If i dont write down my idea i will forget and i just have to get it out because ive been reading everyones threads and ideas on the time line for like four days. BUT, what if botw is the place where there is an insertion of a time loop. The technological advancements that are so grand in botw could have been used to send impa back in time to ocarina of time (oot) to prevent the downfal timeline. My idea is that since we as players win oot and go on from there, its entirely possible there was a world/ timeline where impa did not exist, did not teach zelda how to be sheik and that some how causes link to fail, leading to the DT, of course we dont play this version, but my very shaky evidence is thus: in oot, impa is refered to as like the last of her race, attendants to the royal family, and her house is in a town thats still under construction. Also link is like an orphan. In the spirit of conspiracy humor me. A group of sheikah come back in time drop off the orphan, then begin building a town where they can house themselves. Then various sheikah die or claim to die off in the spirit of like being time travellers. Then we play and win and voila the DT is averted. Or not because time travel is super finicky. But this would explain why the timelines were split in the first place because meddling with time can cause that.
Also i feel that alot of things that people say point to botw being in the AT or the CT could be a process thats similar to the way evolution works in real life, convegent evolution works by finding a similar solutions to similar problem despite there being no interdependant development or no like historical intertwining of stuff. It has been 10, 000 years i would be more shocked if the symbols or statues didnt mirror each other than if they do. This is a world that went through catastrophic event in terms of like "sociopolitcal" stuff, but oral tradtions and like climate and rotation in its solar system could have stayed the same.
Also the references to different heros, uhh if you can time travel then of course you would know about the heros of other timelines cuz you could probably go there. Oooorr, if you have powers, like zelda does maybe theres a bit of clairvoyance?
Just had to get that off my chest.
Also i feel that alot of things that people say point to botw being in the AT or the CT could be a process thats similar to the way evolution works in real life, convegent evolution works by finding a similar solutions to similar problem despite there being no interdependant development or no like historical intertwining of stuff. It has been 10, 000 years i would be more shocked if the symbols or statues didnt mirror each other than if they do. This is a world that went through catastrophic event in terms of like "sociopolitcal" stuff, but oral tradtions and like climate and rotation in its solar system could have stayed the same.
Also the references to different heros, uhh if you can time travel then of course you would know about the heros of other timelines cuz you could probably go there. Oooorr, if you have powers, like zelda does maybe theres a bit of clairvoyance?
Just had to get that off my chest.