When the 20 17 game was first launched, Shigeru Miyamoto and producer Hideyoshi Konuma accepted an interview with the well-known game media Game Infomer. In the process, Aonuma mentioned: "The breath of the wilderness happened after the story of the flute of time."
At the end of March, 20 17, the Canadian game media GameRant interviewed the director Hideki Fujimori by email, and he said that Breath of the Wilderness was later than the timeline of all other games in the series. "
In the summer of 20 17, in an interview with the French game media Jeuxvideo, Kiuma said: "They didn't consider the specific timeline position of the game at the beginning of development, because it would limit their play."
After that, Nintendo and the the legend of zelda team rarely discussed issues related to the timeline. We can confirm two things from the official statement:
As for the statement that "in order not to restrict its development, the time line was not considered at the initial stage of development", I reserve my opinion for the time being. I think they really tried to do this, so that everyone can completely put aside everything that has been agreed in the past, but it is obviously impossible to completely ignore the timeline. Since the timeline issue was raised by players and intensified in the fan circle, Nintendo has given official responses in various ways more than once. Judging from their explanation and modification of timeline settings in various settings sets and surrounding books, they attach great importance to it now. So it is unlikely to "completely ignore".
Combined with the content displayed in the game, we can sort out the clues:
Hika, Kakaliko and Impa only appeared in the prodigal line and the juvenile line, but they existed before the flute of time. The adult line should not exist, but it was not mentioned. In addition, the timeline involved in Breath of the Wilderness spans as long as 10,000 years, and the settings such as racial evolution are simply not enough to be a good basis for judgment. One more thing to note: a considerable part of the above clues belong to tributes and eggs, and whether they are included in the official history is still open to question.
In my opinion, the really decisive judgment basis is the core setting that runs through the whole series-triangular power. Everything else can be interpreted as a tribute to eggs, but this core setting is inevitable. But the most important point is not mentioned in the whole article of "The Breath of the Wilderness", only in the animation, the seal of Princess Zelda passed by during the farming period, which is quite suspected of avoiding the importance.
You can clearly see that it is a complete triangular force.
Triangle power is created by the gods, and its position is equivalent to the core of the world. If it is damaged or even destroyed, mortals cannot easily repair or manufacture it; If the gods come again and create a new triangle force, it will be a very important historical event, and it is impossible not to mention it in the game.
The triangle power of the juvenile line and the adult line has never been combined into one, and it has always been controlled by Link, Princess and Cannon respectively. The triangle of influence of the juvenile line was destroyed by artillery in Princess Dusk. Adult line, triangle power is completely destroyed. The line of failure, at present, in the Adventures of Link, three triangles are recombined into a complete triangular force. In Breath of the Wilderness, the princess has a complete triangular power, and it only makes sense to connect to the end of the defeated line.
In 20 19, at the face-to-face meeting of Nintendo E3 Game Show, we saw the PV of Breath of the Wilderness. Judging from the content of PV, Smell of the Wild will follow Smell of the Wild in the plot, not as a prequel. Let's take a look at some important information in PV.
00: 18, there is a portrait riding a trident on the mural. There is no doubt that this is in the flute of time, before the forest temple changed from a gun doffer to a phantom gun.
At 00:50, this sealed mummy, judging from its headdress and dress, is undoubtedly a statue of Ganondorf.
As we know, the three lines were separated at the end of the flute of time, the Ganondorf petrochemical of the adult line was broken and died, and the young line was executed by the sages before it started. Only Ganondorf of the losing line was sealed.
It should be noted that Ganondorf and Gannon cannot be equated: Ganondorf is an ontology, Gannon is an enhanced version, and it can exist without ontology. Sealing Gannon and sealing Gandalf are completely different things. Ganondorf, whether a teenager or an adult, has died physically, leaving only Ganondorf who has left his body.
In the losing line, Link was killed by cannon, and the seven sages joined hands to seal the ontology of cannon Randolph. After that, in the series of "Defeat Line", only Gan Nong appeared, and there was no Gandalf. So Ganondorf has actually been in a sealed state.
This book "The Hand of the Sage" is probably the masterpiece left by the original seven sages. Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the seal has loosened. In PV, this hand is connected to the Link. Presumably, the next work will make a fuss about this hand.
Although the possibility of juvenile line and adult line can not be completely ruled out at present, from the information currently available, it can basically be judged that Breath of the Wild and its sequel belong to the losing line. The specific location is at the end of the defeat line, after the adventures of Link, with a time span of at least 10,000 years. So finally, let's rearrange the timeline according to this conclusion:
After the adventures of Link, the royal family and their successors who regained the complete triangular power made great efforts to gradually revive and strengthen the originally declining kingdom of Hailaru. Sika people who have been guarding the royal family of Heralu for generations have even developed a series of black technologies such as behemoths and guardians, and also arranged brave training business: tailor-made multifunctional Sika cards for brave people and built hundreds of trial shrines as training venues. When Canon reappeared, it was successfully defeated and re-sealed with the cooperation of the brave, Princess Zelda, the Four Beasts and Qi Xin, a myriad of guardians.
(The above story is repeated in Breath of the Wilderness. )
Then Heralu spent ten thousand years in peace. I don't know if it is because of too long calm that everyone has lost the sense of crisis. Heralu really seems to be in decline. Sika people's black technology can only be used by four beasts, and the defenders have been in disrepair for a long time due to lack of maintenance. This generation of Princess Zelda may realize that Canon is about to break the seal, so she organized manpower to repair and activate the guardian, and at the same time strengthened the training of the brave and Yingjie who manipulated the beast. But her own triangle power has not been awakened, which makes her extremely anxious. Just then, cannon appeared. ...
Heralu rushed to fight, the guardian and the four beasts were controlled by cannons, Yingjie died, and the brave man was defeated and seriously injured. The princess sent the brave to Fuxing Temple for treatment and suppressed the cannon herself. In this way, 100 years passed. ...
The brave woke up and the story of the wilderness breath officially began.