Hi Zelda dungeon!
I am not good making long post, so, I am going to try to explain this.
When the legend of zelda was created, no one had the idea of the master sword, they just created the wooden sword, the white sword and the magic sword. Lets admit, is not a great name for a special item, sounds kind of random to me, there is a world full of magic swords.
so, for when alttp came out, we were able to see the emblematic master sword. Since then, Kill (not beat, four sword) ganon without the master sword has never done, OoX is an special case, we dont know if we really killed him, or if his return made him different.
Anyway, lets think this as if there were gonna be a remake of the original zelda and AoL, the games were the magic sword, hold by the old man (who I think are related to the sages in some way) in the graveyard, is the main sword, or the most powerful.
The official zelda site of america, in its encyclopedia, says that the magic sword is the master sword, but this encyclopedia has many errors or things never seen in a game, so, you cant call it cannon.
Because I love alttp so much, I readed the nintendo official guide in this site, even when I have beaten the game time ago, and there was something interesting, there are some drawings of the link from Tloz and AoL, holding what it seems to me, is the master sword:
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8221#top_display_media
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8220#top_display_media
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8223#top_display_media
so, can the magic sword, be the master sword?, anyway, the master sword is a magical sword too, right?
here is another interesting picture, absolutely not cannon, but is interesting how the magic sword in this game, resembles the master sword:
http://www.zeldawiki.org/File:IMG_1934.jpg
I am not good making long post, so, I am going to try to explain this.
When the legend of zelda was created, no one had the idea of the master sword, they just created the wooden sword, the white sword and the magic sword. Lets admit, is not a great name for a special item, sounds kind of random to me, there is a world full of magic swords.
so, for when alttp came out, we were able to see the emblematic master sword. Since then, Kill (not beat, four sword) ganon without the master sword has never done, OoX is an special case, we dont know if we really killed him, or if his return made him different.
Anyway, lets think this as if there were gonna be a remake of the original zelda and AoL, the games were the magic sword, hold by the old man (who I think are related to the sages in some way) in the graveyard, is the main sword, or the most powerful.
The official zelda site of america, in its encyclopedia, says that the magic sword is the master sword, but this encyclopedia has many errors or things never seen in a game, so, you cant call it cannon.
Because I love alttp so much, I readed the nintendo official guide in this site, even when I have beaten the game time ago, and there was something interesting, there are some drawings of the link from Tloz and AoL, holding what it seems to me, is the master sword:
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8221#top_display_media
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8220#top_display_media
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=289&pid=8223#top_display_media
so, can the magic sword, be the master sword?, anyway, the master sword is a magical sword too, right?
here is another interesting picture, absolutely not cannon, but is interesting how the magic sword in this game, resembles the master sword:
http://www.zeldawiki.org/File:IMG_1934.jpg