Zelda franchise strategy guide/Items/Wooden Sword

An antique bokken, a traditional Japanese wooden sword. The bokken is considered a potential inspiration for the wooden sword in Zelda games.

The Wooden Sword is Link's starting weapon in many Zelda titles, particularly the 2D iterations. It is composed of wood, and it is usually the weakest melee weapon that Link can obtain. The wooden sword often allows Link to perform a signature Spin Attack, but in some incarnations it cannot fire magical beams or smash pots. A sword with a brown blade is also the initial weapon in the original Legend of Zelda. It is identified as a normal "Sword", but is of a brown wood-like color. Link acquires a wooden sword very early on in Twilight Princess, but lends it to Talo shortly before Talo and the other children are kidnapped. The sword is later found snapped in two. In Twilight Princess, the wooden sword's appearance closely resembles a bokken, strengthening the implication that it was originally intended as a practice sword.