Community:Zelda Universe Community

This page is a collection of the miscellaneous content which has made itself a name throughout the Zelda Universe community.

Arcade
The Zelda Universe Arcade is a project leaded by GoldStud. The project is still being worked on. Power Shot said that if five games are made, and are at least in thier demo mode, that the arcade will become offical. The link to the arcade will be on Zelda Universe's home page, under "Interactive". Zelda Universe has a social Group for anyone who wants to help. Goldstud is looking for anyone who has a demo of a game to put on ZU. So, if anyone has such a demo, or demos, send a message or PM to GoldStud (done so here).

How Can I Help
The Zelda Universe Arcade needs more games, and more support. Anyone can give such things by visiting the social group. Even if you are not a game designer, you can still shout of suggestions for a game designer to put in the game.

Acrade Games

 * Majora's Mask 2d Demo by 10n3r
 * Super Mario War by GoldStud
 * Bad Cop by Hero
 * Bronze V by GoldStud and Lurrrre
 * Hero's Rpg Demo Download Page by Hero
 * The Legend of Zelda: Petrified Realm by Tokos
 * The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 2d by Ahmio
 * ZU Arcade's Cucco-Rupee Bonanza

1337 Admin Panel
The 1337 Admin Panel was made by KokiriKid for Peefy. It's an actual quote from the chat where Peefy pretended that he was one of the admins (as he often does due to his arrogant attitude). The page ( was mostly created for the joke, but was also suggested to be used if anyone else wanted access to the admin panel.

This page is not commonly known, although Peefy links to it in his signature and talks about it now and then. There is no reason it still exists outside of novelty purposes.

Some members in the past have rumoured that Kokiri Kid is going to add some features to the panel in the future.

Functions
One can highlight words and/or sentences One can copy the text into the clipboard One can read it (both forwards, backwards and inbetween) It contains a clock that is right two times a day It also contains a quote from the chat

Zelda Universe Administrator
Administrators of Zelda Universe are the most vital part of the community. The administrators are those select few users who show their extreme dedication to the site and/or the forums and go that extra step to ensure the site is kept in order.

Administrators have the same powers as Super Mods, which are editing, deleting, moving, and locking threads, as well as warning and banning any members who break the Rules of ZU. They also have the ability to alter any aspect of the forums, including layout, user names, bandwidth settings, IP bans, etc.

Admins are the second highest on the power command of ZU, one step underneath Webmasters.

Current Administrators

 * Derek
 * Micah
 * Power Shot
 * sea

How do I become an Administrator?
Administrators are selected for a promotion by the lead webmaster from other high ranking positions such as Super Mod or Site Staff. Asking to become a admin will lower any chances there were of you becoming a admin.

Adoption (ZU)
Zelda Universe's adoption system, originally started by Lioness and currently located in the Adoption Cottage thread in the New Members Board, gives new members the opportunity to have a personal mentor and friend. These "adopters" give advice when their "adoptees" make mistakes, help them feel more comfortable being in a large forum if need be, answer their adoptees' questions (this is great if an adoptee is too shy to ask someone else), as well as be one of their first friends on ZU.

How do I become an adopter
To become an approved adopter on ZU, the following must all apply to you:


 * You must have a minimum of 50 posts in your post count (posts in forums that do not add to your post count, such as clan boards, do not count)
 * You must have been a member of ZU for at least 3 full months
 * You must have adequate conventions (spelling, punctuation, and grammar) throughout your posts
 * Your posts must be detailed and not spammy

Once you think you apply to adopter's guidelines, PM Kasuto, The Bex Express, or Margar stating why you believe you would make a good adopter.

List of Approved Adopters

 * 13th
 * Bex
 * BigGoronSword
 * Brokenjoker
 * Cody
 * Commissioner Postman
 * Dog Dog 123
 * EzloSpirit
 * I Luv Linkers
 * Jimes
 * jwalraven
 * Kasuto
 * Link the Mini
 * Lord Golgoth
 * Margar
 * Moronic Rascal
 * Mr. Okami
 * Myuufasa
 * Nintend06
 * Notsil
 * PyroShadow
 * Rew
 * Saber
 * Shadow Samus
 * Sotiris
 * SpartaLink2008
 * Twilight Wolf
 * Valhalla
 * Wolf O Donnell
 * xlr8
 * Zien

B.A. Council
The B.A. (The Battle Arena) and The Escapists' Haven on Zelda Universe are run by the B.A. Council. The council decides all character approval guidelines and conducts approvals; runs BA-specific events, such as annual awards, tournaments, and the like; and some Councilors are also "teachers," working to improve member's writing abilities and role playing.

