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I dont think historia is entirely obsolete as one nintendo never claimed that. 2 in breath and tears they said they want fans to speculate and they wont confirm one theory or other. But you can make all games fit together if choose. Im sorry but i think dev interviews and originol content creator statements matter. Also hyrule warriors isnt cannon and even if it were its just a spinoff with no bearing on overarching serries because in each new cannon game they keep sealing demons

I honestly do believe that BOTW and TOTK is the aftermath of the joining of all the three timelines. It would be cool if there would be a game about that.

i thought the music in the background was from stardew valley literally the entire time i was watching it. i then closed the game and thought it was bugging out. then i paused the video.

I personally subscribe to the belief that Triforce Heros is actually canon and that it fuses all three into BotW

In my mind :
timeline 1 : SS-OOT-TWW-PH-SS

timeline 2 : SS-OOT-MM-TP

timeline 3 : SS-OOT-ALTTP-OA/OOS-LA-LOZ-AOL

timeline 4 : SS-OOT-ALBW-TFH

timeline 5 : BOTW-TOTK

timeline 6 : TMC-FS-FSA

I’m confused

omg this guy mistook the Adult timeline for the Fallen Hero one. Wind Waker happens in the Adult timeline where Link won and, after he is sent to the past, Ganondorf returns AND THEN the Godesses flood the land. The Fallen Hero Timeline leads to other games and *none of them are Wind Waker*. I don't know about you but I find this outrageous

The mural might be depicting the war with demise and The Goddess Hylia that happened before skyward sword and not actually a battle with a Zelda and link. It make sense why the ancient hero looks different as this was before the first link in the skyward sword and why the ancient technology is so advanced.

ive got to say, the windwaker timeline feels like such a tragic timeline with such rich stories, i REALLY prefer the characterizations of link and zelda here because they have much more depth, with link not really wanting to do hero stuff, zelda changing her name to tetra and all and becoming a pirate, and ganondorf;s tragic wishes.

honestly one of the best zelda timeline videos THE EVER

Why do people take the “divine prank” as meaning a literal prank? I don’t think the sages meant it as the goddesses playing an actual prank when they said it. Instead I think it’s used as hyperbole because if you put yourself in their situation, they’re about to execute this horrible criminal who is quite possibly the worst person in the world but somehow he possesses the triforce of power as he most embodies that virtue. So it’s like the sages are saying hold up where are the hidden cameras surely this has got to be a joke. Thoughts?

A common theory is that totk is a closed timeline loop like skyward sword. Gannondorf knows about Link and the master sword due to raru telling him about Link in the past. He also knows about Zelda cause he remembers her from the imprisoning war. This leads it to be a closed timeline and not a timeline split.

I got lost

What is the music used in this video? I know it's from @epidemicsound but I'd love to be able to find this exact song and composer. Cheers!

In my opinion, the best timeline is the child timeline, starting from skyward sword, then ocarina of time, then majora's mask, then twilight princess, then hyrule warriors, then breath of the wild, age of calamity, and then tears of the kingdom

Botw and totk happen far far in the future after every othe game that’s why the tri force isn’t well known

I definitely like the idea that BoTW and TOTK would exist in the Skyward Sword-Ocarina of Time-Twilight Princess line as they feel most similar to each other.

I don't think the founding of Hyrule in TOTK was before Ocarina of Time based on the fact that there hasn't been a male Gerudo born since Ganondorf was sealed.

There have been multiple iterations of Hyrule, and it might be the founding of that iteration.

Also, the Rito had their origin in Windwaker and didn't exist before then.

Fluffy boi! 😂

Honestly. The imprisoning war takes place 10,000 years before age of calamity, then another 100 years takes place for breath of the wild, then another 9 after that for totk,
Meaning all the respective time lines could have very much happened, and been long forgotten over 2000 years let alone 10000. I think breath of the wild is the story of all these timeliness, being strung 1 by one other thousands of years. Since hyrules founding.

I always subscribed to the idea that there’s some sort of multiverse collision that results in the three timelines merging together resulting in the world of BOTW and TOTK

I believe, or like to believe, that there are events that converge all three timelines (making the timelines shapes like a rupee or a triangle) and that all of the wilds timeline events happen after that convergence. In my theory, some event happens that forces a reset on the lands in order to converge the threads of time, the zonai are created and the gods transform the completed triforce into the stones of power, and the golden goddesses become zonai, and eventually swallow a stone of power each in order to watch over their lands and prevent that much power from being available to the reincarnations of demise ever again.

I wish I had time to write a fanfic.

Noooo, I'm in the middle of totk and this ruined it for me 😭😭 I know I shouldn't have, really I do, but I just wanted the timeline not the lore

So basically it's just Oh no Gannon came back again

I find it Kinda simple. Most of the other games have their own timeline. So botw and totk have their own.

