i mentioned something in a possible plot for such a game of an extraterrestrial character landing their ship on the planet hyrule is on and then later on offering link to fly it and embark on their journey. I find this more reasonable than the thought of a medieval civilization tryinf to build a spaceship themselves.
and in that format, i'd imagine the game being similar to Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass but with planets replacing the islands and the ship travelling in 3d space instead of on a 2d plane such as an ocean.I dunno if that's necessarily the case. My first point would be that we live in a world with several prominent religions supposing divine being that have to coexist with the reality of space and stars. I don't think there's any reason to assume that the divine cosmology of Zelda is constrained to one little Hyrule-shaped pile of dirt, but that Hyrule is just one more pile of dirt in the universe they (maybe) createdif Zelda ever gets around to some worldbuilding.
My second point would be Dungeons and Dragons and the existence of the Starjammer settings/vehicle.
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Starjammers (and their more alien ilithid counterpart: the nautioid) are the spacecraft of the Forgotten Realms. They and the cosmos they traverse exist alongside a prototypical fantasy setting populated with gods that are not only accepted, but sometimes make their presences known through avatars and direct intervention.
So... just do a D&D.
I love that idea.
*Cough* Spirit Tracks. *Cough.*
True.
Well, Spirit Tracks is kind of a stretch. The train itself is still treated as a piece of technology that Hyrule itself can't recreate because they're permanently trapped in the dark ages.
and it's not like astronomy didn't exist in ancient cultures and in fantasy settings. There shouldn't be anything stopping people from looking at the stars, study and map them.
you know know that there are fantasy settings that have explored a space setting without all the science fiction and high technology. Someone did bring up the Spelljammer D&D Campaign. It explored a space setting without deviating from the medieval fantasy aspect of the D&D universe.
though astronomy was still a thing in our own world's ancient and medieval cultures though, so there'd still be people in Hyrule who would study astronomy, even in ancient times. There's nothing stopping them from looking up at the night sky and studying it and even speculating on whether there are other people living up there.
