Fanon / The Legend of Zelda

The Legend of Zelda series is rich on lore and has a large cast, however there's still much wiggle room for fan interpretations and theories.

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Franchise-Wide

Zelda

• Zelda's mother being dead in pretty much every incarnation, usually since Zelda was quite young. Either she died in childbirth or fell ill when Zelda was a young child. In canon, Zelda's mother is almost never discussed, which leads fans to assume she's dead (though, many manga adaptations make her explicitly deceased). In The Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild, Zelda losing her mother at a young age is canon.
• Sheik is rarely represented as Zelda in Zelda fan works, often being turned into a distinct individual rather than a persona temporarily adopted by Zelda. Despite Word of God saying that Sheik is simply Zelda crossdressing and not a genderbend, fans have been slow to the pickup. Sheik in fan works is usually either a male Split Personality of Zelda or he'll somehow be separated into his own character (usually to be shipped with Link). The former is inspired by the Ocarina of Time manga depicting Zelda as being a separate mental entity from Sheik due to Impa having locked Zelda's mind away. A less common, alternate interpretation (especially amongst queer fans) is that OoT's Zelda is either a trans man or genderfluid.
• Most Zeldas seem to be in their mid-to-late teens so fans write them being anywhere from 14 to 18, with the exception of the obviously younger ones. There are two Zeldas with a canon age: one is the Twilight Princess Zelda, who is actually 20 according to a piece of supplementary material (still, fans usually write her as 17-19). The other is the Breath of the Wild Zelda, who turns seventeen when Calamity Ganon rises, and spends 100 years keeping him at bay, making her chronologically 117 and physically 17.

Link

• Every incarnation of Link tends to be given their own Red Baron title, based on the canon titles given to the Links from Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask (Hero of Time) and Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass (Hero of Winds). This is mostly for convenience so people known which Link others are talking about without needing to cite specific entries in the series, especially since it's not uncommon for an individual Link to appear in multiple games (and that itself carries its own ambiguity).
  • Legend of Zelda/Link's Adventure: Being the first Link created, he's often given the honor of being the "Hero of Light", which is thematically fitting considering his chronological last enemy is his own shadow/Dark Link.
  • A Link to the Past/Link's Awakening: "Hero of Light and Dark", after the name of the era he hails from. Alternatively, "Hero of Awakening".
  • Oracle of Ages/Seasons: "Hero of Ages/Seasons".
  • Twilight Princess: Although Link is given the title of "Hero Chosen by the Gods" in-game, more common nicknames for this Link are the "Hero of Light" and "Hero of Twilight." The latter became Ascended Fanon in Breath of the Wild with the "Hero of Twilight" armor set.
  • The Minish Cap: "Hero of the Minish", in contrast to his in-game predecessor, the Hero of Men.
  • Spirit Tracks: "Hero of Spirits", if only to make him distinct from the Hero of Winds when talking about that timeline's Toon Link.
  • Skyward Sword: "Hero of the Sky." This would likewise become Ascended Fanon in BotW thanks to an armor set of the same name.
  • A Link Between Worlds: "Hero Between Worlds", again to make it distinct from the Hero of Light and Dark, his timeline's predecessor.
  • Breath of the Wild: "Hero of the Wild(s)", which is the name of an armor set implied to be this Link's "canon" one.
• Link being literally mute. In the games he's the typical "silent protagonist who speaks but whose dialogue is never shown." In fanon, he's often mute and he speaks through sign language. This is most common in Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Breath of the Wild works. In Hyrule Warriors and Breath of the Wild canon, Link is The Quiet One.
• It's assumed that Link is always an orphan. Several Links are canonically orphans, but most are unspecified. Breath of the Wild canonically still had a living father and a younger sister before going into stasis.
• Adult Links are usually presented in fanon as being slightly older than they canonically are (19-21 rather than 15-18).
• Link's handedness being ambidextrous rather than just left-handed. This later became Ascended Fanon, with Word of God confirming Link to be ambidextrous.
• Many fans believe that at least one of the Links is secretly Zelda's brother. The most common guesses are the Zelda I, A Link to the Past, or Ocarina of Time Links. This fanon dates back to an Urban Legend from ALTTP and is canon in one manga.
• Link's name is literally, and consistently, "Link." Word of God is that, in some incarnations, "Link" is a placeholder name for his "real" name. Fans dismiss this and believe that all reincarnations of Link are named "Link."
• Link is only born when a Hero is needed. There are no non-Hero Links, unlike how most Zeldas don't have Hylia's spirit and aren't reincarnations.

