09-22-2006, 09:57 AM
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Plantman extraordinaire
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Location: The ZeldaInformer corner of ZU
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TP as the Seal War (speculative)
I've done some thinking, and I figured something out. It may be possible for the events of OoT and the events of TP to both, combined, be the Seal War of ALttP.
The clauses of the ALttP manual text, just before the beginning of the Seal War section, tell us about the taking of the Triforce by Ganondorf of the race of evil thieves from the Sacred Realm. As we all know, this only happens at two points in the series--OoT and ALttP. Obviously, under this theory, the taking of the Triforce would refer to OoT. But, as soon as it finishes the section on the claiming of the Triforce, the section titled "The Sacred Realm" ends, and the section titled "The Seal War" begins.
Some of the opponents of the OoT = SW theory disagree with it on the following grounds:
--We never hear, within the context of the Seal War story, that a Hero was ever found;
--The Sages do not battle alongside the Knights of Hyrule within OoT;
--We never see the King's involvement in the summoning of the Sages (and, besides that, the Sages must be awakened, which is not mentioned in the SW text)
It is entirely possible (although it remains to be seen) that the events of TP might, in fact, detail the background of the Seal War itself (after the taking of the Triforce in OoT). I would prefer to say that the two events combined represent the ongoing Seal War of the OoT era, but... whatever.
So far, we've seen the Twilight Realm, spreading like a "noxious cloud" of evil across the land, and even to the "royal palace," just like it happens in the Seal War story. We've seen the King of Hyrule calling a summit--perhaps the Sages are intended to attend this summit? We've seen Knights of Hyrule (and all over the place, at that). And we have the fact that, in TWW, no one knows of a Hero ever being found.
Perhaps, in the end, the Twilight Realm will be the evil that is sealed in the Sacred Realm, while Ganon is buried under the sea, and that the seal on the Twilight will be the seal that persists until ALttP? Just a thought.
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