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[The Missing Link]

Exactly the same problem if it occurs after TWW, frankly. It seems screwed no matter where we put it.

Such a sad state of affairs. That's the way the timeline crumbles, I guess.

[Fyxe]

I thought so all along, its just so funny to see fyxe admiting it.

Yeah, hilarious, how UTTERLY HUMOUROUS that I have the GUTS to change my fucking mind based on evidence. Mock me, for I am therefore a fool and I have commited a complete LA faux pas.

Oh, and I haven't got a timeline. I was never, EVER dead set on one particular 'theory', arguing for one concept over another was merely to see if it would work or was feasible.
I must remember that the CORRECT way of theorising is to come up with a theory you LIKE and then never change your mind ever.

The timeline's contradicted either way you swing it.

Ugh. One day. ONE DAY without somebody making some idiotically snide remark towards me, please. I get it already, some of you guys think I'm totally arrogant and stubborn to the nth degree. You're wrong, but that's your own mistake to make, so keep your stupid personal opinions to yourself.

[Raien]

Yeah, hilarious, how UTTERLY HUMOUROUS that I have the GUTS to change my fucking mind based on evidence. Mock me, for I am therefore a fool and I have commited a complete LA faux pas.

Don't take it personally, Fyxe. The Wise Men had to put up with the same crap after Blue Swamp as well. Then again, it didn't help that LOZH had set up a constitution telling us not to follow a split timeline under any circumstances. XP

[Fyxe]

On a side note, what the heck IS this 'Blue Swamp' nonsense? What IS it? The way you speak about it is the same way people say 'Hiroshima' or 'Auschwitz'. What is 'Blue Swamp'?

And I take it personally because The Zol is laughing at me, simply because I said 'ALttP doesn't follow well after either game', which is the simple fact of things, and it's the same thing I've been saying for absolutely ages. I'm not part of some group, I'm an individual who is allowed to make my own judgements and I don't expect someone to take the piss for no good reason whatsoever other than to make themselves feel big.

Rrr.

Edited by Fyxe, 11 April 2007 - 07:43 AM.

[LionHarted]

On a side note, what the heck IS this 'Blue Swamp' nonsense? What IS it? The way you speak about it is the same way people say 'Hiroshima' or 'Auschwitz'. What is 'Blue Swamp'?

Aonuma's name means "blue swamp." It's an inside joke.

And if The Zol is laughing at you because of that, he's laughing at all of us who think that. Allow me to join in your "Rrr."

[Fyxe]

Aonuma's name means "blue swamp." It's an inside joke.

Well, it's a bit of a lame one, but thanks for explaining it. I hope it doesn't catch on though, it's a tad annoying.

[LionHarted]

Hmm.

I'm aware that this is definitely a stretch, and definitely has basically no chance of being correct, but I thought it'd be interesting to pose the idea anyway.

Let's say that the Twilight Realm is the Dark World (corrupted Sacred Realm). Let's also say that the depiction of Ganon with the whole Triforce in ALttP is outdated (since OoT revealed that Ganondorf touching the Triforce would cause it to split), and obviously wouldn't have been fixed in the remake, since the remake stood to correct the translation problems and re-present the backstory, and nothing more was changed.

Ganon is executed in the child timeline, before TP but after OoT/MM. He is banished to the Dark World/Twilight Realm. TP says he has "descended and been reborn in this world." This is just me, but I take that to mean that he has died while imprisoned in the Twilight, and was somehow reborn. Looking at the two assumptions above, that first death could be represented in ALttP, where he literally was killed while in the Twilight.

Obviously this has little to no creator support, but from a purely interpretational standpoint, it is more coherent than the post-TP ALttP idea.

Edited by LionHarted, 11 April 2007 - 09:19 AM.

[Fyxe]

It's a nice theory, actually. However, it has some fairly distinct flaws, of course, as I'm sure you yourself are aware.

The Twili were in the Twilight Realm before Ganondorf was sent there, but, of course, in ALttP, there's no sign of them.

It would require ALttP to occur within the century or so long gap between OoT and TP. I'm not sure if this could work logistically.

While I don't think geography is a real issue, in TP the geography is clearly designed to be similar to OoT. If ALttP is stuck in the middle, well, it doesn't look very pretty. And, of course, the Temple of Time is gone entirely by the time of ALttP.

In ALttP, Ganon was sealed by seven Sages, not five.