Setting

• Hylians:
  • Many think Hylians are more magic adept than the round-eared people, who are universally called "humans" in the fandom:
    • In-series, all human-like beings including Hylians are called humans, while the round-eared people are usually known by their land (ex. Labryanans/Holodrians, Ordonians, Hytopians).
    • Many round-eared humans are shown as adept at magic, while many Hylians like the laughing man in Ocarina of Time are skeptical of magic's existence. The guide and manual for A Link to the Past do say the ancient Hylians were more adept at magic than most people and also states that the majority of modern day Hylians, known as Hyruleans, lost their ancestors' knowledge with time. The only time the difference between Hylians and other humans has come up was with Link and Zelda's reincarnations, who are always Hylian. Aside from that, Hylians and other humans are shown as the same outside of nationality.
  • Humans and Hylians are treated as separate species by many fans. In canon, it changes Depending on the Writer, but Hylians are usually a Human Subspecies at most.
• Religion:
  • Regarding the three Golden Goddesses, it's a common theory that their namesake Oracles, Din, Nayru and Farore, are avatars/reincarnations of them, and thus a vast part of fan art that uses the designs of the Oracle games refers to them as the goddesses. This has a few official bases, as Wind Waker has statues of each goddess that resemble the Oracles, their cameo in The Minish Cap has them give Link charms that evoke the closest stat that the game could provide to represent their respective piece of the Triforce^note an attack boost from Din, a defense boost from Nayru, and a weaker boost of both from Farore, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, of all things, has Spirit fights against Din and Nayru that use artwork of the Oracles, but are rather made into direct references to the Goddesses. However, it remains as speculation with no official word.
  • Hylia tends to be presented as the fourth Golden Goddess, and thus a sister to the other three. However, Skyward Sword does not clearly indicate kind of relationship Hylia had with the other Goddesses beyond her being assigned by them as the guardian of Triforce. Breath of the Wild, the game where Hylia is the most worshipped of all, has no mention whatsoever of the Golden Goddesses.
  • Prior to Breath of the Wild, it was fanon that Hylia was a long-forgotten goddess, with the only reminders of her existence being Lake Hylia and the name of the Hylian race, with the people of Hyrule focusing their worship on The Golden Goddesses. Breath of the Wild put a kabob in the fanon by showing Hylia worship as commonplace, while worship or even mention of Din, Nayru and Farore is entirely absent.
  • The first three games featured crosses and other references to Christianity. A common interpretation of this is that in the Downfall Timeline, Hyruleans turned to other religions after losing faith in their goddesses.
  • That the three goddesses created the entire world. In canon, it's only ever mentioned that they created the country of Hyrule.
• The LoZ timeline. While the earlier games in the series were promoted with clear timeline placements in relation to each other^note Ocarina of Time -> Majora's Mask -> A Link to the Past -> The Legend of Zelda -> The Adventure of Link, after Majora's Mask things got much less clear, to the point that many believed that there was never meant to be a timeline at all, and that all of the games are supposed to essentially be the same tale that mutated into different versions through corrupted retellings — think something like a millennia-old game of Telephone — or just alternate versions of a basic setting and narrative without having to be causally connected. Still, many fans try to come up with timelines that fit every game into a chronological progression. The simplest of these often contain "only" two or three parallel universes (for the games themselves, not counting parallel worlds that actually appear in a game). And then an official timeline was released, which dealt with the inconsistencies by splitting into three alternate timelines post-Ocarina of Time, with the third timeline coming about when the Hero of Time fails to defeat Ganon. Some fans believe that the duology of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom takes place in a Merged Reality formed from all three, although as of yet there is no confirmed mechanism for combining timelines.
• The unnamed planet the games take place on is usually referred to as Hyrule in fan works. The name for Hyrule's planet is confirmed to just be "Earth", as it is referred to in The Wind Waker
• It's assumed that every single one of the Links and Zeldas are blond(e). This is a mandatory part of the reincarnation cycle. The redheaded "sleeping Zelda" is an exception because she's not a reincarnation of Hylia. In the Downfall Timeline, Link's failure in Ocarina of Time caused an issue (or curse) that caused its Links and Zeldas to have varying hair colours besides blond(e). However, the brunette Zelda of Twilight Princess throws a wrench in this theory.
• The Hyrulian royal family is descended from the Link and Zelda of Skyward Sword.
• Hyrule has laws in place that don't allow anyone under twenty to become queen/king. This is because many games feature Princess Zelda ruling by herself. In Twilight Princess, Zelda was a few days shy of her coronation and she's officially 20. So, fanon is that a Zelda must keep her title of "princess" until she's old enough to be crowned queen.
• After Breath of the Wild, a theory appeared that the culture of Hyrule is very genderfluid-friendly, with it being so ingrained that you respect a person's displayed gender that no one even questions it. This would explain how you can go up to someone in masculine clothing, interact with them, go off and put on feminine clothing, go back up and be treated as a total different person; it also explains Zelda/Sheik to a degree.
• Prior to BotW the opposite was fanon. Hylians (and Hyrulians as a whole) are more conservative about gender expression and sexuality compared to other cultures such as the Sheikah or Zora. This causes some culture clash. This fanon still applies in earlier games in the timeline, under the reasoning that society changes in-series and Hyrule eventually became more open towards gender variance.
• A popular fan theory about the Kokiri and Koroks is that the Koroks are the "true" form of the Kokiri, with the Koroks having only taken on human Kokiri forms in order to make the young Link feel comfortable during his time in the forest in Ocarina of Time. While this would explain their drastically different appearances (and why the Kokiri have effectively disappeared from the series in favor of the Koroks), this fan theory is debunked by the Kokiri remaining human even when Link comes back into Kokiri Forest as an adult, as well as The Wind Waker, which explains that the Kokiri changed into the Koroks following the great flood (which took place long after the events of Ocarina of Time), with Makar's ancestor, Fado, being shown as a human Kokiri.

