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As all of you know, the split timeline is a very tricky thing, it is more than confusing at times. Here is a theory that I came up with.
It is going to be quite difficult to follow what I am saying so I will be sure to explain things in a way as to where you can comprehend.
What is "time" in Zelda? What is considered the past and what is considered the future? I find myself asking this very question daily here on ZD, but I never brought it to anyone's attention until now. Time has always been a factor for the Zelda series, but where on the canon timeline does our part exist? At the beginning of every Zelda game it starts off as a story being told. Maybe by a tribe or maybe as a mother to her child, whatever or however the story is being told, it is being told regardless. But where is that story being told in the timeline?
Take a look at the hero is defeated timeline split. The whole split is a huge "What If" scenario made up by Nintendo. Now this what if scenario leads me to believe that the present is located sometime before OoT, or even as OoT is occurring, my proof of the theory that it is before OoT is, picture someone telling you the story of the legend of Zelda, but this time the narrator wants to say that the hero is defeated. We don't know who is telling the story, it could be the goddesses planning out the fate of humanity and are consulting each other with their ideas, the story could be told by a tribe outside of Hyrule hearing about Link and his courageous activities (rumors spread that he was defeated) then the story changes. We don't know where in Zelda Time the "present" exists. and I am not here to say that I know where the answer lies, or that I have enough proof to show my theory is correct, but that is what makes it a theory, I believe that the present time is before OoT or as OoT is occurring. I wan't to hear what you as the community think, what your theories are and where you think the present truly lies.
Thank you all for reading. ~BSPURKA
It is going to be quite difficult to follow what I am saying so I will be sure to explain things in a way as to where you can comprehend.
What is "time" in Zelda? What is considered the past and what is considered the future? I find myself asking this very question daily here on ZD, but I never brought it to anyone's attention until now. Time has always been a factor for the Zelda series, but where on the canon timeline does our part exist? At the beginning of every Zelda game it starts off as a story being told. Maybe by a tribe or maybe as a mother to her child, whatever or however the story is being told, it is being told regardless. But where is that story being told in the timeline?
Take a look at the hero is defeated timeline split. The whole split is a huge "What If" scenario made up by Nintendo. Now this what if scenario leads me to believe that the present is located sometime before OoT, or even as OoT is occurring, my proof of the theory that it is before OoT is, picture someone telling you the story of the legend of Zelda, but this time the narrator wants to say that the hero is defeated. We don't know who is telling the story, it could be the goddesses planning out the fate of humanity and are consulting each other with their ideas, the story could be told by a tribe outside of Hyrule hearing about Link and his courageous activities (rumors spread that he was defeated) then the story changes. We don't know where in Zelda Time the "present" exists. and I am not here to say that I know where the answer lies, or that I have enough proof to show my theory is correct, but that is what makes it a theory, I believe that the present time is before OoT or as OoT is occurring. I wan't to hear what you as the community think, what your theories are and where you think the present truly lies.
Thank you all for reading. ~BSPURKA