Ending explained

Defeat Majora's three forms inside the Moon. The Giants hold the Moon. Clock Town reaches the carnival it has been counting down to.

The final-confrontation guide and Zelda Wiki's New Day page describe the credits as a conditional sequence: people you helped appear, and people you missed do not. Skull Kid is free of the mask. The Happy Mask Salesman leaves with it. Link’s destination after Termina is not specified by the ending. The child-timeline note, that he had been looking for Navi, is on the timeline page, and it is not an ending card.

Open questions the sources do not close: the origin of Majora's Mask, and the road after the credits. The manga answers the origin with a story the game does not tell. The manga’s origin tale belongs to that adaptation rather than the game’s ending.

Skull Kid under the falling Moon on the final night

North Clock Town on the first day, with the clock tower ahead

Questions

What happens to Skull Kid?

The mask leaves him. The ending shows him restored.

What happens to the mask?

The Happy Mask Salesman takes it and leaves.

Where does Link go next?

The ending does not specify Link’s next destination. Twilight Princess takes place later in the child timeline.

The MoonSkull KidTimelineManga

Sources

Zelda Central — Final Confrontation https://zeldacentral.com/games/majoras-mask/walkthrough/final-confrontation/
Wikipedia — Majora's Mask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora%27s_Mask
Zelda Wiki — Anju and Kafei's Wedding https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Anju_and_Kafei%27s_Wedding

Checked 2026-11-11.