As some of you may know, I wrote the Twilight Princess Game Script, and I am a rather large proponent of the split timeline. I get all sorts of emails from people who have information or who want to debate the timeline. Well it's sort of been quiet on all fronts lately, but this morning I got a very interesting message. This guy linked me to this webpage: http://www.nindori.com/interview/154...154int_02.html. He told me that the first two questions read like this:

– About when is the Twilight Princess timeline set?

Aonuma: In a world some hundred years after 'Ocarina of Time.'

— And 'Wind Waker'?　

Aonuma: 'Wind Waker' is parallel. In 'Ocarina of Time,' Link jumps to
a world seven years ahead, defeats Ganon, and returns to the time of
his childhood, right? 'Twilight Princess' is a world a hundred some
years after that pacified childhood time.

Well this is rather sensational, and I really believed him since no one in their right mind would make something up and then tell you to check it with other people, but I saw this interview weeks ago, and I was wondering why no one was talking about it. And if they were, I certainly missed the discussion. So since my Japanese is rusty, hell, non existant, I frantically searched around AIM for a second opinion. What I got was much like the first.

"It's a parallel (refering to Wind Waker). After Link defeats Ganon in the future of OoT, he's returned to the time he was a child. TP is the world several hundred years after the time where Link was a child and peace had returned. But in the last scene of OoT, Link, as a child again, goes to meet Princess Zelda. As a result of this discussion, the three related people, including Ganon, are dragged in a different direction to make this story. So in the middle of this one, we can have the scene of Ganon being executed. Therefore, that scene is a story several years after OoT. And so, the executed Ganon is sent to another world, and this time that power will be obtained by...

Nintendo Dream: For what happens next, you'll have to look forward to the game. (laugh)"

Some other interesting stuff:

says something about there being photos at the fishpond which seem like the events of OoT were past events
the response says that with the things that have a relationship to OoT, there was a "is it okay to do this" feeling but it's a part where the staff's playful side showed through
question: even several hundred years later are the connections conscious with places like Lake Hylia and Kakariko Village and others that have the same names?
"clearly we didn't design it to be the same kakariko village several hundred years later"
"we had this village, and there was an event happening there, and we decided 'okay let's make this kakariko village'"
"in this game places with new names like firoone forest and orudin have appeared, but we took those from the names of the three major gods in OoT"
"those place names didn't exist in the era of OoT, but as the long years passed, the people living there became familiar with the names" (or something)

I don't know if that's the entire thing. I basically had someone dictate it to me from someone else while I was in the middle of a discussion with him. But both translations are clear. Wind Waker is a parallel to Twilight Princess. I didn't know where to post it, but this seems to be one of the larger Zelda communities on the internet, so I thought I'd bring it here and see what kind of reaction it got. Thoughts?