in twilight princess link was a herder. in ocarina of time there was only one female with the same field of training: malon.
it is not stated he die majora's mask. however! no one sees his father either. also the stalfos states when he teaches the last move to you that he regretted never telling his feelings. this could be implied that link for time died while committing while feeding wonder-lust or died from something else like the power of the triforce being transferred to his son, disease, it could be anything we dont know if there are side-effects of the curse.
we do know that gannon was tried for treason and killed by the sage after link snitch on gannon and it took some time for him to manifest in the twilight world.
also gannon never conquered anything but hyrule THEN the world. in OoT when you see gannon he was bowing the reason was betrayed the gerudos. he done this to get closer to the hyrule so he could get the sacred stone to open the gate. he first curse the deku tree, the caves, then the waters to force the great tribes of old to give their stones up.
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