Temple of Time

[MagmarFire]

I'm not exactly sure what you're responding to here. ;)

Gah, late post! My bad. :P

[BaconWarrior]

I'm pretty sure the Mirror of Twilight was always at the Arbiter's Grounds until Zant broke it.

Maybe they built it to enshrine the master sword and as a monument to the godesses.  And they relocated it to a sacred place, hence the name the sacred grove.

[iastreb]

We do't even know where TP is located in the timeline. Even the split time theory doesn't answer to that question...  :( So, we don't know if it the same Hyrule. And look at the Chamber of Time(back in time version) I don't remember seeing in OoT something like that. Maybe the Master sword was moved?  :o ???

[BaconWarrior]

Maybe so but why, no evil can wield it anyway.

[Commodore Axilon]

It's fairly obvious that the Temple of Time in TP is not the same Temple of Time from OoT. It doesn't really look the same and it's in an entirely different location.

As for why the Master Sword was moved? As I said earlier, it doesn't make any sense. I'm just content to think that Nintendo really dropped the ball and it was moved because the Hylians are a bunch of idiots. This conveniently also works for why it's in the castle in TWW too. :P

[Hi no Seijin]

And the Lost Woods in ALttP, but I think there's a theory that two Master Swords were made.  Can't remember where I read that theory, so I'm afraid you're going to have to look for it yourself. ;)

[Commodore Axilon]

Is this what you're talking about?

Seems fairly reasonable to me.

[Hi no Seijin]

Why, yes it is.  Thank you for finding that for me, Commodore.

[DW]

It's fairly obvious that the Temple of Time in TP is not the same Temple of Time from OoT. It doesn't really look the same and it's in an entirely different location.

As for why the Master Sword was moved? As I said earlier, it doesn't make any sense. I'm just content to think that Nintendo really dropped the ball and it was moved because the Hylians are a bunch of idiots. This conveniently also works for why it's in the castle in TWW too. :P

Or it could keep ending up in different locations because people in Hyrule seem to be obsessed with trading sidequests. Who knows, maybe one of them traded the Temple of Time with someone too :P

[BaconWarrior]

 :o right...........  anywho.. Its location probably has nothing to do with the game Nintendo probably just puts in various locatons in different games to appease their appetites for confusion.

[Commodore Axilon]

Or they don't actually care about this "continuity" stuff as much as we'd like the think they do.

[Shadow Ganon]

There could be a few answers if you use your imagination. For example, the story takes place 100 years after Ocarina of Time (on the child timeline) therefore many aspects of Hyrule are likely to change. Maybe the original Temple of Time was destroyed/abandoned etc, therefore the Hylians felt the need to build a new temple.

Maybe the Pedestal of Time is infact a 'timewarp.' It is common to control the flow of time in Zelda games and common to warp to places.

The puzzle could be that Ganondorf or one of his minions aquired the Spiritual Stones and the Ocarina of Time, therefore the goddesses moved the temple out of his reach and guarded it with a puzzle... think of it simply as changing the locks.

Use your imagination folks, that's why Nintendo leaves plot holes. So we can picture unchronicled events and fill them in with whatever we want.

[ZeldaFreak]

Neither ganon nor zant put the monsters there, the forest is hidden to keep the master sword safe, so they cant go in (if they could, they would have taken the master sword). The monsters are there because the mirror shard brought them there; just like monsters appeared at the yetis house. As for how you get inside, i would guess that scince you already opened it in a previous game, the seal or whatever would be broken, but i cant be sure because i havent  played OoT. Maybe twilight princess is earlier/later in the time line than we thought. Think about that. :)