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Sacred Grove used to be Hyrule Castle Town

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I'm fairly certain that the Master Sword doesn't move at all. Notice how DEath Mountain is east, not north, in TWilight Princess. Most of this game occurs north of OoT
 

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No, I do not agree at all that the temple moved. The temple and the sword are in the exact same location.
 

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No. Both are in the same location.

The land itself did not grow legs and move north, the *kingdom* did.
 

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considering that they look nothing alike, and there's a big river forming Gerudo canyon that has to have its source from somewhere up north, I'd say pretty likely.
 

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considering that they look nothing alike, and there's a big river forming Gerudo canyon that has to have its source from somewhere up north, I'd say pretty likely.
That canyon was formed by the water channeled from Hyrule Castle down toward the Canyon.

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which magically increased in size and has shaped a huge gorge in the west without hardly doing anything in Hyrule Field.
 
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I've thought about this topic a LOT. While I think there is merit to both options (two temples of time or that Hyrule shifted its boundaries), I now personally favor the third option, brought up in this forum: retcon...lots of retcon.

Meaning that from the perspective of Twilight Princess, the Temple of Time was never near castle town and was in the woods like originally intended. This also matches up with how Link finds the Master Sword in ALttP (but then there are more geography issues, so...more retconning), and it matches up with Skyward Sword more importantly. The Temple of Time in TP becomes so much more significant if you consider it the same one from Ocarina of Time, and I think the same goes for the rest of the landmarks in Hyrule. It's the same Lake Hylia, Death Mountain, Kakariko (or Hidden) Village, etc. just centuries later and (importantly) re-imagined in a bigger world possible on a system that is not the Nintendo 64.

Also I'm new here but I love Zelda theories k thx bye
 

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