Basic Terminology & Abbreviations

This is a list of things that are constantly abbreviated throughout the forums. This will hopefully aid you in recoginizing things and not being confused.

Any additions can just be posted and I'll edit them in later.

GAMES :

LoZ - The Legend of Zelda
AoL - The Adventure of Link
ALttP - A Link to the Past
LA/LADX- Link's Awakening/Deluxe
OoT - Ocarina of Time
OoT MQ / MQ - Master Quest
MM - Majora's Mask
OoX - A placeholder for both of the Oracle games
OoS - Oracle of Seasons
OoA - Oracle of Ages
FS - Four Swords
FSA - Four Sword Adventures
TWW - The Wind Waker
TMC - The Minish Cap
TP - Twilight Princess
PH - Phantom Hourglass
LCT - Link's Crossbow Training
AST - Ancient Stone Tablets [a spin-off game for Battleview Satellite]
FPTRR/TRR - Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosey Rupeeland [a spin-off game for DS]
TBF - Tingle's Balloon Fight
CCTBoL - Color-Changing Tingle's Balloon of Love
ST - Spirit Tracks
CE - Collector's Edition

CD-i games:

WoG - Wand of Gamelon
ZA - Zelda's Adventure
FoE - Face of Evil

Other Appearances:

ZG&W - Zelda Game & Watch
SSB - Super Smash Bros.
SSBM - Super Smash Bros. Melee
SSBB - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
SC2 - Soul Calibur 2

Items :

ToP - Triforce of Power
ToC - Triforce of Courage
ToW - Triforce of Wisdom
MS - Master Sword
FS - Four Sword
tOoT - The Ocarina of Time

Places :

ToT - Temple of Time
DW - Dark World
SR - Sacred Realm
TR - Twilight Realm
TotOK - Temple of the Ocean King
TotG - Tower of the Gods
GS - Great Sea

Characters :

HoT - Hero of Time [OoT Link]
HoW - Hero of Winds [WW Link]
HoL: Hero of Legend
HoM: Hero of Men
HMS - Happy Mask Salesman
FD / FDL - Fierce Diety (Link)
KoRL - King of Red Lions

Events :
SW/IW - Seal War/Imprisoning War
GF - Great Flood
SZ - Sleeping Zelda

Consoles :

NES - Nintendo Entertainment System
SNES - Super Nintendo
N64 - Nintendo 64
GCN - Nintendo Gamecube
GB - Gameboy
GBA - Gameboy Advance
DS - Nintendo DS

Random :
ZC/ZCS - Zelda Cartoon / Zelda Cartoon Series
RPG - Role Playing Game
NPC - Non-Playable Character.
VC - Virtual Console

BS - Backstory

CT- Child Timeline
AT - Adult Timeline
ST - Single Timeline
DT - Double Timeline (Split)


Any others?

FD (Fierce Diety)
HMS (Happy Mask Salesman)
FS (Four Sword)
Well I guess this can be figure out from the game, but I mean the FS as in the actualy item.

HoW - Hero of Winds (Windwaker Link)

BS: Backstory

DT: Double Timeline (Split)

DW: Dark World

HoL: Hero of Legend
HoM: Hero of Men

KoRL: King of Red Lions

The OoA: The Oracle of Ages
The OoS: The Oracle of Seasons
The OoT: The Ocarina of Time

SR: Sacred Realm

ST: Single Timeline

SW/IW: Seal War/Imprisoning War

[EDIT]

KnS/AST: Kobai no Sekiban/Ancient Stone Tablets

You might also want to put in the console abbreviations, like NES, SNES, GCN, GBA, etc. They aren't exactly Zelda related, but I imagine you will see them more than a few times in Zelda discussions.

LCT = Link's Crossbow Training

TotOK = Temple of the Ocean King

The Collector's Edition disc for GameCube (CE or CE-disc) also comes up in discussions from time to time

I feel the need to be the one to mention the 3 Zelda games that are considered 3 of the worst games ever:

WoG: Wand of Gamelon

ZA: Zelda's Adventure

FoE: Face of Evil

And one that I've not heard but am making up for those lazy people:

ZC: Zelda Cartoon

Originally Posted by firsttsurugi

I feel the need to be the one to mention the 3 Zelda games that are considered 3 of the worst games ever:

WoG: Wand of Gamelon

ZA: Zelda's Adventure

FoE: Face of Evil

And one that I've not heard but am making up for those lazy people:

ZC: Zelda Cartoon

Do they have to be included?
I don't know if it's worth putting up or not, but mainly just for newbies, ZU?

Originally Posted by Mattocks

Do they have to be included?
I don't know if it's worth putting up or not, but mainly just for newbies, ZU?

Well, people are going to mention the existence of the games, so why not? Sure, they were crap, but they were still Zelda games, so they should be included.

How about we just abbreviate every single place, object, or character in the Zelda series?

Originally Posted by Eijiro

How about we just abbreviate every single place, object, or character in the Zelda series?

Well when you take part in long discussions, it's annoying to have to re-explain what you're talking about so it's easier to come up with abbreviations. So deal with it E.

i think evryone alreay knows them

Trust me, you're wrong.

CT- Child Timeline
AT - Adult Timeline

MQ - (OoT) Master Quest

ST-shadow temple
STT-stone tower temple.

You don't have the Twilight Hero?
TH for short i guess?

Twilight Princess Link

Good idea for TH, because if you did HoT it would be read as Hero of Time instead of Hero of Twilight. Perhaps an abbreviation for the Fourth Triforce Piece in theories could be FT?