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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

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Lorekeeping Zelda #0: Canon and the Zelda Timeline

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Fujibayashi brought up the possibility that Hyrule kingdom could have been reborn in an interview.

Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Ganondorf's rotten heart was sealed which also sealed his black magic/pure demonic power/demon life force/demon blood but his strong emotions manifested a spirit fragment that would become known as Calamity Ganon, the reborn disembodied demon king.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Sonia and Rauru went on a pilgrimage to seal demons with Shrines of light. Zonai had access to Amiibo runes. OoT Phantom Ganon was sealed in the depths labyrinths by the three rulers during the pre-Rauru Zonai era.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The first king of this kingdom is a Zonai who are closer to the gods than the Hylians but are close to extinction because they neglected their spiritual practices and developed pride due to their status. Both Mineru and Rauru are the last of their kind and they acknowledge their people's arrogance.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Sonia and Zelda are the only female members of the Royal family of Hyrule to have green eyes. Gerudo have pointy ears and different eye colors than the OoT ones except the new Ganondorf body.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Tears of the kingdom:
BotW's Hyrule kingdom is part of another founding story. The memories are a mix of OoT and TotG1 but mostly TotG1.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

We get insight into the events of BotW's timeline. Other worldly travel is used to bring the Hyrule warriors tunic from the Hyrule warriors' universe, a universe separate from the main continuity.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Calamity Ganon of the new timeline gets stronger because of the fragment of the original world's Calamity Ganon. Astor becomes a threat due to being granted Calamity Ganon's powers.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Hyrule Warriors:Age of Calamity: Terrako is an ancient Sheikah robot capable of creating Gates of time. At the start of the game it splits the timeline due to the closing of the gate it went through.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Hylia is worshipped and appears to be active as an entirely spiritual kami.

Zonai are an ancient mystery group.

Ancient Sheikah created technology and used an Amiibo rune to summon things from other worlds, time periods and timelines.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Calamity Ganon's spider body has a deformed face resembling the demon king's human form.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

BotW: Calamity Ganon is a vengeful spirit obsessed with resurrection to the point it refuses to give up on it. At the same end of the game it clings to it's attachment to the world in a last desperate bid, becoming the full embodiment of it's hatred and grudge.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

A temple of time existed in the desert during Hylia's era and SS' era. It's gate of time is destroyed by Impa.

At the end of the game Impa destroys the Temple of Hylia/Sealed temple's Gate of time after the people from the present day have returned to their time.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The Skylofteans eventually become the Sky folk which splits into two groups, one of them becoming the Hylians.

Zelda and Gaebora likely also had an ancestor who is a king referenced in the Fire sanctuary.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The entire universe has a karmic imprint. Strong emotions left behind after death can physically manifest.

Where there is light and everything that stems from it there will also be jealousy and thus greed and darkness as a result.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The demon king makes a binding spell that binds the blood of the goddess and the soul of the hero to the demon tribe's hatred but the hatred exists independently of the spell just like samsara.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The demon king upon defeat has a speech describing the samsara cycle the Zelda universe has which alongside the curse of the demon tribe (that is synonymous with the hatred of the demon tribe, anyone's hatred, the universal hatred) has existed, exists and will continue to exist until the end of time

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Her mortal reincarnation became the start of the Hyrule Royal family bloodline. The chosen hero forged the soul of the hero and became the progenitor of the Knight's family/clan bloodline.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Goddess Hylia fought The demon king known as The One/Person of demise and managed to seal him but suffered injuries. Hylia planned for the eradication of this demon king and the forging of the soul of the hero. She made a self sacrifice and was reborn as a mortal.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Skyward sword: The Master sword was forged by Goddess Hylia and ancient sages but it started as the Goddess sword before bathing in the flames of the Golden goddesses to become the True Master sword.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

The game references TotG1's map.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Ganondorf broke the Gerudo's laws to search for Great power as he was greedy and yearned for ruling and the power to destroy the peaceful world order he despises. He obtained a Trident from a pyramid that it was sealed in and became the king of darkness.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Vaati is used as a scapegoat as he was sealed while the disasters before the game began happened.

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Lennart of the house of Toad @carolusmagnus786.bsky.social · 12h

Four swords adventures/FS+: Vaati has fought previous heroes wielding the Four sword, the most recent hero is the one you play as. Another Ganondorf body appears in the game as it's true villain.

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