So, I'm sure y'all all know the Song of Storms paradox, that Link only knows it because he played it 7 years ago, but I think there's a perfectly good explanation.
Picture a timeline. For the sake of things, I'll do the timeline of the Song of Storms paradox
<-------(Link plays Song of Storms to Guru-Guru)------7 years---------(Guru-Guru teaches Song of Storms to Link)-------->
That's how time flows. Meaning that Link played the Song of Storms before he knew it. But think of it this way: Link can jump in that timeline as he pleases, with the Master Sword. Meaning, in Link's personal timeframe, he learns the Song of Storms before going back 7 years and playing it to Guru-Guru. I'll cite The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Noel Adams for giving me this view on time travel. In that book, time is regarded as the fourth dimension, and it can be travelled as you wish if you know how. There's a bird in that book that was engineered to not perceive time constraints, so when his owner was about to fall out of a building, he saw a car driving below, and travelled to the night before and rigged the car's ejector seat to go off at the precise moment his owner was falling over it, so he fell safely in the car. If you were the bird's falling owner, you wouldn't have seen the bird do anything. If you were the bird, you would have timehopped back to the night before then back to the moment your owner was falling. If you had been in the garage the night before, you would have seen the bird appear, tamper with the car, then leave. I realize as I'm wrapping this up that I'm basically reinventing the wheel, or rather Einstein's theory of relativity. Oh well.
Basically, time is a one way street, and Link learned to take the sidewalk. If you go by the normal flow of time, it's a paradox, but if you consider the theory of relativity, it's not at all one.
Picture a timeline. For the sake of things, I'll do the timeline of the Song of Storms paradox
<-------(Link plays Song of Storms to Guru-Guru)------7 years---------(Guru-Guru teaches Song of Storms to Link)-------->
That's how time flows. Meaning that Link played the Song of Storms before he knew it. But think of it this way: Link can jump in that timeline as he pleases, with the Master Sword. Meaning, in Link's personal timeframe, he learns the Song of Storms before going back 7 years and playing it to Guru-Guru. I'll cite The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Noel Adams for giving me this view on time travel. In that book, time is regarded as the fourth dimension, and it can be travelled as you wish if you know how. There's a bird in that book that was engineered to not perceive time constraints, so when his owner was about to fall out of a building, he saw a car driving below, and travelled to the night before and rigged the car's ejector seat to go off at the precise moment his owner was falling over it, so he fell safely in the car. If you were the bird's falling owner, you wouldn't have seen the bird do anything. If you were the bird, you would have timehopped back to the night before then back to the moment your owner was falling. If you had been in the garage the night before, you would have seen the bird appear, tamper with the car, then leave. I realize as I'm wrapping this up that I'm basically reinventing the wheel, or rather Einstein's theory of relativity. Oh well.
Basically, time is a one way street, and Link learned to take the sidewalk. If you go by the normal flow of time, it's a paradox, but if you consider the theory of relativity, it's not at all one.
