Adult timeline conclusion

okay so the adult timeline hyrule gets flooded cause of NO hero to stop ganon why couldnt the young link who returned home...age, have kids and have his bloodline be the hero again.. why did he go the past and it was almost as he never existed even though everyone else still did

In the ending he went back to before he even met Zelda. He tells her about Ganondorf and prevents everything you do after meeting her originally from ever happening. You're not a brother to the gorons, you're not Ruto's fiancee, you don't battle Ganon. Link never does anything that would make him a hero in that timeline.

he can't go back because:
A. He closed the Door of Time
A1. He'd never be able to get the spiritual stones in the new timeline without Ganon
B. He's no longer needed in the AT, so the sages sent him back.
C. He had already changed the timeline to eliminate the old future.

but then why does he know to go see zelda at the end of the game.. he must have knowledge of some sort, though its a different timeline, MM proves he has prior konwledge and the capability of being a hero.. so why couldnt he just reprise the role and come back to fight again when ganon returned...though he never knew him to begin with

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another question if ganons future was prevented in the adult timeline.. how was able to attack again if several things happened
1. he never attacked initially
2. he never had the triforce because the series of events was prevented
3. did he not die over time because he was still a human and didnt have the TOP to let him live as long as he did

Originally Posted by OcarinaofKeith

but then why does he know to go see zelda at the end of the game.. he must have knowledge of some sort, though its a different timeline, MM proves he has prior konwledge and the capability of being a hero.. so why couldnt he just reprise the role and come back to fight again when ganon returned...though he never knew him to begin with

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another question if ganons future was prevented in the adult timeline.. how was able to attack again if several things happened
1. he never attacked initially
2. he never had the triforce because the series of events was prevented
3. did he not die over time because he was still a human and didnt have the TOP to let him live as long as he did

mmh, I'm not quite understaing your point, sir.

First of all, Link WAS recognized as a hero in the new timeline, because he had the Triforce mark, and all the memories from his adulthood.

Doing everything all over again would've been stupid, so he just managed to get Ganon's arrested (revealing the future happenings to Zelda and the King).

When Ganon was executed in the Mirror Chamber by the Sages (in spiritual form, as they weren't killed by Ganon/They did not need to incarnate), he got the Triforce of Power by "divine prank", mostly because Link brought his piece in the new timeline, and the Triforce split giving the other pieces to the legitimate/default/predestined owners (Zelda and Ganon).

I hope this helped a little solving your problem (which, I repeat, I don't quite get).

What Link did in the past after he was sent back doesn't alter the future in the adult timeline. After what happened the adult timeline, Link couldn't do anymore going back to the past to tell Zelda didn't alter the future in the adult timeline.

Now, that's not to say that Link's actions didn't alter the future at all. It did, which is how we have the Child timeline, specifically Twilight Princess.

But the Adult timeline can't be altered after whats happened regardless what Link tried to do.

so why couldnt he just reprise the role and come back to fight again when ganon returned

Already answered, Link put the Master Sword back for good and closed the Door of Time permanently because the Ocarina of Time was left in the future. Not only that, its not like Link actually knew Ganondorf would come back some day.

^ well, the ocarina of time existed in the child timeline too, so technically time travel between the two eras MAY have been possible after all. But it didn't happen.
Everything else you said, I agree.

Originally Posted by Lord Mortipher

^ well, the ocarina of time existed in the child timeline too, so technically time travel between the two eras MAY have been possible after all. But it didn't happen.
Everything else you said, I agree.

Never said it didn't exist, just said that Link left it in the future. Besides even so, he still needed the 3 Spiritual Stones and for some reason, they were gone when he got back.

Well, honestly: Who is to say there wasn't a Pre-Flood AT hero?

Keep in Mind that in both the AT and DT(or, as I prefer to call it, Hyrule Prime), Link didn't survive, and was thus unable to pass down his blood.

How then was it a new hero could rise?

Simple, all Heroes are born of the Knights.

What did we see in Skyward Sword?

The Knight Academy.

Simply put, ALL Hylians are related to the Knights of Hyrule, even if distantly so.

This is why, even in the first games of 'Humans and Hylians', there has been a Link sporting Elvish ears.

