I will say this, I too once supported an AT majority placement but gradually became more neutral once ST was released.
Why is this? You're not a "Where'd the tracks go" type, are you?
On the point regarding the MS and FS, they may very well be of a sacred set of twin blades. Both degenerated versions of these swords are titled as a White Sword. We have seen different blades within the zeldaverse that sport the ability to thwart evil. Each denizen or lesser god of the Hyrulian Pantheon has a designated blade given to the chosen hero. But they are all part of the spiritual family left in charge by Din, Nayru, and Farore. You won't get an argument from me that just because they share the same name at some point, or ability, that they have to be the same item in general.
That's actually a good way of looking at it. I haven't thought about it quite like that before, but it makes sense.
Past Dark Mirror = Twilight Mirror arguments comes to mind while thinking about this. And Nintendo blew that [theory out of the water (no pun intended).
Agreed. Dark Mirror more likely leads into the ALttP Dark World, and definitely not the Twili realm.
[/QUOTE]Unfortunately we never knew this for sure. Youtube videos don't do the quality of my evidence justice, but if you look closely at the scene right as the ocean begins to plummet upon Hyrule, the Triforces shoot off into three opposite directions from the point of contact. I would be inclined to agree with this idea IF they floated off as one object. At the end of OoT, Zelda imparts valuable knowledge concerning those that have a balanced heart shall inherit the 'True Force' to govern all, and if they do not, the Triforce shall break apart into those destined to reunite the lost pieces to bring about order. Given Daphnes' pure heart, he had the True Force to make his wishes come true - but the very nature of his wish rejected his right to govern Hyrule and revive it to its former glory. [/QUOTE]
Just a question on this before I go further, do you stick with the whole AT ending at ST thing? Or have an alternate idea?
And in this sense he not only buried Hyrule, but the SR as well. We cannot forget that OoT and ALttP refer to the SR/DW as a reflection of the Light World as stated in this quote,
Sahasrahla (Panel Within Swamp Palace)
Link, it is I, Sahasrahla. Objects in the Light and DarkWorlds mimic one another. If the form of a thing changes in one world, it will change the shape of its twin in the other.
What Sahasrahla says is demonstrated in the literal sense once Link unlocks the flood gates in the Light World. If we are to deduct that this very same thing would happen with the flooding of Hyrule, Ganons DW would be the same along with the Triforce if it were to return there.
Well, here's the thing. We never saw much of what the SR was like in OoT days, except that it had the Temple of Light, which was in the same place as the Temple of Time. Therefore, it's possible that it was mirrored back then too. It could be the perfect version of Hyrule.
Also, Hyrule is still flooded in ST and beyond. However, they found a new landmass to live on. Ganon may have done the very same.
And then we still have the matter of Ganondorf's defeat, which would revert the DW back to the SR in the same way it did when ALttP Link defeats him. The only way I use to defend it not reverting to the SR was that Ganon's physical form may have been destroyed but the spirit (known as Demise now of course) was able to survive. After all, OoX does refer to Ganon still having a "Dark Realm" from whence to be revived from. If the realm were to be intact as explained in the ALttP BS, the SW cant be OoT in the sense of TWW Ganondorf's Dark World.
You forget what Link's wish was. He wished that the world was back to the way it was prior to ALttP (with the obvious exception of Ganon's death). The DW was still around back then. That's how I explain the DW being refered to in OoX.
And the physical form argument is what I use for why it survived OoT. Since I personally view Ganondorf as the mortal vessel of Ganon (Demise's raw anger and hatred, which was given the name Ganon as a reference to the vessel it was best known with), when Ganondorf died, Ganon lived on, in a spiritual form. Notice that, in my timeline, Ganon appears again, but not Ganondorf. In WW, he was sealed within the MS in Hyrule, but Vaati, having a lot of power after taking part of the Light Force, was able to free him, possibly destroying the sword in the process (he doesn't quite have hands). At the end of FSA, Ganon was sealed in the FS. If the FS and the MS are indeed of the same make, then it would make sense that they would seal their beings to the same place.
Daphnes:
Long ago, Ganon's Tower was an impenetrable fortress that not even the daring and dauntless Knights of Hyrule could hope to assail. You must sharpen your senses so as not to fall victim to Ganon's illusions.
The MS Chamber in Hyrule Castle pays homage to their existence around the era of OoT, especially when knighting Link in a fashion once he approaches to claim the blade as his own. We must deduct that they existed in some number (no matter how small a unit as seen in FSA) around the OoT era.
Of course. But they were obviously far from the power they has in FSA.
As per ALttP BS, Link is a member of the Knights of Hyrule bloodline, and can therefore by extension of Hyrulean historical records, be noted as a Knight. Zelda basically ordained him as a 'messenger of the Royal Family' in the beginning of OoT, thus 'knighting him' in an unofficial way.
There is a great deal of difference between messenger (a glorified mailman) and knight (usually a member of the nobility).
In FSA, it's obvious that the knights were at full power directly before,
Depends on how you figure Ganon aquired the entire Triforce during the 'SW' since OoT has three different known outcomes. I'll elaborate if you like.
I don't think there's a need. I've read the HH timeline through and through.
Viewing the SW as FSA, I'd say that, as legends change between retellings, they changed Ganon getting the trident to getting the Triforce, just on accident. Legends aren't perfect, and, with the little given to us about the SW during ALTTP's BS, it's obvious that a lot of things are changed or unknown. Example, the seven wise men (the direct translation from Japan). In FSA, they're all female, and in OoT, there's only two that are guys. Either way they changed something there. So why not elsewhere?
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