Did Rauru even know about the Master Sword in TotK? Didn't seem like it.
He did, I can tell because I immediately recognize his voice the moment Link woke up in the beginning of the game. And that was before I knew Rauru was in the game.
Wait? are we talking about in the past, or in the present? Rauru had no idea what the blade was in the past, but did seem to recognize it in the present.
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I think my immediate point would be that Rauru isn't an owl person. The Rauru we meet in TotK is very much a weird looking goat person without owl characteristics. Additionally, the technology we see in Skyward Sword just does not resemble that of the Zonai in TotK. We see what their technology looks like both in current day and in flashbacks and it isn't the Skyward Sword stuff. Considering that flashbacks in TotK show us a time just after Skyward Sword it wouldn't make much sense for all this Zonai tech to be laying around all decrepit and such.
There also isn't anything indicating that the Zonai were capable of just taking their physical forms and altering them into a microscopic species that they only bear a cursory resemblance to. One species suddenly changing into another already feels like an ass pull in Wind Waker, but it seems like a super ass pull with the Minish given how nothing in the series indicates it.
(I also wouldn't point to the books saying, "Bro, the timeline makes no ****ing sense," as a point in the series' favor. When the source material goes out of its way to say that it can and will retcon everything about the lore then you're in for a bad time).
Okay. it sounds like you are not reading what I post, and you are just posting to argue.
Rauru and Mineru's whole aesthetic is owls. Owl statues and owl jewelry, as pictured, plus the owl chests. One doesn't need to literally be an owl to be considered an "Owl King." Especially with how BotW and TotK treat the symbolism.
I have already stated that it's the function of the technology that defines it, not the outward appearance; even with the example that two cellphones can look different, but still have the same technology under the hood. Now you say that the outward appearance of the technology doesn't match. And, yet! if you just look at the pictures I posted, all of the example technology does indeed have some commonality. The stone, or stone like material, and the circuit patterns that glow when activated.
I have also pointed out that we absolutely see the Zoni ability to alter something's size, present in the displaced shrines growing, and large items shrinking to fit onto weapons. And, now you say that we don't have any indication of the Zoni being able to change size. Your dissatisfaction of how the series has a history of changing one people into another is pointless information.
As far as I can tell, the the only one here who is angry that things don't aparently make sence, is you. As far as I am concerned, by following the clues of the artifacts, like the creators have said, everything is making sence. It all fits, when you just follow the logic.
Considering that flashbacks in TotK show us a time just after Skyward Sword it wouldn't make much sense for all this Zonai tech to be laying around all decrepit and such.
See, with this one statement, I can tell that you aren't even following the threads of your own logic. From the point of view that Rauru's reign took place between SS and MC, it doesn't make sence at all. And, speaking of which, you have still not explained to me about there being enough time between SS and MC for two sivilizations to emerge, one after the other. From the point of view that Rauru's reign taking place before SS, the actual war with Demise is why everything was abandoned, then the rebuilding happened after SS, which is why we don't see most of the ruins untill TotK. Placing Rauru's reign after all games, asside from the new ones makes more sence than between SS and MC, especally in defence of one line on a page that tells us that the entier page could be changed at a moment's motice.
I'll offer you one more chance, at this. How does it make sence for the Zoni to found Hyrule after SS, when the Oocca also built it, for the kingdom to fall far enough from that version for Hyrule to go around and rebuild everything, in enough time to build the Hyrule we see in MC, while also sticking to there only being one founding of Hyrule? And, does that have any berring on the origional question?