Hmm, if this is true, then it lends to my thoughts that Ocarina of Time's temple placement dun goofed. The forest placement seems to be a common trend here, but OoT seems to befuddle things a bit. There's no way that OoT's faulty placement can be "fixed" in the timeline, either--not even retcon would work, as the entire plot of OoT was dependent upon the temple's Hyrule Castle Town placement. The only solution seems to exist outside of the established canon, and that's the theory that the temple had to have been moved (quite the conundrum).
The problem is the sacard grove is too far south from Death Mountain, which the Castle and Temple from Ocarina of Time were notably close to. Nintendo really messes up geography between zelda games, lol.
Yeah that's why the Lost Woods makes perfect sense. Think about it, the Lost Woods in Ocarina of Time connect to places far away defying all geographical logic - Death Mountain, Zora River and even a completely different world (Termina). The woods are obviously enchanted and have magical teleporting properties, which would explain why the remains of the old Temple can be found there.
You know what, that does make sense. Lol, it slipped my mind until you jogged my memory. You know I just realized it is kind of odd that the area of the temple is cut off from the regular Faron region as if it's a lone Island that really shouldn't even be there. Also I think I do recall noticing that the particular trees in the area of the ruined temple aren't consistent with a majority of the trees found out in the regular Faron Woods, which indicates that the section of the temple isn't native to that area. In the past I kind of wrote it off, but it actually works to back this particular theory.
Yeah I agree. The area has a much more enchanted feel to the rest of the woods.
I just put the game in like a few hours ago, the trees in the Sacard Grove seem to be sequoia trees, the trees in the regular Faron areas are Oak, or something similar. The trees that seem to look like they are smaller versions of the trees in the sacard grove are found all around the feild areas, especially in the Lanayru region, close to Hyrule Castle.
They totally messed up the geography. Yeah that notion I got about the Temple being destroyed and rebuilt was wrong, a friend told me he read that in the book.Hyrule Historia page 117: The Temple of Time, home to the Master Sword's pedestal, has rotted away and lies in ruins within the forest.
And to be honest, it seems that the ruins you see are actually the old Hyrule Castle town's remains.
If you look at the map (I had to mirror it because it was the Wii version) and in-game you'd see what seems the remains of Hyrule Castle Town and the route that went to the front door of the Temple of Time. The ( ) bit seems to be what's left of the fountain that stood in the middle of it.
At least, it seems that this is what Nintendo intended. There's also castle walls to be seen. So with this information, it seems that a battle took place here and after it was destroyed and deserted, nature took it back and transformed it into a forest. Assumably, this happening is related to Ganondorf's capture. Afterwards, the Castle and Market were relocated.
But yeah so far none of the geography changes from OOT to TP make any sense. It's just that the Hero's Shade doesn't look like he was buried because he's covered in vines, but if he died in the forest he'd become a Stalfos. And since he's not a Stalfos, my bet is that he died right there on the battlefield and the forest took over afterwards. But of course, that is all just speculation.
