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Originally Posted by astinktothepast
^^ I don't find it complicated at all... In fact this is similar to one of the theories I came up with... I call it the Altered Past Timeline.
Without going into too much detail it's basically the Novikov Self-consistency Principle(NSCP), which says that the only possible timelines are those which are entirely self-consistent, so that anything a time traveler does in the past must have been part of history all along, and the time traveler can never do anything to prevent the trip back in time from being made since this would represent an inconsistency. In other words, destiny.
The NSCP would successfully counter any grandfather paradoxes, because destiny would not allow for certain things. Say for example, Link were to travel back in time, and try to kill his grandfather with a bomb. Technically, this would ultimately mean that he was never born, and thus couldn't have made the trip back in time in the first place. HOWEVER, according to the NSCP, no matter what Link does, he will never be able to kill his grandfather, because he was destined to be born all along. The bomb won't go off, or he will miss, or he will hurt but not kill his grandather. Either way, he will have some sort of "bad luck", and won't be able to kill his grandfather.
Therefore, when Link was sent back in time by Zelda, history "re-wrote" itself in order to make sense of Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf having the triforce. According to my theory, perhaps the Twili DID touch the Triforce, but were unworthy, and thus caused the Triforce to be eventually given to Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf.
Everything that Link once knew was different. ToT, which was once built by the sages, is now built by the Oocca in the new timeline. The Arbiter's Grounds now stand where the Spirit Temple stood in his previous timeline. I can go on and on, but this theory makes plenty of sense to me. |
I agree on this. Everything Link did when he was moving through time was supposed to happen. Like when he learned the song of storms... he was just repeating the written history and he had no choice but to learn the song in order to save the village, thus completing the time loop. However when Zelda sent him back to his childhood created a huge paradox because he never opened the way for Ganon and instead turned him in. So therefore it can not be the same dimension he came from, and I wouldn't be surprised if Link did walk out of the ToT and wonder what the heck was going on. Luckily he was able to find his way to the castle.
BTW it appears Navi doesn't exist in the new timeline, or she would of been with him as she was in the previous child timeline, which further indicates he may not have even existed prior to his arrival.