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I still don't think that Breath of the Wild takes place at the end of every timeline. I'm firmly in the Child timeline camp. The only way I can see it being at the very end of a bunch of timelines is only if it is at the end of the Hero is Successful timelines (because I don't believe there are any mentions whatsoever to anything on the Downfall timeline, correct me if I'm wrong), and even then pretty much everything about the Adult timeline would have to have been forgotten and replaced with stuff from the Child timeline, such as Ganon and the very existence of Sheikah (who only appear in the origin and adult timelines). To my knowledge, the only reasons people seem to think the Adult timeline has anything to do with Breath of the Wild are the Koroks, Rito, and the salt mentioning it coming from "the ancient sea." The last one is kind of a stretch, and the Koroks definitely could have descended from the Kokiri in the same exact way they did in Wind Waker (in fact, this is almost a certainty). The only strange one is the Rito, because the only other game they appear in is Wind Waker where they evolved from the Zora. However, there are Rito engravings in Twilight Princess, indicating that they did exist alongside the Zora even at that point. It is certainly possible that they did come from the Zora, just in a different way.
@beardalaxy Yeah, the Adult Timeline doesn't make sense. Either the new Hyrule in Spirit Tracks also ends up in the same fate in BoTW or the Korok's have successfully did their duty on creating new land. In either case, the ruins in the game are NOT the same ruins from the other timelines.
Downfall Timeline doesn't make sense either. In that timeline, the Gorons left Hyrule to the lands in the Oracle games and the Zoras ended up becoming hostile River Zoras. I remember someone showing that if you flood the lower elevations of the BoTW map, it vaguely resembles the world map of Zelda II.
I also really don't get why it needs to take place 10,000 years after the previous games. That is a HUGE timeskip. I know it's all fantasy but having the same civilization, races, etc all in the same form for that long doesn't make sense to me. The Zoras and the Rito are the only ones that seem to change during that time.
@xianc78 i agree, 10,000 years is way too long. they probably did it more or less to just sound cool lol. a few hundred years is long enough for plenty of stuff to change and enter mythical status. 10,000 years is a super long time. perhaps 1,000 years would have been better (which is what PSO2NGS did actually lol).
@xianc78 and those minecarts are powered by BOMBS.
@beardalaxy You do have the motorcycle in one of the DLCs (I never tried any of them). I would like to imagine that Hyrule had highways at some point before whatever the king of Hyrule was 10,000 years prior banished the Sheikah. But it was most likely the case that the motorcycle was an afterthought.
Bomb powered transportation doesn't seem out of the ordinary in the Zelda Universe. If you check in some corner in the Bomb Shop in Majora's Mask there is a note taking about a planned moon mission using a bomb powered rocket. Even though Termina is more technologically advanced than Hyrule and is in a separate world, you think at that point after 10,000+ years of bomb powered minecarts, you think Hyrule would do the same and would have already been a space-faring civilization by the time of BoTW.
@xianc78 motorcycle comes from the sheikah slate so i don't really count that. it's kind of a one-of-a-kind thing. it actually wasn't totally an afterthought either. one of the original pitches for the wii u zelda game that would become breath of the wild was a much more modern take where link would ride on a motorcycle and had to collect goddess instruments.
@beardalaxy I really hate that Link design, though a Zelda in a modern-ish setting ala FFXV would be kind of cool.
@xianc78 yeah the art is fucking terrible lol, i imagine it would have ended up looking a bit more like breath of the wild but with modern clothing.
@xianc78 i'd fucking love a zelda game in a samurai-jack-styled universe. all the enemies have guns but you're link with a fucking glowing sword.
@beardalaxy The original Phantasy Star games took place 1000 years apart (except for III and IV which took place in parallel of each other), as Dark Force appears every millennium.
@xianc78 yeah i've never played the originals, just online. i know just a little bit more about zelda, you could say xD
@xianc78 also if it was in the adult timeline, there would be fucking trains lmao. the most advanced form of travel they have in botw is minecart.