Breath of the Wild’s Wind Waker “Plot Hole” Explained

BeforeThe Legend of Zelda : breather of the Wildeven released , fan surmise about its place on theofficialZeldaseries timelineran barbaric , and Nintendo ’s final word leave more questions than answers . One of the big remain unknowns involvesThe Wind Waker ’s Rito " bird people , " which experience alongside the Zora " Pisces people " inBreath of the Wild , despite having evolve from them inThe Wind Waker ’s timeline . But is this actually a contradiction , or are there potential explanations for the species ' coincident existence ?

Prior toBreath of the Wild , the Rito were only ever seen in the " Hero Triumphant - Adult " timeline branch , where theThe Wind Wakerand its Nintendo DS sequels are placed . Ocarina of Time ’s well-disposed , human - like Zora only remained inTwilight Princess'“Hero Triumphant - Child " timeline , while the Zora devolve into monstrous , unfriendly creature inA Link to the Past ’s " Hero Defeated " timeline . Breath of the Wild ’s official timelineplacement redact it at the end of all three branch , but it ’s not connected to any of them , specifically . This leave much about its version of Hyrule up in the strain , including how the Zora and Rito came to inhabit alongside one another .

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BecauseThe Wind Waker ’s Great Sea was really just an illusory ocean , only teras and the less humanoid Fishmen could live there , according toThe Legend of Zelda : Encyclopedia(via theZelda Gamepedia Wiki ) . This push the Zora to conform to non - aquatic lifestyles , finally turn them into the Zora . In the real world , phylogeny is not one-dimensional , so it would be imaginable that a part of the Zora evolved into the Rito , while another group stayed underwater , remaining as Zora but changing overtime to match the feeling ofBreath of the Wild ’s Zora . ButThe Wind Waker ’s illusory sea is specifically stated to be uninhabitable to any Zora at all , meaning this could n’t have happened . IfBreath of the Wild ’s Zora were meant to be the same ones seen inThe Wind Waker ’s past , this nose a bountiful muddle in its world ’s logical system .

Still , there is the possibleness that , over the many old age betweenThe Wind WakerandBreath of the Wild , a radical of Rito split off from the balance and evolved back into a Pisces the Fishes - like race , which then come to be known once again as the Zora . This contribute itself to one theory about howBreath of the Wild ’s arrangement at the timeline ’s terminal could work : The cyclic nature of theZeldaseries ' invariant good vs. evilstruggles could have occurred again and again for so long in each timeline that , by concurrence , they all converged into the exact circumstances ofBreath of the Wild . This is pretty absurd , however , as it would require that each timeline live essentially slightly different versions of every timeline ’s previously unequalled events .

A more likely scenario is that all three timeline were deliberately merged into one . The Zora lived on in the Child timeline , after all , andBreath of the Wildtakes station at the end of that branch , too . Zeldais no alien to time manipulation and even dimension - hopping , as seen in the many Dark World - similar alternate realness found throughout the serial publication . Popular YouTube channelGame TheorysuggestedKoei Techmo’sHyrule Warriorscould be the key to explaining thing , as its narration divvy up with the merging of all three realities through temporary portals . Nintendo has so far officially classifiedHyrule Warriorsas non - canyon , but it has also say the timeline can alter as fresh info is discover , so it ’s entirely possible that a interpretation ofHyrule Warriors’story could be added to the prescribed timeline . There are problems with the theory , however , as the portals between worlds are fill up by the destruction of the game . But regardless of the way , an knowing timeline merge is likely , and it would give a much simpler account for how the Child timeline ’s Zora and the Adult timeline ’s Rito coexist inBreath of the Wild , well justifying what would otherwise seem to be a bigThe Wind Wakeroversight .

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