This is awkward because I haven't gotten to that part of the main quest yet. I just met Purah and she is adorable.
That doesn't really matter. Most of the quests can be done in any order, and will cope just fine.
You can turn up in Zora's domain without having seen any Zora at all and the dialog will reflect that. The main quest, such as it is, is ""kill Ganon again". Anything else is gravy.
When and in what timeline does BotW take place? I have always assumed it took place after The Advenutres of Link in the Failed Hero timeline, since AoL is about preventing Gannon's return and BotW established that this prevention has happened for generations.
With BotW being about a failed prevention scenario thousands of years after AoL?
I can't find anything definitive and that some at Nintendo said its not in any of the timelines. Which is fine too. I did watch MattPat's VG Theory video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0RVBTb6wTQ) and although he brought up many interesting points supporting my idea, VGT has been more rumor mill than concrete theories for the past few years with many a harebrained "theories" regarding other games.
edit: ah I see that recently Nintendo said (https://www.newsweek.com/legend-zelda-timeline-updated-breath-wild-placement-revealed-1058496) its at the end of all 3 timelines, but that that is subject to change as is everything in the timeline.
In an interview with Famitsu (translated by Siliconera), series producer Eiji Aonuma and Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi explained the timeline isn’t set in stone, will almost definitely change again and is really open for each player to have his or her own interpretation.
So for you, where would you put the game in the timeline?