Well, maybe I'm a bit open-minded on some of this stuff, too? Maybe a little too much?
I'm currently writing (co-writing, as I'm using a friend's ideas as well as my own) a big long Zelda fanfiction that's essentially Zelda meets the Old West with a little bit of sci-fi thrown in. Link...
I think that the Triforce has to be there, somewhere (even if it's not mentioned by name, like how it's not mentioned in TP but everybody knows its there). Even if it's just... a repeated decorative motif in some of the archetecture and hinted at.
I enjoy the idea of flintlock guns, though -...