What camp do you fall in on Breath of the Wild's timeline placement?

What camp do you fall in on Breath of the Wild's timeline placement?

Adult, child, defeated, or even a new timeline?

none because i dont play kiddie shit

Every zelda game takes place in a different universe. Timelines are meaningless.

There is no timeline.

It clearly takes place at some point after Wind Waker.

Maybe they're going to come up with some new branch where WW Link failes to stop Ganondorf or something.

There are games that are direct sequels though. Links awakening, majoras mask and spirit tracks are all sequels of earlier games

Anything you perceive as a sequel is your own autism getting the best of you.

Holy shit you are stupid. Never post here again.

autismo rage

Oh user, you silly child.

it doesn't matter any more

Is there really any way to confirm before the game comes out? It's all just speculation at this point.

lack of information has never stopped rampant timeline speculation before

I don't give a rat's ass about overarching lore.

You faggots battered them into clumsily slapping it together in the first place.

What did he mean by this?

That's what makes it fun user. Now answer the question. What camp do you fall in?

No, that was Nintendo being clumsy at tying it all together. It was pretty damned obvious from Ocarina of Time that there was going to be a split timeline.

Of course, I'm the only person I ever 'met' online who predicted the "Tri-Line", proven when Wind Waker finally came around.

Uh. Wind Waker proved nothing other than there were two timelines.

In fact no Zelda game supports you purported "Tri-Line." That's make-belief and non-canon.

/thread

Oh? What what "timeline" do you subscribe to?

The in-game timeline which is two parallel continuums spawning from Ocarina.

If you're asking about the OP, that's obvious. The game is set between Skyward Sword and The Minish Cap.

Breath of the Wild is a remake of the original Zelda, in terms of timeline and setting.

None of them.
Breath of the Wild takes place in a new split in the timeline, one caused by Ganondorf being the first to touch the Triforce at the end of Wind Waker, and wishing for Hyrule to be unflooded, which explains the near absence of life (the only Hylian settlements would be the ones started from the islands/mountain tops), the presence of Koroks and sea salt and Hyrule's general state of disrepair. The Guardians and all the advanced technology was probably built by the Sheikah as a way to fight back against Ganon's forces in the absence of the Hero of Time, but it wasn't enough/Ganon found a way to corrupt the Guardians so they had to pray the Goddesses to flood Hyrule. The Link in BotW was probably being artificially made by the Sheikah as another mean to stop Ganon but they couldn't finish the project in time.

It's probably going to take place during Link's failure timeline.

supposedly we're getting three new Zelda books from Dark Horse. the first is the artbook, I'm really hoping the next two are an encyclopedia and an atlas

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So did Nintendo actually planned it from the early games or just hired a bunch of turbo autismos to design a timeline that fits retroactively with the already made games?

Defeated, he's ganon's boi

the second thing

>So did Nintendo actually planned it from the early games
of course they didn't plan it. even now it doesn't make sense.

But user, the duo timeline doesn't hold together by the games themselves.

Child Timeline: Teen Link defeats Ganon, gets sent back in time as a kid to warn young Zelda what's gonna happen next (as seen at the very end of OoT). Link wanders off on his own adventures (M.M.), while Hyrule *eventually* deals with Ganon (T.P.).

Adult Timeline. Teen Link defeats Ganon, gets sent back in time. Teen Zelda just created a timeline where the "Hero" doesn't exist. Enter the entire story line of W.W.

Defeated Timeline. Teen Link defeated by Ganon, Sages seal Ganon instead, as seen in the in-game opening of A Link to the Past.

Sorry mate, but you're 100% wrong. I figured this shit out over a decade ago. What's wrong with you?

I'm betting it fits between Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask & Twilight Princess as a means to explain how Ganon got hold of a Triforce Essence and why everything got shuffled around.

The Hyrule Historia timeline was just made up by Nintendo so they can hype up that stupid book and to fire back at Zelda fans making their own timelines.

Every game was definitely intended to be its own thing (except direct sequels like Majora's Mask, Zelda 2, ALBW, etc.)

The timeline doesn't even make sense and is filled with holes and contradictions.

That being said, now that there is a timeline, Nintendo will probably try and fit future games into for it to make sense. Until then, it's just retarded.

This. Timeline shit is the cringiest teenager fanfiction garbage have ever had the misfortune of hearing retards yammer about. On the same tier as 5 nights at freddies lorefags.

