I think this happens after skyward sword and is a split because of time travel so you have ss and then 2 branches: 1 with BOTW and TOTK and 2 the minish cap and the rest where it then splits again after oot into 3 branches. That's why there are so many things that we recognise but aren't exactly the same. Most events will play out like the other timeline but with some differences.

Great video dude! ( small tip, do whatever u do with it ofc ). But try to jumpcut edit a bit less in your sentences. It feels a bit choppy and hard to follow sometimes. Better to do a retake and use scripts for guidance❤

The real "what if" causing the timeline split that accommodates the "downfall" series of games, happened near the end of Minish Cap! Hyrule Historia's 'fallen hero' what-if is a crock, and doesn't even REMOTELY lead into ALTTP! Here is how I summarize the true timeline: UNIFIED Timeline has only the starting point Skyward Sword, followed by Minish Cap. Minish Cap caused a 2-way split: PRIME Split: Link makes it to Vaati before the third bell, stopping his ritual to steal Zelda's Light Force, then has his showdown with the wind mage. This outcome leads to the BRIGHT Timeline. ALTERNATE Split: Link fails to reach Vaati by the third bell, leading to Vaati absorbing Zelda's Light Force, and Zelda dies. This outcome leads to the DARK Timeline. Expanding on each timeline split from Minish Cap: BRIGHT Timeline Vaati fails to steal Zelda's Light Force; Zelda survives; Link DESTROYS Vaati with the foursword - this IS the actual ending we DO see, when we beat Minish Cap. Recall that Vaati was NOT SEALED, he was destroyed. This becomes the timeline where Vaati no longer exists; Zelda was not killed; and Hyrule did not lose the Light Force for a few generations, thus it evolved more prosperously and had little adversity outside of the Fierce War, which was THIS timeline's conflict over the Sacred Realm and Triforce (note too that the knowledge of this realm and relic comes FAR SOONER than in the DARK Timeline). The King unified Hyrule and peace followed, up until this timeline's first game - Ocarina of Time. Ganondorf born in THIS timeline, has already seen the 'war' and even joined the King's truce. THIS Ganondorf's ambitions for power followed a path to the ultimate power, the Triforce, which he is very aware of and so his M.O. took him on a more political approach, earlier on. Of course we know the two fates THIS Ganondorf follows, one for each of the two timelines that split from OOT: CHILD, to Twilight Princess where he is KILLED (and there IS NO Four Swords Adventures thereafter); and ADULT, to Wind Waker where he is KILLED (and there ARE two incredibly stupid games to finish off the ADULT continuity, that I cannot even bring myself to even CALL 'Zelda games': Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks). DARK Timeline Vaati successfully absorbs Zelda's Light Force, vastly increasing his powers and killing Zelda; Link has a much harder fight but he IS the hero and prevails; Vaati is too powerful to be destroyed by the foursword, so Link is forced to SEAL him instead. THIS timeline is darker from the get-go, as Hyrule has lost their beloved princess and is robbed of the light force until Hylia's next reincarnation in a future Zelda. No pantheon of sages is established until centuries later, as the powers are passed through bloodlines and normally held by the young 'maidens' of those lines. There is no temple of time; rather there was the need to establish a sanctuary to house the foursword and it's prisoner. Vaati eventually breaks free, as we see in Four Swords, and the hero again defeats and reseals him. Then comes Four Swords Adventures (obviously the true Four Swords sequel) where we contend with Vaati one final time. But by now, Link's foursword is steroided-up on power; whilst the wind mage's stolen light force from centuries past, has waned enough such that Link is finally able to destroy Vaati. But on top of being the sequel to Four Swords and the final curtain for Vaati, it is also a PREQUEL to A Link to the Past; and most importantly: Four Swords Adventures, is THIS timeline's introduction to Ganondorf! THIS Ganondorf, much like the rest of THIS Hyrule save for the royal family, has NO KNOWLEDGE whatsoever of any Triforce or sacred realm (actually called the Golden Land in this timeline). As such, THIS Ganondorf's ambitions lead him to seek out the most powerful artifact that he WAS aware of: the Dark Trident. It is this trident that makes him GANON in THIS timeline; and ONLY in THIS timeline, does he EVER have the trident. At the end of Four Swords Adventures, Zelda and the six maidens seal Ganon within the foursword. And by the time Ganon escapes (if a far weaker Vaati can do it twice, c'mon!), the world is now aware of the Golden Land and it's sacred relic; and Ganon leads one of the many armies fighting in what was called the Imprisoning War. These armies eventually breached the golden land, and fought within that land to claim the Triforce; so the King ordered the seven sages of that time (which did NOT include Zelda and in fact, were originally called the Seven Wise Men) to seal the gate to the Golden Land, thus IMPRISONING the armies within - hence the name of that war. In A Link to the Past, Link learns more from the seven maidens he rescues - that Ganon was the victor who claimed the triforce, and wished to rule the world, which turned the golden land into the Dark World. And there you have it. Timeline that makes perfect sense, with splits that make perfect sense. Solving the FSA problem by recognizing it is direct sequel for FS and the prequel to ALTTP. There aren't actually two Ganondorfs, it is the same man born into each of the two timelines. The one in OOT then experiences a timeline split leading to the two different ADULT/CHILD destinies. Chronologically, OOT is at par with FSA; which would mean that OOT's Link 'the hero of time', is THAT timeline's version of the FSA Link; and same with the Zeldas in fact.

