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**Note that the features without an equivalent in OoT are at the periphery of the map in ''Twilight Princess''. Therefore, the area of ''Twilight Princess'''s map corresponding to the map in OoT is a region in the middle of the former that leaves out some of the peripheral areas. | **Note that the features without an equivalent in OoT are at the periphery of the map in ''Twilight Princess''. Therefore, the area of ''Twilight Princess'''s map corresponding to the map in OoT is a region in the middle of the former that leaves out some of the peripheral areas. | ||
*Many of the [[desert]]s in this series with different names are the same place, specifically every desert that appears in western Hyrule. The [[Haunted Wasteland]] of ''Ocarina of Time'' and the [[Gerudo Desert]] of ''Twilight Princess'' are almost certainly the same place, of course. Due to its western location and the proximity of the Gerudo Desert to [[Lanayru Province]] in ''Twilight Princess'', [[Lanayru Desert]] from ''Skyward Sword'' is likely the same desert as these two as well; the absence of the ruins seen in ''Skyward Sword'' can be explained by additional millennia having eroded them away altogether or by them being in a more distant part of the desert than that seen in ''Ocarina of Time'' and ''Twilight Princess''. The [[Desert of Mystery]] in ''A Link to the Past'' and the [[Desert of Doubt]] in ''Four Swords Adventures'' are very clearly intended to be the same place as each other (they even have the same name in Japanese), and while they both contain a structure (called the [[Desert Palace]] in ''A Link to the Past'' and the [[Desert Temple]] in ''Four Swords Adventures'') not seen in the other deserts mentioned thus far, they are both found in the western part of the map like the other deserts and the Desert of Doubt is treated as the homeland of the [[Gerudo]] in ''Four Swords Adventures''. (The Desert Palace/Temple may have been built later, it may be a location simply not visited in other titles, or it may be a different stylistic take on a location like the [[Spirit Temple]] or [[Arbiter's Grounds]].) This covers every desert that appears in (the original) Hyrule except those found in the NES-era games. The unnamed desert found in ''The Legend of Zelda'' is the only desert in its incarnation of Hyrule, and so it is possible to interpret it as the same desert, but it has a very different location (east-central) from the others mentioned. The [[Parapa Desert|Parapa]] and [[Samasa Desert|Samasa]] deserts in ''The Adventure of Link'' are clearly found in a location north of ''The Legend of Zelda'''s Hyrule and there is no reason to treat them as the same as any of the other deserts in the series. | *Many of the [[desert]]s in this series with different names are the same place, specifically every desert that appears in western Hyrule. The [[Haunted Wasteland]] of ''Ocarina of Time'' and the [[Gerudo Desert]] of ''Twilight Princess'' are almost certainly the same place, of course. Due to its western location and the proximity of the Gerudo Desert to [[Lanayru Province]] in ''Twilight Princess'', [[Lanayru Desert]] from ''Skyward Sword'' is likely the same desert as these two as well; the absence of the ruins seen in ''Skyward Sword'' can be explained by additional millennia having eroded them away altogether or by them being in a more distant part of the desert than that seen in ''Ocarina of Time'' and ''Twilight Princess''. The [[Desert of Mystery]] in ''A Link to the Past'' and the [[Desert of Doubt]] in ''Four Swords Adventures'' are very clearly intended to be the same place as each other (they even have the same name in Japanese), and while they both contain a structure (called the [[Desert Palace]] in ''A Link to the Past'' and the [[Desert Temple]] in ''Four Swords Adventures'') not seen in the other deserts mentioned thus far, they are both found in the western part of the map like the other deserts and the Desert of Doubt is treated as the homeland of the [[Gerudo]] in ''Four Swords Adventures''. (The Desert Palace/Temple may have been built later, it may be a location simply not visited in other titles, or it may be a different stylistic take on a location like the [[Spirit Temple]] or [[Arbiter's Grounds]].) This covers every desert that appears in (the original) Hyrule except those found in the NES-era games. The unnamed desert found in ''The Legend of Zelda'' is the only desert in its incarnation of Hyrule, and so it is possible to interpret it as the same desert, but it has a very different location (east-central) from the others mentioned. The [[Parapa Desert|Parapa]] and [[Samasa Desert|Samasa]] deserts in ''The Adventure of Link'' are clearly found in a location north of ''The Legend of Zelda'''s Hyrule and there is no reason to treat them as the same as any of the other deserts in the series. | ||
*Similarly, [[Eldin Volcano]] is most likely the same place as [[Death Mountain]], presumably during an era of greater activity. [[Mount Crenel]] may also be the same mountain, although it is a somewhat less certain case due to the layout of the map of Hyrule in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap|The Minish Cap]]'' and its low correspondence with those found in other games. However, it's worth noting that this map is the only one to lack a desert, and given the placement of various features on this map it may be that the map simply does not extend as far to the west as most. Thus, the desert is somewhere off the map to the west and Death Mountain's usual northeastern location in most maps of Hyrule translates to a northwestern one here. There are some interesting correspondences with the map found in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|A Link to the Past]]'' if one assumes this; the placement of [[Castor Wilds]] and the [[Wind Ruins]] corresponds roughly to the [[Great Swamp]], which contains ruins, and [[Veil Falls]] corresponds to the easternmost part of Death Mountain and to [[Zora's Waterfall]]. | |||
===The Hyrulean Civil War: Speculation Galore=== | ===The Hyrulean Civil War: Speculation Galore=== | ||
