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The Beginning of the Zelda Timeline:
The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is officially the first game as far as chronological order goes. It involves the Forging of the mastersword and is the only game to be officially stated to take place before Ocarina of Time. Ocarina of Time ends with Link defeating Ganon and being returned to the past creating an alternate reality where ganon is sealed away before he is able to take control of Hyrule, while the adult timeline is left a baron wasteland with Ganon defeated. This is where the timeline splits.
Adult Timeline:
In the adult timeline I assume that link must have mated with some one during his journey in order to keep his bloodline going in the adult timeline. The only suitable person he could have mated with as an adult would be Malon as all the other women who where interested in him where sages. I assume Ganon returned to life before link's offspring was able to fight him and so the gods/Goddesses flooded hyrule in order to prevent Ganon from ruling the land again, this leads into Wind waker. Link and his sister are raised by there grandmother who i personally think looks and acts like an older version of Malon. Link defeats Ganon and meets Tetra, the descendant of Zelda. The next game, Phantom hourglass is a direct sequel, followed by spirit tracks. What interests me about spirit tracks is that link and Tetra basicly start a new kingdom of hyrule, leaving room for more future games But i personally believe this is where the adult timeline ends for now.
Child Timeline:
Now in the child timeline, Link was returned to his youth and the game leads into Majora's mask. In this game i believe it is possible that link could have Mated with either Saria or Malon sense Saria wasn't a Sage yet and didn't need to become one. But it's also possibility he mated with a character that wasn't shown in the games. at the end of Majora's mask link goes into the forest again and we don't hear from him. The Next game in the series is Twilight Princess.
It is important to remember that sometime between Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, The Master sword was moved from the temple of time in Hyrule Castle town to a temple in the lost woods, You should also remember that Hylians who are lost in the lost woods become Stalfos and that Ganon was sealed away in the child timeline before he could rule. Ganon was sealed in the Twilight realm and the Link from ocarina and Majora is more then likely a character called "The Hero's Shade." The Hero's shade teaches link his moves, but thats not all, he said he was the last person to defeat Ganon. He also Carries a sword and shield directly from Majora's Mask, He also calls link "my child" when link completes his last training session with The hero's shade. I personally believe that the Hero's shade is that link and that over a hundred years have passed between Ocarina of time/majora's mask and Twilight Princess. At the end of the game we assume Link returned the master sword to the temple in the Forest. Now we go into what feels almost like a filler at first, The Minish Cap.
A lot of people believe the minish cap was the first game, and now the big rumor is that it's the game directly after skyward sword, but as i explain this segment you will see how that theory can not work. In the Minish cap link adopts an entirely new blade, and there is no mention of Ganon, The master sword, or the triforce. This gives the Minish a sort of filler feeling. In this game Vaati breaks the legendary picori sword so link has to take it to get repaired, To repair it they have to strengthen it by infusing the 4 elements. When link get's all 4 elements into the blade it is renamed the foursword. He defeats the sorcerer Vaati and places the sword in a pedestal. This game is Followed by The legend of zelda: four swords, a bonus game released on the game boy advanced version of a link to the past. In four swords, a new link takes the four sword to defeat vaati in his wind demon form and save the maidens, the game ends as it began, with vaati being once again sealed in the foursword, However four swords was followed by a game called, The Legend of Zelda: Four swords adventures. Four swords adventures took place sometime after fourswords, this time shadow link appeared and kidnapped the maidens and zelda in order to trick link into drawing the four sword and releasing Vaati, link defeats his shadow and Vaati in order to find out the true villain in this game is Ganon. Link defeats ganon and puts the sword away, the important thing, however, is to notice all the connections between four swords adventures and A link to the past. There is room for another game before or after the fourswords trilogy but the point is the trilogy goes perfectly before a link to the past.
Now, in a link to the past the master sword is still where link left it in twilight princess, the forest, but at least a few hundred years have passed and the temple has rotted away, leaving only the sword in the pedestal. After you defeat ganon at the end of link to the past, link returns the sword to it's place in the lost woods, then we go into the oracle games. The oracle games take place after link defeats ganon, I like to put ages before seasons but technically they are interchangeable. after you beat one of these games, you can take a code to continue into the other one with all your items, once you beat the main story of both it leads you into a secret mini story with a secret dungeon, a new boss, and a new fight against ganon, the thing to remember is that after this fight the game's secret ending is link sailing away on a small boat that looks identical to the boat at the beginning of link's awakening, a game originally meant to be a sequel to a link to the past before the release of the oracle games. Link does not officially have the master sword in any of these 3 sequels to a link to the past.
Now link returns to Hyrule in order to find out Ganon is alive and trying to get the triforce again, He is given the Magic sword by an old man. He defeats ganon and once again seals him away. Ending the original Legend of Zelda game. The original Legend of Zelda had a direct sequel name The legend of Zelda 2: Link's adventure. In this game link is trying to stop ganon's minions from resurrecting ganon while also trying to save the princess from her comatose state. I believe this is the last game in the child timeline so far because it ends with link and Zelda being together and that would mean the mixing of the 2 bloodlines, from that point on they couldn't be of separate blood in this timeline.
Where i think future games could easily be placed:
Between skyward sword and Ocarina.
After Spirit Tracks
Between majora's mask and Twilight princess.
Between Twilight Princess and The Minish Cap.
Between Four swords Adventures and A Link to the Past.
Between Link's Awakening and The original Legend of Zelda.
After the Legend of Zelda 2: Link's Adventure.
Thank you for taking the time to read through my theories, Please leave comments on what you think, and/or links to any agreeing/disagreeing theories you wish to share with me.
