The Entire Zelda Timeline Explained (in seven minutes)

Long, long ago... Back when it was a time-line and not a time... crossword puzzle Three Goddesses descended from the Heavens and gave birth to the planet With their work finished, they vanished Leaving behind a magical artifact called the Triforce that can grant any wish to whoever possesses it Which sounds good on paper but it pretty much opens Pandora's Box for the local Demons and crackheads Who were all up and eager to get their hands on those enticing yellow triangles To escape the hysteria the Goddess Hylia sent all the non minorities of the world up into the sky To live on a bunch of floating islands called Skyloft Unable to use the Triforce herself Hylia had her soul reincarnated as a human girl named Zelda Who traveled down to the surface along with her childhood friend/chosen hero/ love interest..? Link and together they defeated the Demon King Demise With his final words Demise bestowed a curse on the two Promising that his evil spirit would continue to haunt those with the blood of the Goddess and the spirit of the hero With the surface freed from evil the humans descended from the clouds and established The Kingdom of Hyrule They also built The Temple of Time to serve as a connection between Hyrule and the Sacred Realm A holy land that contains the Triforce and kept lock-and-key by the Master Sword which can only be unsheathed by Link Moving along on the timeline we have two games that ...don't really matter Link fights against some MCR reject called Vaati that's about it More importantly we have to Ocarina of Time and here's where things start to get spicy Demise with his unrelenting levels of salt gets reincarnated as Ganondorf a Gerudo King on a mission to take over the world or something In an effort to thwart Ganon's plans a new Link unknowingly seals himself in the Temple of Time for seven years Allowing Ganon a free backstage pass to the Sacred Realm However due to having an uneven balance of power courage and wisdom the Triforce was split into three The Triforce of Power stayed with Ganon granting him unmatched strength The Triforce of Wisdom was sent to Zelda who obtained divine wisdom whenever it's convenient for the plot Which is... never The Triforce of Courage was sent to Link who obtained the powers of whatever the developers feel like giving him at the time Talk to ghosts, turn into a dog... y'know Spoilers! Our heroes defeat Ganon and seal him in the Sacred Realm and because Link was a literal man-child Zelda sent him back to the past where he can relive his lost childhood And this is what created the infamous time-split First off we have the child timeline which follows Link after he returned to the past and is able to snitch on Ganon before he brings Hyrule to ruin Secondly there's the adult timeline where without Link around to do his hero business Ganon eventually broke free from his cage and wreaked havoc on Hyrule Forcing the Gods to flood the land And third we have the fallen hero timeline Where Link either straight up died fighting Ganon... or the player gave up halfway through and decided to go play Goldenye or something Ganon is able to obtain the full Triforce but is sealed in the Sacred Realm before he can really do anything Following the original Link back to the child timeline we begin with Majora's Mask a game that still gives me nightmares thanks to that one creepypasta You know the one Link saves the world from a sad homeless kid and is last seen continuing his endless journey to find his missing fairy Honestly a pretty depressing ending for our Hero of Time Speaking of depression next is Twilight Princess After having his plans exposed by Young Link Ganon is on trial to be executed by the Six Sages Unable to control Ganon the Six Sages banished him to the Twilight Realm Where he gifted some of his power to a crazy person named Zant Who then used said power to turn the Princess of the Twilight Realm into an imp ...Which depending on who you ask could either be a downgrade or an improvement With the help of Good Boi Link Ganon and Zant are defeated and Midna is able to reclaim her old body and kingdom Oh yeah, and Young Link is in this one too but like... super dead Hundreds of years later Ganon is resurrected along with the MCR reject and a shadow clone of Link as they band together in another failed attempt to destroy Hyrule The timeline finally ends with Ganon being sealed into the Four Sword forevermore Ok let's move on to the adult timeline After his little sister gets kidnapped, an unrelated but significantly cuter Link sails the Great Seas to rescue her With a little help from pirate Zelda Link manages to save his sister reassemble the Triforce