#and the hylians zora gerudo and gorons and presumablly the sheikah were all running around before rauru ''founded'' hyrule

[jheselbraum]

Nintendo is stupid here's my new better timeline:

Skyward Sword

Legend of Zelda

Adventure of Link

Minish Cap

Four Sourds

and it's sequel Four Swords Adventures

A Link to the Past

Link's Awakening (edited, whoops)

A Link Between Worlds

Ocarina of Time

The Hero is Defeated Timeline: Oracle games and Triforce Heroes that's it.

Child Timeline: Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess, as usual, easy peasy, for once no notes Nintendo

Adult Timeline: Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, and Spirit Tracks once again pretty easy, no notes

11. Breath of the Wild 12. Tears of the Kingdom

#bluh bluh ''the imprisoning war in alttp was oot'' no it wasn't #''only minish cap and skyward sword happened before oot'' incorrect by #grouping all the games without a master sword in it #at the beginning of the timeline #then you set up why the hylians think a GROUP of people called THE HYLIA created the master sword #instead of a goddess CALLED Hylia #it also ties forgetting the master sword is a thing to the overall decline in worshiping hylia directly #and then by having alttp in the history of ALL the remaining zelda games #you pretty firmly establish that they didn't forget it existed again and #then that makes the whole ''hey we've got this down pat we know to look out for two blonde children who like puzzles'' thing in botw #a lot smarter writing #instead of just nintendo ignoring the hero is defeated timeline and using it as their dump game timeline #''but there's no master sword in triforce heroes'' triforce heroes doesn't take place in hyrule it gets a pass #we can also use the zonai as a convenient excuse to re-merge the timeline if you really want to get creative with it #since they're kind of demigods and have their own temple of time that is drastically different from any of the hylian ones we've seen #and the hylians zora gerudo and gorons and presumablly the sheikah were all running around before rauru ''founded'' hyrule #wouldn't have to do that if you weren't trying to join together like three different timelines two of which have a dubious relationship #with hyrule as a concept existing