How Tears of the Kingdom Fundamentally CHANGED the Zelda Timeline!

before we get into this video it contains heavy spoilers for tears of the Kingdom if you haven't gotten all the memories and don't want to be spoiled go collect those and come back and with that out of the way let's get into it the Zelda Timeline a convoluted mess that barely makes any sense we have a timeline split that occurs because someone didn't finish playing Ocarina time we have Origins for key series items that differ from game to game and to top it all off tiers the kingdom comes in and says yeah what if uh zonai founded Hyrule at the same time Ganondorf invaded which is a problem if Minish Cap happens before Ocarina time AKA wouldn't get endorphin beta but also after Hyrule is founded well the timeline has never been set in stone and changes with each new release so let's break down some inconsistencies with the existing timeline and try to string together a new better one with it the very least less inconsistency after a long process of watching all the cutscenes from four Swords Trilogy A Link to the Past Ocarina of Time scoured sword and tears of the Kingdom I have developed a timeline that at least makes sense but before I show you what I think the timeline should look like let me establish a couple of assumptions for this Theory to work and provide evidence for these assumptions the first is that Skyward Sword creates a timeline split at the end of the game link wishes with the Triforce for the complete annihilation of demise which works demise is defeated and the day is saved however Gary him demise's loyal servant kidnaps the newly awakened zeldin takes her back in time to just after demise was stealed Away by hylia link chases after them but could not stop girium from breaking the seal completely restoring demise to his true form link then challenges demise to a battle and defeats him sailing his soul in the Master Sword to be completely destroyed link then goes back through the gate of time with Zelda and the master sword leaving behind a world where demise Was Defeated right after the hylians were sent into the sky in this timeline Zelda would awaken as The Reincarnation of hylia in a world without demise and would most likely return to the surface along with some of the other Highlands similar to the timeline where demise was destroyed with the Triforce however the key difference would be that the master sword was never forged in the Triforce and goddess blade would remain in skyloft then the second assumption is that the pcori and the zonai are the same race this is supported by them both originating from the sky having similar architecture and iconography having similar physical features like snout in long ears and the ability to create sacred and Godlike artifacts like the secret Stones the light Force Mages cap and the pcori blade the only thing against this would be their size but we already know the zonai went into hiding after raru founded Hyrule perhaps the rest of the zonai using their Advanced magic became the pcori creatures so small they can hide in plain sight and so sacred only pure beings like children can see them which by the way is a lot like the Eternal dragons who were zonai that swallowed secret stones and transformed other than these assumptions I would also like to cover a few gripes I have with the current timeline we had before tears of the Kingdom my first gripe is with the Fallen Hero timeline there was a timeline split every time link died then we'd have an infinite number of branches spanning off every game while this works theoretically it is incredibly tedious to keep track of it also makes the entire downfall timeline almost feel non-canonical because anyone who did beat occur in time would much rather follow a story that continues their Adventure not a what if I failed those scenario so one of my goals with this timeline will be to make the downfall timeline fit into the overarching story without a need for a timeline split with a what-if scenario another gripe I have with the current timeline is four Swords Adventures the black sheep of the timeline that was just placed at the end of the child timeline for a lack of location to place it this causes a problem since in the story being told it is heavily implied that it takes place with the same link from four Swords or at the very least not long after four Swords however the current timeline has these games centuries apart the final thing I want to point out which can be interpreted as the history of an artifact being lost to time is that in A Link to the Past they say the master sword was forged to defend against Ganon however in Skyward Sword we see that the master sword was forged out of the Goddess sword by link the first hero in hylia who created the goddess sword way before Ganon was an issue while I don't think this small retcon is a huge deal it works as evidence for my new timeline so I'll be treating it as a conflicting origin for the blade of evil Spain with that out of the way here is the timeline I have developed [Music] um thank you [Music] foreign before you grab your pitchforks and head to the comments let me explain myself let's go down the least controversial timeline first people on the surface live in peace revering the goddess hylia and the three golden goddesses who created the Triforce one day a fissure opened on the surface and the great Demon King demise and Faded with his armies to take the Triforce for his own the God's hylia unable to defeat demise set a plan into motion she forged the sacred blade that would require further tempering called The Goddess sword and implanted the spirit of Phi into it this was a weaker but higher potential copy of demise's Blade kirihim she then sent the blade the Triforce and the remaining Hylian service dwellers into the sky using the last of her