The AoL BS can work on the AT. The towns are named after the sages, according to Aonuma. AoL takes place "after the events of OoT" according to that Aonuma interview last year. Looking at the AoL map (lolgeography... but still) it's clearly very water based.
I pretty much agree with this.
There really isn't anything hinting towards a CT placement of LoZ/AoL... except a 1991 box, which people from Nintendo have already said was wrong.
Well, we already addressed that issue. ALttP works very well as a prequel. Better, in my opinion, than anywhere else. Because it gives Ganon, Hyrule, and the Triforce an origin. Which is what I believe the game was obviously aiming to do.
Anyway, I can understand your logic. I see how LoZ/AoL could work on the AT. But the problem is that LoZ and AoL have very little information to them. They have very little, and confusing, backstories. AoL's in particular basically states two important things: The King of Hyrule ruled with the Triforce, and the original Zelda was put in a sleeping spell, thus every Zelda after her would be named Zelda. And we know, or at least can obviously see, how this wouldn't work taking place before the other games.
But just as much as the AoL BS an fit on the AT, it could fit on the CT just as well. No one knows of this "first-gen Zelda".
~Our Reasonings~
*You, Sign, speculate that she could be the first Zelda of a new Hyrule. I could say that she is a Zelda that was born sometime after OoX. It fits both ways.
*You have Aonuma's quote to go by, where the towns in AoL were named after Sages that ONLY existed on the AT.
*My question for that is, what about the other towns? There was Darunia, Ruto, Rauru, and Nabooru that were relative to the Sages (I don't think I left any out there). First, they completely left out Impa. Then, you had Mido and Kasuto. First, Mido was a small annoying Kokiri kid in OoT who had little to no importance, especially like that of a Sages. And Kasuto has never been mentioned as a character in Zelda before, or anyone else for that matter. So, I'm not saying that these locations were necessarily unimportant altogether, but I think they
could have been named after important people from Hyrule's past. That does go against Aonuma's quote, but its an idea at least. Darunia was the leader of the Gorons. Ruto was the princess of the Zora tribe. I don't recall if Nabooru had any major importance of leadership amongst the Gerudo or not. Then Mido was a Kokiri kid. He was, or felt like, he was a leader of sorts amongst that group. Kasuto is out there for me. And Rauru, well I don't know what he did before he was a Sage, but he was the Sage of the Temple of Light, relative to the Temple of Time.
*I have the fact that OoX sets up the BS of AoL better. The Triforce is in Hyrule during and after OoX, as we can see from the intro. That gives us some information to at least know that the Triforce was there; In Hyrule Castle, in fact. That sets up the story perfectly for the king to rule with the Triforce, seeing as how its settin in a castle which he controls, in a land that he has dominion over. On your side, all this
could happen sometime after WW/PH, but on my side, we actually see parts of it happening already on the CT.
*You have the fact that AoL's version of Hyrule is greatly water-based. NOT meaning that Hyrule was un-flooded, because you too believe that this cannot happen, but because it was likely that the new Hyrule was found on another island or group of islands which would, of course, be surrounded by a lot of water.
*My geographical points look to landmarks in LoZ/AoL's Hyrule, relative to landmarks present in ALttP, OoT, and TP's Hyrule. Places like Death Mountain are present, as well as Spectacle Rock, a place in Death Mountain that apparently shows up ALttP and I have heard is somewhere in OoT or TP as well. Spectacle Rock, of course, shows up in LoZ/AoL's Hyrule as well. Now I have never heard of the location in ALttP being referred to as THE Spectacle Rock, and I have never seen a location that would be Spectacle Rock in OoT or TP (I read this info on Zelda Wiki), but I do have the fact that it is very well known in LoZ.
~Then, in WW, you have Spectacle Island, which is quite obviously the tips of Spectacle Rock, which we seen in LoZ. And again, I will go back to the idea before, which was that anyone who made it to new Hyrule would have little to no information about the old Hyrule, especially the specific names of its landmarks. Thus, it is VERY unlikely that the new Hyrule would have a location called Death Mountain. It is even more unlikely that a specific spot in this location would be named Spectacle Rock in a new land. Since it is obvious that Spectacle Island is part of Spectacle Rock in old Hyrule, which is now flooded and gone, it makes it very difficult to believe the same location could show up and be named the same in a new Hyrule.