Random thought that occurred to me recently: Hyrule is a kingdom in a constant cycle of death and destruction. But at no point has any royal Hylian thought You know what? Maybe we should appoint some chroniclers to write accounts of what happened, then establish libraries to put them in. That way our children won't have to rely on word-of-mouth and retarded, self-fulfilling prophecies.
I would say it's just part of the setting, but in BotW the Zoras actually have chronicled some of their history on giant stone tablets. It not The Library of Alexandria, but it's a start. It's just weird how the dominant power in the region has made no effort to preserve its past, but other races have.