More to the point, why hasn't Sheik heard of him? A sentient shadow - the only one he knows of is that monster down in the Water Temple. What distant corner of Hyrule must this boy be from?

"Perhaps..." he says slowly, but it's Zelda who interrupts.

[I do not believe he is from a different place. But he feels... displaced,] she tells him softly, [Out of order. Almost as if he isn't from a different place, but a different...]

Sheik nods, almost as if to himself. "Perhaps... does this... place take people from different times, not just different locations?" he asks.