Talk:Zelda Timeline

Overhaul
While I'm not going to be posting on the forums much over the next few weeks (possibly the next two months, social life pending), I've been taking the time to overhaul the Wiki to reflect the recent relevations. PIE and I will be sure to keep one another accountable. --Lex
 * w00t. This is going to go much faster than I originally anticipated. I'm pretty sure DP's entered some sort of drug induced hyper-editor state; he's making updates faster than I can jump from page to page --PIE
 * That was actually probably me, not logged in. But yeah. Time to go crazy. :D I think we should scrap the "Number of Timelines" page, and focus on the "Hylian Cosmology" page instead, no? --Lex
 * A number of the "Popular Timeline" variants have grown redundant. I'd like to just cut them completely, but it'd be good to have an all-clear on that. --Lex
 * Its a weird issue. On the one hand, the wiki is completely open, and I don't want to feel like I'm censoring anybody. At the same time many of the theories added are either redundant or totally undefendable...
 * Well, If we condence all New Child and New Adult lines into a single entry each, stirke the linear lines out, leave the semi-coherent "other" lines in tact and then, maybe, give credit to the removed names on the split diciplines page I think we'll be OK. Savvy? --PIE

Vandalism
Both this page and the main article were totally removed last night, replaced with "hi". Second time I've fixed vandalism on the page, but I still don't know what to do or how to report it. Help?! --PIE
 * Well, as for what to do, the most important thing is to fix the vandalism, and you have done that. Fortunately, the Wiki saves all the revisions for us and you didn't lose any work (I know you've spent a ton of time working on this stuff). As for how to report it, I don't believe there is a report feature of any kind. This Talk page is probably the most effective way. I'll talk with Jason about what else can be done. --Sheik-Yumil1988 22:59, 5 December 2006 (CST)
 * Well, we could also protect the page... but if the person is registered, they could edit it. So, you timeline theorists would have to register in order to edit it. - James
 * What could possibly motivate a person to make 3 consecutive attacks on a page? Meh, fixed this weekend's bit of vandalism, and I'm not keen or doing so again. How do you protect a page on media-wiki? --PIE

Nintendo's Official Timeline
A while back, did not Nintendo release an official timeline in a story form? It was on the official page, but has since vanished due to newer games coming out. I have it saved if anybody wants to see it...
 * Commonly called the "NoA order" it can be found online at:
 * http://www.zeldalegends.net/files/articles/article24/oldversion.txt
 * It is complete up to the release of tWW (which caused a paradine shift in theorising, away from debate on the number of links and towrds debate on the number of timelines) and was quite influential at the time of its release. From a modern perspective, the principles of the theory are solid in every regard except its interesting placement of Link's Awakening, and are listed on the Timeline Principles page. The more creative aspects of the theory (ie the creation of Termina) are cool to read but considered non canonical.--PIE


 * That Timeline is very much outdated, as it was released that the timeline is a split timeline. I, however, believe that I finally cracked the timeline. I drew up a visual Timeline, so if you want to view it, here is the photobucket link. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/czarbender/TheLegendofZeldaTimeline.png I also provided a small reason why it should be there. Please look at it, and, if necessary, critique it so that I may make it better if it isn't already. I used two methods to creating it, the split timeline theory, (it was rather hard to know which game went where) and a geographical theory (when the land is the same as in a previous game, but different in another, which is because of the split timeline). If I may explain upon the split timeline, for those who don't know, in the Ocarina of Time, once Ganon was banished to the Dark Realm, Zelda sent Link back in time so he could have a normal childhood, yet the corrupted Hyrule still existed in another timeline. This was officially recognized by Shigeru Miyamoto. Oh, and thank you for taking the time to look this over. Czarbender 00:32, 3 August 2007 (PDT)

Wha?!?!
Could we possibly not abbreviate the game names? Not everyone knows what they mean. I don't know what they mean and I'm a good Zelda Fan. -- Dino shaur  04:40, 24 December 2006 (CST)
 * Good point, timeline jargon comes easy to some, but the casual reader really should have a guide... O.K., threw up a quick fix. It needs to be wiki'd but I'm out of time. --PIE


 * I think what he meant was to replace the instances of jargon in the page with the full names. I tried to read it last night, and I was confused nearly the whole time. --74.73.243.146 18:59, 21 January 2007 (CST)


