When Link confronts the Wolf, it leaps through Link, transporting him into another world. The White Wolf will then appear on Link's Map indicating his current location. He then tells Link to take "sword in hand" and find him, implying that Link had to return to human form before searching for the Wolf. Once a Howling Stone is found, the song has to be howled along with the Spirit. In Hyrule, he appears as the White Wolf, who can be summoned by finding a Howling Stone, with the exception of the first time he is encountered, in which he appears to Link directly. In order to ease his regrets and finally pass on his knowledge, he teaches the seven Hidden Skills to his descendant, the Link from Twilight Princess. He also lamented the fact that he was not remembered as a hero.
Sayed Salahuddin contributed to this report.The Hero's Spirit is the Hero of Time from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, filled with regrets from being unable to pass on the "lessons of his life to those who came after him" after he was sent back in time to his childhood. Last October, during the period of Shiite commemoration known as Ashura, a remote-controlled bomb exploded at a mosque in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, killing 17, and gunmen invaded the famous Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul as it was filled with women and children, killing 10 and wounding many others. In the past year, there have been numerous attacks on Shiite places of worship and communities, most claimed by the Islamic State. There is a police station just 150 feet from the mosque, but the legislator, Mehdi Hadid, said the police were too frightened to take action and remained outside.Ī spokesman for the provincial governor, Jalani Farhad, said people pelted the police station with stones and set it on fire. One legislator who arrived soon after the Tuesday bombing at the Javadia mosque, just south of Herat city, described a ghastly scene of bloodied bodies and wounded survivors scattered through the building, where about 300 people had gathered.Īfter the attack, dozens of angry residents confronted police, complaining that they had failed to intervene while the attack was in progress. Some witnesses described hearing a second explosion about 10 minutes after the first.
There has been little history of religious conflict between local Shiites and Sunnis, but the Islamic State has previously stated its intent to divide Afghan Muslim sects.Ībdul Ahad Walizada, a spokesman for the Herat police, described the incident as "a terroristic attack that killed more than 20 of our countrymen while they were praying." He said he did not know the motive.
Tuesday's attack, however, was the first such assault on a Shiite mosque in Herat, a gateway to the Afghan border with Iran and a historic center of Shiite faith among the Hazara ethnic community. Afterward, there were reports that Islamic State officials warned Shiites in Afghanistan that they would be targeted. The embassy had celebrated the recapture of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters last month. The Herat attack followed a terrorist assault Monday on the embassy of Iraq in Kabul in which two assailants were killed after a five-hour gunbattle with police. A number of previous suicide attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, including one that killed 30 people last November, have been claimed by a regional affiliate of the Islamic State, an extremist Sunni militia. A security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said later that 29 people had died and 64 were injured.Ī spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said the group had no hand in the attack. At least 20 people were initially reported killed, and scores were wounded.