I think the reason why everyone struggles with this is because we keep insisting everything should fall into "a timeline", one of the 3 specifically. I subscribe to the idea of a Zelda Multiverse. Where each game (including direct sequels) are in their own unique version of their universe. Where some things are the similar, but they don't have the same. I mean we readily accepted it for Marvel or the Spider Verse, why not here? 😊

Dang your channel is madly underrated

It's come to my attention while playing through the game, that they're placing BotW & TotK in the Downfall Timeline. But also made it aware to us that they retconned OoT & the ALttP Imprisoning War backstory into one entire historical event, which would play more into Zelda's character arc, as she spent more time studying about history of Hyrule (and the Guardians) in BotW and still in TotK, 7 years later. Reason why that may be is that those various memories/story beats we watched from the Tears, parallel those of OoT like Zelda being present during Ganondorf's "fealty" to Rauru and having her suspicions of him; his rise in power into the Demon King after defeating/killing a key person with the ability to control time (OoT it was Link, and in TotK it's Sonia); the absence of the Hero to prevent Ganondorf's reign between his rise in power and his imprisonment; Zelda and the Sage's last ditch effort to seal Ganondorf as best as they could despite his ability to reincarnate his malice into the being, Ganon; and if you look at Rauru's medallion, it resembles the face of the OoT Rauru. It could also be said that because BotW/TotK Zelda traveled to the past, she is the reason why each princess is named Zelda and would ensure that she would continue to have that namesake, 10,000 years later With that being said, if those observations I pointed out are actually the case then that means Skyward Sword did happen but everything else is more than likely a Hyrulean legend and not a historically accurate take, thus recontextualizing the Downfall Timeline as a downfall of the first monarchy of Hyrule and the sacrifices made.

You’re telling us to ignore OoT? Uh uh, NOT gonna happen!

You seem like a nice dude so I'm not trying to attack you or anything but you really didn't say anything in this video besides reciting prior game's stories...

Hyrule warriors United the 3 timelines Before the botw game, hence is why we have rito and zoras in the same game for example.

8:20 if you want to know the difference I will link a video from bandit where he explains it. I'll link it in an answer to this comment.

The simple answer is, ToTK eats the timeline.

When does the Kingdom Hearts explanation video come out?

i dont get what you are saying, you summed up the existing timeline and them described the beginning of totk without saying where you think it fits into the timeline

You havent posted in a while are you ok?

When I started watching this video, I thought you were a professional KZfaqr, but then you said this: "I'm trying to get to 1k subs," And then I looked at the amount of your subs, and I was SHOCKED. You have such good editing, and an amazing script! You are overall just an amazing and entertaining KZfaqr.

It's pretty clear BOTW and TOTK are soft reboots, the games completely contradict Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time That's why they refuse to confirm what timeline it's in; it's in none, All the past games are legends, while these two are "real" events

No way, the Zelda timeline is confusing?! 🤣🤣🤣

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