I have a question why didn't nitendo made the original Zelda and Zelda 2 for the nitendo D's system?

what's the soundtrack called which plays in the background? :)

The Wind Waker takes place in the Adult Timeline, not the Fallen Hero Timeline. Its fun to have theories but that has been confirmed by Nintendo in Hyrule Historia for over a decade.

wind waker isn't a fallen hero timeline. It is the adult era when Ganondorf escapes from his seal, and since there is no hero because Zelda sent Link back in time at the end of Ocarina to relive his childhood, and Link creates a new timeline, so there is no hero to save Hyrule from Ganondorf. that is why the land is flooded.

didn’t know the complete timeline video had a part 2

Where I personally think the placement of BotW, AoC, and TotK is, it's obvious to me that it is outside of the main timeline.

Specifically, a new branch created by Link defeating Demise twice over.

During Skyward Sword, there are two time periods that are visited, and Demise is destroyed independently in both.
In the modern era, Link destroys Demise with the Triforce. Meanwhile, in the ancient era, Link destroys Demise with the Master Sword. This duality of destruction leads to a branch in the timeline as how can Demise be destroyed in the present when he was destroyed already in the past. it's not possible.

All games pre-BotW take place in the timeline set after the destruction of Demise with the Triforce, hence it's prominence in most of the games.
BotW, AoC, and TotK take place in the timeline set after the destruction of Demise with the Master Sword, and the lack of prominence of the Triforce in this timeline.

This also is important to note as there are parallels in the past of TotK that mirror events in OoT, such as the Fealty of Ganondorf to the King of Hyrule, and the Imprisoning War thereafter when Ganondorf betrays the King.

It's also possible that we can fix the "what if" scenario of the Downfall timeline by moving all those events into this new timeline, the Calamity Timeline. in NONE of the downfall era timeline games do you see the Gerudo male known as Ganondorf. you only see his Beastial form Ganon in one form or another. It is possible that all of these forms of "Ganon" are merely puppets of the sealed Ganondorf deep underground, which is why they are so easily brought back and destroyed time and time again.

Additionally, the Calamity in BotW is said to have "Given up on ressurection after many failed attempts"

This is my theory on how to fix the Zelda Timeline.

NOTE: based on existing canon, only one Male Gerudo can seemingly be alive at a time, and the ONLY other time we see a Ganondorf come AFTER a previous one is after that one died. it was previously once every 100 years, but since Ganondorf's lifespan has been extended in all timelines due to the influence of the Triforce, he often goes for several hundred years before being killed properly.

I would like to point out that the adult timeline is where Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks take place. Also, the downfall timeline is where a link to the Past, the Oracle games, Link's Awakening, Zelda 1, Adventure of Link, A Link Between Worlds and Triforce Heroes all take place

The age of calamity, BotW, and TotK take place not in a separate timeline but TotK is the end and beginning of the Zelda timeline. Princess Zelda goes back in time and sets the stage for everything after, but TotK is the last game in the series chronologically. Because King Roham (spell his name in the reply section) is labeled as the “last king of hyrule,” and TotK takes place afterward, these 3 games are the last of the timeline (but Age of Calamity takes place on a parallel timeline to 100 years before BotW)

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Maybe I missed something..but how is windwaker in the fallen timeline when wind water clearly says link was successful?

What is amagi doing here

Here's one of my theories, similar to the one in the video:

The founding of Hyrule was by the Zonai, and the founding scenes in TOTK should mainly happen in the era of prosperity.
From the founding, there can be a timeline split here. 
If Ganondorf manages to get Sonia's stone, then BOTW and TOTK would happen as the video described in the beginning. 
If not, then from the founding of Hyrule the timeline can go straight to the era of chaos. From there, having BOTW and TOTK happen in the child timeline split also sounds good.
I also remember that for ALTTP instead of calling the war the Imprisoning War, some people call it the Sealing War, which can be helpful to stop confusion. 
I still consider Link's Awakening to occur after the Oracle games, here's why:
The main village in Link's Awakening, Mabe Village's theme sounds similar to the Horon Village theme in Oracle of Seasons.
Marin, closely resembles Malon from Oracle of Seasons.
Madam MeowMeow and BowWow in Link's Awakening somewhat resemble Mamamu Yan and her dog in Oracle of Ages.
I think from Labrynna, Link travel's by boat back to Hyrule, but encounters a storm, making the events of Link's Awakening come into play.

Let me know what you all think.

Yeah they threw the book out the window in totk tbh

Wind water dosent take place in the fallen timeline it takes place in the adult timeline
The og zelda is in the fallen timeline

so nobody else realise that the first three letters of the goddesses are the same as the dragons??
(din=dinrall nayru=naydra farore= farosh)

Adult timeline is the windwaker timeline not downfall.

You got downfall and adult timeline mixed up

Cool

As someone new to the series, I am so god damn lost lol

Ok you said that windwaker is in the downfall time line when its in the adult time....how did no one realize

The Zora in Oracle of ages also live in the ocean.