Helios on 03 December 2008
I think it might be both. Hidemaro Fujibayashi, who wrote the script for both PH and the FS games, stated that TMC is the first Zelda story (it tells the origin of Link's cap, the Four Sword, the Force, and Vaati, among other things), so it makes sense that PH would refer back to this previous work. The fact that he is now one of the top Zelda guys means he's likely to have a say in future games as well, so I would expect more games to follow this tradition.
