Zelda Timeline Theory Thread

[Luke Groundwalker]

I was curious what people at SPPf thought about the Zelda timeline. What do ya'll think how the LoZ games go in one big timeline? I for one think that there is a split timeline but I want to know some opinions about it.

Here is my timeline:
The Minish Cap (Link 1)
Ocarina of Time (Link 2)
(The timeline splits due to the Hero of Time going into the future and sending Ganon to the Evil Realm.)

YLT (Young Link Timeline):
Majora's Mask (Link 2 YLT)
Four Swords (Link 2 YLT)
Four Swords Adventure (Link 2 YLT)
Twilight Princess (Link 3 YLT)

ALT (Adult Link Timeline):
The Wind Waker (Link 3 ALT)
Legend of Zelda (Link 4 ALT)
Adventure of Link (Link 4 ALT)
A Link to the Past (Link 5 ALT)
Link's Awakening (Link 5 ALT)

I don't know for sure where the Orcale Zelda games go. If you want to ask questions about my timeline then just ask and I will answer your question.

What are your thoughts about the Zelda timeline?

 

[Solid Kirby]

Alright, I feel like Posting this, since it fits.
LoZ Facts:

• Three chains are pretty much confirmed to be related to one another. These are the OoT line (OoT, MM, TP, WW), the Four Swords line (MC, FS/FS+), and the Link Line (LttP, LA. No, AoL Dosn't fall under this.)
• It's pretty much a Given that OoT's the First in the line.
• The only Three games that can happen in an alternative Timeline are LA, MM and MC. Reason being is that all of the other Games are confirmed to have Ganon/dorf in them.
• To this date, Ganon/dorf has not died Permanantly. AoL logic states that Link's blood can Ressurect Ganon/dorf, so any games outside of the OoT line can happen after WW.

These Facts can open and close spaces for certian games, so people don't act like n00bs with the timeline. =P

As for My timeline? I'll post it later.

 

[Luke Groundwalker]

Alright, I feel like Posting this, since it fits.
LoZ Facts:

• Three chains are pretty much confirmed to be related to one another. These are the OoT line (OoT, MM, TP, WW), the Four Swords line (MC, FS/FS+), and the Link Line (LttP, LA. No, AoL Dosn't fall under this.)
• It's pretty much a Given that OoT's the First in the line.
• The only Three games that can happen in an alternative Timeline are LA, MM and MC. Reason being is that all of the other Games are confirmed to have Ganon/dorf in them.
• To this date, Ganon/dorf has not died Permanantly. AoL logic states that Link's blood can Ressurect Ganon/dorf, so any games outside of the OoT line can happen after WW.

These Facts can open and close spaces for certian games, so people don't act like n00bs with the timeline. =P

As for My timeline? I'll post it later.

True, but there has been new facts that prove my timeline right. Anouma has stated before that the story of the Four Sword (it's origin) is in fact the first story in the timeline. TMC was the story of the Four Sword so it must be first in the timeline. I will try to post a link and quote later.

 

[Mew2]

My timeline for the games is as follows:

TMC
OoT
Timeline Splits:

Young Link Timeline -
OoT YL, ending
MM
TP
ALTTP
LoZ
AoL
(ALTTP may be at the end, but I have no proof that that's where it goes, and it does seem to reference events from OoT)

Adult Link Timeline -
OoT Adult Link
WW

Reasons: *WW Spoilers below*








The reason why I support the split is due to the ending of WW. It doesn't make sense that a new Hyrule would be found and things that happened in the old one would be remembered. Granted they did get a few things wrong in ALTTP (most of the sages, save Darunia and Rauru were female) but that is forgivable. Which brings up one of the problems with my timeline since all of this happened during Adult Link's timeline. I would surmise that something happened in Hyrule while Link was in Termina. Ganondorf wasn't beaten yet, so when he realized that Link was no longer around to unwittingly give him access to the Sacred Realm, he pushed his hand and invaded. Anyway, back to the main point, I find it hard to believe, though, that the people of the new Hyrule would remember the old one so well since it seemed as if everyone, save a few individuals, in WW had forgotten the old Hyrule and its importance, and Ganon. Unless there is a sequel to WW that brings back the original Hyrule, a very distinct possibility given the later games, chronologically, I will always be a believer in the split timeline theory.

