New Hyrule: Origins
The story of New Hyrule's Founding.
Roles: Writer.
Tools used: Microsoft Word, Google Docs.
Solo project.
New Hyrule: Origins is a Legend of Zelda story that I began writing between my third and fourth years at Sheridan College and is currently still ongoing. This interquel is set after the events of Phantom Hourglass and shows the beginnings of the New Hyrule seen in Spirit Tracks.
Read it here!
Original Microsoft Word doc here if you want to see the file history.
Roles
Writer
When playing through both games, the questions for what happened between their stories inspired me to start this project. It also gave me chance to explore the characters in ways the original works never did: Linebeck overcomes his cowardice at the end of Phantom Hourglass, but what does that mean for someone with a massive ego like him? Tetra is shown across all three games (Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, and implied in Spirit Tracks) to reject the identity and legacy of Zelda, so what happens when she's forced to confront it? How did Byrne betray Anjean and his people?
Challenges and Lessons Learned
This is the first story of this scale that I've attempted to write, so there was a lot to keep track of in terms of plotlines and character arcs that I'd never done before. I also had a central theme in mind for this story when I began working on it (legacy as a choice), so when planning, all of the major character arcs had to tie into that theme in some way, which was very difficult. The experience, however, will make it much easier to do for the next big story I'm able to write.
