My theory on how TP takes place in the child timeline with ALTTP.

[andy6915]

Note that I have ALTTP in the child timeline, after TP. But I had a problem with that. How did Ganondorf and everyone else have a piece of the triforce? Well, I put a theory together. But then, how did the triforce get restored and then placed back in the sacred realm again before ALTTP? I put another theory together, and then put those two theories together, and got this.

Because the triforce isn't effected by timelines (it's omniscient after all), when it broke in the adult timeline, it broke in the other one too. And, of course, it went to the people that it most represented that triforce piece: Ganondorf who was captured thanks to Link helping the royal family out to find him, (he was the most wanted criminal in Hyrule because of his attack) and then sent to the mirror chamber to have him executed. He hid the fact that he had the triforce of power so that he could hit them when the least expected it. Link had the triforce of courage as shown in the final cutscene (he has a triforce mark on his hand), and Zelda got the Triforce of Wisdom (who else would). Unlike Ganondorf though, the current Zelda and Link weren't immortal. But the triforce pieces that they held stayed in the bloodline, making their pieces of the triforce get passed down from Link 1 to Link 2 and...ect. Same for Zelda. That's how both Link and Zelda have those pieces in TP.

When the ancient sages stuck the holy sword into Ganondorf, he chose that moment to unleash his power. He had decided that doing it then would allow him to kill all of the sages there (he had them with their pants down, more or less), and then escape. That was the best time because the sages would give him trouble when he became the evil ruler, and what better time then when they were all there at the same time, in a small area, completely off guard? But something he didn't know about caught HIM off guard: The mirror of Twilight.

I'm not going to go into detail about TP's in game story, because you should already know if you're reading this. Anyway, at the end, when Ganondorf was dead with the TOP still in him, and Zelda and Link still in possession of their pieces at the same place and time, they got and idea. The thought the same thing Ganondorf had thought: combine the three pieces back to their original state. They did so, which combined the triforce into its true shape again. Then they got someone who had a balanced heart (so it won't split AGAIN) from the royal family (probably the king himself) to be the triforce's master. Hyrule entered a golden age for a time. But as said in ALTTP, you only remain the full triforce's master so long as you live. The king eventually died, at which point the triforce went back to the sacred realm.

So that explain how the triforce was broken, and then repaired and put back in the sacred realm before ALTTP took place.

[Sol_Badguy]

Good theory!

[realpolitik]

Would be a good theory, except there is no way the Triforce can exist outside of time, as you claim it does.

Let's say that hypothetically, TP and TWW occur at the same time. What would happen in TP when the Triforce is united during TWW? It creates a paradox and just fundamentally doesn't make sense.

Now, I'm willing to CONSIDER putting aLttP in the Child Timeline, but I need one more game to convince me of it. For now, I'm leaving it in the Adult. Let's see how PH turns out.

[LexLionHart]

Question: When does this game take place?

Aonuma: This version takes place a few decades after Ocarina of Time and before Wind Waker.

Source: http://www.games.net/features/100583.shtml

[TSA]

That statement was made pre-release and over a year ago.  It's invalid.

[Fierce Diety]

I like this theory- good one..

[Eater]

That statement was made pre-release and over a year ago.  It's invalid.

So why would the quote about TWW taking place after "one of OoT's endings" still be valid?

[realpolitik]

So why would the quote about TWW taking place after "one of OoT's endings" still be valid?

First, that statement was made post-release. Second, and more importantly, TWW itself overwhelmingly proves that it takes place after the Adult ending of OoT.

[Kendra]

Isnt it something that after finishing everything Hyrule sinks (in TP) and then TWW starts?

[LexLionHart]

That statement was made pre-release and over a year ago.  It's invalid.

It has been invalidated? Where?

[Wolfos]

It has been invalidated? Where?

Well Probably because anouma said much more first he said ww is 100 years after oot then he suddenly said it was 500. I'm 100% sure that tp takes a place in the child time line and ww does not.

Also some things prove that alttp takes place after tp but how much time is yet unknown.

[LexLionHart]

The idea that TP comes in between OoT and TWW was never invalidated. That it was not restated in more recent quotes proves nothing.

Also some things prove that alttp takes place after tp but how much time is yet unknown.

And some things prove that ALttP takes place after TWW, such as the existence of an octopus imprint in the desert, the fact that FSA leads into to the events of ALttP very well, such as the Kakariko thieves fleeing to the Lost Woods, where they remain in ALttP, and the fact that the Desert Temple, which keeps guard over the desert Pyramid, falls into ruin by ALttP (when TMC features islands from TWW in one of its backdrops and a direct reference to "Triumph Forks," a term coined in TWW, and is surely before FSA).