#you guys can have your aus of sage of time link in the forgotten temple but I'm just not vibing with it

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Ooh Maybe Links At The Forgotten Temple and you need to get something in the lightning Temple?

idk, everyone really wants him to rest and the forgotten temple and I get it but just imagine a secret chamber, deep within the dark corridors of a great tomb, flooded with blinding light that's used throughout the whole temple as a means to solve puzzles, but there are no puzzles to solve. This chamber has no protectors, not of zonai making or undead curse, just a simple chamber of light. and at first, it seems so empty, but as your eyes adjust you see it. A small lifelike statue standing on a pedestal, holding a white sword directly into the blinding light like the gerudo statues that are scattered across the desert. Or he's holding it like someone who has been laid to rest holds it, against their chest, pointing towards the floor.

He's stuck in an eternal purgatory of his own making, imprisoned in time and once again still in a crypt while not truly being dead. He just needs to be woken up, she's done it before.

The forgotten temple's original purpose was intriguing, a monument of the heroes of the past, but nothing in the game really indicates that's what it was meant to be. It's a ruin with a fallen goddess statue and a well-preserved vault for magic rocks with a single grave in it, it has one other room with a bunch of carvings that just aren't relevant in this au. But I can see a boss fight happening (dark Link or puppet Link) and when that's done, a clue to Link and the master sword's true location and maybe a key to get in.

So your idea but backward