Current B.A. Council Members

 * Altamira
 * Cookie
 * Ciroton
 * Insaney
 * Power Shot
 * Puck
 * Safer
 * Scott
 * Shrub
 * Zorolo

Retired members of the B.A. Council:

 * Aex
 * Angel
 * Gracie
 * Honour
 * LadyElvenarcher
 * Lioness
 * Ranarath
 * Ryorinin-san
 * Selah
 * Shade
 * Star Boy
 * Terrin
 * Tiroth
 * Dark WotS
 * Winged Fire Ninja
 * Zanza

How do I become a member of the B.A. Council?
Additional Council members are elected by the current Councilors. Users are allowed to request to be councilors by contacting one of the current ones, but new Councilors are rare and must have shown lots of contributions to the Battle Arena

Cap'n vs. Jew
In March 24th 2008 ZeldaInformer's owner and webmaster Captain Cornflake posted a challenge of epic proportions to the Zelda Universe forums, daring ZU owner and webmaster Jason to face him in a game of Super Smash Bros. Brawl to settle their differences once and for all. The challenge was accepted and soon people from both sites started pouring into the thread posting various questions, rumors, propaganda and taking sides on the fight. To make matters more interesting they set a bet of $100 $250! $450!! $4750!!!  CAPN'S CAR!!!!!  $10,000!!!!!!! ZI and ZU.

Excitement was in the air as their debate in the thread (soon dubbed the greatest in ZU's history) progressed towards the final settlement of date (March 29th) and the actual bet of both ZI and ZU.

Capn won.

The initial challenge from Capn
"The time has come Jason. Your time has come.

I am absolutely sick and tired of your condescending additude towards ZeldaInformer and myself. I was hoping we could perhaps patch up ties after you took over ZU from Yusuf and put behind us this petty rivalry, but I think it's quite apparent by your behavior as of late that this will never be able to happen. I've now realized that the commercial priorities from the days of Yusuf are just as alive and well as ever under your management, Jason. And Zelda Universe will always remain a joke to the rest of the community because of that.

And you're afraid. Afraid an upstart is going to take your glory. Well, we don't need to wait for that to happen, I can solve that issue right now. It's time we settle this once and for all.

You. Me. 1 on 1. Smash Bros. Brawl. The only way we'll ever be able to settle who is the best webmaster and who has the better site is by me wiping your ass across the floor. I'll even let you pick the stage, I'm that confident I can take you."

Best ZU thread ever? Oh the DRAMA!
Many users awarded the thread "greatest ever" despite the fact that a certain member constantly attempted to stir up unwanted drama over petty matters. The community kindly asked him to leave and eventually to GTFO. The mod team did the right thing and removed all of the unwanted posts from the otherwise epic thread.

"THE BET - $10,000. Ten thousand dollars. A big bag of jewmoney."

- Jason

"I'm placing my bets. Capn's SO going to put this Jew in the oven!"

- Link

"I think, deep down all of us want Capn to take over ZU."

- Hazz

"Gah! My alliances are tied in this battle... Jewson, one who shares the pain of jewnoses! Or Captain Cornflake, the one who opened my eyes to the internets!"

- Kikz

"The Capn' will win. That's a no-brainer."

- Blizzaga

"I'm an idiot."

- God of Butthurt

"If anyone even TRIES to run the 8ball command asking about this one, I will propagate through the internets and DESTROY EVERYTHING. I HATE YOU ALL"

- UB2R-B0T

Chat Room
The Zelda Universe chat room is an IRC room connected to the ZU community. It can be found on the Gnug-IRC network on #zelda.

Despite being connected to the ZU community, Zelda is actually very rarely discussed. Instead, the topics will vary from anything, such as general gaming to music to forum drama to, well... whatever, really.

Along with the ZeldaInformer chat (whom #zelda folk are often intermingled with) the Zelda Universe chat room is one of the largest Zelda-related chat rooms on the internet.

History
The Zelda Universe chatroom/IRC channel was created in July 2003 by Lozzie, originally residing on EFNet. Eventually, it was moved to the TAUniverse IRC server, which nowadays goes by Gnug-IRC.

Connecting
If you'd like to connect, google for an IRC client. And yes, for the mac/linuxtards, there are clients for almost every OS. Hell, if you have 'telnet' you can connect.

Once you'd downloaded your IRC client, follow these steps:

1) In the main window, click in the text box. Type "/server irc.gnug.org" (without the quotes.) 2) If you haven't chosen a nickname/other details, type "/nick yournick", without the quotes. yournick would be the nickname you want. 3) You'll get a flood of text. Sometimes, you may get a prompt showing channels. Type "#zelda". If not, type "/join #zelda". 4) Voila!

Alternatively, you can use ZU's webchat applet (located here)

Founder status - +q/~

 * Jason
 * Scott
 * Lars

Admins - +a/&

 * eric
 * luckz
 * Micah

Operators - +o/@

 * Asci
 * Bambi

Half-Operators

 * Andi
 * Future
 * Hindmost
 * Kazan
 * Moiph
 * NobleCucco
 * Stephiroth
 * Yami
 * {sadida}

Voice - +v/+

 * Too many. Type /cs vop #zelda list to see them. Wait.. why would you want to?

Clans of the Goddesses
Note: Zelda Universe is currently holding a project where the clan articles for this page are being written. You can find the project here.

