27th December 2011, 10:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 27th December 2011, 10:20 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
See post 1. There it is. It's directly from Nintendo. It all fits perfectly near as I can tell. Further, Nintendo has been stating things about the timeline for a LONG time now. They've made an announcement of one form or another just before the launch of every Zelda game explaining where it fits. The game themselves specifically refer to the events of other games constantly. By your logic there is no connection between Zelda 1 and 2 or OOT and MM or LTTP and OOT or WW and OOT or Twilight Princess and OOT. Does that make sense to you? Before they revealed the split timeline, a lot of it didn't make sense. Now it does. The biggest problem were those Capcom Zelda games, but they've fit in there very well. The Oracle games being right after LTTP makes perfect sense, explaining why Link could just "visit" the triforce, and LA being after those makes sense too. I've often chocked up the "imprisoning war" being depicted as a massive army in LTTP instead of what OOT shows ,a lone hero, as the "mists of time" changing the legend. However, this timeline shows that the split that leads to LTTP DOES in fact have a massive army as the hero fails in that version of events.
Really, can you identify even one problem with the timeline above? Really the only obvious thing is that the timeline is not set up as an exact scale of the amount of time between events. That's left up to our imaginations.
Actually, there are a few things that are odd but don't hurt the overall timeline. The Sages in OOT are clearly the ancestors of the maidens you rescue in LTTP. That's established very clearly in OOT. The confusion is this. How does a fish, a forest nymph, a rock eater, a ninja, and an arab eventually lead to human descendants? I guess I'll not worry about the details of the genetics, the point is that's clearly the timeline of events that was intended between those two games. One other detail is between Minish Cap and Four Swords. In Four Swords Vaati is said to have kidnapped "many maidens" in the past, but in playing Minish Cap, the only maiden he ever kidnaps is Zelda, and only Link seems to realize that's what happened. The townspeople are ignorant of it. How'd he get that reputation? Again though, this is a plot hole within Minish Cap, not in the overall timeline. Minish Cap was created at the outset, and it's clear in the game, to be meant to take place before Four Swords.
Really, can you identify even one problem with the timeline above? Really the only obvious thing is that the timeline is not set up as an exact scale of the amount of time between events. That's left up to our imaginations.
Actually, there are a few things that are odd but don't hurt the overall timeline. The Sages in OOT are clearly the ancestors of the maidens you rescue in LTTP. That's established very clearly in OOT. The confusion is this. How does a fish, a forest nymph, a rock eater, a ninja, and an arab eventually lead to human descendants? I guess I'll not worry about the details of the genetics, the point is that's clearly the timeline of events that was intended between those two games. One other detail is between Minish Cap and Four Swords. In Four Swords Vaati is said to have kidnapped "many maidens" in the past, but in playing Minish Cap, the only maiden he ever kidnaps is Zelda, and only Link seems to realize that's what happened. The townspeople are ignorant of it. How'd he get that reputation? Again though, this is a plot hole within Minish Cap, not in the overall timeline. Minish Cap was created at the outset, and it's clear in the game, to be meant to take place before Four Swords.
"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)