 

[Soul Dew]

I'm guessing 4 Time lines.

Link 1
OOT
OOA+OOS(Not sure where in particuler but Twinrova is in there trying to revive Ganondorf.)
MM
TP
WW

Link 2
LoZ
AoL

Link 3
ALttP
LA

Link 4
Minish Cap
FSA

 

[Paradox]

I would have thought WW and LA would have been around the same time as Hyrule is covered in ocean in both (there's actually a reference to it in LA, but as it could be a dream there's a possible flaw) and Link was returning from the Oracle series when LA occured.

OOT must be first as it's Ganondorf not Ganon, I'd think the 1st and Second were after WW as it would explain the Zola's evolution and migration

 

[Controller of Flames]

The spaces mean I believe that it is a different Link (like the one before him died)

Minish Cap (Becuase in this one Vaati was not revived)

Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Four Swords (All three faries are shown at begining)

Legend of Zelda 1
Adventure of Link
Link to the past
Links Awakening

(Not sure on that one cuase I havent played the first Zelda games)

Oracle Games (Impa is not a sheika in this one so that's why it isn't the same timeline)

Four Swords Adventures

Twilight Princess

Wind Waker

 

[Zora]

Nintendo said in there guide book or something that Minish cap is a sequel. In FS+ they say (indirectly) that some prior knowledge is known. So the FC time line is this.
1: Minish Cap
2: FS
3: FS+

Also TP looks like part of the Oot timeline. WW is about 1,000,000 years ahead, it goes nowhere. Also LttP comes first because Agahim was the one who created that created Ganon, if I recall corectly. Then in the first one released (Lol1) ganon wanted more power (he never got the triforce in Lttp) and link retrieved it. Lol2:AoL was just a game featuring the hero. So it appears that LttP is the prequel to all of them. Also the name A link to the past refering that this is the event. Ganon wasn't mentioned at all during the game, so no one knew him, so that also supports the idea of LttP being the first one (on the timeline), but is it the first one???

 

[Tendo128]

Also LttP comes first because Agahim was the one who created that created Ganon, if I recall corectly. Then in the first one released (Lol1) ganon wanted more power (he never got the triforce in Lttp) and link retrieved it. Lol2:AoL was just a game featuring the hero. So it appears that LttP is the prequel to all of them. Also the name A link to the past refering that this is the event. Ganon wasn't mentioned at all during the game, so no one knew him, so that also supports the idea of LttP being the first one (on the timeline), but is it the first one???

Agahnim didn't create Ganon, in fact, he was being used as Ganon's puppet. Also, the names Ganon and Ganondorf are basically interchangeable.

Anyway, here's my timeline:

OoT
<split>
Young Link Timeline:
MM
MC
FS
FSA
Adult Link Timeline:
WW
LttP
LA
LoZ
AoL

*Oracle games not included, since I haven't played them

Still inconclusive though, somewhat due to us not knowing what happens directly after WW. One thing I looked at was the absence of Gorons, Dekus and the original Zoras in the original (in terms of release) 4 games, which seems most likely due to the events of WW.

Well, here's hoping TP doesn't jumble the timeline as much as WW did.

 

[Paradox]

Also, the names Ganon and Ganondorf are basically interchangeable.

Ganondorf is the human form, Ganon is the spirit, thats why he's only referred to as Ganondorf in Ocarina

 

[Kyle of Pallet]

I went by the Guidebook I have for Ocarina of Time and with the countless prolouges in the games.

~Link was only shown the future to get ready for in OoT. So Link really fights the same Ganon twice (wierd, but I digress). Plus, this Ganon lookes more primordial and ancient than the big blue moblin version (who doesn't like a huge black monster that looks like Julius's second form in Final Fantasy Adventure).

~Majaro's Mask begins with Navi leaving Link until the Seven Years are up. There is also a referance to the fateful Ganon (monster form, Ganondorf is the man) battle in your battle with Majaro Wrath.

~Nintendo Power guesses that Twilight Princess goes here.

~Blatantly, there is a referance to the Hero of Time in the Wind Waker, making this one next.

~In, A Link to The Past (to clear this up, this is not the first. The Japanese and original name for this game was "Triforce of the Gods," not ALttP), the prolouge oddly echos the story of OoT.

