Zelda Informer whips up another timeline theory for the legendary series. This one treats the chronology as a sequence of legends, with inconsistencies arising due to the existence of many alternate tellings of key parts of the Hyrule mythology. Could this be the solution to the timeline mystery?

Traditionally Hyrulean scholars have examined the Legend of Zelda as a historical narrative. Under this view, the various stories are themselves solid fact and therefore to piece them together into a single body of works means that their chronological relationships to one another must be set in equally unmovable stone. Amidst a sea of evolving and oftentimes conflicting tales, however, grows a deep-seated skepticism that perhaps what these stories put forth as truth is not in fact the truth at all, but just what they have always advertised themselves to be: the stuff of legend.

One needs only to look at the magical powers attributed to the titular princess herself. With each new story it seems her magic has a different origin altogether. The earliest tales gave the credit to the all-powerful Triforce or the bloodline of the Hylians; more recent stories have cited various spiritual groups such as the Picori or the ancient spirits of the Lokomo. Since reason dictates that these stories cannot all be equally true at once, we must conclude that some of them must result from some craft of fiction.

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