The pedestal before the Deku tree isn't the Master sword pedestal because there is no slot for the Master sword. The Defeated split is the most likely timeline because of the Deku tree, because he is dead without a successor in the Child split.
Just keep in mind, I have a feeling zelda is fighting shadow link (zelda 2). You can see it right in the main picture Nintendo posted. Link has a grim face with "shadow" around him. He fell in and was "captured" by ganon, making link his puppet for a change (the pose with link and ganon) with zelda showing the rod pointing up to "shadow link". Just a thought I have.
Based on the art style alone, I like to believe the link in links awakening is the same link in echoes of wisdom. That would clearly put it the fallen hero timeline (LttP, oracles)
For sure could not have been in the Millenias of Peace as Ganon was basically trapped under Hyrule Castle the entire time then and could only occasionally project himself out as the Calamity. He couldn’t have been pig Ganon at the time.
Child Timeline makes sense, for many reasons. But one I’ll highlight is that it’s a 3D console release, and by putting it in the Child Timeline the game is grouped with all the other 3D, console, mainline, canon titles. This would be SS, OoT, MM, TP, BotW, and TotK. I tend to consider the Child Timeline the “main” timeline, and I think Nintendo does as well, given the development and console focused releases of these games. Which tracks considering that consoles are Nintendo’s main distribution system.
By watching this video, You break my theory of this game being at the middle of Downfall Timeline but it's possible for it's pacing in the Child Timeline.
I considered putting it between link's awakening and the oracles because of the style and Zoras, but the gerudo, castle town, and the deku tree I put it at the end of it.
Yeah you're not only overthinking this, but you're also missing a lot of key details which ruins your theory. Have you even played Four Swords Adventures? The context of Ganon in that game makes it impossible for another form of Pig Ganon to exist right before him. That's the entire reason why FSA exists here to begin with; because Ganondorf died in TP making Child Timeline a blank slate enough to haphazardly shove FSA here. The whole racial dynamic is just seriously overthinking things, though. There's no real evidence they care that much about it in context. But if they did then pre LTTP is actually the best fit, because end of fallen hero doesn't have enough of Hyrule left, especially not one so heavily resembling LTTP. The only viable placements are: After FSA Before LTTP After LBW and before Zelda 1 If somehow it winds up between Oracles and LBW then fans really have got to stop overthinking the timeline because of specific world elements. No castle town in LTTP and LBW should kill that placement if the Zelda team cared that much. Also, there's no Castle Town in FSA either. FSA has Kakariko, Lon Lon Ranch (which wasn't in TP either...), Village of the Blue Maiden (uniaue to this game), a Gerudo settlement and another desert race settlement which is a race that only appeared in FSA and no other. The Gerudo here having masks is interesting. Gerudo Thief design?
@@JaidynReiman if you're referring to that fsa ganon is considered a reincarnation of oot/tp ganon, they are all technically a reincarnation of demise, and therefore have the same soul, meaning that any version of him having been reborn or resurrected is a reincarnation of the one before him, and also the one before that and so on. The races and other specific world elements are what we have to find their placement, Nintendo has proven that they don't care, but have also said that they have no decided placement for the past 2 games, it's likely the same with this one, we are to decide for ourselves where games are placed, which means it's not relevant wheather they take those into consideration besides what they have confirmed in the timeline. And it is confirmed that no games take place between oot and alttp. Alttp is considered the first incarnation of Link and ganon after oot, which is why, to resolve contradictions, I put it at the end of the fallen timeline rather than the beginning. The gerudo theives make it very unlikely to take place after fsa, and the both Zora makes it more likely to be between the two, castle town in fsa was a miscommunication on my part and it's absence is also another reason I put it in between them. Kakariko seems to be returning in eow but the other villages in fsa would come about with time since there was likely a very long time in between fsa and tp anyway due to fsa's drastic map difference. The reason I decided not to put it before Zelda 1 and 2 is bc it would be too convenient for the gerudo, sea Zora, and castle town to suddenly appear and disappear just for eow. The reason it would be such a similar hyrule to the rest even after the era of decline is because it's fated to, just like Link being a descendant of the knights of hyrule and like you mentioned lon lon ranch continuously coming back. This was proven by botw and spirit tracks keeping a very similar map of hyrule even after being a different hyrule. Thx for the feedback, & once again the theory is not 100% and this placement can still change after the game comes out and more information is available.
