The PERFECT Zelda timeline! If you are a fan READ THIS!

Well, I found a real timeline for Zelda!

·THE MINISH CAP: Well, this is ancient Hyrule, there is no Master Sword, and the people don't know what is the triforce, the Zelda I of this game was cursed and put to eternal sleep sometime after the end of the game, this game starres Link and Zelda I.

·FOUR SWORDS: This is the obvious sequel to THE MINISH CAP, it starres Link and Zelda II.

·FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES: This is the obvious sequel to FOUR SWORDS, it starres Link and Zelda III and Ganondorf I.

·THE OCARINA OF TIME: This game is set in a different area of Hyrule than in the previous games, in the gap between FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES and THE OCARINA OF TIME the Hyrulians knowed of the Triforce, and the Master Sword could have been forjed in that time (It could also be forjed before THE MINISH CAP, but is less likely) after Zelda sens Link back in time, it created a split timeline, it starres Link and Zelda IV, and Ganondorf II.

·MAJORA'S MASK: This is the obvious sequel to OCARINA OF TIME (It's set on Kid Link's timeline), it starres Link IV.

·ORACLE OF AGES and ORACLE OF SEASONS: This is centuries after MAJORA'S MASK, but before the Great Flood, you may are asking ''This game can't be set in this place because Twinrova resurrects Ganon in this game, but in OCARINA OF TIME Ganon wasn't dead, he was sealed!'' that's true, but Twinrova resurrects Ganondorf I from FOUR SWORDS ADVENTURES, not Ganondorf II from OCARINA OF TIME!, this starres Link and Zelda V and Ganondorf I.

·THE WIND WAKER: Tingle is here because the original Tingle somehow got from Termina to Hyrule, maybe he followed Link IV? well the sealing of Ganondorf II broke, after this game, Link IV and Tetra went exploring and found a new land, this land was called Hyrule, paying tribute to the original Hyrule. It starres Link and Zelda VI and Ganondorf II.

·A LINK TO THE PAST: This could have been a loooong time after THE WIND WAKER, because all the places have the names from THE OCARINA OF TIME era, the seal in wich Ganondorf II was at the end of THE WIND WAKER brokes, and this begins the game's story, at the end of the game, Ganon II is killed (Not sealed). This game also needs to be here because it's the last use of the Master Sword, This game starres Link and Zelda VII and Ganondorf II.

·LINK'S AWAKENING: This is the obvious sequel of A LINK TO THE PAST, Link VII sailed out of Hyrule so that Ganondorf II couldn't be resurrected, this game just starres Link VII.

·THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: Ganon II is resurrected (Maybe his henchmen found Link VII and killed him?) so Ganon II invades Hyrule, the survivors escape to the North of Hyrule, but Link IIX saves the day, this game starres Link and Zelda IIX, and Ganon II.

·THE ADVENTURE OF LINK: This is the obvious sequel to THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, this game is set on the north of Hyrule, Link must awaken up Zelda I, wich was put to sleep sometime after THE MINISH CAP, the bad guy of this game is Dark Link and the followers of Ganondorf, that want to resurrect him killing Link IIX, this game starres Link and Zelda IIX and Zelda I.

After Wind Waker, Link VI and Tetra are sailing to find a new land, they named that land Hyrule as a tribute to the old land.

Why not?

That's a different Link and a different horse, you should know that every game features a different Link, Zelda, Impa... All the characters, except Ganondorf, that is always the same.

But in Oracles, Link doesn't know Zelda.

Really? Can you tell me more about that? I have never played the Oracles, so my timeline theory is based on what a friend told me, and the bit that I played (Just the beggining of Oracle of Ages).

well, what if it was always the same link?(ofcourse except ww)

Yes, there's just one Link.
It all started when the Hero of Time, Link, was born. Or at least, this event was one corner, arbitrarily considered to be the one in the lower left, and consequently, by the rules of English writing, the first. More accurately, this event marked the first convergence of two sides of the Triforce of Time.

In any case, the Hero of Time was born. His mother, Princess Zelda, held ancient future knowledge of the whereabouts of the Triforce of Courage, and her jealous brother demanded it from her. Meanwhile, war broke out in Hyrule. In the strife that followed, she deposited her son with the Great Deku Tree, who raised him as a Kokiri. Zelda herself, as told in the Adventure of Link back-story, was put to sleep by a wizard in her brother's employ. The spell was such that, although the wizard certainly had not planned it this way, Zelda slept backwards through time, rejuvenating as she did so. This will be explained in due time.

