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The Gang of Thieves reviving him is more speculation, yes. But Ganondorf in Four Swords Adventures turning to Ganon was because of the Malicious Trident of Demon Tribe! It was used by the last King of Darkness and Zelda recognized him as that King reborn because of that Trident. The Dark World in FSA has assets from ALttP but its WAY different! It's not the corrupted Sacred Realm. FSA actually in my book sets it better up than OoT. But this is not for my fan Timeline but a speculated developers Timeline. Ganon's wish was confirmed by the essence of the Triforce. It said that he wished to rule the lands and that had turned the Sacred Realm to the Dark World! The same fate nearly happened to Hyrule as we hear per the Dark Clouds and the chaos in the Imprisoning War. Where did you get the idea of the Thieves being retconned? They ALWAYS were part of this story! Until well... the books.1. Does this really make a difference? Who even knows what Ganon wished for. And ALttP also mentions the thing about the Dark World reflecting his heart.
2. Fair enough.
3. Ignoring this doesn't bother me too much. The fact is the sages sealed the Sacred Realm, whether it was by the king's order or not.
4. There was probably a pretty big battle when Ganon took over Castle town. Although I don't know how he did this, perhaps the Triforce granted him an army. But clearly the Hyrulean army was pretty much destroyed as mentioned in ALttP.
5. He doesn't have to be trapped in the Dark World to send his army. And why wouldn't he be able to enter the Light World? This could only be the case if there's already some sort of seal containing him, like the one the sages place in the Downfall ending of OoT.
6. This has always been an issue with ALttP's prologue, and was retconned out in the GBA version.
7. I'm not sure what you mean here. He already has the full Triforce in the Downfall ending.
8 and 9. True, but again not essential to the story.
I admit ALttP's backstory fits much better with the Imprisoning War happening many years after OoT as it does in Historia. But it's still true that the Downfall ending of OoT puts everything in place perfectly for the in-game events of ALttP, which I consider more important than the backstory.
But even accepting that OoT isn't the Imprisoning War, it sets up the Imprisoning War too well to justify assuming so much that's not supported by any of the games. Nowhere does it say Ganon's followers revived him after TP, or that he existed before OoT. Of course, HH also makes assumptions like a new Ganondorf in FSA, but from what I know of FSA's story, that seems to be the only possible choice. I mean, it shows him turn into beast Ganon, but without getting the Triforce? Yet somehow the Dark World already exists? And then he gets sealed in the Four Sword, which is never again mentioned in the series. The whole game seems like a nightmare for the timeline.
The Downfall Timeline definitely wasn't consistent with developer intentions at the time, but I feel like they probably accept it to make space for all the older games, because they never followed from OoT as well as WW or TP did.
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