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Originally Posted by LexLionHart
Depends. He could, say, leave Hyrule and go to Termina, save Termina, and then come back in seven years to trump Ganon.
And that would change basically nothing for Hyrule, since he will have again put himself out of the action.
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I'm personally all for the theory that the slightest change in the past already causes the future to take a different course thus creating an alternate future. Therefor, the timeline would already split when Zelda sends Link back with the Ocarina of Time.
The problem with this is of course that Link would create an alternate future every time he puts the Master Sword back to its pedestal. We once again have to face the question: Did the developers actually intend there to be fully functional timetravel system, that actually makes sense. Personally I think it's just a simple gameplay and storyline device, which was never ment to be scrutinized like this.