The Triforce was taken from the Dark World at the end of ALttP.

Then there's all the issues inherant with the concept of the Golden Land being the same as the Twilight Realm, which doesn't really work especially if the games are placed in that order. Yes, I know I was the one who pointed out the similarities, but the only way I can see it working is if the Twilight Realm *becomes* the Golden Land sometime after Twilight Princess, which still doesn't make much sense. But hey, placing ALttP after TP, if you wanted to do such a thing, seems to require the Imprisoning War to reoccur somehow (since it never happened in the Young Link element of the multiverse).

Personally, I'm starting to sway towards the idea that the parallel timelines somehow converge. Namely, ALttP is screwed no matter where we place it. If placed after TP, we need the Imprisoning War to actually *happen*. It should be placed after OoT, but TWW washed the old Hyrule away and killed Ganon. Ganon is dead in both timelines, and the seal is nonexistent in one and probably broken in the other.

Essentially, ALttP is utterly fucked. It should occur after OoT, but OoT now has three sequels.

I propose that there are three parallel timelines.

I shall now run away.

Edited by Fyxe, 11 April 2007 - 10:32 AM.

[Raien]

In OoT, Ganon was sealed by seven Sages. The difference was that you only rescued five from dungeons in the game (Rauru and Zelda did not get captured in this manner).

From reading this discussion, it is my opinion that OoT is an event that parallels the IW, but is not the same event. Anything directly relevant to OoT, such as the Triforce-splitting, takes place as part of the Hero of Time legends, just as ALTTP takes place as part of the Great Catastrophe prophecy.

Edited by jhurvid, 11 April 2007 - 10:45 AM.

[Fyxe]

In OoT, Ganon was sealed by seven Sages. The difference was that you only rescued five from dungeons in the game (Rauru and Zelda did not get captured in this manner).

I meant in both ALttP and OoT he was sealed by seven Sages, but in Twilight Princess he was sealed in the Twilight Realm by five, which was part of LionHarted's theory. Meaning it doesn't match up with ALttP's backstory.

OoT is still the best match with the Imprisoning War, the stories are and were designed to be pretty much identical.

I really am seriously considering a triple mutliverse timeline. Everything would make so much more sense. OoT is the Imprisoning War leading into ALttP. TWW shows an event that occured had Ganon somehow managed to essentially cause the Great Cataclysm, and cause it early. Twilight Princess shows us an event that occured if Ganondorf had been stopped before he could take over Hyrule.

Three sequels, three 'gaiden' timelines.

Edited by Fyxe, 11 April 2007 - 10:46 AM.

[Duke Serkol]

TP says he has "descended and been reborn in this world." This is just me, but I take that to mean that he has died while imprisoned in the Twilight, and was somehow reborn.

I think it's more likely connected to how people would lose their bodies and become mere spirits in Twilight. Though TWW abused the word reborn in all possible ways, so... >_<

[LionHarted]

I really am seriously considering a triple mutliverse timeline. Everything would make so much more sense. OoT is the Imprisoning War leading into ALttP.

Have you considered OoT being an alternate-continuity version of the original IW, with the FS saga being first outright in the original 2D continuity (as developers seem to have originally planned) and the 3D games in the "new continuity"?

I personally prefer it to a single continuity (split timelines being lines within a single continuity) encompassing all the games.

And, just for the record, seven sages sealed the way to the Dark World. Since the game doesn't actually mention Ganon himself being sealed (we're to assume, I believe, that the Dark World was sealed, and that he either happens to be inside, or, if you use TP as a comparison, that he was later placed inside), I don't think it matters how many sages were involved in the act of putting/keeping him there specifically, or even if he's there as a result of the war itself (although it does make for a cleaner story to have it that way). In OoT, only one sage sealed the way to the Dark World (Zelda), and the other six were responsible for sending Ganon inside. They worked in tandem, as opposed to in unison. And in TWW the hero sealed away Ganon, with no sages mentioned at all, and even the reference in Hyrule Castle fails to include Zelda.

So the story's inconsistent no matter how you slice it.

Edited by LionHarted, 11 April 2007 - 11:13 AM.

[Fyxe]

Have you considered OoT being an alternate-continuity version of the original IW, with the FS saga being first outright in the original 2D continuity (as developers seem to have originally planned) and the 3D games in the "new continuity"?

If you're suggesting that Hyrulean Adventure is the Imprisoning War? Because I don't go along with that theory.