At Zelda Universe there are clans that the majority of members are divided into. The Farore Clan , the Din Clan , and the Nayru Clan. Each clan represents different personalities and strengths. Analogous to the Goddesses the Clans are named after, Farore stands for Courage, Din for Power, and Nayru for Wisdom. The Clans also each have their own color, which too represents the Goddess they are named after: green for Farore, <font color="#FF0000">red for Din, and <font color="#6060FF">blue for Nayru. The Clan mods put members in the clan that they think the member best fits into, unless the member in question could fit into two different clans, in which case they are allowed to pick. Joining a clan is not mandatory, but is a common and fun practice of Zelda Universe's members. The Clan Forums are more laid back and less strict than other boards, where games and pointless discussions are often had. The Clan Arena is where battles, games and competitions of talent occur between the three clans.

<font color="#00FF00">The Farore Clan


The Farore Clan is known for holding popular/"cool" members. The Farore Clan has an environment of its own. It is not as different as Nayru, but also not as hot-headed as Din. Most of the members of this clan enjoy hanging out in the safety of the Utopia for many reasons, the main one being the many 'interesting' conversations that take place daily. Each year, the Farorians have been known to throw a party to celebrate Christmas, as well as many other occasions, like this year, they threw a newbie party for all new Farore members. Of all the clans, you are most likely to find that Farore has the kindest members on ZU. They are a wonderful, friendly bunch, but do not be alarmed if you are greeted with something alarming. Farorean/Farorians tend to be quite unpredictable. Of course, if you're a dinnie visiting, you may not live long until you come face-to-face with Poe Black's flame thrower... Farore's moderator is DK.

Farore generally has Pepsi everyday and members of the clan are nice to each other, but if you try to invade Farore, watch your back. Farore is always active, with it's RPG thread and a thread dedicated to spam, it is a very fun loving clan. Farore is full of love and kindness, in the Utopia, Farorians like to share what they've been through. Farore holds very talented people, amusing people, caring people and all other sorts.

<font color="#FF0000">The Din Clan
Also known as the Clan of Power, the Din Clan has a reputation for pyromania and a love of blowing stuff up. The fact that several of its members have been known to loudly proclaim their apparent lack of sanity has added to this reputation, although there is some speculation that Nayrulian propaganda is at the heart of is harsher aspects. However, many members of the Clan itself - commonly referred to as Dinnies - would be quick to belittle any efforts made by the "jellyfish" of Clan Nayru.

The second defining characteristic of Clan Din is its friendly rivalry with the jellyfish, otherwise known as Clan Nayru. This rivalry stretches back far enough that few, if any, can remember the origins, or even if there was any origin as such - as far as most members are concerned, the two Clans clash simply because it's what they do.

Din is ruled over by Lord Tiroth and Pani, while past moderators have included the Great Lioness and her predecessor, Tristann Velorei.

<font color="#6060FF">The Nayru Clan


The Nayrulian Empire, also known as the Nayru Clan, the Imperium of Nayru, or just Nayru for short, known for its tight-knit yet welcoming community, friendly rivalry with Din, and megalomaniac Clan mod (Emperor SacredSturgeon of Nayru), as well as being the Clan that all three of ZU's Webmasters are from (thus, technically, making it more powerful than its rival Din, something the Emperor is fond of pointing out). Nayru was known for a long time as "The Clan of Pervyness" or "the Pervy Clan", because sexual topics would often pop up, and Nayru's moderation when it comes to such topics is more liberal than that of the other two Clans. Nayru has cut back significantly on such topics in more recent times however, following complaints from members, though Nayru's moderation stance towards these topics is still more lenient than that of the other Clans.

Nayru contains many members that have been with the Clan for ages, and several of them hardly if ever leave the blessed grounds of the Imperium because they love their Clan so much. Despite being closely knit, the Children of the Empire are generally welcoming to both new members and visiting members that aren't from Nayru. For example, the Nayrulians generally regretted it when Site Staff members could no longer access Clans, because they enjoyed visits from such members as Rew.

Nayru has a proud history, having grown from a small group of rag-tag members to a full-fledged Empire. In its early days, it was looked over by various mods, including Lozzie (Now known as James), Jason (now known as Jason), and Malony. Lady Miniblin the Great officially took over the reigns on August 28, 2005, and has been the beloved leader of the Clan for a long time, until finally stepping down on April 21, 2007, to the collective grief of the Clan. Her reign saw Nayru grow strong and proud and become an active and tightly-knit community, and she will be remembered as a great mod and considered an awesome member by her former subjects. The next day came the announcement of who was to succeed her. Her legacy being impressive as it is, it was decided that she needed not one, but two successors, and these successors were SacredSturgeon and Awkin.

Nayru has, at various points, gone through rough spots, troubles, as well as periods of inactivity, but the dedication and spirit of its members have ensured that Nayru has always pulled through, and the Clan continues going strong to this very day.Nayru also seems to have the biggest variety and talent of digital artists.

Nayru is also the clan that all three of the Zelda Universe Webmasters belong to, and thus is the most powerful of the 3 clans.

