The Official Hyrule Warriors Thread | Hacking and Slashing Cia

[ktay95]

sundin13 said:

I feel like this game will be at least trying to seem canon (even if it technically isn't) so I doubt that...I think he means someone from the Zelda universe but I don't know who it could be alluding to. This game seems to be using repeating characters and new characters only so I doubt that any character that has only been in one game would show up (Sorry Groose). 

Do these games usually have different campaigns for each character or do different characters play through the same story?

Story is split by the factions usually theese days. Each faction has a story with one or more selectable characters for each stage in that factions campaign.
It used to have individual character stories back in the PS2 days iirc, when the roster was smaller however so we could see that.