blueskittlesart answered:

i always headcanoned that he grew up in that house in hateno village that’s available for you to buy because i think its nice and kinda bittersweet that he would return to his old home even though he doesn’t really remember why. going very heavily into headcanon territory here because there’s no evidence whatsoever for this in canon but i like to think that his father was friends with some of the zora (maybe even the zora king? idk) and so link would visit zora’s domain with him occasionally! idk about the sword tho, i remember reading that he was 12 when he found it but i dont have a source for that… since canonically he can see the koroks when most other people cant maybe they led him to it? like a will o the wisp type deal u know