How do I join a Clan, and do I have to?
It is entirely optional to join a clan, however it is a fun thing to do. To join a clan you must have been a member of Zelda Universe for at least one month, and have made a minimum of 50 posts in the forums. Once these qualifications are met, send a Private Message to a Super Mod requesting the Clan Test. They will then send you the Clan Test, where you must respond to multiple-choice, short answer, and long answer questions. Based on your answers to these questions, the Super Mod will place you into a clan, giving you access to your clans forum, and the Clan Arena.

First of all, you must’ve been a member at ZU for one month, and also have fifty (50) posts. This is to make sure you just don’t get into a clan and then go inactive. Second, you send a request by PM to either Awkin, Tiroth, Pani, DK, DekuQueen, Aeffles, sadida, or Xeno about taking the clan test. Once you’ve taken the test, you will be placed in one of the clans. Only send the request to one moderator at a time.

Community Coordinators
Community Coordinators on Zelda Universe are in charge of community events within the community of Zelda Universe.net. They are given the shiny orange banner shown to the left.

Current Community Coordinators

 * Bex
 * Bretski
 * Dog Dog 123
 * Elder Blizz
 * Jodd
 * Lady
 * Mattocks
 * Mrs. Kassi Aileron
 * Nolan
 * Nénuë
 * Risika
 * Shigeru
 * Steve
 * Zien

How do I become a Community Coordinator?
Community Coordinators are the people who the lead webmaster feels does a good job controlling the community or who is running a community project. If you are doing a big project for Zelda Universe, ask the head webmaster for a Community Coordinator banner. This banner is only kept whilst you are still running the community project and the banner is lost once the project is over.

Council of ZU
The ZU Council of the United Wise Men (UWM) (not to be confused with the B.A. Council) was a coalition of Zelda Theorists operating out of Zelda Universe's Theorizing Forum from across a variety of different fan sites. The group emerged during the Summer of 2006 at the height of the renown ‘Timeline Wars’ - a dubbed time period of heated debate between Linearists and Splitists that lasted between the releases of The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess- in response to the growing popularity of the Split Timeline. It is rumored, however, that the group had secretly been acting coincide with one another as far back as December of 2005 when people began supporting a popular theory at the time: The Paradox-Loop Timeline Theory – created by silver arrow and LOZ Historian.

The original faction consisted of LOZ Historian, silver arrow, Master of ALttP, ZeldaGamer21 (later known as Sentient), HeroOfTime5, and later Dark Link (currently known as Xeno) and Lex/LionHarted (better known as Seran Aileron or Lex). This group of theorists gathered together to formulate evidence and resources for what is now called the United Wise Men's Timeline. Their theories stood relatively unchanged in terms of game order until the announcement confirming the Split Timeline (also known as the Blue Swamp Incident at ZU ).

The unity of the council was maintained upon its members adhering to common beliefs and philosophies over what they considered Zelda Theorizing should be about. Since the group's inception they established a group of junior theorists called the Hylian Knights, and then later, the UWM Allies to instill and mature their values throughout their expanding legions. Amongst the council there were also an unspecified 20+ agents that were rumored to be dispersed between Zelda Dungeon, The Hylia, Desert Colossus, Zelda Legends, Zelda Blog, and a few other fan sites.

First Congress (June 2006 - November 2006)


Wise Men


 * LOZ Historian (Group Leader)


 * Dark Link
 * HeroOfTime5
 * Master of ALttP
 * Seran Aileron
 * Sentient
 * silver arrow

Hylian Knights


 * Raian (Chief Knight)


 * Daphnes
 * DarkenZero24
 * Dr_Bryan
 * Great Gibdo
 * Hyrule Pheonix
 * Magick-Tech
 * MDK
 * OmegaDevastator
 * Slur.exe (Currently known as Slur)
 * Reign & Kirsiro
 * TrippleExpresso9
 * Uncle Meat
 * Vaati
 * Vaati 2705

After many veteran theorists retired from their active participation, the Zelda Theorizing Forum were formed to flush out the excessive Theory Threads that were starting to appear across other Zelda sections within Zelda Universe. During this time period, The First Congress of the UWM was founded by LOZ Historian (LOZ H) and co-founded by Master of ALttP (MoALttP). This was the first organization in which theorists bonded together in strife to maintain order over the chaotic nature of Zelda Theorizing.

Besides challenging the Split Timeline’s popularity, the group’s leader made it widely known he was upset with how Zelda Universe and many other websites sponsored Timeline Theories which seemingly catered staffs’ general bias rather than the theorists themselves. A majority of the members were concerned about how the hobby had become a “survival of the fittest”, thus becoming extremely agitated by the lack of guidelines, civility, and debating ethics within the theorizing forums. In response to these concerns, the staff granted the UWM their own Council Sticky Thread; the group seemingly acquiring themselves unofficial moderation over the newly founded forums.

