Rauru's connection to Gaepora had me at "We the Ancient Sages built the Temple of Time..." etc
As well as the fact he is garbed like a Hylian Royal and the only other Sage besides Zelda who doesn't need to be awakened.
I assumed he was potentially one of the previous Kings.
There was an actual time gate there. Aside from this the OOT is infered to have been made with timeshift stones and it was able to send Link back in time to permanently alter the events of history.
Hopefully after SS more technological elements (Ancient Robot tribes) like puzzles and platforming will be explored. Aside from this I hope that the fantasy/ medieval nature of the series is never completely lost. It just wouldn't be Zelda without it.
Where indeed. The same reason there's never a Queen of Hyrule; because Zelda.
We've seen the King die by the hands of Agahnim, is it possible that when Hylians/ Hyruleans are warring regicide is regularly committed?
Generally I can say my dreams are just subconscious thoughts surfacing held together by associations of reality, however, lately although encoded they have been somewhat prophetic. This scared the crap out of me when a couple of weeks ago I dreamed of a family member's baby being kidnapped for...
I don't believe that New Hyrule would be related to Old Hyrule as this was not part of the King of Red Lions' wish.
We have to also consider there's approximately a few years (off the top of my head) between WW>PH>Link and Tetra finding new Hyrule...
I thought it was something like 4 years.
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Well Mido had this thunder stolen by Saria (only to be redeemed in AOL when named after that town) and King Zora always looks a little blue.
The whole Kokiri dying thing is never specific to time taken for death to occur, though I'm also not sure if the ending is meant to be taken literally...
Even though it was a desert in SS, timeshift stones were being mined in abundance. There are several areas that when used in the Lanayru Desert, show grass as opposed to sand and so forth. With enough timeshift technology there's nothing to say that it couldn't have permanently altered the desert.
I believe the reason Hylia's Statue was destroyed was more than likely due to war. The reason it was not rebuilt was more than likely twofold (a) the economic state did not allow for it after times of war (b) the royal family had no issues burying the past of anyone knowing Hylia had incarnated...