Thorn said:
I'm also tying Majoras Mask to Wind Waker. There were a few parts in the intro to Wind Waker where one could infer what happened after Majoras Mask. I'm going to develop that route too. I think you guys will like it.
Actually, this is not true.
At least, not the theory that WW is > MM.
While there is no 'official chronology' of the LoZ series, the developers
have admitted that they are all connected, and that there
is a sequence to them.
And while they have refrained from telling us just what this continuity is (for the most part, as OoT is obviously followed by MM), they have given a few vague and sweeping 'clues' in various interviews.
In one of these interviews, a developer mentioned in passing that WW actually takes place
before OoT.
And he stopped there.
When the interviewers questioned him further, he simply smiled and said
"We'll leave the rest up to the fans. We don't want to take away their ability to imagine Hyrule as
they think it should be."
So it's really up to you.
It's your fic, and if you want to make WW take place 'after the end of Hyrule', then do so.
But canonically speaking, it's out of line.
WW comes before OoT, and MM is an obvious follow-up to OoT (at least,
I think so. Feel free to disagree).
Therefore, WW happens
before MM, not after.
Personally?
I think that WW goes back to the
very beginning of the series, and is chronologically 'first' out of all the 'new' games we've seen.
Why?
The True Kingdom of Hyrule.
That's what's under the sea.
Not 'OoT/MM Hyrule that was drowned'.
But the Hyrule upon which the War of the Golden Land took place.
Back when Ganondorf was still 'a thief' and when the Triforce was still an actual, whole, physical object, and not 'imbued' as tattoo/birthmarks.
I came to this conclusion from putting the interview together with several other details I noticed while playing WW.
First is that you actually assemble the Triforce. That is (as far as I know) a first in TLoZ series. Every other time (once again, as far as I know), you
start out with the 'mark of Courage' on your hand.
But you don't in WW. In WW, you
earn it, and that makes me think that WW predates every TLoZ game where 'Link' has the mark from birth (this is assuming that the mark will manifest on any reincarnations of 'Link', no matter how much time actually passes. It is an assumption, but considering what the mark represents, I feel it's a reasonable one).
The second thing is the state of the Castle when you first visit it.
Darknuts
and Moblins were all over the place, frozen in time from battle that was interrupted mid-fight.
It's more or less TLoZ canon that Darknuts = 'corrupted' Hyrule Knights, and the 'Knights' were only seen in force during the War over the Triforce back in the beginning.
That war was their last stand, and they were (for the most part) wiped-out fighting it.
So my personal theory places WW as taking place about a thousand years after the War was lost, and has it predating OoT, MM, and TP by a great enough span that the people no longer remember that Hyrule was once totally flooded.
This would also place the 'older games' like LttP 'during' the war (but that's a rather rough guess on my part).
But that's just what I think.
If you're going to write this, more power to you. But you're going to have to hammer out a loose timeline for Hyrule and the various games if Link is going to be 'hopping' through time. I (and no doubt several others) have theories as to exactly how it all plays out, canon-wise, and youÆve probably got some ideas of your own as well.
If you need help figuring things out, feel free to ask. IÆm sure that between all of us, we can work something out.
And that's all I've got.
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And yes, it's a necro.
But it's relevant.