None, because I'm not playing this shit game. They had a chance to do something amazing and have a female Link, but they fucked it up.

I'm done with Zelda until they smarten up and give us a woman Link.

Woah... I never thought that on this quiet Tuesday night I would encounter the most original idea I've ever read on Sup Forums. I guess it's true, night Sup Forums although slow and often horrible, can still serve a purpose.


Wat? Sauce.

The Art & Artifacts book already looks like a rehash of the Hyrule Historia minus the few bits of information that they made up, with BotW art as the bait this time. I'm completely dumbfounded by how they think they can possibly come up with two more even beyond that.

The dual timeline was intentional since OoT. The tri timeline was patchwork.
Anyone who tells you it doesn't make sense is just talking shit without knowing what the fuck they're talking about.

It's like when people say "Sonic games shouldn't have any of his friends". Meanwhile in reality, Mainline Sonic games hasn't had playable friends in a decade. People just talk shit without knowledge. It makes them feel good to be contrary.

>Wat? Sauce.
Watch the latest 3DS direct. They say we're gonna get three Dark Horse books, starting with Arts & Artifacts.

(you)

It's people with your ignorant mindset that perpetuate religious stereotypes, prejudism, and other forms of progressivism that this site so claims to hate. It's ironic, how much like the ouroboros you are and don't even realize you're eating your own tail. Read your fucking post. I mean, damn, I don't know how anyone can be as stupid as you are.

Reggie or Bill mentioned it was a three book deal in the recent Direct.

I agree Arts & Artifacts looks really weak. I'm almost positive one of the books will be a version of the Zelda encyclopedia that used to be on Zelda.com. I'd realllllly love for the third one to be an Atlas but I'm not holding my breath.

>mfw I live in Emporia, Kansas 90 minutes from Topeka

It looked like there was some ties with Twilight Princess so I'm gonna say it's before or after TP.

>except direct sequels like Majora's Mask, Zelda 2, ALBW, etc
>etc
The continue the list: Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Phantom hourglass, Spirit Tracks, Skyward Sword, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, and Link's Awakening. All direct sequels. The timeline has a bunch of direct continuity. Some titles like Minish Cap are difficult to place. But for the most part, the series is cohesive.

I'm nitpicking, but the Oracles were never a clear sequel to anything until Hyrule Historia, and Minish Cap has always been a prequel to Four Swords

The only tie with TP is that there's a bridge over what we have to assume is Lake Hylia, but it doesn't even look like the TP bridge.

The glowey technology looks similar to what was in the twilight realm

I like this a lot, even though even more splits will complicate things even further.

Listen, you're all wrong.

BotW takes place after Phantom Hourglass. There was likely a great migration from the great sea to Link and Tetra's new Hyrule, leaving the great sea nearly unpopulated/hero-less.

Then, the seal on ganon began to weaken and he was able to throw his energy and will out into the world (the ganon trapped in the castle in BotW is doing this). He selerated himself from his evil and became a normal man. He then wished on the triforce for Hyrule to be unflooded. Some of the stragglers still in the great sea came down to the reopened Hyrule which is why there are villages in BotW. Among the migrants were great sea bokoblins.

The shiekah tech is from pre-skyward sword and the link you play as is a clone of OoT link created by either the goddesses or someone like OoT Impa or Zelda

Cap this, I bet I'm right to a T

Not canon.

First of all, there's no such thing as a "Teen Link" in the Zelda series, much less a defeated Link. Secondly, the Sages never are said to have sealed Ganon directly, because Ganon never even got out of the Sacred Realm. IT IS WHERE HE WANTED TO BE. What they did was seal away his darkness so it stopped seeping into Hyrule. Third, the intro doesn't depict JACK. As an user in /lozg/ pointed out, in ALttP Ganon led a siege of the Sacred Realm, while in OoT he attacks the castle instead. These can't be the same event, because the King is the one who orders the Sages to seal the Sacred Realm, and Ganon killed him in OoT.

In conclusion, you're 100% wrong.

I fall in the "there is no actual timeline" camp. among other things, even nintendo seems to forget that there isn't actually a timeline split in OoT. the "bad future" was explicitly explained away as the Golden Land having presented to ganondorf the idea of what he was after, to distract him from actually getting the triforce, -in the game itself-.

there are specific arcs, which are all generally very obvious, but there is no overarching interconnection.