Eventually, Ganon came to Hyrule. Link then became involved in the familiar plot of Ocarina of Time. With Ganon sealed in a prison that transcended time, Link was free to relive those seven years in the comfort of the Kokiri woods. In fact, he resided there much longer than seven years, and prolonged exposure to Deku Tree magic, along with the rejuvenating spell of the young Princess Zelda (not the same as the sleeping Zelda) had the permanent effect of causing Link to age very slowly, even after leaving the Kokiri forest.

Link then was lured into Termina by the Skull Kid. There, he saved Termina, and in a feat of dramatic irony completely failed to realize that just as Termina was locked in a time loop to prevent its own destruction, Hyrule was in a much larger time triangle to prevent its salvation. This was not lost on Tingle, as shall be shown.

Due to the unpredictable nature of inter-dimensional travel, when Link left Termina, he found that Hyrule had long ago been destroyed and was now a mere system of islands. (Not that he remembered Hyrule. Link was a chronic amnesiac.) He was adopted by a kindly old woman, who took mercy on this homeless piece of driftwood. He lovingly referred to her as "grandmother" and partook of her excellent soup. Soon enough, Link found himself on a pirate ship on a quest to save his sister. Soon enough after that, he was on a quest to stop Ganon from stealing the Triforce.

The King of Red Lions and Jabun explicitly stated that this Link was not the Hero of Time. Boy were they wrong.

Anyway, Link defeated Ganon, but not entirely. Ganon, the Villian of Time, had the favor of the goddesses. It was their wish for Hyrule to be lost beneath the sea. Here, the timeline would have straightened. However, King Hyrule's final wish was for hope for Hyrule. That hope could only be achieved in one way: by repairing the past.

After thinking about how to accomplish this, the Triforce yanked Link from the new land he would have settled and dropped him at the doorstep of a friendly knight of Hyrule centuries earlier. The knight took in the boy with no memory, and Link became fond of him, and called him his uncle.

Unbeknownst to Link, he had arrived in Hyrule just before Ganon had freed himself to wreak the havoc that resulted in the flooding of Hyrule. As chronicled in Link to the Past, Link averted this disaster by preventing Ganon from ever escaping the Dark World. This completed the right-hand corner of the triangle.

Link's uncle became a blacksmith, and on the day he sprouted his first grey hair, Link began to call him "grandpa." Having already forgotten the events of LttP, Link embraced the power of the Four Sword to defeat the upstart wizard Vaati, with the aid of his new ally: The Minish Cap.

I mean...Elzo.

Thereafter, Link began to wonder why he did not age like the other people of Hyrule. As if to prevent him from realizing who he was, the Triforce intervened and sent him on a quest in the distant lands of Holodrum and Labrynna. Distant in the future, that is.

The Oracle games constitute another corner of the Triforce of Time. Had Link not prevented the resurrection of Ganon, Ganon would have again succeeded in straightening the timeline, and many a good thing would have failed to happen.

After bending time once more, and forgetting who he was once more, Link used the Four Sword to defeat Vaati again. Twice. The second time, he encountered Ganondorf for the first time. That is to say, Ganon was born on this side of the triangle.

After this, Link engaged in his ancient hobby of sailing. He was summarily shipwrecked. The goddesses had sent a vicious storm in their anger at having their timeline turned into a triangle. Their plan failed, however, and Link found himself in the mind of the Wind Fish, where he defeated the Nightmare, as shown in Link's Awakening. The Wind Fish, however, had slumbered for centuries from the point of view of Hyrule, and by the time he awoke, and consequently by the time Link returned to reality, centuries had passed.

Hyrule had changed so much that Link could hardly consider himself a citizen of it, even if he had known who or where he was. His first action here was saving an old woman named Impa from a group of Moblins. He was begged to collect pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom and defeat Ganon, which he gladly did, since he didn't really have much going on at the moment. (The Legend of Zelda)

He then went on to awaken the sleeping Princess Zelda, who after her slumber back through time was a young woman again. (The Adventure of Link)

Link married Zelda and helped rebuild Hyrule.