I also don't like seperating the 2D games just for the sake of it. ALttP is just as major a game as OoT, as are the original two on the NES. They're not side stories, nor are they seperate. I think there are two ways to make the timeline work with no major assumptions - firstly, we could place the IW as a seperate event after OoT. This goes against the creator intention, as they designed OoT as a telling of the Imprisoning War. Also, in some respects, this makes having a timeline pointless. If ALttP, backstory and all, has no connection to OoT, then what's the point of having a timeline?

Therefore, we could split the timeline into three parallel timelines. That's the alternative. The other alternative is trying to make ALttP work after TWW, which is fraught with hundreds of problems.

And, just for the record, seven sages sealed the way to the Dark World. Since the game doesn't actually mention Ganon himself being sealed (we're to assume, I believe, that the Dark World was sealed, and that he either happens to be inside, or, if you use TP as a comparison, that he was later placed inside), I don't think it matters how many sages were involved in the act of putting/keeping him there specifically, or even if he's there as a result of the war itself (although it does make for a cleaner story to have it that way). In OoT, only one sage sealed the way to the Dark World (Zelda), and the other six were responsible for sending Ganon inside. They worked in tandem, as opposed to in unison.

I think you're *heavily* nitpicking here. We're not told the details of how Ganon is sealed in the Imprisoning War. OoT reveals that the Sages did not have the same role to play in the sealing, but it was necessary to use them all. This isn't a contradiction. It's just details.

So the story's inconsistent no matter how you slice it.

Of course there are some mild inconsistencies with OoT and the IW, but that's just the ways things went. It had to be designed as a seperate game in it's own right. It's a simple fact that OoT was intended as a telling of the IW, though.

[Raien]

Although OoT=IW was originally a developer intention, the fact that it was an inconsistent retelling, even before Aonuma introduced TWW, tells me that there could be a definite possibility that the intention was retconned. I don't usually like arguing for retcons, but I feel that for the sake of consistency, the developers could have retconned OoT=IW.

Edited by jhurvid, 11 April 2007 - 11:58 AM.

[LionHarted]

If you're suggesting that Hyrulean Adventure is the Imprisoning War?

No. I'm suggesting that Ocarina of Time piggybacked off of the IW story, but in the end, branched into a different continuity with different resolutions (now different continuities). This is more or less what is happening anyway.

So basically, I'm arguing the triple timeline, but without OoT in the timeline leading into the 2D games (the original IW story goes there instead).

[Chaltab]

Therefore, we could split the timeline into three parallel timelines. That's the alternative. The other alternative is trying to make ALttP work after TWW, which is fraught with hundreds of problems.

Other than explaning the method in which Hyrule returns after the Flood, what are the other problems? Ganondorf is killed, yes, but Ganon himself is killed in ALTTP and it's generally accepted to come before TLOZ. We know Ganondorf is reincarnated at least once in FSA, so it's not that unrealistic to suggest that Ganon of ALTTP is FSA Ganon or that he was once again reincarnated.

[LionHarted]

(Names coined by me, but I'd actually prefer you call the two ideas what you will.)


The New Child Timeline Theory

Child: OoT/MM – TP
Adult: OoT – TWW/PH – TMC - FS/FSA – ALttP/LA – LoZ/AoL
(NOTE: The Oracles placement is debatable as well as rather irrelevant. For reference purposes, most theorists place the Oracles games either after ALttP/LA or after LoZ/AoL.)
Basic Description: The “New Child Timeline” proposes that all of the older (2D) titles are to be placed in the “Adult” line, along with TWW and PH, and that the “Child” timeline will hopefully eventually be treated as the start of its own distinct, new storyline series.
Pros: Significant similarities between TWW and the FS trilogy, documented existence of a sages’ seal on the Sacred Realm in the Adult timeline, more coherent consistency regarding the state of the Triforce between TWW and ALttP, plans to restore Hyrule in TWW
Cons: Resting place of the Master Sword in ALttP unaccounted for in TWW, no documented existence of a bloodline related to the hero (much less the Knights) in TWW or OoT, implications of the TWW ending


