Is Malon in Twilight Princess, BotW, or TotK?

Twilight Princess names the ranch without bringing her back

Malo is a boy in Ordon who opens Malo Mart. Talo is his older brother and gets rescued at the Forest Temple. Zelda Wiki treats the names as nods to Malon and Talon. Ilia is Mayor Bo’s daughter. She loses her memory, gives Link the Horse Call, and is written with affection for him. Shipping Wiki’s trivia says she is partly based on Malon. I keep that as a wiki sentence. The hero of this game herds goats at Ordon Ranch, which is why a ranch search pulls Malon in. He is an Ordon boy, not Malon in a new hat. The bloodline theory that tries to connect him to her is on the evidence page.

The night version of Hyrule Field quotes a sung phrase of Epona’s Song. Zelda Wiki lists it as trivia, and a public upload lets you hear the track: Hyrule Field (Night). I am not going to pretend I ran a spectrogram. The citation is “you can hear her melody in that recording,” which matches the wiki note. Hearing a sample is not a character model.

Malanya is a different word

In Breath of the Wild, Malanya is the horse god at the spring. In the 2026 remake, a gossip quest says child Malon named a toy horse Malanya. Zelda Wiki records that quest on the Malanya article. One name, two eras, two characters. She is also absent from Tears of the Kingdom on the same appearance list. Her real roster, Ocarina of Time through The Minish Cap, is on the profile and the full table.