Gonna blab out random LoZ thoughts, some connected to Tears, some not, but all brought on by it anyway. I'm gonna blab and blab as much as I want in between early-morning tasks, so...seriously, close this spoiler and go, lol. I'm not trying to present this as good reading, I just want to think out loud, in a way, to sort my perma-muddled head.
To start with...I don't care much about lore. There's a lot of going on about zonai this, lore that, etc. I don't care. I don't mind all the chatter about zonai or anything, all the theories being thrown out, that's fine, but personally I don't give a flying fig about the zonai, even if they turn out to be important in Tears. I never cared about the Sheikah or the Gerudo, either, or the Zora, or anything else. I just don't care about the tribes and cultures and so on in LoZ. Dunno why...just don't. I guess I never do, with any series. Like Legend of Heroes (the Trails series...Sky, Cold Steel, Zero and Azure, etc.) I don't care about the history of Erebonia, or Liberl, or wherever. I don't care about the War of the Hundred Year Cabbage or how it came to cause the current political climate; I care about character stories. I care about the lives and motivations of the main character especially, and those who surround him/her, including his/her enemies.
So with LoZ games, I care about LINK. (And by extension, somewhat about Ganon and Zelda, though they're really just objects orbiting Link and forcing him to move this way and that, as far as the games go.) It can be hard to care about Link sometimes, because they rarely make it clear what drives him. Link is the literal (I think it's literal!) embodiment of courage. He's almost more concept than person. In every game he appears to absolutely love to sleep. The little bits like that, which show him as a person, are fascinating to me, like knowing he's a 'bit of a glutton' (I think that's how Zelda worded it in BotW.) or that incredible journal where she revealed the reason why Link so rarely ever spoke...because he felt so much pressure, not wanting to ruin the image of The Chosen One for anyone, that he just kept quiet. Makes so much sense to me! I sure hope it was properly translated, unlike the quest journal, which I will forever resent NoA for since I could have had more glimpses of Link the Person if they had translated it more faithfully to the original.
I think lore is nonsense, within LoZ. It seems that the devs at some point somewhat gave up on the Japanese market because LoZ kept floundering there even while it got ever more popular internationally, and the Japanese market doesn't seem to care that much about lore and timelines and etc, compared to the 'Western' market. So Nintendo cobbled together a timeline, not out of any actual intent, but just as a sop to appease fans. They let fans make whatever story they want out of probably largely random bits of this and that, that weren't actually meant to be any great hidden story or history.
So when I see talk about lore, to me it's just...chipmunk squeaks, I guess. Meaningless noise about nothing. Sometimes people come up with some very interesting stories, and that's cool, but when they try to present them like they're fact, like their theories are insight into the developers' intentions, that's bothersome.
For me, just knowing about the triforce is good enough. Link is the embodiment of courage/bravery. Zelda is the embodiment of wisdom. Ganon is the embodiment of power. Apparently power is always evil, for some reason, so perhaps he's also the embodiment of the concept 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. What grinds my gears is Link gets to showcase his Courage and Ganon gets to showcase his Power, but Zelda never really gets to show off her Wisdom all that much. Zelda doesn't need to be an action hero! SHe doesn't need to sling a sword or even shoot an arrow. But she should be crazy smart. She should have incredibly foresight and decision-making skills, and instead they make her an insecure, ordinary girl who sometimes can't see past the end of her own nose. Why can't Wisdom be as amazing as Courage or Power? It's so much rarer...it SHOULD be very special! Instead all Zelda ever is, is a damsel in distress. A reason for Courage to get moving. It would be so cool if they let us, even in small segments, play as Zelda, whose gameplay is focused on Wisdom (or general intelligence) rather than athletic skillz. Not that I don't enjoy Link's super-snazzy athletics; I really, really do. But the other would be so cool, and so much more unique. Show us that it's just as cool to be SMART as it is to be brave or powerful. (Though they don't showcase Ganon's Power well, either. Exactly how does he have Power? Is he just really strong, so he beats people up until they do what he says? Has he been a king? Does he do magic and enslave minds with magical power? Just how is Ganon using Power?)
But anyway, lore. You can have it, because I don't want it. We already have the triforce, and it has what I need all by itself. Because knowing that those three embody those traits gives me enough to go on. You can look at it a few ways, with no evidence I know of that 'proves' one is canon. You can think that in Hyrule, every so often, a person will either be born with, or be granted the powers of one, er...force. Or you can think that specific people were the embodiment of those traits, and that those specific people are reborn into Hyrule whenever the world needs them most. That Link is, say, a different person every time, a Chosen One imbued with divine courage, or that he's the same Link every time, reborn into new circumstances that may result in many surface-level changes, but still leave him, at the core, the same person. Not a Chosen One, just...the One. I personally prefer to think of Link as always the same person, even when he's being split into different timelines. I don't really enjoy the series half so much if I think that each Link I interact with is just some random cute small Hyrulean whose had the Triforce of Courage dumped on him from on high. I just...feel closer to Link if Courage is simply who he is, always, no matter what else changes. If he's raised on a peaceful island with a little sister, he might grow up into a slightly bratty big brother type, or if he grows up in a peaceful village as a shepherd, he might grow up into a gentle, responsible type, or if he grows up with a father who is a soldier, he may grow up to be a soldier himself and be especially obvious in his courageous excellence, and be all quiet because of the great expectations heaped upon him in a world that focuses hard on strength and courage...but to me, every time, he's the same Link. I feel fond of him because I feel like as soon as the game starts, I already know him. Thinking of him as a random Chosen One ruins that feeling, so I snub that particular concept. But I don't present my preferred reality as a fact. It's not. It's just my preference among the more obvious possibilities.
I see a lot of theories about the Triforce presented as fact, as if they were stated by Nintendo, but no evidence of these actual statements. That annoys me to no end! Show me where a member of the creator team actually said that, and then I'll (probably) absorb it into my game reality, but otherwise, it's just your theory, and I don't want anything to do with it. I already have what I want, except maybe for a little more personality leaking through in journals or etc. Thus far, I could always use a little more of that.
Aaaaaanyway. That's more than enough. The theorists presenting their theories as fact just really get to me at times.
) Aside from the teapot gardening one, that's for sure my favorite in the game. Might be better than the gardening one, but I earned that teapot one... 
I hope your new controller works out as desired, Bluie!
