Official Zelda Timeline

[Angrist]

I still don't really see how OoT split it in 3. I can understand 2: 1 with Ganon gaining power and turning the world around him dark; 1 with Link from that timeline travelling back in time to prevent Ganon from gaining power.
Why the 3rd timeline?

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Angrist

I still don't really see how OoT split it in 3. I can understand 2: 1 with Ganon gaining power and turning the world around him dark; 1 with Link from that timeline travelling back in time to prevent Ganon from gaining power.
Why the 3rd timeline?

I don't know.
The third one is one where the world just happens to have gotten flooded.
The first game in (middle timeline) is MM, where Gannondorf is executed - where at the same time in (rightside timeline) he flooded the world because the MM stuff didn't happen to him there. As it says, that era didn't have a hero - so nobody could stop him from flooding the planet. But really the third timeline only exists so they can make average DS games.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Angrist

I still don't really see how OoT split it in 3. I can understand 2: 1 with Ganon gaining power and turning the world around him dark; 1 with Link from that timeline travelling back in time to prevent Ganon from gaining power.
Why the 3rd timeline?

The 3rd line.. and guess wouldn't show it in a game is when Link actually dies on his mission.

Makes sense.. not all of his tasks can be completed.