The Link-Line

thers proberbly been 1000's of posts about this and i think thers summert on the main site but i think the link timline goes like this

Link and Zelda I are in TLOZ and AOL
Link and zelda II are in ALttP and LA
Link and Zelda/sheik III are in OOT and MM
Link and Zelda IV are in OoS and OoA
and Link and zelda V are in TMc
Link and zelda/tetra VI are in Tww, FS, FSA, TP

proberbly rong abou TP (i thort it was gonna be TWW2)
Actually im proberbly rong about all this im just guessin... wot dya think?

Link and zelda/tetra VI are in Tww, FS, FSA, TP

Link and Zelda in the Four Sword games are not the Link and Zelda in The Wind Waker. Link and Zelda in Twilight Princess are new and haven't been in a game before.

Link and Zelda I are in TLOZ and AOL

The Zelda in Adventure of Link is the ancestor of the Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, and has been under a sleeping spell for generations.

A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening are prequels to the NES games. Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are prequels to A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening.

and Tp comes after OOT and befor WW.. i thought it was WW2 myself... but alas, we're wrong lol

OoT should be first then TP then WW. But that's all the timeline i know. Just remember OoT was when it all began!

It's like this.
Link I- OoT, MM
Link II- TP
Link III- TWW
Link IV- LoZ, Aol
Zelda I- OoT, MM
Zelda II- TP
Zelda III- TWW
Zelda V- LoZ
Zelda IV- AoL
Those are the ones I know...

I'd agree with you accept that Aol and LoZ had to come before WW, remember, the world wasnt flooded....

WW is the LAST game on the chain so far.

It's not known at this moment what relationship The Wind Waker has with the other Zelda games (aside from Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask), if any.

Do you think at the end of the Twilight Princess the goddesses may flood the world?

Originally Posted by Gate-Hacker

I'd agree with you accept that Aol and LoZ had to come before WW, remember, the world wasnt flooded....

WW is the LAST game on the chain so far.

but do you remember?? in TWW you planted all those trees, they were to gow up and suck up all of the water and make the land whole again, so technically, if it happened a looooong way away it could easily be true

its all so confusing!!!
i rock at the games but...the storylines cant get this complicated with me lol im too stupid

Originally Posted by Crazy Penguin

A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening are prequels to the NES games. Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are prequels to A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening.

Wah? OoT and MM are before the first Zelda games?


Oh god this is confusing...

Originally Posted by Joborule

Wah? OoT and MM are before the first Zelda games?


Oh god this is confusing...

There are essentially four Zelda story-arcs. At the moment it's unknown how the arcs tie together (if at all). Here is how they go (a new line indicates a new generation and a new Link).

Arc 1:

Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask
A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda, Adventure of Link

Arc 2:

Oracle of Ages and Seasons

Arc 3:

Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask
The Wind Waker

Arc 4:
The Minish Cap
Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures*

*It's not entirely clear how much time takes place between Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures. It could be a few weeks or a few decades.

Some people consider these to be four alternate continuities (with the N64 games taking place in two continuities) whilst others think that there is a way they tie together. The only games that cause any real problems are The Wind Waker, which on first look seems to contradict A Link to the Past and also doom Hyrule forever (we'll probably have to wait for a Wind Waker follow up to know for sure) and Four Swords Adventures which seems to give a new origin to Ganondorf (although as I said earlier, there is a possible explanation for this).

Anyway, there are some clues on how these four arcs could tie together. Here are a couple I've noticed (beware of SPOILERS):

CLUE 1: In the GBA version of A Link to the Past a bonus dungeon called Palace of the Four Sword is unlocked when you complete the Four Swords game. In this dungeon the Four Sword lays hidden as four separate swords (as happens when someone uses its power to split into four). Since the Four Sword was created in The Minish Cap this means that if the dungeon is taken as canon then A Link to the Past has to take place some time after The Minish Cap (and possibly both Four Swords games as well).

CLUE 2: In the Oracle games the complete Triforce rests in Hyrule Castle and Ganon is dead. This means that the games take place either generations after A Link to the Past or generations after the NES games. Probably the prior.

Ah...I always though that Wind Waker background history though was tied into OoT.

If any game series had one of the most interesting, and confusing stories, it's Zelda...

Originally Posted by Joborule

Ah...I always though that Wind Waker background history though was tied into OoT.

It is. But so is A Link to the Past's background. At the current point in time The Wind Waker and A Link to the Past seem to be irreconcilable with each other, even though they both have ties to the N64 games.

So the N64 games fit into two of the four "arcs" I mentioned.

Hopefully a future game will give us clues about how The Wind Waker and A Link to the Past work together.

Link 1 (hero of time)= OOT, MM
Link 2 (hero of ?)= TP
link 3 (Hero of wind)= WW
Link 4(hero of the four sword)= TMC
Link 5 (Hero of light)= FS, FSA
Link 6 (hero of the 4 lands) ALTTP, OOA, OOS, LA
Link 7 (hero of Hyrule) LOZ, AOL

Zelda 1= AOL
Zelda 2= OOT, MM
Zelda 3= TP
Zelda 4 (Tetra)= WW
Zelda 5= TMC
Zelda 6= FS, FSA
Zelda 7= ALTTP
Zelda 8= OOA, OOS, LA
Zelda 9= LOZ

*sigh* it doesnt go in order...

Link znd Zelda 1. OOT and MM.
Link and Zelda 2. TP.
Link and Zelda 3. TWW.
Link and Zelda 4. LOZ and most of TAOL.
(TAOL Zelda is the first zelda from before OOT, not the same one from LOZ).
Link and Zelda 6. TMC (backstory).
Link and Zelda 7. OOA/OOS.
Link and Zelda 8. TMC
Link and Zelda 9. FS (backstory).
Link and Zelda 10. FS and FSA.
Link and Zelda 11. ALTTP and LA.

Originally Posted by MajorasMask666

*sigh* it doesnt go in order...

What doesn't go in order?

Originally Posted by Tetra`s Tracker

What doesn't go in order?

The only thing I saw was when you said there was more then one zelda
durning the time of ALTTP, OOS/OOA, and LA. And then said there was only one Link.

Originally Posted by minish-vaati

thers proberbly been 1000's of posts about this and i think thers summert on the main site but i think the link timline goes like this

Link and Zelda I are in TLOZ and AOL
Link and zelda II are in ALttP and LA
Link and Zelda/sheik III are in OOT and MM
Link and Zelda IV are in OoS and OoA
and Link and zelda V are in TMc
Link and zelda/tetra VI are in Tww, FS, FSA, TP

proberbly rong abou TP (i thort it was gonna be TWW2)
Actually im proberbly rong about all this im just guessin... wot dya think?

this doesnt go in order...he put all the games in order from when they came out