Instrutilus
Me am stalking bug
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Well, Zelda II: Adventure of Link sorta did it first with the east coast of Hyrule. Just most games focused on the area of land that Link to the Past introduced.Breath of the Wild is turning out to be fanfic gold. Put it this way - the world is sufficiently large that I don't think I'd invent any new geography. There'd be no reason - there's so many named locations anyway that it would be a waste not to use all the geographical setting you'd ever need from a series of screenshots
I would like to see why Hyrule Castle got moved so far north, though. I know it tends to move around, like Wind Waker putting it in Lake Hylia but at least that timeline had the excuse of Ganon having destroyed the original castle, but it generally keeps to Hyrule Field. And it can't just be that Ganon destroyed it before the original game, because the Zelda that was put to sleep was there before Link woke her up (which opens up a big bag of worms when they kiss at the end. Does the original Zelda count? Two Zeldas, do both possess the spirit of Hylia or does the latter lack it because the former didn't pass on to reincarnate?)
Incidentally, and here's a mild spoiler for the game,
Breath of the Wild takes place in the Child Timeline, after the events of Twilight Princess. Zelda mentions it during a ceremony, where "whether skyward bound, adrift in time, or steeped in the glowing embers of twilight, the sacred blade is forever bound to the soul of the hero." So yeah, all three Hyrules have been destroyed. Man, Demise cursed hat kingdom but good.