A mystery forever unsolved.

[LadyNintendo]

I just want to clear one thing up  :D
The Lightforce is indeed the triforce. The Minish are the ones who told of the triforce which that misinturpreted as Lightforce. Think about it. How could there be two things that are nearly identical in lore and power and not be the same? Haven't you noticed that Link doesn't posses the Triforce of Courage anymore? My theory is that when Hyrule (old) was finally cast under the sea the Goddesses returned the Triforce to new Hyrule in a new form that we all know as Lightforce.
And yes, I know that offical stated that it was not the Triforce but how could that be so? The Triforce certainly could not have been destroyed or lost.

A THEORY can't be used to "clear things up". Because it's just another opinion.
Twins also can be nearly identical, yet they aren't the same. The Triforce and the Lightforce are similar and MIGHT have a connection, but it doesn't look like they are the same thing. Besides, Link didn't possess the Triforce Of Courage a lot of times, while the Triforce definetely was still around. TLOZ didn't feature the TOC, TAOL didn't feature it till the very end (when the adventure had already ended. Who says TMC Link won't possess it at a later point in his life?), same goes for ALTTP, LA and MM. And if the Triforce or Lightforce can't be lost, where were they during FSA? Noone (clearly) possessed them at that point.

[Zelda Veteran]

Well, in Twilight Princess, towards the beginning of the game, a triforce symbol glows bright on Link's right hand, scaring away a shadow being. So if Twilight Princess is concidered a later game, then yes, he certaily posseses it in the time period. We just have to set it somewhere in the timeline...

[darkphantomime]

You remember that phoenix emblem on the hylian shield? How at one point it seemed to carry a FOURTH triforce up to the actual triforce? Maybe, just maybe, that Fourth triforce piece is the lightforce... but the rumors surrounding the fourth triforce and the phoenix have been debunked ever since nintendo redesigned the shield a la TP.

[LadyNintendo]

And at the same time, they two times refered to a possible fourth goddess after OOT(Once in MM (kindness), TP (Ordona)).

[darkphantomime]

Um,wait, I don't recal any goddess of kindness, although I DO recall a goddess of time...

"Kindness" would probably be a trait attributed to Nayru, IE: NAyru's Love...

But what's that other goddess you just referred to?

[alex]

ordona is a light spirit (or w/e) not a godess.

[LadyNintendo]

Refered! Lanayru and the others aren't goddesses either, but don't tell me you don't see a link.

And with Kindness, I was refering to the Great Fairies of MM. The one of Magic, Power, Wisdom, Courage and Kindness.

[Evilslayer]

Kindness is a virtue that isn't really a 'sub-virtue', if you wish, of any of the three others. I think you may be onto something.

I'm pretty sure the Goddess of Time is Nayru, but I won't be surprised if there's a Goddess of Kindness, yet to be revealed, who is not one of the already known Goddesses.

[Mysterious F.]

The Goddess of Time could be the mirrored versions of the Three Goddesses, since Termina's a mirror-like world of Hyrule. Mabye she too has a triangle, that fits in the upside-down hole, and mabye that triangle turned into the Light Force.

[Lemmy]

T3h lightforce is not teh triforce!

That proves everything!

[DW]

The Ordona thing is very possible, since there are light spirits named after all the Goddesses, Why shouldn't Ordona? I was always under the impression that the light force and triforce were the same, the triforce was just misinterpreted through the years...and seeing as how he was draining light force out of Zelda, he could have been taking the triforce of Wisdom...

[LadyNintendo]

The Triforce of wisdom alone cannot make anyone a god nor give anyone the strength the Lightforce gave Vaati (or transform him for that matter.) Also, I doubt Zelda would die if someone took the Triforce from her.

[DW]

what if...he already had the ToP?would two pieces be enough?

[LadyNintendo]

If that would be the case, then Ganon would never have bothered about Link, but immediately taken Zelda's piece and used it kill Link. No, Vaati doesn't have the Triforce of Power.

[DW]

He did have the minish cap however.I dunno, this is just one of those topics where we have to wait and see what they have in store for the future...no doubt it will be revealed in time...there are a lot of good theories that can't be proven or disproven, it may be easier after Phantom Hourglass...