The objectives of the coalition seemed transparent enough at first. The group aimed to develop a system of checks and balances of what to consider canon, and then how to generalize it into specific timeline disciplines. Yet after a time, people began to worry that the council was over stepping debatable boundaries, determining what was or was not absolute fact. Some of the actions of its founder suggested a prejudice stigma against the Split Timeline and its supporters; only later to shed light on these allegations when two Wise Men (Lex and MoALttP) took a group of Hylian Knights and ambushed Zelda Legends’ Legend Alliance (LA) Forums - a board where members primarily favored the Split Timeline.

There was never an official apology for the attack, thus members of LA Forums held a grudge; launching heated debate tactics that flared between ZU and the Zelda Boards of GameFAQs. As their theories became popular and rivalries expanded, the UWM took on what appeared to be a militant policing/crusade operation to ensure their standing at ZU; LOZ H eventually acquiring the nickname: “King of the Linearists”.

After a time, the UWM regained their bearings, continuing to maintain a strong front after fending off their enraged rivals. The members continued to rework ZU’s Timeline Document while proposing other articles as well.

Second Congress (December 2006 – March 2007)


Wise Men


 * Seran Aileron (Group Leader)
 * LOZ Historian (Temporary Group Leader)


 * Daphnes
 * HeroOfTime5
 * Master of ALttP
 * Raian
 * Sentient
 * silver arrow

Hylian Knights


 * Uncle Meat (Chief Knight)
 * Vaati (Chief Knight)


 * DarkenZero24
 * Dr_Bryan
 * Great Gibdo
 * Hyrule Pheonix
 * Magick-Tech
 * MDK
 * OmegaDevastator
 * Slur.exe (Currently known as Slur)
 * TrippleExpresso9
 * Vaati 2705

UWM Allies

Sun Guardian (Currently known as Ranstone) (Unit Leader)


 * Daegen
 * Butler
 * Bingo675
 * Pinecove
 * Zeldafan1


 * Note: Five names are missing from this unit.

Due to the sudden leave of the group's founder, Lex was promoted as the leader of the group. A theorist known as Raian (previously known as jhurvid on LA Forums) was called in to fill the open position in the United "Seven" Wise Men. Prior to this, Raian had been in charge of the The Hylian Knights unit. However, as Lex decided to cut down his time devoted to ZU, his banner was given to Daphnes, who was previously a Hylian Knight, and LOZ Historian reassumed the leadership position to fill the void left by Lex. Dark Link had gone inactive from timeline debating and his banner disappeared. Vaati (who later changed his username numerous times) received his. All the other Wise Men held their banners and made their daily visits to the Timeline Section. With Raian now a Wise Man, Uncle Meat had become the leader of the Knights. Lex announced that he would resume work with the Wise Men on a minimal level; returning briefly to ZU before taking a temporary ZU and IM hiatus for personal reasons.

During the session of the second council, a number of smaller theorist factions began to appear. Some members of the Wise Men’s council began to feel paranoid that Splitists from other websites were invading. When Lex took leave, LOZ Historian’s return reassured the groups’ supremacy. Yet an undisclosed series of events happened between the founder and certain forum mods which changed the coalitions’ relation with the rest of the community. During the first six months of the First UWM Congress ,the Wise Men had provided a force to balance out the opinions between the Linear and Split Timeline bias. However they gradually began to move backwards from what they wished to attain for their sections health. Some members of ZU’s staff were particularly annoyed with the behavior and conduct of the group and hence removed their Council’s Sticky Thread. At that time, the handbook known as the UWM Constitution was created in order to set regulations and promises in which the council would abide by in an effort to stop the so called ‘Timeline Wars’, expand their reach of influence, and regulate Zelda Theorizing with a different attitude in general. The UWM Timeline had also been released to coincide with the handbook, yet went unrecognized by the staff.

The general community was stunned by the groups’ recent course of actions. Those whom did not favor the UWM set forth a number of temporary group uprisings to disgruntle any further operations the council had planned. When these attempts failed, well-known trolls within the ZU community began to tackle into the organization, while former veteran theorists, such as DrZaius1, began breaking down the group’s reputation to nothing more than a “cult full of bigots”.

Due to the UWM’s inconsistent management in regards to adhering to their constitution, a number of complaints began to erupt in other parts of the community following Wise Men’s accounts being banned for undisclosed reasons. The accounts were eventually restored, all the while series of dramatic events unfolded which hindered activity within the Theory Forums for over a month. During this time period it is understood that LOZ H was planning a new direction for the UWM that would allow studies on the Split Timeline Disciplines, but not necessarily allow group supported efforts behind any bias’ of the like. Lex had returned to resume his leadership position once the attacks had stopped.

Rise of the ASE and the Splitists’ Victory (February 2007 – March 2007)


The UWM’s influence was starting to coax outside of ZU heavier than usual. Since the Second Congress had already been under a lot of tension, some of upper council members refused to let go of their ideals. The grinding pursuit of dominance at ZU was taxing on other theorist participants because the coalition was seemingly on a quest to wipe out ‘Splitism’ at every corner – they had exceeded their goal to match the Split Timeline’s popularity within ZU and other targeted fan sites.

