Darunia

Darunia
Darunia (dä-roo'-nē-ä) is the leader of the Goron race and resides in Goron City on Death Mountain. When Link first meets Darunia, he is upset because the cavern containing the Goron's food source is overrun by Dodongos and has been sealed off by Ganondorf as punishment for refusing to turn over the Goron Ruby (also known as the Spiritual Stone of Fire). Once he is cheered up by Link's rousing rendition of 'Saria's song', a song he continues to enjoy for the rest of the game, his demeanour softens. He gives Link the Goron's Bracelet, allowing him to use bomb flowers, and asks him to clear the Dodongos from Dodongo's Cavern. If Link completes this task, Darunia rewards him with the Spiritual Stone of Fire (Goron Ruby) and makes him his "Sworn Brother". (After amusingly trying to pat Link's shoulder but instead slamming him into the ground.) Somewhere in the next seven years, he had a son who he named Link. After Ganondorf conquers Hyrule he threatens to feed the Goron race to the dragon Volvagia, who was killed long ago by a Goron hero, but has been resurrected by Ganondorf. After Link and Darunia's encounter in the Fire Temple, Darunia rushes into Volvagia's lair to kill it, but apparently fails. When adult Link defeats Volvagia himself, thus completing the Fire Temple, Darunia is awakened as the Sage of Fire, and gives Link the Fire Medallion. Darunia, like many of the characters in Ocarina of Time, takes his name from a town in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link; as this game precedes that one in the Zelda timeline, it may be more accurate to say, chronologically, that the town takes its name from him.