I don't think it's as far of a stretch as many make it out to be. I personally don't want it to be the case, but the possibility is there.
I see you are ignoring the threads where I go in depth to your assertion here.
I am personally a fan of the idea that the past of Tears of the Kingdom is the time before Skyward Sword. To this end, I went through both games, comparing features of the structures. I originally grabbed screenshots from both games, with the intent of posting comparisons. Instead, to make this...
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At this time, as far as I have found, there are a number of problems with the past that Zelda was sent to, in Tears of the Kingdom, taking place after Skyward Sword. Why after Skyward Sword does not work. * There is no recognition of the Master Sword, when Zelda talks about it, and her only...
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Is that because interacting with those threads would destroy your arguments here?
This completely ignores the war with Demise. We are literally told, and shown, that the ruins left behind in SS were due to that very conflict.
That old argument doesn't really hold water. While some fans try to poke holes in the continuity, and the creators have stated that they put game play over continuity; there is far too much attention to detail for the creators to not care about continuity at all. We also see a recurring theme of a sky people through many games, all having cohesive elements. The people from the past of Skyward Sword, the Twili, the Tower of the Gods in Wind Waker, the old Minish technology in Minish Cap, the Ancient Sheikah from BotW/TotK (Who obviously learned their tech secrets from the Zoni tech). The technology, the styling, the architecture, the history; it all fits. We aren't seeing new people being created to fill the same spot, it one story that we are only seeing parts of, which as been building for a while. And, I don't care if the robot people from SS don't visually match the robot people from TotK exact enough for your likeing (as only one example of my larger statement). A flip phone and a touch screen are both cellphones; just because they look different on the out side doesn't mean that they don't have the same tech on the inside.
Are you talking about the books that many people have pointed out errors in, that were not made by the developers, that offer many of their statements as just theories, and that are subordinant to what we see in game? Are you reffering to the part in the timeline that states that, "Hyrule was founded here," inbetween SS and MC? I don't mind that being there. That's when the Hyrule (Kingdom of Hylia's rule) we are familiar with was founded. We are not familiar with Rauru's Hyrule. Those source books say nothing about what the nation before SS was called. Again, follow the artifacts.
Where I would love to bring back around to the actual topic here, where you provide one useful statement.
I am literally going to point you back to the origional post. The way the Master Sword interacts, and reacts to a Zoni ability being used on it. It literally glows with Zoni text.
Everything else is just a discussion where you have tried to somehow prove that the technology wasn't present, despite also try to prove that it should be present.
It's not about the placement of Rauru's reign. It's a moot point in this discussion. No mater where you place that on the timeline, the technology in question would have to exist well before that. If you want me to properly interact with your criticisims about my placement over yours, feel free to hit up thoose threads. Seriously, I've even tee'd up the ball for you.
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As far as the text on the blade, Iv'e only managed to find a little, and it's not very definitive.
One translator, in Bandit's hideout Discord, (The Collector of Tears) gives this translation:
CHCMF, and stated that:
One discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOTK/comments/143yr4l/anyone_nerdy_enough_to_translate_this_zonai_text/
,suggests something like "White Dragon."
Then there's this statement further down.