My take on the split timeline theroy **Warning, EXTREMLY SHORT POST**

adult: OOT - SPLIT - OOTadult - REJOIN - TP
child:MM
Reason being:
It is a split timeline, that also rejoins. It would explain everything, help place everything...
It's just the most reasonable to me, that when OOT splits the timeline at the end, the OOT repeats it's adult timeline and mm is in the child timeline.
They then rejoin.
It's makes alot of sense, to me, anyway...

Wha?
Please clarify.
When do the timelines rejoin, and how?

One question. How does Twilight Princess Link get the Triforce of Courage on his hand when it was split immediately after the Goddesses took it from the Hero of Time?

Originally Posted by Prince Dodongo

One question. How does Twilight Princess Link get the Triforce of Courage on his hand when it was split immediately after the Goddesses took it from the Hero of Time?

Becouse Twilight Princess takes place in the Adult time line, when link doesn't leave Hyrule and the triforce isn't split.

OKay, I finally got it right...
Took me a while, but I think it's understandable now.

Doesn't work. There are a lot of inconsistancies that arise from having a singular timeline (which is effectively what you're suggesting).

Originally Posted by Venomous-Ninja

OKay, I finally got it right...
Took me a while, but I think it's understandable now.

Still doesn't explain why or how, or what it means for futere games.

Originally Posted by HelmarocKing

Becouse Twilight Princess takes place in the Adult time line, when link doesn't leave Hyrule and the triforce isn't split.

So you're saying that The Wind Waker takes place within the Child Timeline? (which is the only way TP could be in the Adult Timeline) That's a problem for several reasons, among them the fact that the developers said that The Wind Waker happens after the Adult ending, and the fact that Ganondorf remembers the Hero of Time in The Wind Waker, knowledge that he has no as-of-yet-seen reason to have in the Child Timeline.

Whats odd is that in the child time line, the entire triforce should still be in the sacred relm, yet in both WW and TP, Ganon has the ToP. lol, it make's no sense.

Edit: By the way, just what happens to Ganon in the child time line? I mean the only way for him to not rule for the 7 years in between is to dissapear off the face of the earth, but how could that happen?

Note: I understand that what I said has flaws (Lots ), but I'm trying to have yours make sense to me...

Well, this is my take on what happens in the Child Timeline.

Link meets up with Zelda (for the first time again) and tells her of his adventure. The accuracy of what he says convinces Zelda that he's telling the truth (plus, she'd be happy enough to have someone believe her), and she and Link take measures to stop Ganondorf, among them her giving Link the Ocarina of Time when he leaves for Termina, keeping the keys to the Sacred Realm out of Ganondorf's hands (also avoiding the sketchy matter of explaining things to the king). Without the keys to the Door of Time, a frustrated Ganondorf is forced to reveal his true colors with a military coup, in an attempt to break open the Door and force his way into the Sacred Realm. This plan failed, however, and in the process, the Triforce somehow splits in three and the Triforce of Power is given to Ganondorf, which leads to him surviving his execution. The Triforce of Wisdom passes to Zelda, and the Triforce of Power is passed among the Heroes until it reaches Twilight Princess Link.


The adult Timeline is simple. The Triforce of Courage is left behind when Link time travels and is split by the Goddesses (the time travel was Link's leaving Hyrule behind, and it solves the horribly sticky issue of there being 1.33 Triforces in the Child Timeline (OMG, Tetraforce confermed!!11!! [/sarcasm])). The world repairs, and Ganon breaks from his bonds after a while, leading to the flood.

OK, I am officialy making no sense. But please explain your rejoining theory.

Originally Posted by Prince Dodongo

The accuracy of what he says convinces Zelda that he's telling the truth

Link has the Triforce of Courage when he returns to his childhood, so why wouldn't Zelda and/or the king believe him?

Maybe the Triforce split at this point, since there can't be two triforces of courage at the same time, right? I don't know, it's possible.

And for the creator: Timelines don't rejoin. It's impossible because a timeline can't have two totally different past.

Originally Posted by Hombre de Mundo

Link has the Triforce of Courage when he returns to his childhood, so why wouldn't Zelda and/or the king believe him?

Maybe the Triforce split at this point, since there can't be two triforces of courage at the same time, right? I don't know, it's possible.

And for the creator: Timelines don't rejoin. It's impossible because a timeline can't have two totally different past.

'kay, I apologize for the wall o' text, but if you'd read further, you'd have seen that I suggest that the Goddesses took the Triforce of Courage from Link when he time-traveled back to his childhood, both giving us a time when the TOC was shattered, as well as avoiding the problem of 1.33 triforces being in the same timeline (unless you want there to be a Tetraforce)

Originally Posted by Prince Dodongo

So you're saying that The Wind Waker takes place within the Child Timeline? (which is the only way TP could be in the Adult Timeline) That's a problem for several reasons, among them the fact that the developers said that The Wind Waker happens after the Adult ending, and the fact that Ganondorf remembers the Hero of Time in The Wind Waker, knowledge that he has no as-of-yet-seen reason to have in the Child Timeline.

Nail on the head. It would become a temporal paradox if the Ganon from Twilight Princess were to remember the Hero of Time -- after all, he and the adult Hero never even did battle once the future timeline was averted, with Ganon placed under arrest, tried, and ultimately exiled to the Twilight Realm.

Also, we must all bear in mind, here, that Nintendo and Aonuma are considering themselves bound to the "Split Timeline" principle, and that all future games will be conceived with this philosophy in mind. Thus, the alternate-universe Wind Waker Ganon did in fact meet his previous end at the Hero's hands, but the Twilight Princess Ganon did not.

Originally Posted by SvenHudson

Doesn't work. There are a lot of inconsistancies that arise from having a singular timeline (which is effectively what you're suggesting).

One of the biggest illogical inconsistencies is, where does Hyrule Castle Town vanish to in The Wind Waker, when we see a Castle Town-less castle at the bottom of the ocean, if OoT is in its past, and Twilight Princess still supposedly in its future?

Stuff like that.

Originally Posted by Prince Dodongo

'kay, I apologize for the wall o' text, but if you'd read further, you'd have seen that I suggest that the Goddesses took the Triforce of Courage from Link when he time-traveled back to his childhood, both giving us a time when the TOC was shattered, as well as avoiding the problem of 1.33 triforces being in the same timeline (unless you want there to be a Tetraforce)

This is quite possible; in fact, given the Goddesses' inherent implied powers, it would make some kind of rough sense for them to want to keep the entire, completed Triforce secure in a low-risk environment...hence, preventing Child Link from taking it back with him, and giving the then-still-powerful Gerudo Royal Court infiltrator another shot at it, free and clear.

That would've been disastrous.

Originally Posted by Hombre de Mundo

And for the creator: Timelines don't rejoin. It's impossible because a timeline can't have two totally different past.

It wouldn't have two pasts. The child part of the SRT (split-rejoin timeline) is set in Termina, while the replay adult part is set in Hyrule, replaying itself to be set in stone.
Thus, when they join, they will not interfere with each other at all, Hyrule will not have two pasts, and both Termina and Hyrule shall be safe.