Dorothy finding queer love with Ozma, who moves her family from Kansas when the bank forecloses on the farm.

You know the Emerald City isn't Emerald in the books?

Yeah, read the books.

No. But they are a famous duo in Disney. Meeting them at the LightBox Expo gave me a lot of inspiration on how to design the Nome King and his Steward's faces.

BOTW fans are newcomers who never once experienced a time before the Zelda Timeline.

That’s why they all sound like children.

Then comes the complaints that you can’t play the New Sages or Link.

There’s a trade off and I don’t many thought this thru.

I do wonder if they can sneak in a giant mansion for Luigi and justify it as him having several mansions to his name.

I hope it's an Age of Calamity situation because if what I hear is true... the casual audience would be VERY disappointed as to what the game actually provided.

What are they afraid of? That the "canon" story is actually boring and make people wish the New Sages and Link went back in time to fight Ganondorf?

And to its own detriment, because there's also a dedicated fanbase that wants to play the New Sages and Link.

The fandom has turned canon from a fun thing into expectation shackles.

I honestly want them to destroy canonicity because it has been a plague among Zelda fans for decades.

People don't want to admit it, but it's this obsession with canon that led to a lot of Zelda merchandise and books being nearly lost forever because they don't "count" as important.

I remember the Imprisoning War in the ALTTP manual too. And I remember there was only one candidate for that backstory:

Ocarina of Time.

And then I remember all the retcons that happened because OOT mucked up the events so much that it created a third what if timeline to make sense.

Just wait.

Soon there will be complaints from fans when they realize that "canon" means you don't get to play as Link or Sidon or Tulin at all.