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[Showsni]

Now, one theory that gets thrown about a fair bit is that some of the games are retellings of legends that have been distorted by time. Not saying I'm really a proponent of this, but SS did seem to be very similar to AoL in places. What are your thoughts? If you look at a bare bones account:

A long time ago, the triforce passed down in the hands of the Hylia. The triforce can only be properly used by someone who bears a special built in quality; at that time, no such person was available. The triforce was hidden in a temple, and a spell cast to make a triforce mark appear on the back of the hand of a suitable person. An evil wizard attacked princess Zelda to gain the triforce; he was repelled, but Zelda fell into a deep sleep until the whole triforce could be found.

Years later, the triforce symbols appeared on the hand of a boy called Link. Zelda was separated from Link by an evil person. Link searched for her, and during his journey found the entire triforce and was reunited with Zelda. He used the triforce to defeat the evil person, and save Zelda. Then he awoke Zelda from her long sleep.

[MikePetersSucks]

This can be explained by Cyclic Dharmas, which would work in every interpretation of how one interprets the timeline. I'm making a thread on the subject now.

[TheAvengerLever]

I totally thought about Sleeping Zelda when I played a certain part of SS. There are many eerie similarities. Both Zeldas require the Triforce to awaken.

[SOAP]

Gods dammit! I was JUST about to post about that!

I'm a literal legends theorist anyways so I have no qualm seeing SS as a reimagined AoL... except as a series prequel. Both legends could be true though. It bookends the whole series quite nicely to have everything end the way it began.