May contain spoilers.
In an interview posted today with several key members of the The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom development team, series producer Eiji Aonuma revealed key details that will ultimately solidify the game’s place in the Zelda timeline. clarified. While discussing the game’s theme, which revolves around the concept of hands, Aonuma made the following comment.
“Well, to put it simply, ‘hands’ means ‘connecting’. This also applies to stories that lead to Hyrule’s past. Also, there is a big battle called the ‘Prison War’ that was thought of as a war until now. It’s also talked about, even in Hyrule.”
Imprisoned War is an event that occurs at the start of the Fallen Heroes timeline, according to the official Zelda timeline. In this timeline, Link is unable to prevent Ganondorf from coming to power in Ocarina of Time. As a result, the Seven Sages must gather an army to fight and finally seal Ganondorf in the sacred realm.
Breath of the Wild, and by extension Tears of the Kingdom, has long been theorized to occur in either the Fallen Hero timeline or the Child timeline. Others assumed a combined timeline, but this was based largely on his website in poorly translated Japanese for Breath of the Wild.