>nintendo seems to forget that there isn't actually a timeline split in OoT.
Holy cows, stopped reading there. Watch the last 12 minutes of Ocarina of Time before you talk.

No there aren't. Shut the fuck up.

user, phantom hourglass literally features the same link and tetra from WW, and there is the official zelda timeline to boot.

>there's no such thing as a "teen Link" in the Zelda series
>17 year olds aren't teenagers
Dumbass

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>because he's considered a teenager in the U.S. he's a teenager everywhere.

Pfft. Talk about yourself. Also, how do you know he's a teen by Hyrule standards?

I can already see the window pane of reality breaking before you when you realize the game is made in Japan.

>can't respond so he posts a picture of a Fish Magic the Gathering Card

lol

>The Link in BotW was probably being artificially made by the Sheikah

Zelda tells Link to "remember" in one of the cutscenes

There's something up with him but he wasn't just born at the game's start

not really much to respond to

post rare b8, i need to add to my collection.

>respond to
You mean, not much anything you can do to rebuttal it.

He's probably the Link that died to Ganon in the Hero's Demise timeline, hence why you start at the Shrine of Resurrection.

mark me down for indifferent.

there is no camp. nintendo retroactively applied time lines a few years ago to placate autistic faggots lime you. it doesn't mean anything

The timeline where Anouma didn't throw together some bullshit in 5 minutes to get more nerds to buy hyrule historia.

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The timeline makes plenty of sense.

You're a teenagager if you're in your teens, 13-19. A teenager can also be an adult, or a child. Those are more loose terms.

it's Zelda III

it's pretty okay. they should've been a little more willing to declare things non-canon imo

>there's no such thing as a "Teen Link" in the Zelda series

link has never been past the age 19, hard stop is i think 17


>Secondly, the Sages never are said to have sealed Ganon directly

see oot

also tp origin


> IT IS WHERE HE WANTED TO BE

sacred realm is a shithole, and his wish is actively destroying it.

>What they did was seal away his darkness so it stopped seeping into Hyrule

the sages dont know jack about what ganon really is and/or how he got his powers. ganon and the sore looser curse demise used to make him are inseparable anyway.

>ALttP Ganon led a siege of the Sacred Realm, while in OoT he attacks the castle instead.


im getting 2 different stories from you guys for this one, id like a little bit of proof + context before i call it. its literally the only thing you aren't strictly wrong about.

shape up and stop shitposting too, the "no teen link" thing was retarded

>people pretending fans invented the notion of a timeline out of unfiltered autism
Nintendo gave them the idea. ALttP was always a prequel, so was Ocarina of Time. There's some obviously connected events in the series, they're just pretty loose with their continuity.

I'd bet my left nut it takes place at the end of the Hero is Defeated timeline, after Adventure of Link.

It fits with them trying to go back to Zelda's roots, and why the world is pretty much dead.

This. There is no timeline, they're just different versions of the same story.

This was totally not a bad idea

That's wrong and stupid.

You jumped into that convo without even knowing what it was you're replying to? The point is OoT =/= ALttP. Not my fault you can't read.

I mean, OoT =/= Imprisoning War.

Guys I want to get into Zelda, magenta pill me on your saucey lore

Link has never been an adult. Hard stop age is 16-17. Thus, Teen Link. I mean, DUURRRR.

Second, Ganon wanted it ALL. Triforce, Hyrule, the World, everything.

Third the "Imprisoning War" started when Ganondorf got hold of the Triforce. It ended when 7 sages sealed the portal between the Sacred Realm, where Ganon's forces and darkness were coming from, and Hyrule. As for Link being dead so therefore he can't come back some hundreds of years later to face Ganon again...have you even paid attention to the series? Reincarnation is the name of the game, quite literally. As for the King ordering the Sages?

"Yo, wisenheimers. Go seal that."
"Sure, that's what we're here to do."

DUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRR.

Irregardless of what your autism claims, pic related is fact from Word of God. Accept it and move on with your life.

Literally how ignorant are you?

In Japan 16 year-olds are men. I doubt they even share the suffix "teen" in Japan.

It's never said that Ganon wanted Hyrule. SR is described as a paradise, and we never learn in-game why Ganon didn't escape after sealing all the sages that held his seal. The manga sheds some light on this, by saying that he doesn't actually have the Triforce. It was sealed, so he had to break the Sage's Seal to get it.


The King is too dead to give that order, and the sages didn't even exist at the time. You knew this, and realize that the old sages in TP are clearly the Old Wise Men if anyone are, from the intro to ALttP.

