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Traysi

Traysi is the editor of the Lucky Clover Gazette and the questgiver who begins the Potential Princess Sightings! side adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Importance

minor

First appearance

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom · character art

Key Takeaways

Traysi is a non-playable journalist whose work connects Link to the Lucky Clover Gazette’s investigations across Hyrule.

Editor of the Lucky Clover Gazette

Traysi leads the Lucky Clover Gazette and directs its reporting operation from the newspaper’s headquarters.

Starts a major investigation

Speaking with Traysi begins the Side Adventure “Potential Princess Sightings?”, which sends Link to investigate reports connected to Princess Zelda.

Works with Penn

Traysi assigns Penn to investigate sightings around Hyrule, making their partnership central to the Gazette’s questline.

Not a playable character

Traysi does not fight alongside Link or provide a player-controlled ability; her importance comes from quest direction, journalism, and information.

Overview

Traysi is the editor of the Lucky Clover Gazette in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, where she directs Link toward reports concerning Princess Zelda.

Traysi is a Hyrulean journalist and the editor of the Lucky Clover Gazette, a newspaper operating from the former Rito Stable. She introduces Link to the Gazette’s investigation into reported sightings of Princess Zelda, beginning the Side Adventure “Potential Princess Sightings!” Although she is not a combatant or companion, Traysi helps connect Link to the Gazette’s network of reporters and the rumors circulating across Hyrule. Her role makes her an important quest-giver for the game’s journalism-focused investigations.

Role in the Story

Spoilers

Story spoilers ahead. This section covers the character’s later arc and outcomes.

Traysi serves as the editor-in-chief of the Lucky Clover Gazette and begins one of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's major investigation threads. Her role is centered on reports that Princess Zelda has been sighted across Hyrule after the Upheaval. Rather than accompanying Link into the field, Traysi organizes the Gazette's response and sends its reporters to investigate these claims.

Speaking with Traysi at the Gazette headquarters starts the Side Adventure Potential Princess Sightings!. The investigation leads Link and the Gazette reporter Penn through a series of regional assignments involving alleged sightings of Zelda. These episodes connect Traysi's newspaper to incidents occurring throughout Hyrule while giving Link a reason to investigate reports outside the central Main Quest. The individual assignments remain character- and location-focused rather than turning Traysi into a direct combat participant.

Organizing the Princess Sightings Investigation

Traysi establishes the Gazette's investigation and gives Penn responsibility for reporting from the field. Link becomes involved by helping Penn verify the reports, with each assignment testing whether a supposed appearance of Zelda is genuine or connected to a local problem. Traysi therefore functions as the coordinator behind a broad chain of Side Adventures, while Penn is the character Link usually encounters during the investigations.

The questline also expands the story's depiction of Hyrule after the Upheaval. The reports draw attention to Zelda's disappearance and to the uncertainty surrounding her whereabouts, but Traysi's contribution is primarily institutional: she turns scattered rumors into an organized Gazette investigation. The chain can be pursued alongside the game's other regional storylines rather than serving as a replacement for them.

Resolution of the Gazette Questline

Once the Gazette's assignments have been completed, Traysi recognizes Link's contribution to the investigation and provides the concluding reward associated with the questline: the Froggy armor set. This resolution gives the Gazette's work a practical gameplay benefit while marking the investigation as complete. Traysi remains important as the questline's initiating and coordinating figure, even though the fieldwork and most of the local discoveries are handled through Penn and the people Link meets during the assignments.

Personality & Motivations

Traysi is energetic, inquisitive, and strongly oriented toward gathering information. As the editor of the Lucky Clover Gazette, she treats reports concerning Princess Zelda and the upheaval in Hyrule as stories worth investigating rather than dismissing them as rumor. Her response is practical: instead of personally pursuing every lead, she organizes a broad investigation and sends Link to examine reports in different regions. This shows confidence in delegation and a preference for collecting evidence from multiple locations.

Her motivations combine professional curiosity with genuine concern about Zelda’s disappearance and Hyrule’s changing circumstances. Traysi is interested in a compelling story, but her conduct is not presented as purely self-serving; she wants the Gazette’s reporting to clarify what is happening and give people useful information. Her lively newsroom manner and willingness to pursue uncertain leads make her more assertive than a passive administrator. At the same time, the game gives her limited personal backstory, so broader claims about her fears, private beliefs, or long-term character change are not established.

Relationships

Organization

Quest

Story

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Organization

Lucky Clover Gazette

Editor

Traysi edits and operates the Lucky Clover Gazette.

Penn

Reporter

Penn works as the Gazette’s field reporter under the investigation Traysi assigns.

Quest

Potential Princess Sightings!

Questgiver

Traysi begins the side adventure at the Lucky Clover Gazette headquarters.

Story

Princess Zelda

Investigation subject

Reports concerning Princess Zelda are the reason Traysi organizes the Gazette investigation.

Mission Appearances

Traysi gives Link this Side Adventure at the Lucky Clover Gazette, where she directs the newspaper’s investigation into reports of Princess Zelda’s appearances across Hyrule. Traysi serves as the Gazette’s editor and frames the investigation, while Penn handles many of the field assignments. The quest establishes Traysi’s main story role and connects her to the Gazette’s broader reporting effort.

Locations and Properties

Lucky Clover Gazette Headquarters

Traysi is based at the Lucky Clover Gazette headquarters, located in the former Rito Stable in the Tabantha Frontier. This building serves as her workplace and the Gazette’s editorial base, making it the principal location associated with her in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is a recurring character location rather than a separately identified home or personal property.

Appearance and Design

Traysi's Gazette Editor Look

Traysi is presented as a composed newspaper editor whose glasses and practical clothing distinguish her from the more adventurous figures associated with the Lucky Clover Gazette. Her tidy, professional appearance supports her role as an organizer and information broker rather than a field reporter. The design keeps her visually grounded among the Gazette’s staff while emphasizing the civilian, community-facing side of journalism in Hyrule.

Trivia

In Breath of the Wild, Traysi is credited as the author of the “Rumor Mill” books found around Hyrule’s stables, establishing her as a journalist before her appearance in Tears of the Kingdom.
The Lucky Clover Gazette’s headquarters occupies the former Rito Stable, creating a small location continuity change between the two games.