Korok

Several Koroks from The Wind Waker.
Korok
Type	Forest Spirits
Debut	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

The Koroks are a tribe of small wooden creatures that were introduced in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. They are alternate forms taken on by the Kokiri.

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The Koroks resemble small wooden figures with stubby arms and legs. They wear leaves as masks and, due to their light weight, they are able to float through the air by using certain plants as propellers.

The Wind Waker

Following the Great Flood, the Kokiri migrated with the Great Deku Tree to living at the Forest Haven, one of the islands in the Great Sea. This somehow caused the Kokiris' forms to change, and they became the Koroks. Koroks primarily lived in the Forest Haven under the protection of the Deku Tree. They used to live in the nearby forest island within stump-shaped homes (implied to possibly be the Kokiri Forest), until it became corrupted and infested with monsters. That island was called the Forbidden Woods and, the Deku Tree considered it off-limits for the Koroks.

Aside from the Forbidden Woods, the Koroks, unlike the Kokiri, were free to travel across the Great Sea. The Deku Tree actually gave them all seeds to plant on various islands of the Great Sea. This was because trees helped islands to grow, and this advanced the Deku Tree's dream of one day connecting all of the islands as one giant island where people could live in harmony. A few Koroks remained at the homestead with other tasks. Hollo ran a potion store while Makar practiced his leaf cello to perform at the next ceremony. Most of the Koroks usually returned to Forest Haven only during the annual ceremony in which the Deku Tree produced new seeds, and the Koroks would then set to work again.

In The Wind Waker, Link arrived just prior to the annual ceremony and saved Makar after he had fallen into the Forbidden Woods.All of the island's Koroks except for Makar and Hollo then left to begin their next round of planting trees. Makar wound up being awakened as the new Wind Sage and succeeded the Kokiri Fado. As for the other Koroks, the trees that the planted suddenly began to wither (seemingly an effect of the evil spreading through the dark sea), and one tree withering would affect all of the other trees that had been planted. Link had to save the trees by using Forest Water from the Haven and using it on all of the trees before the water's potency expired, as if even one tree was left withering it would cause the others to wither again as well.

Breath of the Wild

In Breath of the Wild, the Koroks resided in Hyrule, within the Korok Forest located at the heart of the Lost Woods. Once again, they lived under the protection of the Deku Tree, and some of them ran businesses within his body. They were shown to be shy, and most of them hid from visitors. There were also 900 Koroks who scattered themselves across Hyrule and hid themselves in different areas. Link had to perform certain actions that sometimes involved minigames in order to make them appear. Once each Korok was found, they gave Link a Korok Seed in exchange. These Korok Seeds could be given to a Korok named Hetsu, who would give Link extra equipment slots in exchange.