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The Unofficial Zelda Timeline!
Topic Started: Apr 30 2007, 08:27 PM (356 Views)
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Note that this is purely theoretical;
it is not proved to be true and there is no definite true timeline. This is
just what I think, after compiling loads of evidence in favor of my theory.
In several interviews, Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who designed the character
of Mario, Link, Kirby, and others, said that he believes that in each game a
new Link comes to quell evil. This would be the same for Princess Zelda as
well, but not for one character. In every game, and I mean absolutely every
game, Ganondorf is the same. He never gets reborn or has descendants. He is
the only known constant, and so I will work the theory around him. I think
that the same Link is in the majority of games, there being only two Links
(One in The Wind Waker and one in all the other games).

First, it is pretty much a fact that Ocarina of Time is the first game in the
storyline. Some proof of this is that Ganondorf got his piece of the
Triforce, the Triforce of Power, in Ocarina of Time, and he has it in all the
other games. Thus, Ocarina of Time must be the first game in the storyline.
Then comes Majora’s Mask. We can prove this in a number of ways, but the
easiest is the fact that Link is a kid in this game, that he has memories of
Zelda teaching him the Song of Time from Ocarina of Time, and that he has the
Ocarina of Time in this game. This is where timelines among Zelda historians
split apart and go in every other direction.

I think that A Link to the Past comes next. There are several reasons that
support this. For one, we know that Ganon is trapped in the Dark
World/Sacred Realm in the beginning of this game. Of the other games, only
in A Link to the Past and Four Swords Adventures and TP is Ganon imprisoned at the
beginning and released at the end. Four Swords Adventures cannot come next
because Four Swords has not come yet. So A Link to the Past comes next.
Ganon is imprisoned at the beginning because he was in Ocarina of Time and he
wasn’t in Majora’s Mask. At the end of A Link to the Past Ganon is free.
This is the most logical conclusion we can draw because of two things.

One, several characters in A Link to the Past are freed from the Dark World
into the Light World at the end (It is a segment in the credits called “The
Bully Makes a Friend”) and two characters who were dead at the beginning of A
Link to the Past were alive at the end of it. This means that with Link’s
wish on the Triforce he must’ve asked for the Dark World to be destroyed, or
at least for the people in it to be transferred to the Light World, and for
those who died to be revived. This would mean that Ganon was revived and
placed in the Light World.

The only other game in the series where Ganon is free at the very beginning
is the very first, The Legend of Zelda. It could not have come first because
Ganon already has the Triforce of Power in it and he had to have acquired it
in Ocarina of Time first. In this game Ganon was killed in the Light World
by Link, and it is very important to note that when he died only ashes
remained. Next we have a choice between two games in which Ganon is dead
throughout both. They are Link’s Awakening and The Adventure of Link. Since
these two games are the only games with Ganon dead in them, they must come in
succession.

Therefore, Ganon must be revived in the next game, which means that the
Link’s Awakening/The Adventure of Link duo comes before Oracle of
Ages/Seasons where Ganon is revived. This means that Link’s Awakening comes
before The Adventure of Link, because in Oracle of Ages/Seasons Link goes
into Hyrule Castle from Hyrule, not Koholint Island where he was in Link’s
Awakening. So we can conclude that Link’s Awakening came after The Legend of
Zelda, then came The Adventure of Link, and then the Oracle series in which
Ganon is revived, but imprisoned.

Now we’ve got the puzzle solved. The only three games left are The Wind
Waker, Four Swords, and Four Swords Adventures. Since the latter two occur
in Hyrule and since Hyrule is destroyed at the end of The Wind Waker, The
Wind Waker must come last in the storyline (Which is very obvious if you play
The Wind Waker). In Four Swords Adventures Vaati dies, but in Four Swords
Vaati is alive. This can only mean that Four Swords comes before Four Swords
Adventures.
But Lastly. Twilight Princess. I found this hard to place as it is never said what has happened. I know for a fact that it comes before Wind Waker. As Hyrule gets destroyed at the end. At first Ganon is iimprisoned. However he is imprisoned by the same Sages(Might be the same. Might be different. I dunno but I'm going to say that it is the same Sages. But in their Sage Form. Like a transformation if you will)
So I'm going to say that TP comes after OoT and MM but before TLoZ.Which leaves two possible spaces. Before ALTtP and after it. The only problem is that Ganon is Killed. Which leads to the fact that it cold come after WW.I doubt that though. Thinking he has found a way to the spiritual realm and regained life/being but still imprisioned. So I will say that TP comes before A Link to the Past
Now the timeline is complete.

Ocarina of Time
Majora’s Mask
Twilight Princess
A Link to the Past
The Legend of Zelda
Link’s Awakening
The Adventure of Link
Oracle of Ages
Oracle of Seasons
Four Swords
Four Swords Adventures
The Wind Waker

Notice that Oracle of Ages comes before Oracle of Seasons. We cannot know
since they’re basically back-to-back adventures and have no definite order,
because they can be switched in order and the timeline still makes sense. So
I alphabetized the two. Without going into extreme detail, this is my
timeline.

I hope this helps everybody.
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