Post by Gleasonator on Jan 17, 2007 14:03:18 GMT -5
I finally understand the Zelda timeline. I just watched an awsome video and totally agree.
It begins with The Minish Cap, then goes to Ocarina of Time. The Minish Cap must be the first because it is when Link first get's his hat, and notice that there is no Gannon. Vatti actually predates him. Every 100 years a man is born into the Gerudo tribe, and he becomes their king... Gannondorf. He is granted the triforce of power and wants to take over Hyrule. At the end of Ocarina of Time, the timeline actually splits.
In the end, Zelda wants Link to have a childhood so she sends him back in time. This leaves two different Hyrules. Hyrule A and Hyrule B.
Hyrule A is the Hyrule that Link was sent back to. With the knowledge he now has, he can warn the king of Gannondorf's plans. He does and there is a war. Link goes in search of Navi, which he no longer has because it was no longer destined because Gannondorf had not yet done damage.
This is where it connects to Majora's Mask. He is looking for Navi. At the end, he attemps to go back to Hyrule but is shipwrecked, and TADA! Link's Awakening. It is supposedly a dream, because in the end he wakes up on a log and the island disappears.
He makes his way back to Hyrule to find that Gannon had won the war. This would be the original Legend of Zelda. Link now has no items because of the shipwreak, and finds that Zelda has broken up the triforce into eight pieces in order to stop Gannon from getting them. Link gets weapons again and restores the Triforce and defeats Gannon.
This leads to Zelda II, which tells "The Legend of Zelda". The Legend of Zelda takes place before the Minish Cap. The king's son hears of the Triforce and wants it, and hears from a wizard that his sster knows where it is. They confront her but she will not say so he puts her into a sleep. This is the first Zelda. The son places her in the castle and says that from then onall women of the royal family must be named Zelda. This is how the second Zelda comes to be; the one in the Minish Cap. But remember that the original Zelda is still there, and stays in her sleep until Link revives her in Zelda II.
Next is Four Swords Adventures. Link pulls out the Picori sword locking away Vatti in order to save Zelda and ends up locking away Vatti again.
This is pretty much Hyrule A. Hyrule B is after Ocarina of Time, in the world that Link left. The world with adult Zelda, Gannondorf sealed away, and no Link.
A Link to the Past took place in Hyrule B because at the very beginning it tells the story of an evil sealed away by the seven saints.
100 years after Ocarina of time, in Hyrule B, is the Wind Waker. It's also after A Link to the Past. In the end of this, Gannondorf is killed and Hyrule is flodded.
Next comes Phantom Hourglass. As long as Gannondorf isn't in it, it should fit in perfectly.
Now Oracle of Seasons and Ages strengthens the statement. They are at the exact same time in the two different Hyrules. It's unclear which game is in which timeline, but it wouldn't matter either way.
On the end of each timeline, the Triforce was reset, and in the Oracle games Link goes to check on the Triforce, one timeline per game.
Think about A Link to the Past. There is the Light World and the dark world. The Light World is in timeline B and the Dark World is in timeline A, sometime around the war.
*Spoilers below for Twilight Princess*
Now look at Twilight Princess. Pretty much the same deal. I think that the mirror of Twilight is the mirror that was used in A Link to the Past. In the Wind Waker Gannon broke out of the seal put on him by the sages. He was killed in the Wind Waker and resurected by Zant. I'm thinking that the timelines are joining together. The plot is two Hyrules trying to take over each other. I think that by the end, the time line has joined again.
OK I'm done. I'm sure that there are some small questions still not answered from this, but can probablly be easily explained.
It begins with The Minish Cap, then goes to Ocarina of Time. The Minish Cap must be the first because it is when Link first get's his hat, and notice that there is no Gannon. Vatti actually predates him. Every 100 years a man is born into the Gerudo tribe, and he becomes their king... Gannondorf. He is granted the triforce of power and wants to take over Hyrule. At the end of Ocarina of Time, the timeline actually splits.
In the end, Zelda wants Link to have a childhood so she sends him back in time. This leaves two different Hyrules. Hyrule A and Hyrule B.
Hyrule A is the Hyrule that Link was sent back to. With the knowledge he now has, he can warn the king of Gannondorf's plans. He does and there is a war. Link goes in search of Navi, which he no longer has because it was no longer destined because Gannondorf had not yet done damage.
This is where it connects to Majora's Mask. He is looking for Navi. At the end, he attemps to go back to Hyrule but is shipwrecked, and TADA! Link's Awakening. It is supposedly a dream, because in the end he wakes up on a log and the island disappears.
He makes his way back to Hyrule to find that Gannon had won the war. This would be the original Legend of Zelda. Link now has no items because of the shipwreak, and finds that Zelda has broken up the triforce into eight pieces in order to stop Gannon from getting them. Link gets weapons again and restores the Triforce and defeats Gannon.
This leads to Zelda II, which tells "The Legend of Zelda". The Legend of Zelda takes place before the Minish Cap. The king's son hears of the Triforce and wants it, and hears from a wizard that his sster knows where it is. They confront her but she will not say so he puts her into a sleep. This is the first Zelda. The son places her in the castle and says that from then onall women of the royal family must be named Zelda. This is how the second Zelda comes to be; the one in the Minish Cap. But remember that the original Zelda is still there, and stays in her sleep until Link revives her in Zelda II.
Next is Four Swords Adventures. Link pulls out the Picori sword locking away Vatti in order to save Zelda and ends up locking away Vatti again.
This is pretty much Hyrule A. Hyrule B is after Ocarina of Time, in the world that Link left. The world with adult Zelda, Gannondorf sealed away, and no Link.
A Link to the Past took place in Hyrule B because at the very beginning it tells the story of an evil sealed away by the seven saints.
100 years after Ocarina of time, in Hyrule B, is the Wind Waker. It's also after A Link to the Past. In the end of this, Gannondorf is killed and Hyrule is flodded.
Next comes Phantom Hourglass. As long as Gannondorf isn't in it, it should fit in perfectly.
Now Oracle of Seasons and Ages strengthens the statement. They are at the exact same time in the two different Hyrules. It's unclear which game is in which timeline, but it wouldn't matter either way.
On the end of each timeline, the Triforce was reset, and in the Oracle games Link goes to check on the Triforce, one timeline per game.
Think about A Link to the Past. There is the Light World and the dark world. The Light World is in timeline B and the Dark World is in timeline A, sometime around the war.
*Spoilers below for Twilight Princess*
Now look at Twilight Princess. Pretty much the same deal. I think that the mirror of Twilight is the mirror that was used in A Link to the Past. In the Wind Waker Gannon broke out of the seal put on him by the sages. He was killed in the Wind Waker and resurected by Zant. I'm thinking that the timelines are joining together. The plot is two Hyrules trying to take over each other. I think that by the end, the time line has joined again.
OK I'm done. I'm sure that there are some small questions still not answered from this, but can probablly be easily explained.