Other

• There are two Dark Links: the canon version which is usually a silhouetted version of Link with red eyes, and the fanon version who is just Link wearing black (and often white-haired). One official manga has actually used the latter interpretation as well.
• The Tetraforce, a recurring theory that there's a fourth piece of the Triforce floating around. This overlaps a bit with Wild Mass Guessing and Epileptic Trees, but there's a sizable amount of the community who thinks it's true. Notably, however, the game's creators have constantly stated that no such thing exists.
• According to The Minish Cap, Heart Pieces are made of stone, but few fans depict them as such. Some outright make them actual hearts (usually for Black Comedy for the idea of Link eating the raw hearts of his enemies), while others have them as magical floating Heart Pieces much like they seem in the games.
• For a while, it was commonly believed that moblins were artificially made by Ganon in his image and that this was stated in a game manual. This belief was sometimes used to argue that The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap depicting Moblins as being present prior to Ganon's origin was a major contradiction to canon. In truth, Moblins only look Ganon in some games and in a few games, like The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games, moblins don't work for Ganon either. The closest equivalent to the statement that moblins were created by Ganon in his image, was the manual for A Link to the Past, which simply said that the appearance of Moblins reflected their master. After Skyward Sword showed Moblins working for Demise, thousands of years before Ganon, this belief simmered down.

Game-Specific

The Legend of Zelda

• The first sword is only ever called the "Sword" in both the English and Japanese versions. It being wooden was the most frequent assumption by fans due to its color, though rusted steel or bronze are equally valid guesses. Some future games (most prominently the Oracle games and Twilight Princess) do specify that your starter weapon is a wooden sword, and its voxelized 8-bit appearance in Hyrule Warriors also calls it the "8-bit Wooden Sword" making it a case of Ascended Fanon. However, the modernized appearance of the "Sword" as an amiibo drop in Breath of the Wild is clearly a metal sword, making this zig-zagged.
• Although it wouldn't be introduced into the series until the third game, some fans like to refer to the White Sword as being the Master Sword, due to their similar coloration and function: white blade with a blue grip, and increased damage to enemies.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

• Many fans believe that the Sleeping Zelda knew a Link in her time and that he looked near identical to the Link in the game. In canon this is not suggested.
• Its commonly thought that the Palace enemies and Guardians are evil and are trying to resurrect Ganon, with Link's Shadow/Dark Link generally being considered their leader. The game's manual explains that the Palace guardians were placed there by the King of Hyrule to guard the Triforce of Courage and test worthy heroes. Whilst Link's Shadow is evil, he was only created at the end of the game by the Sage guarding the Triforce, as a final test for Link, to see if he could overcome his inner evil.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

• Zelda wears her modest blue dress casually and only wears the pink Pimped-Out Dress in more formal situations.
• Link only has pink hair in-game because of palette issues. This hasn't stopped fan artists from drawing him with pink hair instead of blonde anyway.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