The New Adult Timeline Theory

Child: OoT/MM – TP – TMC - FS/FSA – ALttP/LA – LoZ/AoL
Adult: OoT – TWW/PH
(NOTE: The Oracles placement is debatable as well as rather irrelevant. For reference purposes, most theorists place the Oracles games either after ALttP/LA or after LoZ/AoL.)
Basic Description: The “New Adult Timeline” proposes that all of the older (2D) titles are to be placed in the “Child” line, along with MM and TP, and that the “Adult” timeline will hopefully eventually be treated as the start of its own distinct, new storyline series.
Pros: Significant similarities between TP and ALttP, resting place of the Master Sword in ALttP accounted for in TP, documented existence of a bloodline related to the hero in both TP and ALttP
Cons: No documented existence of a sages’ seal on the Sacred Realm in the Child timeline, less coherent consistency regarding the state of the Triforce between TP and ALttP


A problem shared by both theories is that outside of ALttP itself, there is no explanation for why Ganondorf is in the Dark World in ALttP. The widely accepted idea is that he is the same Ganon from FSA, but that Ganon is trapped in the Four Sword. If the Four Sword sends those it seals to the Dark World, then there's no problem, but there's no evidence of this beyond pulling the PotFS from ALttP GBA and using it as a storyline detail, but FSA hadn't been made at that point. The original idea, intended by the developers, was that OoT would serve as the backstory to ALttP, but with the Ganons proceeding from the Adult and Child endings both dead (TWW and TP, respectively), it is now nigh impossible for OoT Ganon to be the same Ganon from ALttP, having been sealed in the Sacred Realm in OoT and remained there until ALttP.

Edited by LionHarted, 11 April 2007 - 12:14 PM.

[Chaltab]

Cons: No documented existence of a sages? seal on the Sacred Realm in the Child timeline, less coherent consistency regarding the state of the Triforce between TP and ALttP
A problem shared by both theories is that outside of ALttP itself, there is no explanation for why Ganondorf is in the Dark World in ALttP. The widely accepted idea is that he is the same Ganon from FSA, but that Ganon is trapped in the Four Sword. If the Four Sword sends those it seals to the Dark World, then there's no problem, but there's no evidence of this beyond pulling the PotFS from ALttP GBA and using it as a storyline detail, but FSA hadn't been made at that point. The original idea, intended by the developers, was that OoT would serve as the backstory to ALttP, but with the Ganons proceeding from the Adult and Child endings both dead (TWW and TP, respectively), it is now nigh impossible for OoT Ganon to be the same Ganon from ALttP, having been sealed in the Sacred Realm in OoT and remained there until ALttP.

I agree on the impossibility of Ganon being the same. Also of note, Ganon of OOT was sealed with the Triforce of Power only, and sealed in the Evil Realm, not the Sacred Realm.

This seal was broken at some point hundreds of years after OOT. Ganon escaped, the Flood came, and Ganon was partially unleashed into the world. The seal was only fully broken when the Hero of Winds removed the Master Sword. That's the end of the history of that Ganondorf.

I believe the ALTTP Ganon is the same one from FSA. After he was sealed in the Four Sword, the Sword was sealed in the Temple of Light where the seal eventually weakened and allowed Ganon to escape. Ganon found the Triforce and turned the Golden Land back into the Dark World.

[LionHarted]

I agree on the impossibility of Ganon being the same. Also of note, Ganon of OOT was sealed with the Triforce of Power only, and sealed in the Evil Realm, not the Sacred Realm.

Note that "Evil Realm", in at least one place in OoT, comes from the same Japanese as "Dark World", and that it is a major plot point that the Sacred Realm became a world of evil. Also, the very last mention of Ganon in OoT cites that he was "sealed inside the Sacred Realm". At the time, the differences between OoT and ALttP (the state of the Triforce, for example) could be cited as undeclared retcons, since we knew that OoT was intended to be the Seal War, although, now that the Ganons in OoT and ALttP are assuredly not the same, this may have changed.

This seal was broken at some point hundreds of years after OOT. Ganon escaped, the Flood came, and Ganon was partially unleashed into the world. The seal was only fully broken when the Hero of Winds removed the Master Sword.

1) We don't know when exactly Ganon escaped from his OoT seal, although in all likelihood it was "generations" after, when the tales of the hero passed into legend, as the game orders it (although this begs the question as to why a hero didn't appear, since it had been generations since he left to begin with). The game never tells us that this seal was broken.
2) The "seal of the gods" is what we're dealing with in TWW--the seal that contains Ganon's magic and traps Ganon's monsters in time. This is the seal he is said to escape from in TWW, and the seal you break when you remove the Master Sword. The OoT/SW seals didn't have to do with the Master Sword.

