#wait this means SS link would be a paradox

[magpie-sherlock]

Ooo, a hyperfixation you say? adfkajkdljafjfdsdjkhj

Umm this includes spoilers for TotK, not sure if you have played it; if not feel free to delete this, its a long rant anyways lol (and just let me know if there's a different hyperfixation you want me to send I'm so sorry)

Right now I have this whole big theory about the Zelda timeline. I actually think that BotW/Totk is its own parallel timeline to the one that we've all accepted as canon. I also think that the downfall timeline is its own parallel timeline as well due to the legend of the creation of the Master Sword being different to the one shown in Skyward Sword. But don't get me wrong; all of the games I consider canon (because I've heard that a lot of people don't consider the games outside of BotW/Totk/AoC(?) canon) and they somehow influence the other games due to parrellel legends or circumstance, hence why there's so many references in BotW to each of the other games, even more so in TotK. Plus, I find it odd that only Skyward Sword and BotW/TotK mention Hylia when all of the rest of the games (if we don't take into context that these games were the more recent additions to the franchise) seemed to have forgotten about her.

In short, I think there are three timelines: The Goddess Timeline (Lttp, Loz 1+2, etc), the Hylia Timeline (SS, OoT, TP and WW etc), and the Zonai Timeline (TotK, BotW, AoC) that make up the games. Two of which Hylia gets forgotten about, the other basically a parellel when Hylia isn't forgotten but there's also a magical race of people who I think may have actually been descendent from Hylia.

ACTUALLY, scratch that; I really like the idea of Sonia being the descendent of Hylia because I've heard somewhere that the descendants of Skyward Sword Zelda, aka Hylia, have become priestesses carrying her sacred power, hence one of the reasons why Sonia married Rauru. So maybe Skyward Sword actually caused a timeline split, just one of the timeline people evenually forgot about Hylia and the other people honored her (I mean, the Zonai are basically gods in the Zelda universe so that may have been the reason for them to keep on worshipping her).

Sorry for the long thing; the Zelda timeline is just a really big puzzle to me and I really like taking about it

thank you for the infodump!! don't apologize, this is really cool! (i will tell on you to Silver, be careful)

so i don't know as much as i should about the Zelda timelines, but i like this idea a lot actually. correct me if i'm wrong, but you're saying that instead of the timeline splitting at OoT, it may have split at SS? hm. goodness gracious there's so much religion involved in this!