• Saria, Link's Childhood Friend, being the one who raised him. This particular bit of fanon is often used as an argument against the Link/Saria ship to boot, in order to avoid Wife Husbandry. It's possible this fanon was popularized by a Newgrounds flash depicting Saria raising Link.
• Fan art of the Hero of Time as an adult post-Majora's Mask tends to give him a ponytail, even prior to Breath of the Wild using one in its Link design. This fanon likely began because the manga adaptation of Ocarina of Time depicts Link with a short ponytail when his hat his off. According to the mangaka, they overheard people at Nintendo say that Link had a ponytail under his hat.
• As an adult, the Hero of Time is usually depicted as either a Hylian soldier or a bodyguard/knight to Zelda. He's usually a Shell-Shocked Veteran as well. Though he is the Link most prone to Ship-to-Ship Combat, fans usually pin him either ending up with Malon^note the Link of Twilight Princess is his descendant, he lives in a rural village, isn't royalty, Zelda^note Miyamoto saying that "if Zelda were [Link's] girlfriend, that would be great," Hylia and the Hero's souls always being drawn to one another, and the manga, or both^note Link and Zelda didn't work out for whatever reason so he married Malon, and Link and Zelda are finally together once Link's soul passes on, with the growing popularity of Linked Universe leading to the increasing acceptance of the idea that the Hero of Time and Malon became a couple.
• Fado (the blonde Kokiri with the hair puffs^note not be confused with the also blonde and also Kokiri but male Sage of Wind in Wind Waker or the human Ordon Ranch owner in Twilight Princess) is often depicted as Mido's Half-Identical Twin sister, owing to her unique appearance among the Kokiri NPCs, the Musical Theme Naming between her and Mido (according to Word of God, both were named for the syllables of the solfège scale), and her unwavering loyalty to the Kokiri leader.
• The Adult Timeline's Zelda having to deal with becoming a princess again is a common plot thread in fan works. To go along with her Tomboy Princess traits and time as Sheik, Zelda is an Outdoorsy Gal and enjoys traveling.
• Malon being half-Gerudo. This is due to her red hair (a rare trait for Hylians) and the fact that her father mentions that the Gerudo Mask (as well as the Goron mask) reminds him of his wife, before taking the statement back. Romani from Majora's Mask also uses her design and is named after an ethnic group with parallels to the Gerudo. Some fans go further and believe that Nabooru is Malon's mother, due to the former stating that the aforementioned Gerudo Mask looks like her.
• Navi is presumed by some to be a very tiny humanoid creature who simply looks like a ball of light because she is so small. This is because Great Fairies are humanoid. The same fanon applies to all fairies (who are humanoid in some titles and balls of light in others).
• The Great Offscreen War prior to Ocarina of Time was a Hyrulian civil war related to the Sheikah. It ended with the Sheikah being all but extinct.
• The Shadow Temple is a former torture chamber used by either the Sheikah or against the Sheikah by the Hyrulian Royal Family. This usually coincides with the idea that the war prior to the game was a Sheikah uprising.
• A longstanding theory is that the sages in Ocarina of Time died and are ghosts. This isn't confirmed by canon but is still commonplace fanon accepted by a chunk of fans.
• Many fan works have Link being attracted to Sheik either because he is attracted to the Zelda in Sheik, because he's gay, or because of his limited interaction with people throughout his adventure.
• Kokiri are born at their current age. This comes from the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999) manga but is left vague. It's known that the Kokiri accepted Link as their own as a baby, which might imply that Kokiri are all born as infants and simply stop growing after a certain period.
• Ocarina of Time noticeably never gave Zelda her own Sage title to match the other six. The most common theory is that she is the Sage of Time, based on her statement that it is her Sage powers that allow her to send Link back to his childhood at the end of the game, and as the carrier of a Triforce piece her title is expected to match Link's. Tears of the Kingdom makes this Ascended Fanon, as a different Zelda is given this exact title while the other Sages retain their predecessors' titles.
• Ingo is Talon's brother and Malon's uncle. It's only ever mentioned that Ingo works on their farm. The theory mainly originates from Talon and Ingo being visually based on Mario and Luigi.
• The Hero of Time has a Heroic Lineage. He is either the son of a high-ranking royal knight or he's outright related to Zelda. The former comes from the manga adaptation.
• It's largely accepted that at some point in his life the Hero of Time lost his right eye, with it usually being depicted as scarred over and blind. This comes from the fact that Hero's Shade, which was initially speculated and later confirmed to be OoT Link's ghost, has a glowing red left eye yet his right eye is blank.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