Keep in Mind, the same is also true for Zelda, who, we should remember is effectively the reincarnation of the 'Mother' of all Hylians.

Keep in Mind that in both the AT and DT(or, as I prefer to call it, Hyrule Prime), Link didn't survive, and was thus unable to pass down his blood.

How do we know that for sure?

Originally Posted by keyaki

How do we know that for sure?

Are you suggesting Link was fooling around in the 'bad future'?

Originally Posted by Phyrior

Are you suggesting Link was fooling around in the 'bad future'?

I'm saying we don't know anything of the whereabouts of the Hero of Time after MM. Nothing says anything, not even the HH. Sure he's dead in TP but we don't know how or when he died.

Originally Posted by keyaki

I'm saying we don't know anything of the whereabouts of the Hero of Time after MM. Nothing says anything, not even the HH. Sure he's dead in TP but we don't know how or when he died.

Please note that you said after MM, meaning after the split happened, and the 'Hero of Time' ceased to be in the DT and AT.

There's no way he could have had children/descendants in either of those timelines, and yet you bring up the enigma of what happened after he'd already been sent back and sealed off?

Originally Posted by Phyrior

Please note that you said after MM, meaning after the split happened, and the 'Hero of Time' ceased to be in the DT and AT.

There's no way he could have had children/descendants in either of those timelines, and yet you bring up the enigma of what happened after he'd already been sent back and sealed off?

You're suggesting that the Hero of Time "didn't survive" meaning he died somehow and all I'm saying is we don't know what happened to him after OoT.

Originally Posted by keyaki

You suggesting that the Hero of Time "didn't survive" meaning he died somehow and all I'm saying is we don't know what happened to him after OoT.

In either of those timelines.

In the DT, he was killed by Ganondorf.

In the AT, he was sent back and effectively -ceased to exist- in that reality.

Maybe I worded it a tad poorly, but the end result is the same.

No Hero of Time to perpetuate the bloodline of the Hero, how do they still exist?

Simple enough, as I said, all Hylians are related to the Knights.

Originally Posted by Phyrior

In either of those timelines.

In the DT, he was killed by Ganondorf.

In the AT, he was sent back and effectively -ceased to exist- in that reality.

Maybe I worded it a tad poorly, but the end result is the same.

No Hero of Time to perpetuate the bloodline of the Hero, how do they still exist?

Simple enough, as I said, all Hylians are related to the Knights.

In this, we agree.

well, on this issue, Demise's curse come in handy:

Those like you... Those who share the
blood of the goddess and the spirit of
the hero... They are eternally bound to
this curse.

This would translate in: all the princesses are related to each other, all the heroes share the same spirit. There's no need for Link to always be part of the same bloodline.

Originally Posted by Lord Mortipher

well, on this issue, Demise's curse come in handy:

This would translate in: all the princesses are related to each other, all the heroes share the same spirit. There's no need for Link to always be part of the same bloodline.

Originally Posted by One of the Seven Maidens

Link, because of you, I can escape from the clutches of the evil monsters. Thank you!

...Do you know the prophecy of the Great Cataclysm? This is the way I heard it...

If a person who has an evil heart gets the Triforce, a Hero is destined to appear...

...and he alone must face the person who began the Great Cataclysm.

If the evil one destroys the Hero, nothing can save the world from his wicked reign.

Only a person of the Knights Of Hyrule, who protected the royalty of Hylia, can become the Hero... You are of their blood-line, aren't you? Then you must rescue Zelda without fail.

The original Knights of Hyrule were the people of Skyloft, who had the Knight Academy.

That was my meaning.

Obviously the AT Link/s are not related to that bloodline.

A crackpot idea I came up with earlier today was that the New World was raised from the sea during the flood specifically for the Hylians, the majority of whom resettled there, bearing witness to Malladus' war against the kami. The people of the Great Sea are in fact the descendents of those who chose to stay behind and stand watch in case Ganondorf managed to escape. The people most likely to do such a thing would be the surviving knights, so there you go.

This is just some weird time paradox cause link goes back into to the past so according to time travel hed still be present in the future...but in this zelda case he doesnt exist...thats the weird part