power she sealed away demise in the sacred grounds and set her spirit to be reincarnated into a body of a Hylian in the future based on how much impa age between the two time periods it is not a stretch to say this gap of time was roughly a hundred years enough time that the secret of the surface would only be passed down by a select few and skyloft the skyward Swords events happen and Lincoln Zelda's descendants established the kingdom of Hyrule the hyrulean Civil War occurs and The Interlopers are banished to the Twilight Realm Ganondorf the king of the grudo looking to take advantage of the war's toll on the kingdom plots to invade Hyrule he learns that the Triforce that could give him the power to not only invade Hyrule but shape the world to his will he goes to the Zora gorons and great Deku Tree to take their spiritual Stones the keys to the sacred realm and fails the events of Ocarina time play out Ganondorf is sealed and the hero of time is returned to his childhood to live out the seven years he missed out on in the future where gandorf is sealed and the hero is no longer present many years of Peace pass however the ceylon Ganondorf weakens and eventually breaks and with the hero no longer in this time Ganondorf sweeps over Hyrule plunging it back into chaos with all hope lost the remaining Highlands make their plea to the gods who in turn flood Hyrule leaving only the tops of the tallest mountains inhabitable getendorf stuck in Hyrule under a vast ocean searches for a way to undo the God's curse he concludes that he must acquire the Triforce to bring Hyrule into the light again he then kills the sages that maintain the master sword and starts his search for Zelda the events of the Wind Waker Phantom Hourglass and spirit tracks all play out going back to the time the hero of time was sent back to his own time he warns the king and Zelda of ganondorf's plot with the Triforce occurs as his proof the hero of time then sets out on a journey to find Navi the events of Majora's Mask play out while Hyrule goes to war with the Gerudo and after a long and bloody war with a Ganondorf in the Gerudo Hyrule is Victorious and Gator North is set to be executed and the grudor eradicated it in tortured an arbiter's grounds however since link has the Triforce occurrence the remaining pieces go to the people that best embody them the Triforce of wisdom goes to Zelda and then a Divine prank the Triforce of power goes to Ganondorf unable to kill Ganondorf the sages instead seal him in the Twilight realm as they did to The Interlopers from the recent War when the hero of time returns he learns of the stage of water's death and feels responsible as it was because of his possession of the Triforce of Courage that kendorf had the Triforce of power unable to forgive himself he vows to join the hyrulean knights and protect the kingdom after many generations Ganondorf finds the inner lopers in the Twilight realm and the events of Twilight Princess play out now I feel as though most people will have no problems with the events I have laid out some may say that the four Swords Trilogy should be here somewhere but I need it for the other timeline speaking of which let's go down it because you may be curious how I have the four Swords Trilogy and tears of the kingdom in the same timeline with Ganondorf being around at the same time as the first king of Hyrule and four Swords Adventures taking place after Minish Cap which takes place long after the kingdom viral was established well like the other timeline let's go down and chronologically first we have scoured sword where link defeats demise and returns to his time with demise defeated Zelda will eventually awaken as The Reincarnation of hylia however demise is no longer a threat in this timeline she along with some of the other skyloftians descend onto the surface and become known as the hylians some Villages form but a kingdom is not established the descendants of the sky loftians who stayed above the cloud Lair eventually find the Triforce in the goddess sword rauru's ancestor the leader of the new skyloftians or zonai uses the Triforce to gain the light powers of a god this is called the light Force using these powers and the Deep technological understanding of the zonai they developed the secret Stones the zonai then descend onto Hyrule their descendant raru meets the descendant of the Goddess hylia they fall in love and wed together they establish the kingdom of Hyrule however the remaining Zone I who believe they should mostly stay out of surface went into hiding becoming the pcori raru and Sonia then discovered the depths of beautiful Lush land they named the golden lands raru hides the Triforce Within These lands and starts to mine zonite which is abundant in the golden lands the kingdom of Hyrule prospers and starts to become the ruling faction of Hyrule Sonia and raru then have a child who inherits both hylia's power of time and raru's light Force a few years later Zelda from tears the kingdom is found by Sonia and raru they take her in to search for a way to send her back to her time gandorf King of the grudo refuses to form an alliance with the prosperous but New Kingdom of Hyrule he launches an attack on the kingdom but is utterly defeated in the first battle due to the power of the secret Stones he then begins a plot to steal a secret Stone in order to defeat the kingdom of Hyrule he starts by pledging loyalty to the kingdom of Hyrule in order to prevent further conflict allowing him to put his plot into motion using the sorcery of the Gerudo he creates a fake Zelda to get Sonia alone at which point he murders Sonia and takes her secret Stone as a Reincarnation of demise's hatred the stone transforms gandorf into a demon king with the Newfound power he completely defeats Hyrule cornering the last of them in the Forgotten Temple where