Once again, plans to default the Wise Men’s operations were in order. Well-seasoned Splitists from the Zelda Boards of GameFAQs Forums had arrived at ZU to challenge the UWM supremacy. The name of the first faction was known as the Splitist Clan. Founded and lead by quick_silver20 (now known as quicksilver), the coalition consisted of The_Predator, Riddle of Steel, Mohammedali, Rak, and Eralk Fang – all experienced senior theorists that had confronted legions of the UWM council during the first congress’s disputes. The second coalition that arose was known as the Splitist Group - a faction rumored to have been issued forth from LA Forums. The leader of this theorist group was Cloaked Mystery - later known as The Black Knight (TBK for short).

At the peak of the UWM activity, the group inspired the two faction competitors to form The Allied Splitist Elders (ASE). Some people never considered the group to be more than a ego booster for the founder, TBK, whose experience in Zelda theorizing was less than the average members of the theorizing community. During this time, TBK is known to have annoyed many more people than just LOZ Historian, with behavior that has been referred to as childish and melodramatic, with no purpose other than stirring up drama. Nonetheless, TBK was the group’s main coordinator while quicksilver20 stood as the co-founder and main advisor.

Shortly before the union of the ASE, an overlooked December 2006 Eiji Aonuma interview over Twilight Princess’s placement in the timeline had confirmed the Split Timeline Theory to be true. Within a short amount of time the ASE’s membership matched that of the now disgruntled Linearist coalition, mimicking their organizational standards in the process. Naturally, the more experienced theorists tended to be credited by quick_silver20’s methods of recruitment and training, whereas TBK was known to recruit former UWM members, and anyone who he could convince. However most of the UWM members remained loyal to their group and stood by for their founder’s announcement.

LOZ Historian’s theorist memoirs received mixed reactions. Some were not sure if he was being totally serious or not; but whatever the case may be, the piece can best be described as an exhaustive disillusioned response. In his memoirs he professed his secret desires to get even with the ‘Splitist Pro Theorizing Communities’ by launching a culminated UWM attack force upon LA Forums, then the Zelda Boards of Game FAQs. He claimed that their overbearing and arrogant support of the Split Timeline was the initial cause of the ‘Timeline Wars’ – all which hindered debate for sake of keeping popular opinions standardized.

Despite utter defeat and the realization of his hypocrisy, the founder said that Nintendo was wrong for choosing the Split Timeline - for it would hinder any hope for coherent storyline development and canon consistency between the now similar, but different universes. Therefore he confessed that the Splitists did not deserve to win the Timeline Wars because a Split Timeline equaled no timeline. He also claimed that if the staff continued to neglect containing the post-fires of the Timeline Wars, a worse transgression than his would follow beyond their control. In his self-adoring irony of his situation, LOZ H left ZU in a blaze of glory themed with cartoon depictions and theme music. Because his council refused to be disbanded, they continued to exist, grimly moving forward in spite of appalled reactions from the communities.

Third Congress (April 2007 – June 2007)


Wise Men


 * Master of ALttP (Group Leader)


 * HeroOfTime5
 * Raian
 * Sentient
 * silver arrow
 * Uncle Meat
 * Vaati

Hylian Knights


 * MDK (Chief Knight)
 * Pinecove (Chief Knight)


 * Daegen
 * Butler
 * Bingo675
 * Hyrule Pheonix
 * Magick-Tech
 * Slur.exe (Currently known as Slur)
 * Zeldafan1
 * Zant

UWM Allies

Sun Guardian (Currently known as Ranstone) - Unit Leader


 * Note: Number of members unknown.

In the wake of the "Blue Swamp” incident, the course of the Wise Men's activity changed drastically, along with a massive overhaul of hierarchy. Lex, along with Raian, Uncle Meat and MDK drifted toward a marginally more neutral position, and most of the rest of the UWM members elected to follow the new 2D Adult Timeline Placement as well as their supporters. Master of ALttP became the UWM leader of its third and final congress.

The Bombers group was launched early 2007, shortly after the ‘Blue Swamp’ event, along with a writing competition which most of the UWM took part in - eventually gaining membership. Those accepted into the new "official" group eventually moved on to work on ZeldaInformer (ZI) when the group moved because of dissatisfaction at how things operated at ZU. As the Bombers escalated in popularity and faith from its followers, regular UWM activity which had been the norm of previous councils, began to dwindle in the passing months.

Before the Bombers had moved on to their now current home site, ZeldaInformer, the ASE faction - or rather TBK because quicksilver had gone inactive - was stirring up a lot of tension in the theory sections. TBK had professed his vendetta against LOZ H and his desires to rid his group from ZU. When the Bombers debuted and UWM gained majority membership over ASE theorists, TBK was quick to assume that the new order was an undermining scheme to take control of the Zelda Theorizing Forum. One of the Bombers’ many aims was to be the ‘mixing pot’ to disband all rivaling factions to the point which the theory boards could return to some sanity and civility. The remnants of the UWM were quick to support the Bomber’s efforts, while TBK directed the ASE efforts to work against this prospect with a secret organization – later known as the ‘Killer Bees’. This secret organization has gone unclassified, yet has been credited with playing a major role in deterring the Bomber's appeal over the ZU theory sections of that time.

