I've tried to include details on what to think about and what to forget. If anybody is confused, tell me exactly what you're confused about and I'll try to answer your question.
Well, I've compared going to Holodrum and Labrynna with going to Termina. In Majora's Mask, Link goes through a tunnel and falls down a very long hole. Somewhere in that tunnel would have to be a warp. You could say that Termina is under Hyrule. But there's just one little big tiny problem: If Hyrule is above Termina, how can there be a sky? I'll make a quick ASCII map of it. I'm using special characters like ¯ (top line), so anybody using a Windows might get something like Ø (zero with a line through it). Also, the forums keep screwing up the map by putting a space in the middle of each line. Just ignore it. I'm tired of trying to fix the problem.
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What the heck is "Kore wa Clock Town Desu"?
"Kore" means "this". "Clock Town" is the subject of the sentence. The particle "wa" marks the topic of the sentence, in this case "Clock Town" "Desu" means "is"\"it is". Japanese is spoken in the for of Subject, Object, Verb whereas English is spoken in the form of Subject, Verb, Object. So the sentence "I eat meat" in written in SOV would be "I meat eat". So when you take "Kore wa Clock Town Desu" and inser the words, you get "This Clock Town Is". That doesn't quite sound right. So let's rewrite it in the correct English word order. We get "This is Clock Town". Notice how I left out "wa". "Wa" is just used to mark the topic of the sentence, it has no additional meaning. Congratulations! You just learned some Japanese! Now let's get back on task.
Where the ?????? is where the problem is. If Termina is under Hyrule, then Clock Town, Termina Field, Ikana, everything is be dark because of the shadow of Hyrule. Unless there's a sky under Hyrule.
The same thing goes for Koholint Island. Nobody knows where is it. Let's forget that the island is a dream. For now it's real, just like Hyrule is. The west side of Termina has what appears to be an ocean. I believe that this is where Koholint Island is located:
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Many, Many, Many~~~~~~~~~|~~Koholint~~|~~~~~Many, Many, Many~~~~~~~~~\ Great Bay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Miles Of Ocean~~~~~~~~~~|~~~Island~~~|~~~~~~Miles Of Ocean~~~~~~~~~~/
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Do you see what I mean? Now onto the Oracle games. On the Holodrum and Labrynna map to the south is an ocean. We know that bot are islands because the north section of the map has an ocean far off in the background. We can now assume that these two island are located in the same ocean that Koholint is. Now we need to think about the exact location. Now, forget when the games were made. Let's just focus on the islands.
We know that all three islands are pretty far away from themselves. If they weren't, then you'd be able to see the south Labyrnna beach from the north part of Holodrum. So we could say that Koholink is Japan, Labyrnna is Italy, and Holodrum is the United States. No matter where you are in Japan, you can't see Italy or the US. The same goes if you were in Italy or the US. Now onto mapping!
These are the possible locations for Holodrum and Labyrnna in the same ocean as Koholint:
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|~~Location~~|~~~~~Many, Many, Many~~~~~~~~~|~~Koholint~~|~~~~~Many, Many, Many~~~~~~~~~\ Great Bay
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This is where I get stuck. Unless they release a game that confirms the locations, then we may never know. The game that could have confirmed this would probably have been the lost Oracle game: Mystical Seed Of Courage. If you don't know about the lost Oracle game, I'll quickly explain it.
Shigeru Miyamoto said that he would create three games that would be known as the "Triforce Series." Each game would be about a piece of the Triforce (Power, Wisdom, and Courage), revolving around a Goddess (Din, Nayru, and Farore). Each game would feature different elements of the Zelda series. The Din-Wisdom game would to be puzzle-based, the Nayru-Power game would be action-based. But the bad thing is that the gameplay of the third title (Farore) was never revealed. There would be a theme to each game as well:
1. The Din-Power game had a season theme, the Rod of Seasons would alter the seasons and solve puzzles.
2. The Nayru-Wisdom game featured an item called the Magic Paintbrush, used to solve color-themed puzzles.
3. The Farore-Courage game was to have a theme of time. You would use morning, noon, evening and night to solve puzzles.
These three games were known as the "Mystical Seed Trilogy". Their titles were Mystical Seed Of Power, Mystical Seed Of Wisdom, and Mystical Seed Of Courage.
A new and unique feature of the three games was their ability to be linked together using a password system. However, in the development of the games, the coordination of three games grew way to complex and confusing. To simplify the problem, Mystical Seed Of Courage was cancelled and it reduced the series to just two titles. With the game cancelled, the other two games were then redesigned and renamed. Mystical Seed Of Wisdom was renamed Oracle Of Ages, and it used Courage's time mechanic system. Mystical Seed Of Power was renamed Oracle Of Seasons and it kept it's original season-changing gameplay. Together, they became known as the Oracle series of today. But if you think about it, we are actually playing Mystical Seed Of Courage not Mystical Seed Of Wisdom. If you're confused, then here:
| Original Name | New Name ,,,| Original Game Element | New Game Element ,,,,,,,,,|
| MSO Power,,,,,| Seasons ,,,,| Season-changing ,,,,,,| Season-changing ,,,,,,,,,,|
| MSO Courage,,,| [cancelled] | Time-changing ,,,,,,,,| [cancelled] ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,|
| MSO Wisdom,,,,| Ages ,,,,,,,| Color-changing ,,,,,,,| Time-changing (aka Aging) |
But I'm still satisfied with what was released. Here's the known facts about the lost game:
1. Mystical Seed Of Courage was going to feature the Goddess Farore, just like Din's appearance in Oracle Of Seasons, and Nayru's appearance in Oracle Of Ages.
2. This game was to feature time travel, and puzzles involving the time of day.
3. Oracle Of Ages was originally going to feature puzzles involving colors. When The Mystical Seed Of Courage was canceled, Oracle of Ages took the time travel theme.
4. No screenshots of this game exist. So we don't know what it would have looked like.
5. The game would have somehow involved the Book of Secrets.
6. The box was likely going to be green, with the game titled Oracle Of X. The title of the game would probability have been Oracle Of Secrets. Think about it. Oracle of Seasons - Rod Of Seasons, Orackle Of Ages - Harp Of Ages, Oracle Of Secrets, Book Of Secrets.
7. The Triforce of Power would have been split, revealing once again that the Triforce could be split into separate pieces.
This is a lot to handle, right? So I'm going to stop here. Hopefully I didn't make your brain explode. That would be terrible.