One of the more confusing aspects surrounding the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Legend of Zelda series is its timeline, which now spans over four separate timeline splits as of the events of the spin-off title and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild prequel, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Age of Calamity. While Nintendo has tried its hardest to make some sense of ♓the order of events presented to players, though not always consistently, it can still be relatively easy to follow with the right roadmap.
Due to the confusing way the Zelda games were released early on in the series, particularly the fact that there wasn't a clear timeline until many years later, several aspects of the games' continuity come into question when looking at the recurring characters and objects, such as the ever-present Master Sword, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Wind Waker draws into question just how it came into being.
5 ♔ What Is The Tw🧔o Master Swords Theory
The Two 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Master Swords theory is, simply, the idea that the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Adult Timeline Hyrule, which is now flooded thanks to the intervention of the goddesses following the removal of the Hero from the timeline by Princess Zelda, no longer has the original Master Sword as Link took it back in time with him to the Child Timeline.🦩 Without the original divine blade, the people of Hyrule were foꦚrced to create their own Master Sword to seal away evil should it rise again, with the Master Sword that Link obtains in The Wind Waker being this replica blade rather than the original.
4 How Fans Reached Th🐎is Conclus🐬ion
While Skyward Sword was the Zelda title that deeply explored the origins of the Master Sword, Ganon, and how the recurring cha﷽racters of Zelda and Link came into being, The 🎉Wind Waker also gave fans some information on the Master Sword in a throwaway line by Ganondorf.
After successfully obtaining the Master Sword, Ganondorf tells Link that it won't be enough to defeat him and that he should "go back to the world below, and🦄 tell that to the pathetic fools that made this blade". Since the blade is canonically shown to have created by the goddess Hylia, this has led some fans to deduce that the Master Sword in Wind Waker is a replica rather than the original.
3 🤪 𓆏 Evidence For This Theory
While Ganondorf's claim that the Master Sword was created by the Hylians rather than the goddess Hylia is a big deal when it comes to this theory, it'🧸s far from the only evidence in its favor. Throughout the series, there have been many instances where the people of Hyrule have tried to replicate the powers of the Master Sword as seen in the flavor text of several swords in Breath of the Wild, most notab💎ly the Royal Guard's Sword, which has an almost identical design, though with the wings on the hilt being inverted and the blade being black rather than light blue.
Another piece of evidence to support this theory is where the Master Sw✨ord was foun𒐪d in The Wind Waker. At the end of Ocarina of Time, the Master Sword is shown to be held in the Temple of Time, but in The Wind Waker, the Master Sword is found in what appears to be some kind of temple to the Seven Sages, with each of their images being present in the stained glass windows of the temple.
Finally, there is the matter of the Master Sword's power in The Wind Waker, as it doesn't function the same as any other instance of the M𒐪aster Sword in the series. As stated by Ganondorf, the Master Sword was created specifically to seal his own power, which the canon backstory of the original Master Sword proves false. There is also the fact that theꦇ Master Sword turns Ganondorf into stone at the end of The Wind Waker, something that the blade has never done in the past and never does again in any future titles.
2 Evid𓆉ence Against This Theory ꦑ
The main evidence against this theory being true is the fact that the Legend of Zelda timeline and continuity is more than a little convoluted. At the time of The Wind Waker, the idea of an interconnected timeline wasn't well established and many fans had to come to their own conclusions about where each game fit into the world. The Wind Waker also has a notably different art style than any of its pr♕edecessors, which likely accounts for the design difference and change in location of the Master Sword in the game, rather than it being the result of the Hylians successfully creating a replica of the blade.
1 ღ Alternate Theories
An alternate theory for the Two Master Swords is that instead of the Hylians forging a🙈 replica of the blade, they simply moved i💦t before the goddess flooded Hyrule and the change in abilities is simply due to the new Sage's influence. As stated by King Daphnes, after praying to the goddesses to rid Hyrule of evil, they gave the Hylians enough time to prepare themselves for the flood so that they could survive, which may have given them enough time to also move the Master Sword from the Temple of Time to its new location. While normally, only the Hero is able to draw the Master Sword, the Hylians may have found a way around this as the pedestal itself is very similar to that found in the Temple of Time.