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[Buckeye Scrub]

When I first worked on my timeline, my product came out like this.
......MM-TP-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
...../
OoT
.....\
......WW-PH

I couldn't find a place for the games in the Four Swords trilogy because I thought that putting them somewhere was too tricky. I thought that the older games would fit in the Child Timeline since there were so many similarities between TP and AlltP, and I was not sure what to believe would happen after PH.

After working on another timeline, I decided that it would likely go like this.
........MM-TP
......../..........MC-FS-FSA
....../............/
OoT-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
......\
......WW-PH

As you can see in this timeline, OoT is still the first game to take place in the series, but I have also placed the older 2D games up to the Oracle games in a third timeline that could have somehow branched off the the ending of OoT. I thought that this could resolve the conflicts that may be involved with putting them in either the Child or Adult timeline and allows for OoT to still be set during the IW that is described in the backstory of AlltP. The OoX games I haven't played, but I have read a book that was based on OoA. I think that the Oracle games most likely take place between AlltP and LA. Maybe at the end of OoA, a new timeline independent of the present shown in the game was created and some monsters could have been left behind in the past, so they went and attacked Hyrule which lead to the backstory of MC and then the Four Swords trilogy. This could probably explain why Ganon appears two have his origins shown twice in the series.

Well, this is what I have come up with now.

Edited by Buckeye Scrub, 07 July 2009 - 08:13 PM.

[Person]

When I first worked on my timeline, my product came out like this.
......MM-TP-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
...../
OoT
.....\
......WW-PH

I couldn't find a place for the games in the Four Swords trilogy because I thought that putting them somewhere was too tricky. I thought that the older games would fit in the Child Timeline since there were so many similarities between TP and AlltP, and I was not sure what to believe would happen after PH.

After working on another timeline, I decided that it would likely go like this.
........MM-TP
......../..........MC-FS-FSA
....../............/
OoT-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
......\
......WW-PH

As you can see in this timeline, OoT is still the first game to take place in the series, but I have also placed the older 2D games up to the Oracle games in a third timeline that could have somehow branched off the the ending of OoT. I thought that this could resolve the conflicts that may be involved with putting them in either the Child or Adult timeline and allows for OoT to still be set during the IW that is described in the backstory of AlltP. The OoX games I haven't played, but I have read a book that was based on OoA. I think that the Oracle games most likely take place between AlltP and LA. Maybe at the end of OoA, a new timeline independent of the present shown in the game was created and some monsters could have been left behind in the past, so they went and attacked Hyrule which lead to the backstory of MC and then the Four Swords trilogy. This could probably explain why Ganon appears two have his origins shown twice in the series.

Well, this is what I have come up with now.

The Oracles actually aren't as important to the timeline as your theory makes them out to be. The plot consists of Link going to Holodrum or Labrynna, fighting Onox or Veran, the going to the other land and fighting Ganon. The only clues to timeline placement they have are that the Triforce is whole and in Hyrule Castle and that Ganon is dead, but has the Trident. This would mean that it has to come after FSA, wherein Ganon gets the Trident, and after either LA or AoL, as the Triforce is whole and in possession of the royal family.

And the reason Ganon has two origin stories is that it's a different Ganon. The first one from OoT dies in both timelines, so it's a new one.

[MikePetersSucks]

There's only one timeline split, so the second timeline you made was actually farther from the desired ideal. If the only matter is the FS games, you can probably put the entire trilogy between TP and LTTP, and OOX, in my opinion, works best as going after AOL.

[bjamez7573]

FSA is kind of connected to ALTTP, with the maps and geography similiar and with game text deleted before release that indicates FSA to be the Imprisoning/Seal War

The OoX games I haven't played, but I have read a book that was based on OoA.

Is this book the same story as the games themselves? I didn't know there was a book on OOA.

Edited by bjamez7573, 08 July 2009 - 06:28 PM.

[Buckeye Scrub]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

[Person]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

I think only OoT had a novelization based off of it. OoA did have a maga, however, but neither novelizations nor manga are canon.

[Jarsh]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

I think only OoT had a novelization based off of it. OoA did have a maga, however, but neither novelizations nor manga are canon.

Actually, OoA and OoS did have a novelization as well as their respective mangas. I actually own the books; they're of the "choose your own adventure" format. Here's some pictures:





At any rate, no, they are not canon.

Edited by Jarsh, 09 July 2009 - 01:04 AM.

[Sir Turtlelot]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

I think only OoT had a novelization based off of it. OoA did have a maga, however, but neither novelizations nor manga are canon.

Actually, OoA and OoS did have a novelization as well as their respective mangas. I actually own the books; they're of the "choose your own adventure" format. Here's some pictures:





At any rate, no, they are not canon.

I used to have those... I have no idea where they are though.

[Person]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

I think only OoT had a novelization based off of it. OoA did have a maga, however, but neither novelizations nor manga are canon.

Actually, OoA and OoS did have a novelization as well as their respective mangas. I actually own the books; they're of the "choose your own adventure" format. Here's some pictures:





At any rate, no, they are not canon.

I had no idea those even existed and I knew about "Moblin's Magic Spear." Were they only sold in specialty shops or something?

[Jarsh]

They have pretty much the same story, and I think that the book was also supposed to double as a game guide.

I think only OoT had a novelization based off of it. OoA did have a maga, however, but neither novelizations nor manga are canon.

Actually, OoA and OoS did have a novelization as well as their respective mangas. I actually own the books; they're of the "choose your own adventure" format. Here's some pictures:





At any rate, no, they are not canon.

I had no idea those even existed and I knew about "Moblin's Magic Spear." Were they only sold in specialty shops or something?

Actually, I've never seen them in any type of store. I got mine from one of those Scholastic catalogs.

[Zola Revolution]

When I first worked on my timeline, my product came out like this.
......MM-TP-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
...../
OoT
.....\
......WW-PH

I couldn't find a place for the games in the Four Swords trilogy because I thought that putting them somewhere was too tricky. I thought that the older games would fit in the Child Timeline since there were so many similarities between TP and AlltP, and I was not sure what to believe would happen after PH.

After working on another timeline, I decided that it would likely go like this.
........MM-TP
......../..........MC-FS-FSA
....../............/
OoT-AlltP-OoX-LA-LoZ-AoL
......\
......WW-PH

As you can see in this timeline, OoT is still the first game to take place in the series, but I have also placed the older 2D games up to the Oracle games in a third timeline that could have somehow branched off the the ending of OoT. I thought that this could resolve the conflicts that may be involved with putting them in either the Child or Adult timeline and allows for OoT to still be set during the IW that is described in the backstory of AlltP. The OoX games I haven't played, but I have read a book that was based on OoA. I think that the Oracle games most likely take place between AlltP and LA. Maybe at the end of OoA, a new timeline independent of the present shown in the game was created and some monsters could have been left behind in the past, so they went and attacked Hyrule which lead to the backstory of MC and then the Four Swords trilogy. This could probably explain why Ganon appears two have his origins shown twice in the series.

Well, this is what I have come up with now.

Haha. The three-way split timeline I came up with is really close to this!