perhaps wheel of time is more grokable for you
if shaitan ever won, the pattern would give a "handicap" to the dragon reborn in the next cycle
so the constant warring on the surface world was the wheel spinning over and over, then hylia was like "screw it let's try floating islands"
there's no...
I like the idea of the downfall timeline being the true ending but I'm not sure if it's something that the devs thought of, would be nice to see aonuma's take on the theory
can ZD reach out to someone who speaks english and worked on zelda worldbuilding for a Q&A session maybe? Would be really...
ganon was sealed, but his seal broke and he escaped
the people waited for the hero to save them, but since zelda sent him back in time he never appeared and the gods were forced to flood the world