I believe the ALTTP Ganon is the same one from FSA. After he was sealed in the Four Sword, the Sword was sealed in the Temple of Light where the seal eventually weakened and allowed Ganon to escape. Ganon found the Triforce and turned the Golden Land back into the Dark World.

At the moment, with no real alternatives, I prefer this to be the case.

[Fyxe]

Other than explaning the method in which Hyrule returns after the Flood, what are the other problems? Ganondorf is killed, yes, but Ganon himself is killed in ALTTP and it's generally accepted to come before TLOZ. We know Ganondorf is reincarnated at least once in FSA, so it's not that unrealistic to suggest that Ganon of ALTTP is FSA Ganon or that he was once again reincarnated.

Ganon is meant to be sealed in the backstory of ALttP, not killed. If ALttP follows TWW, then either he never actually broke the seal and therefore his spirit never died and remains in the Dark World, OR you have to place a whole new IW right after TWW, as you seem to be suggesting, which strikes me as pointless because you might as well place it after TP if you're going to do that, then you don't have to 'unflood' Hyrule.

And FSA doesn't match up with the Imprisoning War at all.

I agree on the impossibility of Ganon being the same. Also of note, Ganon of OOT was sealed with the Triforce of Power only, and sealed in the Evil Realm, not the Sacred Realm.

The Evil Realm IS the Sacred Realm. The Evil Realm is the Dark World. The Dark World is the Golden Land. The Golden Land is the Sacred Realm.

As for the Triforce of Power, well, he could obtain the remaining pieces, obviously.

I believe the ALTTP Ganon is the same one from FSA. After he was sealed in the Four Sword, the Sword was sealed in the Temple of Light where the seal eventually weakened and allowed Ganon to escape. Ganon found the Triforce and turned the Golden Land back into the Dark World.

The Temple of Light doesn't exist in ALttP, the Palace of the Four Sword is part of the Pyramid of Power, the Temple of Light is nowhere to be seen. I don't see why anyone would place the Four Sword in the Sacred Realm when Ganon is inside it, especially if, as you suggest, the Triforce sits there waiting. We saw where the Four Sword was placed, back in the shrine and it was given an extra protective barrier to stop it from releasing it's hostage.

Also, FSA doesn't match up with the events of the Imprisoning War *anyway*.

[MikePetersSucks]

This is exactly why I don't argue about the IW. Why can't it just be a backstory like the Hero of Men thing? >.>

[Chaltab]

Ganon is meant to be sealed in the backstory of ALttP, not killed. If ALttP follows TWW, then either he never actually broke the seal and therefore his spirit never died and remains in the Dark World, OR you have to place a whole new IW right after TWW, as you seem to be suggesting, which strikes me as pointless because you might as well place it after TP if you're going to do that, then you don't have to 'unflood' Hyrule.

You have to unflood Hyrule or make a new one unless you have the timeline end with TWW, which in a single timeline is very illogical given it's closeness with the Hero of Time.

And FSA doesn't match up with the Imprisoning War at all.

Not arguing that it does. More likely that the legend of the Imprisoning War was mostly the story of the Hero of Time; the seal on Ganon is still the one from FSA, though. It can't logically be the one from OOT at this point.

The Evil Realm IS the Sacred Realm. The Evil Realm is the Dark World. The Dark World is the Golden Land. The Golden Land is the Sacred Realm.

I don't know anything about Japanese, so I'll trust you on this point.
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The Temple of Light doesn't exist in ALttP, the Palace of the Four Sword is part of the Pyramid of Power, the Temple of Light is nowhere to be seen. I don't see why anyone would place the Four Sword in the Sacred Realm when Ganon is inside it, especially if, as you suggest, the Triforce sits there waiting. We saw where the Four Sword was placed, back in the shrine and it was given an extra protective barrier to stop it from releasing it's hostage.

The Pyramid of Power is exactly where the Temple of Light used to be--the middle of the Golden Land/Dark World. Hence, either the Pyramid is a re-named Temple of Light, or it was built atop where the Temple of Light used to be.

As for why anyone would place the Four Sword in the sacred realm with Ganon inside it? Perhaps they simply forgot. There's no way to determine the amount of time between games if the connections aren't clearly made as they were between OOT and its sequels.

Also, FSA doesn't match up with the events of the Imprisoning War *anyway*.

