One thing the Hyrule Historia didn't bother to explain is the many wars that are only briefly mentioned in a few games. Wars of relevance here are:
The manual then goes on to describe Ganondorf discovering the Triforce, which leads up to the Imprisoning War (not listed above because that is certainly a separate event). But this seems to have some major contradictions with OoT. The depiction in the manual can't be OoT itself, nor can it take place before OoT, nor after...
So, how do you reconcile these various vague references to wars?
- The "prolonged wars" mentioned in TP
- The interloper conflict described in TP
- The "fierce war" mentioned in OoT
- The unification war mentioned in OoT (if different from the fierce war)
- The bloodshed mentioned in the LttP manual
Did these wars happen before and/or after OoT? Probably before, since we only see one real Sheikah in OoT (though we also only see one Sheikah in SS and that's before the royal family existed). So does this include the fierce/unification war?TP said:[The Sheikah] worked in secret, so they lived in a lonely, forgotten place. But I heard that tribe dwindled in the prolonged wars...
This is rather ambiguous... we don't know if the King unified the country as a result of said war or just sometime after it. So are there one or two wars here? And, again, [is this one/are these two] of the prolonged wars?OoT said:Some time ago, before the King of Hyrule unified this country, there was a fierce war in our world. One day, to escape from the fires of the war, a Hylian mother and her baby boy entered this forbidden forest.
This description seems to resonate with TP's depiction of the interloper conflict. I believe that the interlopers are related to the Sheikah, so it also falls in line with the prolonged wars. Therefore I think the "prolonged wars" refers to this description in the LttP manual.LttP Manual said:That yearning for the Triforce soon turned to lust for power, which in turn led to the spilling of blood. Soon the only motive left among those searching for the Triforce was pure greed.
The manual then goes on to describe Ganondorf discovering the Triforce, which leads up to the Imprisoning War (not listed above because that is certainly a separate event). But this seems to have some major contradictions with OoT. The depiction in the manual can't be OoT itself, nor can it take place before OoT, nor after...
So, how do you reconcile these various vague references to wars?