I think that might be his sword for before and after he has the master sword. Along with what he has to obtain when he loses the sword for one of those no-sword dungeons.
Heroes shade was never confirmed to be the hero from OoT. It is possible that he is Link from ZSS. The only thing contradicting this theory is that when link left, he went to the kokiri forest to live with the kokiri, but he must have turned into a stalfos due to being in there for too long. But...
Okay so, I was watching youtube and watched a video about heroes shade. I noticed his armor that does not exist in any other zelda game yet and hat he seems to be from a castle in the sky. So I thought, what if the place heroes shade's wolf form took link was infact skyloft? Look at the area in...