Child Timeline
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The Child Timeline is one of three branches of the series continuity, following the Child Ending of Ocarina of Time. The games in this timeline include Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Twilight Princess, and Four Swords Adventures.
The Era of the Hero of Time (Child Era)
This Era includes the very end of Ocarina of Time in which Link travels back in time. It continues with the events of Majora's Mask.
The Child Timeline comes from a split during the events of Ocarina of Time. After finishing the game, Princess Zelda sends Link back in time, creating a split in the timeline. The Child Timeline is the timeline where Zelda sends Link back to, so that he could relive his childhood. Once Link arrives in the Child Timeline, he warns Zelda about Ganondorf. Zelda gives Link the Ocarina of Time and sends him far away from Ganondorf, so that the passage to the Sacred Realm is never opened to Ganondorf.
Link sets off and searches for his fairy, Navi. On his travels, he comes across a pathway of sorts to a parallel world called Termina. In this pathway, the Skull Kid steals the Ocarina of Time and leads Link straight to Termina. In Termina, the Skull Kid is possessed by a mask called Majora's Mask, and is causing the moon to fall on Termina. Link plays the Song of Time continually to return to the first day so that the moon doesn't fall, and in the end he defeats Majora and saves Termina. Link then left Termina, and the events directly following this are unknown.
Now that Zelda knew Ganondorf's intentions, he was sentenced to execution by the Ancient Sages in the Arbiter's Grounds. When the sages attempted to kill Ganondorf, they could not, and one of them died, as he held the Triforce of Power. Left with nothing else to do, the sages banished Ganondorf to the Twilight Realm, and were told by the gods to protect the mirror which led to the realm.
The Twilight Era
This era includes the events of Twilight Princess. This should not be confused with the Shadow Era.
In the Twilight Realm, Ganondorf gave the twilight creature known as Zant magic powers, and Ganondorf was attempting to merge the Light World and the Twilight Realm into the Dark World, in which he could reign over. Link meets Midna, the Twilight Princess who had been transformed into an imp by Zant, and she helps him along his journey.
The Shadow Era
This era comprises of the events of Four Swords Adventures.
After hundreds of years of peace in Hyrule, Ganon, a reincarnation of Ganondorf, stole the Trident from the Ancient Pyramid and the Dark Mirror from the Temple of Darkness. Ganon plotted to release Vaati from his seal in the Four Sword and created Shadow Link to aid in doing so. The six maidens attemped to renew the seal on Vaati, however, Shadow Link scattered them. Shadow Link then tricked Link into pulling the Four Sword, releasing Vatti from his seal with the side effect of making four copies of Link.
Shadow Link then proceeded to turn the Four Knights of Hyrule into Stalfos. The Four Links saved the maidens and got four jewels from the knights. Then they proceeded to the Tower of Winds to kill Vaati and seal Ganon in the Four Sword.