[@Apollosarcher] I had an idea regarding your "Hero of Memory". This has some completely invented mythology behind it so stay with me.

Their have been many heroes clad in green, the Hero of Time, Wind, Twilight, Dreams and many more. However there is one hero that is never sung about, never mentioned, has no legend to his name for one simple reason, he was not a hero. When the Cycle of the Goddesses began several thousand years ago a divine accident delivered the baby that would become the hero into the hands of the Gerudo people. Instead of killing him as was their custom the Gerudo decided to bring him up as one of there own. He was raised with the values of the desert thieves and when he was called forth to become the Champion of Light and was gifted with the Triforce of Courage he was thrilled, he set off on his quest. He vanquished the evil which he was called to defeat but when he obtained all three pieces of the Triforce rather than wishing a golden age for the people of Hyrule the Desert Hero instead followed his upbringing. He wished for ultimate power. The Triforce obliged transforming this hero into The Fierce Deity. The Fierce Deity took control of Hyrule, imprisoned its royal family and ruled for exactly one year as a tyrant. That was when the Goddesses stepped in. The Hero was meant to be the embodiment of good, of all that was right, this Fierce Deity was the kind of monster that the Hero was called to fight against. So the Goddesses waged war with this being who by virtue of his wish on the Triforce was powerful enough to combat even them. When the fight was done the Goddesses emerged victorious, the Fierce Deity stripped of his power. Ashamed of what their cycle had done to Hyrule The Goddesses razed the Fierce Deity from everyone's memory and from all written records and imprisoned his soul within a mask that they hid away in the center of the moon of another world.

So I was thinking that while no one remembers this Evil Link, because our Hero of Memory can utilize the memories of the Links that came before him the memories from this power hungry Link start to bleed through. While Link makes use of the Fierce Deity's power he is almost unstoppable but he starts to lose control of it and after awhile begins to fear that he is losing his humanity to it. I don't know if you like that or not but feel free to do with it what you want.

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Shall we say it looks completely different from any of the games? Barring obvious things like the kokiri being in the forest and stuff. That way we could have a more flexible setting with more opportunity to make new interesting locations.
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Well obviously it's a new Hyrule much the different between Twilight Princess Hyrule and Ocarina of Time Hyrule, the world doesn't follow any of the configurations of the previous games but we're still going to have most of not all if the familiar settings. I mean would you play a Zelda game that didn't have a Death Mountain? Okay their are one or two exceptions to that I know, you don't have to point them out. My point is Zelda needs her Hyrule Castle, Saria needs her Kokiri Forest, Gorons need Death Mountain. We're not going be using a map from an old game but we're going to have all these kinds of classic Zelda locations. Now how are they positioned in this new world?