Members outside the Zelda Theorizing section began to see history repeat itself in the same ‘war mentality’ invoked before the Blue Swamp incident. Zelda Theorizing was once again becoming more than just theorizing. The UWM Third Congress's efforts to mend, reconcile, and move on beyond Theorist Factions with the ASE - under the Bombers - failed, and thus resulted in TBK attaining enough support to create his own Zelda Theorizing Board. In wake of these events, one thing lead to another which resulted in Starship ZUChat deciding to put a stop to everything by hacking TBK's forums, after discovering his plans to overthrow The Bombers and take control of ZU. TBK was banned shortly after and hasn't been seen since.

The Group's Disbandment (June 2007)
As the group was heavily based on the idea of a single timeline, the "Blue Swamp incident" was a deadly blow to the UWM. While many members of the group, including its leaders, didn't cling on to the theory "religiously" and welcomed the new revelation as a settlement to an argument that had divided the community for years, they felt no reason to go on as a group. The initial intention of the council was to provide a balance to the overly popular split timeline, which at the time could not be proven to be fact just as the single timeline, to maintain debate for the sake of debate. Master of ALttP formally disbanded the group with an additional message from LOZ Historian; all which can be summed up in the same tone as his memoirs, with additional hatred towards TBK’s efforts to repeat history over nothing but, what LOZ Historian saw as, his own pride.

Wrath of the Linearist King (August 2007)


With the UWM disbandment and slowing activity in the theory sections, the disgruntled and leaderless ASE faction had lost faith from its supporters. The Bombers sub-forum activity came to a standstill as most Zelda Theorists had solidified their general beliefs – split between Child Timeline Placement and Adult Timeline Placement Disciplines. This was a stalling period for new ideas because LA Forum's influence of ‘search-for-objective-truth-only’ ruled out subjective approaches – thus according to them, which hindered the ‘war mentality’ brought to ZU because of its largely diverse community.

During the period dubbed by Captain Cornflake as, “The Decline of ZU”, the website known today as ZeldaInformer debuted. This was the time in which the Bombers decided it would be best to move on and work under a new beginning; away from the tainted legacy the Timeline Wars had left them. Amongst these revolutions being made in the Zelda Community, ZU was being hacked by 4chan, also known as Anonymous, which occurred more than once.

Unbeknown to the rest of the community, LOZ Historian was still lurking in the shadows of ZU. When the Bombers officially left ZU, quicksilver had returned - ignorant of all that had transpired since Blue Swamp and not accountable for what TBK had been doing. The enraged Historian took advantage of 4chans threats to hack ZU again, imposing as the two ASE Founders on their boards to fuel the next attack. Shortly after the rest of the communities got word of this, the former ‘Linearist King’ created an alternate account to impose himself as an angered representative of Anonymous. Under the account he sent PMs to all members of the ASE, which convinced most of them to disband; even to the point which a freaked out member posted it on the forums. The conspiracy had worked. Most people had been fooled accordingly when 4chan actually hacked ZU and ZI some time afterward, which then shortly resulted in both ASE founders being banned. Yet when higher ranking members of the ASE still refused to disband, LOZ H created another alternate account to officially disband the remnants of the group.

After Historian was found out by the ZU staff and banned, he continued to pursue outposts of the ASE at other websites with resentment over what TBK had done. He disappeared from the internet until late 2008 when gaining admittance as a Bomber under a secret alias known as ‘The Gossip Reaper’. Since his return he has made numerous accounts of apology and statements of reflection and reassessment in the forums - all which can best be summed up in his Bombers Notebook at ZI. Apart from other confrontations with well-respected members of the Zelda Theorizing community, quicksilver’s return in early 2009 also addressed the misconstrued times of ASE actions not under his control and has made amends with others accordingly, like LOZ H.

The United Wise Men’s Legacy


Forming the group in 2006, LOZ Historian started a trend that can still be seen sweeping the boards of Zelda Universe. People from all kinds of groups and alliances show this by creating custom banners and including them in their signatures. The group can also be seen partly responsible for creating Zelda Theories board on ZU forums and greatly increasing peoples interest in the hobby itself. They were also the driving force behind The Bombers when they first started out, even though the group gradually disbanded in its wake.

Among their more popular theories for their time, certain members of the unit revolutionize the rhetoric behind the defense of the AT Timeline Placement - a number of their discoveries and trends eventually redefining the ‘New Hyrule Concept’ after The Wind Waker - which has now been confirmed by Spirit Tracks.