the sages this time receive a secret Stone and vow to defeat Ganondorf gandorf then learns of the golden land where legendary artifact called The triforces Hidden he travels there in search of it however the sages confront Ganondorf in the golden land but unable to defeat the demon king raru sacrifices himself to seal Ganondorf away the master sword then suddenly appears in front of Zelda as she is wondering what to do she then concludes that it's her duty to reforge the sword with sacred energy until the time of Tears of the Kingdom minaroo steals herself in the purrupad to Aid the Future Link and Zelda swallows the secret Stone to become an internal dragon and heal the master sword however peace did not last long as well Ganondorf corrupted the golden land with his malice the first Calamity is born a large boar-like monster deemed Ganon invades Hyrule from the golden land unable to battle the Calamity the people of Hyrule plead to the remaining zonai now referred to as the bakuri for help bakory gift them the pcori blade the first sacred blade of this timeline an unnamed hero defeats the Calamity and on the king's order seven wise men seal all gates to the golden land now named the Dark World after an undefined large amount of time passes avicori named vati learns of the evil in the hearts of men and of the light force that rightfully belong to his people which is now in the possession of the hyrulean royal family he steals his master's sacred creation the Mages calf and enters the swordsmanship tournament during the pcori festival the events of the Minish Cap play out after sailing vati in the four sword the link of that time establishes the Knights of Hyrule an elite group of Warriors tasked with protecting the elements used to forge the four sword and open the gate to the sky where the pcori live after a few Generations the ceylon vati begins to weaken and second Calamity is form the second Calamity after utter defeat from the pcori blade adapts and begins a plot to gain even greater power the second Calamity instead of taking on its own form begins to corrupt the current Ganondorf from birth filling his heart with Darkness after Ganondorf becomes an adult Zelda and her childhood friend link go to inspect the Seal of vati where they discover the steel has been broken and vati after losing his sense of self begins to kidnap beautiful maidens to Wed link then draws the four sword and the events of four Swords occurs after vati is resealed gandorf realizes he could use vati as a red herring to help him destroy Hyrule Ganondorf then goes to the pyramid in the desert of Doubt where he finds the Trident a powerful artifact that gives Ganondorf great power this turns him into Ganon the second Calamity he goes to the Temple of Darkness to retrieve the dark mirror which can reveal the evil that lies within a person he uses this to create an evil version of the hero who stealed vati called Shadow Link a Shadow Link then tricks link into re-pulling the four sword and setting boti free huganon then confronts and forces to do his bidding the events of four Swords Adventures ensue with the second Calamity sealed in the four sword vati defeated for good the Knights of Hyrule diminished to only length and the Dark World completely sealed off the imprisoning war which takes place from ganondorf's Attack on Hyrule to the imprisonment of the second Calamity in the four sword is over with two instances of Ganondorf being corrupted by hatred and Malice the grudo said a law that men can no longer enter their Villages this has the byproduct of rudo men no longer being considered Ruto but instead of Highly also the royal family realizes they can never pull the four sword again and understand they will need another sacred blade at which point they turned to the goddess sword which is a sacred blade but is not strong enough to protect Hyrule with the knowledge of the master sword from the Zelda that turned into a dragon the sages of this time bathed the god of sword and sacred energy to forge the master sword which is then sealed away in the Lost Woods with a seal that can only be broken by three pendants scattered across the land and then as an extra security measure ensure only a descendant of the Knights of Hyrule can pull the sword a large amount of time passes long enough for these events to become Legend however the third Calamity shows its face it creates a puppet called agonym to become hyrule's Court wizard after infiltrating the castle again puts his plan into motion he kills the king imprisons the princess and brainwashes the soldiers Zelda then reaches out to a boy named link and his uncle who are the last descendants of the Knights of Hyrule the events of A Link to the Past takes place with the third Calamity defeated the hero of Legend uses the Triforce to wish for the resurrection of all who died in the conflict and takes to the Seas to chase the thrill of Adventure the events of Link's Awakening takes place then after returning to Hyrule the ear of Legend hears the Triforce calling out to him the events of the Oracle games ensued which includes a premature fourth Calamity creating a Mindless Beast version of Galen afterward the hero of Legend settles in kakariko Village to live out the rest of his days about a hundred years later a parallel world called Low rule destroys their Triforce this causes their world to start falling apart low rule then invades Hyrule to steal hyrule's Triforce to restore their lands the events of A Link Between Worlds ensues after saving Hyrule and low rule this new link takes a trip to a land called itopia where the events of Triforce Heroes takes place after four calamities the kingdom of Hyrule understood ganon's cyclic nature they also now possess the Triforce they created a plan that would last for Generations whenever the Calamity would occur the king