Zelda Re: Issue Five...

[MagmarFire]

...is now up on the front page. No, this topic is not in the wrong forum. No, the article is not a review.

No, you can't get ye flask.

Anyway, post your comments here if you want direct discussion. Otherwise, go ahead and comment on the article itself. Not that I have control over you either way. Yet. ;)

[The Glamour Nazi]

I liked the timeline, but I seriously think MC comes at the beginning (there hasn't been a statement after it's release saying it comes after or before OoT) even if my only proof is the lack of hat in any picture of the heroes. Also it could be that the four sword/picori sword was sealed away and forgotten until the 4S saga and temple of the four sword.

Otherwise I agree with your placements.

*runs from many rocks being thrown at me because I said MC comes first.*

[MagmarFire]

^ I guess the hat thing would assume that the Kokiri would have adopted the style of clothing, which was my impression of the green clothes motif in the series. However, the more I think of it, the more I see that it could be that the Kokiri and the Minish are closely related, especially the forest variety of Minish. Also, considering that the Kokiri are children, that would mean that they would be able to see them, too.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Now I can really see TMC, and maybe even the rest of the Four Swords saga, coming before OoT. There'd be some contradictions/retcons with Ganondorf, I'm sure, which was what I was trying to avoid, but that does hold water otherwise.

For the sake of keeping the number of versions of my timeline to a minimum, however, I'll leave it the way it is. I'll call this version "Timeline Beta," if you will.

[The Glamour Nazi]

Awesome, my babbling got recognition.

And I don't think they all happened before OoT. I think FS+ happens later (about 1 generation after ALttP) or right after MC, but Ganon doesn't appear before OoT. So I say it's 1 gen after ALttP or that generation.

[MagmarFire]

Okay, then, so we can think of Timeline Beta as the following?

             TWW - PH - ST - TLoZ - TAoL - (OoA/OoS)
            /                       
TMC - OoT
            \
             MM - TP - ALttP - LA - FS - FSA
                           (OoA/OoS)

[The Glamour Nazi]

sorta makes sense. Although the time between the split and the two Oracles are a bit different unless TP>ALttP/Oo is a long time. The oracles took place at the same point and through linking link the timelines back. (my take on it anyway.)