2nd July 2008, 12:01 AM
I can see that and I myself would have to agree a large period of time. A thousand years works for me if you are willing to humor the idea that every possible thing that could go wrong short of catastrophe did. What we DO know is the old languages are known by very few in LTTP, so the books would only help some. If the oral tradition was already mentioning what happened with Ganon and the triforce, that story could have been seperated in the retellings from stories of coming from another land until the order was forgotten, and at least some people might be mistaken in that regard. Yeah it's a little bit of a stretch, especially when you consider EVERY Link is capable of reading, and every character IN the Zelda games we come across also seems more than capable of reading...
There's not too much to say except that if the average person just doesn't care about history, then only scholars would really know that. There's nothing in LTTP that rules out the imprisoning war taking place in another Hyrule. It's just never once mentioned in the course of the game. I suppose there's no particular reason it must be brought up. It could just not be entirely common knowledge, but most scholars are still aware of it.
One thing that does a lot to make clear that lots of time had to pass is just how ancient some of those old temples really are.
Hmm, another oddity is it is weird that if the old Hyrule is somewhere else, the Dark World seems to have been oddly carried into this new land with everyone else. It's a twisted mirror image of LTTP's Hyrule after all. I mean, did Ganon sense that everyone had gone to a new land and move his entire operation to a completely new part of the Dark Land? Huh, this is actually a much bigger issue than some lost details over time if you ask me...
There's not too much to say except that if the average person just doesn't care about history, then only scholars would really know that. There's nothing in LTTP that rules out the imprisoning war taking place in another Hyrule. It's just never once mentioned in the course of the game. I suppose there's no particular reason it must be brought up. It could just not be entirely common knowledge, but most scholars are still aware of it.
One thing that does a lot to make clear that lots of time had to pass is just how ancient some of those old temples really are.
Hmm, another oddity is it is weird that if the old Hyrule is somewhere else, the Dark World seems to have been oddly carried into this new land with everyone else. It's a twisted mirror image of LTTP's Hyrule after all. I mean, did Ganon sense that everyone had gone to a new land and move his entire operation to a completely new part of the Dark Land? Huh, this is actually a much bigger issue than some lost details over time if you ask me...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)