of Hyrule would use the Triforce to instantly seal it away this was considered the Golden Era of Hyrule during this time the land prospered and expanded the sheikah even developed amazing technology to help protect Hyrule however when a king referred to as the great king was nearing the end of his life he saw evil and his son and good and his daughter Zelda because of this he hid the Triforce of courage and casts a spell on Hyrule that ensured the crest of the Triforce would appear Upon A worthy person who had been properly raised reached a certain age and gained enough experience he then passed the Triforce of wisdom and power to Zelda in secret after he passed his son became king and through the corruption of an evil wizard thought to be the disciple of Ganon much like agadon the new king and wizard interrogated Princess Zelda on the location of the Triforce Zelda refused to give up any information and after the wizard lost his temper he gave up his life force to put Zelda to sleep for eternity filled with grief for what he had done to his sister the young king placed his sister on an altar in the north Castle in hopes that one day she would be revived he then issued a decree that every princess born in the royal family would be named Zelda in honor of his sister he then led the kingdom the best he could however without the full Triforce over many generations the kingdom of Hyrule fractured and shrunk to a fraction of what it was this Hyrule was called lesser Hyrule then when it was time for the next Calamity Ganon swept through with ease Ganon successfully stole the Triforce of power then Zelda fearing the same for the Triforce of wisdom split into eight shards and Scattered them across the Dark World she also sent her nursemaid impa to find someone courageous enough to defeat Ganon when Ganon learned of this plot he captured the princess and sent his minions after rimpa when his minions quartered imba a boy named blink appeared and defended off the minions with nothing but his wits impa then explained her circumstances to link who made the decision to defeat Ganon and rescue Zelda the events of Legend of Zelda ensue after defeating Ganon link stayed in Hyrule to help with the Reconstruction efforts however it was all for naught as Hyrule was once again laid to waste by ganon's minions in a plot to resurrect him after six years of this constant back and forth between Hyrule and ganon's minions the crest of the Triforce appeared on the back of Link's hand who is now 16. concerned he showed this to impa who knowing what this meant took him to the north castle where Zelda the first lays sleeping Emperor recounted the history of Zelda the first in the great king of Hyrule to link she then gave him a scroll in six crystals the scroll told link the location of the Triforce of courage and how to use the crystals as Keys deep in six palaces of Hyrule to get the Triforce of courage the events of the adventure of Link ensue after collecting the full Triforce and waking Zelda the first he used it to stop ganon's minions from resurrecting Ganon the kingdom with the full Triforce once again began to expand the Triforce instead of being passed down through the King was now passed down through the princesses of Hyrule after many generations a new alliance was formed with the sheikah and other tribes of Hyrule another Calamity ensued however Hyrule was more than ready but sheiku with their giant mechanical Divine beasts piloted by Champions the hero with the sword of Evil's Bane and Zelda the princess of Hyrule with the full power of the Triforce easily defeated the Calamity however in pure awe of the awesome power of the Divine beast and fear that the kingdom could be overthrown the king of Hyrule ordered but they be decommissioned and buried and only dug back up in the event of another Calamity a section of the sheikah who believed this was a mistake fractured from the royal family and created the yiga Ten Thousand Years pass in that time the ego's hatred for the royal family Twisted into a reverence for the Calamity the Triforce went from being a physical artifact to one that needed to be awakened in The Princess and Hyrule prospered into a peaceful Kingdom however the signs of Calamity were starting to show an increase in ganon's minions and a boy who pulled the master sword the kingdom began to excavate ancient chica technology and get Zelda to awaken her ceiling power aka the Triforce to prepare for the Calamity when the Calamity Struck it had learned from its last attempt like it had so often done and took over all the shika technology that was excavated the Calamity completely destroyed Hyrule and defeated link Zelda who had not fully awakened the Triforce used the power of light she inherited through her direct bloodline connection to raru to steal a Calamity Ganon away for 100 years in that time links that in the resurrection chamber healing from the wounds he had suffered the events of breath of the wild take place after defeating dark Beast Ganon with the fully awakened Triforce Link and Zelda began to rebuild Hyrule however roughly three to six years later Lincoln zeldar exploring under Hyrule Castle to find the source of the strange substance called gloom the unknowingly entered the Dark World and find Ganondorf still sealed by rauru but the steel breaks and the events of Tears of the Kingdom take place alright now you can take your pitchforks and read the comments section but seriously if you're still here thank you for watching if you liked the video and want to see more like it drop a like and if you loved it hit that subscribe button also let me know what you think about any of the other theories I proposed in this video and with that I'm gonna get back to playing tears of the Kingdom peace

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Published: Sat Jun 03 2023