Gerudo Warrior

	I've seen your fine work. To get past the guards here, you must have good thieving skills. I used to think that all men, besides the great Ganondorf, were useless...but now that I've seen you, I don't think so anymore!
— The Gerudo Warror after Link frees all the carpenters.

The Gerudo Warrior is a Gerudo character in Ocarina of Time.^[1]

Biography

The Gerudo Warrior appears in the Gerudo's Fortress after Link, defeats all of the four Gerudo Thieves to rescue the Carpenters. While Nabooru is away at the Spirit Temple, she leaves this Gerudo in charge of the Gerudo's Fortress, making her technically the third-in-command of the Gerudo race, behind Nabooru and Ganondorf himself.^[2] After Link frees all the Carpenters, the Gerudo Warrior appears to compliment him on accomplishing such a task and rewards him with the Gerudo Token,^[2] which allows the Hero of Time to walk about freely in the Gerudo's Fortress and access the Haunted Wasteland without the risk of being arrested.

Trivia

Unlike other Gerudo, due to a glitch as well as graphical limitations of the Nintendo 64, the Gerudo Warrior's clothing and lipstick changes to match the color of Link's tunic, and will therefore turn red or blue if he wears the Goron or Zora Tunic, respectively. She also flashes the color of the Bomb or Bombchu if the hero uses the item while on-screen.^[3] The glitch was fixed in PAL versions, the Collector's Edition version, and Ocarina of Time 3D, and thus can only be seen in the original v1.0/v1.1 NTSC release.

Aveil, the Gerudo Warrior's Terminan counterpart
The Gerudo Warrior has a counterpart in Termina named Aveil in Majora's Mask. She is the leader of the Gerudo within the Pirates' Fortress.

Nomenclature

Names in other regions
Language		Name	Meaning
	French^EU	Guerrière Gerudo ^(OoT)^[4]	Gerudo Warrior
This table was generated using translation pages.

Gallery

The Gerudo Warrior wearing red upon the Goron Tunic being equipped from Ocarina of Time
The Gerudo Warrior wearing blue upon the Zora Tunic being equipped from Ocarina of Time

References

↑ Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, pg. 239 ^{(OoT | OoT3D)}
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "I've seen your fine work. To get past the guards here, you must have good thieving skills. I used to think that all men, except for the great Ganondorf, were useless...but now that I've seen you, I don't think so anymore! The exalted Nabooru, our leader, put me in charge of this fortress. Nabooru is the second-in-command to the great Ganondorf, King of the Gerudo Thieves. Her headquarters are in the Spirit Temple, which is at the end of the desert. Say, you must want to become one of us, eh? All right then! You're in from now on! Take this. With it, you will have free access to all areas of the fortress!" — Gerudo Warrior (Ocarina of Time 3D)
↑ Kazooie, OoT: Gerudo color changing glitches, YouTube (Video), published January 19, 2011, retrieved February 5, 2020.
↑ Encyclopedia (Les Éditions Soleil) pg. 239

[1] Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, pg. 239 ^{(OoT | OoT3D)}

[Exalted-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "I've seen your fine work. To get past the guards here, you must have good thieving skills. I used to think that all men, except for the great Ganondorf, were useless...but now that I've seen you, I don't think so anymore! The exalted Nabooru, our leader, put me in charge of this fortress. Nabooru is the second-in-command to the great Ganondorf, King of the Gerudo Thieves. Her headquarters are in the Spirit Temple, which is at the end of the desert. Say, you must want to become one of us, eh? All right then! You're in from now on! Take this. With it, you will have free access to all areas of the fortress!" — Gerudo Warrior (Ocarina of Time 3D)

[3] Kazooie, OoT: Gerudo color changing glitches, YouTube (Video), published January 19, 2011, retrieved February 5, 2020.

[4] Encyclopedia (Les Éditions Soleil) pg. 239

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