Except that in FSA, Ganon was sealed in the Four Sword not in the Sacred Realm/Dark World. Plus the backstory of Ganon was rewritten. Personally, I place the Four Swords trilogy (MC/FS/FSA) as a separate universe.
I know that. But in ALttP (or rather the re-release of it for the GBA) we see the Four Sword inside the Sacred Realm. Obviously the seal war (or one of the events merged into the seal war legend - but still the battle that occured before ALttP) occurs between FSA and ALttP. So the way I see it:
-FSA happens.
-Ganon breaks out of the Four Sword Seal.
-The Seal War commences.
-ALttP happens.
FSS = Four Sword Saga
Classics = ALttP/OoS/OoA/LA-LoZ/AoL
At the end of ALttP the Triforce told Link Ganon was completely destroyed. Destroyed = Putting an end to the existence of something. Ganon was killed.
I'm actually not sure what we're arguing here, but I'll add in my two cents - while Ganon was indeed destroyed at the end of AlttP, this does not mean he is gone forever. (also note the Japanese simply says he has "fallen.") I explained this in the "multiple Ganon's thread" :
By the end of ALttP, Ganon has become a full demon. In Japanese mythology, Demons can be killed, but they will always come back. Their body is killed/destroyed, but their spirit is simply "sealed" in the realm of the dead (the realm we see in ST) until they can re-incarnate. This is what happened to Ganon. He died, but reincarnated. This ONLY happened however because he was a full demon by the end of ALttP. By the end of TWW or TP, this could not/would not have happened.
[/quote]It wasn't. Before ALttP it was in the Golden Land and that's when Ganon took it for himself and turned the Golden Land into the Dark World. That's the backstory of ALttP and no where did it say the Triforce was split.[/QUOTE]
This is true. But the seal war ALSO states that it is the first time the Triforce was ever touched. In other words, we are dealing with two separate conflicts which begin and end the seal war:
1. OoT (or the legend of it on the child timeline.)
2. The battle which occurred right before ALttP.