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JackSpadeyJack91

06/05/2017 9:45 AM ·Spoilers

Why the Ranch Ruins in BotW can't be Lon Lon Ranch. The Temple of Time was built over the ruins of the Sealed Temple. So if the Temple of Time in BotW is the same one as in OoT not only has it remarkably remained intact for many centuries but it also means Ranch Ruins cannot be Lon Lon as that was located south of the temple in OoT.

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Also, I don't care about the locations of everything. I just enjoy that they're there.

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It's great that people get into it that much as it creates all these interesting discussions so won't knock it, I'm just not a fan of retrospectively adding lore as I got into the series before the timeline even existed so I'll probably never be fully on board with it.

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There has technically been a Zelda timeline since Adventure of Link. Maybe even since the original LoZ.

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Geography makes no sense in Zelda. Just assume it's Lon Lon Ranch even if it makes no sense. Also the director confirmed that this game is the most recent Zelda game but he just completely forgets that there are three timelines...

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They didn't forget about the timelines. They just don't care, not gonna let something like that to dictate how they make Zelda. All those locations are easter eggs. Lon Lon Ranch would be way over 10,000 yrs old.

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If they didn't care about the timeline they wouldn't have made one in the first place.

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They made it simply to "Link" all of the games.

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@jack, zelda predates the timeline by 25yrs.

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How? In the original LoZ you were given a backstory to the events that happened before the events of the game you playthrough. Thus creating a timeline of events. It might have been a few years before it became officially known but since the very beginning a timeline has been there.

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There was no timeline except the few direct sequels. They didn't up with a timeline until 2011 to tie the games together. 25 yrs after The Legend of Zelda. Every major Zelda game is basically a retcon of the same basic story. If you take the timeline seriously, Lon Lon Ranch is older than the Great Pyramids of Giza.

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Direct sequels are obviously connected but any sort of events that link together form a timeline of sorts. So technically the timeline has always existed. From what I remember it was acknowledged during the release of Twilight Princess when the developers mentioned it being parallel to Wind Waker because of OoT's timeline split. That was before 25 years.

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I honestly don't think they cared with BOTW. The game vaguely relates to the previous games and honestly it has its own 10000 year backstory so there is no reason for it to relate to any other game is probably what they thought. Still I would place it after Zelda II then even if they don't care.

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If you take the timeline seriously then Lon Lon Ranch cannot be the Ranch Ruins, as I said.

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It's obvious it is though. Like geography is not a reason and if you mean Lon Lon Ranch was long gone in the other games, then still it's just that the downfall games had small maps so they had to fill it with something in BOTW.

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If they didn't care about it's timeline placement they wouldn't have mentioned Ruto helping Link to defeat Ganon in OoT. The game doesn't have to be a direct sequel to any game to make it seem like the developers care. It's just not as important as the gameplay parts of the game.

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It can't be though. So for 10,000+ years it's remained intact without it's appearance being changed but somehow been moved north of where it originally was? How?

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Just roll with it man. 10,000 yrs was the last appearance of calamity Ganon. Then probably another 10,000 yrs between Ocarina of Time and when Ganon became Calamity Ganon, and another 10,000 yrs Hyrulians created sentient robots to take on Calamity Ganon.

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I wouldn't mind knowing when these 10,000 years began. At the end of OoT when Ganon first appeared in Hyrule? At the end of LoZ when he was seemingly defeated?

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They mention the previous games without caring about the timeline placement. Like they just casually mention events from all games even though it's technically not possible. They don't care. I mean the Lost Woods moved as well but I'm sure it's still the same Lost Woods as always. ALTTP had it in the north while OOT had it in the south. Geography is just a mess since they are "legends" and can

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have small differences where things are told differently

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