| S.Peelman said: Since the game is almost a year old, it's been a while since I played it, but didn't Link make his wish before Ghirahim took Zelda to the past? That would mean Link's wish was too soon, Ghirahim was smart enough to wait a while to see what happens, or Link should have thought it through a little more and rephrased his wish in the first place On the other thing, all the games refer to the same Gods, or actually, Goddesses. In Ocarina of Time and in Twilight Princess, they are mentioned as being the creators of the world and the Triforce was left as a side-effect from them leaving the world again. Since a timeframe for how old the world is is never given, they are always the 'old gods', no matter when the game is set. Some games mentioned different gods though (Majora's Mask and Skyward Sword), so it is implied that there exists some kind of hierarchy like in Greek mythology.
Recently, a timeline was sort of made canon because of it's inclusion in the 'Hyrule Historia' book, which is an official Nintendo release. This basically also confirmes all games occur in the same universe, over a span of many millenia. You are right that the timeline is not an actual literal telling of history, like in say Star Wars, however. The book mentions a sort of clause. All stories in the games are 'Legends', like the titles say, which means they have been passed down for like thousends of generations and because stories change over time, details can differ between games. For example, to Wind Waker, something like Ocarina of Time happened. To NES Zelda (the original), something like A Link to the Past happened. And so on. So yes, Nintendo writers can get away with anything |
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Link is still in posession of the Triforce at that stage. Perhaps the Triforce limits one wish per person? (considering how the Links from the 3 Zelda games who wish on the Triforce are different incarnates of the Hero), though you'd have to assume that the Link to the Past Link made all of his wishes as one big wish to return Hyrule back to a peaceful state imagined in his mind.
