McNey, self-identified as the Esteemed Explorer, McNey, is a deceased archaeologist from The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. He dedicated his career into exploring the lost civilization of the Cobble Kingdom, trying to find the remains. Due to the Isle of Ruins being inaccessible and forgotten, he ended up on the Island of the Dead, where he set up a personal research station, where he wrote a series called the Explorer's Compass. He ended up attempting to solve the Phantom Passage without first figuring out the riddle to open the sages' graveyard, and as such got lost and slowly had his energy sapped. He ended up dying before making it back to safety. However, his spirit remains over his bones, and when spoken to, gives Link the advice to travel downwards to leave if he too does not know the way through.
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Name
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ミクニー
Mikunī |
McNey/Mickney
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