I'd first like to quickly mention that I'm not overly knowledgeable with these types of theories, chains of events, which games come first, etc... However, this has just been something that's been on my mind for quite some time.
While it isn't a universal belief, based on statements from Nintendo and based on simple in game scenes, it appears there was a split timeline, as it is commonly referred to as.
Minish Cap perhaps being the first game, then Ocarina of Time, and then a split. With one direction headed towards Majora's Mask, and the other direction headed towards various games. The Oracle series have always seemed to be thrown in somewhere in different peoples timelines, but usually happening at the same time, within the same timeline.
The 'merged' timeline that I've just thought up in the past has Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons happening simultaneously but in DIFFERENT Timelines. Perhaps the events from Ocarina of Time and future games in each respective side of the timeline have triggered these events to be different, but similar.
Link then battles through both games and at the end of each game, Link has the ability to use passwords to link each game together. The games at this point then become one. Since there is already time travel involved in the Oracle of Ages, can this password system be some sort of merging timeline process? Something along the lines of...
__TMC
___l__
___l__
__OOT
__/_ \
_/ ___\
MM __???
_l_____l
_l_____l
???___???
_l_____l
_l_____l
???___???
_l_____l
_l_____l
OOA_ OOS
_\___ /
__\ _/
Oracle Ending
___l
___l
__???
(The poor formating made me include _'s to space it out properly)
The question marks will differ depending on which theorist or theory we go by, but this is the general idea of a possible model. Is this logical at all? Or is it just my own mind overthinking the Timeline? I like it, and think it would be a cool solution.
While it isn't a universal belief, based on statements from Nintendo and based on simple in game scenes, it appears there was a split timeline, as it is commonly referred to as.
Minish Cap perhaps being the first game, then Ocarina of Time, and then a split. With one direction headed towards Majora's Mask, and the other direction headed towards various games. The Oracle series have always seemed to be thrown in somewhere in different peoples timelines, but usually happening at the same time, within the same timeline.
The 'merged' timeline that I've just thought up in the past has Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons happening simultaneously but in DIFFERENT Timelines. Perhaps the events from Ocarina of Time and future games in each respective side of the timeline have triggered these events to be different, but similar.
Link then battles through both games and at the end of each game, Link has the ability to use passwords to link each game together. The games at this point then become one. Since there is already time travel involved in the Oracle of Ages, can this password system be some sort of merging timeline process? Something along the lines of...
__TMC
___l__
___l__
__OOT
__/_ \
_/ ___\
MM __???
_l_____l
_l_____l
???___???
_l_____l
_l_____l
???___???
_l_____l
_l_____l
OOA_ OOS
_\___ /
__\ _/
Oracle Ending
___l
___l
__???
(The poor formating made me include _'s to space it out properly)
The question marks will differ depending on which theorist or theory we go by, but this is the general idea of a possible model. Is this logical at all? Or is it just my own mind overthinking the Timeline? I like it, and think it would be a cool solution.