The UWM, although very controversial, can be seen as the cornerstone for a few different aspects in Zelda Theorizing as well attitude and conduct displayed from varying perspectives of the hobby - and how it should be moderated since then. When the tension of post Blue Swamp dilemmas had all but simmered down by late 2007, most communities had built up a resent towards Zelda Theorists with a bad stereotypes in mind. This eventually left bigger communities, like Zelda Legends, Zelda Universe, ZeldaInformer, and Zelda Dungeon, the main places left to theorize. Since early 2008, an influx of new theorists have grown and instilled new ethics over how to avoid similar tensions of the Timeline Wars from ever surfacing again. LOZ Historian’s recent return shed light on how to help reduce the problems in Zelda Theorizing with the release of his new project, ‘Zelda Historians’. This group can be seen as a second testament to achieve what the UWM failed to do under the heated circumstances of their time.

Couples of ZU
Some of the most influential people in the Zelda Universe community are no doubt the pairs of members who have fallen in love with each other. There are a number of active ZU couples today, and below is a list of the current pairs of ZU lovers. Read about them to find out how they met and how they fell in love. All are devoted Zelda fans and gamers as well.

Buzz and Sugarpoultry
More than likely the most well-known ZU couple, Buzz and Sugarpoultry are also notable for being the first ZU couple who actually have gotten married in real life. They met in their college years in band class and were friends for awhile. Although Buzz had a girlfriend at the time, he was slowly developing feelings for Sugarpoultry. Eventually, he broke up with his old girlfriend and Sugarpoultry became his. A nice note about this is that Buzz was Sugarpoultry's first and only boyfriend. Years went by and the two were eventually married! Now, they have a child, a lovely little girl named Kadree. They have shown pictures of both them and Kadree many times for us to see!

Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny
There's an interesting story behind what brought these two together. One of the Farore Clan's three couples (Kassi and Lex and Deku Queen and Shigeru being the other two), Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny had known one another for quite a long time until they officially became bf/gf. They did not meet in ZU, rather in another Zelda forum, around 2.75 years ago (this is just an estimate, as neither Darius nor Ranny remember exactly when they met). Over time they became best friends and continued that for the past couple of years. When Ranny met another member, Raddy, she grew close to him and they began to fall in love just a couple months or so after meeting. As a result, Darius grew a bit...well, jealous, and proclaimed his love for Ranny. Prior to this, however, Ranny learned that another girl was in love with Raddy and that he also liked her quite a lot. Later, when Darius asked Ranny to be his girlfriend, Ranny realized she also loved him, and soon accepted. She has known Darius much longer than Raddy, and knew she loved him first, she simply didn't realize it until then. Ranny and Darius both continue to greatly thank Raddy for indirectly "playing cupid." The two now have a fanclub for all DariusxRanny supporters to join!

Lex and Kassi
Although Mr. Lexxi Aileron and Mrs. Kassi Aileron are a Farorian couple like Darius Andreas and Lady Ranny as well as Shigeru and Deku Queen, the story behind them is almost opposite. The two met only a month before Lex asked Kassi to marry him. The official date of their marriage is not yet known, but they're working on it! Like Darius Andreas and Lord Ranny, these two also have a fanclub for their supporters. Lex's favorite game series just so happens to be Zelda as well. The page creator will be editing this section.

Ja-kun and Liah
Hehe, these two are probably best known as ZU's graphics couple. Both are good sig makers who are active in Graphics Design. Liah and Ja-kun have known each other for quite sometime, and they both met in person. The page creator will be editing this section.

Blind Swordsman and Sarah
These two have not been seen for awhile, but they're still a couple worth remembering. They met quite sometime ago (like Darius Andreas and Lord Ranny), and after falling in love, they eventually met in person for a good week. Sarah made a thread for the pictures they took. Not much more is known now that neither of these two members have been active lately.

Fox McCloud and Nenue
Fox McCloud and Nenue were the second couple to marry after Buzz and Sugarpoultry. They, however, had started as an on-off relationship. They met in ZU's chatroom in 03, where they quickly bonded. But, due to heavily interwined emotions and overlooking differences between themselves, the two broke and parted ways. After this, they were never talking for awhile and eventually Fox McCloud decided to leave ZU completely. Turns out that he wasn't gone for good, however, and returned in 07, though he was reluctant to do so. While he was back, he still did not speak to Nenue and she did not speak to him. When August came along, however, the two had met in person during one of ZU's meetups. During this time, it was then they realized they had changed, and they started feeling their connection again. Following these events, they began to speak for hours and hours and hours. They weren't sure why they were speaking again, but their desire to continue to do so only stuck. The feelings between Fox McCloud and Nenue only grew after this, and they decided they had to spend their lives together. They were then married in September of 08.

Shigeru and Deku Queen
Ah, the third of Farore's couples. Shigeru and Deku Queen are one heck of a couple to learn about. Not only have they met in person as well, but the Farore scrapbook has lots of their pictures. They've even shown after-shower images, unusually enough. These two have cracked up the Farorians for a long time and continue to do so today in the Farore Utopia (as well as the rest of the clan, of course).

WilliamZelda4ever and Eternal Legend
Wow, how can we forget the artistic Eternal Legend and her man, WilliamZelda4ever? While they're not the most well-known couple, it is clear that they've been together for sometime and are mostly known by EL's art as well as the drawing she's done of Will and herself.