• Although Kafei is never directly referred to as Link's counterpart in Termina, many fans believe him to be this. This stems from their identical animations and the fact they are thematically opposites — Link is a blonde, blue-eyed stranger who was turned into an adult, while Kafei is a purple-haired, red-eyed son of the Mayor who was turned into a child. Some fans additionally will point to how Ravio, another counterpart to Link, also has purple hair... though that's likely coincidental.
• Cremia trying to get her kid sister, Romani, drunk on Chateau Romani, a special milk usually reserved for adults, on the final night is often believed to be definite fact. In the game, whilst we are shown that people can get drunk on Chateau Romani, despite it being milk, the only person whom gets drunk, Gorman, was gulping glass after glass of Chateau Romani due to deal with his depression. It is entirely possible in canon that Cremia declared Romani an adult and let her drink Chateau Romani on the third day because she believed this was to be Romani's last night on Terminia and wanted to let Romani be treated as an adult before the Moon crashed into the Earth next morning.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords/The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

• Fans have created distinct personalities for each of the Links featured in the Four Swords games, despite them all being Heroic Mimes in the actual games. Green Link is The Hero. He'll be the most focused on defeating the villain and will usually act the most like Link did before the split. Red Link is a Hot-Blooded Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, and often a Comedic Sociopath in comedic stories. Blue Link is silly and lazy, and will usually be the Plucky Comic Relief in serious works. Purple Link, depending on how serious the story is, will either be The Smart Guy or flamboyantly campy. Interestingly, the manga adaptation used this setup, except that Blue and Red were switched.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

• The canonical consensus seems to be that the goddesses flooded Hyrule because there was no Link at the time. However, some fans take this to mean that a Link or similar Hero existed, but he failed.
• Tetra's skin is sun-tanned. It's never confirmed if it's naturally tan or not, but her turning several shades lighter as Zelda implies that it's a tan.
• The Korok are the true form of the Kokiri. They only appeared humanoid so that Link could blend in with them.

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap

• The Hero of Men from The Minish Cap is an incarnation of Link. It's heavily implied, and his depiction is extremely similar to how Link looks, but it's never specified.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

• Twili-related theories:
  • It's been fanonized that Midna's race, the Twili, are the very same who created Majora's Mask. Midna's helmet bears many of the markings the mask has, not to mention that the Twili were banished to a dark and forsaken realm for trying to use evil magic to attain more power than they were entitled to, which is what the Happy Mask Salesman tells Link about the mask's makers.
  • Another theory regarding the Twili is that they are what remain of the Sheikah from Ocarina of Time who were banished after starting the civil war mentioned in the prologue to OoT. The two theories are not incompatible. This theory stems from the Twili having red eyes similarly to the Sheikah tribe, being skilled in "shadow magic" like the Sheikah, and the Twilight Realm having various Sheikah-looking symbols.
  • Others see the Twili as descendants of the Gerudo who were banished for siding with Ganondorf. This theory is largely incompatible with the Sheikah one, though some fans believe that the Twili are descendants of both the Gerudo and Sheikah. This stems from Twili having red hair, Midna mentioning that her "ancestors lost their king to such greed", and Twili being banished from Hyrule.
  • Due her similar appearance to the Twili and her shoulder pads sporting the Gerudo symbol (which could simply be a symbol of her allegiance to Twinrova and, by extension, Ganon), Veran from Oracle of Ages is usually speculated to have ties to one or both races. Less commonly, she's theorized to be linked to the Dark Tribe of Four Swords Adventures or the aforementioned "ancient ones" who used Majora's Mask in hexing rituals.
  • This is to say nothing of the theories suggesting a connection between some combination of the ancient tribe mentioned in Majora, the Dark Tribe, and the Dark Interlopers/Twili. It doesn't help that the Dark Tribe were also invaders like the Dark Interlopers (though the latter were natives to Hyrule trying to enter the Sacred Realm) and were even sealed away by means of a mirror, though the Dark Mirror is distinctly different from the Mirror of Twilight.
  • In a variation on the Sheikah theory above, there are those who speculate that the Sheikah became the Twili after being banished for creating the Guardians, and were eventually able to come back to Hyrule and become the Sheikah again after the events of Twilight Princess.
• The Hero's Spirit/Shade is widely believed to be an ancestor of Link, due to his title of "Hero" (which has been given to a few other Links in the series; for example OoT Link is the "Hero of Time," while Wind Waker Link is the "Hero of Winds"), his words that he accepted the role of hero long ago, his choice of words in addressing Link ("Go and do not falter, my child!"), and implications that he, too, was a wielder of the Triforce of Courage (which is always given to Link, whereas Wisdom goes to Zelda and Ganon gets Power). This was once all meticulously detailed on the Zelda Wiki, with the Link from Ocarina of Time as the front runner for the speculated identity of this character. It would later turn out, as per Hyrule Historia, that fan speculation was right.
• The Hero of Twilight is often depicted struggling with the wolf side of his nature during and after the events of the game.
• An old fanon is that the monkeys are the descendants of Kokiri. In the Child Timeline they became monkeys and in the Adult Timeline they became Korok. This fanon has since fallen into disuse and its largely assumed that the monkeys are just monkeys.
• Zelda (and subsequently her Super Smash Bros. version in Brawl and SSB4) is often portrayed as The Stoic.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