Not disputing that. The only game that comes close is Ocarina of Time. But, again, it's become impossible that Ocarina is the direct backstory to ALTTP because of Aonuma making all the 3D Zelda games Ocarina's direct sequels and two of them include versions of Ganondorf.

Actually, now that I think about it, there is a way that it could work in a split timeline.

Child OOT - IW - MM - TP - ALTTP

Adult OOT - Flood - TWW

In which the Imprisoning War happens shortly after the Child events of OOT exactly as the ALTTP backstory states, and the Ganondor of TP and its backstory is a straight up reincarnation who also managed to obtain the TOP. That does greatly expand the time between OOT and TP, though.

Edited by Chaltab, 13 April 2007 - 11:10 PM.

[FDL]

This seal was broken at some point hundreds of years after OOT. Ganon escaped, the Flood came, and Ganon was partially unleashed into the world. The seal was only fully broken when the Hero of Winds removed the Master Sword. That's the end of the history of that Ganondorf.

That's actually incorrect. The Master Sword has nothing to do with the seal on the SR. In OoT the Sages had already sealed the SR without aid of the MS. To make this even more clear, the MS is in a different pedestal in TWW, so it would've already been moved from the Temple of Time.

[LionHarted]

This is my opinion.

OoT showed us the sages' seal on the Sacred Realm.
FSA gave us the events that got Ganondorf back in there.

[Chaltab]

This is my opinion.

OoT showed us the sages' seal on the Sacred Realm.
FSA gave us the events that got Ganondorf back in there.

Yes, this is pretty much how I see it too. This is what I meant to articulate earlier but I forgot that the seal in TWW is different than the one in OOT.

That's actually incorrect. The Master Sword has nothing to do with the seal on the SR. In OoT the Sages had already sealed the SR without aid of the MS. To make this even more clear, the MS is in a different pedestal in TWW, so it would've already been moved from the Temple of Time.

You're right. This actually makes my theory a bit easier. There were two seals, then. One on the Sacred Realm itself, which wasn't broken until ALTTP, and one on Ganondorf's power, which wasn't created until the Flood.

Now the problem becomes how did the Four Sword with Ganon sealed inside it get into the Dark World? I think the Dark World of FSA is actually Twilight; it behaves more like the Twilight segments of TP than the Dark World of ALTTP so that's not part of the equation. Perhaps the Four Sword itself acted as a portal to the Dark World. (No way to prove this, just theorizing.)

Edited by Chaltab, 14 April 2007 - 11:59 AM.

[MikePetersSucks]

OoT showed us the sages' seal on the Sacred Realm.
FSA gave us the events that got Ganondorf back in there.

Except FSA didn't involve the Sacred Realm WHAT-SO-EVER.

[Fyxe]

Except FSA didn't involve the Sacred Realm WHAT-SO-EVER.

Technically, it kind of did. It uses the Dark World, and we all know what the Dark World is, don't we?

Now, while the Dark World in FSA shares some similarities with the Twilight Realm, it's mostly connected to the Dark World we see in ALttP, being very similar in theme and form.

Then again, an interesting point... In Japan, the Twilight Realm is known as the Shadow Realm. 'Shadow' and 'Dark' are interchangable, the Temple of Darkness and the Shadow Temple have the same name in Japan, as does Dark Link and Shadow Link.

So the Twilight Realm is possibly the Dark World.

Confusing much?

[Arturo]

But, as far as I know, the word used in TP for shadow is "Kage", while the traditional word for Dark Link or Shadow Temple was "Yami". I Might be wrong, but....

[Raien]

Technically, it kind of did. It uses the Dark World, and we all know what the Dark World is, don't we?

The Dark World can be any world that has become covered in Darkness by Ganon. Zelda herself says in FSA that Vaati (before the plot twist) is trying to turn Hyrule into a "world of darkness". It makes more sense to me that the Dark World in FSA is the result of Ganon in the process of covering Hyrule in Darkness.

[Fyxe]

The Dark World can be any world that has become covered in Darkness by Ganon. Zelda herself says in FSA that Vaati (before the plot twist) is trying to turn Hyrule into a "world of darkness". It makes more sense to me that the Dark World in FSA is the result of Ganon in the process of covering Hyrule in Darkness.

No, that's the bits of Hyrule that are already consumed by darkness, namely, well, the Dark World section of Hyrule. The Dark World itself is seperate to Hyrule, which is why you have to use portals to go there.