The maps in Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess line up almost perfectly. This means that Skyward Sword's Sealed Temple must be the same as Twilight Princess's Temple of Time. Ocarina of Time screwes everything up again, because here the Temple of Time is located in Castle Town (as opposed to the forest in TP) and it's relative location to major landmarks like Lake Hylia and Death Mountain (which, logically has to be in the exact same spot in every game, unless Zelda spans tens of millions of years) is much more to the north.
Some say they just moved Castle Town and Hyrule Castle to the north and all Temples of Time are the same (SS>OoT>TP). Personally I find that hard to believe, the Castle Town in TP is obviously a further developed version of the OoT Castle Town. It's layout is the same, the fountain in the centre, the position of the castle. More importantly, it's position to Death Mountain is the exactly the same, and the field in front of it is even shaped the same. SS and TP's Temples of Time are indeed the same, but OoT's must be another, that for some reason got demolished in between the two. Again, this is not waterproof, as there would be no in-universe reason why to do this.
With the time issues, there are so much vague things in Zelda, that you wonder if the people at Nintendo do this on purpose to make everyone 'theorize', or that they just can't tell stories.
| fordy said: That's a lot of deities! I often wondered if the Wind fish and Levias are one in the same. There were similar thoughts on if the sealed grounds ultimately become OoT's Temple of Time and the resting place for the Master Sword and the Triforce (I noticed when Zelda mentioned she needed to go into a deep sleep, a similar alter found to the North Palace in Zelda 2. Had she not been encased in Amber and actually did fall asleep, perhaps it could have been another branch towards Zelda 2 in which Zelda/Hylia was never awakened, and so forgotten throughout the ages. |
I would have excused the encased in Amber thing, if Zelda were to remain asleep after SS due to creative license, or the 'story-got-screwed-after-millenia' argument. For a second there, I thought this was going to happen, but sadly, no. They should have kept Zelda in SS asleep somehow, in AoL it is said (in the manual anyway) all Zelda's are called Zelda because the very first Zelda was put to sleep for all eternity. SS is supposed to be the first game, and the opportunity was there. It would have been perfect!
