“To be fair, if it weren’t for the little fairy boy, we were definitely all going to die.”

The Hero's Shade's regret was not being remembered for his heroism. Although the Hero of Time certainly left an impression on people in Majora's Mask, very few knew the true scope of his deeds, and the intervention of the Giants would have surely overshadowed him in those final hours. Chiefly the one who would remember his time in Termina would be the Skull Kid.

The time-line he saved would not end up being his home. And it seems the Hyrule he would come to know as his home would be consumed by the war with Ganondorf. Perhaps not as destructive as the flood in WW, but terrible for all involved just the same. Though there were happy times as well...