Talk:Zelda Timeline

Link to the Past & the original
All over this place you say that it is one of the cannon facts that Link to the Past is before the original, but I can't see any reason why this must be the case. I have seen time lines that put it later, and I remember a quote from the creator suggesting that it took place after the original.


 * This was a stated fact from Nintendo. They said so around the release of A Link to the Past. It is even implied in the title of the game. Until we retrieve the exact words, I put down a citation needed tag.--Matt 14:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I always understood the title as referring to the "past" events discussed in the game's prologue, not that the entire game takes place in the past. Also, there is a Miyamoto quote that suggest the exact opposite.  While LttP is likely before LoZ, it is not clear enough to be put in the section for absolute facts.  --Extry 16:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Please don't go around changing articles just be cause you disagree with a controversial fact.--Matt 14:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * My personal opinion on the time line is beside the point to my edits, I wasn't changing it to match my own view on it, I changed it because it is controversial, and therefore should not be included in the lists of absolute facts. You need to clearly separate the parts that are undisputed from the theories, and the relationship between the 8-bit and 16-bit games is debatable. --Extry 16:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)


 * That is correct. All of the timeline articles are controversial. Separating undisputed facts from the theories is the best thing to do.--Matt 16:31, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

aLttP and tWW parallel?
I was thinking that both the Wind Waker and a Link to the Past take place in the "adult" time-line, but they seem, IMO, to be irreconcilably conflicting. Then it hit me: in the beginning of tWW, during the "fairytale" opening they told that Ganon appeared after being sealed by the Hero of Time, but the Hero did not reappear to stop him. There's no mention of Ganon(dorf) appearing any more times than that, so there shouldn't be any games between tWW and OoT. The same would apply for aLttP: an ancient story of Ganon being trapped in the Sacred Realm, but we discover he's loose during the game, and the events at the end of OoT mesh (nearly) perfectly with the opening plot. So my idea is that tWW is a "what if" scenario. *What if* Link didn't emerge in the aLttP, *what if* no-one could've resisted Ganon? Think about it. Agahnim would've revealed himself as Ganon as soon as he was ready, so when he did, it would've come as a complete surprise to the people, who might've been completely oblivious as to what was happening inside their kingdom.Tounushi 17:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

'The Wind's Awakening Houglass Realm'
This is a theory of mine. Other than The Wind waker/HourGlass, Link's Awakeing is the only one to have a boat. Also, at the end of WW link had Te King of Red Lions. But not in PH. So...    "Link set sail, on the King of Red Lions with Tetra in her boat. Along the way he also hoped to became stronger, to better protect Tetra. During a horrible storm, Link was seperated from Tetra. His shipped destroyed, he found him self on an island, and lost all his items. After collecting many more, and awakening the Wind Fish, it turned out the island was a dream of the Wind Fish. Finding himself stranded on a piece of debris, he also found all his items fro Koholit Island (for that was the name of this island) had disapeared with it. Soon, Tetra found Link. They than continued their journey. However, Link was to find the Wind Fish incident, and his next adventure connected. He soon found a Ghost Ship, finishing it's job in another dimension, also appered in his. Not knowing this, he and Tetra both went aboard. Though fighting Valiantly, they both are defeated. Tetra is taken to the inner part of the ship, While Link was knocked out, and ended up overboard. Having amnesia about the events on board the ghost ship, Link goes out to defeat Bellum, the one sapping Life force out of severl beings of this dimansion, Including the Ocean King. THe Ocean King is truly the alternate form of the Wind Fish. As theire life force is one, they were both weakend. TRhey both had used left over energy to bring forth illusions. With the Ocean King, he was given a body, for his concius to work through. The Wind Fish on the other hand, not realizing why he was becoming weak, wished to protec himslf. So he put himself in a deep sleep, inside a giant egg. All his extra energy went to making the dream cme true. None knew if these two stories were related till lng after all it's characters were dead. After rescuing The Ocan King, they arrived back at their imension. They eventually found what they wanted. A land large enough to ppulate again. They eventually found a place that looked remarkably ike the hyrule of old. The god's blessed the provinces of thes land, and that surrounding it. They gave the kingdom and surrounding area 6 spirits to protct it. Little did they know, an evil mirror lied in the Eastern (or Western) Desert. So, they made a new Hyrue, called, New Hyrule. Eventually, as Time passed, the forgot of Old Hyrule, and Called their land, just Hyrule. 7 sages found ganon's stone body. Deciding another evil may some day rise, the took the sword, and put it in a temple forgottten, known as the temmple of time, and two sentries to guard it. They than tooktheir swor, and attempted to kill Ganon."    You know what happpens afterwards. (p.s, sorry about the funny wat it is. I did the best I could. Also, it's writtend as an actual Legend) Millionandfourswords 14:49, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Protection
Looking at the page history, there have been several times when new or anon users added/changed content to suit their own timelines. Therefore I propose that we semi-protect this page. That means that only autoconfirmed users can edit it. This page is about confirmed facts, not a place to dump theories. 08:52, November 6, 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. Timeline Theories is the page for personal opinions. So how does one become an auto confirmed user? 00:55, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Abbreviations
I think that it's almost worth moving the abbreviations section to it's own page within the timeline category there. 00:49, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Sounds good. So yeppers! 01:02, November 15, 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, will do it now. 01:19, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Discussion page is for discussion
Can people please stop making opinionated edits based on their own understanding of what is and isn't important? There's a discussion page for a reason. For example, "Zelda Universe is debating x" is just about the least valid reason in the world to alter a basic timeline format, in which that debate has no relevance. --Impossible 23:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)