Well the answer isn’t to rewrite what we saw in the game.. ugh. Hold on to your copies of Oot, I see a version where Link fails at the end..
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OoT is why the split timeline exists, Link is sent back to be a child and it leads to MM and TP, but the Hyrule he saved continues on which leads to WW
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if I had a nickel for every time I ran out of spac
Why is there a new timeline without Echoes of wisdom on it
Then why is Nintendo calling it a failure if it succeeded in two offshoots of the timeline?
b/c it's a made up what-if scenario, "what if link failed? (a question not a single soul in the universe ever asked) well all these games spawn from that failure"
So tear down the hero to make a new timeline explanation.. great lets just lose all our heroes and sit in Twilight Realm depressed AF.
best part is the failure timeline is what leads to the most games, even the brand new one assuming it's related to LTTP
Friendly reminder that the "official" timeline isn't even created by the Zelda team so you should ignore it. It just exists so Nintendo has something to point to when asked, but it contradicts a lot of the games as previously stated by others in here. The idea of a downfall timeline is a load of nonsense. Aonuma is on record saying he wants the fans to think about it themselves, which is why you see BotW and TotK separated the way they are. BotW was like that the last time they updated it, too. There is a natural progression and connection between each of the games, but this isn't it.
Because it's not out yet. Why would it be on there already?
they still fully endorse it though since this is the 3rd time they've shown it, and they even went out of their way to make this one when they really could've just...not? this event did not call for an updated timeline yet they did so anyway
They endorse it yet the devs of the games say they want the timeline to be up to our interpretation. Kind of sending mixed signals, huh? I think its honestly more of the marketing team endorsing it than the actual devs.
it's hard to say ignore it when this is the most official source of the timeline there is, and like I said, they really went out of their way to bring this up a 3rd time, a timeline just showing the games by release date would've been more fitting
It's just visual because the CT and AT have space for the images, DT isn't being ruled out.
I hope the timeline doesn’t split fans the way canon and not canon has Star Wars fans. 
It absolutely was. Even in the unlikely event that it wasn't directly created by Nintendo, it was given the stamp of approval and thumbs up by them. Dark Horse didn't just publish multiple Zelda lore books without going through Nintendo.
In the incredibly unlikely event that Nintendo let the book release without any sort of creative oversight then... Nintendo is staffed by idiots and that speaks more to them than it does Hyrule Historia.
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No, it wasn't, actually. Aonuma is on record saying that the Dark Horse books were written by "fans of the series", not him or his team. He even explicitly stated he did none of his own editing on them.
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