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AnAverageWriter:
So I guess since people have been bugging Nintendo to release an "official" timeline for Zelda... well for years now, they went and made one.

Thing is, it's the most batshit insane piece of work I've ever freakin' seen in any bit of fiction. THREE distinct, separate timelines, one of them apparently assuming that Link actually LOSES during Ocarina of Time. Yeah, they went there- they actually have a split where the poor guy gets offed. And some of the most famous Zelda games- Link To The Past, Link's Awakening, Zelda I and Zelda II? They got plopped right in there.

Am I the only one who's thinking this thing got tossed out by Eiji Aonuma from his hat just to shut fans up?

You guys think they've had this in their minds all along? That they have an entire timeline with some of the best games in the series based entirely around Link getting butchered at some point?

Cire27:
I think it's less that Link is killed and more that he isn't present because he's in stasis when he draws the Master Sword as a child. Remember in the game, you can't go back to before Gannondorf has already stormed the castle and chased Zelda into hiding.  It would be more like:

Adult:  Ganondorf is cast into the Sacred Realm after being defeated by Adult Link
Child:  Ganondorf's attempted execution at the hand of the Sages leading to him being sealed in the Twilight Realm
Failure:  Link is in stasis and can't stop Ganondorf from succeeding

AnAverageWriter:
I wish it were the case, but all the translations (including the one linked to on IGN) refer to him not simply as being unable to stop, but literally being defeated, being killed, being destroyed by the big fella. That and the stasis he was put under only temporarily allowed Ganon to take over- once Link's body had aged, he was removed from it and then went a-whackin'. This third timeline really is about Link's death; that's the only way Ganon is able to rip the Triforce from his body and thus acquire all the pieces...

look out! Ninjas!:
i saw some variant of this on youtube a little while back, made by some shut-in

it's funny because it makes no difference to anything

Mister D Nomms:
I had always just assumed the games took place in seperate universes, except Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.

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