| Oyvoyvoyv said: Whoa, this went a lot deeper than the original question. I have one thing to add though. Well, some (such as myself) believe Link returned to a time after Ganondorf had already touched the Triforce, while others say he doesn't really have the Triforce of Power in TP - just the power granted to him by the goddesses (FYI, Ganondorf had some deleted dialouge about how the goddesses chose the wielders of power, and how fate will bring them together again even if he dies). He does have the Triforce of Power in TP When you are done fighting that huge skeleton, and getting the spinner, you come up to the now destroyed mirror of Twilight. Those white people (the sages?)tell you that they imprisoned Ganondorf (or that at least someone did). But Ganondorf's hand started glowing in the triforce colour (with the markings on his hand), and he broke through the "unbreakable" chains. Then they say that he too had been given the blessings of the gods. This leads you to A) The person who beat Ganondorf so they could seal him up the first time was also blessed by the triforce by the gods. B) TP Link has the Triforce of courage, and somehow the sages know this. A) is much more likely. |
Yes, yes, I know. No one doubts that Ganondorf/Link/Zelda had the "power of the gods" in TP. In fact, we see them use their respective powers in TP (the glowing marks on the back of their hands) and as for your question, when the Sages tell Link their story, they do in fact tell him that he is "blessed with the power of the gods", so B) is true.
The question is if Ganondorf actually touched and split the Triforce, like in OoT/TWW, or if he and the others were simply blessed with the goddesses power, and the Triforce remains in the SR. Personally I think it is the same as in OoT/TWW, because we have no reason to think the possession of a Triforce mark means anything other than the possession of a Triforce piece. But on the other hand, if Ganondorf really had the ToP, why did it just "fade away" when he died, and not take physical form like in TWW? Also, as Kuuthra observed, there are issues with how Ganondorf was able to enter the SR in the new timeline and why he didn't try to take the Triforces from Link and Zelda.
As for the continuity of the Zelda series... Well, recent games have taken some aditional effort to connect with one another. Phantom Hourglass uses the "Force" and many other elements from The Minish Cap and Four Sword Adventures, and thus bridges the gap between TWW and the FS saga. There is also a curious parallelism between TP and FSA (both games feature an ancient dark tribe that were sealed inside a mirror, Shadow Link, and Ganon manipulating a lesser villain).
As for what I want, I really would like to see a new TWW sequel, set a few years after PH with a new art-style (Zelda never had any one "look" and I hope Nintendo remembers that) that told the tale of Link and Tetra's adventures on a new continent. Certainly, they could be quite original and bring up a lot of interesting themes with a setting like that.