~The directional booklet says right out that Link's Awakening is a sequal to ALttP. Also, two of Dethl's (The Nightmares) forms are Agahnim and Ganon.

~My guess, here is where the Oracle Games come into play. The non-cannon games, like Wand of Gamelon, could also go here.

~ The Minish Cap's prolouge is sort of a retelling of ALttP. One of the stained glass windows in the prolouge also shows a long haired link with the Master Sword in the Lost Woods, where you could find the Master Sword in ALttP.

~ Of course, here is where FS and FSA come into play. The last time Ganon truely appears in the timeline.

~ LOZ comes here. Here is the official eternal death of the Dark King Ganon
(may he never rest in peace).

~ Ganon does not return in AoL. Link stops the revival ritual and seals Ganon forever (The End). Hyrule also dissapears in this one. It becomes separate countries.

~~~That is what I think the timeline is~~~

 

[X-Ninji]

FSA Link and FS link are Diferent people Why?

Link has to be explained who is Vatti and what is the Four Sword in FSA.

FS happens before FSA because Vatti is Sealed inside the Four Sword and in FSA Vatti is killed and Ganondorf is then Sealed inside the Four Sword

 

[Dragonking]

AoL is the last of the series. No matter how many games in the future are made in the timeline AoL is the end. If they decide to latter continue after AoL that is up to nintendo.

 

[Controller of Flames]

Alas there is one game we have all forgot about, Soul Callibur 2 for gamecube (It's not a Zelda game but I'm counting it). If you watch the begining movie in SC2 you will see that Link drwas the master sword in a forest. Which means it takes place after LttP, but with all the different swords form other games (razor Sword, Biggrons Sword,) it must mean that MM and OoT take place befopre Lttp.

 

[Alfonso]

The question is, how did the Sword get from the Temple of Time to a Forest?

 

[JoshYEAH]

Ocarina is said to take place before all other games by Shigeru Miyamato himself.

Otherwise, I don't really think there can be a congruent timeline due to the fact Link always seems to start each game at the same age (Or thereabouts). The only possible chronology I can think of is that which Lord Deoxys has posted.

 

[smiley.]

I hate the idea of a timeline. I treat each game as if they aren't related (except for the sequels obviously).

 

[Pinky the Mew]

O.K. a few years back the Official Zelda site HAD a timeline. And this is what I remember:

-Ocarina Of Time: The first Link (Hyrule's creation was expialned in this game)
-Majora's Mask: 3 month's after.
-The Oracle of seasons/time: When he's a little older
-Wind Waker: 100 years after (for some strange reason, why not 500? Land and people does not evolve that quickly!)
I think the first three Zelda game takes over here
-Legend of Zelda
-Adventure of Link
-A Link to the past* right in the middle of the game where Link crosses the Hyrulian Sea is where the storm kicked up and went straight into Link's Awakening.*
-A Link to the past is the Story of the last Link of the blood line.

Noticed that I didn't put in the recent game: Minish cap I don't care about that game. I didn't read about or want to play it because I had enough of the Cell-da look, so where ever it is just might be after Wind Waker.

 

[Satoshi]

It's a pretty much given fact that OoT was first in the LoZ timeline.

I think it pretty much goes like this~:

Ocarina of Time: Link 1 (Miyamoto already said it took place first so....)
Majora's Mask: After the faithful battle with Ganondorf, Link goes off into the forest to look for Navi. ~
The Wind Waker: It already a given that it takes place 100 years after OoT, so it take place after MM too.

( Side Note:-Twilight Princess? Maybe the Link i this game is an ancessor of the Oot Link?)

Rip in the timeline:

The legend of Zelda
Adventure of Link
Link to the Past

Another rip in the timeline:

Minish Cap
Fourswords Adventure

...So, there's my two cents. lol

 

[Orgasmo]

Majora's Mask: After the faithful battle with Ganondorf, Link goes off into the forest to look for Navi. ~

OFF TOPIC: Who says he goes looking for Navi?

My Timeline:

Either Ocarina of Time or A Link to the Past - as they both talk about a war.
Majora's Mask
WindWaker
Links Awakening
Oracle Series (Oracle of Ages/Seasons)
The Legend of Zelda
Links Adventure

Seperate timeline:
Minish Cap
Four Swords
Four Swords Adventures