The franchise begins before the Kingdom of Hyrule is founded or the Master Sword is even created. In Skyward Sword, Link hails from the flying island town of Skyloft where he's a knight in training and childhood best friends with Zelda.
His adventure begins when Zelda is spirited away to the Surface by mysterious forces, compelling him to explore the unknown world below.
Skyward Sword was famous for its extensive use of motion controls and the chance to explore the sky world with a flying mount. The story's events set the stage for generations of battle over the Triforce, while contextualizing the cycle that keeps Link, Zelda, and Ganon together along with the history of the Master Sword. The Minish Cap is the first game in the timeline to take place in Hyrule, and was the closest thing to an origin story for Link's cap before Skyward Sword was released.
The title refers both to a diminutive people called the Minish, as well as a particular Minish named Ezlo. After being turned into a bird-like cap by the treacherous Vaati, Ezlo teams up with Link to save Hyrule. The Minish Cap also marks the first chronological appearance of the recurring Four Sword, describing its creation and role in the first battle against Vaati. Notably, The Minish Cap also features a power called the "Light Force" which takes the Triforce's functional role in the story.
Whether or not the two forces are directly related has yet to be confirmed. The now-monstrous Vaati returns for the next game in the timeline. Four Swords places emphasis on the Four Sword itself and was the first game in the series to introduce the blade. In fact, Four Swords was the first multiplayer Legend of Zelda entry and required two to four players to complete. Four Swords was later released as a free single player title on the DSi and 3DS, albeit only temporarily.
Narratively, Four Swords contributes little to the Zelda timeline other than introducing the Four Sword itself as a concept. At this point in the timeline, Vaati is a beast who's lost most sense of self and the game itself spends next to no time on cutscenes — focusing on randomly generated dungeons instead.
In the end, Vaati is sealed away and Zelda is rescued by the Link s. Arguably the most famous entry in the series, Ocarina of Time holds a very important place in the timeline. The story focuses on seven years of the Hero of Time's life as his childhood is uprooted and destiny forces him to confront Ganondorf long before he's ready.
Time travel becomes pivotal in thwarting Ganondorf's conquest of Hyrule, as well as influencing the future of the Zelda timeline. At the end of Ocarina of Time, Princess Zelda divides the timeline by sending Link back to the past without compromising the future. OoT's end credits clarify that these past and future timelines can coexist, setting the stage for sequels that branch from Ocarina's ending.
There's actually a third timeline that's not seen in Ocarina of Time, but has played a crucial role in recontextualizing the 2D games.
As revealed by the 'Hyrule Historia,' there's an unseen timeline branching from Ocarina of Time where Link fails in stopping Ganon — directly leading into the Imprisoning War that's a part of ALttP's backstory. The NES games heavily feature Christian imagery, which A Link to the Past exchanges for Hyrule's polytheistic society while also establishing the kingdom's creation myth in the manual.
It goes back further than any other entry in the franchise, more or less serving as the entire Zelda universe's origin point. It, in turn, becomes very difficult to take the series any further back in time. All that said, Skyward Sword seems to reference a Link before the main Link who died protecting Hylia. While it may not work as a game, this bit of lore was adapted into a now non-canonical one-off manga. The game that gave The Legend of Zelda its timeline split, Ocarina of Time simultaneously takes place in the Child and Adult timelines.
Of note, Ocarina of Time marks the first time that Link and Zelda confront Ganondorf, beginning their eternal rivalry. Originally, the game was meant to cover the Imprisoning War, but that thread was lost during development.
At the end of the game, Princess Zelda ends up creating two timelines after sending Link back to the past. But more on that last bit later. After being sent back to the past by Princess Zelda, the Hero of Time spends six months in Hyrule only to leave the kingdom behind on a personal quest. In fact, the first two games released - The Legend of Zelda and The Adventure of Link - are some of the last in the chronology.
For a long time, the series didn't even have a public timeline. Nintendo first published an official Zelda timeline in 's Hyrule Historia , 15 years after The Legend of Zelda' s release. Being the first non-sequel Zelda game to release since Hyrule Historia , much speculation was had about where Breath of the Wild fit in the timeline, and Nintendo finally revealed Breath of the Wild' s timeline placement in mid The resulting chronology is a mess of events, names, and branches, confounded by reincarnations, a timeline split, and a timeline convergence.
In the beginning, three goddesses - Din, Nayru, and Farore - descend from the heavens and create the world. They leave behind the Triforce, an artifact that can grant a mortal being's wishes. Another goddess, Hylia, serves as the keeper of the Triforce, until a demon called Demise attempts to take it from her. Hylia sends the world's people to live in the floating islands of Skyloft, where they are safe from Demise. She seals Demise away a common defense against evil in the Zelda universe , but this weakens her greatly.
Knowing she can't stop Demise if he breaks free, she transfers her soul into a mortal girl named Zelda, enabling her to instead use the Triforce's power to seal Demise away again. She also creates the spirit-imbued Goddess Sword, capable of bestowing itself upon a hero "who possesses an unbreakable spirit.
In Skyward Sword , Hylia's prediction comes true. Demise breaks his seal, returning to bring destruction to the world. He is eventually defeated by Zelda and her heroic friend Link, but Demise bestows a curse on them before his death, promising his evil spirit will haunt those of the "blood of the goddess and the spirit of the hero.
The spirits from the Zelda universe's creation story become the series' central characters, destined to play out different versions of the same struggle and continually manifesting themselves whether by reincarnation or direct descent in different versions of the same beings.
Demise is reincarnated as Ganon and Ganondorf, Hylia is reincarnated as Zelda, and the hero is reincarnated as Link, wielding the Master Sword with the dormant Goddess Sword spirit inside. Following Skyward Sword , a few important events take place: First, Zelda seals the Sacred Realm - a sort of holy dimension where the Triforce is kept - off from the mortal world.
Second, she banishes to the Twilight Realm a group of sorcerers who sought to invade the Sacred Realm this will become important in Twilight Princess. Third, with Demise gone, the surface is safe for the humans a. Hylians to descend from Skyloft, so they return to the surface world and establish the kingdom of Hyrule. Duke it out in the fourth entry of the Super Smash Bros. New features are an eight player-mode, support for Nintendo's Amiibos, custom Miis as playable fighters, post-release DLC and more.
It takes place in Hytopia, a kingdom whose citizens are obsessed with fashion. Princess Styla holds a great power over Hytopia until a witch known as "The Lady" curses her. King Tuft sends out a call for a hero who can lift it. After having his Ocarina stolen by the masked Skull Kid, Link sets off on a quest to save the land of Termina from getting destroyed in three days.
When an otherworldly darkness covers the land, a young knight teams up with an imp on a quest to defeat the King of Shadows. After a century of hibernation, Link reawakens to once again save a ruined Hyrule from a great evil. Votes: 6, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch brings back every fighter in the history of the series, adds newcomers and over stages, and introduces a new adventure mode called "World of Light''.
With the kingdom in danger, the Triforce summons Cadence to Hyrule, so that she may team up with Link and Zelda to stop Octavo. Taking place a hundred years before the events of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , Link, Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule, and more must save the kingdom of Hyrule as a great evil begins its calamity.
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