of Courage and defeat Ganon once and for all Well... in this branch of the timeline at least Phantom Hourglass follows their pirate adventures directly after and is chronologically only 10 minutes long so there's not much to say Sometime later pirate Zelda manages to re-establish Hyrule in a far off island Which brings us to Spirit Tracks Taking place 100 years in the future where a completely new Link and a completely dead Zelda save New-Hyrule from a resurrected evil demon that for once, isn't named Ganon Rounding this train-wreck up we have the, "I can't believe Link is dead" timeline Where Ganon was able to obtain the full Triforce but was imprisoned in the Sacred Realm Like an evil teabag submerged in the holiness that is the Sacred Realm Ganon infected it with his dark powers and transformed it into the Dark World He then attempted to take control of Hyrule by deceiving its people using the form of a totally-not-suspicious-looking-wizard-man But was defeated when a new Link rose up to confront him Link's Awakening takes place directly after but the entire game ends up just being a fever dream by a flying whale Sooo... Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons once again features the same Link having to defeat the same Ganon after his Grandmas er... Grand-Grandma-Grandmothers? brought him back to life A Link Between Worlds is pretty much just A Link to the Past except it takes place looong after And the Dark World is called Lorule And the Wizard is a misunderstood artist And Link is a painting -ok It's nothing like A Link to the Past Zelda's Hot Topic counterpart attempts to steal the Triforce to restore Lorule to its former glory but is ultimately unsuccessful Link and Zelda return the Triforce to Hyrule and use it to wish for peace and prosperity for both lands Tri Force Heroes is a continuation of this Link's adventures and is pretty much the filler episode of the timeline But... Link dresses up as a cheerleader so I guess it's worth its place in the timeline just for that For a long period of time afterwards The Kingdom of Hyrule entered an era of peace That is, until one King decided not to pass down the Triforce to his entitled son and hid the Triforce of Courage far away only telling its location to his daughter Zelda The Prince enlisted the help of the local suspicious old wizard for some gentle persuasion... which resulted in Zelda being put into an eternal sleep Whoops... With the location of the last Cheatforce now lost Hyrule was quickly taken over by Ganon who after being resurrected a hundred times is pretty much just a rabid pig at this point Before being captured the current Princess Zelda divided the Triforce of Wisdom into eight pieces and spread them across Hyrule Setting the stage for a new Link to collect all the shards destroy Ganon and save the Princess But not that Princess... we're getting to that Zelda's caretaker Impa informs our hero of the third missing Triforce and the situation with Zelda the 1st Sparking Link to go on an adventure to obtain it ...See what I did there it's a joke about the title Returning with the full Triforce Link is able to awaken Zelda from her eternal slumber and the two Zeldas fight for dominance over the Kingdom of Hyrule ...ok that doesn't actually happen but I'd be cool if it did Whew... We're finally at the end of the timeline But wait There's still one game we haven't discussed yet... Link's Crossbow Training! -I mean- Breath of the Wild! Where does Breath of the Wild take place on the timeline? Is it after the ruined timeline? or maybe in the child timeline or is it in the adult timeline? Yes. The answer is yes. All three of them. At the same time. The game takes place ten-thousand years in the future Where the people have made astounding technological breakthroughs and developed into a super advanced society Electricity the telephone a cure for the common cold ...are all things that they should have created Instead they just made a bunch of giant robots Which backfires when Ganon rises from the dead and uses them to destroy Hyrule Thankfully yoga pants Zelda manages to seal him away for a hundred years while Link takes the longest power-nap in history Eventually he wakes up, blah-blah-blah destroys Ganon, you know the drill But wait... where does Breath of the Wild 2 take place?!? - ok i'm done, i'm done. Subscribe for more, thanks for watching! 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Length: 7min 46sec (466 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 10 2020

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[u/3rdOption]

INB4 people argue that there is no timeline even though OoT, MM, WW, TP, PH, and ST are all connected by in-game references.