The Legend of Zelda games presented gorgeous fantasies of the Hyrulean universe. Regrettably, Nintendo has officially declared that the events of Ocarina of Time fork the timeline into three distinct branches, only one of which develops into the Switch hits. Severing the continuity of the series’s rich lore is poor news for me and other supporters of self-consistent causality.
Fortunately, as the developers abandon the parallel universes and focus on an age over a millennia after the world’s creation, there is enough consistency and timing between the stories to realign the different sequences to a single continuous chronology. The following is my take on the Hyrule history as a singular timeline.