Following the release ofThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, diehardLegend of Zeldafans have one question: where does Zelda’s adventures place in the franchise’sofficial timeline? Two months after the game’s release, we finally have our answer.
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Nintendo has updated theofficial Zelda history pageand includedEchoes of Wisdom’s place on the timeline. Appearing in the timeline where The Hero is defeated inOcarina of Time,Echoes of Wisdomtakes place between Tri-Force Heroes, the co-op adventure for Nintendo DS, and the originalLegend of Zeldafor the NES. The games that follow in this timeline areThe Adventures of Link,Breath of the Wild, andTears of the Kingdom.
What Does Echoes of Wisdom Mean for the Zelda Timeline?
The official description from Nintendo on the Zelda history page forEchoes of Wisdomreads as follows:
After Princess Zelda was captured by Ganon, the swordsman Link appeared before her.
After a fierce battle, Link defeated Ganon, but
was swallowed up in a mysterious rift and disappeared.
“Spirited Away”
Mysterious rifts appear all over the vast Hyrule, swallowing
not only Link, but everyone and everything in Hyrule,
even the King of Hyrule and his entourage.
Princess Zelda, left behind, sets out on an adventure across Hyrule
to save her father, the King, the people, and Link .
So there you have it. Though,Nintendomentions the Decline of the Hyrule Kingdom betweenEchoes of WisdomandThe Legend of Zelda.
Remember that even though we have another piece of the puzzle, there’s still a lot of confusion on the official Zelda timeline.Breath of the WildandTears of the Kingdomare separated from prior entries. Nintendo is notorious for regularly changing up the Zelda timeline, too. Combine that with a lack of clarity regarding just where and whenBreath of the WildandTears of the Kingdomtake place, and it’s easy to get confused.
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It’s important to note, too, that the two Nintendo Switch titles are visible at the bottom of the Zelda timeline, no matter which version you look at. No matter what happens to The Hero inOcarina of Time, they’re present at the bottom of the timeline. It’s widely believed that these games occur upwards of 10,000 years after previous titles.