• Zelda is frequently written as being the granddaughter of the Hero of Winds and Zelda/Tetra, with this game's own Link being just an Identical Stranger (akin to the Hero of Winds himself, who is confirmed to have no relation to the Hero of Time).
• Fan works that depict Wind Waker's Zelda around this time period (if she's still alive) tend to have her look more like an aged sailor than an actual royal, much like her crewmate Niko. That game's Link, meanwhile, tends to look more like a conventional ruler, akin to King Daphnes.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

• It's common in fan art to depict Fi with noticeable stumps where her arms would be, the implication being she lost her arms against Demise's forces in the past.
• The indestructible Hylian Shield given as a reward from the Boss Rush is often assumed to be the original Hylian Shield and a legendary artifact in its own right. Following this, Hylian Shields in chronologically later Zelda games are thought to be inferior, mass-produced replicas of the original.
• Because Groose is something of a Virtuous Character Copy of Ganondorf, a common trend in fanon is the idea of Groose being the ancestor of the Gerudo somehow, which would make him the ancestor of Ganondorf too.
• Another common theory around Groose is that he and his descendants/reincarnations are the destined recipient of the Triforce of Power, just as Link is for the Triforce of Courage and Zelda is for the Triforce of Wisdom, and the reason another Groose never reappears to complete the trio is because Ganon keeps causing the complete Triforce to split and ends up getting Power as the piece that embodies his desires.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

• The Seven Sages featured in A Link Between Worlds are not given distinctive titles like their ancestors from Ocarina of Time are. The most commonly accepted title for each new Sage is that Osfala is the Sage of Light, Gulley is the Sage of Forest, Rosso is the Sage of Fire, Oren is the Sage of Water, Impa shares her namesake's title of Sage of Shadow, Irene is the Sage of Spirit, and Seres inherited Zelda's unidentified title.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• It's a fairly common assumption among fans that Lynels are extremely skilled weaponsmiths and create and maintain their own gear. This is used to explain how, despite being violently asocial hermits living by themselves in the wilderness, they also all have access to unique and extremely high-grade weapons and shields.
• Fan art, in particular, tends to depict infant Zoras as being born as little fishes — essentially just their heads — and growing their humanoid bodies from the bottom of this tadpole stage as they mature, largely due to how flashbacks depict child Sidon as having a disproportionately large head and head-tail for his body. And that Majora's Mask depicted newly hatched Zora as tadpoles.
• The Wolf Link companion available through using amiibos is the spirit of the Hero of Twilight, lingering to watch over his successor like the Hero of Time did for him.
• Revali is frequently stated to be an orphan in fanfiction, mostly because he has no stated family and his successor, Teba, isn't related to him.

Hyrule Warriors

• Zelda as a queen. This comes from a misconception involving pre-release content. Zelda is still a princess in Hyrule Warriors, she's just treated like a queen in-all-but-name. As a result of this, fanon is that she's in her early twenties, as Twilight Princess implies that Zelda can only become queen at age twenty.
• It's generally assumed that Volga is a reincarnated Volvagia, or its son.
• Though the concept of Linkle being Link's little sister was eventually scrapped and there is no connection between them in the game, a lot of fans still like to think of her as being related to him, often treating her as Link's long-lost sister.
• Due to Sheik's feminine appearance, many fans presume that Zelda was disguised as a female Sheikah, not actively disguised as a male.

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