Kombatgod
Timeline Exegete
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Florence, Italy
Many minds blew while seeing there is an extra split in the official timeline. Mine didn't, because I always considered the OoT-AlttP connection stronger than the OoT-WW (if OoT is the Sealing War, than it's directly before ALttP, while we know for sure that between OoT and WW at least another battle with Ganon happened), so to me AlttP could have been:
1-between OoT and WW, in the Adult Timeline (with some retcons and adjustments of course)
2-parallel to WW, in a third timeline.
The second one turned out to be right.
I started a thread explaining this third timeline back in february 2011, called The What If Theory: a Double Split in the Timeline! but at the time I only talked about a "what If", with no actual in-universe split. This may still be right, but many people talk about how could there be an in-universe split, and I have my theory.
First of all:
I hear many people saying the split occured when Link was sealed. I don't know if it's said in the book, but to me yeah, it happened there, but not like many people think, that created a Hyrule with no Hero of Time, no, you don't split the timeline by going forward in time, it would make no sense to have a timeline where Link is sealed, but not freed 7 years later! What happened is the exact opposite: apart from the Adult Timeline we all know there's another timeline where LINK WAS NOT SEALED!
Here's what happened:
Link took the Master Sword and opened the Sacred Realm letting Ganon take the Triforce. Rauru saw this and, worried, used his powers to see into the future. He had a terrible vision: Yong Link used the Master Sword to fight Ganondorf... And failed. That's because he's the one with the most courage, but Ganon is too powerful for such a young boy. This allows Ganondorf to take the Triforce of Courage from him, and after that, it would take very little to also get the ToW from Zelda. A horrible war would follow: the Sealing War, eventually leading up to ALttP. I don't know how far Rauru looked, but this is the Failure Timeline! So he decided to change the future: he sealed Link in the Temple of Light for seven years, until he was old enough to fight him, and also to hide the ToC from Ganondorf. This new timeline he created is what we know as the Adult Timeline!
So here's a possible reason for the extra split. I believe it to be 100% fair, but would Nintendo think of something like this? Whadd'ya think?
1-between OoT and WW, in the Adult Timeline (with some retcons and adjustments of course)
2-parallel to WW, in a third timeline.
The second one turned out to be right.
I started a thread explaining this third timeline back in february 2011, called The What If Theory: a Double Split in the Timeline! but at the time I only talked about a "what If", with no actual in-universe split. This may still be right, but many people talk about how could there be an in-universe split, and I have my theory.
First of all:
I hear many people saying the split occured when Link was sealed. I don't know if it's said in the book, but to me yeah, it happened there, but not like many people think, that created a Hyrule with no Hero of Time, no, you don't split the timeline by going forward in time, it would make no sense to have a timeline where Link is sealed, but not freed 7 years later! What happened is the exact opposite: apart from the Adult Timeline we all know there's another timeline where LINK WAS NOT SEALED!
Here's what happened:
Link took the Master Sword and opened the Sacred Realm letting Ganon take the Triforce. Rauru saw this and, worried, used his powers to see into the future. He had a terrible vision: Yong Link used the Master Sword to fight Ganondorf... And failed. That's because he's the one with the most courage, but Ganon is too powerful for such a young boy. This allows Ganondorf to take the Triforce of Courage from him, and after that, it would take very little to also get the ToW from Zelda. A horrible war would follow: the Sealing War, eventually leading up to ALttP. I don't know how far Rauru looked, but this is the Failure Timeline! So he decided to change the future: he sealed Link in the Temple of Light for seven years, until he was old enough to fight him, and also to hide the ToC from Ganondorf. This new timeline he created is what we know as the Adult Timeline!
So here's a possible reason for the extra split. I believe it to be 100% fair, but would Nintendo think of something like this? Whadd'ya think?
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