spent in the Sacred Realm. However, its very difficult to draw the evidence from them, since the information given is often scarce and repetitive. Here I will explain a plausible reconstruction of the events that happened then. After Link was sealed in the Sacred Realm, Ganondorf got inside the Temple of Light, through the Temple of Time. How he was able to do this is not known, but he might have either attacked the Hyrule Castle Town, like he did when he attempted to get the Ocarina of Time, or was able to sneak using magical arts. Either way is possible, and determining which one is true is mostly irrelevant. When Ganondorf touched the Triforce, it divided into its three parts, and the Sacred Realm became a world of monsters through his power. As said by Rauru, his evil radiated from the five temples of Hyrule, and his evil mood spread across the
