Here guys. From an older Song of Storms paradox thread.
Let's look at how time travel appears to Link. When he draws the Master Sword from the Pedestal of Time, he is surrounded by blue light, blacks out for a second or so, and then arrives seven years in the future as an adult. This trip can be expressed by a single, unbroken line.
1. Link draws Master Sword.
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2. Link ages seven years.
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3. Link awakes in the future.
To Link, the seven years of aging is instantaneous, as his consciousness has essentially been turned off. Now, let's create a hypothetical situation. Let's say that Hylee In was looking around the Temple of Time at some point after Link had originally drawn the Master Sword and returned to the past. Hylee In then seens a young boy dressed in a green tunic and funny cap run into the Temple of Time. Curious as to what the boy is up to, Hylee In decides to follow him. He stands outside the Door of Time, and watches Link as he grabs the Master Sword. Link is then engulfed in a blue light and vanishes completely.
Hylee In is then cast into a vegetative state of shock and now spends almost all his time inside the Temple of Time. Seven years later, while watching the spot Link had been when he disappeared, a man dressed in a green tunic and a funny cap appears out of a blue light. The man, completely shocked at what he has seen this time, runs screaming out of the Temple of Time, where his brains are consumed by a ReDead. These events can be represented by this line.
1. Hylee In sees Link grab Master Sword.
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2. Link disappears in blue light.
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3. Hylee In is in vegetative state of shock.
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4. Link appears out of nowhere.
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5. Hylee In runs from Temple of Time.
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6. ReDeads feast on Hylee In's scrambled brains.
Essentially, this is a broken line. To anyone observing Link, Link's timeline is broken. However, to Link, his timeline is a continuous line. Even when Link goes back in time, his line remains a single, continuous line which always moves forward. To observors, however, he appears to skip around at random.
Now, that had nothing to do with the Song of Storms Paradox, but I felt that it would be worthwhile to explain it. So, let's look at the Song of Storms. As has been said, it creates a Chicken and the Egg Paradox. For the chicken to exist, the egg must exist. For the egg to exist, the chicken must exist. This works the same way as the Storms Paradox. For Link to learn the Song of Storms, the Windmill Man must have learned the Song of Storms from the "Ocarina Kid." For the "Ocarina Kid" to teach the Song of Storms to the Windmill Man, the "Ocarina Kid" must have learned the song from somewhere.
As we all know, the "Ocarina Kid" is Link. Or is he? Perhaps at some point, there was just some strange kid with a strange ocarina who played a strange song which drained the strange well. As in mohammedali's comment about the creator of a popular song becoming irrelevant, we see that the original Ocarina Kid becomes irrelevant. I think it all can be explained in this diagram.
1. Link pulls Master Sword from pedestal for first time and enters unconscious existence within the Sacred Realm.
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2. "Ocarina Kid" comes to Kakariko and drains the well with the Song of Storms.
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3. Link awakens from his sleep and travels to Kakariko, where he learns the Song of Storms from the Windmill Man.
After Link learns the Song of Storms from the Windmill Man, he goes back in time, assuming that he was the one who originally played the Song of Storms. So, now our line looks like this. Remember to read the events in numerical order.
1. Link pulls Master Sword from pedestal for first time and enters unconscious existence within the Sacred Realm.
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5. Link arrives in past and travels to Kakariko to drain the well.
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6. Link plays the Song of Storms and drains the well, and the Windmill Man learns the Song of Storms.
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7. Link enters the well to find the "Eye of Truth," then goes back to the Temple of Time to return to the future.
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2. "Ocarina Kid" comes to Kakariko and drains the well with the Song of Storms. The Windmill Man learns the Song of Storms from the "Ocarina Kid."
8. *Event 2 is replaced by event 8, which is as follows.* "Ocarina Kid" arrives in Kakariko, and sees that the well is empty. He continues on with whatever journey he was previously on, seeing that he can't use his mysterious song to cause chaos.
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3. Link awakens from his sleep and travels to Kakariko, where he learns the Song of Storms from the Windmill Man.
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4. Link travels back in time, assuming he was the one who originally played the Song of Storms. Return to 5.
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9. Link arrives in the future again, and goes to Kakariko to enter the Shadow Temple. He sees that the well is still empty from his actions seven years ago.
As we can see here, there was an "Ocarina Kid" who was separate from Link who started the whole cycle. Once Link learns the Song of Storms and returns to the past to drain the well, he ends up replacing the "Ocarina Kid," who then becomes irrelevant to the course of events. A time loop is then created, wherein knowledge from the future is taken to the past, which is then carried on to the future to be taken to the past once more. In doing this, a paradox does not exist, so long as there was in fact an original "Ocarina Kid."
