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Goddamn Zelda Canon Thread (yes, seriously)

 
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schroeder



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:35 pm        Reply with quote
Midichlorian Syndrome claims another victim.

My personal Zelda canon is like A New Duck's: One story, told and embellished again and again. I mean, I get that this thread isn't about that and I'm sorry. But I like looking at the world of each game and trying to plot its mythical features against some (always unseen) "real" Hyrule. In this case any inconsistencies are just poetic license, like the parting of the Red Sea vs. Sea of Reeds.
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schroeder



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:12 pm        Reply with quote
Ni Go Zero Ichi wrote:
schroeder wrote:
My personal Zelda canon is like A New Duck's: One story, told and embellished again and again. I mean, I get that this thread isn't about that and I'm sorry. But I like looking at the world of each game and trying to plot its mythical features against some (always unseen) "real" Hyrule. In this case any inconsistencies are just poetic license, like the parting of the Red Sea vs. Sea of Reeds.

But what about the games that explicitly reference events of previous games

(Which is something like at least half of them)

Take the explicit references as indicating that the later work depends on the earlier. So Majora's Mask is about the Link character from OoT, but agnostic on the timeline or accuracy of any other game's story. If the later chapters of a story conflict with the early ones, well, that's a shoddily made story. But we're accepting here that we only know the Legend of Zelda universe through oral histories or parables, so contradictions don't have any, like, ontological consequences. They just point out interesting gaps in the tradition.
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