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The "lore" of BotW is pure "LOST". The Zelda Notes only exacerbate that further. Everything is like a plausible deniable filler anecdote like
>This is where they fought the final stand against the Guardians, which we know we failed against already. They fought valiantly, and the Hyrule soldiers were so brave. So this is where they put all the biggest fortifications and it survived to the end.
It's like... yeah, if I had to guess what it was in the context of "Guardians overran Hyrule and we all failed 100 years ago" that would've been my guess. That isn't very good lore...
Good lore is filling out the world with tidbits that you didn't know was even a thing. Occasionally they hint at such ideas, like saying there used to be an ocean over a desert, and then maybe the Leviathan was not a flying creature or land creature, but a sentient whale of some kind.
But it's all done on that level. Completely vague and in a "maybe not, anyways" fashion.
There just isn't any backstory to Hyrule in these games. Everything you see is in the context of "100 years ago" being the lore, and most of it is just like "The big crater in the mountain was actually because a Guardian shot it all the way from Hyrule Castle, before they rebelled" as if to imply there was a "hint" at malfunction.
That's just adding more evidence on what is plainly stated at the start of the game. It's barely even lore at that point.