 * Hmmm, This is a problem. To replace Acronym's with game names causes an insave ammount of clutter in the "popular lines" section. Here's a question: To those who have difficulty with the acronyms, do you actually have a base idea of each game, or are you generally unfamiliar with the early parts of the series? Will "Adventure of Link" truly mean anything more to you than "AoL"?--PIE

Overthinking It
If you ask me, fans are overthinking it. I was only introduced to the idea of the stories actually fitting together in recent years by a friend of mine, who tried to map out some sort of geneology showing that each Link and Zelda were descendants of other Links and Zeldas. It seemed sort of convoluted, unnecessary and a really far stretch to me. I always assumed it was the same deal as Mario (as its the same creator, same company) that the characters are merely re-envisioned and reinvented with each game (except for games that obviously fit together, like say Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask). -- A Passing Gamer.

Marinko's Questions
Moved from various sections above I have to agree with you slightly. Indeed there is over thinking that all the games are connected together but its safe to say that several games are connected with each other. Its hard to place Twilight Princess at any other point other then the end of the timeline at this moment. However it seems likely that it will be towards the beginning. Undoubtedly we know that the story goes OoT, MM, TWW, PH since all have concrete evidence (save for the unreleased which is presumed to be a plot sequel to TWW) on the history of events. Neither of the the theories listed make any sense considering TWW is listed in the adult line (apparently I must not know what that means then if it is a popular theory.). --Marinko 00:49, 17 May 2007


 * The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass (atleast) occur after the events seen in the "adult portion" of Ocarina of Time (Link travelling throug the Temnples and eventually sealing Ganon in the sacred realm), thus they are considered to be in the "adult line". Remember that, after sealing Ganon, Link moved through time and changed the past, creating a new future for Hyrule, this "Child Line" contains MM and TP (atleast).


 * In the words of series producer Eiji Aonuma:
 * In the last scene of Ocarina of Time, kids Link and Zelda have a little talk, and as a consequence of that talk, their relationship with Ganon takes a whole new direction. In the middle of this game [Twilight Princess], there’s a scene showing Ganon’s execution. Link and Zelda left him be and he then did something outrageous, so it was decided that he should be executed. That scene takes place several years after Ocarina of Time.

There is alot of talk about theorists, but where are their claims? And for the OoT/MM Related Arguments portion, I think we should check that information on the time line again. I'm pretty sure Link's a kid in TWW and I'm pretty sure there is no sizable land for an alternate quest for a parallel world unless Windfall is the new Hyrule revamped.(Sadly to say, I might once again be at fault of a misinterpretation by what has been stated.)--Marinko 00:49, 17 May 2007


 * Now that the scandal has quieted down, I think I can speak up a bit... The weird thing is, and I swear nobody ever brings this up, is that Myamoto confirmed long before Aonuma's quote (At E3 2004 in a roundtable that was recorded and translated by IGN) that Twilight Princess is situated between Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker. So who is to be believed? Aonuma does seem to be the "voice of Zelda" in past years, but at the same time, we're talking about the same guy who dragged the Zelinkers along when there was clearly no Link/Zelda romance in Twilight Princess. He seems to speak more for fanservice than anything else, and if you think abuot it, he's been doing it for years. You'll also notice, a lot of his quotes are surrounded by "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" or "Don't you think...?" The latter was found quite a bit in the initial translations of the Twilight Princess interview. It's a hard fact to consider, especially since the Aonuma quote allowed quite a few people to get very happy revenge against the UWM faction (Heck, I had a good laugh myself... They're the only reason I don't enjoy defending single timeline), but we all must remember that Aonuma is ONE dev out of many, and the series is stuffed with mistakes, the likes of which even Star Trek has not seen. There *are* enough connections between Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (many of which have nothing to do with Ganondorf) that the games can be easily tied together. The best thing to say, at this point, is that the timeline isn't something set in stone, and that really, we can only make up our own minds. I plan on writing a rather large forum post discussing this, just for kicks, and just to get discussion started up again, hopefully without the cliques. --Another Passing Gamer, not to be confused with the previous one.


 * Most theorists operate out of online communities. The principle ideals of this wiki series are taken from the three most active theorist bodies; Zelda Universe, Legends Alliance (The Zelda Legends forum), and GameFAQs. Other poitns are answered above. --PIE