Yet, you continue blabbering... For what purpose? You're fighting a battle you know you've lost, and yet you persist. Is this what they call fighting spirit in anime? Or did you get BTHO so hard you went hysterical?

Nintendo basically didn't care for the longest time but kept a basic idea of there being different Links and Zeldas and a certain order which more or less held up until Wind Waker, if you didn't look too close, where they suddenly realized they fucked up and had to adopt a split timeline, but then they fucked that up with Twilight Princess and had to bump it up to three. Thankfully, they figured out convenient places for the Capcom games before they ended up with three timelines and an alternate universe. Oh wait, Hyrule Warriors is alternate right?

Hyrule Historias timeline is logical. It basically just lumps together related games and does a more elegant job of linking them all than anyone previously could. Let's see how long they can keep it before they have to add a new alternate timeline.

Am I the only one that thinks this takes place after Skyward Sword? As in the 2nd game in the timeline?

No.

see

>I'm done with Zelda until they smarten up and give us a woman Link.

What does that have to do with anything?

are you really gonna keep talking shit ? i mean really you keep making shit up and expect us to buy it? jesus fuck man, at least put some seasoning on the pasta.

zeld timeline is the official canon, like it or not, why you insist on each game being a separate universe baffles me, as that makes everything even more retarded and hard to explain.

is that really a bad thing? i mean honestly this sort of thing is inevitable with continuity bloat.

Then stop using English you cunt, use Japanese.

>people beg for years for a Zelda timeline and make theories
>Nintendo gives people the timeline
>now there are faggots that just completely disregard the author's because "I don't like it"

Who the fuck cares? I couldn't stop laughing when AVGN did an episode on this crap, it was entertaining to see how even him couldn't take such autism.

Going to watch it again and laugh at all the fags in this thread.

>People knowing what they want.

You don't. If you think you know what you want, you don't.

I wanted another Battlefront and Republic Commando. I wanted Spore.

There was never a timeline anywhere that mattered. Nintendo did exactly what most people do, not give a flying fuck about background material. They cared about the game first, presentation second, story third, and background material last.

Anyone who wanted an official timeline was naive. It was always going to be imperfect. Nintendo was always going to ignore it in the end. It was made official for you to buy/pirate a book about a fictional universe. If you're still butthurt about it, you deserve to wallow in your anger to the end of days.

Holy shit. You're right.

It's going to be during the Era of Decline, the period when Hyrule couldn't use the full Triforce so everything started going to shit.

That used to be the case, but the fact is that they've been building a timeline since Ocarina, and everything before was later bullshitted into something resembling cohesiveness.

>Being this retarded

Even as a preteen it was completely obvious to me that all the games were connected and how they fit together.

I don't know how it's possible to be an adult and have played most of the games and still think there is no timeline, or that the split timeline is something they made up after the fact (other than the third split which is pretty handwavey).

The games were *always* made with a specific timeline placement in mind, there was NEVER a point where they weren't all connected.

>Zelda II specifically stated to be a direct sequel on release
>A Link to the Past specifically stated to be years in the past to the first two on release
>Link's Awakening specifically stated to be a sequel to A Link to the Past on release
>they've only started building a timeline since Ocarina

You're an idiot.

It's pretty fucking obvious isn't it?

There are Koroks, so it must be in the Wind Waker timeline. No other way around it.

Probably takes place in Old Hyrule in the very far future, after the oceans have receded.

>Zelda 2 was meant to be a direct sequel
>ALttP was meant to be a prequel
>Ocarina was meant to be an origin point
>Majora and TP were meant to follow the child timeline
>Wind Waker and the DS games were meant to follow the adult timeline
>SS was an even earlier origin point
>They probably didn't think too hard about the rest
Yeah, I know Minish Cap falls early in the timeline, but I doubt they really payed it much mind at the time. Anyone who claims they bullshit the entire timeline is full of it. They did intend for a split at least since Wind Waker.

kys

Different telling of The Legend

>Even as a preteen it was completely obvious to me that all the games were connected and how they fit together.
No, that's wishful thinking. It would be interesting in a way if there was a cohesive timeline going on, but no there isn't.
They don't think of a timeline because there's no point, they'll just male a new Zelda game in an entirely different universe and focus on that particular game's plot and make it solid. They don't think about other games while making a new one unless it's to add a nod or an item to say 'hey remember this?"