zelda discussion is a personal favourite topic of mine but this is somehting ive never worked out

it appears than the master sword can only destroy his body. and that his spirit is able to rejunivate a new body. 

sometimes the spirit is trapped.for example  in the adult timeline, ganon is slain after ocarina of time and his spirit is imprisoned in the sacred realm. .

in the child timeline  ganon is arrested and locked up in the newly built arbiter's grounds. later he simprisoneed in the twilight realm from which he later escapes

in the end of twilight princess we see him with the master sword run through him. presumably he dies and regrows a new body and returns for the imprisoning war.

after link to the past he is agin destroyed by the master sword. does he then gradually rebuild himself a new body in order to attack hyrule in the original zelda.

in the original zelda ganon is killed not by the master sword but the silver arrow. this arrow seems better than the master sword since it turns ganon to dust and he cant revive himself. instead he has to be revived by twinrova in the orcale games.

in the orcale game he is destroyed but not by the master sword (i think). could this be because twinrovas experiment went wrong and so ganon was only partially resurected?

in the wind waker the body is turned to stone. could his spirit be trapped in the stone? its possible since ganon is yet to reappear in the adult timeline

do you guys agree with this or do you have other theories?

i think the silver arrow is one thing that can truly destroy ganon. im not too sure, but that is kind of what i have picked up on. i think zelda 1 and 2 go at the end of the adult timeline, it is hard to say though.

Triforce of Power grants immortality, but not invincibility. His body is merely a shell.

But i'm not sure whether my theory holds up, considering how many times he's supposed to have lost the Triforce.

Gannon is taken back to Nintendo where Miyamoto casts an evil ressurection spell on him and sends him back to kill Link.

Zelda's timeline is all over the place... talk about a series that needs a re-make. I'd be interested in that. A Zelda Chronicles that features the timeline actually in order. I don't even know what the triforce is even... is it a physical tangible item? I don't know.

he dies, just all other people. he is then reencarnated just like link and zelda, they all die and live again.

@ emile

but link and zelda arn't reencarnated. when they die they stay dead

@ mr Khan

i have a theory that the 3 dont actually have to have the triforce to get its power, they must simply be it's rightful owners.

@ Simonses

i would put the oracle games after zelda 2 since in that game the triforce is in hyrule not the sacred realm and the link in it is not a new one. i think twinrova bring ganon back from his powdered form in those games

He gets reincarnated.

So the new Link and Zelda have to stop him each time and the process repeats.

Link and Zelda are reincarnated but Ganon isn't. Ganondorf is the same entity, sealed in the Sacred Realm or Twilight Realm. The Ganon in the Oracle games is only the physical shell of Ganon, because the attempted revival doesn't go to plan.

The only time he explicitly loses the Triforce of Power is in Wind Waker (he willingly parts with it to finally form the full Triforce), which is presumably followed by his final death in that timeline. The last glimpse of Ganondorf in TP is more ambigiuous, and doesn't explicitly confirm Ganon's demise. To me it seems more like the death of his physical body, and the Triforce symbol fading symbolises his spirit leaving that body, but other people interpet it as Ganon losing the triforce of power and dying a final death.

One thing I consider important when talking about Ganon, is the end of Wind Waker. The implication is that so long as Hyrule exists, Ganondorf will find some way to exist.

It's more difficult to speculate on Ganon's demise in earlier games, because of the modifications that have taken place to the timeline during the production of the series. I personally think details are likely to change from game to game for the sake of the most recent games' storyline, this also fits in with the series as a Legend-a story retold, morphing and changing over time based on who tells the story and what audience listens to the story.

@ soriku.


Link + Zelda vs Nayru + Din would rock