No, entirely alright. Unfortunately, the original was entirely lost-the entire forum was deleted at the time and that was why it ended in the first place.

Those three characters will be present, although the nature of the part in the story will be vastly different from typical of Zelda (Link is not automatically the protagonist, for example) . The sages will be present-however, that and the nature of their role will play a large part in the story and the revealing of it is a significant plot point for later on.

Most of the games are semi-canonical. None of the games depict the history of the setting verbatim; rather, how the games presented the world is more of how the state and mainstream culture portrays the events, rather than how they actually were. The main influences are Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess with some elements taken from Wind Waker (although Hyrule was never turned into the Great Sea) . The cycle exists-however, there is some in-universe confusion over that as, according to the official church of Hyrule, the cycle has largely been completed, hence its status as an empirial superpower. This is taken as Hyrule having entered a golden age with a divine right to conquest.

The timeline is the one of Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess-although, again, the games are not exactly what actually took place.

For magic, most of it relies on enchanted items and relics, imbuing them with magical effects. Casters with outright spells-fireballs, summoning, weaving magic together by way of incantation, gesture and such are significantly rarer, although present enough (somewhere around 1-5% of the population in Hyrulian cities are proficient with low to average-level casting, for example) .