Archive:Timeline Theories

The benchmark of the Zelda community is timeline theorizing - Zelda lovers flock from far and wide to the respective community fansites and stack their evidence, game knowledge, and experience against other Zelda fans, all towards attempting to make sense of the convoluted timeline that has become one of the most popular aspects of the franchise. While some of these ideas are better justified than others, all of them arise from a personal perspective on the series. As such, with no official categorization of Zelda canon and no officially-released complete timeline, any personal view may be valid as any other view.

The theories themselves are the fruit of these personal interpretations and the conclusions reached in debate. They are the most important products of timeline discussion and as such it is important for all theorists to carefully examine them before they attempt to draw conclusions on the quality of their content.

Zelda Universe, ZeldaInformer , Zelda Legends , and Zelda Dungeon conducted a joint poll in 2008 to see where the community fell in terms of timeline organization. However, new Zelda games have been released since then, and the results of these polls may no longer apply today. Because Zelda Wiki acts as an archive for the Mastermind sites and their communities, some users that participated in the polls decided to share their theories, all of which are complied below. These theories exist to help theorists reference all paradigms in respect to the Zelda timeline - they are categorized based on type (i.e. 2D Child, 2D Adult, etc), and are further subdivided in sections that note which user made the theory, and if applicable, the fansite they belong to.