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Something that always bothered me about Spirit Tracks is the fact that the reigning Zelda is a descendant of Tetra, and yet Niko is still alive. Hyrule Historia tells us that this Zelda is the great-great-granddaughter of Tetra, and Aonuma apparently mentioned in an interview that the game takes place about a century after WW and PH.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that Tetra and Niko are more or less the same age in The Wind Waker. I suppose it's biologically plausible that Tetra's descendants all reproduced at a young age, and the more I think about it I realize that this wouldn't even be that unusual, but there's one problem with it.
If Tetra's bloodline reproduced fast enough to begin four generations in 100 years, then Zelda's parents should still be alive in Spirit Tracks. They couldn't be more than 50 years old. If this is a world where someone like Niko, who grew up on a pirate ship, can live to be a supercentenarian, then I have to assume that their life expectancy is at the very least on par with ours and likely much longer.
So where are Zelda's parents?
I'm going to go ahead and assume that Tetra and Niko are more or less the same age in The Wind Waker. I suppose it's biologically plausible that Tetra's descendants all reproduced at a young age, and the more I think about it I realize that this wouldn't even be that unusual, but there's one problem with it.
If Tetra's bloodline reproduced fast enough to begin four generations in 100 years, then Zelda's parents should still be alive in Spirit Tracks. They couldn't be more than 50 years old. If this is a world where someone like Niko, who grew up on a pirate ship, can live to be a supercentenarian, then I have to assume that their life expectancy is at the very least on par with ours and likely much longer.
So where are Zelda's parents?