@frankiesbugs said: One of my favourite character archetype is the Fallen Hero (someone who was once considered a great hero but got corrupted/crazy) so I’d LOVE that.
Absolutely! It would be a lot of fun to see the story of the mummified Gerudo warrior take this direction.
I’m also curious to see how this sort of story might overlap with the archetype of the Fisher King, which takes its name from the Arthurian mythos. The specifics vary from version to version, but the general idea is that a king (sometimes Arthur himself) has been inflicted with a wound that will not heal; and, until he’s aided by traveling knights, his land will remain as cursed as he is.
In many of these legends, the wound is located near the king’s groin or heart, which suggests that restoring his fertility will similarly end an apocalyptic cycle of famine. I think it’s interesting that Ganondorf and Demise are both marked by scars or open wounds, and that the “malice” of Calamity Ganon has manifested as a kind of diseased effluvia coating various unsavory excrescences.
I think the most literal interpretation of this imagery is that Ganon itself is the disease, but it would be extremely satisfying if the blight on Hyrule were addressed by healing the literal and figurative wounds of a fallen king.